Tonight! Sold out! I've haunted this doorway many times but never thought I'd be presenting my book upstairs. 7pm, Frontline in Paddington

Ronnie Macrae, Chief Executive Officer Communities Housing Trust told us to achieve rural and island housing ambitions it's necessary to "break down some of the silos within Scottish Government". Watch more from the meeting here📺⤵️ ow.ly/FUlh50RtqOe

Rhoda Meek Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee Paul McLennan - MSP for East Lothian Emma Roddick MSP We and Community Development Trusts across rural & island Scotland call upon Scottish Government to enable the right homes in the right places with flexible capital funding and (importantly) revenue investment in development staff for up to five years. 5/5 Community Land Scotland Development Trusts Association Scotland

New page on my website for all upcoming events about Night Train to Odesa, and all the kind words the book has received so far ❤️ jenstout.net/nighttraintood…

It is not okay for an MSP to heavily promote a foreign owned industry that has well documented detrimental impacts on the environment that supports Scottish coastal fisheries + tourism. Mairi Gougeon we need balance, your loyalty to farmed salmon at all costs leaves a bad taste.

I wonder the extent of the impact of nitrates etc from the thousand of tonnes of salmon 💩 discharged into Scotland's coastal waters on maerl and seagrass beds. Seagrass beds are vanishing in Wester Ross MPA before they are officially recorded as existing in the first place.

📌Today's The Guardian highlights the ongoing failure to protect the life in our seas, including the seabed damage we documented in the Small Isles Marine Protected Area. Read more here: theguardian.com/uk-news/articl… #saveourseas #marineprotection #openseas

Right Scotland, seeing as it's the school holidays, here's the link to register for a postal vote gov.uk/apply-postal-v…

Bring it on! #GE24 I’m ready. Tha mi deiseil. Please like and RT to show your support. If elected, I will be the first female MP to fight for, and serve the Highlands. SNP Wester Ross SNP Sutherland Branch Highland SNP @SNP_Thurso SNP Dingwall Black Isle The SNP

This by Jen Stout is incredible, beautifully written, unlike other books on 🇺🇦 it reads like a memoir. Highly recommend!

Protect the mud!

Blown away by this review of Night Train to Odesa - the abridged Radio 4 version which starts on Monday - "tremendous eloquence, vividness and humanity". Found in the current Radio Times.

A gentle reminder that Reform UK is not a democratic political party. It is a private company owned 53% by Nigel Farage & 33% by Richard Tice. It has no real members; it has no democratic policy-making processes. It is an unaccountable entity & play thing of two rich men. Via Financial Times

It's difficult to accept cuts like this when you consider that Scottish Government hasn't yet implemented the taxation recommendations of its own Land Reform Review Group. More than 10 years after they were made. So it's not about lack of money, it's about lack of will.

Salmon farms are killing our Lochs. ''Tiny concentrations of azamethiphos kill young lobsters + herring.'' Previous studies suggested; “An unacceptable environmental risk.'' Mowi doubled the use of organophosphate 'Azamethiphos' between 2018 - 2023. ☠️🦞newscientist.com/article/mg1532…

In the forthcoming general election ask candidates and their campaigners what they will be doing to radically accelerate land reform in Scotland. That, either by boosting funding, or by political moves that will add bite that is so far deficient in the 2024 land reform bill.

I’ve done this - reported illegal dredging in a closed area. Nothing happened. It very seldom does. Last time I saw fisheries protection officers at work they were distributing leaflets to moored dinghies warning private boat owners not to overfish. Unbelievable, but true.

Scottish Ministers lift the ban on landing berried (i.e. egg carrying female) lobsters 👇 ...which they only implemented about a month ago This has to be top of the pile on fisheries management cowardice - leaders failing to lead thefishingdaily.com/latest-news/sc…

'A philanthropist is set to gift around 8,000 acres of land to a Highland community in an “unprecedented” move.' #CommunityLandOwnership scotsman.com/heritage-and-r…

'A new safety limit on a pesticide that kills marine wildlife has been delayed by four years following pressure from the salmon farming industry.' Don't eat, promote, or sell farmed salmon, it is destroying Scotland's environment.🐟☠️Jamie Oliver wagamama uk The House of Bruar