And it's up on @bbciplayer.bsky.social! Will be activating my nostalgia for the mindless sex and drugs fest that was the 1990s TONIGHT! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

My @thetimes.com restaurant review of 1610 at the Globe Inn, Dumfries. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Please share, sign and save Trongate 103 👇🏽

This is so devastating...

““Glasgow is slowly becoming a hollow shadow of the thriving, radical and creatively edgy place it once was. At a certain point you have to ask what kind of city we are choosing to become” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Great piece about the reprehensible and avoidable hollowing out of Glasgow’s once thriving arts scene

My @theobserveruk.bsky.social feature on my beloved Republic of #Leith observer.co.uk/style/travel...

I love this so much! And thoroughly concur! A magnificent restaurant. Already feels like such a titan of the Edinburgh dining scene, I love it so.

Zack Polanski has the best approval rating of any major party leader.

Migration is part of what makes this country great. We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours. The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.

So smooth, so round, so creamy.

This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull)

finished embroidering my jacket :)

Nearly 500 immediate job losses and legions of Brewdog’s early-stage crowdfunders left empty-handed. Totally punk www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This book is a beacon. Beautiful writing and thinking from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social at the height of her powers. I'm reviewing it for @writersmosaic.bsky.social and it's a stunner.

It's publication day! (I signed 240 of these yesterday, before an event with the inimitable Jeff Chang, at San Francisco's Booksmith at the Internet Archive).

Sharing the second of our Gray Day animation commissions ✨ Oliver Pearse, one of five artists selected by The Alasdair Gray Archive and @canongate.co.uk, reimagines Chapter Six of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981) for the Alan Cumming audiobook—first screened at Gray Day 2026 at Òran Mór.

Colours of the ocean #Shetland

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran. Iraq lessons must be learned. Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe. Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger. www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

Everything seems awful and chaotic and powerless, so I am left to do what I can only do: share some beauty with the world. I have no wise words or platitudes, but I do have a camera and empathy. A shot from my first global geomagnetic storm (2024) 💛 #iceland #northernlights #aurora #peace

When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.

Our latest Film Tracing Light at Kings Place; Kings Cross. I'll be there for a Q&A with Dr James Fox and Julie Brook. London friends, do come. Thursday 19th March. www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...

Successive interviews by Nick Robinson this morning perfectly sum up the BBC: with Zack Polanski: sneering, aggressive, constantly interrupting. with David Bull, Reform's Chairman: polite, nodding along, barely any interruptions. Amazing. Will share the link when it's up so you can listen too.

Now there is hope! It's no longer a choice between grim and grimmer. We can vote for who we want and win. Anywhere. It's just one constituency, but the Green victory in Gorton and Denton is an electric shock to our political system.

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

Omg I studied this at uni alongside Mary: A Fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft if I remember rightly. Both completely reset my consciousness too. Beautiful cover this!

Loving that the party whose slogan is ‘Family. Community. Country’ are now claiming that they lost because of ‘family voting’.

A win for hope. A no to racism. So lovely to wake up to good news. #Greens

Poor Matt Goodwin. All he ever wanted was to be a hard working MP/academic/tv presenter/commentator/writer/pollster/wealth adviser/women’s health guru and you all ripped that away from him. A shame

The Gorton and Denton result is fantastic for several reasons, but easily the funniest one is that the Tories got so few votes that they LOST THEIR DEPOSIT.

In a battle between hope and hate, hope won out. Why voters rejected the hateful politics of Reform and instead embraced the "Green Menace" in Gorton and Denton bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

Wow. Landmark result.

My @theguardian.com TV review of @bbciplayer.bsky.social LS Lowry: The Unheard Tapes. Extraordinary performances from Ian McKellan and Annabel Smith. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

This has got a bit lost in the current news overwhelm but it really is astonishing that SNP and Greens have voted against this plan to bring Holyrood into line with Westminster and give constituents the chance to sack misbehaving MSPs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

"What can happen when a bunch of strangers decide today is the day they’ll be the change – and how that changes them" Spoke to Felipe Bustos Sierra about his new documentary Everybody to Kenmure Street and how one act of civil resistance resonates five years on www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

My @thetimes.com restaurant review of Nobles by Bellfield in Leith, Edinburgh www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Leaf by Seán Hewitt

Floor plan for an ICE concentration camp. (Gift link for the @willbunch.bsky.social piece is in the thread.)

The choice made to define sex in the SSI for the Hate Crime Act as ‘biological sex’ as per the Supreme Court ruling will further harm a community increasingly vulnerable to hate. Ask Scot Gov how they'd like to be remembered: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/howwillthisb...

So strange and affecting to come away from here for a year then return to find the same old lovely voices ploughing their same small furrows. A touch of the band playing on about it. Am moved.

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

For anyone looking to get rid of the appalling, intrusive, and utterly stupid AI Overview on Google searches type in '-AI' after any search and it disappears!

This was such a fabulous night. Recently made the Jerusalem artichoke, pear and fennel seed soup from the book and it was the GREATEST SOUP OF MY LIFE.