When is BBC News (UK) or indeed BBC Panorama going to cover the Sandie Peggie case? Why do they persistently ignore stories that has half the population up in arms? I think we should be told. RT

I can’t and won’t vote SNP at the election next year. I was stupidly hoping John Swinney would restore stability to the party, but gender politics seem more important than independence!

My father, who was riddled with cancer in 1992, somehow found the strength to say “I love you” with a big smile in 1992. He had never used these words before. I will never EVER forget it!

What! I need to make a few calls!

I am in West Lothian and suspect I've just been bitten by a mosquito. What the hell is that all about?!

#Scotland-The first country where a play of mine was put on outside of America; the ONLY place where I've been an actor (never again!!!); and the country that has given me an honorary professorship in #drama. #NaeTrump....#TrumpInScotland nytimes.com/2025/07/26/wor…

I’m binge-watching the first six-part series of “Shetland”, back in 2015, and it is seriously good. The guest stars are impressive, not least Ciaran Hinds who has a haunted look from the first time we see him. And Sara Vickers - Joan Thursday in “Endeavour” - is terrific!

MacBraynes travel poster by Alasdair Macfarlane. (c.1930s)

Well, that was unexpected. I wandered into an Oxford graveyard and this was the first inscription I read. Tears in my eyes.

Just out for a walk around Countesswells. It’s glorious one moment, dark as night and pouring with rain the next. If you’re going out this evening, best take a coat!

This was issued by NHS Grampian an hour ago!

Tom Lehrer, Influential Satirist Whose Topical Songs Poked and Prodded America in the '50s and '60s, Dies at 97 variety.com/2025/music/obi…

If the standard — as Trump has himself stressed repeatedly about Biden — is that a president’s cognitive decline is a disqualifier and a potential liability, it’s worth taking a look at the man currently sitting behind the Resolute Desk. Story: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

“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-…

Released on this day in 1972: All The Young Dudes #MottTheHoople youtu.be/9IqiRY60ZDE?si…

Happy birthday to Sir Garfield Sobers.

A look at some of the chief legal culprits in the Post Office redress scandal. Full story in latest Private Eye Magazine -

I enjoyed talking to Alan Reed of Aberdeen prog rock band Pallas about his involvement in a new festival "Wha's Like Us" next month. Alan was diagnosed with Parkinson's earlier this year and is walking the West Highland Way for charity in September! pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberde…

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I took out a summer subscription order to the “New Statesman”. The supposed magazine of the Left. Two weeks ago, Robert Jenrick was on the cover, this week it’s Kemi Badenoch. And nothing about the new Corbyn/Sultana party. No wonder the Right is winning!