The temperature might only be 5℃ but if the sun is shining you can be sure that there will be some Scots out drinking beer in it! 🍻😎 #Leith #Pixel9Pro

Vladimir, I think this is the ending of a beautiful friendship

Reform's Scottish leader denies fuelling racial tensions over stabbing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Last snow of the season in the Pentlands?

Although he didn't like some of the backlash, Trump was fine with the performative cruelty, the racism, the the illegality, & the incompetence. He drew the line though at the self-aggrandisement, which he clearly sees very much as his exclusive preserve www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wonder why people in a council ward represented by Reform would turn against them so quickly? (Also, in 2025 it looks like there were 2 former UKIP candidates standing as independents - you would have thought their absence this time would benefit Reform most?)

Additional Epstein files involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Trump that DoJ said had been mistakenly withheld during an earlier review have now been released. apnews.com/article/epst...

Very strong statement from the First Lady of Iraq:

Son on a bit of a horror kick, so we're trying to find films he wants to see that I can tolerate. This not only passes that slightly eccentric test but the filming & building of tension, particularly in the opening sequences, still *really* stands up - 24 years later www.imdb.com/title/tt0289...

Again, Farage, Badenoch and their fellow travellers on X are wildly out of touch with the public on Iran. Even the majority of Reform supporters oppose their position.

Nothing like as horrific as this but I did once arrive at a Travelodge late at night - as I had told them I would - let myself into the room they gave me and found someone else asleep in the bed. Not a great night for either of us... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Poll Analysis: Ipsos 19th – 25th of February 2026 Holyrood Seats Projection: SNP ~ 60 Labour ~ 20 Green ~16 Reform ~ 13 Conservative ~ 10 Lib Dem ~ 10 Independence: Yes ~ 51% No ~ 49% ballotbox.scot/ipsos-februa...

Good to get the crampons on on Tuesday and head out in the sunshine onto the Cairngorm plateau with the 18 year old, whilst the snow is still around

Taken a while back, the comms mast by the top of the Bealach na Ba.

Former Scotland rugby captain Stuart Hogg stripped of MBE following domestic abuse conviction www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Greenland still not America. Iceland still not (just) a supermarket.

"Straight from the playbook of tobacco". The Stove Industry Association has been pressuring councils to tone down their public health campaigns, telling them they were exploring options for potential legal action. This stinks even more than the burning they promote. #WoodBurning #AirPollution

"would otherwise receive immediate access to welfare and social housing" is BS. Correct: "after 5 years working in a care home, would be eligible to apply for welfare and social housing on the same basis as the rest of us." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Deliberately misleading/disingenous.

Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.

Exploring wild places on the north side of the Torridonian giants

Excellent news with very welcome u-turn by government in House of Commons this evening, pledging to restore the Electoral Commission's independence. Democracy is strengthened by having an independent regulator. (Labour had previously omitted from its legislative plans acting on this.)

Our President, Zahrah Mahmood, is stepping down after the maximum 3 years in the role. She's had a huge impact: 🥾 Walking with members, volunteers & Community Champions 🏆 Judging for Britain’s Favourite Path competition 🎖️ Gaining an MBE 🗺️ Breaking down barriers to walking Thank you, Zahrah! 👏🏽

New Scottish Parliament poll, Ipsos 19-25 Feb (vs 27 Nov - 3 Dec): List: SNP ~ 26% (-2) Lab ~ 19% (+1) Grn ~ 16% (-1) RUK ~ 14% (-3) Con ~ 11% (-1) LD ~ 10% (+3) Constituency: SNP ~ 36% (+1) Lab ~ 20% (+4) RUK ~ 16% (-2) LD ~ 10% (+1) Con ~ 9% (-2) Grn ~ 7% (-2) news.stv.tv/politics/ref...

‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’ No notes. as.ft.com/r/65cf2b43-6...

"City hands out goggles, flippers and shark repellent yet still Swim To School Day not getting the numbers they hoped."

Mark Ruskell MSP - We've lost EU funding for core paths and long distance routes

Charles Dundas (Lib Dem) - We're disconnected from nature and we need to get people out into nature and their communities

Sue Webber MSP - we need to focus more on walking and wheeling, and less on cycling

Cllr James Dalgleish - there's actually a huge amount of political agreement on this issue and we have worked well across parties

Graham Simpson MSP - it's good to have cycling & walking routes but you have to maintain them

Mark Ruskell MSP - we have a transport hierarchy and we should implement it

Paul McKellan MSP - I was diagnosed with diabetes and walking changed my life

(Thread) We welcome over 70 attendees to today's webinar, hosted alongside 56 Degree Insight. We're taking a deep dive into the findings of our recent Walking and Wheeling survey. We share how many people are walking and wheeling regularly, who is walking the most and why...

Key asks in the @walkingscotland.bsky.social & @livingstreets.bsky.social manifesto

Walking & Wheeling hustings tonight with @walkingscotland.bsky.social with all parties present

Really can't see the Kurds falling for this one again.... www.itv.com/news/2026-03...

Seat projection

Reform overtaken by Labour in constituency polling & Greens in regional list voting intentions news.stv.tv/politics/ref...

David Taylor, the husband of Joani Reid, Labour MP for East Kilbride and Strathaven, is one of those arrested

Ah, Private Eye Day…

After Warner Bros. deal, Paramount's debt has been downgraded to junk status Basically, the ratings agency thinks the combined entity faces a ton of competition & there's a risk the entire enterprise fails -- debt attached to it is therefore high-risk www.wsj.com/business/med...

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 23% (-1) GRN: 21% (+4) LAB: 16% (-2) CON: 16% (-2) LDM: 14% (=) Via YouGov, 1-2 Mar. Changes w/ 22-23 Feb.

Reform are in denial about why they lost by 12% in Gorton & Denton (60% white, 80% UK-born) after losing by 11% in Caerphilly (98% white, 98% UK-born) to Plaid Cyrmu Both seats unusual in seeing more people vote than at last Welsh Senedd/last GE: more voters turned out to stop Reform than supoort

A proper spring morning in Edinburgh

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Westminster is dangerously underprepared for a multi-party future Responsible and farsighted leadership would mean recognising the Gorton and Denton by-election as a warning, says @drhannahwhite.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gort...

Shorts and T-Shirt weather on today's run