Alastair McIntosh

These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also. 25/8/22

War and Peace, over recent months, I've been reading Tolstoy's epic novel, about Napoleon's invasion in Russia. Over 1300 pages in my copy of paperback was thick and heavy that I have to borrow my wife's hair drier to melt the glue that bounded all together, and separate it to four parts to render the experience of one more of reading than weight lifting.

There has being a new hashtag appears on social media, one of those words phrases that flag up fashionable means. When I look at it 20 years yesterday, Don’t Look Up, I’ve been hash-tagged more than 200 times in the past hour, being a tide of disaster comedy movie, albeit the one with very mixed reviews.

After 2nd winter storm, some strong wind still forecasted today, it was only on Sunday night that the electricity was restored to all the 135 thousand Northern Scottish homes that lost last time. But amidst tradition of blame, spare a thought for whom we used to call the Hydro-boys,

The sound of that banquet should feed them nothing but herbdee and muscles, because Sheld has that build-in carbon capture. Anyway as united nation sit down to

For the first time in three month this past week, we see the value of single bitcoin, a unique digital currency break through 15 thousand dollar mark. Looking down centuries, the idea what currency is has changed greatly. Once upon a time, bank keep your gold and issued you IOU, then the IOU themselves become currency, which is why we still see in modern bank notes, I promise to pay the bearer on demand. Such a promise rests on confidence, a word of latin roots, mean having faith together. After the 1st world war, governments found they could ditch the gold and base the currency on confidence alone. This was good for the environment, reduce the need to dig gold out from one hole in the ground, only to burry it again beneath the bank, in another hole in the ground. The production of a single ounce of gold amidst one tone of green house gases. You think the digital currency there should there be perfect for the world of climate change? Not paper money, just strings of coded numbers flow in thin air. But what folks might not quite realise is that crypto currencies are mined, by vast banks of computers solving complex mathematical problems. The electricity used in producing bitcoin alone is estimated equivalent to medium size European country. And dollar for dollar, mining bitcoin amidst 3 and 15 times green house gas emissions of mining gold.

The heaven has been set on fire this week, patches of social media has being blazed with debate about Gaelic language, later this morning, the university of Highlands and Islands were hosting public webinar on what's being called "Gaelic Crisis". The crisis codifies far more than langue and isolation. For example in this year of Covid, we seen rave homes more than ever snapped up as holiday house, leaving the younger generation priced out of their own communities.

Marc's story of Jesus raise the woman from dead, 12 years old, being bleeding the same length of her life. What nourishment is called for in our times, and what to stand against the patriarch?