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Agricultural lawyer based in Aberdeen.
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Good stuff.

Kicking off Friday night

The Rotting of the Conservative Mind: the Tory party bends the knee to Donald Trump. A disgrace and one for which they deserve to be judged. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...

St Madoes I A #Pictish cross-slab of the highest quality, my images from Perth Museum. Note the: - Gripping dog-like beasts - Possible pairs of lions - Interlace & spiral bosses - Hooded riders - Pictish symbols: = crescent & V-rod = double disc & Z-rod = Pictish Beast canmore.org.uk/site/28201

On the turntable tonight

Winter is Here. A low and dishonourable week brings an end to eighty years of western history. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...

If you’d like to apply for this job at our ‘ultra-progressive institution’ please visit the National Trust Jobs website. NB our member retention has remained higher than average throughout the cost of living crisis and visits & donations have increased. www.gbnews.com/news/nationa...

NEW Why the Truss "lettuce before action" is worse than you thought - and it has a worrying implication for free speech A wider look at the libel letter from the former Prime Minister By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/why-the-tr... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/01/why-...

80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz survivors!!! Never forget! Also, follow Auschwitz Memorial

Tonight’s vinyl selection.

Winter evening light. Moon almost full. Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune all visible, although not in this picture!

Conservative intellectuals explain the secret brilliance of Trump's threats to invade our hemispheric allies www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I'm in Roubaix. Have a read (this one's not behind a paywall) nedboulting.substack.com/p/roubaix-fo...

Setting the mood for 2025

Not sure what this says about me!

Aberdeenshire coast

Fittingly for the end of the year here is my new piece revisiting the Rhine crossings of 406. Putting the widow Geruchia and Jerome’s vision of history center stage, the article questions the founding myth of the fall of the Western Roman Empire. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Hot off the presses from Prof Alex Woolf: ‘The Viking Paradigm in Early Medieval History’, Early Medieval England and its Neighbours 51. Open access as a bonus! Happy Xmas reading doi.org/10.1017/ean....

Human Rights are universal & non- negotiable

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely

One of this year’s cycling highlights - the Amalfi coast

Imagine the shock for the Daily Express when it finds out that almost all of the aid grants that make up the £500m total quoted were given by Conservative governments

Montrose Basin just after sunset