600,000 deaths *so far*. Many, many more to come.

Cool project. Solar panels over canals in California "recorded evaporation reductions of 50-70% beneath the solar arrays and an 85% decrease in algae growth" www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/04/s...

That there is no deep push back or outrage over this just speaks to how profoundly NI is othered in GB politics. There are no votes in it. There's only forget and move on. share.google/PbXA5GOlxyQO...

This was based on a small piece of research by @communityownership.bsky.social into what had happened to the churches in Shetland and Aberdeen City - interesting findings edas.org.uk/2026/04/08/c...

Very much looking forward to this event at Edinburgh Uni on Friday - to mark the publication of the second edition of The Law of Property in Scotland. I'll be speaking in the afternoon. www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

The last post of Giles Peaker. I very much admired him. RIP and condolences to all his friends and family

I can’t recall when I was more upset by the death of someone I’d never met than of that of Giles Peaker.

Such very very sad news. Giles was so generous with his time and information, and patiently signposted me several times when I worked with families who would often have housing issues as well as needing help with benefits - he will be much missed.

Another great, important thread debunking the way the right-wing media misleads and misrepresents at every turn.

I posted a thread yesterday about what the SNP and certain other parties are saying about land reform and housing in their manifestos. If anyone has any thoughts about what else is worth including, let me know.

That's the SNP Manifesto for Holyrood 2026 out. Given the way the polls are looking, I'm going to offer some thoughts on what it says about land reform and housing here. I'll then branch off into what some other parties say (Labour; Reform; Greens). > issuu.com/hinksbrandwi...

The Scottish Government recently aired its proposals for reforming community rights to buy in Scotland. Here's my blog post that seeks to distil and comment on the various recommendations (and indeed non-recommendations). basedrones.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/c...

BLOG - I have reported further offences to Police Scotland under the Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land. andywightman.scot/2026/04/furt...

The Scottish Government recently aired its proposals for reforming community rights to buy in Scotland. Here's my blog post that seeks to distil and comment on the various recommendations (and indeed non-recommendations). basedrones.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/c...

Available for pre-order now, should legal education be your bag...or maybe you have budget to use up before year end? Oh, wait, nobody has budget anymore. But, available in paperback, not prohibitively expensive, & hopefully useful! That's my pitch! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/legal-educat...

BREAKING: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat to Peter Magyar after "painful" election result, ending 16 years in power.

🔴NEW: Scotland’s publicly-funded forestry bodies have spent more than £134m controlling deer over the last decade, The Ferret can reveal. Find out more: https://www.theferret.scot/deer-management-cost-public-135m/

Reading this and wondering when the first case of a student using a lecture capture to do an AI version of a lecturer speaking will happen 😬

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Concerning but also unsurprising. There’s a lot of intolerance here. A lot of us have stepped back from proper engagement. Legal Twitter seemed to migrate en masse but then die.

It's ScotWays’ 181st Birthday! There’s much more regulation surrounding signposting today than there was when ScotWays first started installing signs back in 1885. At that time, the most recent signposting guidance was dated 1835!

Closed-doors deal for Uig’s private super-laird https://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/business/closed-doors-deal-for-uigs-private-super-laird-6561988 #scothinews

We are doing our bit @ramblersscotland.bsky.social to make sure people know about new bylaw. But as the park chief executive said in parliament last month “intentional” burning (eg muirburn) is a bigger cause of wildfires than campfires so needs to be bigger picture. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not a naive person, but... words absolutely fail me. What can you even say any more.

A departing concern from isl... https://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/business/a-departing-concern-from-island-lawyer-6528315?fbclid=IwY2xjawQ3qbJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEebocZOMMcOYYhUXDiTaRZsOJEmA-nYvfyDAQIhGA81afYm4miZi0pLy5RaGs_aem_UuuKNjDq85fjj7cFvkQ4Xg #scothinews

Orkney Tesco store orders 38,000 bananas by mistake | STV News https://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/orkney-tesco-store-orders-38000-bananas-by-mistake #scothinews

That's quite the sign:

Children living in the south of Mull are separated from their families during their time at secondary school, and the council wants this to continue even when a new school is built. Islanders have been fighting that plan for more than a year. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2597232...

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

Nominative determinism at its finest.

I don’t think I quite agree with all of this, but I do agree with a lot of it. I agree that *some* Supreme Court judgments before Reed’s presidency were hard to understand and defend legally, and I think he’s made it more legally impressive and harder to criticise legally speaking. I am a fan.

JOHN MACLEOD: Once again I see my own culture as a barn ablaze as another Hebridean tradition is attacked | Daily Mail Online https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15679387/JOHN-MACLEOD-culture-barn-ablaze-Hebridean-tradition-attacked.html #scothinews

Now published - A Festschrift for John Shaw 18 contributions on Gaelic ethnography and folklore in honour of Dr John Shaw Edited by Virginia Blankenhorn, @robertdunbar.bsky.social and @ampiobaire.bsky.social open.journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStud...

Random question but don't suppose anyone's come across a portrait of Hugh Baird (1770-1827), engineer of the Union Canal? Can't find anything in any of the usual places or books...

EXC: Reform has suspended its Holyrood candidate in Dundee City West after it emerged he agreed to a seven-year disqualification from acting as a company director over misuse of a taxpayer-backed Covid loan. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2595345...

Just as the Scottish courts served up an absolute humdinger of an AI case (where a party litigant referred to fake legislation and litigation, and the sheriff decided on balance not to call it contempt of court), here's a blog post about AI and law clinics.

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A blog post, about the first provisions of the newest Land Reform Act to be brought into force, on Land Commissioner functions and hutting (with a P.S. about the Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2026). basedrones.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/t...

Today in small things the Labour government is getting right (while getting some big things very wrong): credit union reform. The more people have access to a choice of credit unions the better.

Enough with the elf on a shelf and cartoonish bastardised leprechaun cutesy nonsense, it's time we taught people outside of Ireland about REAL fairies (will swap your baby for a changeling and/or curse your entire family and their livestock if you even look sideways at a ring fort)

This is brilliant news if - as I hope - it actually happens. It's unjust that researchers, academics, reporters, activists and everyone has to pay through the nose to find out who owns England, esp. as a) the Land Registry recently hiked their fees b) Companies House ownership data is free.

NEW: Brian Whittle becomes sixth MSP to withdraw support for assisted dying Bill. On current numbers, it’s now effectively 63–63. In a tie, the Presiding Officer uses her casting vote and by convention backs the status quo, meaning, if numbers above are right, the Bill falls

Ginger Wildheart's medical update of a cancer diagnosis (and his response to it) has left me pretty gutted, it's fair to say. He's up there as one of the most important musicians in my life, from soundtracking formative moments, offering catchy yet meaningful tunes, providing great gigs, >

this rocks

Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigns over Iran war. x.com/joekent16jan...

NEW Somewhat unexpectedly, the US government has submitted an Article 51 letter to the UNSC articulating the US int'l law justification for attacking Iran. As someone who used to help draft these letters for the USG, I find the administration's legal arguments completely unconvincing. 1/n

EXCL: UK national security adviser Jonathan Powell attended final talks between US and Iran - and judged Tehran's offer on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent rush to war @patrickwintour.bsky.social & @julianborger.bsky.social reveal www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4

A blog post, about the first provisions of the newest Land Reform Act to be brought into force, on Land Commissioner functions and hutting (with a P.S. about the Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2026). basedrones.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/t...