Racism row heritage boss faces furious employees in 'painful' staff meeting. #ScottishAffairs

The Scottish Government was hoodwinked by the shooting lobby. We need more public education about the danger of wildfires, the power to ban ALL open fires within specific geographic areas in times of high fire risk. Get a grip @scottishgov.bsky.social

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

📣You really couldn't make this up! On the day Scottish Govt announces it is delaying, for a second time, the implementation of muirburn licensing, this happens... raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/09/b...

The Scottish Government: For the few, not the many!

In non-Bella news I'm doing a talk at the Edinburgh Futures Institute 'Patrick Geddes and the Anarchist Strain of Town Planning' is on 30 October. It's free and open to all - but book your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/patrick-ge...

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command. The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight... the Fieldfare! 🍒 Flocks arrive from Scandinavia, filling UK hedgerows and fields with their speckled breasts and blue-grey heads, feasting on berries and insects.

That's a big hit to the UK. So what is the upside, why would we do this? Is it just submission to Trump, cos like...

You don’t get to bankroll a genocide… Embolden and cheer on the perpetrators …and then call yourself a hero for pulling the plug.

What if the UK admitted it uses MMT and turned that into its superpower? youtu.be/ufst9cxbyZA?... What if the UK government admitted it already uses modern monetary theory? Would markets panic — or would we finally have the power to rebuild Britain?

A couple of weeks ago I heard an Israeli Govt spokesperson on Piers Morgan’s show… He said Israel had killed 20,000 Hamas terrorists This week we learn: 18,457 children confirmed dead 55,000 children acutely malnourished So a war on children as much as a war on Hamas.

A brave Hungarian peasant girl.

"Israelis are aware of the damage the conflict has caused to their countrys image.. [&] aware of the countrys growing isolation" The world has watched for 2 years as Israel has committed genocide. Its a brutal apartheid regime & its isolation is only going to grow.

The ban on camp fires in the Cairngorms National Park does not appear to be evidence based | Professor Douglas MacMillan for Parkswatch Scotland: #ScottishEnvironment 🌱 #Cairngorms 🏔️ #Muirburn 🔥

This is a really important essay.

Brexit is leaving a generation of young Scots behind, a senior German politician has said. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🇪🇺 👇 www.heraldscotland.com/politics/wes...

Kemi Badenoch is a poor speaker & leader & a warm-up act for Robert Jenrick. But the problem is deeper: the intellectual bankruptcy of British Conservatism & their refusal to address their systemic failures in office. Hence they are stuck chasing the glib & nasty soundbites of Farage. #CPC25

Owing to the wars of the previous 150 years, European countries bound together in a *union* so they would never fight again. We do this, among other ways, by have common tariffs and standards at the border, but none within; by having a common visa waiver, but FOM within; and a single currency 1

Billy Wolfe was the leader of the SNP in 1978 when Eilean Mor MacCormick was bequeathed to the party. It was he who recognised the historical importance of the island and envisaged the visitor centre.

'Common Tongue' explores one woman's relationship with the Scots language | Donald Stewart in 'The National': #ScottishTheatre 🎭

Cortinarius is the most species-rich mycorrhizal fungus genus in the world. 🤎 These are Dark brown beltfoot (Cortinarius brunneus) Avoid all Cortinarius species due to the high risk of poisoning. #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #forest #nature #Fungi #photography

If only those pesky Suffragettes had confined themselves to one protest…

This guy is in charge of US health care.

Jenrick complains that there are immigration judges (presumably he means the part-time ones) who spend the rest of their time representing immigrants. Wait until someone tells him about Recorders (part-time Crown Court judges) who spend the rest of their time defending the accused.

Mysterious

Hungary had requested to lift the EU parliamentary immunity of a political rival and an antifascist MEP, but failed.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

NEW Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law" The Home Secretary wants to ban more things By me Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

A stunning head of Medusa, the mythical creature whose sight turns everyone to stone. Medusa’s head was a popular motif used to ward off any evil. The #Roman bronze fitting was found in Xanten, dating 1st century AD On display at Römermuseum Xanten. 📷 me 🏺#archaeology

In the non surprise of the year, assorted Reform run councils have found any obvious savings have already been made and, to quote Kent County Council they're already down "to the bare bones". #realitycheck

As someone has pointed out - does this mean he wants to send black and brown people to live in some of the very white rural villages?

I'm amused by the fact he's arguing for the abolition of private schools. “We want all people to be living side by side.... We can’t have particular communities in this country where there is a heavy preponderance of one group or another. We want people to be living in mixed communities.”

He doesn't want areas where there is a 'preponderance' of one race over another. My kids school in rural Suffolk had one black family in a school of 1200 pupils. But that's not what he means, is it?

The reason the government refuse to regulate the media is that they do not want to. This is what they want.

What is it with these Goldman Sachs alumna who go into politics?

We remember #RejoinEU

Can we say that "Britishness" is the cloak rightminded, English people have to wear when their Englishness becomes too toxic. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And of course, your reminder that the Conservatives in government enthusiastically approved every single one of the Sentencing Guidelines that they now claim are evidence of the far-right “two tier justice” myth.

Not yet, not yet... but nearly 1953

Shaina Low from the Norwegian Refugee Council is clear, Israel will keep violating international law & committing war crimes until the international community starts to hold it accountable.

Among the 161 arriving in Athens, MEP Rima Hassan reports that she was 'beaten' by Israeli police officers.

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here. Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

The gloss is coming off!!!! He’s flakier than Sunak when you ask a probing question!!! He’s starts saying things like “you’re being rather silly now”!!!! Or if it’s a lady asking he’s gets a bit in yer face!!!! WAC!!!!

Things Farage won’t answer: 1. Why did he lie about buying a house in Clacton? 2. What did he know about Welsh Reform Leader Nathan Gill’s Russian Bribes? 3. Why did he lie about meeting the Russian Ambassador? 4. Why is his flagship council Kent raising taxes and cutting services?

Quick guide to Tomahawk cruise missile variants TLAM - land attack TSAM - anti-ship GLCM - ground launched TACTOM - improved “tactical” version TACO - version talked about but never delivered to Ukraine

A bravura performance! Ed Davey remains unchallenged as England's leading political dad dancer. 🕺

EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish activist from the Global Sumud Flotilla has described the 'absolutely horrific' conditions she allegedly experienced in an Israeli prison

'rescuers found jenrick clutching his mywaitrose card, sobbing into an ordnance survey map of the cotswolds, and rocking gently inside a makeshift shelter constructed from yesterday’s telegraph'