Gorgeous Arts and Crafts / Glasgow Style leaded glass window. Bearsden. #stainedglass #glasgow #scotland 🌹

Couldn’t work out who drew these, but just wanted to repost. Three pillars of essential Scottishness. Glad to have grown up in the shadow of Postcard.

Five things to remember about war: 1. Many things reported with confidence in the first hours and days will turn out not to be true 2. Whatever they say, the people who start wars are often thinking chiefly about domestic politics 3. The rationale given for a war will change

I was there and I will never forget it.

Incredible messaging by a Labour government

Male life expectancy in Glasgow is also 73, meaning if the pension age were to rise to 74 that the average Glaswegian man wouldn't even claim a state pension. There's massive class injustices in these proposals, including the forms of work we'd be asking folk to do in their 70s.

This is not the Labour Party as I know it. For shame.

We’re now into a second summer where violent disorder by racists is being glossed over and excused whilst peaceful protests are stigmatised and criminalised.

All this, at our expense, for a felon to have a game of golf while raging against wind turbines spoiling his view.

It really is time to change the antiquated British voting system-

"Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should be raw..." Edna O'Brien December 18, 1930 – July 27, 2024

„We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable...“ Edna O'Brien

“Without radical ideas from the left – not reframed centrist tweaks – people will look elsewhere. Policy and narrative overhaul rooted in custodianship of communities, not profit. Economic sovereignty for towns, public ownership of generational uplift.” buzzmag.co.uk/michael-sheen-…

Did anyone ask you, ya daft balloon?

Episode One of our show 'Mayflies' is now on the BBCIPlayer and for the rest of August. Starring Martin Compston, Tony Curran and Ashley Jensen. Episode Two should be available shortly. Synchronicity Films

Day 2 of 3. Friday. Kelvingrove Glasgow. “The SOUL in this city!” Love Guy 💙x

my dad goes to a bar with his friends every friday and he makes a list of discussion topics pt 105

LOLZ

🚨WOW: Finland’s President Alexander Stubb delivers powerful words: “We’re a small country, but we share an 800-mile border with Russia and lived through the Winter War. We found a solution in 1944 - and we’ll find one in 2025 to end Russia’s aggression and secure a just peace.”

Dear God. He's an imbecile.