👇 Another must-watch speech from Mhairi Black 🏳️‍🌈!

The latest generation of libraries are positioning themselves as beautifully-designed cultural, social and civic hubs – with books thrown in. bbc.in/2ufrxDj

For #WorldPenguinDay here are the penguins of Edinburgh Zoo popping on to the bus for a day out at the Royal Scottish Academy. As you would, being a penguin. Royal Scottish Academy

‘Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.’ The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, who was born #onthisday in 1891.

🗳 The #EuropeanElection2019 shows that Scotland has rejected Brexit again. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland has made it clear its future should lie in Europe - it's time the Tories and Labour started listening.

Missguided busy sleeping under a rock whilst every other retailer at least *entertains* a dialogue about sustainability

A 15-year-old from Glasgow shamed all five Tory leadership candidates and people loved it indy100.com/article/tory-l…

My #TED talk in full: Why governments should prioritize well-being ted.com/talks/nicola_s…

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And without further ado, we’re delighted to reveal that the winner of the 25th #WomensPrize for Fiction is Maggie O’Farrell with Hamnet. Huge congratulations, Maggie!

My memoir 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows is out today. I wanted to tell my story and my father's, so that my son would know who we were and what we had experienced as a poet and as an artist. #aiweiweibook smarturl.it/aiweiweibook

I've written a little bit about my time on the Isle of Eigg- 'Life is slow here, but also impossibly fast; when time is gauged by light lost, from the bothy window.' clarerobbmaker.co.uk/Blog

“Climate change and biodiversity are two sides of the same coin,” said Boris Johnson today at #COP26. Read our deep dive into the other environmental crisis econ.st/3jZm4ui

‘You can feel the sea-spray overhead and the crunch of frozen grass underfoot. You see a path. But mainly what you see is the scale of the forces ranged around us and the beauty of things we can’t know.’ Andrew O’Hagan on Joan Eardley at the The Hunterian: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/…