Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)

#FergusMcCreadyTrio at the #OldFruitmarket, Glasgow, last night. #LiveJazz

Absolutely gone at this story from Harris on FB, the last sentence is pure Atlantic coast magic.

So little patience for the people perfectly content riding the tiger of white resentment and nativism while it was helping them push through tax cuts, who now stare at it running loose and feral in the streets and are like, "the left should reflect on how it let things get this far."

When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”. Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...

Wee walk in #ArdgartanForest.

I took this yesterday morning on the train journey from Glasgow to Edinburgh. I was too slow to catch the best moment, so this will have to do.

I am hearing that on his deathbed Dick Cheney received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

Erik Palmberg, Merchants House, Glasgow. #LiveJazz

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

I only just learned that Udo Lindenberg (yes, that Udo Lindenberg) plays the drums on Klaus Doldinger's famous theme tune for _Tatort_.

‘I think we were so desperate to get out of the EU that at the time we basically came up with a very bad deal.’ Former Tory Brexit minister David Jones, who has since defected to Reform UK #Traitors

Whilst a lot of what Bill Gates wrote in his memo makes a certain amount of sense, his main point that short term emissions reduction is not the priority is based on flawed and out of date data. I’ve scribbled on his graph below to add a very important line - reality. #climatechange #acceleration

Unlikely to happen, but fun to see Greens in second place.

I do hope you all watch Gogglebox. Here’s a clip that works for anyone who works in British higher education. And indeed everybody else.

That's not a new discovery, but it bears repetition and emphasis.

Crashing the economy and then this?! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….” 🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼

Hurray for Plaid! Also some indication that Reform is being hit by tactical voting, which gives me some hope that they're not going to do as well as widely predicted.

"Nearly 40% of the electricity produced by Scottish wind farms has been wasted so far this year, because the grid was not able to move it to other parts of the UK or store it." theconversation.com/why-electric...

I have a third cartoon in the current Private Eye. I'm fully expecting to appear in Pedants Corner with this one.

Saying that Nazis are arseholes is a 'group generalization' and some of them were the 'kindest, most wonderful people'. You heard it here first!

"Listen love.." says Nigel Farage to Mishal Husain, someone streets ahead of him intellectually. A little glimpse into the Britain he wants to get back to.

Good news: carbon intensity has declined Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17% Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%

Now, here's a surprise! 🙄 Maybe, just maybe, people will finally learn. But chances are, they'll continue to make the same mistake over and over again, with the same, long discredited arguments.

Every white English person must apologise. That’s how it works, yes?

Coach house, Belmont Lane, #WestEnd, #Glasgow.

Reddit comment of the day.

NEWS! Vegan tampons taste nothing like the real thing, insists furious Nigel Farage

Beautiful day with morning mist.

Autumnal colours

Curlew

Stewart Lee has had his say on the Riyadh Comedy Festival and it’s as excellent as you’d expect it to be. youtube.com/shorts/oqnjS...

The last word on the cockup vs. conspiracy conundrum.

The ventriloquist act they booked for the Tory Conference looks a bit shit.

Don't forget that 41 Tory MPs in the last government took Russian donations. That might account for media reticence to report on the Nathan Gill case.

I want this to be true.

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

I propose a job swap between Archbishop of Canterbury and Metropolitan Police Commissioner.

you shouldn’t trust anecdotal data. That’s what I’ve heard anyway.

Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day

Pff, 'experts'!

One piece of advice for Labour on immigration? Stop the rhetoric and shouting about Leave to Remain - says Sir John Curtice at excellent @demos-uk.bsky.social event at Labour Party Conference

Important to remember it is possible to mobilise coalitions against the radical/far right.

It was foggy this morning...

So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

“He prefers to be elected on our ideas, rather than fight for his own. In general, people prefer the original to the copy."* *Jean-Marie Le Pen, 1990 re. former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.

Those Protestants, up to no good as usual

🚨 These are not even the worst, but cant show ones reported to the police. The far right think they’re winning. They’re wrong! We are the firewall. Join my fight against the far right. ✊🏾 Are you with us, or with them? #ButlerBlocks