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Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're very sad to hear of the death of Peter May, he was a wonderful writer and a generous and gracious presence at the festival over the years. Here he is, at the most recent of six appearances in 2024 - Sending love to Janice and the rest of his family. He will be missed.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's never "AI agent breaks containment, cures cancer, does a bit of tidying up and puts the kettle on", is it?

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/09/2026

‘In an age of statue-toppling, it is jaw-dropping to see the words “Mussolini Dux” still carved into the 17.5-metre marble obelisk that fronts the sports complex of the Foro Italico in Rome.’ @danigaravelli.bsky.social on the cult of Mussolini. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Dani Garavelli · Diary: Cult of Mussolini

A couple of days before I arrived in Predappio, I read that Hitler’s birthplace in Austria had been compulsorily...

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Edinburgh people: I'm in your town this coming weekend, with a matinee performance on Sunday of my Nights Out In The Kitchen show. It's funny. I answer some very big questions, like "am I a bastard?" Then I answer your questions. Tickets at the link below. cultureedinburgh.com/events/jay-r...

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Jay Rayner: Nights Out in the Kitchen

Jay Rayner faces some serious questions and in Nights Out in the Kitchen

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#MyNameIsMacKenzieBly Thought for the Day:

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Iain MacGregor @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

To all my Edinburgh friends, please do come along to my talk on Thursday 29 October at The Edinburgh Bookshop where I'll be in conversation with James Naughtie about my new book #Battle. Tickets available here: www.tickettailor.com/events/theed...

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BOOK NOW – IAIN MACGREGOR: Battle – The Edinburgh Bookshop

IAIN MACGREGOR: Battle – The Edinburgh Bookshop, Thu 29 Oct 2026 - Tickets from £5 Historian and award-winning author Iain MacGregor joins us at the bookshop this October, to discuss his latest book,...

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Can we just ban men in public for a wee* while? *maybe a decade or so

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 07/09/2026

Big fan of how Russia can shut down a major UK port for half a day with just 5kg of cocaine and 100 severely divorced men.

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

the modern banking service really is the prime example of enshitifaction. Am beginning to understand why so many right wing Americans lost money to bitcoin as they didn’t trust banks.

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A set of headlines which would have been astonishing just a few years ago.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“The British, it seems, just do not do ideology. And if things do get a bit wobbly, there is always the comforting thought that they are worse elsewhere.” A quote from my book Fantastic Kingdom about the surprisingly widespread assumption in the UK that British politics are immune to extremism.

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Always a sign the right in Argentina is presiding over failure when they roll out the Falklands discourse.

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

France Culture radio is currently broadcasting a programme titled ‘Is the end of a book always a failure?’ My French comprehension isn’t good enough to take questions on the content. I can tell you the opener is about Proust and reading the end of his books.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Genuinely can't believe we're supposed to have a debate about whether DEI has reduced the quality of academic output whilst you have some of the critics writing entire papers on why women evolved to use a Dyson?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So many people in this wretched affair are incapable of registering the idea that the black people involved are in fact real people, rather than being rhetorical props for whatever unrelated point they wish to make.

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"MEN ARE SLAVES TO THE WOMEN HERE!!" Fascinating to read Chinese, Turkish, Moroccan, Persian men's travelogues and diaries of Europe. I wager you will learn more from their accounts than many Western histories of the West!! www.ggd.world/p/men-are-sl...

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Iain MacGregor @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hey folks. My author tour for this autumn is now live. Please do let me know if you're coming to any of the talks. Tickets available from my website listed.

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Am sitting in a pub garden and looking suspiciously at three people with sunglasses who are looking at me with mine. We really don’t need even more mistrust and assumptions of bad faith around us.

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 04/08/2026

Me (complacently SNP): you know Infantino built his power base by pandering to small and insignificant football associations You (in disbelief):

Tweet showing FIFAs Finance guy is Mike Mulveny of the SFA and Alloa Athletic

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So US publishers are running scared of the AI accusations and taking it out on black people?

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Why are the young team listening to INCREDIBLY bad early 90s style techo? It’s like the 1994 Valencian ruta del bacalao outside my house atm and I don’t have the drugs for this.

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 29/07/2026

Is it just me or are a lot of the critiques of Emily Wilson on here just <uppity wumman>? She really is the bird that launched a thousand tweets, innit?

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Scotland has fire season now. I can’t emphasise enough just how much more severe this will become in the next few decades.

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

From Thank You For Not Reading. Borges turns into Paulo Coehlo.

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This guy who shows straight men on dating sights is incredible. Why are there no basic courses for men on ‘how to get a date from a dating app’?This stuff is wild www.instagram.com/reel/DYbfJqU...

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

That moment when we have to recognise the gap between the Glasgow we pretend we are and the Glasgow we actually are.

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Am really enjoying Misha Glenny on In Our Time. He is really making it his own rather than a Melvyn tribute act.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Opportunity for the UK to expand it's higher ed research sector.... which we won't take

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I travelled back in time and had food from Bergamo in 1995 tonight

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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If Claudia Winkelman had hosted a fight between Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan her show would have survived.

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Nice to see Just a Minute is back on Monday.

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@lucyfishwife.bsky.social just seen the novel news. AMAZING!! HUGE CONGRATULATIONS! 🥳

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Obviously, there are other big stories around today. But, as far as I can make out, the Indy is the only paper that splashes this morning on the Covid Inquiry's tale of billions wasted. Can only imagine the field-day the right-wing press would have had had it happened under a different government.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Hats off to whoever created this.

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Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

In Scotland-is-a-poorly-governed-hell-hole news:

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I see we are now dying of twee in Scotland now that our politics are back to business as usual and mostly looking at England in a dumbfounded manner

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In the olden days children, Scotland’s finest legal academic minds merely photoshopped each others faces onto zoo animals.

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It seems like there are 79,999 Mexicans at the Azteca.

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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Cape Verde’s World Cup heroes have landed back home, greeted by saluting airport staff and hundreds of fans 🇨🇻 Today is also the 51st anniversary of the country’s independence. Have a day, Cape Verde 💙

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Try threads my friend. Try threads.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"Rothko’s paintings are..numinous tempests, violent force fields, mercurial landscapes you can feast on, roll with, drown in." I visited Rothko in Florence while deaf & loved it so much I wrote this essay on the artist & silence. It's free to read/subscribe. Thanks. open.substack.com/pub/danigara...

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Silence is so Accurate

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The commentators are going full on Latin American enthusiasm 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I have a chapter in this book on the (constitutional) effect of Brexit on Scotland. I'm sure it will surprise no-one that I don't think it has been good: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

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The Brexit Effect, 2016–2026

Cambridge Core - British Government, Politics and Policy - The Brexit Effect, 2016–2026

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Lisa S @lshape.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I'm just boggled by the British public. Somehow Boris Johnson is less problematic than Keir Starmer? Or is it that Labour's comms team is so bad that they haven't even tried to make sure all the mess is stuck on the previous government, as it should be?

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❀ Marie-Laure ❀ @weekendpoetry.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Je préfère vivre en couleur.

Le peintre David Hockney préférait vivre en couleur

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Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The problem with podcasts is the number of hosts* who don’t have either good broadcast voices or enough curiosity to ask a decent question. *men mostly

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