The Trust are calling an EROSION EMERGENCY — asking the council @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social to re-bank, re-seed and re-turf CALTON HILL between now and the end of the year. @spurtle.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social caltonhilltrust.org/wp-content/u...

Proposal to demolish two Edinburgh multi-storey blocks Two Edinburgh multi-storey council housing blocks are being considered for demolition after costs for a planned refit have increased dramatically, according to city officers. According to a report to be noted by councillors next week,…

Worth saving those motif tiles methinks but seems unlikely.

Watership Down a Bit More.

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

With lots of competition, is this the biggest financial waste of Brexit? The figures are eye-watering. I have no knowledge of this, but were European public-procurement procedures still being followed when these went to tender? 1

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If this is how far a London-centric architectural awards competition has fallen, the game's up.

I can't be the only British person depressed at being born in a country where, if you see the country's flag everywhere, you know with certainty they were put there by absolute arseholes who might attack you and who definitely mean harm, whereas in Scandinavian countries it's a +nice+ thing.

Presumably our Government is pro-Israel in part to protect our arms manufacturing sector. So how much money does the UK make from killing Palestinian children? And how does it compare to the entire creative economy the same government just threw under the AI bus without a moment’s hesitation?

Only Edinburgh could divert buses away from a place (Murrayfield) people actually want to get to and away from. #LothianBuses #Oasis

Nonsense if it's true. The travelling public come second again.

Some of Edinburgh’s scaffolding is so old, it should be listed. No one alive can remember what’s underneath.

Happy Yorkshire Day to those who celebrate. I will be marking the day with usual traditions - watching a super cut of Sean Bean saying bastard and going up onto Ilkley Moor without a hat.

Surely AI? Who'd bother with the Nike tick?

These gibbering idiots in uniform take it upon themselves to move well beyond the terms of the Labour Government's draconian legislation designed to curtail public protest against genocide. ☹️

NEWS: The Bernat Klein Studio near Selkirk has recently been put up for auction. Designed by Peter Womersley in 1972, the A listed modernist masterpiece has lain empty and deteriorating for years. C20 has been in contact with interested parties to try and ensure the best outcome for the property.

The Guardian reporting that "the UK is the worst in G7 for MMR jab rates. Only 89% of children received their first vaccination in 2024," neglecting to mention that Scotland, at 95% is second best - just behind Germany with 96%. The UK=England, as usual. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The Bayeux Tapestry is returning to Britain for the first time in 900 years

Looks like the King's garden party was too much for this individual.

The single most powerful and beneficial thing you can do if for some strange reason you're still a Labour supporter is to stop defending them. When you do you're taking others for fools. We have eyes and ears. We can see what they're doing. Instead, use every atom of clout you have to CHANGE them.

Hidden Door at old paper factory at Maybury is a must see. Go.

I remember steaming off the hall wallpaper in my newly bought Leith house in 1991 and it was raining nicotine. 🤢

'The idea that permission for Flamingoland was ever in doubt has kept citizens believing that Scotland was still a functioning democracy. It wasn't, and it isn't.' Robin McAlpine robinmcalpine.org/fe...

@c20society.bsky.social If this comes down it'll be a great shame.

Scorched and parched. East Princes St Gardens and it's only mid May.

Passing this wild flowering white/hawthorn yesterday, the air erupted with a great hum of insect life. We need WAY more of this. #Rewilding 🌎

Don't be young, or old, or infirm. Do not have ADHD, autism or depression. Don't be a migrant. Do not want a park, leisure centre or local arts. If you are none of those, Reform councils will be good for you. For everyone else, they will be dire. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...

Farage comes straight out saying his new councillors need to do a ‘DOGE’ - Musk’s ruinous approach to culling govt offices and public services. ‘Efficiency savings’ that are costing America dearly. This isn’t change. This is more of the vicious uselessness that broke our country in the first place.

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Call the spelling police, there's been a serious crime...

This is how I feel when people say, smugly: "Brexit has happened, move on." My freedom of movement was stolen in 2016. Think how you'd feel if something precious and irreplaceable was stolen from you in broad daylight. I'm *not* "moving on". I'd ruddy well like it back, thanks.

They might be Empire Biscuits in Edinburgh but they've aye been double shortbread in Aberdeenshire - the difference being the cherry is substituted with a jub jub.

The hats Greenlanders were wearing.

Waitrose have announced the opening of a less middle-class Scottish version of their store called Hawmargaret

No invitation to shareholding volunteers to help with this?!

A MP is on a salary of £91,346 You’ve probably seen this menu before from the House of Commons dining room 👇 of heavily subsidised food. Any MP in that privileged position who votes to reduce the living standards of disabled people is a disgrace. #benefits #disabilitybenefits

Decent place for actual housing. This is nowhere near a campus.

What a dumpscape.

The SCE moved here in 1967 but lasted less than a decade before flitting to larger premises in Dalkeith. The Law Commission took over in 1975. Before both, this had been Causewayside Public School, later St. Columba's RC School, and from 1942 a central kitchen for cooking school meals

Shockeroonie!😲

Today's essential shopping...

"Here here - ask me what the word is for a shaft sunk into the ground to obtain water, oil, or gas" “For FUCK’S SAKE Lulu how many times?”

Oh but the University is broke...

"The thing is, Blackadder, I'm really angry about Starmer's private school tax - and extremely poor."

I suppose one big tariff question is, what's the impact of the levy on the chevy? Sorry, not sorry.

I'm all out of Conference Pears but I've got some lovely Webinar Pomegranates

The article dates the structure to 1980s. Edinburgh Corporation tendered for "reinforced concrete work at Gable of Above School" in 1947 and it is visible on 1:1250 OS mapping from 1950 and in aerial photos from 1950s and 1960s.

Trump's gone and done a Truss!