Graeme Purves
@gaspurves.bsky.social
Citizen. Environmentalist. European. Spatial Planner. Democrat. Geddesian. Withered Botanist. Lapsed Munro-Bagger.
Kat Jones on the role played by the APRS in the establishment of the National Trust for Scotland.
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #Countryside
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#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #Countryside
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APRS counts the Trust among its biggest successes
As Action to Protect Rural Scotland (APRS) is about to celebrate its centenary, its director, Dr Kat Jones, looks back and celebrates the organisation’s…
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February 17, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Kat Jones on the role played by the APRS in the establishment of the National Trust for Scotland.
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #Countryside
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#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #Countryside
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Even in the Frank Miller fantasy, the story of 300 is about King Leonidas being so absurdly bad at politics and statecraft that he was left largely without allies and got maneuvered out of being able to deploy HIS OWN ARMY against an existential invasion threat.
February 17, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Even in the Frank Miller fantasy, the story of 300 is about King Leonidas being so absurdly bad at politics and statecraft that he was left largely without allies and got maneuvered out of being able to deploy HIS OWN ARMY against an existential invasion threat.
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Starmer making catastrophic error. It is not the far right taking his votes, it is the pro-European parties (Grn+LD+SNP+PC).
Voting intention of GE2024 Labour voters (YG; 15-16 February):
Lab 50%
Grn* 21%
LD* 12%
Ref 7%
Con 4%
SNP* 2%
PC* 2%
oth 2%
Loss to pro-EU* = 37%
Loss to far right = 11%
Voting intention of GE2024 Labour voters (YG; 15-16 February):
Lab 50%
Grn* 21%
LD* 12%
Ref 7%
Con 4%
SNP* 2%
PC* 2%
oth 2%
Loss to pro-EU* = 37%
Loss to far right = 11%
February 17, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Starmer making catastrophic error. It is not the far right taking his votes, it is the pro-European parties (Grn+LD+SNP+PC).
Voting intention of GE2024 Labour voters (YG; 15-16 February):
Lab 50%
Grn* 21%
LD* 12%
Ref 7%
Con 4%
SNP* 2%
PC* 2%
oth 2%
Loss to pro-EU* = 37%
Loss to far right = 11%
Voting intention of GE2024 Labour voters (YG; 15-16 February):
Lab 50%
Grn* 21%
LD* 12%
Ref 7%
Con 4%
SNP* 2%
PC* 2%
oth 2%
Loss to pro-EU* = 37%
Loss to far right = 11%
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The *real* global conspiracy, in a nutshell.
“The rich think they don't have to live in the same world as the rest of us, so they can let it burn and profit on the way down.”
@naomiaklein.bsky.social and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social break down the politics in Epstein’s emails, diving into his relationship with right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel.
@naomiaklein.bsky.social and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social break down the politics in Epstein’s emails, diving into his relationship with right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel.
February 17, 2026 at 8:42 AM
The *real* global conspiracy, in a nutshell.
Film by Michael Lloyd celebrates Hamish Henderson.
#ScottishFilm🎬 #ScottishCulture
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#ScottishFilm🎬 #ScottishCulture
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Film celebrates one of Scotland's cultural giants but warns he is being forgotten
A FILM celebrating a colossus of Scotland’s culture, poet and songwriter Hamish Henderson, aims to highlight that his “legacy is in danger of…
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February 17, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Film by Michael Lloyd celebrates Hamish Henderson.
#ScottishFilm🎬 #ScottishCulture
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#ScottishFilm🎬 #ScottishCulture
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Starmer blamed his decision to appoint Mandelson on the vetting. Cooper blamed her decision to proscribe Palestine Action on the advice. Starmer blamed his decision to ennoble Matthew Doyle on the vetting. And now Kinnock blames the latest u-turn on the advice
Spot the pattern?
Spot the pattern?
February 17, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Starmer blamed his decision to appoint Mandelson on the vetting. Cooper blamed her decision to proscribe Palestine Action on the advice. Starmer blamed his decision to ennoble Matthew Doyle on the vetting. And now Kinnock blames the latest u-turn on the advice
Spot the pattern?
Spot the pattern?
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Employment rates for non-EU born are now *above* those for the UK born.
Gap used be nearly 10 percentage points.
A tribute to the success of UK immigration/immigrants and labour market integration, especially in recent years.
Something government should celebrate..
Gap used be nearly 10 percentage points.
A tribute to the success of UK immigration/immigrants and labour market integration, especially in recent years.
Something government should celebrate..
February 17, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Employment rates for non-EU born are now *above* those for the UK born.
Gap used be nearly 10 percentage points.
A tribute to the success of UK immigration/immigrants and labour market integration, especially in recent years.
Something government should celebrate..
Gap used be nearly 10 percentage points.
A tribute to the success of UK immigration/immigrants and labour market integration, especially in recent years.
Something government should celebrate..
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The Iranian regime takes brutality to a whole new level. It will commit any atrocity to maintain its hold on power. The citizens confronting it are among the bravest in the world.
February 17, 2026 at 8:08 AM
The Iranian regime takes brutality to a whole new level. It will commit any atrocity to maintain its hold on power. The citizens confronting it are among the bravest in the world.
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IFS: Next ScotGov faces tough choices as funding advantage diminishes. Last year, ScotGov received 26% more per resident than England, but that advantage will “slow significantly” over the next few years. Need to be more radical on tax justice.
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Next Scottish Government faces tough choices as funding advantage diminishes, says IFS
If similar public services are to remain over the next parliament, the IFS says the next government would be required to...
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February 17, 2026 at 7:36 AM
IFS: Next ScotGov faces tough choices as funding advantage diminishes. Last year, ScotGov received 26% more per resident than England, but that advantage will “slow significantly” over the next few years. Need to be more radical on tax justice.
