@mrjamesob.bsky.social brexit's failure to increase prosperity was ex cogitabile a priori We did not need to run the experiment to know political and economic dissociation is worse than cooperation Fragmentation is ordinarily inferior to integration Sesame Street's Big Bird grasped the point!

Crickets? In Edinburgh? What next: tumbleweed?

Me in a daft hat

Following my rather eccentric breakfast in town, I went home and enjoyed the rest of this morning reading in the garden...

Sometimes fear is simply the shadow cast by something precious

Decided it is too hot for coffee or cooked breakfast #heatwave #мороженоеназавтрак

If one individual's resources permit him to shape public discourse, influence legislation, purchase media platforms, direct policy agendas and amplify his voice to a degree unavailable to millions of ordinary citizens combined, then...? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Worth reading. Polly Clark uses a disappointing job application experience as a springboard into broader questions about self-identification, diversity policies, public classifications, and institutional trust... open.substack.com/pub/pollycla...

Maiden Castle walk this afternoon.

Panoramic photo of the 'Mull of Galloway' (taken yesterday at the most southernly tip of Scotland)...

Sometimes it freezes over!!

From our walk around the 'Mull of Galloway', earlier today...

Raymond and I, shooting the breeze in Port Logan, earlier today...

At the 'Mull of Galloway' today...

Claire's fist... and a Rose Chafer...

The precise moment Claire realised John o' Groats wasn't nearly far enough...

At the southernmost tip of Scotland...

Claire with an iridescent beetle...

At the 'Mull of Galloway'

Morlun #TomTomos #LlunYDydd

My view right now...(Claire's driving us to the Mull of Galloway)

Coastal path running. 5 miles.

Morning all Photographer Robert Clayton. Boy on a Raleigh Chopper. Lion Farm Estate, Oldbury 1990.

Claire not merely appearing on this track, but composing and performing the violin part — literally 'stringing along', in the finest possible sense... open.spotify.com/track/4i80EB...

Waterfall in the woods...

Slug eating fungus in 'Wood of Cree', near Newton Stewart, a couple of hours ago...

Claire and I drove to 'Wood of Cree', near Newton Stewart, about an hour ago...

Painting by David Hockney. ‘Two Deckchairs, Calvi’ 1972. Acrylic on Canvas. Size 153 x 122 cm.

There’s literally a children’s board game whose whole premise is showing how free market capitalism ends with one person owning everything while everyone else goes bankrupt.

RIP David Hockney

Morlun #TomTomos #LlunYDydd

To the manor born...!

“Reading is discovering one's own riches and one's own possibilities through the words of others.” (Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz) Art: Edward Hopper 1882-1967 American realism painter. “Reader on the Train,” 1965.

Craig Cau ac y llŷn #TomTomos #LlunYDydd

Nightshade, photographed yesterday afternoon by the Water of Leith, Edinburgh...

Claire at St. Bernard's Well, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, yesterday afternoon...

We attended a book launch last night, for the English translation of Masneri's funny and poignant novel 'Paradiso' There was a discussion with both the author and the translator (who is also the editor of the Foundry Editions) and I took the opportunity afterwards to discuss the novel with Masneri