Just posting this without comment. Because there is no comment that can explain this decision by the Scottish Supreme Court.

It’s one hundred and six miles to Chicago, he has half a tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and he’s wearing sunglasses.

Trace (and Susannah black Roberts, who I know better than I know him), as empathetic and heterodox people, suffer, or at least used to, from the delusion that the right is arguing in good faith. “Well you gotta hear them out” - no you don’t, that’s the point of the Sartre quote about anti-Semitism

Kate Lycett • Copper Beeches • night Venticelli •

Eric Ravilious • Leaving Scapa Flow •

Leftist propaganda machine? Mandatory gif is mandatory:

A good example of someone using "economically inactive" to mean "available for work but choosing not to" and forgetting it covers students, early retirees, carers, severely disabled people, parents with very young children etc...

Guardian had a story today on fears that the government's early release policy re prisoners could put domestic violence survivors at risk. It did not make the front page. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A thought: during the scene when Gandalf, mounted on Shadowfax, Lord of All Horses, confronts the Witch King of Angmar, also on horseback, I wonder if Shadowfax yelled at the Nazgul's horse? "My guy, what are you even DOING?! It's not like you're getting the really good oats & an apple once a day".

Pair of charmingly grumpy owls out on skates for winter fun. Have even brought along a snack! By Adriaen van de Venne, who died (alas!) on this day 1662.

And in pandering to this barking mad Blue Labour view Starmer has managed to make long term Trad Labour voters despise him. Good jorb, Kier.

Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch • The Great Port City •

Starmer's not being a drama-attracting mess was surely a key selling point, so WTF is No. 10 *doing*? The boring competence was meant to be the point of the man.

I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it. All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference. Tanks

If you want to understand the economic debates of the 1970s and 1980s then you'll not do better than read these two books, which also happens to be two of the finest political autobiographies ever written.

The largest organisation overseeing schools, by pupil numbers, in this LA area is still the LA itself. But the LA director of children and young people’s services was paid less than the CEOs of nine MATs operating there.

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

'Conclave' would be objectively hilarious as a choice

Rabbits Jousting from The Breviary of Renaud de Bar, Metz, 1302-1303

Gerardo Dottori • Alba Lunare • night Venticelli •

Possibly the most fantastic political poster I've ever seen, produced for the COSATU strikes in 1992 - more or less midway between Mandela's release and the first democratic elections:

Watching 'Kingdom' and am convinced the natural world has an agreement that if it's the BBC /Attenborough filming, the animals put on a show. Completely fascinating and beautiful footage.

Online Finance discourse be like

notably he stole this idea from the slap drones in the Culture books. if you calculate the walking time from Scotland to Texas under the ocean you should be able to work out when Iain Banks' wrathful revenant will make it to him.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... would be quite funny to go "OK, OK, we're going to compensate the waspi women, and we're very sorry but it means we're going to have to charge national insurance on pensions to pay for it"

Fine. So long as every family affected by the 2 child limit receives a back-dated payment to reflect the money they've missed out on.

OK. Here's the thing. You just can't put on a jacket and pretend to be a security patrol in the UK. It's actually illegal. Who the actual F are these "Essex Spartans"? Government has laws and rules and they need to enforce them.

Ummm bit niche, but does anyone know of a decent history of the Abbey of Cluny, in English? I've been reading about it recently and am developing a new obsession...

The post of a man who has *frequently* complained about not being invited on the BBC, as though it’s his fucking birthright

Bond is, in fact, the sovereignty goddess of Britain, existing simultaneously as youthful and crone, wooed by successive unsuitable temporary partners until the true sovereign (Judy Dench) reveals herself

For the feast day of St Martin of Tours, the cover of the amazing Berthold Sacramentary from Weingarten, Germany (now Morgan Library MS M.710). Created 1215-17, its decoration reflects the rededication of the abbey church to St Oswald, St Martin and the Blessed Virgin Mary. #MedievalSky

Due to stupid knee with stupid torn meniscus, am off all week and have been instructed to *literally* put my feet up. Oh noes, the horror etc...

Amongst all of this sorry episode of BBC mismanagement they are frozen from speaking the truth that on J6 Trump and his whole team stood by whilst the violence unfolded and said nothing. Didn't call for rioters to withdraw, didn't call for peace, his children literally stood by and partied.

You still have to read as far as the title, Elon. You know, to make sure you are listening to the book you intended to.

Hearing more and more stories of exam centres overwhelmed with private candidates and considering cutting down or stopping their support. In a context of >3% of KS4 children EHE. This is very bad, and no-one is paying any attention. @johndickenssw.bsky.social @jonsevers.bsky.social @tom-richmond.com

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Mood of the British Online Right currently at "we are invincible" due to Trump's spat with the BBC. Wonder what causes everyone to crash out this time.

Bicycles - Why you might need more than one Artist: Dave Walker

NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’

And in what court?!

oh my god

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

I agree with this, but I think if the BBC were better led, it would make fewer culpable errors and it would both directly and indirectly be better placed to fight the real and concerted campaign against it.

We are all agreed this is bad, though, right?

Borderline hilarious (hollow laughter) to hear #R4today reporting on BBC bias and then immediately going to Nigel Fucking Farage for comment.

A big, big love