Previously on Bylines Scotland...

SHELLEY: "...And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." OZYMANDIAS: Told ya, immortal.

Bullshit reporting like this isn’t helping their cause either I can easily boycott US products for the rest of my life Oh no! How will I cope with my French cheese, Italian pasta, Australian wine, Greek olives, Turkish honey, BC fruit & veg and Canadian beef? ♥️🇨🇦♥️

Today in the UK's Guardian newspaper: "As Americans tire of Donald Trump, a Democratic midterm ‘tsunami’ could sweep the GOP out of power" www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Who remembers "The people of this country have had enough of experts”

💯 #snp1sgp2 all the way

540 million pounds for an entire country. Even that is spread over 3 years. How much did Mone and Barrowman walk away with? How much is Ratcliffe getting? The Brit Establishment throw pennies (or nowt for Scotland) at us while further enriching the already obscenely wealthy.

There are over 320 Clubhouses around the world adhering to the Clubhouse model. The Norfolk Clubhouse in Norwich, one of three in the UK, was founded in 2019 by June Webb. Like Mosaic Clubhouse in Lambeth (founded in 1994) and Flourish House in Glasgow (1997), @snp.org

One dead and scores of people injured after Russia launches massive attack on Kyiv

The Editor of The Times and Sunday Times in Scotland has been arrested and charged in connection with “indecent online communications”. www.thenational.scot/news/2569064...

Great to see the random headline news generator back in action

Tony Blair believed he had 'lanced the boil of separatism' in Scotland. Well Tony ma-lad! That lanced boil of separatism as you referred to it has turned septic on the face of the Union and will be terminal for the UK's existence. archive.ph/Keo0o#select...

And in Scotlands Daily Distress shitrag, just the usual SNP bad pre-election bullshit.

The operation of the American MLRS M270 system against the occupiers in the Pokrovsky direction. t.me/ZSU_DVIG

Keiran King, head of humanitarian at War Child, gives the Big Issue a rare on-the-ground insight amid war in Sudan.

"The Bylines Network is tremendously inspiring…it's crucial that journalism speaks truth to power, but the great majority of it unfortunately speaks with the voice of power…it’s really inspiring to see networks like yours filling that huge gap and doing what journalism ought to do." George Monbiot

ICE showed up on private property without a Warrant and was sneaking around so when the one of the owners showed up he told them to get off the property and they did because they know that what they were doing was illegal and they're being watched by everyone now including Judges

I wonder how Blair views "separtism" now? No longer a "boil" but, what?, a terminal disease? Papers reveal how Tony Blair viewed 'boil of separatism' in Scotland in 2004 www.thenational.scot/news/2572424...

Police are appealing to the public to help trace Chelsea Woods, a 29-year-old woman who went missing on Christmas Day

This is the daily Ukraine thread on the Feast of Stephen, or Boxing Day as it's known to many. It's also Day: 1402 of Russia's full invasion. 4,327 since the original invasion 290 since Trump demand for a ceasefire under threat of massive sanctions, Russia has refused every day..

Lasy seen Jubilee Rise area of Stewarton in Ayrshire She is described as around 5ft 7in tall, of medium build, with long brown hair. It is not known what she is wearing but she may be travelling in her Silver Volkswagen T-Roc car. The registration of the car is SH69 YXT.

🇬🇧 The british political parties in Scotland absolutely raging, because Scotland has the best performing NHS in the (current) uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

Newly released cabinet papers reveal comments Tony Blair made about "the boil of separatism" in Scotland and Wales in 2004 🚨

I asked Santa for the wrong gift this year.

Nollaig Chridheil 💫 Merry Christmas 💫 Wishing everyone a joyous festive season from the Cairngorms National Park❄️ As another year draws to a close, we’re thankful to the people, communities and partners that make this place so special 💜 📸 SCOTLAND: The Big Picture

It stayed below freezing today until 13:45....and then got up to 0.5C before falling back below freezing again just a short while ago. If you can't have a white Christmas, a whitish Christmas is the next best thing 😉

A big thank you to Shaw-nae for warmly welcoming us, sharing her history and her home. As she often says, Staten Island truly is the borough of many memories.

NORAD Santa tracker is Woke

time to stop imagining and make it happen

That time of Christmas Day when the only sensible thing to do is get out the Single Malt and the Beta Band playlist. And I'm not even Scottish.

Solar gets all the attention, writes Stephen McNair, but the ground beneath us holds immense, untapped energy. New drilling technologies might finally take us there. eastangliabylines.co.uk/energy/unlim...

Lock them up

Good on ye Australia. Earlier this year, Australia tightened its hate crime laws, introducing mandatory jail terms for displaying hate symbols or performing a Nazi salute. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Only for England, Robin Because of the D'Hondt voting system in Scotland our Holyrood elections next year are by PR Some ppl will be voting SNP 1 S Greens 2 That will give the S Greens seats on the regional list vote Some will vote SNP 1 & 2 Which will give the SNP 0 seats on the regional list vote

That's why I stopped voting Labour and joined the Green Party instead. #VoteGreen 💚

We’ve today formally written to multiple public bodies about BBC reporting on transgender people. Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6

The meat in this article is priceless. It is so disjointed from oor cozy wee reality about how war is funded and manufactured. This article's matter of fact, bean counting in the middle of the inhumanity it describes is so meta. @amendlocke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The original and best Hitch Hikers cast member Sandra Dickinson www.bigfinish.com/news/v/hitch...

The big Orange Bloater is being sent to the moon www.space.com/space-explor...

Does that mean Football Club owners should be taxed the way farmers are now as all their assets are on the field Tom.... Lol Merry Crimbo at LBC @tomswarbrick.bsky.social

Got gifted a year old frozen Turkey from a friend that was moving this week. Roasted and cut out the breast and refrozen them for two Sunday Dinners in the future. Today is about canning the stock I have made from the carcass with the shredded brown meat in it! Busy day on the croft!

BBC Scotland, cheerleaders for Farage weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/b...

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

Quote with your favourite pic of 2025 Pond-Life

🇺🇲 Bipartisan leaders in the US Senate are sending a clear message: #Russia is failing in #Ukraine, and the US cannot afford to waver. www.kyivpost.com/post/66759 #USA

13 worst Reform moments of 2025 - from Elon Musk, racism scandals and Russian bribes www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

🇩🇪 Germany’s far-right AfD accused of gathering information for the Kremlin Far-right German politician Ringo Mühlmann has taken a noteworthy interest in exposing information his political opponents say could be of great interest to Russian intelligence. www.politico.eu/article/germ... #russia