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Police arrest 365 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London Met officers and other UK forces form ‘significant presence’ in largest protest since group was proscribed as terrorist organisation

This is Monty Pythonesque. Makes Britain look ridiculous.

Violent, lawless, broken Britain? The facts tell a different story The populist narrative of a migrant-driven crimewave is catnip on social media and oil to the wheels of Reform. But it is so far from the truth that we’re in danger of losing sight of the country we l...

The gap between the public debate and reality becomes so wide that many voters may no longer see...or recognise the real progress that’s been made....
The facts do seem to suggest: that our society... is probably safer, richer and better than any before it.
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Fun and Games!
The Lammas Fair in St Andrews.
The oldest street fair in Scotland, although there is little medieval about its current iteration.
#Fife #Scotland

A very good point, well made

Looking down the first fairway on St Andrews Old Course this morning, with the @OldCourseHotel framed by a rainbow.
#Golf #Rainbow #Fife #Scotland

St Andrews.
The R&A clubhouse and the Hamilton Grand, the latter having been built in a style and location as a direct result of Mr Hamilton being rejected for membership of the R&A.
A grand 'up yours'.
#Fife #Scotland

This looks fun, if slightly precarious...

Butts Wynd ('archery alley') is a street name in St Andrews that often amuses visitors, especially those from America.
#Fife #Scotland

Come ye thankful people, come,
Raise the song of harvest home!

To my inexpert eye, the crops look about ready.
#Fife, #Scotland

Thistledown
#Fife
#Scotland

Rowan berries, as seen on my Sunday morning stroll today in #Fife, #Scotland.

A house within a house.
The reflection in this window in a house in St Andrews, #Fife, #Scotland gives a surreal, TARDIS-like impression of being 'bigger on the inside'.

Plenty of sloes in the hedgerows of Cambridgeshire, England
#foraging #wildfood

Teasel and bulrushes on this pond in Cambridgeshire, England

I am sheltering under a hawthorn tree as the rain has come down here in Cambridgeshire, England, as I was out for a walk, totally unprepared in just a t-shirt 🫤

The English countryside.
The moles look happy to be caught.

For contrast, in Lincolnshire today:

‘I’m not racist, just concerned’ From Epping to Facebook groups, how fear is being repackaged and pointed downwards and never up

"We’re not racist – we’re just concerned citizens!"

Fire crackers, far-right flyers, hotel protests… but sure. Just concerned.

This article by The Bear rips the mask off the new respectable bigotry ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

Tracking for beginners.
Here be rabbits!

Friends in southern England have already been blackberrying, but I reckon we have at least a couple of weeks to wait here in #Fife, #Scotland
#foraging #wildfood #blackberries #brambles

Common ragwort brightening the verges in #Fife, #Scotland
#wildflowers #flowers

A wildflower meadow in #Fife #Scotland, resplendent with the yellow of the common ragwort.
#bloomscrolling #flowers #wildflowers

Out for a pleasant Saturday morning walk in #Fife #Scotland and then it started to rain. . .
Soaked to the skin, despite raincoats!

Wildflowers spotted today on the edge of the Old Course, St Andrews, #Fife, #Scotland
#bloomscrolling #wildflowers #flowers

A wild bank on the #Fife coast on a summer's day.
#Scotland
#bloomscrolling

This made me chuckle

What I'm reading now.
Well, I do live in Scotland and whilst this is not exactly contemporary (!), 'Kidnapped' at least - that's all I've read so far - is a rollicking good story!
#BookTwitter #books #RobertLouisStevenson #TheScottishNovels

Herring gulls enjoying the sea breezes on a grey afternoon in St Andrews, #Fife, #Scotland

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In the pine forests of the Scottish Highlands today
#Cairngorms #Scotland #FallsOfBruar