Kyiv today.
Botanical garden.
We can enjoy life here.

We all know the price of it.

@hyndlandsec.bsky.social

Forbes Masson: stage version of The High Life will be 'much filthier' than the TV series Three decades after The High Life was on our TV screens, the original stars have created a stage version that’s ‘pretty outrageous, and completely surreal’, Forbes Masson tells Joyce McMillan

Theatre feature at Scotsman Arts: Forbes Masson & Andrew Panton on the new stage version of 1990's TV sitcom The High Life; co-produced by National Theatre of Scotland and Dundee Rep, & still bursting with cheeky subversive energy, more than 30 years on. www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Why SNP cannot afford to be complacent despite dominant position in polls Keir Starmer’s decision to stand up to Donald Trump over the Iran War could improve Labour’s standing among Scottish voters

Last Friday's The Scotsman column. The SNP's continuing poll lead is remarkable, after 19 years in government, and in some ways well earned. The party has no room for complacency, though, in what will be a fierce run-up to the coming election. www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Hmm. Does that remind anyone of anything?

Theatre critics in Scotland decry ‘London-centric’ reviewing policy for One Day musical A letter from 15 critics to the Royal Lyceum theatre in Edinburgh condemns ‘divisive move’ that saw non-Scottish publications excluded from reviewing the musical’s press night

The Guardian on our open letter from Scottish theatre writers resisting the idea that the Lyceum's biggest show of the spring season should be regarded, for reviewing purposes, as a tryout for a later London run. 15 of us felt that we had to put down a marker! www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...

Are Scotland’s ferries the worst or the best in the world? Four years ago, on BBC Scotland, I heard an island spokesperson suggest that CalMac ferries was the worst service in the world and that they should visit other countries to learn from them. Getting…

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Out in the Hills, Pitlochry review: 'a whirlwind celebration of LGBTQ life' The first Out in the Hills festival was a stunning success, writes Joyce McMillan

Roundup at Scotsman Arts of Alan Cumming‘s first Out In The Hills festival at Pitlochry Festival Theatre - and what a breathless and brilliant weekend it was!
www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Extracts of two of my recent play-translations into English are included in this @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social book:
LUNE by Pamela Ghislain & LEVIATHAN by Guillaume Poix (2024 Festival d’Avignon production conceived & directed by Lorraine de Sagazan)

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Eight Epstein survivors are calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment Eight Epstein survivors are calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment

Eight Epstein survivors are calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment

Beautiful! Thank you, Yaroslava… I xxx

Congratulations, Jack! Great news! j xxx 👏👏👏

On the other hand, I want to make the UK the most beautiful, safe & fair place on the planet where people live together in harmony supporting & nurturing each other and where poverty, war & prejudice become stories of the past.

I have a dream and that’s one thing regressive politics can’t take.

Book Review

'Angus Peter Campbell's character demolishes the whole colonialist and exploitative world-view.'
A review by @joycemcm.bsky.social
of 'Donald and His Seven Cows' by Angus Peter Campbell
@aonghasphadraig.bsky.social
Worth a neb/look.
@thescotsman.bsky.social
#books
#thiwurd

Go for it! I mean why not? It’s what nearly everyone in Scotland wants! j xx

The real asylum scandal Governments really should remember that asylum seekers are humans like the rest of us , who have often been through very traumatic events

Governments really should remember that asylum seekers are humans like the rest of us , who have often been through very traumatic events | Peter Sagar

Ultimately, what this is about is taking the issue of migration out of the hands of the courts, of the law, and putting it back in the hands of politicians, like before 1948. Is there ANYONE other than the irredeemably ignorant, or actively racist, who thinks this is a sound idea?

Yes,
I went to my workout.
It helps me release the anger and negative energy after nights of attacks.
Now I’m having a warcoffee.

Just glad to be alive.

The song of the generators! 🎵

How far-right lie that asylum seekers are criminals and sex predators is taking hold in Britain The current moral panic about immigration is tinged with an element of sexual hysteria often associated with racially oppressive societies of the past

And second, we need to shift the window of debate back to a place where we waste much less time on 'talking points' that are based on myths and lies, and are therefore incapable of producing solutions to any real-world problems. 2/2 www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...?

How far-right lie that asylum seekers are criminals and sex predators is taking hold in Britain The current moral panic about immigration is tinged with an element of sexual hysteria often associated with racially oppressive societies of the past

Yesterday's The Scotsman column, with two main takeaways. First, those who oppose the hysteria about migrants and asylum seekers that now pervades UK political debate need to become much sharper, smarter and more resolute about resisting it. 1/2
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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system

1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK

2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc

3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Theatre reviews: To Kill a Mockingbird | Righ Iasgair: The Fisher King Aaron Sorkin’s much-debated stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird takes Harper Lee’s narrative and crams it full of the language of US politics in the age of Trump and MAGA, writes Joyce McMillan

Reviews at Scotsman Arts of the thrilling and much-debated Aaron Sorkin version of To Kill A Mockingbird - at the King's Theatre, Glasgow from tomorrow - and Kenny Boyle's Righ Iasgair: The Fisher King, at A Play, A Pie and A Pint and the Traverse Theatre. www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...

anti-fascist - anti-racist. Scottish Greens. 2 Green flags one lighter and one darker.

anti-fascist
today.
tomorrow.
always.

I brought you light from Kyiv –
a city russians want
to drown in darkness.
No way.

Theatre reviews: The Seagull | Flick & Pie Go Fishing ​With powerful acting and a nuanced script for today, this Seagull is a gem, writes Joyce McMillan

Review at Scotsman Arts of new artistic director James Brining's opening production at the Lyceum Edinburgh, a & strong, lyrical & absorbing version of Chekhov's The Seagull; last week's engaging A Play, A Pie and A Pint drama Flick & Pie Go Fishing, by Laila Noble. www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Theatre reviews: The Last Supper | Selkie | Handle With Care The Last Supper is just one tasty bite from this year’s Take Me Somewhere festival, writes Joyce McMillan

As this year's Take Me Somewhere festival in Glasgow roars into its final weekend, here's my Monday review of its first few days, including a fabulous Last Supper from Brazil.... www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

A great many of the (wonderful) stories about Ireland's (wonderful) UBI plan for artists tend to bury if not duck completely the hard cold fact that it was funded largely by Google's billion-euro settlement of tax-evasion charges.

TAX BILLIONAIRES
RUN THEM DOWN
LOOT THEM
IT WORKS