Dennis Walder

So gov.uk is a fiendish plot to kill Scottish independence with a black grant of £51 billion over 2022-5? Not to mention all the institutions that are GB and would be nigh impossible to divide eg all the Research Councils...

Painted portrait of Alain Locke, seated; his head and hand are rendered in full color, while the rest of his body is graphically stylized in black-and-white drawing

Winold Reiss's portrait of Alain Locke, key intellectual architect of the Harlem Renaissance, born #OnThisDay in 1885 npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...

And if the massive financial support from UK gov leaves too?

Bestimmt

Well it’s all such a swirl of misinformation it’s difficult to know anything about him for certain. Meanwhile Trumpists turn it into a left wing plot of course…

Support this. BBC news reporting is hopeless. Lack of balance, also obsessed with individual sob stories while Europe collapses.

US House passes $890 billion defense bill, includes $400 million for Ukraine aid While the Ukraine provision faced pushback, a proposal by Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to eliminate aid was rejected with bipartisan opposition.

⚡️ US House passes $890 billion defense bill, includes $400 million for Ukraine aid.

While the Ukraine provision faced pushback, a proposal by Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to eliminate aid was rejected with bipartisan opposition.

Happy 90th birthday Arvo Part!

My favourite Scottish poet is Norman Macaig, especially for his Assynt poems. Yours?

I lived and worked in Scotland for 12 years, my closest family and friends are Scots and none of them support independence. They’re especially scathing of English incomers who do. They also know how too many Scots blather on about being colonised when they were foremost among the British colonists

What a non issue. Let him focus on the economy and immigration…

What a dizzy height you’re on.

No not by definition but when inflamed by nationalist fervour to define themselves against the English ‘other’, rather than relax into a simple sense of identity…

Yes… do you find this hard to believe

Yes…only joking. But scotnats always a pain and while some want to seem right on re refugees, still unpleasant to arrivals from nearer at hand..

As long as they’re not English?

This man Malhotra should be struck off immediately

1 - The Duke of Westminster's £5 billion estate is in a trust tax free.
2 - The King of England is wholly exempted from inheritance tax .
3 - A working class woman does well in life, gets a bit of cash & gets her tax bill wrong.

Which one do the right wing press set out to destroy?

Watching the big military parade in Beijing I’m reminded of The Dirty Dozen and Donald Sutherland: ‘very pretty, but can they fight?’

No vaccinations, no nursery or school place. End of story.

You can play Handel till the cows come home as far as I’m concerned 3bbcradio

Putting a 10 year old on tv to talk about his friend being shot at school is a different level of diabolical.

DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH

The media who do this are heartless bastards

My book just published

French, German, Polish leaders to visit Moldova amid fears of Russian election interference The visit comes amid what the Moldovan presidency described as Russia ramping up its "interference activities ahead of the high-stakes elections" scheduled for September.

⚡️French, German, Polish leaders to visit Moldova amid fears of Russian election interference.

The visit comes amid what the Moldovan presidency described as Russia ramping up its "interference activities ahead of the high-stakes elections" scheduled for September.

@matthewsyed.bsky.social thank you for another excellent column in today’s Sunday Tines on the foolishness of calling the despot Putin ‘president’ as if he has any legitimacy on even the US model which at least elected Trump, sadly.

On @bbc1 news

Darshini David makes economic news astonishingly clear. Terrific!

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Ann do you know what a cover drive is yet? One of the magical elements to watch…