I think hazel flowers exist to remind me I don’t have to do huge things to be utterly fabulous 🥰

Making sense of energy price rises is important. They’re going to be the cause of a lot of poverty in the UK, soon. So, I’ve been doing some analysis. What follow is a bit simplified, but not too much. What it reveals is that you’re about to be ripped off, massively. A thread….

Ullapool Harbour 1980 when the Eastern European klondyke fleet were in and the east coast Scottish boats were round catching mackerel.

The Economic Futures Work Placement Programme 2022 has launched! 3rd & 4th-yr econ (or related degree) students can now apply for our 6-8 week work placements which start this July. These full-time placements pay £15.76 per hr. Apply now - economicfutures.ac.uk/Placements?pag…

Book giveaway: a hardback anthology of poetry that follows the school year from the first day back in September to the end of the summer term, stopping off for every school event and holiday in between. RT or follow to be in with a chance. Ends Midnight 18th June.

It's worth taking 8 mins to watch Theresa May's excellent speech on the Protocol. This is why more ex-PMs & ministers should stay in Parliament. The House of Commons badly needs MPs with experience of govt, knowledge of policy & no ambitions for promotion parliamentlive.tv/event/index/66…

Slow motion of 17-year-old Mondo Duplantis' record-breaking jump...

Comment: If your personal finances benefited from Friday’s UK mini-Budget, the chances are you were well off already, says Claer Barrett. on.ft.com/3BLCfns

Really good point by the FT's Claer Barrett: "If you're somebody repaying a student loan, effectively, your marginal tax rate is going to be higher next year, than the people who earn the most money. What is in this budget for young people?" ~AA

BBC Politics This is the type of response you would be expecting youtu.be/b4m_ajuNmSA

This is nonsense. To make that stamp duty saving you'd need to be buying a £500,000+ property. With 10% deposit, cheapest fix mortgage would cost £2,400/mth (£28,000/yr). How can someone on £30k afford that I am asking treasury to remove.

The Govt’s double bonus incentivising private childminder agencies needs explaining. I asked the PM about it yesterday, & he couldn’t answer, but promised to get back to me. He promised “integrity and accountability” when he entered office. Time to set the record straight.

Cat enjoying my National Nature Reserve

Every Conservative Conference Speech!

What a privilege to have been volunteering at the Teapot Trust #TeapotTrustElsewhereeGarden today at #ChelseaFlowerShow A glorious garden and charity from Scotland - wee brush with the law an added bonus!

Ciaran Jenkins dissects Rishi Sunak's claims and finds it wanting. This is Grade A humiliation.

Did you hear about the rabbi, vicar and imam who…didn’t go into a bar or up in a hot air balloon…but we met together, each said a prayer for peace from our own tradition, & told our congregants not import the conflict in Israel/Gaza to the UK. Let’s fight for peace together.

The 2024 tour of the unforgettable documentary about the independence referendum #ToSeeOurselves is coming to The Smith in Stirling on Sunday, 4th Feb at 2.00pm. Tickets for this Q&A event: ticketsource.co.uk/new-licht-film… Full 2024 tour: linktr.ee/newlicht Screen Scotland The Stirling Smith

This was published on Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 blog in 2014. Michael Rosen: Gove nicked our schools and handed them to his mates: michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/gove-n… #Panorama

What's happened to our social security system since 2010? How has that impacted the people - from pensioners to parents to people with disabilities - who rely on its support? Watch for the key takeaways from our latest report ⤵️