Introducing the Scottish-American travel dictionary 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We’ve put together this guide to keep the Tartan Army out of trouble in the States. Read carefully to avoid confusing the locals, deeply offending the country, or being interrogated by Homeland Security over a sandwich.

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It is hard to believe there are people in NHS leadership working to destroy it. The proposed register removes the distinction between trained doctors and those with minimum training. Those with money can choose the real doctors. This is very important.

Nicola Sturgeon finds herself struggling to log in to a website...

Urology Patients of @NHSForthValley Did you know that your surgeon could be a nurse? ❌Working autonomously ❌own urology clinics making assessing pts making a diagnosis ❌own list in theatres performing circumcisions , vasectomies , frenuloplasty & Penile biopsies

Now Peter Murrell pled guilty, I can tell you without contempt of court Alex Salmond told me this: when Murrell ran Alex' office in NE Scotland 20 years ago, Murrell stole a sum from party funds. Alex replaced it with his own money and protected Murrell who had problems. I told Alex his kindness was admirable and covering for Murrell I understood, but continuing to employ him was nuts. I do not doubt Alex was telling me the truth but obviously I can offer no proof. If memory serves it was £500 - a substantial sum at the time.

A short video explaining what the EHRC Code of Practice on public services does (and doesn't) do. It's not law; it's guidance to help duty-bearers understand their existing legal obligations. knowingius.org/p/ehrc-guidan…

Word of the Day is ‘swullocking’: swelteringly, stiflingly hot. From 19th-century East Anglian dialect.

“In a free society, people can believe whatever they want. If you want to believe men can be women or you’re a man who wants to call himself a woman, that is your business. What you cannot do in a free society is force anyone else to accept it. What is at stake here is the ability to lawfully acknowledge reality. If you care so much about “trans rights” you can work out a way to get them without destroying the category of women in law, female spaces, sport, services, the entire reality of lesbianism, and punishing citizens for acknowledging reality. The fact that you haven’t even tried makes it appear that destroying the rights of women is the goal. Any politician who will look an Australian citizen in the eye and tell them that a man can be a woman is admitting that they will lie about anything and everything because the most obvious lie has already been told. If no one in this room can acknowledge reality and fix an obvious problem you are either malicious or incompetent. The days of dismissing this issue are over. This is not a culture war. It’s reality.” - my words, read by Alison Penfold MP, in parliament today. Contact politicians are tell them to BACK THE BILL - “Sex Discrimination Amendment- sex based rights bill 2026”

"I once spent £400,000 of other people's money on jewellery, cosmetics and a campervan and my wife didn't know anything about it."

Kash Patel's Apparel Site Is Trying To Trick Visitors Into Installing Malware uk.pcmag.com/security/165117… via @PCMag

turned him down as any places have gone to people who have contacts in a business? My son, despite having a serious health issue, aspires to help others but society says no to having aspirations. Can anyone help with some work experience for just one week?2/2

This week has begun with an online workshop for Whiston Junior School in Rotherham, where the Year 4 children wanted some help with their 'Rhino' project! I showed them a few different building methods, all using recycled materials. darrellwakelam.com

Joanne Sellars a 32-year-old mum dead just 3 weeks post C-section. High-risk with comorbidities, seen by several PAs and a PA apprentice for undifferentiated symptoms These PAs are still seeing complex Pts daily. No @gmcuk action @wesstreeting stokesentinel.co.uk/news/sto…

And may the Forth be with you !

Happy Star Trek day everyone.

Some people use the Force… 🤨 I prefer a well-timed toast and a five-year mission. 🥂 May the Fourth be with you… if you must but let’s be honest; I’ve been boldly going since before it was cool. 😉🚀

Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet." Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution. Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer. The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss. The wool is then: - Naturally flame-retardant - Naturally antibacterial - Moisture-wicking - Biodegradable - Renewable, annually - Carbon-storing while in use The replacement, in performance fabrics: - Polyester - Polyamide - Acrylic - Polypropylene - All petroleum-derived - All shedding microplastics on every wash - All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce - All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals. A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years. The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic. The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer. The polymer also has not been asked. Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made. Brian is selling it at a loss. The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical. Reject plastic. Wear wool. Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.