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Ewan S
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Climate, environment, politics, food, reading, music, cycling, climbing, mountains, skiing, cold water swimming. 317ppm.
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20 albums that defined my musical taste, in rough order of discovery but in one 🧵
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12.11.25
Carbon intensity of electricity in Scotland 0%
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Caution and veracity needed, but if substantiated then as a journalist who covered the conflict - including in Sarajevo - accountability is vital for those Bosnians who were victims and those who lost loved ones. This beggars belief. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Italy probes claim that tourists paid to go to Bosnia to kill besieged civilians
Italians and others are alleged to have paid large sums to fire at Bosnians risking their lives in besieged Sarajevo.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Neither the BBC nor Labour can get themselves out of the quagmire they're rapidly sinking into.

BBC host 'sorry' after letting Lord Glasman slander Jeremy Corbyn live on Question Time.

No comment from Glasman or Gardiner who laughed and laughed and laughed....
www.thenational.scot/news/2561713...
BBC host 'sorry' after letting Labour lord launch 'shameful' attack on Jeremy Corbyn
VICTORIA Derbyshire has apologised after she failed to challenge a Labour lord when he branded the party leadership under Jeremy Corbyn as…
www.thenational.scot
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Breaking: Trump doesn't say Epstein emails aren't fake and you shouldn't believe what you read with your own eyes unless he tells you otherwise.
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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The Talatan Solar Park in China is absurdly huge — stretching across 600 km² of the Tibetan Plateau (about 7× Manhattan’s size) and generating around 17 GW of power.

It’s so big you can see it from space — a shimmering sea of panels.
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
When you have bullied and bribed your own countries most supine law firms to give you endless free access to their services why not use them to bully another countries public service broadcaster for personal gain.
President Trump says he has an obligation to proceed with his threatened $1 billion lawsuit against the BBC for editing a speech he made before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Trump says he has an 'obligation' to sue the BBC over edited Jan. 6 speech
Asked whether he would sue, the president told Fox News on Tuesday night: "Well, I guess I have to you know, why not?"
nbcnews.to
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
FFS Tesco, might as well start selling deep fried heroin.
Supermarket giant Tesco has pulled an 'inappropriate' Christmas card from sale after concerns were raised by a Scottish charity
Tesco pulls 'inappropriate' Christmas card after anger from Scottish charity
www.thenational.scot
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Today in Edinburgh, we joined @patmillsuk.bsky.social to bring the ‘Tax Us, the Super-Rich’ bus to town.

Millionaires have a message for the UK Chancellor: Tax us more.

Fairer taxes on wealth could help lift people out of poverty and fund the future we all deserve #TaxJusticeScotland
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The BBC risks losing its independence when partisan outrage becomes the driving force. It must uphold rigorous editorial standards — not bow to politically-fuelled pressure campaigns.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Says the man who stood by whilst his team waged an 18 month attack on the "Mother of the House"
Cry harder.
"My focus each and every day is on rebuilding and renewing our country... [and] let me be absolutely clear that any attack on any member of my cabinet is completely unacceptable," says Keir Starmer, whose own team just launched a briefing war against his own Health Secretary #pmqs
November 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The evidence that was available to the whole world with exception of the Labour party, that evidence.
The contempt is breathtaking.
BREAKING: The Labour Government will reconsider its block on compensation for Waspi women

Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden has told the Commons the U-turn comes after 'evidence' which had not been considered in the initial decision
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The recently retired Mrs S, has settled into the routine of Tuesday = weekly cook and bake day.
This mornings torture, as I work thro' various teams meets is a 😋 tart tatin.
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Amongst all of this sorry episode of BBC mismanagement they are frozen from speaking the truth that on J6 Trump and his whole team stood by whilst the violence unfolded and said nothing. Didn't call for rioters to withdraw, didn't call for peace, his children literally stood by and partied.
Again - this hyperpartisan outfit paid tens of millions of dollars in defamation damages, due to its false pro-Trump claims about election voting machines. Extraordinary Gibbery to interview them
It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
November 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Fundamentally, house arrest...
"Maxwell has received custom meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area, access to a service puppy, and private meetings with visitors arranged by the warden, complete with snacks. Visitors were allowed to bring computers..."

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
Democrats reveal whistleblower details of Ghislaine Maxwell prison ‘luxuries’
In a letter to the president, House Democrats say Maxwell’s treatment as she prepares a clemency request makes the convicted sex offender look like a “guest at a Trump hotel.”
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A narrative of Samir Shah being a puppet of Robbie Gibb and Lazy Lisa Nandy inability at cutting the strings, discuss...
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Dear reader, profuse apologies but the stench pervading UK democracy ATM is the rotting corpses of the BBC News and Current Affairs departments, they died for me and many others a long time ago, we just forgot to bury them.

Once again sincerest apologies for this oversight.
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A failed country unable to keep its infrastructure going, how the mighty have fallen.
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Just binged #Traitors and 1st ever watched, review

Crinklefringe is playing a different dishmop each scene

Continuity: fantasy drive from the Struie, thro' Torridon, Assynt, Bealach na Ba to travel a few miles for tasks

If you can't read when someone says 'honest' then no hope

It's clever
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
BBC Board has just pardoned Donald Trump for his part in leading an insurrection that only 6 of the 9 placed Supreme Court Members voted against whilst the vast majority of the world knew he was guilty of.
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Surprise surprise the UK Home Office is found to be completely incompetent, again!
Would be a shorter list of competencies than incompetencies.
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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‘There are thought to be close to a million deer in Scotland, with at least 100,000 culled annually.

Deer pressure on nationally and globally important protected areas is revealed in data we obtained via freedom of information from NatureScot, the Scottish Government’s wildlife agency’
Nearly 300 protected areas are being damaged or put at risk by Scotland’s rampant deer population, including breeding grounds for capercaillie – a bird facing extinction, The Ferret can reveal. theferret.scot/nearl...
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Also known as Freddo economics.
President Trump has pointed to the cost of Walmart’s Thanksgiving meal bundle, which is roughly 25% less expensive this year than it was last year, as an example of the economy experiencing a “golden age.”

But the 2025 Thanksgiving bundle is also smaller than the 2024 package.
Trump touts cost of Walmart's Thanksgiving meal to vindicate his policies — ignoring a key detail
Since Tuesday's elections, Trump has repeatedly boasted that Walmart's Thanksgiving meal bundle is cheaper than it was under President Joe Biden. But there's also less food in it.
nbcnews.to
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This annoying smart arse is annoyingly correct about Operation Branchform with exception on missing that both Iain Livingstone and John Logue had enormous interchangeable clown shoes.
It’s still absolutely wild that the police raided her house like she was Walter White in a huge media event, then came out two weeks later and did a press conference publicly blaming Crown Office for non-specifically ruining their investigation, not granting them a search warrant at the first ask.
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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30 years ago this hopeless, overgrazed hillside was turned into a thriving woodland. Care & fencing restored desolate Glen Garry despite a sub-Arctic climate & proved forests are possible anywhere. So why is much of Scotland a barren wasteland? New film www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV...
November 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM