Peter Kershaw

An "unfortunate" mistake... Radio 3's announcers are not always brilliant at pronunciation, but you don't expect 2 spelling mistakes on the same word!

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... One more to add to the tea towel of "Invented in Scotland"? A fascinating story from today's "Guardian".

Can't help contrasting the post-trial careers of Jeffrey Archer and John Profumo.

@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social thought you might like this

In the courtyard of Ratzeburg Cathedral, a blessing for bees (with a hive next door)

Wanted a husband who doesn’t suppose, That all earthly employments one feminine knows— That she’ll scrub, do the cleaning, and cooking, and baking, And plain needlework, hats and caps, and dressmaking… —“Wanted A Husband”, by Marion Bernstein (1846–1906), born #OTD, 16 Sept 🎂🧵 #C19 #poem #poetry

Early morning in Stralsund

Early morning in Stralsund

When Just Stop Oil do this it's called terrorism. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Good luck with "mission" against a local background like this.

This would be great if it came off! www.thenational.scot/news/2647501...

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

Ghost signs are one thing, but here's a ghost post box (on he wall of the former post box in Lauder, Berwickshire)

The Edinburgh University Press ebook sale offers a number of intriguing titles, among them "Infinite Ontologies of the Chthulustream - Posthumanism and Racial Capital in Contemporary Streaming Media"...

YOU can always rely on German news for an off-beat story.. www.ndr.de/nachrichten/.... Bones in the garden is really stretching the envelope, though!

Sometimes headline writers are grateful for headlines that write themselves! (Especially when the story turns out not to be very exceptional) www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

Sometimes the answers to word games have a mad logic. This morning the last four answers to one of the ones I like offered the sequence "sorry, bride, twice, madly" - which sounds like a brief plot summary of a Victorian novel, possibly by Wilkie Collins

Scots can make humour out of anything, even the midge!

Schyr Hanry myssit the noble king… Robert I, King of Scots, killed Sir Henry de Bohun in single combat on the first day of the Battle of Bannockburn #OTD, 23 June 1314. The epic vernacular #poem “The Brus” by John Barbour (c1320–95) describes the event #medievalsky 1/3 www.gla.ac.uk/schools/crit...

Keir Starmer looks like a decent man who is unable to communicate effectively. Having said that, it is also very difficult to govern a country where the media in general support the two policies of austerity and Brexit which are largely responsible for the state of the nation.

A couple of farmers sleep as The Princess Royal tours cattle stalls in the Highland Hall during a visit to the Royal Highland Show in Ingliston, Edinburgh 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦

Kudos to Hannah French for the link of the week on Radio 3, moving from the pelican chicks in London to a trail for today's episode in Radio 3's history of classical music.

great details in this article about a Scottish packaged pastry

It's a bit disconcerting when you catch a bright flash out of the corner of your eye and realise it's the large TV across the street.

Today is the tenth anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. Her murderer shouted "Britain first" as he shot and stabbed her to death.

This weekend has generated a good sporting quiz question - when did Scotland win matches in two World Cups within 24 hours?

Scarborough, yesterday. *credit Fred Brown.

Peaceful protesters treated more harshly than rioters. What's the logical response?

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m.... A lovely review of a book about a very perceptive cartoonist. Never one to shy away from difficult subjects, and one whose cast of characters continues to develop.

An excellent summary

If Farage really has been hacked he must have got some pretty lousy security for his 5 million quid.

Seems appropriate for today

Sit down & strap in: it’s a long, wild #Scottish #literature 🧵… What 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotsman was caught up in a civil war before he was 20? Wrote a book that inspired an Oscar-winning film? Met a runaway teenager in Paris & married her against the wishes of his family? Lost his ranch to raiding Apaches? 💙📚 1/18

Neolithic amber bear, dated between 1700 B.C.E. and 650 B.C.E. Found in 1887 in a peat bog near Slupsk, Poland And I already know it looks like a gummy bear

Who wants a longish read about the colliery waggonways of Southside, illustrated with far too many maps? Nobody? Bah. You shall have one anyway. new-cleckit.dominie.scot/the-govan-wa...

NEW OPEN ACCESS E-BOOK: 'Atlas of Scottish History to 1707' Almost 15 years in the making, the atlas contains maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707, along with explanatory texts: books.socantscot.org/digital-book...

North German Radio has a lovely story (as long as you don't live too close) about the woodpecker that has chosen to drum against a metal mast, waking the village at 6.30 every morning. (Sound on the video is natural, the captions are in German) www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...