There is a difference between chattel slavery and indentured servitude. Moreover, the 1746 act was superseded by Use of Highland Dress Act 1782, which effectively repealed the 1746 act. This is a period of 36 years.

In 1746 the British gov banned the wearing of kilts and tartan to suppress our culture 1st offence - 6months in jail 2nd offence - 7 years of slavery The fact we can wear our family tartan in our land & across the world is something we take great pride in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ALBA GU BRÀTH 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Painfully dishonest degrowth piece. Here's a teardown. 1. The headline promises maths that isn't there. "We've done the maths" but the piece contains no calculation. Just two borrowed statistics and a policy wishlist. 2. The 92% figure isn't a measurement, it's a definition. "Excess" emissions means anything above an equal per-person share of the carbon budget going back to 1850. Define the rules that way and the North is guilty by construction. Pick a different baseline year or allocation rule and the number changes completely. It's a moral framework dressed up as arithmetic. 3. "Growth has become decoupled from shared prosperity" is the opposite of the global record. Extreme poverty fell from roughly 38% of humanity in 1990 to under 9% before the pandemic, almost entirely through growth in China, India and East Asia. Not redistribution. Not aid. Growth. The claim is only half-true for median wages in some rich countries, and they quietly universalise it. 4. The headline contradicts the article's own sixth paragraph. Headline: growth is doomed. Paragraph six: low-income countries still need growth. So growth works precisely where the poor actually live. That's not a doomed strategy, that's the most successful anti-poverty mechanism in history with a footnote. 5. The decoupling double standard. This school insists GDP can never decouple from emissions (so growth must end), while claiming GDP has fully decoupled from wellbeing (so growth is pointless). Decoupling is impossible in one direction and total in the other, depending on which suits the argument. In reality 30-plus countries have cut emissions, including imported ones, while growing. 6. "Poverty is manufactured" is backwards. Poverty is the default condition of our species for all of history. Wealth is what had to be manufactured. Inequality is policy-shaped, fine, but treating destitution as something governments created implies it vanishes once they stop, which no historical evidence supports. 7. "Endless expansion on a finite planet" conflates money with stuff. GDP measures value, not tonnes. A therapy session, a software licence and a barrel of oil all count. Physical limits constrain material throughput, not value-added, and the two have been diverging for decades. The two claims that hold up: the top 10% producing nearly half of emissions (solid Chancel/Piketty data) and the debt-servicing figure. Everything structural around them is rhetoric wearing a lab coat. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Keir Starmer has announced that AI tutors will be rolled out to 450,000 children on free school meals to close the attainment gap. Speaking at London Tech Week, the PM also announced the government's new AI jobseeking tool.

We need to stop pushing young people into courses that leave them with huge debts, minimal face time & no job prospects at the end. It’s not fair & demoralising for graduates. Our New Deal for Young People would fix this by capping dead end degrees & investing in apprenticeships.

Majority want to remain outside the EU. Makes sense.

Glasgow for Decline... more like

10 years on, have the British public still had enough of experts? % who trust each expert in their area of expertise Nurses: 86% ( 2 from 2017) Doctors: 83% ( 1) Historians: 77% ( 6) Your own GP: 76% (-4) Scientists: 76% ( 5) Weather forecasters: 62% ( 11) Nutritionists: 47% ( 8) Sports commentators: 45% (=) Economists: 37% ( 12) Civil servants: 29% ( 3) Politicians: 4% (-1)

A timeless tradition performed in perfect synchronicity, the first waltz at the Vienna Opera Ball is a magical moment. (Swarovski Vienna Opera Ball 2025)

It’s my birthday today, so, in true hobbit fashion, here’s my present to my readers: a new piece on “hobbit talk”, dialects, non-standard English, and “rustic” vs. “gentlehobbits”! dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/t… Cover art by the amazing @Miriam_Ellis_

A typical household in which part of the UK?

EU entry-exit system. The EES was never intended to contend with the British. Most of the “third-country nationals” crossing Schengen frontiers are from the UK. We add too much pressure in too many inadequate border locations. Europe must pause and reflect independent.co.uk/travel/new…