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Seems like the government have learned their lesson of the summer recess and stopped reform from capturing the headlines during the political hiatus.
By having a daily catastrophe.
By having a daily catastrophe.
Local election administrators have warned that councils face "an uphill struggle" to be ready in time for the May local elections after the government reversed its plan to delay some votes
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Councils face 'uphill struggle' to be ready for elections by May
Thirty councils across England now have to organise local elections after the government abandoned plans to delay.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 17, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Seems like the government have learned their lesson of the summer recess and stopped reform from capturing the headlines during the political hiatus.
By having a daily catastrophe.
By having a daily catastrophe.
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A partial DHS shutdown is great. But the rot starts at the top, and we must impeach Kristi Noem.
Let’s tell our representatives to get it done!
Let’s tell our representatives to get it done!
Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
Contact Congress today!
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February 16, 2026 at 9:50 PM
A partial DHS shutdown is great. But the rot starts at the top, and we must impeach Kristi Noem.
Let’s tell our representatives to get it done!
Let’s tell our representatives to get it done!
A second Scottish Labour MP calls on Sir Keir Starmer to quit | Hamish Morrison in 'The National'.
#ScottishPolitics #UKPolitics
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#ScottishPolitics #UKPolitics
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Second Scottish Labour MP calls on Keir Starmer to quit
A SECOND Scottish Labour MP has backed Anas Sarwar’s call for the Prime Minister to step down
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February 17, 2026 at 7:22 AM
A second Scottish Labour MP calls on Sir Keir Starmer to quit | Hamish Morrison in 'The National'.
#ScottishPolitics #UKPolitics
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#ScottishPolitics #UKPolitics
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Incredible to me that the current US administration has looked at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and concluded that the real problem with the US military is that its officers weren't good enough at killing stuff but knew too much history, anthropology, theology and international relations.
Evidently, something was broken with the other link. So, here, I've written about the right-wing attacks on PME and civilian educational institutions.
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The Myth of the Warfighter
The Soldier and the Educational Institutions
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February 16, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Incredible to me that the current US administration has looked at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and concluded that the real problem with the US military is that its officers weren't good enough at killing stuff but knew too much history, anthropology, theology and international relations.
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Keir Starmer has claimed that he 'didn’t know anything about' a prominent Labour think tank paying for an investigation into journalists reporting on its funding
Keir Starmer denies knowing about Labour think tank 'spying on journalists'
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February 16, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Keir Starmer has claimed that he 'didn’t know anything about' a prominent Labour think tank paying for an investigation into journalists reporting on its funding
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Graeme Keyes @KeyesGraeme on #KeirStarmer #Mandelson #EpsteinFiles – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Graeme Keyes @KeyesGraeme on #KeirStarmer #Mandelson #EpsteinFiles – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Polling finds 'near universal support' for protecting Green Belt land.
#GreenBelt
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#Countryside
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#GreenBelt
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#Countryside
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Polling finds ‘near universal support’ for protecting green belt land
Some 85% of those surveyed in Scotland consider such protections important.
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February 16, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Polling finds 'near universal support' for protecting Green Belt land.
#GreenBelt
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#Countryside
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#GreenBelt
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#Countryside
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Matt Goodwin said in a post on X: “Welcome to the UK. Where you go to prison for 18 months for anti-immigration tweets. This is insane.”
No. What is insane is shrugging off incitement to racial murder.
Put this man in the bin, not the House of Commons.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
No. What is insane is shrugging off incitement to racial murder.
Put this man in the bin, not the House of Commons.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reform candidate called it ‘insane’ to jail man who said ‘burn asylum hotels’
Exclusive: It comes after The Independent revealed that Matt Goodwin called for ‘young girls’ to be given ‘biological reality’ check
www.independent.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Matt Goodwin said in a post on X: “Welcome to the UK. Where you go to prison for 18 months for anti-immigration tweets. This is insane.”
No. What is insane is shrugging off incitement to racial murder.
Put this man in the bin, not the House of Commons.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
No. What is insane is shrugging off incitement to racial murder.
Put this man in the bin, not the House of Commons.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Israels continues its annexation of the occupied West Bank.
So whats the UK govt doing? Ending trade? Imposing sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy? Stopping all military assistance? Of course not. It says it opposes the annexation but it does nothing to stop it.
So whats the UK govt doing? Ending trade? Imposing sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy? Stopping all military assistance? Of course not. It says it opposes the annexation but it does nothing to stop it.
February 16, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Israels continues its annexation of the occupied West Bank.
So whats the UK govt doing? Ending trade? Imposing sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy? Stopping all military assistance? Of course not. It says it opposes the annexation but it does nothing to stop it.
So whats the UK govt doing? Ending trade? Imposing sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy? Stopping all military assistance? Of course not. It says it opposes the annexation but it does nothing to stop it.
Circumstance is as much to blame for generational anxiety as technology | Andrew Tickell in 'The National':
#Childhood #Parenting
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#Childhood #Parenting
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Circumstance is as much to blame for generational anxiety as technology
FROGGER and Microsoft Encarta. When I was in my tiny primary school in mid-Argyll during the 1990s, this was about the extent of modern technology…
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February 16, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Circumstance is as much to blame for generational anxiety as technology | Andrew Tickell in 'The National':
#Childhood #Parenting
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#Childhood #Parenting
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Good morning folks! Hope this week is better than last week. And don't forget we beat England at the rugby on Saturday!
a man in a kilt is playing a bagpipe next to another man in a kilt .
Alt: a man in a kilt is playing a bagpipe next to another man in a kilt .
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February 16, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Good morning folks! Hope this week is better than last week. And don't forget we beat England at the rugby on Saturday!
