Alastair McIntosh

An hour of not feeling complicit in the genocide Almost 500 people were arrested in London yesterday for holding placards supporting ‘Palestine Action’ which the UK government has declared a ‘terrorist organisation’ despite it never harming anyon…

"We – all who care – are seeking a way to recover our humanity, so we can watch the small kids laugh as they dance between the trees, without having to burst into tears." bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/08/10/a...

A former nuclear submariner in Church Times: “ Faced with the immorality and illegality of use of nuclear weapons, and no record of their ever having prevented any type of warfare involving a nuclear-weapon state, I have concluded that the world would be better off without them.”

Good one.

The prophet is not an outsider throwing rocks, nor an insider who defends the status quo; but one who lives precariously with two perspectives held tightly together in a loving and creative tension: the faithful insider and the critical outsider. Richard Rohr.

The prophet is not an outsider throwing rocks, nor an insider who defends the status quo; but one who lives precariously with two perspectives held tightly together in a loving and creative tension: the faithful insider and the critical outsider.

Richard Rohr.

Audio video, Thiught for the Day on “Summer in Lewis” and community.

Text of this morning’s BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day, and Jasper and his catch and a pump water pistol that was floating out at sea. Don’t know which most pleased him - the fish or the flotsam. And I’ll see if I can post audio of the broadcast below.

Good one Auntie. And here’s my strimmer poem.

And also, make it apparent locally that you’re minding the place, just in case somebody sends round workers to “tidy it up”.

I’ll be doing Thought for the day on BBC Radio Scotland 0720-ish in the morning (Thu 14th) on Jasper’s huge catch, community generosity in the Isle of Lewis, and the poetry of the island bard Derick Thomson. Listen here👇and I’ll also share the text later.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

We’ll never mind Auntie. You can always collect or buy some wildflower providence, and as one of my favourite Olde Hippie lines from the Moody Blues has it, “scatter good seed in the fields”.

Especially for those who work in the area! Everybody else is pretending not to notice. We see the weather, but not the ways we drive what underlies it.

All very well as you can see. Off to Kinghorn again today, this time taking godson out with Vérène and a friend. The mackerel with calm weather don’t hang around for long.

O do go for it! You can become the Phantom Flower Auntie. And just think, you can retire from weeding as the “weeds” become a part of the antisysygy. There is some deep horticultural philosophy to be explored there. Here is how I imagine you, courtesy (if I dare admit it) of ChatGPT.

Went out canoe fishing with 6 year old grandson Jasper today off Kinghorn in Fife. He got 3 very fat mackerel, perfect to feed his family, plus a flotsam water pistol! I got 8 which will feed a few folks at the GalGael in Govan. Just look at the way the sun is shining off them.

Wonderful. See the mackerel picture I’m just about to post.

Very ceremonial!

You’ve not had the gamekeeper after you yet?!

It looked like wasteland, but near houses, so I’d not be surprised if it has a secret carer.

I like your bone “priest”.

You caught a sea trout while fishing for mackerel?!!! What did you catch it on and how were you fishing.

I’m off after the mackerel off Kinghorn with grandson tomorrow and then again Godson on Wednesday. ‘Tis the season …🎶

Very useful info. Will relay to Wife.

Harris estate family agrees community buyout For the local news and events in the Western Isles, We Love Stornoway connects our island communities, highlighting key happenings and sharing positive stories.

Great news. The Bays of Harris Community Estate - a community land trust in waiting - has secured agreement with the Hitchcock family for a community buyout subject to raising the necessary finance. This includes the Isle of Berneray off North Uist.
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I exaggerate not. Look at all the Red Admirals on these flowers, which also attracted all manner of other insects. Can anyone put us right as to what the plant is?

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I exaggerate not. Look at all the Red Admirals on these flowers, which also attracted all manner of other insects. Can anyone put us right as to what the plant is?

What an astonishing day! Vérène and I found a secluded corner of Robert Owen’s New Lanark world heritage site just outside Glasgow, and a cloud of butterflies arose, including here (I think) Red Admiral, Comma, Something White and Peacock. Not just the odd one or two, but dozens!

Wonderful!

In the journal Theology in Scotland I also have another article on the peaceable qualities of saints considered iconic in Scotland, St Giles. See ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI...

The police in footage yesterday looked not at all happy about what they were ordered to do. It can put disciplined forces in a very difficult position. But I am reminded of the action of St Andrew’s follower Stratocles who resigned his commission (pp. 65-65): www.alastairmcintosh.com/articles/200...

Police Scotland strategy for monitoring Palestine protests revealed (Sunday Herald).

Starner has criminalised conscience.. The Scottish police @PoliceScotland should have nothing to do with this alien law.

I support Action on Palestine.

Palestine Action protesters arrested by police at London demo The Metropolitan Police said the number of arrests was the largest made by the force on a single day in the last decade.

Starmer has criminalised conscience. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I spend all that time preparing these pics from the poet Kenneth White’s last visit to the GalGael, the Govan Stones, Glasgow Uni etc., and look who’s first to pay homage! Come to 15 Fairley St, by Ibrox subway, for an 1100 prompt start today if to join this free event (above) mounted by Helen Kyle.