A new biography of multi-talented #samrabin by Bill Crow is available to buy during our exhibition SAM RABIN A Life until 5th May contact gallery #boxer #artist #olympian #singer #wrestler #sculptor #teacher #stuntman image ©️Darnley Fine Art

Seems bizarre to me that the press aren’t going bigger on the fact that Russia targeted Keir Starmer’s house and car. We are currently about to start a Leadership contest as Starmer is seen as unpopular, but no-one is discussing the clear Russian interference on social media.

Of all the craziness in this debacle, this has to be the most ridiculous. The licensed operators, applying for and being denied planning one by one, are the ONLY ONES signing up to pay the visitors levy….and they’re shutting us all down. If this is allowed to continue, all that will be left are illegal, unlicensed and unsafe properties not paying the VL. Slow hand clap for @Edinburgh_CC and @scotgov #SaveSC

Jess Asato MP on BBC Radio Five Live SLAMS Grok for what it did to her and so many victims. Join our campaign.

Four years of extensive regulation. Falling housing supply. Rising waiting lists. Our latest briefing asks a simple question: where is the evidence that intervention in Scotland's self-catering sector has delivered meaningful housing benefits? It's time for an evidence-led approach to tackling Scotland's housing challenges. scottishhousingnews.com/arti… @FionaCampbell74 @ralphaverbuch @SaveSCScotland @st_alliance

The @scotgov STL licensing scheme is responsible for this mess. Shutting decent businesses and enabling a booming black market. Self Catering prohibition doesnt work. @StephenFlynnSNP.

Why does this not surprise me? A city swamped with foreign-owned hotels and serviced apartment blocks whilst locally owned small STLs are systematically being shut down with their #blanketban Flimsy evidence @Edinburgh_CC ‘s ‘party flat’ theory….maybe a lot of brown envelopes changing hands people with a vendetta against small business owners 🤔 #SaveSTL

@scotgov makes the laws @Edinburgh_CC uses them to hound those following the rules while rule-breakers in the brand new black market it spawned live in a parallel universe where there are no penalties, no levy, no problems. Hypocrisy at every level of government. #SaveSC

One of our supporting comments was from a guest who stayed with an autistic adult child. Hotel accommodation is not suitable and serviced appt too expensive. They appreciated the home from home vibe. Soon they’ll all be gone #SaveSC

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🗣 Stop the Data Centre Monster in the Scottish Borders! A £2 billion industrial scale data centre is being pushed for a beautiful rural spot west of Duns, between Longformacus and Westruther in the Lammermuirs. Developers call it "Southside" and promise jobs and wind powered operations, but this proposal risks turning one of Scotland’s most stunning landscapes into a concrete eyesore. Campaigners from Save the Lammermuirs Stop the Data Centre are right to call it what it is a monster. At 24 metres high, these massive buildings would drain electricity, dominate the views, and fundamentally change the character of this peaceful rural area. Data centres typically create hundreds of temporary construction jobs, but only a small number of permanent operational jobs once built (often just 25 to 100 staff for maintenance and security). The developers’ claim of ~145 permanent local jobs is still very low for a £2 billion project that would industrialise a large rural site. Reports from the US highlight further serious concerns constant noise pollution from fans and generators disrupts sleep, causes stress, anxiety, headaches, and other health issues for nearby residents. Light pollution and habitat disruption harm wildlife affecting both nocturnal animals (like bats and owls) and daytime species (birds, insects, mammals) by interfering with natural behaviours, migration, breeding, and foraging. This is the wrong development in the wrong place no matter how much they talk about "green roofs" or blending in. AI needs infrastructure, but not by sacrificing irreplaceable countryside, dark skies, and wildlife habitats that locals and future generations cherish. We’ve seen this story before: big promises of economic revival that deliver noise, traffic, visual blight, and long term damage to tourism and quality of life, while the real profits flow elsewhere. What residents can do to reject this proposal: Attend the public consultations and make your voice heard loud and clear. Longformacus Village Hall: Thursday (this week), 13:00 to 19:00 Westruther Village Hall: 10 June, 13:00 to 19:00 Contact your Scottish Borders Council councillors and local MSPs immediately urge them to oppose any planning application. Join or support the Save the Lammermuirs Stop the Data Centre group. Share this widely, sign petitions if they appear, and rally your neighbours. This isn’t inevitable. Strong local opposition can stop irresponsible developments like this. Protect the Borders’ landscape, character, wildlife, and future say NO to the data centre monster. Comment below and tag your local councillors! The MP for the area is @John2Win Links to the Facebook group, petition and planning documents are in the comments. I have also included a MP template letter you can copy and paste and add relevant information or you draft your own #SaveTheLammermuirs #StopTheDataCentre #ScottishBorders

