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Bus Stop of The Day: Isle of Lewis. Pic: Dave Beere

For many that's over 3%.

#fungifriday

Starmer is a groyk.

Keir Starmer pledges to 'reclaim our heritage' in bizarre attack on SNP

Keir Starmer has said the UK will 'reclaim our heritage' in a bizarre attack on the SNP

Call to rethink investing public funds in 'Scotland's second largest landowner' Land campaigners claim Gresham House has recently become Scotland’s second biggest landowner.

Call to rethink investing public money in 'Scotland's second largest landowner'.
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#LandReform
#NaturalCapitalism💷💷💷

"The women here [Kirkwall] are much addicted to pleasure, which I attribute to the abundance of fish."
Description of the Orkney Islands, 1529

Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

(Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)

The Durer Affair

The Durer Affair by Alex Chisholm

Letters to his cousin in the Scottish Highlands from a young Black Isle lad in the trenches in 1916 and 1917 thanking her for food parcels.

Who are transgender women? Hint, women are not being banned.

Image showing 3 time Sarah Smith apologised about lies she told about SNP whilst working at the BBC.

Those of us in Scotland have had to put up with hugely biased output from BBC & Radio Scotland for years. Their anti SNP reporting is obvious (see some examples below), but apparently, it takes bias to someone in a foreign country for anyone to care. #bbc

Andrew Lownie wrote an explosive book about Prince Andrew

Then came the backlash.

Legal threats. Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him

Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers.

This is how ‘the Firm’ works youtu.be/OJHaVsDVv-c?...

Sailors from the corvette, HMS Curacoa, at #Campbeltown, #Argyll, in 1899. There was an outbreak of scarlet fever on board whilst the ship was in the harbour and a temporary camp had to be set up ashore whilst the vessel was fumigated

[source: MacGrory Brothers Collection; liveArgyll Libraries]

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Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Cottage and Museum in Cromarty. The image shows a white two-storey thatched building end-on to a street on the right and continuing away and to the left beyond a garden with railings this side of it. Facing the street beyond the first building is a substantial two-storey stone house with beige harling. The scene is in sunlight.

Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Cottage and Museum in Cromarty, telling the story of the town’s most famous son, the geologist and writer Hugh Miller, who lived from 10 October 1802 to 24 December 1856. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #HughMiller #Cromarty #BlackIsle

#TintTuesday

They came for Scotland: Westminster’s Robber Barons Big boys bash smaller boys. That’s the reality of life’s unfairness. Big powers bash smaller powers. Because they can. Empires are created in this way.  Do this or else – it’s the language of …

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Westminster's assumption that everything Scottish belongs to it.

More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

These poor kids didn’t stand a bloody chance…

345 vulnerable kids, seeking asylum and then lost by our authorities

50 still missing

Likely to traffickers

How could this have happened?

Unforgivable from now-Reform controlled Kent County Council.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Blackbirds feeding on hawthorn berries

#SamhainSaturday

A black and white image of two children dressed for Halloween, standing on a flat patch of scrubby ground with a rocky hillside rising behind them. The children are wearing multiple layers of outsized clothes, bundled and knotted around them. Their hands are hidden within their sleeves, and they have huge adult work-boots on their feet. The figure on the left is wearing a crude mask with tiny eyeholes and a mouth hole; tufts of dried grass have been added to create a beard and moustache. The figure on the right doesn't seem to have a mask – just a large clump of heather for a head, protruding from a jacket collar swathed in scarves.

Oidhche Shamhna – a South Uist #Halloween

Ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, & scholar Margaret Fay Shaw (1903–2004) recorded a traditional Hebridean Halloween on South Uist in the 1930s, in photographs & on film

—via the National Trust for Scotland
#Gaelic
www.nts.org.uk/stories/oidh...

#LazyDayThursday #stonehaven #Scotland

🇬🇧 Red Tories mining Scotland to fully exploit our energy resources, in order to supply England, and to reduce English bills 🇬🇧

Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

On 21st of October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults were killed in the horrific Aberfan disaster, caused by the failure of the National Coal Board.

Today, we remember those who lost their lives and stand with the community of Aberfan now and always.

Never again.

One of the most scandalous carve-ups in the UK.

scotish renewable energy are paying huge fees to connect to the National Grid while the English projects are paid to connect to the very same grid National Grid figures reveal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 pay £465million cost for national grid access while 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 are being handed a connection subsidy of £30million a year. 👇