Thank you for another intelligent, thoughtful report. Stay safe.

‘With every day that passes, this conflict has the quality of quicksand – the further you sink into it, the harder it is to get out’ Today’s column from here in Northern Iraq👇 www.thenational.scot/comment/2598...

Seen from where I’m standing in Iraq, this war in the region would be like quicksand for Keir Starmer- Today’s column - 👇https://www.thenational.scot/comment/25989649.iraq-war-like-quicksand-keir-starmer/?ref=li

I’m currently in Iraq - and the news over the past 24 hours of Shelly Kittleson’s kidnapping has impacted heavily on the journalist community here. Fingers crossed that Shelly will be released safe and sound as soon as possible . 👇

Such a complex situation. I couldn’t help but think that the Kurds are a people who have things done to them but never for them. Exploited. Great article, David- good to read a report away from the headlines about the Gulf states.

Tomorrow's front page 📰 More US bombers in the UK 'expose Starmer's lie'

"These were taken by the local journalist and friend I was with of the attack I describe witnessing in the piece. We were very close when this one came down," our foreign editor David Pratt tells us. His full piece from Iraq 👉 www.thenational.scot/politi...

First of my series of reports from Iraq on how the shockwaves of the Iran war are opening up old wounds and faultlines 👇 www.thenational.scot/politics/259...

Iraq has long walked a tightrope between the competing interests of the US and its neighbour Iran, but the latest war is testing this delicate balancing act with a new sense of urgency, writes David Pratt ✍️ 🔗 www.thenational.scot/politics/25981944.shockwaves-iran-war-opening-old-wounds-iraq/

Are we looking at “jaw, jaw” or more “war, war” with Iran? Today’s column👇 www.thenational.scot/politics/259...

Alberto Giacometti’s painting focuses on a cluster of objects in his studio at 46 rue Hippolyte Maindron, in Montparnasse. He moved to this space in December 1926 and though it had no running water and a roof that leaked, it became his primary workspace for the next forty years.

The impact of Sorolla's teaching on Arthur Grover Rider is obvious from this work - the sunlight, the subject matter, and the rendering of the sea. Rider moved to Los Angeles in 1924 and lived and worked near Laguna Beach throughout the 1930s where this work was painted.

Lola Alvarez Bravo. Unos suben y otros bajan. 1940s.

Haere Pape (Tahitian) 1892 by Paul Gauguin

The Seine (1890) by Edvard Munch

Juan Gris

Landscape of the Brown Fungus https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/landscape-of-the-brown-fungus-1943

Totes Meer (Dead Sea) http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nash-totes-meer-dead-sea-n05717

Florence Douglas Dixie was the first female war correspondent. In 1881, she was appointed by the Morning Post to cover the first Boer War and the aftermath of the Anglo-Zulu War.

Tomorrow's front page 📰 SNP slam Chancellor's 'total betrayal of working families'

US to send 3,000 airborne soldiers to Middle East - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-send-3000-airborne-soldiers-middle-east

Trump’s war in Iran is not ‘winding down’ but set for a dangerous new phase - Today’s in-depth read explains why- 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/world/2...

‘Entire NATO mission’ evacuated from Iraq, say officials - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/entire-nato-mission-evacuated-iraq-say-officials

Two excellent articles in yesterday’s @scotnational.bsky.social @foreigncorr1.bsky.social describing Joe Kent’s resignation from Trump’s National Counter Terrorism😱 & Kelly Given about Louis Theroux’s Manosphere😳 Well worth a read Sorry to be a day late Papers missed the boat yesterday 🤣

Stumbled across Band of Brothers on Sky Mix. Not that it’s the first, second, third… time I’ve watched it and in particular that Episode 7 in Bastogne. One of the greatest TV series ever made, and in these shitty times a reminder of when America was indeed truly Great.

Joe Kent’s resignation letter nailed what might yet prove to be Trump’s undoing. Today’s column👇 www.thenational.scot/politics/259...

Prescient as ever. A must read.

The Strait of Hormuz and Kharg Island are the ground zero in this battle of wills, and their economic shockwaves will determine the conflict’s outcome. Trump’s war now has has 'mission creep' written all over it - Today’s in-depth read www.thenational.scot/politics/259...

Terrifying 😱

Trump’s Iran war now has has 'mission creep' written all over it - Today’s in-depth read 👇 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2593712...

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David, as usual, showing how journalism should be done. Thanks @foreigncorr1.bsky.social

Trump’s Iran war now has has 'mission creep' written all over it - Today’s in-depth read 👇 www.thenational.scot/politics/259...

www.patreon.com/posts/trump-... David Pratt @foreigncorr1.bsky.social returns to Talk Media with Stuart Cosgrove , taking aim at Trump’s attacks on Starmer, the devastating fire in Glasgow, and trouble t’ Old Firm. It’s your show and it’s out on Patreon now!

The Listeners’ Questions bonusode is now up on Patreon and it’s an absolute doozy with loads of amazing insights from David Pratt @foreigncorr1.bsky.social and Stuart Cosgrove. Want it? Sure you do. Away and subscribe to our Patreon for 99p a week. www.patreon.com/posts/listen...

Inconceivable as it may seem, watch for cracks opening up in the US- Israel alliance over Iran - Today’s column 👇 www.thenational.scot/politics/259...

The best people to make decisions for Scotland are the people who live here, not politicians in London. But Labour continue to show that they're only too happy to use Tory legislation to bypass and undermine Scottish democracy.

Israel says 200 munitions used in strikes on Beirut - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-says-200-munitions-used-strikes-beirut

Yes, regime change - in Washington and Israel - can end the Middle East wars - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/regime-change-washington-and-israel-one-way-end-forever-wars

Coming from the Western Isles, it's a problem that exists mainly in Glasgow. It's toxic though and the negativity affects the rest of Scotland for sure.

Football sectarianism in Scotland is like the Epstein files. It’s the best distraction ever from the political issues that affect us all. Until, as Scots - whatever our stripe- we recognise that this poisons our potential as a nation we will always be ‘small’ and ‘pathetic’.

World going to hell in a hand cart but the puerile, self obsessed navel gazing of Glasgow’s football sectarianism once again shows that dressing it up in some pseudo political ‘clothing’ is absurd. C’mon time to channel that energy against the real enemy that preys upon us all.

Now comes the real challenge in Trump’s ‘reshaping’ of the Middle East - My in-depth read today examines the myriad dangers that now lie ahead for the region-👇 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/world/2...

Now comes the real challenge in Trump’s ‘reshaping’ of the Middle East - My in-depth read today examines the myriad dangers that now lie ahead for the region-👇 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2591724...

Now comes the real challenge in Trump’s ‘reshaping’ of the Middle East - My in-depth read today examines the myriad dangers that now lie ahead for the region-👇 www.thenational.scot/news/world/2...

www.thenational.scot/politics/259... Excellent as ever from @foreigncorr1.bsky.social David Pratt

Here we go again. An American tragedy repeated. It seems this is a US that's deeply unlearning about it's own modern history of foreign adventures & gigantic failures. Now it's dead Americans for a dud President.

The CIA’s courting of Iranian Kurds is only the start of mission creep and the most ‘expendable’ of foot soldiers Trump needs to lessen the number of Stars and Stripes-draped coffins that will increasingly cause him political embarrassment at home. Today’s column www.thenational.scot/politics/259...

‘That the CIA has been courting Iranian Kurds to take the fight into Iran on America’s behalf, I can’t help feel that once again the Kurds are about to be taken for geopolitical mugs and served up as US cannon fodder.’- Today’s column 👇 👇 www.thenational.scot/politics/259...