How on Earth does resource-poor England have, 5 Oil refineries, yet produce very little oil? 5 subsea renewable energy cables flowing south from Scotland? 225 nuclear warheads stored in Scotland? Scotch Whisky that leaves from English ports? Is Scotland a resource-rich cash cow?

"The foreigners come to our country and kill our animals"

This photo of the Bridge Fire in the hills behind Los Angeles speaks to the fact that we are in the midst of a cataclysm and the vast majority of people have no idea.

One for the nuclear bros (& gals): in 2022, for the first time (but not last 😝), wind and solar PV passed total world nuclear production. Average annual growth rates: 🌬️🌞 19% for wind + solar 🏭 1% for nuclear. Data from the International Energy Agency 👇 iea.org/data-and-stati…

Trump’s former Director of WH personnel went to TikTok to mock Harris’s debate answer on abortion and challenged a single woman to come forward with a story similar to the one she described. It blew up in his face as nearly 10,000 did. meidasnews.com/news/project-2…

“Charlottesville, nothing was done wrong”

This is Hitlerian rhetoric. That’s not being hyperbolic. He’s dehumanizing legal immigrants, and for some reason saying he’ll deport Haitians to Venezuela. I’ve followed Trump since the beginning. He has devolved to his most base, hateful level, an often incoherent racist.

Trump: “We will do large deportations from Springfield, Ohio, large deportations. We're gonna get these people out. We're bringing them back to Venezuela." (They are from Haiti, not Venezuela. And they are legal immigrants; you can't deport them.)

“Is Israel intentionally attacking aid workers?We’ve compiled 14 incidents where humanitarians were attacked despite giving the IDF their coordinates and being clearly identified as civilians.” trib.al/VQlRfjO

This is so going to work 😂

Manufactured bullshit story

Ten Years of a Changed Scotland bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/09/14/ten…

This photo, taken in Bulawayo in what was then Rhodesia, by white empire settlers, was found in the scrapbook of Baden Powell, founder of the Scouts & Girl Guides movement. He named it "The Christmas Tree". British Empire and European history is full of toxic examples like this.

I speak German and was a language tutor in college… if you were to directly translate 1930s Nazi propaganda, it would sound exactly like this. JD Vance is reading from the Mein Kampf playbook for everyone to hear.

The National are publishing a book reflecting on where we are now, ten years on, what happened and what’s next. Contributors include (me) Neal Ascherson, Jonathon Shafi, John Curtice, James Foley, Aileen McHarg, Coll McCail, Alison Phipps, Caitlin Logan bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/09/14/ten…

‘There isn’t a budget for the Prime Minister’s clothes’ says Lammy - and neither is there now a budget to stop pensioners freezing - sadly they won’t get their gas bill paid by a millionaire member of the House of Lords

Norway has 360+ councils. Scotland has 32. Av population here 175k Across EU 10k Highland Council larger than Belgium with 1 federal govt, 3 regional govts & 581 councils. This is topdown control not local democracy. Time fort change. Sign declaration via Building a Local Scotland.

BREAKING: A new poll has found 57% of Scots think the country should have a second referendum on independence. Story to follow.

So Huw Edwards gets a suspended sentence for buying and making pornographic images of children, while peaceful environmental defenders seeking to prevent social catastrophe get 3, 4 and 5 years. Some justice, this.

If the same rules applied as Northern Ireland, the Secretary of State for Scotland would be obliged to hold a referendum.