Looking forward to our event in Glasgow tomorrow

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com With its latest layoffs, The Washington Post is “attempting to shrink its way into relevance — not with its audience but with its unfathomably wealthy, highly distracted owner,” our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes.

WHAT DID PEOPLE THINK IT WAS USING TO BEGIN WITH? Doesn't anyone remember that math has to come from numbers? Percentages and graphs have to come from data. Where's the data? AI doesn't "show its work" because it can't! Everyone is going to fail their audits.

In several U.S. cities where immigrants are being detained, restaurant owners say they’re struggling to stay open as fear keeps customers and workers from leaving home.

New Substack open.substack.com/pub/jackie12...

Canadians took 28% fewer trips to the US last year as President Donald Trump’s trade war and repeated calls for Canada to become the 51st state angered many in the northern nation.

The bin is full people! Stop leaving your rubbish there - it’s blowing everywhere. Rat nurturing programme. It’s your rubbish. Take it with you. Or don’t go to @BurgerKing in the first place! @Edinburgh_CC @edinburghtrams.bsky.social

For the common people, the Reformation was about Reform. They were fired up by the rhetoric of preachers like John Knox. But for the warlords who backed Knox, it was an opportunity. A fair bit of the land that was stolen back then is still in the hands of the same families 500 years later.

@andywightman.scot Hi I mention your work in this piece open.substack.com/pub/jackie12...

Why is Scotland’s history so often presented to us from an English perspective?

Why is Scotland’s history so often presented to us from an English perspective?

@andywightman.scot Hi I mention your work in this piece open.substack.com/pub/jackie12...

While Norway and Denmark are using the managed decline of their oil and gas reserves to boost European resilience and fund a just transition, Scotland’s situation is very different - thanks to a careless UK gov. open.substack.com/pub/jackie12...

While Norway and Denmark are using the managed decline of their oil and gas reserves to boost European resilience and fund a just transition, Scotland’s situation is very different - thanks to a careless UK gov. open.substack.com/pub/jackie12...

I made this wee reel about how ashamed I felt when visiting the Parthenon

The State Department said it informed countries involved in the Gaza peace agreement that an attack by Hamas is being planned against Palestinians and that it would be a violation of the ceasefire deal

looking good @andywightman.bsky.social

Let's hear it for @theferret.scot says @jackiekemp.bsky.social for doggedly exposing radioactive leaks from Trident into a popular Scottish loch sceptical.scot/2025/09/ferr...

Fun storm fact. When a storm is incoming, Germans say 'Mach die Schotten dicht' to mean 'Batten down the hatches'. But it could also mean 'get the Scots drunk'. Schotten - Scots or bulkheads dicht - to close tight or to be drunk #StormEowyn

Nicola Sturgeon, Alistair Darling, Fred Goodwin, Stalin, Mountbatten, Jimmy Reid, all glimpsed at the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe open.substack.com/pub/jackie12...