10 years ago, David Cameron was the Prime Minister. Since then, we have had Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, and Keir Starmer, and now it looks like we'll get Andy Burnham. The darling of the billionaire-owned press, Nigel Farage, is hovering in the background waiting for the next election.
These people have managed the decline of ordinary people while boosting the fortunes of the rich.
Now explain to me, like I am a child, why Scotland cannot do so much better?
#Scotland
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Apparently this was in the Boston globe
As per usual. Showing how it can be done and gaining respect everywhere they go.
As they said in #Germany during the last Euros
"No Scotland. No party!"
#Scotland #football #WorldCup #TartanArmy #soccer #NoScotlandNoParty
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Irrespective of which #government is in power at Westminster, #Labour #Tory #Reformltd or #Libdems,
they will not #rejoin the #EU, or work to the benefit of the people in #Scotland, #Wales, #England or #NorthernIreland...
they are only interested in holding power and in themselves...
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On our walk near Cardross we met a 95-year-old lady who invited us to visit her woodland garden. It is an amazing place, a wood full of rhododendrons and azaleas amongst tall trees, paths winding through it with bridges across a little burn, wild flowers, beehives, so many things to discover.
It's so warm we decided to take a walk down to the harbour here in Cruden Bay. As you can see, You can't see the fog for the haar. 😂 #Scotland
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If you’re feeling down, remember that Scotland owns a bit of England because we kept beating them at football. Ownership of the Ba Green was decided by an annual game of “mob football” between 🏴Coldstream & 🏴Wark: eventually, demographics made it Scotland for ever 🏆
https://starkeycomics.com/2023/04/02/the-ba-green-the-land-that-scotland-won-in-a-football-game/0
#Scottish #history #Borders #ScottishBorders #Scotland #football
CFP: NTS at 20 – Culture, Democracy, & the Stateless Nation: an Unconference
23 Oct 2026, Edinburgh
This one-day Unconference invites participants from across academia, theatre, literature, politics, activism, & cultural & community organisations to explore the role of theatre, literature, & cultural institutions in shaping democratic life in Scotland as a stateless nation
#Scottish #Scotland #literature #theatre #culture #culturalstudies #theatrestudies
It seems you can't do anything in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow these days! 😀
The sign is courtesy of A Sign Of Humour.
#glasgow #streetart #sign #bellahoustonpark #elephant #humour #scotland
Abhainn, allt, uisge: Mar a tha a’ Ghàidhlig a’ sruthadh tron chruth-tire
River, stream, water: How Gaelic flows through the landscape
19 September, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh – free
Gaelic names for Scotland’s rivers & burns reveal reveal the spread of Gaelic across Scotland, & how medieval people understood their landscape
#Scottish #Scotland #toponymy #placenames #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #medieval
New Open Access E-book: Roman Camps in Scotland
As a northern frontier zone, subject to repeated incursions by the Roman army, Scotland possesses a wide range of temporary Roman military camps.
First published in 2011, Roman Camps in Scotland discusses the field evidence & Roman army campaigns, with each of the camps described & illustrated in a gazetteer.
https://www.socantscot.org/news/new-open-access-e-book-roman-camps-in-scotland/
#Scotland #history #archaeology #Roman #RomanHistory #RomanArchaeology #RomanBritain #IronAge #IronAgeBritain
On Sunday 31st of May the Storyteller, a beautifully carved and created wooden statue by Robert Lawrence, was installed on Waterside Hill along the Southern Upland Way.
I spoke to McNabb Laurie of D & G Woodlands who commissioned the statue about her links to the Witches of the Glenkens and his hopes for her for Talking Galloway Podcast.
#witches #witchaccused #art #statue #galloway #scotland #southernuplandway #walking #hiking #interview #podcast
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Wasser. Wald. Reflexionen.
Water. Forest. Reflections.
#TravelThursday #ThrowbackThursday #LochArd #Schottland #Scotland #Fotografie #photography
An Israeli firm caught red-handed interfering in elections around the World, including here in Scotland, targeting anyone prepared to call out Israeli murder and rape.
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Feeling for all the folk of Aviemore and surrounding areas being evacuated due to the fires. We live about 100 mies from Aviemore and the smell of burning is very strong here in Cruden Bay and Aberdeen too. We've had to close our windows which has made it stifling in this heat.
#WildFires #Scotland
#WildFires #Scotland
#BostonWeekend Sliding into the weekend #boston - welcome welcome to all our guests visiting from #Haiti and #Scotland for #WorldCup - it seems you've found our #CopSlide https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1u48f5b/dont_go_on_the_cop_slide_they_said/
To Calgary Bay
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/to-calgary-bay-justin-farrimond.html
Clear blue waters and fine white sand, Calgary Bay on the Isle of Mull, Scotland.
#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #Art #Print #Travel #Scotland #Seascape #IsleOfMull #Paradise
Theatre Royal Dumfries
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/theatre-royal-dumfries-justin-farrimond.html
The Theatre Royal in Dumfries, the oldest working theatre in Scotland, opened on September 29th 1792.
#PhotoOfTheDay #FilmPhotography #Theatre #Photography #Art #Print #Travel #Architecture #Scotland #FilmIsNotDead #Heritage
I refer to my pup as a "cheeky wee bisom" meaning she's a cute cheeky wee thing.
Then I googled the word. In Ulster Scots it means a bad tempered woman, and the Dictionary of Scots Language at Glasgow Uni define it as a broom.
Have I misremembered my childhood? Does any one else use bisom in the sense of a rascal?
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Scotland’s a sense of change, an endless
becoming for which there was never a kind
of wholeness or ultimate category.
Scotland’s an attitude of mind.
—“Speaking of Scotland” by Maurice Lindsay (1918–2009) – born #OTD, 21 July
Published in COLLECTED POEMS 1940–1990 (AUP 1990)
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scotland #ScottishIdentity
Marjolein Robertson: Shetland Folklore
24–25 & 28–30 August, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh. Tickets £16
Join Marjolein Robertson for an hour of immersive tales – beautiful, sad, funny & magical – from Scotland’s most northerly isles.
https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:6705/
#Scottish #literature #folklore #folktale #Scotland #Shetland
‘Legends cling like barnacles to these shores,’ says our local writer, who reveals how the lore of these craggy cliffs and beaches resonates with the Homeric classic The incoming tide has made a… #travel #scotland #filming
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The grey skies of Melbourne has made me reminisce our steep climb to the Old Man of Storr amidst a hailstorm :D One of my favourite places on Earth
#Scotland #oldmanofstorr #IsleOfSkye #MissingScotland
'UIG BAY'
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There’s something about the Outer Hebrides that makes even a quiet day feel wild 🏴
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🖨️ davebowmanphotography.com/featured/uig-bay-dave-bowman.html
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#photography #photographersofmastodon #isleoflewis #scottishseascapes #scotland #dailyphoto #photooftheday #wallart #buyintoart #artmatters
‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond