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Dr Michael Dempster @drmdempster.bsky.social · 20h

Its day ten o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: swick

Dr Michael Dempster @drmdempster.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨Annooncement!🚨

Here yer #Scotstober 2025 wirds!

A'm sharin on aw platforms, but maistly follaein on BlueSky this year.

A'm luikin forret tae yer warks 😁

Wirds as text ablow

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 1d

"The underlying point is that, given the history, there was nothing like sufficient trust that the UK state could, or would, provide the safeguards and protections of minority rights in Northern Ireland, and that remains the case today."

ukandeu.ac.uk/the-belfast-...

The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and Human Rights - UK in a changing Europe

Andrew McCormick explains the role ECHR membership plays in the Belfast / Good Friday Agreement.

ukandeu.ac.uk

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Jimmy Reid Foundation @reidfoundation.bsky.social · 3d

Calls to accelerate funding for community buyouts in Scotland. Scottish Land Fund (SLF), which provides funding for the scoping and purchase of community buyouts. is heavily oversubscribed with applications this year. 150 applications outstanding. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2552487...

Calls to accelerate funding for community buyouts in Scotland

Land reform campaigners and community landowners have called for a £25 million annual fund to maintain Scotland’s "world-beating"…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 3d

In today’s National (Scotland), you can find a feature article celebrating thirty years of the Scottish Oral History Centre. And about their recent ‘Lost Villages’ project, recording memories of community and deindustrialisation in East Ayrshire. 🎤📼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Dr Michael Dempster @drmdempster.bsky.social · 4d

Its day sax o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: quair

Dr Michael Dempster @drmdempster.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨Annooncement!🚨

Here yer #Scotstober 2025 wirds!

A'm sharin on aw platforms, but maistly follaein on BlueSky this year.

A'm luikin forret tae yer warks 😁

Wirds as text ablow

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Michael Russell @feorlean.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely correct. Though we kept our supply this time we were without electricity , water, phone & internet during Storm Eowyn. Rural/ Island Scotland needs a more resilient & customer focused set of services, capable of meeting climate related challenges. www.thenational.scot/comment/2551...

Rhoda Meek: When Storm Amy hit, every network failed. The analogue lifeline must stay

I CHANGED my column topic at the 11th hour this week. Why? Because, as luck would have it, only a few weeks after I wrote about how island…

www.thenational.scot

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Michael Russell @feorlean.bsky.social · 6d

Hullo and welcome ! It isn’t magical but it’s a good place to be….

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 7d

About 400 people last night showed up to hear about amazing progress to restore Britain’s temperate rainforests. Great to share a stage in Exeter with Sam Manning & Eleanor Lewis from the Woodland Trust, Ennia Bosshard from Thousand Year Trust, & Andy Bakere from Natural England.

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Future Economy Scotland @futureeconscot.bsky.social · 9d

Instead of private finance, we need public investment for public goods – plus action on systemic barriers:

📈 Reducing financial uncertainty for landowners
💷 Tax reform
🌱 Fairer land ownership
🦌 Tackling deer numbers
👷‍♀️ Building skills & housing

www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...

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Andy Wightman @andywightman.scot · 16d

BLOG - Land Reform and the Gentrification of Braemar andywightman.scot/2025/09/land...

Land Reform and the Gentrification of Braemar - Land Matters

Regular readers will by now have (hopefully) picked up an odd and perplexing intellectual lacuna at the heart of the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill. Ministers have got themselves into a spot of bother in...

andywightman.scot

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Michael Russell @feorlean.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations to what I could call my “local” on winning the AA Scottish Inn of the Year award : www.ratedtrips.com/bed-and-brea...

The Colintraive

The Colintraive is a 4-Star Inn in COLINTRAIVE, ARGYLL & BUTE rated by the AA. AA Inspector: "Perfect setting on the edge of Loch Lomond National Park."

www.ratedtrips.com

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 21d

A Perthshire estate 'stopping walkers' from accessing four popular munros on its grounds due to a deer stalking program has triggered a right to roam row

'Unacceptable': Scottish estate sparks access row after banning walkers from 4 munros

www.thenational.scot

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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 24d

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

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Michael Russell @feorlean.bsky.social · 24d

I felt greatly privileged to take part in this today by contributing some reflections on the Education (Scotland) Act of 1918 and the different outcomes it had for the two churches. Thanks for inviting me.

