Who can it be now? An SNP MP with a wealthy businessman relative. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/peter-m...

Biarritz baywatch #biarritz

Biarritz wall mural next to a supermarket entrance for the Rugby World Cup 2007. A few local teams and national teams are name-checked, but as far as I can see, the only UK team mentioned is Glasgow Warriors!

Yea, I think I would want to call my villa in Biarritz Le Rayon Vert too. I remember watching it in the MacRobert. Very Eric Rohmer, very slow, but the audience erupted in cheers and applause when the famous green ray finally appeared.

They have these in Biarritz. They're great, but why do they call them tram-buses? I mean, there are no rails, so aren't they just big modern bendy electric buses rather than trams? BBC News - Could this 'tram-like' bus be part of Aberdeen's transport future? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Remember when the entire political and media class of this country decided it was fine to keep using a platform dedicated to white supremacism and child porn?

61% of all political donations in the last quarter came from just 14 people Reform took in £9.3m from a handful of super rich donors British democracy is being bought. We urgently need action to take the money out of our politics

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

21% ‼️ That’s INSANE

Serena Williams is returning to tennis so Yougov have repeated their study of how many men think they would win a point against her at tennis. In 2026.

Happy #WorldBicycleDay from Gopal Singh Kharbanda in 1952. He came to Edinburgh to study physical education in 1928. On his return to India he helped organise such colleges and establish Boy Scouting. When his son came to Scotland to study in the 1950s, Gopal cycled round Europe lecturing on P.E.

A very fine walk from Biarritz to Bidart, followed by a very fine lunch in Bidart. The Pyrenees as a backdrop to the day.

My position on Netanyahu's outrageous Gaza land grab.

I know who'd love this shop!

In case you ever get hungry in Biarritz, Fanny sandwiches, sweet and savoury!

A statement from Sikh MPs on the murder of Henry Nowak.

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

First chick hatched at Loch of the Lowes! Wee wobbly head.

hehehehe!

Boats pulled up along the shore in front of Shore Street, #Ullapool, early/mid-1960s [source: HLH Libraries]

Zack Polanski's baffling use of social media continues: he's liked this post, despite the fact he has admitted he should have been paying the council tax and is making arrangements to pay it. It's not a smear if it's true!

No dogs or shisha pipes on the beach? What happened here?

'I am being punished for a crime I signed off the accounts on and aggressively warned against anyone looking into.'

It was difficult enough getting to the end of this list of quotes, let alone reading the entire book.

As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21

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This Sunday, Thameslink, Southern, Great Northern and Gatwick Express will transfer into public ownership, to "deliver more reliable, passenger-centred services across the rail network." Plans include doubling trains to Gatwick Airport each hour and recruiting more drivers to reduce cancellations.

Great to hear an old BBC session recording of Prefab Sprout's Cars and Girls on Afrodeutsche's show this morning. Always synonymous with good weather. youtu.be/jEJdfDD4dVg?...

Reform UK Councillors Gone: Updated James Sidlow has resigned as a councillor. That’s 30 in 3 weeks.

Nicola Sturgeon spoke at the Hay Festival denying she ever shut down questions about SNP accounts. I'd like to ask her what she's doing in this video. youtu.be/iXFGjl1qr1U?...

It's all kicking off in Canterbury.

John Major is a better former PM than Tony Blair will ever be iandunt.substack.com/p/john-major...

Feels very on national brand that our Prime Minister is defending himself against an intervention nobody wanted from a former PM nobody asked, as part of a campaign nobody has actually clearly stated is happening, for a role he already has, and will probably not be asked to reapply for.

How to stay sane in a heatwave, Medieval-style: 1. Sit on the riverbank with your legs in the water and leeches on your legs 2. Eat all your meals in a canopied bath full of ice 3. Keep hydrated All images are from a 15th century book: Régime du corps (CUL MS Ii.5.11).

Actor Paul Higgins walked out of the Supreme Court and got a grin from Michael Gove. After 20 years, the Scottish actor's Thick of It spin doctor endures - but his own life is fascinating, poverty, priesthood, plays and all www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

I beg for hospitals to remember that patients going outside was the reason many hospitals had gardens and greenhouses. It helps! I hope we can see and do this more often, get patients into the gardens for just a little while. Staring at a building thru a window in a hospital bed kills the soul.

Very popular in the first half of the twentieth century and not just for respiratory conditions; this is a gynaecology rehab ward in Edinburgh in 1925.

V glad @libbybrooks.bsky.social wrote this, it needed highlighting. What's happening at BBC Scotland is awful - such a loss of talent will be difficult to reverse. Women are vanishing from other spheres too (also, way to go, Libby, on her last week in the job). www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Look at the photo used to illustrate this article, as opposed to say an elderly person, lying confused and dehydrated in a care home, a farmer staring at a field of wilting and dying crops, or an army marching across a desert. I think this image will end up in text books, if such things survive.

💔 A Kyiv resident shows her apartment after it was destroyed in a Russian attack. Russia is a terrorist state!

A drone wounded two people after it struck an apartment building in Romania and exploded, the same time Russia launched an attack on a nearby Ukrainian port, Romania's defense ministry said. https://cnn.it/4dWeFHH

Such a wonderful idea. Time outside and a little sight of nature should definitely be prescribed. BBC News - 'I forgot what it feels like to be outside' – First rooftop intensive care ward opens www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The number of people that think filming yourself shouting at an 80 year old woman in the street at night makes you some kind of hero is depressing. If we don't relearn the skill of disagreeing in a reasonable way, we're doomed.

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Biggest UK train operator's services to enter public ownership www.gov.uk/government/n...

What should a college be spending public money on: a. Health and safety equipment for staff teaching on welding courses? b. A jolly to New York Tartan Week for the principal?

I love that the defence now essentially boils down to, 'What you need to understand about Oor Nicola is that she was the greatest politician ever, but also monumentally stupid.' www.thetimes.com/article/d27e...

He wasn’t quite able to create the sound he wanted.

🏳️‍⚧️ A joint statement from Chris Webb MP & Lorraine Beavers MP in solidarity with the trans community. 🏳️‍⚧️