They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"
"enveloped entirely by green and blue spaces" 😂
This is essential listening for audio drama fans, sci-fi fans, humans, Minds, and all sentient objects with ears or equivalent organs.
Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...
😂 From memory they pour a very good Guinness - they'd have no bother doing a frothy coffee.
I hadn't thought of it as being 'enveloped entirely by green an blue spaces' but I suppose it is - sort of. (Though laying claiming to Cobbinshaw Reservoir is mibbe a bit of a stretch!)
Interesting to see Fauldhouse crop up in this list from The Guardian. (And Addiewell getting an honourable mention.)
FEW JOURNALISTS ARE COVERING THIS :
Trump's war in Iran has brought one more disgusting scandal to the WH ; there are bets going on in the Situation Room about how many strikes there will be.
While our people suffer with soaring prices, they made $1M+ betting on death and human pain ...
Movies of Scotland: That Sinking Feeling (1979).
Unemployed Glasgow teenagers hatch a plan to get rich by acquiring and reselling a large quantity of stainless steel sinks.
Looking along the length of Victoria Road from Queen's Park, as the sun sets on the south side.
#glasgow
The creative industries must not sacrifice the UK’s “outstanding creative capacity for speculative AI gains”, a House of Lords committee has said. www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/creativ...
Norman MacCaig on Philip Larkin “I used to judge his poetry very unfairly...I admired his wit, his brevity... But I couldn’t like it, because I’m a happier man than he was…” [adopts lugubrious deep voice] “ 'Life is a walk down Cemetery Road' - stuff and - think of all the pubs you pass on the way!”
Playscript open in front of shelves full of playscripts.
Your annual reminder: playscripts are books, too. Happy #WorldBookDay!
The Vaccines on stage at the Usher Hall in front of an enthusiastic crowd.
Enjoyed The Vaccines blasting their way through an energetic set at the Usher Hall last night.
Have a lovely day, everyone.
BRUCE DAVIDSON’s photos of Jimmy ‘The Dwarf Clown’ Armstrong taken in 1958 are a profoundly moving record of life in and out of a Circus for someone like Jimmy back then.
Our evening film is a slow burning British horror thriller with #EdwardWoodward #JaneMerrow
📽️ THE APPOINTMENT (1981) 9:10pm with #SamanthaWeysom #JohnJudd horror #TPTVsubtitles
How do you preserve a spark that usually fades? ⚡️
The WORLD PREMIERE of Inexperience by one of Scotland’s most powerful and performed playwrights, Douglas Maxwell - a new witty, heartfelt new romantic comedy coming to our Studio.
🎟️https://pitlochryft.com/4u9fWCl
Keep finding myself thinking, 'surely someone will get a grip, it's so obviously in everyone's interests for this to stop, right?' and then look at the latest headlines and the people involved and realise, no World War is really quite plausible from here.
I was on BBC last night, following a clip with voices from Iran. All the selected voices welcomed war, saying they cheered every time they heard an explosion.
Those views exist. But when you ONLY air those voices, you are doing war propaganda.
And I told BBC that live on air.
I’m sure we will see wall to wall sympathetic coverage of the Greens in the British press now and endless platforming of Polanski on BBC shows like Question Time now they’re breathing down the neck of Reform …
This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something
Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...
The creative industries are one of the UK's biggest and best exports, contributing more than $100 billion to the economy every year. Yet successive governments simply refuse to acknowledge this, as if it's unimportant. And now they want to sell us all down the river.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
Medway Wheelers by The Buff Medways. Picked up the CD single yesterday and it contains this lovely video starring Billy Childish's mum, who is the subject of the song
youtu.be/zOo7DepCd9w
There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on.
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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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1000s of public domain films that you can stream, no ads!
www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...
Blue and white graphic with a photo of Oliver Emanuel and text repeated from the post
The announcement of the 2026 Tinniswood Award winner at the #BBCAudioDramaAwards this evening was a special one
It saw the late Oliver Emanuel honoured for ‘One Hundred and Fifty Days’, an "extraordinary and generous gift of a play"
Read more here 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/tinniswood-a...
Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.
