Brian Liddy

RIP Frank Gehry 1929 - 2025

Those of us in Scotland are lucky to have his building for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre in Dundee, which was in part modelled on indigenous but ‘n ben houses.

For his own place in Santa Monica, he “was trying to use the dumb, normal materials of the neighborhood.”

Breaking News: Frank Gehry, a titan of architecture, has died at 96. He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings — many widely regarded as masterpieces. nyti.ms/4rGCYiE

Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids

Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids

Frank Gehry, legendary Canadian-American architect, dies aged 96 The architect, whose work included the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, died after a brief illness Frank Gehry, one of the most influential and distinctive talents in American architecture, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles following a brief respiratory illness, his chief of staff confirmed. He was 96. Gehry, the most recognizable American architect since Frank Lloyd Wright, was one of the first to embrace the potential of computer design, and pioneered a distinctively exuberant style of bravura power, whimsical and arresting collisions of form. His most famous work remains the Guggenheim Museumin Bilbao, a fantastical, titanium-clad composition on the Nervión River which received international acclaim upon its opening in 1997, heralding a new era of emotive architecture. Continue reading...

Frank Gehry, legendary Canadian-American architect, dies aged 96

YouTube video by Arch2O Frank Gehry as featured in The Simpsons

Here's Frank on the Simpsons, which he voiced while I worked for him. I can not tell you how often I walked around the Gehry partners office saying "yo Frank Gehry, like curvilinear forms much" after this aired www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MyT...

Andrius Kubilius, the European Commissioner for Defence Industry and Space:

“There are 450 million Europeans. We should not be crying out for 340 million Americans to defend us against 140 million Russians, who are not even able to defeat 38 million Ukrainians.

75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history

75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men

Is this what democracy looks like?

New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

YouTube video by LBC Former Farage classmate tells James O'Brien why he came forward

Here's the whole interview.
youtu.be/DMlj-Tn2_BA?...

“Yes, we do want to abolish the House of Lords. I don’t think anybody can defend the House of Lords”

And now, he’s appointing even more of them!

It is now so bad for Anas Sarwar that even the BBC is reporting on suggestions that Labour in Scotland are 'on the brink of Westminster revolt,' writes Richard Walker ✍️

I'm a bilingual refugee in Glasgow. Here's what I would say to Nigel Farage A GLASGOW refugee has urged Nigel Farage to stop playing “dirty games” by picking on children who speak different languages.

This is who we are. This young New Scot totally gets it and is more than a match for Farage’s politics of division and hate! 👏👏👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
I'm a bilingual refugee in Glasgow. Here's what I would say to Nigel Farage
www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...

Farage’s own children are bi-lingual due to their German mother! 🙄

EXCLUSIVE: A Glasgow refugee has urged Nigel Farage to stop playing 'dirty games' by picking on children who speak different languages

🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

“The claim that this is a recent invention born of political bias is categorically untrue.”

@mrjamesob.bsky.social reveals that Peter Ettedgui made identical accusations against Nigel Farage in private six years ago.

I wonder whether he’ll also boycott LBC if/when I ask exactly the same question about him…

Trump has said a US “affordability” crunch is a Democrat “con job” and “hoax”, as a cost of living crisis becomes a liability for Republicans.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former close ally of Trump now says he is “gaslighting” people.
www.ft.com/content/1b46...

Confidential Conference on Ukraine Peace: "We Must Not Leave Ukraine and Volodymyr Alone with These Guys" DER SPIEGEL has obtained notes from a conference call involving EU leaders - including Germany's Friedrich Merz and France's Emmanuel Macron - showing just how little trust Europe has in Washington.

America can’t be trusted on Ukraine and European leaders know it!

DER SPIEGEL has obtained notes from a conference call involving EU leaders - including Germany's Friedrich Merz and France's Emmanuel Macron - showing just how little trust Europe has in Washington.

Where's Scottish Labour's outrage over Keir Starmer's devolution 'rollback'? Scottish Labour are unable or unwilling to stand up to their London bosses and all signs are showing they are about to pay a heavy price

“In a furious letter to Starmer, Welsh Labour members of the Senedd said the UK Government’s use of the Internal Market Act… was “at best deeply insensitive, at worst a constitutional outrage”.

Meanwhile there’s not a peep from UK Labour’s North Britain branch office.

WHERE IS SARWAR?

STOLEN CAMERA SITE CLEAR FELLED Hi All So, this is all now very real and deeply disturbing. As you know, Vattenfall stole one of our cameras from a known wildcat site. We replaced the camera and returned to check the area yesterday....

Scottish wildcats are critically endangered. They and their habitat are protected by law.

So it’s shocking to see trees felled at Clashindarroch - once called a ‘wildcat wonderland’ by the Scottish Government - apparently by Vattenfall.

Looks photographic at this scale, on my wee mobile phone screen.
Wonderful!

December Sunshine, 1949, Angus landscape, painting by Scottish artist James McIntosh Patrick (1907-98).

Ireland is an independent country.
The FM is referring to parts of the UK, or GB and Northern Ireland.
As an independent country, Ireland is free to do the very same. 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

From today, over 96,000 unpaid carers in Scotland will receive a £293.50 Carer’s Allowance Supplement payment - extra support that’s only available here in Scotland.

Dignity and fairness in action. That’s what you get with an SNP government.

Would that include the Mi ustry if Defence for their nuclear spills into Scottish waters?
@BritishSoldier.bsky.social

Would that include the MoD for the nuclear spills on the Clyde?

”Scotland’s water reserves are estimated at 5,500,000 liters per person, compared to England’s 134,000 litres per person… Scotland is often cited as having around 90% of the UK’s freshwater resources, largely due to its extensive loch system and higher rainfall… ”

#YouYesYet ? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

“Over the past 15 years we have helped return almost 13,000 privately owned homes to use and last year we saw 2,066 homes brought back in a single year, the highest in a year to date.”

www.gov.scot/news/finding...

Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.

news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...

Interesting choice of image as well!

There may be a vacancy in the newsroom of BBC Scotland for reporting this success story. 😂

It's actually worth pointing out that it is NOT the @snp.org that get this money, It's the Scottish government who gets it & it is revenue generated for the people of Scotland.
#AreYouYesYet #WhyNotScotland