Good morning everyone Golden aspens meet fresh snow under stormy skies — the perfect clash of seasons in the Colorado high country. #Colorado #FallColors #MountainPhotography #Landscape #NaturePhotography #AspenTrees #TravelColorado #Photography

Now is the time for Palestinian leadership to get its own house in order - Today’s column- www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

Last night's sky. Loved the clouds.

Former Cabinet Minister - and GB News host - Jacob Rees-Mogg 'told Times Radio he’s skipping Tory conference this year despite making the journey to Birmingham for Reform’s bash' (Via Politico) I wonder why that could be?...

This is a brilliant moment for Scotland!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @johnswinney.bsky.social & @believeinscotland.bsky.social have signed a partnership deal to advance independence. A united movement for a fairer, stronger, self-governing Scotland.The momentum is building 😊 The future’s in our hands! #ScottishIndependence

Have had to turn off James O'Brien already. His praise of Shabana Mahmood is hard to take. He thinks it's wrong for pro-Palestine march tomorrow to go ahead. 😬😠

This has come to pass…dangerous times indeed and a wake up call for us all.

From a Assynt holiday 13 years ago this week.

'Blair plan or not, it seems a ­pretty fair bet that Israel is not for turning. That, though, is unlikely to stop the man who took Britain to war in Iraq from trying to divvy up the spoils Gaza might offer...' @foreigncorr1.bsky.social, via The National archive.is/kJakj

Beautiful sunny day here in the Highlands but had to scrape the windscreen for first time. Brrrr!

After being called out for twisting the News on uk Rail to infer “Failing Scotland”, the bbc replaced their image of Edinburgh Waverley with an image of one of the actually poorly performing (ie not Scottish) stations The bbc take their subliminal, anti-Independence, messaging to the nth degree

Well done Angus for getting this changed. Unfortunately the propaganda damage has already had the desired effect. The BBC know exactly what they are doing and are working to a set agenda. I am a believer in freedom of the press but not when they continually publish lies against the nation.

Stac Pollaidh from Loch Cul Drommanan #Scotland #Coigach #Highlands www.damianshields.com

Reform UK are not in power, Keir Starmer's changed Labour Party is. Can people stop being distracted by Farage, and expose what Labour are actually doing to the country? A stealth takeover of the UK by carving it up into deregulated free zones, tax havens for corporation with 25 year licenses. 1/2

I'll be interviewing @nicklowles.bsky.social of Hope Not Hate later today to talk about his essential new book "How to Defeat the Far Right", the rise of Reform and much more. Join us live here at 1.30 pm* *Slightly later than previously advertised open.substack.com/live-stream/...

This will be in place for our next summer season.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

‘Within hours of Starmer announcing that the UK recognition was imminent, the RAF was again flying spy flights over Gaza and enabling Israel’s bombing attacks that have slaughtered approaching half a million children and 700,000 people, almost entirely civilians, so far during its genocide…..

Current threats to our safety almost make the Cold War seem benign - As part of the @heraldscotland series this week on ‘Scotland’s Defence Future’ I examine our current era of global insecurity 👇 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2548188...

They want to leave the ECHR because it will allow them to abolish the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, paid holiday and sick leave. It would make them tens of billions a year. But of course they say immigration, because they can't tell you the real reason.

Algorithm - too much USA news and politics on my feed. I want and need more global news, environmental news, and news on Gaza.

In Porvoo for the day. Pleasant bus ride from Helsinki (12 euros). Quaint old town with lovely wee shops.

We've been having a great chat with @drphilippa.bsky.social about #wellbeing, #Holyrood2026 and more - look out for full podcast episode next week

Some of the beautiful buildings of Helsinki

While we all let the orange walloper invade our thoughts and timelines Israel is still hammering Gaza and their invasion of Palestinian land. Millions walking with their belongings on their backs to where and what? Starvation and death.

Long walk this afternoon in northern suburb of Helsinki.

Appalled to see this image of Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle. Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association

Beautiful Jugend architecture of Helsinki central station

who is Morgan McSweeney? www.middleeasteye.net/discover/get... a pro-Israel election guru who has Keir Starmer as his puppet? 🤔 just about EVERYTHING around Starmer and his cabinet is tainted by a murderous Israel

Israel admit they have killed or injured more than 200,000 Palestinians since 9 October 2023, or over 10% of Gaza's entire population. In UK terms that would be like killing or injuring 6,800,000 people. And still Labour insist they can't see why it's genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain.” - Boris Johnson

Israel is now diplomatically beyond the pale and must be treated accordingly - Today’s column- 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/world/2...

Why are the bosses of Apple, BlackRock, OpenAI, J P Morgan, & other billionaire US corporate robber barons accompanying Trump to the UK & banqueting with the king? Are we really going to allow them to carve up our country with STARMER the one supposed to fight our corner?!🤯

Last week. Yesterday a flock of noisy starlings descended, just after I had topped up seeds and peanuts. They rampaged around and then were off, still chattering 😀

Every day, somewhere between 10 and 20 times as many Palestinians are slaughtered by Israel. It's not just that they don't get these messages of grief and condemnation from British politicians. British politicians continue to arm their murderers.

Off to Helsinki on Sunday. Can't wait! We have been going to Finland for many years and are always delighted to be back there. Meeting up with Finnish friends also. 😃

@jamie4north.bsky.social Hi Jamie. Could you answer these two questions, please? We have a right to know. #IsTheUnionVoluntary #HowDoWeLeave

A just post-war plan for Palestinians must take on greater urgency - Today’s in-depth international read👇 www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

#independence so we can for once receive the benefits from our natural resources. We can sell to our neighbours to invest in our communities. We could again have our own stock exchange, own our own energy, have our own immigration policy and EU policies, our own land reforms. And no nuclear.

New Scottish secretary, why?? Know your enemy!! Alexander, member of the Jewish Labour Movement was Scottish secretary in Tony Blair's cabinet Alexander was one of three Labour ministers who "quietly repaid more £50,000 in expenses". His fraud included 'double funding 👇👇

An Israeli plane refuelled at RAF Brize Norton before killing 73 people. Our government is not complicit in genocide; it is a participant in genocide.

New kids on the block. Poor quality pic taken through the window

This is so sad, if you see any that are out in the day you will know they need help or just not looking best health, please put them carefully into a small box, and call your nearest hog sanctuary, if you're putting food out, definitely no milk it can kill them, wet meat-based cat or dog food. 🫶 😢🦔

As events in Beijing this week highlighted, Trump is the architect of risky shifting alliances and dangerous new world disorder  - Today’s column - 👇 www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland has the right to decide our future. Watch my speech from Edinburgh, live now. www.youtube.com/live/QphZNm0...

#ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 or else it doesn't actually have a future.

I never get tired of the big skies here.

Dark light over Beinn Bhàn.