I hate this absurd pandering to laziness, ignorance and incuriosity. Ever since my children were quite small I have intentionally used challenging words and concepts with them, and if they don't understand, they ask and I explain, or we look it up together in a book.

Torrential downpours in the region just now. However, will be welcome to take care of this. inverness-courier.co.uk/news/keep-wind…

The dawg is floating.. 😅

The continual pretence that there is nothing to see here is slowly shredding the remnants of the reputation policing in Scotland once had for being amongst the finest in the world 👇

💭 The funniest guy in football

That's crazy, it basically makes the service unusable:

"Lisa Nandy called for firings at the BBC over a broadcast, yet 100,000 lives were put at risk and 𝙣𝙤 𝙤𝙣𝙚'𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙟𝙤𝙗?" Defence Sec John Healey says “accountability starts today” over the MOD leak, but won’t confirm any repercussions. Lewis Goodall

It's actually turgid listening to politicians avoid answering questions by discussing their "priorities"

Here is something we should all be able to sign up to. Owning the copyright of our own face, voice and body. Denmark has passed a law allowing this. What is stopping the UK Govt? finance.yahoo.com/news/denmark-t…

Shameful, truly shameful. They don't want an independent record of what is said. Unacceptable:

Unspun🗳️: Kate Forbes, Nicola Sturgeon, and the case for Free Speech Disagreement is the nature of politics — and of life. But the fact we disagree is not a reason to silence others. The Herald heraldscotland.com/news/25387371.…

Why does this not surprise me?

Ian Blackford says he will not try to stand in the seat to be vacated by Kate Forbes:

“I have nothing against diversity, equity, and inclusion. But as Voltaire said about the Holy Roman Empire: it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”

Ross County confirm new manager inverness-courier.co.uk/sport/ross-cou…

R.I.P. to the guy who made working the phones in a newsroom look glamorous and inspired a generation of journos.

There are not many celebrities who had his talent or his integrity. A sad loss of a thoughtful and intelligent man:

I remember I was visiting Moscow in April 2014, just after Putin had annexed Crimea and invaded Donbas. I was doing training for regional broadcast media organizations. I remember walking accidentally into a meeting of media owners that wasn't meant for me. They were talking