David
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For history, law, classical music, politics, some Spanish stuff and things Scottish. Also the occasional cat.
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By-Election Result analysis: Whitburn and Blackburn (2025)
Reform squeak their first ever council win in Scotland as the Labour and Conservative votes collapse, and an Independent positions for a 2027 seat.
Reform squeak their first ever council win in Scotland as the Labour and Conservative votes collapse, and an Independent positions for a 2027 seat.
By-Election Result: Whitburn and Blackburn (2025)
Reform squeak their first ever council win in Scotland as the Labour and Conservative votes collapse, and an Independent positions for a 2027 seat.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
By-Election Result analysis: Whitburn and Blackburn (2025)
Reform squeak their first ever council win in Scotland as the Labour and Conservative votes collapse, and an Independent positions for a 2027 seat.
Reform squeak their first ever council win in Scotland as the Labour and Conservative votes collapse, and an Independent positions for a 2027 seat.
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John Adams wrote this to his wife Abigail in 1800. It was engraved in the mantel in WH State Dining Room in 1945 at the request of FDR
‘I Pray Heaven To Bestow The Best Of Blessings On This House And All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.”
‘I Pray Heaven To Bestow The Best Of Blessings On This House And All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.”
December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
John Adams wrote this to his wife Abigail in 1800. It was engraved in the mantel in WH State Dining Room in 1945 at the request of FDR
‘I Pray Heaven To Bestow The Best Of Blessings On This House And All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.”
‘I Pray Heaven To Bestow The Best Of Blessings On This House And All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.”
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Dick Van Dyke is 100 years old tomorrow.
I hope he's making the most of his finally night of Lego building.
I hope he's making the most of his finally night of Lego building.
December 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Dick Van Dyke is 100 years old tomorrow.
I hope he's making the most of his finally night of Lego building.
I hope he's making the most of his finally night of Lego building.
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New Telegraph columnist just dropped.
December 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
New Telegraph columnist just dropped.
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Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!
December 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!
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Dick Van Dyke is 100
‘While I was making Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cubby Broccoli called me in & asked me if I wanted to be Bond. I said to him ‘Have you heard my English accent?’ & he said ‘Ohhh that’s right - let’s forget it.’
‘While I was making Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cubby Broccoli called me in & asked me if I wanted to be Bond. I said to him ‘Have you heard my English accent?’ & he said ‘Ohhh that’s right - let’s forget it.’
December 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Dick Van Dyke is 100
‘While I was making Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cubby Broccoli called me in & asked me if I wanted to be Bond. I said to him ‘Have you heard my English accent?’ & he said ‘Ohhh that’s right - let’s forget it.’
‘While I was making Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cubby Broccoli called me in & asked me if I wanted to be Bond. I said to him ‘Have you heard my English accent?’ & he said ‘Ohhh that’s right - let’s forget it.’
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Some people vocally oppose using ‘data’ and ‘panini’ as singular nouns, saying they come from plural nouns.
That’s true, but that also goes for ‘marvel’ and ‘joy’: they used to be plural too.
And ‘cherries’ and ‘peas’ used to be singular.
Zoom in to learn all about this phenomenon: reanalysis.
That’s true, but that also goes for ‘marvel’ and ‘joy’: they used to be plural too.
And ‘cherries’ and ‘peas’ used to be singular.
Zoom in to learn all about this phenomenon: reanalysis.
December 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Some people vocally oppose using ‘data’ and ‘panini’ as singular nouns, saying they come from plural nouns.
That’s true, but that also goes for ‘marvel’ and ‘joy’: they used to be plural too.
And ‘cherries’ and ‘peas’ used to be singular.
Zoom in to learn all about this phenomenon: reanalysis.
That’s true, but that also goes for ‘marvel’ and ‘joy’: they used to be plural too.
And ‘cherries’ and ‘peas’ used to be singular.
Zoom in to learn all about this phenomenon: reanalysis.
