My jaw hit the floor upon seeing Keir Starmer’s Cabinet in the front row at the party’s conference waving their little plastic Union Jacks, writes Mhairi Black ✍️ Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...

A company linked to Baroness Mone has to pay £122m in damages after supplying Covid PPE sterile gowns that weren’t sterile – that’s plastic surgical gowns, not those velvet, ermine, fur, silk and gold-lace gowns, those are fine

‪Friends of Warriston Cemetery‬ ‪@fowarristoncem.bsky.social Here's one I took in infrared showing ivy obscuring all tombstones except the one in the foreground. More at www.henniker.scot/canonmills-w...

He relocated the tripod a few times in Bruntsfield Place near Holy Corner and the 'camera' rotated each time, scanning the area. Anyone know more? I saw no laser - maybe lidar..?

LNER has been slammed for advertising Edinburgh as an extension of 'North London'

"What's annoying you at the moment? A lot! Number one – as someone who's worked in TV for 43 years – is how many editors are taking ridiculous far-right subjects and discussing them when they shouldn't be given oxygen. On television, you have a responsibility not to normalise outrageous behaviour."

Stunned builders uncovered an archaeological find while working on a new Glasgow housing estate

The SNP have called for Michelle Mone to be removed from the House of Lords after a PPE firm linked to the Tory peer was ordered to repay the UK Government almost £122 million

💰 PPE Medpro must repay £122m for supplying defective PPE ⚖️ But it doesn’t stop with Baroness Mone. When will the ministers who referred their cronies onto the VIP Lane face consequences? https://goodlaw.social/f2e9

Spending the day with Gaudi in Barcelona…

Honestly Keir, your pride is misplaced. You have no interest in anything outside of England, and trying to unite us all under the hideous symbol of Brexit Britain is embarrassing and futile.

Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends. 90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts. 90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends. Public ownership would make a difference.

I may be missing something here, but “Peace or else, but we’ll kill you anyway, monetise your extinction, and Tony Blair will oversee the logistics,” doesn’t sound like much of an offer to me.

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

Seasonal fungus photos added to the end of Braid & Blackford page. www.henniker.scot/braid-and-bl...

I think the postman needs an eye test because mail has recently been delivered to incorrect street numbers. My doorbell cam got his picture. #Bruntsfield #PostOffice

A physical ID card am actually not all that bothered about. I am *very* bothered about a mandatory "citizen app" that everyone will have to install on their phones, if that's what is proposed. Privacy / data collection horror show.

Went for a wander in the woods in Blackford Glen today and found fungus. #hermitage #braid

The sculpture of "Homeless Jesus"'outside St Mary's Cathedral on Picardy Place is a well positioned reminder of the Beatitudes and a highlighting of our responsibilities to our neighbours

Because I'm old enough to remember The Goon Show, a Chinese snooker player's name reminded me of this song. Zhao is someone I admire so no disrespect is intended. youtu.be/33-fVsL5Kdc?...

National Punctuation Day today

VICTORY: citing "lack of evidence", prosecutors have dropped the trial against the Drax 15. They never had a case, but they kept defendants waiting for a year to somehow justify an astonishing £3 million police operation. This is yet another example of the repression of protest rights in Britain

Daily Mirror on Trump’s UN speech "Deranged" #tomorrowspaperstoday

More Arthur's Seat without and with trees. Before and after pictures here: www.henniker.scot/yesterday/#!...

How the BBC misleadingly reported that Edinburgh Waverley was amongst the worst performing train stations for cancellations when it isn’t and Scotland is actually best performing in GB. Report in The National.

It is up to ordinary citizens in the West to do all we can to stop one of history’s great crimes. Italian workers have shown all of us how it can be done.

ScotRail’s train service, *renationalised* in 2022 by the Scottish Government, has the lowest cancellation level in the UK - just 2% compared with a UK average of 3.3%. That means a train elsewhere in the UK is +65% more likely to be cancelled. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The old footbridge from Jeffrey Street to Calton Road over Edinburgh Waverley railway station. Closed in 1958.

As a @humanist and an atheist I liked this so much I printed it and framed it.

NEW: Scotland's most eminent environmentalist has launched a scathing attack on the Scottish Government’s efforts to protect marine habitats

We can still achieve big things in hard times The creation of the Global Ocean Treaty has weathered election cycles—and will now become international law We can use it to put vast areas of the ocean off-limits to destruction, to start healing our life support system www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gorgeous IR photography

The view east from Dorset Place yesterday, looking along the Union Canal towards Viewforth.

Tomorrow's front page 📰 1000 GB Energy jobs in Scotland? Right now there are 29

The BBC has been panned over its decision not to cover a star-studded benefit concert for Palestine

GB employs more people in London than the whole of Scotland, with less than a fifth of staff based in Aberdeen

Remember Labour promising 1000 jobs for Aberdeen via GB Energy? For the first time, we've seen how the investment body is doing on its hiring spree. So far, after 14 months: 13 staff in Aberdeen. There are more GBE staff in London than all of Scotland🥀 www.thenational.scot/news/2548045...

Shocking news - Marine life will be devastated as Upwelling fails in Panama waters for first time since records began Upwelling is a process that allows cold, nutrient-rich waters from the depths of the ocean to rise to the surface to feed marine life stri.si.edu/story/upwell...

Normal People author Sally Rooney has been advised she 'can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest' due to her support of Palestine Action 👇

She's just too embarrassed.

👇

I remember Freer Street from the '60s when it had old stone-built tenements. Number 18 recently got its name and number. That brick style cladding might tempt unwise climbers...

We are a ball-hair away from the leader of the free world outlawing opinions that displease him. Yet there’s still a question as to whether a president like that can possibly be a hot garbage bag who liked raping teenagers. www.editorialboard.com/trump-preyed...

SciFi by Stephen Allanson: 'The Guardian' had quite an impact on me, making me ponder how life could be if humanity allowed AI total control of our lives, stopping wars and aggression worldwide with advanced technology making work unnecessary. Excellent Science Fiction with memorable characters.

Trump's golf course in Aberdeenshire was billed as "one of the most environmentally friendly and sustainable courses ever built”. Our latest investigation found that it has repeatedly breached sewage contamination limits unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/17/t...

🚨Watch as police confiscate van showing Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump in Windsor amid the US president's state visit

My latest blog piece, the free speech hypocrisy of the right weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/t...

Mandelson Crisis Starmer Acts! The new Private Eye is out now.

UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study by @transportenvironment.org shows www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

🚨Something a little different from the team this week as we head to Geneva for the 60th session of the Human Rights Council There, Liberation Scotland are pushing to have the UN "decolonise" Scotland www.thenational.scot/politics/254...