Ok, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it? (OP @drgbuckingham.bsky.social )

The brilliant Scottish Book Trust's Xmas campaign. Donate here: www.scottishbooktrust.com

What a hideous man he is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Lib Dem MP here expressing concerns that “migrants” (in fact asylum seekers, or “human beings”, as they’re also known) might be allowed to live next door to people, and near a high street

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

They ran a diagnostic, then shelved the file. “All systems nominal.” After that, clocks stuttered. Permissions floated. Birds started flying at night. The system split half watching and half forgetting.

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

I don't feel a stranger to the many immigrants who enrich our country. They are our friends, neighbours, colleagues, partners. They teach our children, care for our loved ones, amongst a hundred other things. The real strangers are Starmer/Farage/Badenoch, and all the rest, who stir up this hate.

Today is Orson Welles' birthday. If you've never listened to his radio commentaries, including those he delivered after the 1946 blinding of Isaac Woodard, a black WWII veteran, by policemen in South Carolina, you really owe it to yourself to.

This should be in the email inbox of everyone in Scotland. They should know what kind of man Anas Sarwar is. It's, somehow, real. Looking forward to him losing his seat next year. No one who cosies up to Trump deserves a seat in our parliament.

3/1/2025- The Meeting www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/fe...

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

*New* campaign action on Marks & Spencer - any help getting the first few signatures going would be greatly appreciated! actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... We're sharing this first on Bluesky as this is so much friendlier (and troll free, so far at least!) than any of the other platforms right now!

Half the world looks on in horror - waiting to see what the next unhinged, cruel or bigoted Doge action will be; Musk does nazi salutes and behaves like a badly written Bond villain. And Sarwar thinks: 'I'd like some of that'.

An astonishing exchange today between Pete Hegseth and a European reporter who has no time whatsoever for his bullshit. How I wish American media had an ounce of this steel. #hamburger

To be clear, this policy is repulsive, and that needs to be expressed again and again. But I really think it's worth stating that it's also tactically, strategically, politically suicidal. It's the most clear-cut bad idea in contemporary politics. It always fails. It's the dog that just won't hunt.

As best you can, ignore him.

put it this way, it's not a hand signal you'd do if you very much wanted people *not* to think you are a Nazi

Delighted to receive Karla's Choice as part of our family's vague tribute to Jólabókaflód and it's perfect before the first page. What a lovely tribute @harkaway.bsky.social

Such courage and integrity

Each year, Noddy gets all the holly bouquets but the other bloke who wrote it rarely gets a look in. Until now. A sublime version from Jim Lea. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0Y...

This is my go-to when parents ask me how to get their kids to read (because this is just something authors know). It’s *amazing* to me how much resistance it gets. Likewise “let them read books about spaceships, ninjas and magic.”

THE BIG DAILY CLASSIC SCOTTISH FOOTBALL NONSENSE THREAD Day 1: Four-armed Hibs fan