The destruction of Charles McNair’s elegant 1929 entrance façade for The Regal Cinema on Sauchiehall Street has begun in earnest. The flagpoles have been removed and drills are being used on the brickwork, showering the delicate neo-classical akroteria below. Shocking and sad! 💔

The gloaming fading, Firth of Clyde.

What a glorious truth to read spelled out, so unexpectedly and necessarily and shockingly, because of where we find ourselves

Very powerful essay by ⁦‪Tim Winton‬⁩ ‘Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread’ #climatecrisiswww.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread | Tim Winton

The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are

We went to 'The Outrun' back in Glasgow tonight, postponed from Friday night. Saoirse Ronan is excellent, though I thought the sea was the star of the movie. Kudos to Saoirse Ronan and Saskia Reeves for walking into it without hesitation in the winter.

Back again to Argyll for the weekend, this time with daughter no.1. and grandson no. 1. Western Ferries 'Sound of Seil' from McEnroy's Point in Gourock to Hunter's Quay on Cowal. Beautiful autumn day.

#alphabetchallenge#weekMformusic Let's hear it for the E.P.

#alphabetchallenge#WeekMformusic Ticket stub for The Stones, Monday 10th May '76. Three quid to get in. No dynamic pricing back then. If you wanted a ticket, then the day before the sale you took a sleeping bag, a torch and a book up to Renfield St - and bivouacked out for the tickets.

And the latest episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is now up! This is a *LONG* one, so apologies for the delay. Two and three-quarter hours on Oscar Wilde, Milton, John Stuart Mill, Cahiers du Cinema, Aleister Crowley, the first and second Wilson ministries... oh, and the Rolling Stones

Song 176, “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones, part 3: “Every Cop is a Criminal and All the Sinners Saints”

For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the third part of a multi-episode look at the song “Symp…

“Much of Brazil is burning as tens of thousands of fires rage around the country, half of them in the Amazon rainforest. Exacerbated by a severe drought, the fires threaten one of the world’s most crucial ecosystems and are consuming the Amazon’s vast stores of carbon“

Thousands of Fires Are Burning in the Drought-Wracked Amazon

Hot, dry conditions have fueled an unusually destructive fire season in Brazil, spiking carbon emissions.