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Fair comment, if you ask me.

"This plan must be ambitious, practical, and transformative. It must make people’s lives better – especially those struggling most. If the government is to take the public with them in rebuilding a society fit for the future, this is absolutely vital.” https://bit.ly/42Uza2C

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

A wonderful little read ❤️

Gustav Klimt - Beech Grove I 1902 (Galerie Neue Meister)

As befits the day. Grey plover. Papay - Orkney

Isabelline Shrike is the new fashion editor at The Telegraph.

BREAKING: Two men have been arrested in connection with the heist of France's crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris.

It’s not early if Christmas is an important selling time for you because people are already buying. You have to get on it! Please support independent makers and artists on social media. Don’t just like, repost! We appreciate it x

This piece on reading by Katherine Rundell is fantastic.

Must admit I'm a Hallowe'en agnostic but I do love seeing people's creative and fun carving pumpkins . It makes up for all the sickly bad food and plastic tat

The Allt Chranaidh waterfall.

My kind of pub!

Paging @8bitnorthxstitch.bsky.social ☺️

...and another.

A cartoon about autumn....

Next week the government will present its new climate plan. Time is short – we urgently need a plan that delivers. Will Keir Starmer take this opportunity to lead with courage and deliver for people, as well as the planet? leftfootforward.org/2025/10/star...

Think Pink Benson, AZ

Another fab film of @climatechoirs.bsky.social demanding to #StopRosebank Some nice little vox pops of singers explaining why they're a part of this movement. Email this clip to your MP and ask them to sign the #StopRosebank pledge.

I've read quite a few western journalists telling us what to think about Saudi Arabia recently, and none of them take the time to talk to Saudi women. If you want a different perspective, I urge you to read the Saudi Whisperer Substack, authored by a Saudi woman 1/3

Getting a distinct Dalek vibe seeing all those brochs together 😳

This is so lovely: on Phyllis Wheatley by Jade Cuttle.

A bit of perspective

Local legislator displays the importance of kerning

The London Business School might want to rethink the name of this course. www.london.edu/executive-ed...

It is the official policy of the Conservative Party that their leader should be deported. It is the official policy of Reform that their leader's wife should be deported.

"In today's Daily Justice, we're offering readers the exclusive chance to win a luxury castle in the picturesque Scottish village of Exileheaven. To enter the prize draw, all you have to do is send your name, address, phone number, and 3 proofs of paedophilic activity to the address below..."

Humanist Bertrand Russell's perfect, utterly uncompromising 1962 letter declining Oswald Mosley's invitation to lunch. An perennial joy to see this circulating online from time to time.

A half and half kind of day. Big westerlies bringing half rain, half light. Lichen versus the sky at the walled garden of Holland farm. Papay - Orkney

Excellent news about an idea dreamed up by the folk who sell this fab 'Scottish brochs' t-shirt (can YOU name all these brochs? 🤔)

We’ve received a lot of questions about Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing. Here’s how the process is supposed to work:

We should celebrate Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s birthday by gatecrashing a wedding, finding a group of three guests, detaining one of them, then discoursing at length about our exploits in the Doldrums. Anyone up for it?

"Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians..." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Marvellous!

Via Press Gazette: "The Daily Star’s livestream of the Liz Truss lettuce has been acquired by the British Film Institute’s National Archive for a collection of significant pieces of online video. The BFI’s curator said it was “a seminal moment in British political history”"

"Unfortunately you can't take samples…no hammers whatsoever"

This just seems so beautifully, painfully on the mark. Bravo, Mr. Collins.

Try this with a rock-hard quince and you'll probably end up slashing your wrists by mistake

The Round Church, in a magnificent location at the head of the village of Bowmore's Main Street on the Isle of Islay. It was built in the 1760s with, it is said, no corners for the devil to hide in. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #RoundChurch #Bowmore #Islay #IsleOfIslay

07:40 this morning. Upper Loch Torridon.

If Prince Andrew has his Order of Garter revoked (as opposed to just not used), it requires the heralds to remove his coat of arms from St Georges Chapel and kick it out of the door and into Windor Castle's ditch. ... or prime time TV viewing as it might be called.

The Price Is Right Monroeville, IN

British.

I follow a Norwegian lighthouse keeper named Paal Bjørndal whose whole bit is sharing profound things that are inaudible due to high winds. I love the internet.

Here's a nice little positive story 😊

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World map, but every country is Brazil.