Spring in Perthshire

Ex-diplomat says Britain now a 'legitimate target' for Iran YouTube video by Declassified UK

👉 NEW INTERVIEW — Ex-diplomat says Britain “complicit” in US-Israel war on Iran

Watch here 👇

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At least 85 girls killed in strike on school in southern Iran Eyewitness tells MEE girls aged between seven and 12 seen lying dead across their school

Monstrous. How will they justify their murders? By claiming little girls were building nuclear bombs?

A Dublin pint, 1953, photo by Bert Hardy, Picture Post photographer.

Villagers win legal battle in bid to buy the Albert “We are delighted with this decision which so comprehensively demolishes the reasons given by the ministers for refusing the application.”

Some good coverage of an important ruling on the community right to buy to further sustainable development (found in Part 5 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016) in a local paper.
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I have a weakness for photobooks I haven’t indulged for a long while. It gets expensive. Yael Martinez - Luciérnagas arrived today. It’s a universe to itself

Cheers-a special place, and a real tonic.

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Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s recent comments about migration weren’t just wrong, or offensive, they were a distraction.

There’s a reason billionaires keep stoking anti-migrant sentiment, here’s what they don’t want you to realise… 🧵1/10

They come along about once a year, it's newsletter time!

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Four from our wee half term adventure. A special place full of memory, perhaps a summer shieling before it was taken for sheep and deer.

They come along about once a year, it's newsletter time!

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Boxing Day ice sounding above Strathspey

Screenshot showing rejected post with convincing text written by AI

This is a heads-up about fake AI accounts which have proliferated across social media.

The screenshot is from a genuine thread asking for advice on a mountain route; there are plenty of useful, real human replies.
The attempted reply (we stopped it) looks very real - but it is from an AI bot.

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The Reapers - Foodways, seeds and their stories

A very short 'film' I made 4 years ago (!) while covering a Gaelic work song during harvest gathering.

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Scotlands not so clean water

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Oxygen Conservation's purchase of BrewDog's Lost Forest at Kinrara - parkswatchscotland BrewDog’s sale of Kinrara, the estate near Aviemore which it purchased for £8,800,000 in December 2020, and the announcement by Oxygen Conservation earlier this week that it had purchased it (they hav...

Superb bit on the Natural Capital racket and the Kinrara sell out

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⛺ We partnered with Trek Scotland & Minreet Kaur for a first-time Munro wild camp in the Cairngorms.
🌄 Minreet's mum Pal is in remission. She's 75 in November - and is nails enough to attempt Bynack More in the dark!
Watch this space for her full story. An inspiration! 👏
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Not 100% sure tbf but because of location I think it’s likely left out as a feed station for birds of prey

Last week, on a 2 day circuit of the feshie drainage

Spreads from the bumper edition of @tgomagazine.bsky.social loaded with poetry, boating, walking and scrambling… and our annual roundup of the best outdoor kit for 2025

The Trauma Economy What It Costs to Be a Public Example of Pain

Something I think about a lot, as a culture worker and an editorial gatekeeper - how to ensure others don’t fall into the same trap doors as I have. Looking forward to this book: open.substack.com/pub/darrenmc...

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March for Palestine, Inverness, 10.5.25.

A walk for all ages and creeds. Many moving speeches, some highlighting the obvious historical links between land politics in Scotland and Palestine.

(Pix grabbed on the 35mm fixie while helping out marshalling)

my first newsletter in about 20 months!

News & Views - 2023-2025

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Beautiful, John - still got it ;)

Your 5 sisters has pride of place on (my side of) the bedroom wall

Bivvy bag scenes from a favourite place

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Food… Politics… Environment… Marmot ontology! New May issue of @tgomagazine.bsky.social focuses on National Parks, including an alt take on the GR54 in the French Haute Alps.

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Remembering David 'Heavy' Whalley, a Mountain Rescue Legend RAF and mountain rescue veteran David “Heavy” Whalley - a gentleman of the hills - is remembered by Cameron McNeish.

RAF and mountain rescue veteran David “Heavy” Whalley, who helped save hundreds of lives during his career, has died at the age of 72.

A previous editor of The Great Outdoors magazine, Cameron McNeish, remembers a friend, colleague and a gentleman of the hills.