I walk past these roses every day and the smell is glorious.

Whatever your opinion of what he's saying it's completely undermined by him posting it on the fascist owned website X. If he had one iota of integrity. If he really believed in his ersatz Lenin posturing... he'd have left it months or years ago. But he relies entirely on the clicks and praise.

Yesterday in Leith - morning and evening

Well, to be fair, he is an expert on politicians with tiny minds.

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

Nigel Farage. A proper football fan who hasn't moved an inch in almost two years.

This silver coin is from Knossos and depicts the labyrinth of Greek myth. If you trace your finger from the entrance, like the puzzle books you used to do as a kid, you’ll find a path to the centre where you’ll meet…..a mini-Minotaur! 🕰️c270BC 🏛️📷 Ashmolean Museum

Leaving the ECHR, will weaken protections for all in society. That’s the end goal. Then they will usher in freeports, SEZ’s, data centres, zero hours contracts, no employment protections, state surveillance. All in the name of protecting us. When we already have protections…

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

This free exhibition runs until the 28th June, showcasing Jill’s meticulous work in tracing lost stones from the former Trinity Collegiate Church, which once stood just below Calton Hill. #lostedinburghchurches #medievaledinburgh #royalmile #citymuseums #chalmersclose

The Scottish opposition parties really need to be having more fun with the Peter Murrell story. A lot less “comparing it to organised crime” and a lot more “a bald man bought two expensive hair dryers and his wife didn’t wonder where they came from?”

I cannot make it make sense. Farage is untouchable. Yet Keir Starmer who is first Labour PM in 14 years is being whipped by the media, members of his own Party and the citizens of the UK he is actually helping on a day to day basis. Britain has gone mad. #StandWithStarmer

Worth remembering on May 7

Labour has already delivered more manifesto pledges than Reform UK has total policies www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/lab...

Good grief.

The face of someone who’s devoted their life to service, science and space exploration needing to listen to some draft-dodging, out-of-shape bozo brag that he easily could’ve been an astronaut.

Viking-age gaming board (replica), from Ballinderry, Ireland. For the Viking war game ‘Hnefatafl’, the object of which is to drive the King piece into one of the corners. This replica at Roskilde Viking Ship Museum, Denmark. Original at National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. 📷 by me #Archaeology

5 MILLION POUNDS given to a man who wants to be the next British PM from a Thai based crypto dealer? Not even a news story Glasses and Arsenal tickets 5 DAYS OF NEWS

Yes I do. Shame UK public are so captured by propaganda in the UK Media from both left and right. Blinded by ridiculous point scoring and personal agendas to see the many many great policies helping the young, children,less well off, & workers, ticked off manifesto promises already. More coming.

Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.

Should be part of his next test.

Pottery cup fragment from Roman Peterborough (Durobrivae) depicting a magnificent hare. Now part of the collections at Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain #Peterborough

This is very, very funny.

Vital thread ahead of the election tomorrow.

“Angela Rayner ‘dodged’ paying the correct amount of tax. Her position is morally indefensible. If she had any integrity, any moral decency she would resign.” (Dick Tice, Reform Ltd)

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

Before posting, don't forget to let Reform Ltd & Nigel Farage know your heart-felt feelings about them all over the leaflet ... meme via Paul Hodgson

Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🍿

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

#Netanyahu #warcrimes #illegalwar #etniccleansing #genocide #landgrab #icc #icj #thehague

Whalebone plaque which formed part of the grave good assemblage from the Scar Viking boat burial which was found near Scar on Sanday in Orkney. Dating to between 875 to 950 AD, the plaque is part of the collections at the Orkney Museum in Kirkwall. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday

Artemis II mission captures first pictures of the far side of the Moon.

From Tory HQ to the Daily Mail to Tufton Street, the myriad creeps & cretins who created the ecosystem in which this could happen still claim to be patriotic. And Boris Johnson fluffers still dominate all three places.

Average annual takehome pay is now just £25k. Tell me again why the 1% shouldn't pay a bit more tax.

from Fraser Nelson:

New GOP logo just dropped.

Me: "I'm surprised by how winded I am by this exercise." Personal trainer: "This was the tour of the gym."

This is what moral bankruptcy looks like. Trump does not realize that one day the same will be said about him… by millions.

The only imminent threat Trump was facing was the release of the Epstein files.

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, "Let us say to our British friends" "If they stand ready to return to the EU Single Market with all associated privileges and duties" "They will be be met with open arms" Sounds like a plan. Who's in?

Thank God Starmer is in charge, really. If it had been any of his immediate predecessors, we'd currently be at war with Iran, playing lapdog to a deranged US administration, unable to say what we were doing or why.

One day the SNP might choose a leader prepared to tell fantasists within the party some hard truths. John Swinney is plainly not that leader.

prediction: Trump will soon approve the release of the Epstein files to distract Americans from the disastrous Iranian war

Shona Robison explains why John Swinney’s big policy announcement today is a bad idea and an inappropriate way to spend public money.

Giving evidence yesterday to Holyrood’s Finance and Public Administration Committee, Shona Robison came close to admitting that she has set public spending on an unsustainable path. She does appear to acknowledge that a great many chickens will come home to roost in the next parliament.

Quite the thread.

Badenoch said if she was prime minister HMS Dragon would have left a week ago. Presumably with its doors hanging off and with no weapons onboard.