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?

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. welovestornoway.com/index.php/arti…

What kind of faith can survive the end of the world? Tim chats with Brian D. McLaren about his novel The Last Voyage — exploring collapse, control, grief, and the kind of spirituality we might carry into an uncertain future. nomadpodcast.co.uk

“The Grant family's Christian ethos is central to how the business is run. Unlike other big retailers, it doesn't open on a Sunday and it donates 10% of its annual profits to charity.” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

My BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day warning of further unrest unless we discover what Jacques Maritain calls that personhood which in its very nature seeks social communion due to the generosity inscribed within our being, which drives us to enter into relationship

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.

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. bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00…

My letter in The National thenational.scot/politics/25379…

Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) composed more than 460 works, which were published under her lauded composer brother, Felix Mendelssohn's name #WomensArt

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.”

Of the several reviews I’ve seen of Nicola Sturgeon’s book this by Gerry Hassan is the one that brings the most nuance, and with it, probably the most light as distinct from kneejerk heat.

The National Unfortunately this is what happens when our police force, under the current constitutional settlement, has to implement an alien law created by an alien & remote UK Labour government. Let's lose this setup which is working against Scotland at every turn. #IndependenceIsNormal

Too many leaders today view human rights as the problem. We know human rights are the solution. They are the foundation of peace. They are the engine of progress. And they are the path out of conflict & chaos to security & hope.

Unreported in the supine Western press, Netanyahu is now openly boasting about having thwarted the Oslo Peace Process, blocked a Palestinian state and kept the conquered Palestinians in a state of Imperial subjugation. You only get reports like this is the Israeli press.

NEW: The Ministry of Defence is being urged to "come clean" over the decision to allow a "detachment" of US troops to be stationed in Scotland - after it was confirmed that officials didn't tell the Scottish Government about the move thenational.scot/news/25396557.…

Poet’s Neuk - affirms the successful use of Part 5 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 to force the sale of land from an unwilling seller where it ‘is likely to further the achievement of sustainable development’; (b) ‘is in the public interest’, etc.. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…