Keir Starmer has said the UK will 'reclaim our heritage' in a bizarre attack on the SNP

Call to rethink investing public money in 'Scotland's second largest landowner'. #ScottishEnvironment🌱 #LandReform #NaturalCapitalism💷💷💷

"The women here [Kirkwall] are much addicted to pleasure, which I attribute to the abundance of fish." Description of the Orkney Islands, 1529

Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want. (Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)

Letters to his cousin in the Scottish Highlands from a young Black Isle lad in the trenches in 1916 and 1917 thanking her for food parcels.

Those of us in Scotland have had to put up with hugely biased output from BBC & Radio Scotland for years. Their anti SNP reporting is obvious (see some examples below), but apparently, it takes bias to someone in a foreign country for anyone to care. #bbc

Andrew Lownie wrote an explosive book about Prince Andrew Then came the backlash. Legal threats. Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers. This is how ‘the Firm’ works youtu.be/OJHaVsDVv-c?...

Sailors from the corvette, HMS Curacoa, at #Campbeltown, #Argyll, in 1899. There was an outbreak of scarlet fever on board whilst the ship was in the harbour and a temporary camp had to be set up ashore whilst the vessel was fumigated [source: MacGrory Brothers Collection; liveArgyll Libraries]

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Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Cottage and Museum in Cromarty, telling the story of the town’s most famous son, the geologist and writer Hugh Miller, who lived from 10 October 1802 to 24 December 1856. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #HughMiller #Cromarty #BlackIsle

lenathehyena.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/t... Westminster's assumption that everything Scottish belongs to it.

These poor kids didn’t stand a bloody chance… 345 vulnerable kids, seeking asylum and then lost by our authorities 50 still missing Likely to traffickers How could this have happened? Unforgivable from now-Reform controlled Kent County Council. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Blackbirds feeding on hawthorn berries

Oidhche Shamhna – a South Uist #Halloween Ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, & scholar Margaret Fay Shaw (1903–2004) recorded a traditional Hebridean Halloween on South Uist in the 1930s, in photographs & on film —via the National Trust for Scotland #Gaelic www.nts.org.uk/stories/oidh...

#LazyDayThursday #stonehaven #Scotland

🇬🇧 Red Tories mining Scotland to fully exploit our energy resources, in order to supply England, and to reduce English bills 🇬🇧

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

On 21st of October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults were killed in the horrific Aberfan disaster, caused by the failure of the National Coal Board. Today, we remember those who lost their lives and stand with the community of Aberfan now and always. Never again.

scotish renewable energy are paying huge fees to connect to the National Grid while the English projects are paid to connect to the very same grid National Grid figures reveal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 pay £465million cost for national grid access while 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 are being handed a connection subsidy of £30million a year. 👇

lenathehyena.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/t... The Scottish beheading machine. 'And some folk deserved a double death and were heided having previously been executed by other means'.

L-R: Ruby Corbett, Elspeth Maclean and Hector Mackenzie at #Inchnadamph in 1936 [photo couresy of Willie Morrison]

Passengers transferring from a steamer to a smaller boat in order to be taken ashore at an island with no suitable pier for the steamer to come alongside, c1890s/1900s. One of the passengers appears to be wearing an Inverness Cape [source: Joseph Cook Collection; Inverness Museum & Art Gallery]

Late season peacock butterfly feasting on marigold nectar.

THAT'S MORE LIKE IT!!!!

A woman outside a turf-roofed house, Isle of #Coll, late-19th/early-20th century. The postcard is titled “The Last Cottar, Coll”. A cottar is someone who occupied a small dwelling, usually in return for work. Unlike crofters, they had no security of tenure [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/21]

BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x

BREAKING: At least 60 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 37 people in Gaza City, medical sources in the besieged enclave told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ofj8ow

#FeelGoodFriday Congratulations to our multi-disciplinary teams whose work to trial the use of AI in the detection of lung cancer was recently recognised with a parliamentary motion. Their findings could be used as a blueprint for the rest of Scotland to follow. #ProudToBeNHSG

A revolutionary cancer treatment that uses the immune system to kill cancer cells has been introduced at NHS Grampian. Read more: www.nhsgrampian.org/news/2025/oc... 📸: Consultant Haematologist, Gavin Preston.

“Labeling the nearly 250,000 people currently trapped in #Gaza City & the north as “terrorists or terror supporters” by the Government of #Israel is a statement suggesting planned large-scale massacres” — UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

Russia has seized a UK flagged civilian vessel in intl waters & detained everyone on board Can you imagine the reaction of the UK govt? There would be an immediate condemnation of this violation of international law and the Russian ambassador would be summoned.

Sums up this most dismal moment.

Israeli soldiers were filmed detaining two Palestinian children in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, while demanding to know their father’s whereabouts. When a passerby intervened and urged their release because of their young age, a soldier replied, “I don’t care”.

Blue Monday

youtu.be/zvgovAzhJHU?... Enjoy...🎵🎶🎵🎶 Before America went down the tubes.

I seem to remember Labour drones wringing their hands over Grangemouth and insisting they could do nothing because it was a private company. Like JLR is.

Aberdeen FC.

Aberdeen autumn. Photographer Soran Xurmale. From FB.

Absolutely horrific.