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Whatever happened to the Conservative Party? Britain's security is under greater threat than at any time since end of the cold war. Inside or outside government, the Tories would once have had something serious to say. Instead, beyond point-scoring about defence budgets, the silence is deafening.
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Whatever happened to the Conservative Party? Britain's security is under greater threat than at any time since end of the cold war. Inside or outside government, the Tories would once have had something serious to say. Instead, beyond point-scoring about defence budgets, the silence is deafening.
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Happy birthday football!🎂 201 years ago today, on 11 December 1824, the world's first football club was founded in Edinburgh. The players hired a field, bought a ball, set up goalposts and continued to play regularly for almost two decades. More: www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...
December 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Happy birthday football!🎂 201 years ago today, on 11 December 1824, the world's first football club was founded in Edinburgh. The players hired a field, bought a ball, set up goalposts and continued to play regularly for almost two decades. More: www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...
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Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.
I'm sorry, but these attacks are just not going to convince Green-curious voters, because Labour is so visibly out of step with those voters' core values
This by @umakumaran.bsky.social is good - and a example of exactly how Labour should be taking on the Greens; on values, direct and on Labour territory. Taking them seriously.
December 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.
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One interesting piece of data I mentioned on the @holyroodsources.bsky.social podcast today is that the SNP is more likely to be trusted to stand up for Scotland's interests than Labour *among 2024 Labour voters*, by 30% to 23%.
December 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
One interesting piece of data I mentioned on the @holyroodsources.bsky.social podcast today is that the SNP is more likely to be trusted to stand up for Scotland's interests than Labour *among 2024 Labour voters*, by 30% to 23%.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📚 Love learning about Scottish architecture?
When you join AHSS, you unlock our full magazine archive — decades of articles, research and commentary on Scotland’s built heritage.
👉 Become a member today: buff.ly/mnOFVB1
When you join AHSS, you unlock our full magazine archive — decades of articles, research and commentary on Scotland’s built heritage.
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New Scottish Parliament poll, Ipsos 27 Nov - 3 Dec (vs 12-18 Jun):
List:
SNP ~ 28% (+2)
Lab ~ 18% (-4)
RUK ~ 17% (+1)
Grn ~ 17% (+2)
Con ~ 12% (+2)
LD ~ 7% (-1)
Constituency:
SNP ~ 35% (+1)
RUK ~ 18% (+4)
Lab ~ 16% (-7)
Con ~ 11% (+1)
Grn ~ 9% (nc)
LD ~ 9% (nc)
List:
SNP ~ 28% (+2)
Lab ~ 18% (-4)
RUK ~ 17% (+1)
Grn ~ 17% (+2)
Con ~ 12% (+2)
LD ~ 7% (-1)
Constituency:
SNP ~ 35% (+1)
RUK ~ 18% (+4)
Lab ~ 16% (-7)
Con ~ 11% (+1)
Grn ~ 9% (nc)
LD ~ 9% (nc)
December 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
New Scottish Parliament poll, Ipsos 27 Nov - 3 Dec (vs 12-18 Jun):
List:
SNP ~ 28% (+2)
Lab ~ 18% (-4)
RUK ~ 17% (+1)
Grn ~ 17% (+2)
Con ~ 12% (+2)
LD ~ 7% (-1)
Constituency:
SNP ~ 35% (+1)
RUK ~ 18% (+4)
Lab ~ 16% (-7)
Con ~ 11% (+1)
Grn ~ 9% (nc)
LD ~ 9% (nc)
List:
SNP ~ 28% (+2)
Lab ~ 18% (-4)
RUK ~ 17% (+1)
Grn ~ 17% (+2)
Con ~ 12% (+2)
LD ~ 7% (-1)
Constituency:
SNP ~ 35% (+1)
RUK ~ 18% (+4)
Lab ~ 16% (-7)
Con ~ 11% (+1)
Grn ~ 9% (nc)
LD ~ 9% (nc)
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Best Books about Eleanor Roosevelt?
