Alastair McIntosh

An example?

Solution: legally limit political donations to a small %age of average national pay. Wealth must not be allowed to drive the perversion of democracy. 1 person 1 vote in a level playing field, not the plutocracy of 1 corporate share 1 vote. This is about being human.

A lot of people carrying anger inside and projecting it out onto the nearest scapegoat. It’s the inner fires, not just the outer that need putting out.

They’re from all over the world … if they’re all real.

You should thread down, Alison, and see the hate mail I’m getting for posting that over on X-Twitter! Blind racist rage.

But you know … they’re all souls secretly yearning salvation … and so I’ll soldier on over there with my heroic missionary martyrdom!

Passer-by tried to tackle Glasgow vape shop fire which led to inferno Lamin Kongira told BBC Scotland News he had been walking past when a shopkeeper ran out saying

This guy, Lamin, originally from Gambia, deserves the Freedom of the City of Glasgow. Sad to have watched all the abuse he got online as people misunderstood his heroic sense of civic duty.

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Apparently, Lindsey Graham's drunken Fox News bullshit isn't working in the more clear-eyed Middle East.

Roger Cox on Day of Access.

Obituaries In memoriam. This month’s obituaries, including Rob Petrie CA

A remarkable obituary of a Burmese-Glaswegian accountant, Ruby, a bomb-wounded war refugee who went on to demonstrate dishonest disclosure in corporate balance sheets. This was shared on the Glasgow Quakers’ mailing list by her husband Neil Barton.

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When a war criminal’s not been brought to account.

Pope Leo XIV prays for leaders to ‘abandon projects of death’ in peace prayer video “Lord, enlighten the leaders of the nations, so they may have the courage to abandon projects of death, halt the arms race, and place the lives of the most vulnerable at the center,” Pope Leo prayed.

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I had not heard of him, but good to see that this is no new fangled theme. It’s the essence of the matter.
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Swinney would 'consider' banning US military planes from Prestwick Airport The first minister says he wants clarity from the UK government about whether the planes were involved in the US-Israeli action in the Middle East.

It is not enough for @JohnSwinney to consider banning US military aircraft from Prestwick Airport if confirmed they are being used for the attacks on Iran. No way they'll confirm that! Any use should only be allowed if confirmed it's not for warmongering.
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U.S. Evangelicals are intentionally spreading false information online about Iranian Christians in order to promote more war and bloodshed. O... There are over 1 million native, Apostolic Christians in Iran (Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans), not Evangelicals. U.S. Evangelicals are falsely claiming these native Apostolic Christians, who do not want war, "are converts begging for war." U.S. Evangelicals pushed for the Iraq War that destroyed 1.5 million native Chaldean and Assyrian Christians in Iraq. U.S. Evangelicals pushed for the Syria War that destroyed 2.5 million native ancient Syrian Christian communities, even siding with and advocating for more funding for the AlQaeda/ISIS terrorists that were literally crucifying Syrian Christians. U.S. Evangelicals do not speak for Middle East Christians. Middle East Christians do not want more war in the region. -- Iraqi Christian Foundation via Twitter/X, March 2, 2026

We shouldn’t call them “evangelical Christians”. They’re people with unresolved parental authoritarian complexes that they project out into the world (thus the violence & baby talk of such faith). The depths of what it means to be “born again” is a discovery that yet awaits. But also, a trajectory?

Let’s save them taxpayer’s money. Let’s all declare ourselves.

“The blessed”, because in the tradition, the Celtic Church (Continuing), sainthood is recognised by “popular acclamation”.

First Lenten Sermon: Peace comes from the courage to be small - Vatican News Fr. Roberto Pasolini, the Preacher of the Papal Household, gives his first Lenten meditation, with Pope Leo XIV in attendance, reflecting on the ...

Papal Preacher: “Peace is not only born from political agreements or diplomatic or military strategies, but from men and women who find the courage to be small.” www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...

On which point, echoing the widow’s mite - here’s the faith reflection on the day’s news that went out on BBC Radio Scotland yesterday:

Text below, MP3 audio (3 mins) here: www.alastairmcintosh.com/general/reso...

And from Glasgow too! Followed.

In 1953, at Churchill's instigation, and with his assistance, the CIA launched two coups against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the 2nd of which succeeded. Why? Because he rightly sought to nationalise Iran's oil supplies, which the UK was taking: seizing Iran's wealth.

Interesting, we miss them now they’re gone. Anchorage in both the community and something beyond ego … when at their best.

To “pray” differs from to hope, wish or intend. It means to hold something or somebody in consciousness awareness at a level of being that’s deeper than our individuality, that touches on the bedrock of interconnection from which new possibilities can be born, metamorphosis arises, and acceptance.

I remember in the 1990s going to the old Scottish Office for a meeting with civil servants and a colleague, the late energy economist Prof Michael Slesser; and somebody remarked that up until then you could often be quietly confident a HOD was likely a kirk elder. True? Don’t know.

I asked AI to unpack that one for me. Even after reading him for 50 years I can still find Jung difficult, or to restate that from the position of the Self rather than the ego, he’s still teaching.

“… his cavalier treatment of Portobello” and a “naughty milkmaid”. Referral to the Session, I’d say.

It’s not about the me, it’s not even about the we, it’s about paying heed to deeper calling that enfolds them both, and more.

'So Brewdog bore James Watt is 'heartbroken' for staff and investors. Aye, right' This week, Brewdog has been suffering from a hangover so bad you would think the company had been glugging down its own acrid pints for the last few…

Beware of right-on hustlers: “The Brewdog story [is] about hustle culture and founder myth … which saw a broad anti-establishment current sweep across the UK. Watt and Dickie marketed themselves as loud, juvenile “punks” out to change a stale system …”

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Last call, web version of today’s radio reflection on Iran, Trump’s ICE and where we might start to find agency - text and audio link.

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Text of today’s BBC Radio Scotland Thought for the Day - on Iran, ICE, Minnesota and agency in community when we get around the table especially with those we might not normally entertain - “in the presence of my foes”.