Severin Carrell

@severincarrell.bsky.social

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Scotland editor for the Guardian (currently on sabbatical). A personal account. Likes and reposts ≠ approval or endorsements (with thanks to Dr Seuss) I once played in the second violins for the Edinburgh primary schools orchestra. Just once

a cartoon from Private Eye naming untapped North Sea oil fields: Fuck Tuvalu, Icemelter and Scorchio and Dodo, etc etc
A black and white group shot of the north east folk band Lindisfarne, looking radiant
Google search results for enshittification which confirms Google is one site affected by decay
A police van in Edinburgh parked with one of its front wheels up on a pavement: there’s a ban on pavement parking in Edinburgh
Joyous Sunderland fans celebrate promotion from the Championship in 2025, with a haze of flares and smoke
a photograph of someone posting a complaint notice in a community library box that someone is adding pornographic literature to the book collection - person suggests the culprit “move to the cesspit that is Hebden Bridge”
Nigel Farage peeps behind a Reform UK hoarding
Screenshot of the Historic Environment Scotland listing for Forsyth House next to Central Station
A photograph of a Royal Mail van, a post box and a Royal Mail worker in Portman Square, London
a fairy castle in County Cork
Sunrise over the Royal Mile in Edinburgh with yellow, pink and orange light behind a spire and chimneys
a train window, and an empty table, frames a very bright blue sky and the sun’s reflection on a still blue sea
A black access cover on a pavement in Edinburgh made by the Cooper Clarke company
Two bees are feeding on a bright yellow sunflower’s nectar, with a dark red sunflower to its right
A bee feeds on a black sunflower
A seven-spotted ladybird in the crown of a sunflower plant
a yellow ladybird investigating a sunflower plant (not yet blooming)
a yellow ladybird sunbathes on a raspberry plant leaf
cobwebs across an EV charging point in Aberdeen
Five protesters (and a small white dog) are protesting outside a Nigel Farage & Reform event in bright sunshine in Aberdeen
A train window frames a calm blue sea and bright blue sky, over an empty carriage table
A newspaper article describing the DSM given to Terrence Garraghan, a cabin boy on a merchant navy voyage to Russia, then aged 16
A sepia portrait of RAF Volunteer Reserve Pilot Officer Ron Carrell
A white duck standing on pebbles on the shore of Loch Lomond. The sky is overcast
Shelves of newspapers in a shop, all with the slogan “Make it fair” across their front pages
A coastguard boat intercepts a dinghy packed with people in lifejackets at sea, and asks: “You’re Americans?”
A sign beside a slipway saying Danger: slippery slope
a pouch of Jamie Oliver’s “super tomato and olive quinoa” - now no longer made or on sale
a broken sunflower which has keeled over in the snow
The snow covered spires of a church in Bruntsfield, Edinburgh, against a slate grey sky. With a snow covered lamppost