if you have 2 minutes, all you have to do to nominate us is click on the link below; registered Scottish charity Keep The Heid runs free mental health conversation café sessions three evenings a week. Pls RT Karine Polwart Iain Gray Paul McLennan - MSP for East Lothian Gail Porter health.movementforgood.com/index.php?cn=S…

I’ll be chatting to the most excellent Alasdair Roberts about his bardic, mythic, poetic songs next Wednesday Glad_Cafe_ - and there will be music too -

Hey Patti: passionate about social justice Emma fancy this?

An open letter from Feroze Sidhwa & I as we serve on a humanitarian mission in Gaza, you can read the letter in image form or read the 🧵:
On March 25 the two of us, an orthopedic surgeon and a trauma surgeon, traveled to the Gaza Strip to work at Gaza European Hospital.

Legal heads on here.

Are the organisational Risk Registers of Scottish charities and Scottish academic institutions public documents? Are they obligated to disclose information or is it privileged?

Asking for a friend …

Thanks for any advice.

“I don’t know a soul that’s not been battered, I don’t have a friend who feels at ease”

How Paul Simon’s American Tune says some of the stuff that my own words can’t manage right now.

Karine Polwart Newsletter | April | Trying To Get Some Rest karinepolwart.com/campaigns/9262…

Teenager Rafiq before the war & now:
channel4.com/news/israel-ga…

Famine in Gaza is imminent, with immediate and long-term health consequences

The latest analysis from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) partnership released today warns that the situation in #Gaza is catastrophic, with northern Gaza facing imminent famine…

Chuffed to be nominated for a Celtic media award for BBC Radio 4 mini science doc series Seek the Light with peter mcmanus Pippa Murphy - still available on BBC Sounds!

celticmediafestival.co.uk/nominees

Happy International Women’s Day via Kinnaris Quintet Julie Fowlis Emeli Sandé -

Never take the right and opportunity to speak, and oppose, lightly, eh?

Languages like Scottish Gaelic, for example? Which was the first language of Trump’s Lewis-born mother, Mary Anne Macleod (Màiri Anna Nic Leòid).

The cognitive dissonance is as wild as the contempt.

Thanks to Ian Fraser for the link -

They say love the little stuff and the big stuff will come …

Hedgerow hope from Testament -

This was a stunning venue for the public defence of theses I’ve examined and lectures given over 15 years & for the extraordinary Theatre Festival organised by Refaat on GBV & Cultures of Sustainable Peace

The building can be rebuilt but the loss of life is grievous indeed 💔

A UN Convention on Migratory Species report has been released - highlighting the importance and status of migratory species: cms.int/en/publication…. Take a listen to this excellent podcast from the Isle of May: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

In other news of Earth - bullfinches, greenfinches and chaffinches on the cherry outside my back window!

Fairly clarifies that governmental funding is always intensely & intentionally *political*.

As is art.

Export monies are an exercise in soft power.

If Scotland took out all public-facing, Union-critiquing arts and artists that’d be some wipeout.

With link this time - Any English peers know more about the genesis of this? It has a quality of spine chill. Funded artists & arts organisations are already (rightly) governed by commitments to EDI & ethics. Who defines & polices ‘reputational risk’ and ‘political statements’?

Any English peers know more about the genesis of this? It has a quality of spine chill. Funded artists & arts organisations are already (rightly) governed by commitments to EDI & ethics. Who defines & polices ‘reputational risk’ and ‘political statements’ here? Arts Council England

Anyone got this on their shelves? I can't find my copy and I'm fishing for a photo of the page that has my writing on it alongside a beautiful image of a corncrake by an artist whose name I have forgotten (and would like to remember). Can anyone help?

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