Hamilton bye-election showed how future UK elections may be a lottery,if 3-4 parties get 20%+ of the vote.First past post may offer clear results: they may soon be random.Now,when the winners and losers from a new system are unclear,is the time to change. Herald article. @electoralreform.bsky.social

My mother's diary for 5 May, 1940, about an officer evacuated from #Dunkirk, falling asleep, hearing bombs and bangs when the ship stopped and thinking Dover was under heavy attack - before finding he had slept all the way to England, and back to Dunkirk.

Amidst the impressive solemnity of this morning's #VE Day Parade, there was a moving,very respectful ripple of applause as this Ukrainian contingent, from the team training in the UK, marched past

Along with the sadder and more serious reflections on the last 24 hours, I keep wondering what Winston Churchill would have said if one of the press people in this 1942 picture had asked why he was dressed so disrespectfully at the White House.

Seen in Wexford last month - I think the conflict of interest was resolved in favour of the bar side of the business .