@pjdlondonscot.bsky.social all ok?

For more on Nadia Sass/Borodi's role at the heart of a pan-European Russian influence machine, read more here desk-russie.eu/2024/09/08/n...

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

A five-point-five billion Trump golf course in Qatar, and Qatar gets an air base in Idaho.

Normal island day.

An extremely proud day for Hungarians. I just really hope Orbán’s proxies won’t launch a smear campaign, since Krasznahorkai is an outspoken critic of contemporary fascism, far-right politics, and Viktor Orbán himself.

14 years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still a bit disappointed they didn't use this cover

Antiques Road Trip season 29, appalling for sellers Fieldings Auctioneers everything starting at £10. Looks like what you’d expect from a laundering operation.

Antiques Road Trip season 29, casual racism in middle England. WASP Catherine gets 50% discount while Rishi gets 10%.

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10. Windows 7 use is surging 5x now. AI is product poison.

Cut short our visit to Wigtown. Ferry worries etc. Luckily, as another two days would’ve meant another bookshelf.

European Democrats Mock Hungary's Victor Orbán Over ‘Safari’ Protest at Family Estate www.occrp.org/en/news/euro...

‘Toys of an unhindered mafia.’ Delicious.

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That's a wrap on series 7 of Big Scottish Book Club. Now the only books show on British tv. Produced by IWC, commissioned by BBC Scotland, available to all on BBC iPlayer. Please share with the readers in your life. Feat Elif Shafak, Jackie Kay, Tash Aw & more. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Oh I don’t know, maybe, just maybe the media have amplified this nonsense? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

Trying to get Adobe acrobat to print to a HP Deskjet like it’s 1984.

AI the new oil. AI industrial park in Irvine 'could bring £15bn investment' www.bbc.com/news/article...

No idea what planet these ghouls live on.

The obscene contrast between these two images.

Do you have experience of driving a bus or a lorry but you'd rather carry books? Would you like a job driving around #Orkney, going to schools and delivering books to people? There's still time to apply for the job of driving #BookyMcBookface at: myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...

They do know the year is 2025? #ios26

Yep, because making things transparent makes them easier to see. #ios26

And for what? To get this smarmy feckless bore into Washington, so he could accomplish fuck all. That's a lot of reputational damage for a non-existent gain.

75th anniversary reunion do at my old school coming next month. Won’t be going. Awful place.

If I was a Labour MP, I'd definitely want a candidate on the ballot who wasn't in the room when signing off the welfare bill catastrophe.

Lucy Connolly was convicted of inciting racial hatred, and her tweet was part of the tinder that lit violence, intimidation, looting, and thuggery across England last year. The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...

Because we are now at the ‘tried every fucking other thing’ stage.

Back to the sixties.

Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".

📸 What a perfect snapshot of all the enemies of NATO and the US-led world order: PRC, Russia, the “axis of evil” (Iran, North Korea, etc.) — and, at the far right of the photo (and the pecking order), Slovakia’s Robert Fico and Viktor Orbán’s foreign minister Péter Szijjártó

#PPOD: Mimas, Saturn's innermost large moon, is a small, icy world with a mean diameter of 396 kilometers. This image was captured on January 30, 2017, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute / CICLOPS 🧪 🔭

Lord, the group chat…

It was incitement, bugger all to do with free speech. Online speech laws need to be reviewed after Linehan arrest, says Streeting www.bbc.com/news/article...

Civic pride now seems to consist of a guy wandering up the main streets with a leafblower. #cutbacks

My Patreon podcast UNTITLED HORROR SCREENPLAY has a bumper new episode today. I'm looking into The Living Dream: films in which dream-world & real world have become inextricably entangled There's a long discussion of Jacob's Ladder, then in the second half I pitch a new movie idea in the same genre

How many more years?

Someone’s gonna spray a Red Cross on it aren’t they? French voice fears over Bayeux Tapestry move to UK www.bbc.com/news/article...

💰🦓 Viktor Orbán’s €30M Hatvanpuszta family dacha (ex-Habsburg estate) with zebras and antelopes around is now global news (New York Post etc.) after dominating 🇭🇺 media all summer. The world can see how “pro-family conservatism” simply masks classic post-Soviet kleptocracy. 🎥 by @telexhu.bsky.social

If you are near Edinburgh Printmakers it’s worth your time popping into their wee gallery for the Robert Powell exhibition, ‘Hall of Hours’. Running until 2 November.

Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...

Tourism, the very definition of a lazy sticking plaster policy. Usually a blight on any community. Rural community concerns over Center Parcs village www.bbc.com/news/article...

💥✈️ It’s official: Viktor Orbán’s controversial son-in-law István Tiborcz and daughter Ráhel Orbán—formally the owners of the family’s business empire—are moving to New York for a year. Officially to study, in reality to escape scrutiny over their luxury lifestyle during Hungary’s election campaign.

Logs in to Bluesky. Logs out again.

They still don't get the link between #Brexit and the current migrant crisis. @peterrhauge on 'X'

Farage doesn't have plans. He has the back of a cigarette packet. And after ten years of this nonsense, chaos and hate you'd think someone would have the bollocks to point that out.

Dim as much as she is a racist. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...