#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow : for #IronworkThursday here’s some Sir JJ Burnet ironwork on his ‘A’ listed 1908 extension to the Clyde Navigation Trust. I like this because of how Burnet plays a Mackintosh-style game interlacing elegant circles within a ruthless grid of squares 🥰!

A year of missed weddings, reporting trips and travels with friends: For more than 12 months, Evan Gershkovich has been deprived of a normal existence on.wsj.com/3Uc8EOg on.wsj.com/3Uc8EOg

More than a year ago, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained in Russia for doing his job.

He remains in a Moscow prison.

We’re offering resources for those who want to show their support for him. #IStandWithEvan 🧵
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Happy heavenly birthday to Balfron boy, architect Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, born this day in 1817.

Thinking today of Peter Higgs - not the physicist - but the friend since 1966 right through parties/ lunches .... to our recent afternoons high up in Darnaway Street. Also of the late Jody Williamson, mother of his boys - and of them and his grandchildren of whom he was so proud.

RIP Professor Peter Higgs of The University of Edinburgh. Not only a scientific genius but also kind, modest and thoroughly decent.

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Every time I’m back in Glasgow, I find myself thinking it would be a good idea for every U.K. company to send their staff trainers on a field trip here. So many small kindnesses, people going the extra mile to help and, of course, the best patter. (Art by the Feegie Needlers).

J.K. Rowling I don't understand how progressives are pushing a redefinition of 'woman' for the sole reason of including men.

Women are not breasts, long hair, makeup and stockings. Transwomen are the personification of the male gaze.

J.K. Rowling Yes, as a trans woman I see no issues with anything you said. And the ideology that preaches the things you described, causes harm to transsexuals who just want to live their lives as well.

J.K. Rowling I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that they are not women and reality matters.

J.K. Rowling How many times do these simple principles need to be explained to the dim of wit!

J.K. Rowling JK,(I hope I’m not being too familiar?),when will these lovely people learn? For want of a better expression, You cannot take a knife to a gunfight. You have the science, the facts, you’ve done the research, you have the majority of people with you and you can write a bit!

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J.K. Rowling Have you considered pursuing writing? You are skilled.
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You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.

I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not…

Police spammed with complaints by neo-Nazis under new Scottish hate crime law theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Apropos “Be Best”: Trump and his Slovene-born escort spent years calling for Obama’s birth certificate. I am calling for Melania’s legal immigration papers. How did she get an “Einstein” visa for extraordinary abilities, despite her blatant lie under oath about college degrees?

Ian Hislop, 'Angela Rayner may have fiddled up to £1,500 on her council tax. Says a book published by Lord Ashcroft who avoided £112,000,000 when he was a non-dom' #HIGNFY

'The gantries warn you not to drive while tired. They say nothing about melancholy or sweet nostalgia.'
Here's a little piece I wrote for Guardian Travel about the road from Glasgow to Dundee.
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