Today the Tories have slapped a 75% tax on to a bottle of Scotch Whisky breaking their promise to the industry and using Scotland’s national drink as a cash cow.
Biggest tax hike on 🥃🏴 in 40 years.
Now 75%!
This is how the U.K. treats a Scottish global success story.
This understated Times column is the most sinister thing I have read about civil rights in this country for a very long https://t.co/1FMgU6dl2l IT PLEASE
The place in the #Roman Forum (#Rome) where Julius Caesar's body is believed to have been cremated after his assassination #OTD, the #IdesOfMarch, in 44 BC; an altar was later put there, part of the Temple of Caesar. People still leave coins & flowers there every day #Archaeology
@ScotTories Your desperation is palpable, how you have the audacity to point the finger at anyone just disgusts people. Away and grow up and pack in with the playground politics. Scotland can do so much better than anything that is offered politically at the moment.
Inside Mousa Broch on the now uninhabited island of Mousa in Shetland. Mousa Broch rises to 13m high and is both magnificent and awe inspiring. It is also by some margin the best preserved of Scotland's 500 or so brochs. More pics and info: https://t.co/fXaGdQcPJ4
Gertrude Ederle (1905-2003) made history in 1926, becomming the first woman to swim the English Channel, beating the fastest existing men's record by nearly 2 hours while swimming in choppy water #WomensArt