More to the point, English Labour are busy selling the NHS to American health companies. If Not-Scottish Labour get power in Holyrood, they will do the same. Potentially our lives are in danger from an americanised health system.

🎥 Watch | “It wasn’t really a negotiation. It was a negotiation within the Israeli team. It was a negotiation within the American team. But it wasn’t a negotiation between Israelis and Palestinians. It was presentation of constantly changing proposals based on Israel’s estimate of what the...

Good. Hardly surprising and thoroughly deserved.

Israeli genocide continues, one tiny Palestinian at a time.

cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight

I'm delighted to be joining the line-up for Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People this year! Come along for an evening of science, comedy and music - raising funds for the UNICEF Gaza Appeal. cosmicshambles.com/ninelessons/

This is fascinating. Note the large variance around terms like “likely” or “probable” and their antonyms

Just the best definition of the current US Government I have seen.

"BERNARD MANNING!" www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/989c0d4...

The term 'Axis of Evil' has a bad history, but in this case it's truly warranted. share.google/DgBMNvIYzaxk...

Today in 1941, 84 years ago: in Berlin, a decree by Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of all enemies or opponents of the Third Reich to concentration camps, under the code name of Nacht und Nebel (‘night and fog’). It’s only taken US Republicans 84 years to catch up.

Martin Parr RIP One of my favourite photographers. If you don't know his work, dip into the internet; it's a joy.

I guess this is a normal thing for an otter to worry about?

But he’s already forgotten he said it today, let alone yesterday.

The Long Neolithic persists in a legion of ways, but its lithic manifestations and undismissable earthworks have peculiar power to infect the imagination. For it is harder to anchor folklore to ditches and droveways than it is to a stone. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

But the house that he didn’t pay for?

But think of all the astonishing things he's selflessly done for this country and look at all those medals which he won during his four months in the Royal Marines.

Reform UK have accepted £9 million from foreign-based businessman Christopher Harborne. Here's what Reform Deputy Leader Richard Tice thought in 2018 about George Soros donating to UK groups: "He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"

This is how Spanish TV announced the boycott of Eurovision If Russia is banned for what they're doing to Ukraine, surely Israel should be banned for what they're doing in Palestine? When is the UK going to boycott Eurovision?

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

An Aurora Framed I planned for this shot to have a nice wee shape, with dark skies across the top. The trouble with Aurora though, they don't listen! So much bigger and more intense than expected! - #Twizel, #NewZealand - #Aurora #Night #EastCoastKin #Stunday #Scape #BucketList #Travel #Epic

Evri at their best again. Given clear instructions where to put parcels if we’re out, yesterday they dumped 4 in the street while ew were 50 miles away. Today they did it again, rang the bell and drove straight off. Not vaguely interested in a professional job.

“Could” remove. Probably won’t in case it upsets Orangina.

They threw apple crumble at the display case; police have taken them into custardy...

Behold! The famous Orkney Library & Archive knitted #Christmas tree begins another season of festive cheer in the library! 🎄🧶❤️

"This new piece is baroque in style and covers themes of misplaced loyalty and broken trust and it's called 'Concerto for An Empty Bowl'"

Fuck Russia.

Happy Finnish Independence Day! Hyvää syntymäpäivää.

According to French media reports the 🇫🇷 navy last night shot down five drones flying over the Ile Longue, in Brittany, home to France’s SNLE nuclear-armed submarines, the naval component of France’s nuclear deterrent

Farage’s Schoolboy Antics. youtu.be/5OaXTd7__Ys?...

It’s like the planet is telling us in every way it possibly can that we’re in very big trouble. The bees. The forests. The rivers. The glaciers. Now, the penguins.

One of my most favourite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume. Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD 📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln 🏺 #archaeology

Ditto

Read this. Read it again. Then smile.

Daria’s crew is the first in #Ukraine’s national guard to operate entirely without men She&the 4 women under her command build own explosives&launch armed drones along the southeastern front Viktoriia,Tetiana,Oleksandra,Maryna, Daria- members of drone unit Typhoon 📷Oksana Parafeniuk /for The WP

this story isn’t going away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Dubai immigrant, Isabel Oakeshott, whines that Farage got nothing from his deal with the Tories last time, so why should he do that again. Christ. The whining victimhood of these spoiled brats. Squabbling over power, while the rest of us live with the mess they’ve made of our country and our lives.

I like this one I saw on Instagram.

"Dear Diary, Spent today being an attention-seeking twat, stirring up faux-outrage about some mayoral elections being postponed... sorry, I mean CANCELLED by a vicious DICTATOR! Anything to distract my gullible followers from me being a Nazi schoolboy and a Russian asset."

David Squires nails it 👏🤦‍♂️⚽️

The only people outside of Russia thay that believe what Putin says are in the White House, or at least what's left of it. #America understandingwar.org/research/rus...

It's a mark of our moral disintegration that there's even a discussion about Ukraine giving up land. To even countenance it is to reward colonialism.

The getting rid of juries has, in my opinion, a darker rationale. It means protestors, who are more likely to get let off when juries are involved, will now all be found guilty. Part of a sinister cross party agenda of slowly criminalising protest.

Builders not in work? Cost of building falling due to lower demand? Compulsorily purchase land that has been bought to build on and has received planning permission but where there has been no significant progress. Get on with building social housing.

Full moon over the village school. It’s going to be cold night.

Oh, you know, Rachel’s invented fiscal rules. How about a bit of Keynesian economics?

Roman terracotta mug showing a deer galloping (3rd Century AD). It is decorated with a barbotine technique, which involves applying a thick clay slip to the vessel surface to create a raised relief design. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY #archaeohistories