At the end of the first week in May 2021 an unusually heavy snowfall coated the Cairngorms, leaving it resembling winter, rather than late spring. It caught a few walkers out, who found themselves post-holing through deep snow, such as this pair en route to Ben Macdui. (1/4)

If Emma Roddick has not been jettisoned from the ministerial team then I'll know that the new FM's comment about wanting to speak to and represent all those living in Scotland was no more than empty rhetoric.

Ash Regan MSP once again showing every other MSP up with her thoughtfull and important line of questioning that cuts to the heart of the matter. #CassReport #ALBAequalities

Neale Hanvey MP ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊ Harper provides a case study of the unawareness of stupid people that they're stupid. She thinks she's coming across as clever sitting there miles high above her competence level, even as her every utterance reveals the opposite to be true.

I think Ms Harper is trying to solidify her own density.

I used to be on the SNP bus - I left when the bus got lost on the way to independence & started getting the green conductor to drive the bus off a cliff - how about you ?

That's why it's stupid to tie independence to support for Palestine, or being anti-Trident, or pro-trans 'rights', or getting rid of the monarchy, or hating the Tories, or ANYTHING else. Win one fight at a time, or never win any. The maths are against you. wingsoverscotland.com/the-buckaroo-p…

The NuSNP that Sturgeon helped shape....petty wee bastards

A Reset 🧵So a reset is now expected. Important not to rush it, but how it starts is also crucial. First the reshuffle. Expectation is KF will get at least Finance (unless she wants another portfolio), possibly also Dep FM. Any stumble on that will be perilous. /1

Well said 🙌

Trump should be in jail for this. He has been warned 10 times before about posting this sort of stuff. The rest of us would have been incarcerated weeks ago for similar breaches. But, of course, the rules don’t apply to him!

Selected over Joan McAlpine. I mean seriously?

This is brutal but fair from Robin McAlpine.

robinmcalpine.org/two-portraits-…

Our latest new route is this wonderful rugged circular route linking Inverie, Sandaig and Doune on the western coast of Knoydart.

Big thanks to Knoydart Ranger Service for suggesting this route for Walkhighlands.

walkhighlands.co.uk/fortwilliam/in…

Hilary Cass sitting here very delicately firing torpedo after torpedo into the Scottish Government's idiotic conversion-therapy ban proposals.

After his acceptance speech about unity, FM John Swinney shakes the hands of opposition parties but ignores ALBA’s Ash Regan, who voted for him in an act of goodwill.

This is Sturgeon’s SNP. People selected out of blind loyalty to the Sturrell’s. Intellectual ability? Not a requirement. To think the SNP once had women of the calibre of Winnie and Margo. Women you’d go to war for. Instead these eajits have a comfortable billet.

The death throes of what we term ‘capitalism’ in one vignette: P&O boss Peter Hebblethwaite got £500k in salary and bonuses the year after the company sacked 800 workers. The lowest paid now earn £4.87 an hour. If this doesn’t enrage you or you don’t want to fix it you’re a slave

Friends Of Wings Other than the optimistic last para I think it's dead right. As we've been saying for years, it's gradually dawning on more and more people that the SNP will do nothing about indy, so they might as well vote for someone else to run the country who MIGHT be less shit at it.

Some article yet again from Robin and well worth a read