Going to say this now: it's really important journalists reporting on this election are clear that allegations that the election isn't free and fair are completely false.

This really feels like crossing a rubicon, frankly.

Please watch Channel 4's docudrama 'Dirty Business' on the pollution of our waters. There could not be a more shocking exposé of the human and environmental cost of privatisation, deregulation, corporate corruption and government complicity: www.channel4.com/programmes/d...

Another one of my Abstract Scottish Landscapes ready to go to a new home and fill it with colour, inspired by the gorgeous Ben Hope and its serene majesty as Scotland's most northerly munro. "Beinn Hòb" - 101x76cm / 39x30inches, acrylic on canvas Available here: wgsaraband.com/scottish-lan...

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Channel 4 is showing The Dunblane Tapes at 9pm on Thursday 26 Feb, a documentary using a parent's personal videos on the aftermath of the tragic gun massacre of 16 children and their teacher at Dunblane Primary School in 1996 and the campaign to ban handguns that followed.

‘The Dunblane Tapes’: Deeply moving documentary lays bare parents’ grief 30 years after the tragic school shooting Thirty years ago next month, a man armed with two 9mm Browning semi-automatic pistols and two .357 Magnum revolvers parked his car at the primary school in the Scottish town of...

Breaking WaPo: Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

My all new Mother’s Day cards have just been added to my online shop. gailmyerscough.co.uk/mothers-day

Edinburgh Castle from St Cuthbert’s Kirkyard tonight…

I can see my post on my feed & my own page but if I click on it, it says 'post not found'???

@dandyandafop.bsky.social So you'd need an awful lot of paint, but guess what used to be called Turnhouse... search.savills.com/property-det...

Yes waiter, I'll have a cup of tea, a scone, and if it's not too much trouble, perhaps some precedented times?

And now the full 1939 clip. It's startling seeing the contrast. My grandfather was posted not far from here at one point, so maybe he strolled through when it looked like this. Weird to think about. #Film #History #Edinburgh

Here is the full 1938 clip. What a gorgeous space it was. #Film #History #Edinburgh

With the big game tonight, it seems a good day to post some classic small town skating rink footage. Shot in 1955 in Saskatchewan. Scanned from 16mm film #Film #History #Hockey #Canada

And finally, some shots from the harbour. Women cleaning fish, and ships and boats steaming in and out. It's mind boggling how much the rhythms of daily life have shifted since then. #Film #History #Edinburgh

Next shot is a fancy parade! 90 years later I can't even guess how much of this is costumes for the parade and how much is just how they dressed It would be great if anyone can identify the occasion? #Film #History #Edinburgh

Judge Quraishi says that if ICE keeps arresting people and detaining them without bond under the legal theory that has been rejected by hundreds of judges, and any of those cases come across his bench, he'll immediately order DHS and DOJ personnel hauled into court to explain themselves.

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

white voters get their legitimate concerns addressed, non-white voters are pandered to. it's an irregular verb.

Throw the guy in his own jail.

Since yesterdays' Edinburgh shots were such a hit, here's a few more from the same reel. These are from 16mm film shot in 1938. Please share with anyone who would enjoy these First up some street scenes. I love the normalness of it. People are just going about their day. #Film #History #Edinburgh

If tiny Iceland can do it, So can Scotland if, you know, we were a normal independent nation. #European #Scotland

One of the newest paintings added to my website, "Love Koi II" blends my love for the organic chaos of watercolours with the controlled order of abstract geometry. "Love Koi II" - 29,5x21cm, fine liner and Japanese watercolours on paper Available for purchase here: wgsaraband.com/geometric-co...

BREAKING: Columbia President Claire Shipman says DHS agents entered a residential buliding this morning and detained a student. "Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.'"

In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator... stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

For those escaping Norway’s winter for a sunny getaway, Oslo Airport has a clever travel hack to help you travel lighter.

just quite maddening that Osborne's legacy is currently "hey that guy who helped the Tories get back into power then was chancellor for a while until Brexit, and now he has 300 jobs lol" and not "look, everything the light touches was fucked up by George Osborne in some way between 2010 and 2016"

i know someone with three kids, two trans, one she took in after their own parents disowned them. their state banned trans healthcare, so they moved to chicago specifically for "sanctuary." the big healthcare provider they went there for quit treating trans patients last year.

We helped to build the barriers (apart from a few details). We were inside the barriers, then put ourselves outside. If we still fail to understand those simple facts, we'll get nowhere.

Kansas has, overnight, invalidated the drivers’ licenses of trans people, a pointless cruelty that upends their lives If Brits think “it won’t happen here” think again! Groups in the U.K. who want the same thing are routinely invited to consult with Labour and normalised in our press!

A chance to see Arthur Penn's 1975 detective story Night Moves on the big-screen; with Gene Hackman playing Harry Moseby, it's on at the Waterfront cinema in Greenock tonight at 6pm, followed by a live Q and A about the film's Scottish screenwriter Alan Sharp. 5/5 film-authority.com/2026/02/26/n...

Oof. Making a point of comparing the words of different prime minsters on water companies (including the current one). Sounding the same. And then that Steve Reed Sky News interview... Best thing this show did was not sticking to purely drama. #DirtyBusiness

No mention of corporation rights, but text at the end says: 'Thames Water has asked the British govt for a 15 year holiday from environmental laws during which it would be immune from prosecution.' Where are our human rights? Nature has no rights. Any environment laws are a joke. #DirtyBusiness

Dirty Business review – if this doesn’t incite righteous anger over our filthy water then nothing will

I wrote a blog about a wonderful experience I had this past weekend at Pensacon.

Tommy Robinson visited the US State Department today at the invite of the Trump administration. He's Britain's most prominent far-right street thug with criminal convictions for assault, violence, fraud, stalking & harassment. He was jailed in 2012 for trying to enter the US with a false passport.

Failed Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has launched a bizarre 'Englishman's castle' policy – and it aims to repeal Scottish laws 👀

I'm not moving this space saver. 📹: @kimmy_butland

#DirtyBusiness is certainly bringing the receipts...

Dirty Business: mother of girl killed by E. coli infection demands water reform

Rahman has been telling her story, she testified in Congress, and has been featured by various news programs. It is only for this reason that she was arrested. The Sargent at Arms told her that it was because she was "standing up silently." www.democracynow.org/2026/2/25/al...

@dandyandafop.bsky.social I think that bit of coast might see you out... search.savills.com/property-det...

St Andrew’s House lit up in blue and yellow this evening, in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Today and always, Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦

the assault on trans rights has convinced conservatives that they can more or less always claim that revelatory and lifesaving medicines actually have side effects that are worse than being cures if you think about it and there are always christian quack doctors willing to testify that is true

🚨Tonight Sky Arts (Freeview chan 36) at 9pm. NT Live: Dr Strangelove. 🎭 Saw this in London a year or so ago. 5⭐ & worth another watch IMHO. Faithful stage adaptation by @aiannucci.bsky.social (The Thick Of It, Veep, Death of Stalin), co-adapted & directed by Sean Foley. (Pic credits: Manuel Harlan)