This is incredible and deeply shocking

The Nazi SA - Sturmabteilung, or Storm Troopers - were often recruited from the dregs of society: barely literate failures incapable of holding down a job and only fit for murder and terror. The scum of Germany. Hitler gave them free rein to vent their rage on their betters. Sound familiar, America?

Hard to believe he’s been President for just a year. One wonders where America will be this time next year. How long before States turn against the Federal Government? #USA #CivilWar

Well January is seeing me travel one end of the UK to the other. Last week in Portsmouth for a funeral , this week in Dornoch. Managed a trip down to the Historic Docks in Portsmouth and a visit to the Mary Rose and Victory. I always love the small details. #photography

Today couldn’t get any madde… …oh sorry no: breaking news 👇

Excuse my language but …..WTF 😳 news.sky.com/story/putin-...

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So my mum posted a Christmas card to us on the 11th December and it only arrived today. I could have walked from our house in Ayrshire to her, collected the card and got back quicker in that timescale. #RoyalMailFail

I have a very talented friend who makes wedding dresses ❤️ I’m no expert but this looks stunning! #ChristmasWedding

May the odds be ever in your favour….. www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/p...

A fabulous App ❤️

Another 80’s icon passes away 😢 www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Dear oh dear. All that fanfare back in September. The PM said at the time the investments were "a testament to Britain's economic strength and a bold signal that our country is open, ambitious, and ready to lead”

On reports that demonstrators have defaced the glass screen around the state crown I really think the Police missed a golden opportunity…. They should have ended the quote with “taken into custard-y” 🤣🤣🤣

Drag Me to Hell 2

Legendary architect Frank Gehry dead aged 96

@ballotbox.scot Reform top first preference votes 😬

Disappointing……very disappointing, but to be honest not really surprising. Scottish government drops heat pumps bill for second time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Coffee and a read before work……. Architecture Scotland Annual 2025

Just watched this …..unbelievable.

Revisiting one of my more unusual projects. A house built within some redundant water tanks. #architecture #reuse

Sighthill Bridge, Glasgow #photography #structures

Working on the sofa with the dug snuggled up under the blanket 🤣 #dogslife #fridayfeeling

As I think Labour is discovering but few in the Conservatives wanted to is this inter-connected world has few opportunities for growth in mature economies, and lots of expectations from people that governments can and will do everything to remove risk. Doesn't add up.

40 words which neatly sum up everything that’s wrong with the UK right now…..

Whatever the local causes on this occasion, the BBC is in essence the victim of a destructively fissiparous society slowly fragmenting into mutually hostile & resentful moieties—each believing the others exercise stealth control over the institutions of a shrinking civil society

Nick and David holding Alan at the end of The Traitors (like two massive daft saps) while Claudia looks on in despair with apologies to El Greco

Games of Thones move…..sending Prince Andrew North of the wall

Nice (but eventful) jolly up Criffel hill outside Dumfries. Moffat Mountain Rescue, some bloke with a falcon and a woman who runs up and down 4 times every day 😳

On this day in 1939, HMS Royal Oak sank in Scapa Flow with the loss of 835 men and boys. Today, and every day, we remember them.

Some lovely fungi on my walks over the last couple of days but no idea what they are. #FungiFriday

Outdoor recreation won’t change the world or solve all society’s ills. But a wee bit of investment will be highly visible, will bring joy and better health to a lot of people and will boost the rural economy. What’s not to love?

Great initiative!

I had hoped to avoid politics on my @bsky.app account but alas I find myself being drawn back in ……

Failures in planning have marred the delivery of the Promise to care-experienced young people, a new report has found. www.holyrood.com/news/view,pl...

Nicola Sturgeon has broken her promise to Scotland’s young people, writes @chrismarshll.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

A Letter From Scotland by Jackie Kemp. The ludicrous story of the Balgy Gap between Wick and Caithness the only place in Europe where there is no mains electricity! open.substack.com/pub/jackie12...

Watching the morning political shows. What a binfire this country has turned into…. Utterly depressing.

Blimey 👀

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

It is always worth it when you stop and look up. Lovely stonework on a building in Oban #Architecture #Streetscape #Oban #Scotland

View over the Clyde just now towards Rothesay #StormAmy #Weather #Scotland

The Former Free Church in Skerray has gone on the market. It's a little "tin tabernacle" church, constructed by the local Free Church congregation in 1903 after they left their building in Strathy when it became a United Free Church. More on the sale here 👇 www.northern-times.co.uk/news/derelic...

It seems to be this week's historical building theme - tin tabernacle churches. This time, the church is in Scotland and, if you have the funds and inclination, you can buy it as it's up for sale! ⛪ #churches #historicbuildings #scotland

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It’s Keir Speech Eve! Twas the night before Keir-stmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring (with excitement), not even a mouse. #Labour #conference #sarcasm

Sir Nicholas Grimshaw (Waterloo Station) on the 17th September and now Terry Farrell (MI6 HQ) Famous architects dropping like flies…. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/postmod...

The next Scottish Government must take action to protect and restore the natural environment in the face of climate change and threats to biodiversity. Ahead of the Holyrood election next year, we've published a manifesto for nature. Read more: www.scotlink.org/manifesto-fo...

House on Millport, Cumbrae coming along nicely. Going to be great views of Arran. #architecture #scotland #selfbuild