In the Highlands on friends’ estate/farm for a few weeks. So won’t be active here, as I’ll be too busy enjoying the scenery on long walks like this.

Hello from Scotland!

Present view …

Proudly block by him for years still.

Good morning from my friends’ backyard on the west bank of Loch Lomond.

Glorious sunrise over Ben Lomond today.

"I think Putin clearly felt, after the cut-off of military intelligence to Ukraine, that he had impunity" Former Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Lord Ricketts, responds to Russian strikes on Ukraine. #Newsnight

Hi All, I released the first part of my weekend update early (it’s all free) because what we are seeing is so extreme it needs to be said now. The USA is now openly admitting to helping Russia kill Ukrainians. Indeed, Trump seems to be enjoying it.

This is what happens when someone appeases barbarians. More bombs, more aggression, more victims. Another tragic night in Ukraine.

Trump says he will place a tariff "of at least 25%" on Apple if iphones sold in the US are not manufactured and built in America He says he "long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple" about this

Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard. hrvd.me/IntStudents25t

Safe bet: Even with a 25% price hike engineered by Trump, foreign made iPhones will be less expensive than iPhones produced in the US.

Yes, well ... Trump has already refocused most news coverage of political matters away from serious, complex issues like this to ... Wait for it: iPhones, and the question of whether they can be made in the US for a retail price that is less than the current price, plus 25%.

ICYMI - Was this Lutnick's "Let them eat cake" moment?

Anyone surprised?

Actually, I was verified before most people here. Until, that is, a nut bought this website and broke it as part of one of the biggest, unaccounted for in-kind political donations ever made in US history. Cc The FEC

Oh ... Hmmm

Not that I disagree, but I think this could be refined a bit in the interest of specificity: The absence of an amendment to the US Constitution that requires presidents and all members of their cabinets to undergo and disclose results of annual mental health evaluations.

Twelve stabbed at Hamburg train station bbc.in/3ZrKEZx