Go.
Go.
December 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Best Books about Eleanor Roosevelt?
Go.
Go.
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How getting home from work felt tonight #Edinburgh
a black and white photo of a man crawling in the mud
ALT: a black and white photo of a man crawling in the mud
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December 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
How getting home from work felt tonight #Edinburgh
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I did not expect this.
🚨BREAKING🚨
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
December 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I did not expect this.
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In to thir dirk and drublie dayis,
Quhone sabill all the hewin arrayis
With mystie vapouris, cluddis and skyis,
Nature all curage me denyis
Off sangis, ballattis, and of playis…
—William Dunbar (c.1459–1530), “Meditatioun in Wyntir”
#poem #poetry #medievalsky
Quhone sabill all the hewin arrayis
With mystie vapouris, cluddis and skyis,
Nature all curage me denyis
Off sangis, ballattis, and of playis…
—William Dunbar (c.1459–1530), “Meditatioun in Wyntir”
#poem #poetry #medievalsky
December 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
In to thir dirk and drublie dayis,
Quhone sabill all the hewin arrayis
With mystie vapouris, cluddis and skyis,
Nature all curage me denyis
Off sangis, ballattis, and of playis…
—William Dunbar (c.1459–1530), “Meditatioun in Wyntir”
#poem #poetry #medievalsky
Quhone sabill all the hewin arrayis
With mystie vapouris, cluddis and skyis,
Nature all curage me denyis
Off sangis, ballattis, and of playis…
—William Dunbar (c.1459–1530), “Meditatioun in Wyntir”
#poem #poetry #medievalsky
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And here's the latest edition of MFN, in which I try to explain what a customs union is ... again.
mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/customs-un...
mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/customs-un...
Customs Union
What do you know? You know ...
mostfavourednation.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
And here's the latest edition of MFN, in which I try to explain what a customs union is ... again.
mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/customs-un...
mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/customs-un...
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Looking for Santa’s grotto. Accidentally found the entire workforce instead. Edinburgh Santa Dash today.
December 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Looking for Santa’s grotto. Accidentally found the entire workforce instead. Edinburgh Santa Dash today.
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Had thought I was in with a good chance of the fifa peace prize. Gutted tonight.
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Had thought I was in with a good chance of the fifa peace prize. Gutted tonight.
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Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.
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UK: today's Find Out Now poll shows the governing centre-left Labour Party (LAB-S&D) on 14%. That is the lowest vote share the party has ever received in any national parliament poll since the birth of modern polling.
If repeated in an election, it would be Labour's worst result since 1910.
If repeated in an election, it would be Labour's worst result since 1910.
December 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
UK: today's Find Out Now poll shows the governing centre-left Labour Party (LAB-S&D) on 14%. That is the lowest vote share the party has ever received in any national parliament poll since the birth of modern polling.
If repeated in an election, it would be Labour's worst result since 1910.
If repeated in an election, it would be Labour's worst result since 1910.
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“Why can’t you fly now, mother?”
“Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way.”
“Why do they forget the way?”
“Because they are no longer gay & innocent & heartless. It is only the gay & innocent & heartless who can fly.”
JM Barrie—“When Wendy Grew Up”
#BookologyThursday
“Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way.”
“Why do they forget the way?”
“Because they are no longer gay & innocent & heartless. It is only the gay & innocent & heartless who can fly.”
JM Barrie—“When Wendy Grew Up”
#BookologyThursday
December 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“Why can’t you fly now, mother?”
“Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way.”
“Why do they forget the way?”
“Because they are no longer gay & innocent & heartless. It is only the gay & innocent & heartless who can fly.”
JM Barrie—“When Wendy Grew Up”
#BookologyThursday
“Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way.”
“Why do they forget the way?”
“Because they are no longer gay & innocent & heartless. It is only the gay & innocent & heartless who can fly.”
JM Barrie—“When Wendy Grew Up”
#BookologyThursday