If a product causes harm, the people who built and released it should be accountable for the consequences. That's the principle at the heart of my legal action against xAI. Please sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/forms/saia…

Who controlled all offshore oil and gas taxation, exploration, production and development for the 14 years between 2010 and 2024? Ah yes, it was the Tory party.

Three ways to improve high streets by *raising* business rates: 1. Higher rates on long-empty shops, to force realistic rents 2. End exemption for charity shops. 3. Make landlords pay when candy/vape shops vanish with unpaid rates. They'll ensure rates are paid up-front.

Meanwhile, locally run businesses in the self-catering sector are actively being shut down on flimsy pretence by local authorities. Looking at you @Edinburgh_CC & @scotgov for being the enabler. #SaveSC @ASSCnews

This is the real outcome of the @scotgov self-catering licencing regime. It's less safe with an unpoliced black market & less affordable to visit Edinburgh or Scotland generally. Gov at all levels is doing terrible harm & there is no sign of it stopping. #SaveSC @ASSCnews

@JohnSwinney the planning system has decimated self-catering across 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿... wreaking economic damage on our visitor economy. Reducing supply has caused nightly rates to soar as well as job losses. We need these noble words to be converted into urgent action. @StephenFlynnSNP

BBC PAID A WOMAN HALF A MAN SALARY FOR THE SAME JOB AND THOUGHT NO ONE WOULD NOTICE Carrie Gracie spoke fluent Mandarin. Ran the @BBC Beijing bureau. Thirty years of service. One of four international editors at Britain's most prestigious broadcaster. Then the BBC was legally forced to publish salary data in 2017. Gracie looked at the list. Her male counterpart covering North America was on up to £249,000. She was below £150,000. Not even on the published list. Neither was Europe editor Katya Adler. The two women. Funny that. She had explicitly made equal pay a condition of taking the China role. The BBC said yes. Then paid her nearly half anyway and apparently hoped she'd never check. She checked. She asked for equal pay. The BBC, with the confidence of an institution that had been getting away with this for decades, offered her a raise that still left her short. She turned it down. Resigned from the post. Published an open letter to the licence fee payers explaining exactly what their public broadcaster was doing with their money. The BBC's response was to put her through nearly a year of their own internal grievance process. Run by the same institution she was complaining about. Investigating itself. Shockingly, it went nowhere. It took three separate meetings with the Director-General and the concrete threat of an employment tribunal before the BBC caved, issued a public apology, and paid her £361,000 in backdated wages. She gave every single penny to the Fawcett Society (@fawcettsociety). A publicly funded broadcaster. Breaking equality law. Caught red-handed. Dragging a 30-year employee through a year of institutional theatre. Paying up only when a judge became a realistic possibility.

The data has never supported the ‘party flat’ excuse: 41 complaints out of 11000 from STLs- and more than half of those were from one property. This vendetta against STLs has always been about crushing the competition in order to make business deals with foreign investors building hotels. #SaveSC @PLACEEdinburgh @Edinburgh_CC @TheScotsman @bbcandrewpicken @deadlinenews @vickimillerVS @adamtomforrest @CBI_Scotland @SCOTOnetwork @stephenjardine @briandonnellyHT @collarbrodies @licensinglaws @stvnews @stvsharon @montaukian @mediawummin @RhodaFMorrison @donaldturvill @heraldscotland @bbcscotlandnews @edinburghpaper @scotgov google.com/url?sa=i&source=w…