BREAKING: Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja unlawfully arrested under the Terrorism Act. He was amongst hundreds of protestors arrested for holding signs which say "I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action". The ban is unlawful, and so are these arrests.

South Uist, 2019 #otd

How beautiful if we had these animals in Scotland.

Elvis Costello 'Tramp The Dirt Down '

It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.

Glasgow. One week into British Summer Time.

Alan Moore knows the score 🎵 “Let us not give these witless fuckers an inch.”

Felt for a while that football is heading for an end point, when through greed and sheer excess it fully eats itself. At least we now have an exact date and location for when that will happen.

What wretches, what savages.

Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny. 'Reynardine'

28th March. Western Scotland.

'Medea' @trontheatre.bsky.social last night. After 45 mins I was struck by a 'satan bug' I must have got from the grandkids and had to go. A pity because the play was excellent with Nicole Cooper in particular, outstanding. Thanks to the front of house staff who were kind and helpful. All good now.

Reading this. I'm probably late again to the party but it's terrific. Historically interesting, morally complex, it explores identity, belonging and the deep roots of colonialism. Mainly though, it's just a beautifully written and engaging story. I couldn't recommend it enough. #alicezeniter

New Paris mayor Emmanuel Grégoire cycles to city hall after election win

Stratford upon Avon.

Tomorrow we're off to that Stratford upon Avon they have now. Just a couple of days. A theatre tour and this year's RSC production of Henry V.(Tennis balls? Tennis balls? I'll give him f*cking tennis balls.)

Not long until we reopen on the 1st of April! Will you be visiting this Spring?

Sam 'Lightnin' Hopkins.

Lew Lewis

AMR is one of the biggest public health threats of our time. I found genes capable of creating antibiotic-resistant superbugs in every water sample I tested from Lough Neagh and talk about this on BBC Rare Earth today. Full report in the Guardian tomorrow www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Alex Karp. Not so much away with the fairies as away with the demons. F*ck Palantir and all who sail with them.

Campaign group Surfers Against Sewage has launched an urgent legal challenge against the UK government over planned changes to the country’s bathing water designation rules,warning the reforms could leave popular swimming spots unmonitored and unprotected. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/surfers...

Lascia ch'io pianga' by Handel from his opera 'Rinaldo'. Not all Americans are like Trump and Hesgeth. They're not even all like Timothee Chalamet😀 Hard on the heels of a post of Joyce DiDonato, here's Kirsten Blaise.

After a 7 month hiatus, part 2 of the Ayrshire Coastal Path. Ballantrae to Lendalfoot. Not a great walk. Although parts of it are beachwalking and there were cormorants, shags, oystercatchers and curlews seen to name just a few, a deal of it is by the A77 and endless heavy lorries. Here's to part 3.

Joyce DiDonato - Dido's Lament

This is no longer about saving the corner building. It's lost. All the SFRS can do is try to prevent what would be a catastrophic spread to Glasgow Central Station. 📷 Vyro Media

The French XV said goodbye to their dreams of a grand slam in the Six Nations championship, dominated 50-40 at Murrayfield this Saturday 7th March, taken away by the Scottish onslaught. (or thereabouts 😀)

What a game! If somebody has said France will score 40 points and lose who would have believed that. The Scottish effort and expression from the backs, especially in the first hour was gargantuan. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

Appreciate I'm ridiculously late to this and only came to it after I read Natalie Haynes' novel 'Stone Blind' but just in case you don't know of it. Eleven series on BBC Sounds to be downloaded. Really funny and informative. If you're not well ahead of me and already turned on to it, get on it now.

First visit to the Citizens since the refurbishment for us tonight. George Costigan and Matthew Kelly in 'Waiting for Godot' and since we're talking about big Samuel Beckett, I'm never missing a chance to put up John Minihan's brilliant portrait of Beckett.

Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.

“The best laid schemes o’ mice and men, Gang aft a-gley…” Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland, whose ‘lost portrait’ was recently discovered; painted in 1803 by respected Scottish artist Sir Henry Raeburn, born #OTD 1756. Blackie House Museum & Library, Edinburgh

Come on England. 7,000 odd signatures is desperate given how the private water companies have treated your rivers and seas. I've signed it and I'm not directly affected.

'I heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening'

The usual collection of brilliant records on the Late Show with Mickey Bradley tonight. Turn it on. Turn it up.

So tonight I watched episode 2. I can't watch all three at once because each episode makes me so angry I need a break but despite that I'm going to urge all of you once again, to watch it. An urgent and essential series. And the Guardian is right. Nationalise the English water companies now.

Beautiful

Tropical forests generate vast rainfall through “flying rivers,” meaning farms & cities may depend on ecosystems far away. Even small-scale clearing can reduce precipitation, threatening agriculture, river flows & hydropower. In the Amazon, this rainmaking service is worth tens of billions yearly.

'Dirty Business' on Channel 4. Just watched ep. 1. Please watch. The most egregious privatisation failure of them all. A party for private finance since 1989 -and f**k everyone else. I'd nationalise all of it tomorrow. England needs to rise up on this. Don't stand for it.

Parked at Darnley Mill and did the dams walk this morning. Beautiful late winter/early spring day. The water was well populated with merganser, goosander, tufted ducks, mallards, some gulls and a couple of cormorants amongst others. Back now to watch the French backs create transient art, hopefully

Best of luck to all the half-pished, mock Jacobites in kilts and old army hats covered in badges, swanning about Boston and Miami this summer. We'll see you all back home, probably in late '27.

Great Channel 4 News report on the latest #AMOC monitoring. "Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening." @noc.ac.uk youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...

Waverley #Photography #EastCoastKin #Lumix

Peter Geoghegan and Ethan Shone on Mandelson and more. Well worth a listen. Mandelson is a black-hearted, soulless, villain, which won't be news to any of you, but he's part of an entire class of money mad, amoral dickheads who are embedded with power everywhere and it has to change.

'I'm so tired, I'm feeling so upset, Although, I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette, And curse Nadhim Zahawi, he's such a stupid get..' (apologies to the Beatles for the bastardised lyrics, but really, what a p***k)

Just going to leave this here