Acrid smoke now in East Edinburgh.
WHO recommend a PM 2.5 limit of 5 µg/m3, tonight it’s over 82.
That’s Arthur’s Seat ablaze again.
2026 bushfire season starting in May not August.
"wild swimming ... causes issues with private ownership" is genuinely a sentence written by the national park authority for Kinder Scout, the locus classicus of public access protest in England
‘The task facing a mature society is to adapt its methods of financing universities to sustaining the purposes for which such institutions exist – rather than, as at present, the other way round’.
Essential context for Britain’s university crisis.
‘There needs to be a co-ordinated strategy that tackles not only acts of violence but also the narratives that make them possible.’
Essential reading from Luqman Saeed in Belfast.
The rapid erosion of the mainstream political taboo on Powellism and Mosleyism (etc) is one of the most striking and alarming features of the present moment.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
One of the oddest things about Tony Blair is that he has turned into the cartoon image drawn by Steve Bell since the 1990s. It’s spooky.
First time I've seen a Cinnamon Bug (Corizus hyoscyami), seems unusual for Scotland but seems to be spreading north. Striking colour against spinach.
‘We are living under a kind of house arrest, unable to go out, with an oppressive sense that an assault could occur at any moment.’
New from Luqman Saeed in Belfast:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Scotland has not adjusted to the reality that we now have a bushfire season.
So many implications, not least for air quality.
It would be nice if, on a hot sunny day, the @peakdistrict.bsky.social, spent its time advising how swimming can be done safely without impacting wildlife, rather than acting like the most normal thing in the world is a dangerous act of criminality.
#RightToSwim
In his white lives matter address, Nigel Farage calls George Floyd a career criminal and says "the rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities" in Britain
That’s Arthur’s Seat ablaze again.
2026 bushfire season starting in May not August.
