A valuable opportunity for researchers to dig into what’s driving the shift from largescale to smaller community acquisitions and how we remove barriers to communities taking ownership of land at scale. If you work on land reform, rural development or community wealth building, take a look 👇

📌 Scotland takes important step towards fairer use and ownership of land Scottish Land Commission statement on the passing of the Land Reform Bill

The result of the Stage 3 vote on the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill is: ✅ Yes - 85 ❌ No - 28 🟣 Abstain - 9 The Bill is therefore passed. You can find out more online at: https://ow.ly/g4AC50XnkZw

BREAKING: MSPs have backed a bill that is described as the 'most radical land reform legislation in the history of devolution' The Scottish Parliament passed the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill with 85 in favour, 28 against and 9 abstentions

The gentlest, firmest, weapon for us to use in the culture wars, from Goethe: "A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

It's day twinty-seiven o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: rammie

It will be worth reading.

At last….. www.facebook.com/share/14M1or...

‘My Leddy, gaird o ivry unco airt! Ye’ve gaithered the airts, ye’ve held them in yir haun, Ye’ve braided the airts, smooricht thaim tae yir breist.’ From Robert Crawford’s Scots version of ‘Enheduanna’s Song’, a Sumerian hymn: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Isle of Eigg, Scotland, 1920s Photographer: Mary Ethel Muir Donaldson #photography #portrait #scotland

RNCI reached 19,893 pupils this year, teaching sustainable farming, food and countryside skills through projects, visits and events.

Congratulations to the ColGlen Shinty team in their promotion to the MOWI Premier Division - shinty’s top flight. It is a remarkable achievement for a team from such a small community . www.facebook.com/share/p/1Q3P...

Its day ten o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: swick

"The underlying point is that, given the history, there was nothing like sufficient trust that the UK state could, or would, provide the safeguards and protections of minority rights in Northern Ireland, and that remains the case today." ukandeu.ac.uk/the-belfast-...

Calls to accelerate funding for community buyouts in Scotland. Scottish Land Fund (SLF), which provides funding for the scoping and purchase of community buyouts. is heavily oversubscribed with applications this year. 150 applications outstanding. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2552487...

In today’s National (Scotland), you can find a feature article celebrating thirty years of the Scottish Oral History Centre. And about their recent ‘Lost Villages’ project, recording memories of community and deindustrialisation in East Ayrshire. 🎤📼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Its day sax o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: quair

Absolutely correct. Though we kept our supply this time we were without electricity , water, phone & internet during Storm Eowyn. Rural/ Island Scotland needs a more resilient & customer focused set of services, capable of meeting climate related challenges. www.thenational.scot/comment/2551...

About 400 people last night showed up to hear about amazing progress to restore Britain’s temperate rainforests. Great to share a stage in Exeter with Sam Manning & Eleanor Lewis from the Woodland Trust, Ennia Bosshard from Thousand Year Trust, & Andy Bakere from Natural England.

Instead of private finance, we need public investment for public goods – plus action on systemic barriers: 📈 Reducing financial uncertainty for landowners 💷 Tax reform 🌱 Fairer land ownership 🦌 Tackling deer numbers 👷‍♀️ Building skills & housing www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...

BLOG - Land Reform and the Gentrification of Braemar andywightman.scot/2025/09/land...

Congratulations to what I could call my “local” on winning the AA Scottish Inn of the Year award : www.ratedtrips.com/bed-and-brea...

A Perthshire estate 'stopping walkers' from accessing four popular munros on its grounds due to a deer stalking program has triggered a right to roam row

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

I felt greatly privileged to take part in this today by contributing some reflections on the Education (Scotland) Act of 1918 and the different outcomes it had for the two churches. Thanks for inviting me.

Labour MPs today call for new legislation to extend a right of responsible access to more English landscapes, and for the right to swim and wild camp to be enshrined in law @righttoroam.bsky.social inputted to this new report from the APPG for access to nature: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

George Reid’s Memorial service on 3rd October : an important opportunity to celebrate a unique contribution to Scotland and the world as well as a good friend over many years. www.facebook.com/share/p/1JTH...

Scotland’s leading academic on refugees warns that British political rhetoric is taking the UK ‘into the foothills of genocide’ Professor Alison Phipps, Unesco chair in refugee integration at Glasgow University, says demonisation will end in deaths www.heraldscotland.com/news/2544663...

It is fascinating. I hadn’t seen heard of Glenbuck but didn’t know the others even though I was brought up in Ayrshire. I will read the book with interest.

We're very excited to announce that our wonderful exhibition 'Celebrating the Scottish Poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)' with the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, has been turned into an online exhibition! Check it out at the link below: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/online-exhib...

Latest edition of the “Across the Loch “ podcast from ColGlen in Argyll. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

The @scottishlandcom.bsky.social meets in Wick next week and will be holding a public meeting there & then elsewhere over the next few weeks

Complete shambles trying to get to London from Glasgow by Avanti West Coast. Four hours have elapsed since departure and we are only in Warrington but have just been transferred to another greatly overcrowded train.

This autumn, the Scottish Land Commission is heading to towns & cities across Scotland to talk land, place and the future of land reform. We want to hear what matters most to your community and your local area. Find out more about our “Scotland Futures” events & book your spot: lnkd.in/e7j2KgDZ

Pleased to have contributed to this with a piece on Winnie Ewing’s 1967 Hamilton by-election victory

Scottish Government's Nature Restoration Fund 1st evaluation report published today. Its investment has supported habitat and species restoration across Scotland. It's only the start but it powerfully shows how nature can recover given investment. www.gov.scot/publications... 🌳🌱🐝🦋🐟🐸🦢🐾🌍

Very pleased that @scottishlandcom.bsky.social has started to publish responses to our #ScotlandFutures initiative. Still time to have your say and help move Scottish Land Reform forward. www.landcommission.gov.scot/news-events/...

“Looking up, I saw a low green heaven mottled with vanishing bells of white; looking around, except for the weedy spokes and shafts of the ladder, nothing but a green gloaming, somewhat opaque but very restful and delicious” —A teenage RLS goes underwater in Wick edrls.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/e...

Sorry to hear that Jamie McGrigor has died. My opponent in 2012 he was an original with a keen interest in rural affairs especially agriculture & freshwater fisheries. Good company too - an approach to politics which saw disagreement as a contention of ideas not a vicious battle of personalities.

“Tha tìm, am fiadh, an coille Hallaig” “In ‘Hallaig’, MacLean, as a Gael, stands firmly at the centre of his world, and, consciously, close to the end of his world. As a poet, he shows us that the particular horizon and times that happen to encircle him, encircle us all.” —Seamus Heaney

Sorry to hear that Neil Fraser has died. A dynamic but endlessly charming force in Scottish broadcasting his advocacy for the Gaelic language & culture meant knowing how to get effective support from those who could deliver. A great friend to @celticmediafest.bsky.social in its early days.

The @scotparl.bsky.social remembers the #Srebrenica Massacre every year. Having visited in September 2015 I was privileged to move the motion the following year www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-...

On the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, I was reminded of this from my Blipfoto journal - an afternoon of tears in the warm Balkan sunshine : www.blipfoto.com/entry/209096...

And we left our beds in the dark And we drove a cart to the hill And we buried the jar of ale in the bog And our small blades glittered in the dayspring And we tore dark squares, thick pages From the Book of Fire… —George Mackay Brown, “Peat Cutting” published in Selected Poems: 1954–1992 #poetry