@severincarrell
Scotland editor for the Guardian. A personal account. Likes and reposts ≠ approval or endorsements (with thanks to Dr Seuss) I once played in the second violins for the Edinburgh primary schools orchestra. Just once
"Nor can Trump handpick a new Iranian leadership. Others have observed it took America two decades to replace the Taliban with the Taliban in Afghanistan. It took Trump just over a week to replace one Khamenei with another" @edwardluce.bsky.social
Nice. I may have to steal that
Screenshot of the Historic Environment Scotland listing for Forsyth House next to Central Station
The Historic Environment Scotland official record of listed buildings is very clear it is listed as Forsyth House. See the attached picture. Apparently the opposite building once housed Forsyth's department store...
Not quite culture wars, but perhaps an architecture skirmish 2/2
There's lots of aggro and name-calling over whether the building destroyed in the Glasgow fire is known as the Forsyth building. Lots claim the media is wrong to say it is; there's a building opposite with that name, but...
@scotnational.bsky.social is getting into quite the froth about it 1/2
These two stories are not unconnected
"Until Glasgow treats its built fabric as part of its social fabric, these crises will keep happening".
What the Central station fire tells us about how the city manages its built heritage by myself and @severincarrell.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
The extreme events of February 2026 highlight the growing impacts of #climate change and the pressing need for global action.
🌡️ Global temperatures were 1.49°C above pre-industrial levels, for the 5th warmest February
More details: climate.copernicus.eu/press-releases
Thank you Anita - Libby did the heavy lifting here
Really insightful explainer and update on the dreadful Glasgow fire and its impact which must have been challenging to write today. Kudos to @libbybrooks.bsky.social and @severincarrell.bsky.social
Video reportedly showing the moment Manib school was hit in Iran.
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In 2018 Hegseth’s mother, Penelope, sent him an email that said: “You are an abuser of women – that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. As your mother it pains me and embarrasses me to say that..."
BrewDog sold highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning reforestation plans
BrewDog sold its Highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning its reforestation plans #Kinrara #carboncredits #greenlairds #Brewdog 🌳🏴👇
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Last saw TB sitting in the front row while Trump launched his “Board of Peace” in Davos, so yeah, that figures.
You've got to be kidding me...
Picture of Farage from GB News website with the caption For GB News's funders, £130m is a small price to pay fro vast influence
GB News, the channel of “reactionary rage bait”, has released its latest accounts showing a £22m loss for 2024/25 (and a £131m total loss since launch)
Yet another demonstration that there’s no shortage of funds on the right of British politics, writes @writesbright.bsky.social for the Nerve
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FT exclusive:
Russia has shared targeting intelligence with Iran, including locations of American military assets in the Middle East, as Tehran unleashes a barrage of drone and missile strikes against the US and its allies, said people familiar with the matter.
www.ft.com/content/19be...
If you thought food was expensive before wait until this cycles through the farming industry
Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Photographer Murdo MacLeod patrols Scotland's hills with members of the Scottish Avalanche Information Service, which has since 1988 published daily forecasts of the avalanche risk in six mountain areas.
h/t @severincarrell.bsky.social @theguardian.com
anyone got a postcard? #answersonapostcard
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding fluctuations such as El Niño - by our Ajit Niranjan, our European climate correspondent 👇🌳🌍
#climateheating #climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"A potential avalanche is a tricky foe, often almost invisible to the ordinary adventurer. Sometimes, there are obvious indicators, such as a cornice sticking out from a summit like a freeze-frame windblown comb-over" ❄️
"Scottish avalanches are back. More than 200 have been recorded this winter" - some brilliant photo-journalism from @theguardian.com's Murdo Macleod, an expert climber and photographer ❄️🏔️🏴👇
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Adding Qatar’s energy minister to the list of oil and energy market types beginning to really freak out.
www.ft.com/content/be12...
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
