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Me and my mother, Charlotte, out in Edinburgh this lovely Saturday evening

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Maybe it’s naive, but I am still white-lipped by Trump’s reaction to recent Russian shelling of Ukraine, given American withdrawal of helpful intelligence. We are not in Kansas anymore

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First goal

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Music to watch Alexander’s football practice to

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Big hat tip to @ianleslie.bsky.social for letting people know about this warm but telling piece on the late Gene Hackman flaminghydra.com/gene-hackman...

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Real warmth in the air today, March 6th

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I’m not normally a BBC basher but it’s still referring to what happened in the White House yesterday as a “shouting match”, a “ spat” and a “row”. We all watched it. That’s not an accurate depiction of events.

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A wee bit overtaken by events, but it is good

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Brexit has never looked quite so daft

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to clarify: Trump is refusing to take sides over a war in which North Korea and Iran are backing one side and all of NATO has been backing the other

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Democracy dies in deference

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Whoever advised Rangers to release that 12-minute training video yesterday has a head full of broken biscuits. School teams train better

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Some music critics wasted a lot of time trying hard to claim this wasn’t soul music, but if you can’t hear soul in this you aren’t trying I told Jesus, Roberta Flack youtube.com/watch?v=C39l...

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RIP the most beautiful voice youtube.com/watch?v=Ekb_...

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‘The Scottish Human Rights Commission criticised the “glacial pace” of progress in tackling overcrowding, suicides and mental health problems in prisons; recommendations agreed decades ago had not been implemented.’ @danigaravelli.bsky.social on incarcerated youth: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum on what they want: a religous state, a tech industry dictatorship - and a government that serves their business interests. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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extremely ‘I write editorial comment for the FT’ voice. Completely agree with this and also feel like it’s in part a manifestation of how UK has turned inwards. Even much of the political class seems unaware of how important and significant all this is for UK prosperity and security.

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Magical. Such a beautiful tune

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

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“By the time I rang his mother’s doorbell, I had read the records on William kept by his social workers. . . . The saddest paragraphs were the ones that gave a glimpse of the boy he might have been.”

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“William’s story was one of intergenerational trauma & of the lies Scotland tells itself about its treatment of its most vulnerable children.” My @londonreview.bsky.social longread on the Polmont suicides & our failing youth justice system is the culmination of 6 years’ work & means a lot to me.

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The interview I did with Clive James soon before he died almost always makes me cry. tinyurl.com/2s243u4k Do watch. I just came across it by chance... he is brilliant

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There’s an Ebola outbreak in Uganda just now. American money helps keep such things in check. Withdrawing that money has obvious implications.

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Alexander and Alba among the surviving trees of Devilla Forest in Fife

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Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown

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❤️❤️

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BBC designer would rather be creating post-punk album sleeves

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We are dog-sitting Alba this weekend and she looks pretty pleased to see Alexander

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Highly Recommended (and free): countries that desperately need more workers are cutting their own throats by blocking immigration. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...

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The Schuman Plan - pacify trade relations with Germany and France, eliminate tariffs, create an environment of common economic interests - was a peaceful demonstration of nation-building & international cooperation. Aggressively struck, punitive tariffs achieve the opposite. Tariffs threaten peace

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It’s difficult to say if guitar solo’s ever really mattered, but there was a brief time when they seemed to. Played by Tony Peluso to end a typically attractive Carpenters tune, this one does better than most what they all try to do - make you want to hear it again. youtube.com/watch?v=Yarv...

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My son Alexander gets ready for football this cold Thursday

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I often think about this: the joy of seeing a loved one's handwriting on a card, knowing it's from them before you open it, being able to summon up them up through slant and curve of the letters, and how that might be lost forever.

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This is a beautifully written and insightful, fascinating book which I can’t wait for you all to read! Bravo @ianleslie.bsky.social!

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Almost

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Looking forward to seeing the Dylan movie with Daisy later on. Will try not to be a bore

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Ewan Murray is a fine journalist, needless teasing of people on social media apart, and his considered judgements are rarely wrong. This good piece does justice to the renowned name of the great Denis Law. RIP

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Oh for a whole album like this. Liz Fraser (cocteau twins) in an orchestral setting. youtu.be/xjlIJawcqd4?...

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www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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The false claim behind the #Misinformation on grooming gangs Musk and others have been sharing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #PR #Reputation

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