VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

It will take literally one court case where a company gets sued by a cis person for denying them access to toilets on suspicion of being trans for this all to fall apart. And this guidance makes that case inevitable.

frankly ridiculous proposal from @dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social here. 100% funding cuts worth £286,000. An astonishing sum of money for any regional theatre to make up for, would lead to a fight for the very survival of Dundee Rep, absolutely mad www.thestage.co.uk/news/dundee-...

Hang that in the Louvre!

The Corran ferry, which crosses Loch Linnhe south of Fort William and gives access to Morvern, Moidart and Ardnamurchan, waiting for customers at Nether Lochaber on the sort of wintry night that makes you long for summer. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #Highland #Lochaber

Marie Howe

Delighted to see On Falling directed by @lauracarreira.bsky.social smashing it at Bafta Scotland awards - I had the pleasure of interviewing Laura earlier this year, here she is again for the still curious... www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

it's curious how rarely full-throated, sincere mea culpas, where someone admits that they were totally, horrifically mistaken in their ideas and/or their behaviours, are followed up with "so i should probably shut the fuck up now and let someone who was right all along take over"

If you want a feast for your eyes, check out @damianshields.bsky.social's website - just amazing images of Scotland :) damianshields.photoshelter.com/index

‘A blast of gritty, unvarnished relief’: why Breaking Glass is my feelgood movie

The best strategy for a Labour government is to govern like the sort of Labour government that their voters expected to see in office.

Really enjoyed chatting to Andrew for Celtic Underground. Somehow we managed to range from The Bill to the Board! #CelticFC

German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵 • May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses • OpenAI disagrees & can appeal "The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates" — German Music Rights Society

Cracking interview with Alan Cumming on all the excitement of his inaugural season at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.

All six Skelfs together in a bumper ebook boxset! geni.us/A8wWTa @orendabooks.bsky.social

Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".

This is a fantastically important and timely initiative from Channel 5 and one I hope will be emulated by the other UK channels. New stories and fresh voices are so needed right now - and so are opportunities to enable people to survive in a crumbling industry. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Remembering the man who brought us ‘Treasure Island’ (1883), ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ (1886) and ‘Kidnapped’ (1893) - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - born in Edinburgh 175yrs ago today.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Directed by Tony Richardson, it changed my whole life to this day. The impact it had on British cinema was immeasurable, and one that led me to La nouvelle vague and a whole new world of cinema. youtu.be/Kq0uxZGWr7E

Bee Asha, the spoken word artist and musician, has announced What A Beautiful Place To Fall Over, a celebration of Leith that sheds light on the complexity of gentrification.

We're two days away from opening! 🙌 Here's a wee guide to our most sold shows over the month of November. When are you coming to see the show? 📆 14 Nov - 21 Dec 📌 Auditorium, Pitlochry Festival Theatre 🎫on our website

I feel like this summarises the state of our politics pretty well

The right’s thing for so many years was that the left were a bunch of whining, terminally online hysterics obsessed with gestures, symbols and identity politics. But today’s right are a bunch of whining, terminally online hysterics obsessed with gestures, symbols and identity politics.

PLEASE SHARE: On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets. Please join me from 7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November to share some ideas for Christmas gifting. We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour

If I had a national institution I wanted to undermine, Hanover Communications are who I’d go to. They’ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ££, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians. It’s just what they do.

I do not understand the Labour government's reticence over defending the BBC and social media regulation. Their long-term survival basically depends on it. Their cowardice in the face of it may be the single thing they are most remembered for. on.ft.com/3JVxC1Z via @FT

The pro-Trumpian British right-wing media. Actively siding with a US President who tried to overturn a US Presidential election. And where stating the truth for these Trumpian apologists is some sort of bias & crime.

This is full of mildly astonishing revelations about right-wing influence at the BBC, but foremost among them is the fact that he was advised that writing for the New Statesman was effectively unacceptable but doing so for the Spectator was fine - indeed, advisable. I am flabbergasted.

The BBC whitewashed Israel's genocide - and has now capitulated to Donald Trump. It's in crisis - for all the wrong reasons. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/the-bbc-is...

A genuine piece of writing advice: if you have writer's block, set the goal of doing a single thing today - just creating the document file is enough. Save that sucker. There, you did something today. The boulder has started to move. Tomorrow, do something else. A word or two. Momentum will come.

The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.

Note: it's not that you can't make money on solar. Solar is cheaper energy than oil. It's that the rate of profit on it is lower because you can't monopolise the sun.

Another fantastic article from @graceblakeley.substack.com - while America is leading the way, the current Labour government seems set on following in its wake, gambling our economy on the potential of AI without any thought to the potential damage.

Why has BBC News Channel put former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie to react to the BBC Director General / BBC News boss resign?

This is the most abysmal, pathetic thing. The BBC head resigning because the corporation is not supine *enough* to the far-right.

On the off chance anyone finds themselves short of an actor last minute for pantos (especially in Glasgow or the Central Belt of Scotland), I am VERY available and very good at learning lines REALLY quickly.

this sort of thing makes me feel sincerely that we have fallen from grace as a civilisation

ICYM We are in a world of trouble. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521465...

Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”

At last, a great institution filled with trusted public figures. Shame the Traitors don’t run Britain | Marina Hyde

Lynda Rooke, president of Equity, has said that actors in subsidised theatres are now only getting half the hours they did back in 2004, a figure she called "a great concern." www.thestage.co.uk/news/news/ac... #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

Nevertheless, I have explained it. www.theirishpassport.com/podcast/half...

It shouldn't need to be explained to anyone, so soon after the Soldier F verdict, why Irish people might not want to be socially obliged to donate to a charity committed to uncritically commemorating all British wars, including Iraq and Northern Ireland, and financially supporting their veterans.

I see it's time for me to make the point again that the poppy is a fundraising campaign for the Royal British Legion, a specific, mundane entity that is not exempt from scrutiny and does not own the concept of remembrance. You can read its 2024 accounts here: storage.rblcdn.co.uk/sitefinity/d...

Honestly TELL THE STORY. Won’t someone just tell the fucking story of how Brexit created this economic hardship, how a Muslim immigrant just saved the lives of those commuters on that train, won’t someone in politics or even media just connect the fucking dots and TELL THE STORY. IT’S RIGHT THERE

For the early birds. Still. Papay - Orkney - Windless

I wrote another essay, just out at my newsletter site.