When we have a clearer picture of how land is owned, used and valued, we can make better decisions that benefit communities, public services and the economy. Our latest research explores what Scotland can learn from countries with more connected land information systems. buff.ly/skb81PR

Ha ha! Discuss. Legislation www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw2/7/0...

Latest Reform star is this councillor who thought, “forget data protection I’ll use private information held by the council to promote my mates business” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Common good land belongs 2 the community. They should have the legal right to take back title which they lost in May 1975. Councillors in Lochgilphead shouldn’t be making decisions about land in Helensburgh. Credit to @GabyMcKay for covering this important story. heraldscotland.com/news/26230779.…

Community Land Scotland has secured £4.25m from @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk - thanks to National Lottery players - for the Inclusive Ownership project. A UK‑wide partnership working to make community ownership of land and buildings more accessible. 👉 buff.ly/YW9C1Ny

So it turns out the massive scandal here is that Bridget Phillipson's mum bought a council house for £9k in 1990 and then sold it *33 years* later for £99k. That's the entire story

Europcar apologises for blocking Shetland family without passport ID - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7w2j0p5pwo #scothinews

Absolutely top notch legal publishing and indexing here!

Happy expiry of delegated powers under the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act Day to all those who celebrate. May your revocations, restatements and replacements henceforth be delivered through other enabling Acts.

As Scotland's World Cup journey continues, our Roddy Cairns reflects on the fact that the Tartan Army gets to enjoy watching international football when Greenland fans cannot. www.strath.ac.uk/whystrathcly...

FWS win on prisons guidance in Scotland. Prison accommodation to be required for men and women based on biological sex. ECHR arguments considered and confer no right to be housed in prisons of the opposite biological sex. Not a surprising decision.

The Conservatives were visible, had numbers on the ground, and folk from across the country came to help. SNP hit by bad headlines, Reform invisible, Labour heavily reliant on local Cllrs, Lib Dem’s invisible, and a majority of Greens didn’t want the candidate imposed on them.

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

Scotland’s rural land market is becoming more cautious and selective, according to our new Rural Land Market Report 2026, produced with SRUC. After years of rapid growth, activity slowed across most sectors with buyers taking more time and looking more closely at long-term returns. buff.ly/ipqieB4

this week marks 10 years since "milkshake duck" was coined

This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...

The CLEO Conference 2026 will take place on 10 September, hosted by the University of Birmingham. If you would like to present at the event, or propose a roundtable to chair, please complete our call for papers form: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

🚨🚨 @hrw.org condemns Russia's unlawful property seizures in occupied Ukraine along with pressure on residents to obtain Russian citizenship, nationality-based discrimination, and restrictions on Ukrainians' travel to Russian-occupied territories. kyivindependent.com/human-rights...

This. plus he bought a onesie, and he bought a copy of her speeches. If you can't get something out of that you should give up

I name this beer Déjà Brew. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For those interested: www.onthemarket.com/details/1954... the rest of the portfolio is in there too

Really struck by some of the responses to Carla Denyer taking a short period off for her mental health as advised by her doctor. There is still a substantial proportion of the population who will say things like "I don't believe in stress" and "I just get my head down and get on with it".

Is that butter? No it's ghee. Oh thanks for clarifying

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I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

People, we deserve better than this shite. Even if you are not supportive of Zack Polanski and his party, this has revealed two things. The poor quality of journalism in this country, that is in urgent need of reform and how the establishment want the status quo to remain unchanged

I’m very pleased to see this from @networkrail.bsky.social. On behalf of @ramblersscotland.bsky.social I’ve worked with them on a new agreement over level crossings access for the last 18 months. Thanks to Network Rail for such constructive dialogue. www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/new-agr...

Harriet Harman apparently mixing up DMs with tweets this morning (now deleted).

A request - I am looking for a Glasgow Central constituency office, which is ideally an accessible, affordable, shop front in an area served by public transport. If anyone spots something, please do get in touch!

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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