The Scottish Episcopal Church @scottishepiscopal.bsky.social · 24d

A historic declaration of friendship between the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Catholic Church in Scotland has been signed in Edinburgh, allowing them to work more closely together in future.

Churches 'walk together' at signing of Declaration - The Scottish Episcopal Church

A historic declaration of friendship between the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Catholic Church in Scotland has been signed in Edinburgh, allowing them to work more closely together in future. The ...

www.scotland.anglican.org

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 26d

Labour MPs today call for new legislation to extend a right of responsible access to more English landscapes, and for the right to swim and wild camp to be enshrined in law

@righttoroam.bsky.social inputted to this new report from the APPG for access to nature:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Right to swim and wild camp in England should be enshrined in law, Labour MPs say

Report from group of MPs calls for broader access to rivers, woodlands and fields to improve connection with nature

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Russell @feorlean.bsky.social · Sep 10

George Reid’s Memorial service on 3rd October : an important opportunity to celebrate a unique contribution to Scotland and the world as well as a good friend over many years.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · Sep 7

Scotland’s leading academic on refugees warns that British political rhetoric is taking the UK ‘into the foothills of genocide’

Professor Alison Phipps, Unesco chair in refugee integration at Glasgow University, says demonisation will end in deaths

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2544663...

Professor Alison Phipps: "We’re in foothills of genocide" as far-right threat grows

Professor Alison Phipps is the nation’s foremost authority on asylum. She tells our Writer at Large demonisation has gone too far and Westminster…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Michael Russell @feorlean.bsky.social · Sep 7

It is fascinating. I hadn’t seen heard of Glenbuck but didn’t know the others even though I was brought up in Ayrshire. I will read the book with interest.

Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · Sep 7

Fascinating project. Lost mining villages of East Ayrshire. Ghost towns of Scotland. www.thelostvillages.co.uk

The Lost Villages | An Oral History of Miners' Rows and Deindustrialisation in East Ayrshire, Scotland.

www.thelostvillages.co.uk

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Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social · Sep 2

We're very excited to announce that our wonderful exhibition 'Celebrating the Scottish Poet, Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)' with the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, has been turned into an online exhibition!

Check it out at the link below: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/online-exhib...

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Michael Russell @feorlean.bsky.social · Aug 28

Latest edition of the “Across the Loch “ podcast from ColGlen in Argyll. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Across the Loch Number 13 - 26th August 2025

Podcast Episode · Across the Loch · 26/08/2025 · 39m

podcasts.apple.com

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Michael Russell @feorlean.bsky.social · Aug 27

The @scottishlandcom.bsky.social meets in Wick next week and will be holding a public meeting there & then elsewhere over the next few weeks

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Michael Russell @feorlean.bsky.social · Aug 20

Complete shambles trying to get to London from Glasgow by Avanti West Coast. Four hours have elapsed since departure and we are only in Warrington but have just been transferred to another greatly overcrowded train.

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Michael Russell @feorlean.bsky.social · Aug 18

The meetings are only one part of the initiative. We don’t have a huge budget but we are also encouraging input via our website too . Please contribute.

www.landcommission.gov.scot/scotland-fut...

ScotLand Futures - Scottish Land Commission

www.landcommission.gov.scot

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Michael Russell @feorlean.bsky.social · Aug 18

We don’t have a huge budget but we may add other venues if we can stretch to it. However there is a website for giving views and I would encourage you to take part :

www.landcommission.gov.scot/scotland-fut...

ScotLand Futures - Scottish Land Commission

www.landcommission.gov.scot

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Michael Russell @feorlean.bsky.social · Aug 18

This autumn, the Scottish Land Commission is heading to towns & cities across Scotland to talk land, place and the future of land reform.

We want to hear what matters most to your community and your local area.

Find out more about our “Scotland Futures” events & book your spot: lnkd.in/e7j2KgDZ

Map of Scotland with dates for Scottish Land Commission “Scotland Futures” meetings

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