My journey through books continues in its usual random manner and this time I've ended up in a bookshop, and not just any bookshop but The Bookshop. I first came across it because of yet another book...

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As I've remarked before one of the things I like about reading is the part serendipity plays and, like Persephone Books, my discovery of Manderley Press came about that way too. In this case it was be...

I've been interested in the Folio Society since back in the day when I subscribed to the now long dead Punch magazine and it carried adverts for the society, which was then a book club. Book clubs se...

I've recently finished Emma Wood's book "The Hydro Boys: Pioneers of Renewable Energy". It's her examination of the Scottish hydro-electric power schemes and reading it provided an interesting contras...

Dr Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom, speaks at 2025 SNP Conference

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

I've just finished reading Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy Mangan. In it she details her life in books from the earliest days of being read to, then learning to read, and her progress ...

Let’s start with some religion: which is how do you keep track of where you are in a book? If your answer is that you fold down the corner of the page you are wrong and you will burn in hell. The corr...

[I'll start this post with a trigger warning, both for death, and also for horse lovers, plus a spoiler alert for readers of Ann Cleeves' Shetland novels.] In my reading recently I've come across som...

One of the things I like about reading is the part serendipity plays and my discovery of Persephone Books came about that way. I was listening to a podcast completely unrelated to books and someone me...

My mother taught me to read and by the time I arrived at infant school I was already a voracious reader. In those days books were expensive so the library was my friend. When I first visited it in th...

I want to tell you a story about a book ... or three. In December I bought a copy of “The Folio Book of Days” by Roger Hudson. It’s extracts from diaries, letters, and other dated sources written by ...

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Unbelievable. Keir Starmer has handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and should not go ahead.  This is the...

Online Safety Act 2023. Responsible Person

Attached: 1 image As it turns out, Volkswagen has been collecting extensive geo data from all their electric cars and made them available online in an AWS bucket. Almost 10TB of geo traces from 15 Mi...

Scottish Labour slumps to its lowest poll rating in three years as the SNP’s spending plans win support

1.21K Posts, 159 Following, 246 Followers · Semi-retired Internet geek living with my wife and dog in Nairn, Scotland. I'm also the #SNP councillor for #Nairn & #Cawdor but I generally toot about th...