Simon

In any sane world where humanity and respect existed, deliberately blowing to pieces five unarmed, defenceless people in a tent would be called a crime.

Publishing a photograph of one victim with the word ' eliminated ' shows it was premeditated murder.

Is it any surprise that politicians who thrive on creating division also create a strong polarisation of opinion about themselves?

It's not difficult to see very prominent examples.

The old and the new.

#Penzance #LongRock #Cornwall
Phone image.

I came across this wee character yesterday.

Phone image.

Normal practice at the time. They were captured in battle rebelling against the king.
No Geneva conventions in these days.

The rewriting of history is necessary for any pseudo or real revolutionary movement.

I used to drive the No 9 bus, Leyland Atlanteans like these, past the F&F bingo hall.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

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Yes. It was full of oriental students when I last passed.

It was one out, one in, at the Rubaiyat at weekends in the sixties. The polis would be there at 10 o'clock chucking out time.

Separately, Tennants bar was just about the last bastion of male only pubs in Glasgow.

To think of all the stained glass and the window and mirror etchings that used to be a feature of Glasgow pubs.

Licencing law had a condition that you mustn't see people drinking. Hence the etched windows.
Notable was the Rubaiyat at University Avenue. Fantastic mirrors scenes from the poem.Gone.

Good. She was much too smart to be an SNP aparatchik.
She leaves a party full of political whores and comic singers...

Normalising the abnormal. A tiny grain of truth amplified and distorted.
The left need to address the grains of truth instead of being shocked and handwringing when the fascists attack from the flank.

Why not.

SNAFU

A horse ... of course ...

Three hundred and fifty miles tomorrow to Gloucester in this electric car ...
Another two hundred on Saturday to near Lands End.
It's smooth and fast. Quite OK once you switch the gadgets off.
#electriccar #EV

Wigtown street furniture.

It claims to be Scotland's National Book Town...

Complete with the shell as a centrepiece.
I remember it as a boy in the fifties...

Trump may have had a point about our 'windmills' I have long advocated an energy transition linked to a balanced energy policy – we need a bit of everything to achieve a mix that is affordable,…

Random wind farms litter Scotland. No plan.

See Brian Wilson in today's #HeraldScotland .

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Look at me ! Look at me !

What's unedifying is that she lost her seat and then got appointed to parliament for life.

How about asking the new MP for her seat to talk on the matter ?
As for Forage.. ass.

I think it cost me £30. Far more than I usually spend on an old camera. But it's like new. Shutter speeds are not far off either. Not bad for 70 + years old..

The man's a balloon.

Ah. I have some to try.

I just loaded up the Franka Solida 1 ( Made in the US sector of post war Germany) with some Porta 400 - expiry 2011...

The Foma will be next.

My mum used to say that the German bombers used the lights of Dublin to help them find Belfast...
I have no idea if it was true.

The picture is of Crathie Kirk where the late queen went on Sundays when she was at Balmoral.

Oh well. Back to the 2k readers a day for them..

Why wait until September? Either you believe in a Palestinian state or you don't.
Requiring a ceasefire is another issue.

I'm weird...