David Forrester
@dj_forrester
Retired solicitor. Byzantium, politics, food, novels, history, architecture, theatre, art & red wine.
Yeah. This really happened. There’s even a cartoon to go with the event if anyone can find it?🤣
Interior detail: Queen's Cross Church. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1896.
John Swinney has been very forthright with his views on this app. Will he raise it, in person, with the US president?
Nadia El-Nakla, the wife of the former first minister Humza Yousaf, and the convener of the SNP Friends of Palestine group, said Swinney should “demand” that Trump “compel” Israel to end the suffering of Palestinians. "Demand" FFS thetimes.com/article/d4869b…
The SNP’s Sustainable Growth Commission (which included Kate Forbes and is the only fiscal plan they ever produced) said that in an independent Scotland, public spending would have to shrink dramatically relative to national income. So how could the welfare budget be increased?
Workers retiring in 2050 will be £800 a year worse off than today’s pensioners. Westminster is failing generation after generation and Labour's got no plan to change that. Independence gives Scotland the power to protect pensions, invest in our future, and end Westminster’s…
Recognising Palestine isn’t a path to peace ✍️ The Spectator spectator.co.uk/article/recogn…
Just catching up with the hard copy. Can’t believe there’s still an article about independence almost every week in The Times by this writer despite everything else that’s going on. Similarly certain podcasts. They write themselves, but come on. thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…
Charles Ginner's many rooftop vistas are a distinctive theme among the Camden Town painters. This view is probably from a window in his studio in Tadema Street, Chelsea, from around 1912.
O how familiar it is, this little room! Once here, by the door, stood a sofa. . . . Somewhere all these old sticks of furniture Must still be knocking about. . . . I would have never Believed those seven days could last forever. — Cavafy tr. Lawrence Durrell Yannis Tsarouchis
Of course they do.
Two Glasgow artists will lead Scotland’s return to the Venice Biennale next year 🎭
A 2015 press cutting on Larkin’s rejection of nomination for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry. ‘My idea of hell on earth…is a literary party, and I have an uneasy feeling that the post carries with it a lot of sherry-drill with important people.’
Still there @MyGlasgowCC Junction of Corrour and Lubnaig Roads beside grit bin. Please remove
Abandoned/ fly tipped by Council contractors. Perfectly re-usable. Corner Corrour and Lubnaig Roads, G43. Please remove @MyGlasgowCC
Morning! With Julian and Sandy. Bona Gardeners.
Not the poster’s fault, but - who cares?
EXCL: Kemi Badenoch is reshuffling her shadow cabinet today. And she has persuaded James Cleverly, defeated leadership candidate and former Foreign and Home Secretary, to make a frontbench comeback
It actually reads like an old Private Eye satire. Mr Unknown Unknown moves to shadow the Department of Paperclips ( Cont. p94). share.google/EYF0Hv5T7XvFPd…
Following Hadrian in Delphi #Hadrian1900 👉followinghadrian.com/2025/05/28/spr… After two centuries of decline, Delphi flourished again in the 2nd century AD and regained its former glory, becoming once more, along with Athens, the centre of panhellenism. It was undeniably a period of…
Alan Whicker, Beryl Reid and Frankie Howerd talk about their Margaret Rutherford experiences. Yes, dear! You! @DameRutherford
In 1062, Emperor Constantine X *might* have sent an embassy to Anti-Pope Honorius II proposing: 1) acceptance of universal papal authority, 2) willingness to accept the pope and western emperor as fellow Romans, 3) a suggestion to campaign to the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. 🧵
You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh.
Sounds like internal chaos in the Scottish Greens tonight following candidate list publication. Allegations that members’ votes (done through STV) have not been distributed properly. Party denies it. Now the internal elections officer has quit says she didn’t sign off on this 👇🏻
Greece in 1920, on an advertising card of the famous Swiss chocolate factory, Chocolaterie du Rhone.