Clare Mulcahey

'Your degree is next': Protesters criticise Edinburgh University's budget cuts Posters have been put up across campus targeting the university's response to a funding black hole

More news from Kitty Messer….

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Scotland on screen: film and TV locations we bet you won’t know Everyone knows Glenfinnan viaduct from Harry Potter and Ardross Castle from The Traitors — but how about these unsung backdrops from the big screen?

My super - talented daughter taking early steps into the word of journalism . www.thetimes.com/article/6cd1...

Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller

Maria Martins, Christ, 1941

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136633

A beautiful hand blown bud vase - perfect for your hand picked flowers. #intrepidhome #budvase #glassvase #flowers

The Ancestors of Christ: Manasseh, Amon, 1512 #highrenaissance #michelangelo

Painting of a group of people as if floating in deep water being pulled by a tide

The Tide (1966) by US painter Renée Radell #WomensArt #Monday

Urge Scottish Borders Council to Retain Core Funding for Eastgate Theatre Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

The Eastgate Theatre in Peebles is a gem & does so much to promote the arts. Outrageously, its core state funding is ending. Petition below👇

PS, @angusrobertson.bsky.social, please make good on your pledge that “Scotland’s arts and culture are at the very soul of our nation"...
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Study of a figure for Hell

Study of a figure for Hell https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/study-of-a-figure-for-hell

Beautifully sculpted bull's head on the 1870s former John Inglis and Company tannery and leather warehouse building on Saint Andrew's Square in Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #bull #animalsculpture #calton #architecturephotography

Belle Baranceanu
The Yellow Robe
1927

'Candlemas.' (c1901) Marianne Stokes (an important woman artist of her time) painted this work in Holland and recalls Vermeer as well as more modern impressionist images of Dutch country girls.

'Candlemas.' (c1901) Marianne Stokes (an important woman artist of her time) painted this work in Holland and recalls Vermeer as well as more modern impressionist images of Dutch country girls.

My Little Book of #Staithes is coming along. #Moleskine #sketchbook #project #pen #ink #watercolour

Urghhhh - so depressing

A vital service - the BBC abandoning what it does best.

I’ve had enough of the Panto ( esp post Xmas) especially the star turn & would like to return to normal.

How about this for a dramatic portrait! The Duchess of Devonshire, depicted as Cynthia, the goddess of the moon, breaking through the clouds / painted by the remarkable Maria Cosway in 1782 (Chatsworth House)

Lovely milk jug hand thrown in our pottery studio upstairs at Intrepid and decorated with incised lines and an old copper glaze. #handmade #pottery #ceramics #madeinscotland #intrepidhome

A copy of the 1992 Penguin paperback edition of O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker. The cover art, by Mark Edwards, depicts a girl with long black hair standing beneath dark clouds. She is wearing a plain white shirt and holding a crow in one hand and a pitchfork with a frog impaled on one of its tines in the other.

"Vera had also noticed the purple dress; it was uniquely hideous, festooned with massive bows and encumbered by a bizarre scalloped train like a dragon's tail. It might be worn with panache by a mad old person whose brain had been jumbled by hunting accidents...but by a young girl never."

Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.

Equity launches campaign to Save Audio Drama at the BBC Equity has launched a campaign against proposed cuts to Audio Drama on BBC Radio 3. We have joined with the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors to launch a petition calling on T...

“The removal of Radio 3 drama effectively wipes out the only platform for 90-minute full-length radio plays in the UK, which the BBC has pioneered for years…”

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
13/20
#Books

This is probably the most important domestic political story at the moment. Gilt yields being this high is going to kill the already shaky public finances. It risks making an already difficult spending review impossible.

A good question from @thedauk.bsky.social

Why do we have a desperate shortage of GP’s when there are 3,500 under and unemployed GP’s? It makes no sense

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Why AI is Destroying Academic Integrity It’s because students prefer The Experience Machine

Very well worth reading, especially if you are concerned about the crisis of stupidity in our world, and cheating too.

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Both my kids have benefitted/are benefitting from being able to study Latin because of ISSP - a partnership between York state and private schools. Access to Latin/classics shouldn’t be just restricted to those who can pay for it.

The myth of the God-shaped hole Of course I’m a cultural Christian. Always have been. Packed off to Anglican schools, I was confirmed when too young to know better

'The trans-sexual bandwagon is a form of quasi-religious cult.'

✍️ Richard Dawkins

‘Left to rot’: Glasgow’s crumbling heritage comes into focus for 850th anniversary Pressure grows to do something about city centre’s decaying buildings and empty shops in ‘year of urgency’

Just wanted to thank Libby Brooks for talking to me about my concerns for the fragile state of #GlasgowHeritage given the city’s 850th anniversary. Also good to see contributions from Rory Olcayto, Cllr Ruairi Kelly and Anna Gibb too. Read all about it here 👀👇😉👍! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘They see it is living’: Durham professor’s mission to get more pupils into classics Arlene Holmes-Henderson wants all children in UK to have equal access to classical education “My business school colleagues tell me that it’s not called levelling up any more, it’s rebalancing,” says Arlene Holmes-Henderson, a Durham University…

‘They see it is living’: Durham professor’s mission to get more pupils into classics

People having to pull out their own teeth with pliers is not Victorian - it’s medieval YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

🚨Government’s own shocking data shows a staggering 97% of new patients who try to get an NHS dental appointment fail to get one

People are forced to pull out their own teeth with pliers - it’s not Victorian it’s medieval. We cannot allow this to become normalized

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