Terminally ill adults ( end of Life) bill. My thoughts. Any bill should be about ensuring great palliative care for everyone at their most vulnerable time , not deliberately and unnecessarily ending someone’s life prematurely. 1.

Guising is a traditional Scottish and Irish Halloween practice where children dress in costumes or masks and go door-to-door on October 31, rooted in ancient Celtic festivals like Samhain. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎃👻🍬🦇💀🧡

This was a disturbing and deeply embarrassing scene in Gaza City today during the funeral of a man killed in an Israeli airstrike for allegedly being affiliated with Hamas. Members of his clan fired thousands of rounds into the air, initially causing panic and confusion among residents who did not understand what was happening. The spectacle of armed men recklessly discharging weapons sparked widespread anger and contempt among many Gazans, who viewed it as yet another example of the destructive behavior of powerful clans in the Strip. The incident renewed calls to disarm Gaza's clans and militias and remove weapons from civilian hands to reduce crime, curb intra-Palestinian violence, strengthen the rule of law, and break patterns of behavior that fuel radicalization, intimidation, and the dominance of armed actors over civil society. Many Palestinians bitterly note the irony that these same clans and armed strongmen, so eager to display their power before fellow Palestinians, tend to disappear when confronted by the Israeli military. Time and again, tribal militias, criminal gangs, and other armed actors avoid direct confrontation with the IDF, yet readily turn their weapons on other Palestinians, whether against Palestinian Authority forces in the past or, at times, even against Hamas itself. There should be no tolerance for lawlessness. Neither "martyrs" nor their families have the right to terrorize an entire society in the name of archaic notions of honor, death glorification, or tribal privilege. Hamas and Gaza's powerful clans alike must be disarmed, for the sake of Palestinians and Israelis alike.

Halloween party at the old folks home! 🎃👻💀🤣

Patrick Stewart. Turned up so early and so unobtrusively to be a star in the reasonably priced car, we mistook him for a delivery driver and asked him to go round the back. Took his hat off and said, “But I’m the captain of the Enterprise”. Fucking nice guy.

🙌🏻 Tours start Friday 15th January from our place @scottishmusic

Me most mornings these days

RT @jackiebmsp: Joined up thinking on skills, jobs and defence investment is essential and requires the Scottish Government to work with th…

What a wonderful opportunity for the right person!

STORY SNP's Hannah Mary Goodlad 'sold out' Shetland's voters over energy control pledge Rising star promised to give islands a 'seat at the table' by giving them local power over energy projects But her govt has confirmed they have 'no plans' to make idea a reality😳

People (including me) have been saying this - it is not a good idea to remove landlines especially without a solid power network and particularly for people in rural areas. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6x2…

Spot on. This support should be passed to households and must not disappear into a black hole once it crosses the border.

RT @jackiebmsp: Vaccine uptake is substantially lower in deprived areas. We must continue to remove barriers so that everyone who needs to…

It’s amazing . Pity it can’t be diverted south for storage to help the drought?

This is an interesting flex from a man who's presence Putin salivates over. The United Kingdom, and its security and diplomatic heft is a major reason for why the Russians are pinned back in the High North. And John Swinney's answer is to smash it apart...

Suns out and a good day for the garden? and then the windy app explains why

Only Pakistan & Afghanistan still have polio. Pakistan is reducing cases but Afghanistan is increasing it is a disaster under the Taliban polio other diseases a crumbling health care starvation/malnutrition no female education over 12 yrs & massive restriction on women’s rights

Sitting in the back garden with Buzz the border collie, having a decaf, listening to the birds, wren, starlings, twites and a warbler the leaves mostly stripped from the trees . A moment of #calm

It’s surprisingly calm just now after s rough night , but we’re in the eye of the of the storm . It looks like the eye of Sauron on the map.