Your occasional reminder that the budget this year for the Scottish Land Fund - for asset acquisition in all of Scotland, both rural & urban - is £7 million.
There is some irony in the legitimate messaging of this piece being entirely overtaken by the inherent oxymoron.
We should be wary of unscrutinised rewilding as the solution, a measure adopted by progressive aristocracy to justify their presence in disputed landscape.
Anti yankism is quite frankly labours only hope against a reform party who will bend over backwards for yank vassalage harder than Tony Blair ever did.
Donald Trump has given Starmer one throw of the dice to save his party.
Watch him fuck it up.
Sweden is a cautionary tale for Scottish education.
After years of pushing digital-first learning and replacing textbooks with screens, the government is now spending millions to bring real books back into classrooms.
Not because technology is evil, but because overuse of screens weakened reading, focus and deep learning.
Foundational skills need paper, books and explicit teaching. Digital tools should support learning, not replace it.
Colbh. My monthly column in the P&J.
'Perhaps not everyone knows that the channel (BBC Alba) has a specific legal obligation to broadcast “in Gaelic”.
Not “about Gaelic��� or “using some Gaelic” but “in Gaelic”. Is the Trades Description Act still in force?':
Sùil air cuid de na sgeulachdan againn am-bliadhna - agus às dèidh 39 bliadhnaichean de sheòlaidhean air costa siar na h-Alba, rinn an MV Hebridean Isles an t-seirbheis mu dheireadh aice. Bha Ruairidh Moireasdan na sgiobair oirre.
https://t.co/VfSHDuCjHH
Ged a tha i fliuch is mosach mar a tha 2024 a' tighinn gu ceann tha dùil ri oidhche gu math blàth air BBC ALBA gus 2025 a chur air a casan is Cèilidh na Bliadhn' Ùire a' tighinn thugaibh à Inbhir Narann.
https://t.co/dgEu9io5TK
The fall from grace of Fianna Fáil really is incredible. Their #2 aim used to be to restore Gaeilge as the living language of Ireland, yet now we see some of their biggest supporters actively ridiculing the language!
Sensational.
Using "Houthi" instead of "Yemeni" allowed the US, Saudi, & UAE to starve Yemenis & bomb roads, schools, hospitals, homes, power stations, heritage sites, air/sea ports, etc. with complete impunity. Israel is using the same language, and western media is happy to comply.