Gordon Brown is right.

Devolution protects Scotland from far-right populism. Independence would not. Something I just thought about tonight.

Donald Trump literally pardoned a lot of criminals. You don’t need to look at his other executive orders and try and defend them. No one can defend him pardoning dangerous criminals.

May life treat you the way you treat animals. TGIF.

Plockton in the snow.

My cousin, on the left, at demo in Edinburgh last year.

@jaybizz68.bsky.social a good man to follow 🙂

#SPOTY should be on Sunday night.

How it started. How it's going.

Me and @valmcdermid.bsky.social prepping for our festive book show with @alancumming.bsky.social and Paula Hawkins (with a cheeky wee cocktail courtesy of @profjosharp.bsky.social). If you are joining us on Sunday, we can't wait to see you. It is going to be fun. edwinterfest.com/edinburgh-ch...

Eddie Redmayne in The Day of the Jackal 👌

Christmas 2024 display in Plockton 🎄🧑‍🎄🎅

The NHS is in serious trouble both north and south of the border. We can't bury our heads in the sand anymore.

What's gone wrong for Scottish Labour? ask Bernard Ponsonby and @alexmassie.bsky.social Judging by the polls. A lot.

Balmacara site can “be preserved for generations to come” following a successful community bid. A determined campaign by a Lochalsh community to acquire a former campsite for community use has borne fruit with the receipt of a £162,130 funding award. www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/news/ross-sh...

Joe Biden says Assad has lost power in Syria because Russia, Iran and Hezbollah could no longer support him. He says this is down to Ukraine, Israel and America.

Meanwhile over in “the other place” a Reform party MP is actually threatening to shut down the BBC - a public service broadcaster - because a political satire show made fun of party leader NigelFarage We can never allow this dangerous bunch anywhere near power

Young Scots nurse pioneers new MND pain management approach. 👇 Cousin of mine from Plockton 🙂

Blimey, Labour vote is collapsing in Scotland. Keir Starmer's decision to means test the Winter Fuel Payment is destroying Anas Sarwar's hopes of becoming First Minister.

Saddest moment in the history of cinema.

Four major Romanian political parties formed a coalition on Wednesday night, vowing to keep Romania on a pro-EU and pro-NATO path👏 www.politico.eu/article/roma...

Tourism experts report a surge in German visitors to Scotland, with some attributing this trend to the friendships forged by the Tartan Army during the Euros.

66% of Scots think the two-child benefit cap should be kept. 👇 I'm certainly in the 34% of Scots that welcome the SNP abolishing it in Scotland. It takes children out of poverty, improves their life chances and is better for the long term future of the Scottish economy.

The SNP's promise to scrap the two-child benefits cap is very welcome, even if they have waited until their backs were against the wall to do it. It shames Starmer and makes it v tricky for Scottish Labour (although where the money is going to come from is another question).

Let’s make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet and send Elon Musk packing

Scottish NHS reform 'urgently needed' - Audit Scotland. A review by Audit Scotland has said fundamental change in how NHS services are provided is "urgently needed" as without change "the NHS is unlikely to be able to meet growing demand".

Everyone in Britain the first time Gregg Wallace says something remotely unprofessional on Masterchef tonight.

Column: Starmer doesn't like politics but it's time he learned to do so. Telling a story isn't an optional extra, it's an essential part of the game. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Me and my friend.

Great new film produced by Martin Scorsese. Documenting The Beatles arriving in America just 3 months after JFK's assination and lifting the nation. American would never be the same again. #beatles64

Millions have now seen this video. Does even 1 of these people think it helped Gregg Wallace's case? Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

New YouGov poll in Wales has Plaid Cymru in the lead. Plaid Cymru 24% Labour 23% Reform 23% Starmer's Labour government is causing a collapse in the Labour vote. #bbclaurak

Finlay MacDonald from Skye jailed for at least 28 years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK cabinet now 100% state-educated for the first time in history 👇

There are certain Christmas songs that I love, the more quirky ones. It's great that they are only on the radio for a few weeks a year, makes them special. Having them on the radio in November takes away a bit of the magic for me.

Poll Analysis: Survation 1st - 15th of November 2024 Holyrood Seats Projection: SNP ~ 38 Labour ~ 36 Conservative ~ 21 Reform UK ~ 14 Green ~ 10 Lib Dem ~ 10 Independence: No ~ 52% : Yes ~ 48% ballotbox.scot/survation-no...

Alan Cumming have a dram in The Plockton Hotel.

Long list of RFK Jr’s health misinformation and outright lies.

Here's that photo you just saw Alan Cumming take on tv. Great wee advert he made for Plockton there.

Watch Alan Cumming visiting Plockton tonight on Channel 4 at 8pm.

New podcast: we talk with Liam McArthur MSP about the assisted dying bill he is putting through the Scottish parliament. Bernard is broadly in favour; Alex is at yet not fully persuaded it's a good idea. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XKx...

51mph gust just recorded in Plockton. #stormbert

Rachel Reeves is the first Chancellor since the war to have a master's degree in Economics.

Donald Trump had the third smallest winning margin since 1888. Not a landslide. 👇

700,000 of the poorest pensioners who should be getting the winter fuel payment won’t get it because they won’t have filled in the pension credit form. Dementia sufferers etc. @martinlewismse.bsky.social on #newsnight

Putin isn't going to escalate with The West before Trump takes office, because he thinks Trump will effectively hand him a big chunk of Ukraine. Regardless of that I think it's just the usual posturing from Putin. I would urge people to calm down though.

For anyone newly-arrived from the Musk hellscape, I have made a second list of UK political journalists, commentators, politicos and experts to choose from go.bsky.app/SYZqMPo

Plockton in the snow. Taken by Sam Bilner.

Under this seat projection from @ballotbox.scot of the latest Survation poll, Anas Sarwar would be First Minister in 2026.