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Has Sportscene abolished studios & punditry? That was terrible

A very measured review of 2 recent books on the origins & impact of critical theory, which was such an important element of my own graduate studies & early career. I have the Emily Eakin. How appropriate on the 40th anniversary of Derrida’s important visit to Glasgow

Whether a horse rider, a Classics reader, an #Odyssey movie-goer (I’ve still to see it. So I’m 2 out of 3 atm ☺️), you should peruse these wonderful studies of horses in the ancient world & their vital equine & cultural legacies for us today

My middle son, a Geographer by training, points out that the assumption that #Ceuta is in mainland Spain is a recurrent popular misconception. Bring back Geography we cry!

No. But Holyrood should reorganise Local Government to return to fewer, larger integrated authorities with the capacity, resources & economies of scale to tackle Scotland’s problems & utilise much more effectively its human & resource potential www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Should Glasgow have an elected mayor?The question of whether or not Scottish cities like Glasgow should have mayors has become something of a live debate in recent weeks.www.bbc.co.uk

Oh-oh #Rangers …. 😮

What an awful squandered opportunity Reporting Scotland is. Honest to God. The regional news programmes in England are so much better. The studio & external talent is there in Glasgow, but it’s wasted

What Scottish Government should do in response to #AndyBurnham’s Mayors project is revisit the ridiculous Tory-gerrymandered contrivance of 32 Local Authorities in a country of 5.5 million people. Refresh regionalisation & be bold!

What a colossal crook. I regret so much that I fell for this crowd in my youth. Pope John Paul II saw through them utterly from the start www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nicaraguan leader proposes extending presidential term by another yearIt is not the first time the constitution has been amended to allow Daniel Ortega, 80, to stay in power for longer.www.bbc.co.uk

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I had this kind of Blakean-shamanic hallucinatory prophetic vision — where there is tumultuous English migration into Scotland, in flight from fire, drought & crop failures. 😟😳🥵

Further evidence emerging of the origins of Neolithic farming in Scotland & wider regions of Britain. Pushing back dates, altering perceptions of migration from Europe, & enriching appreciation of the skills & resourcefulness of our forbears www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sprouston dig hunts Scotland's 6,000-year-old farming originsA site in the Borders could be the northernmost Stone Age causeway-accessed enclosure ever found.www.bbc.co.uk

Not a bad wee holiday haul this year from the second-hand & specialist bookshops of South Devon then Glastonbury. Great savings too. Who says I don’t do print books any more? 🤓

There are several candidate explanations for this loss of faith in the powers of reason. In our cultural moment of ‘learning from the Classics’, I’m drawn to that proposed by ER Dodds—at the melancholy end of his masterpiece ‘The Greeks & the Irrational’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Sunscreen doesn't cause cancer but false claims keep spreadingEach summer, false claims about sunscreen causing cancer continue to spread online.www.bbc.co.uk

This is another revealing manifestation of the criminalisation of the grievous social & cultural divisions that mar this society. Compounded by useless, resource-strapped policing. The radio essays are brave & excellent, if often frightening, journalism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gangs, violence and dumped dead animals: The hidden world of illegal hare huntsFarmers talk of attacks as police receive nearly 9,000 reports of banned hare coursing, the BBC finds.www.bbc.co.uk

English Heritage heatwave property Berry Pomeroy preserves in its melancholy ruins the imprint of the internecine bloodshed of the ‘Wars of the Roses’, amidst which it was born, & the bloodshed of Reformation & Civil War in which it was briefly modernised—& then abandoned

Wagner would be so pleased by this wonderful discovery 🙂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Secrets of birdsongs' 'spectacular diversity' revealedA scientific study has revealed the acoustic secret that connects all birdsong - and it is surprisingly simplewww.bbc.co.uk