What a day for Team Scotland at the Pickleball England Open 🥇 Sue & Jacqui – GOLD (50+ 3.5) 🥈 Stuart & Peter – SILVER (4.0 60+) 🥉 Robert & John – BRONZE (3.5 65+) 🥉 David Simpson – BRONZE (4.5 60+) Proud. Fired up. Medals all round! 💪🔥 #Pickleball sportscotland

I was arrested today in Parliament Square for holding this sign. Absolute madness.

A tour de force by Jill Tweedie

Jim Spence I'd put a similar thought a slightly different way. She was a tactician, but no strategist. Salmond was a strategist. He had a long-view game plan. Sturgeon only ever had an idea of how to play the ball immediately in front of her...and eventually, you run out of grass.

Rokewife Darren McGarvey Edinburgh Festival Fringe No substitute for Darren’s full book. But a great listen nonetheless on BBC Radio 4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Woman of the Day abolitionist and suffragist Lucy Stone born in OTD 1818 in Massachusetts, the first woman to keep her maiden name on marriage and first in her state to earn a degree. Lucy’s speech at the women’s rights convention in 1850 converted Susan B. Anthony to the cause.

I've remained silent over the last week with regard to the Polari Prize as I wanted to get my thoughts in order. Many thanks to all the people who've contacted me with messages of support. This is all I have to say, and all I will ever say, on the subject. -JB

UN data shows that in the US/Canada/Europe, about 8% of the population suffers moderate or severe food insecurity. That's 95 million people. Even in the richest countries in the world, capitalism fails to deliver something as basic as secure access to food.

In other words what Trump is saying is that he and Putin will agree on what they want Ukraine to give to Russia, then Ukraine will have to decide to give it or not--and if its doesnt, the unspoken point is that the US gets back to business with Russia.

Exactly

This is the one tall tale that matters robinmcalpine.org/this-is-the-on…

Quilt Codes & the Underground Railroad: How Enslaved People Used Quilts as Maps to Escape To Freedom.

On this day in 1953, the US and Britain carried out a brutal coup that deposed Mohammad Mosaddegh, the popular Prime Minister of Iran, beloved for his progressive and pro-worker reforms, because he sought to restore national control over the country's oil reserves.

What an amazing piece from John Boyne. archive.ph/tSv2Y

No, pathetic, spineless, disgraceful BBC News (UK) - this is not a "controversial" project- it is an illegal war crime, designed to make a Palestinian state Impossible & ignores 47 UN Resolutions Israel approves controversial West Bank settlement project bbc.com/news/articles/…

Police Scotland buried damning report on toxic misogyny and predatory senior officers heraldscotland.com/news/25415473.…

Imperialism and racism are central to the capitalist world economy. The barbarism is a feature, not a bug. Remember, capitalism is not defined by “markets and businesses and trade”. It is a system where production is controlled overwhelmingly by capital: the big banks, large

Donna Sandilands, formerly Donald Sandilands, admitted putting her 80-year-old victim's life in danger by pursuing him with the power tool. eu1.hubs.ly/H0mDrC70

Pro bono should only be solicited from people who are financially very comfortable imho

‘Intersectional gender architecture’ my arse