Talking compassion and drinking beer with Karen Campbell The Compassion Salon on June 10th in Edinburgh. Two of life’s essentials.

If you’d like to express your views on the future of Summerhall -

Preserve Summerhall as a Cultural Hub in Edinburgh chng.it/B8DhhYDf via Change.org UK

If this becomes student/luxury flats it’ll be an utter travesty in a city that stakes its identity on culture.

One of the most culturally significant spaces/venues in the whole country.

Summerhall: Edinburgh arts venue put up for sale - The Skinny theskinny.co.uk/art/news/edinb…

🚨 BREAKING: Key parts of the Illegal Migration Act have been ruled incompatible with our Human Rights Act.
 
Thanks to challenge by NIHRC, the High Court in Belfast also ruled the Act breaches the Windsor Framework, meaning it can't be applied in Northern Ireland.

Just out from Middle East Eye: Trinity College (Cambridge's wealthiest college) has decided to divest from all arms companies, inc. Elbit Systems, Israel's largest arms manufacturer.
Decision follows pressure from students, staff & human rights groups.
middleeasteye.net/news/cambridge…

Lovely, thanks all!

Jings! Merry dancers in Pathhead! On the football pitch in my jammies, with my son. If you’re able, get out and look up. What an utter wonder.

I’m talking songs, and showing my workings on the creative and collaborative process behind 3 or 4 of my songs this Sunday at 11am ⁦Traverse Theatre⁩ in Edinburgh. There will be singing and listening and - sheesh - even a modest Powerpoint … eventbrite.co.uk/e/songwriting-…

MAY DAY - the new collection of poems by Jackie Kay - is a glorious weep fest wonder - both an (oh so tender) elegy for her parents - and a poetic social history of activism. Listen to her tonight -

In solidarity (and sorrow) with Iranian musician #ToomajSalehi - sentenced to death because his music challenges the authoritarian regime.

#WomenLifeFreedom
#FreeToomaj

BREAKING: This brilliant speech yesterday by a Columbia professor on the cowardice of the university administration in calling in police to arrest students will be cited throughout history -– and will inspire generations of students for decades to come.

Columbia still on

The state of us -

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.

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