More blacksmithing, ballot spoiling and a surprising amount of watersports in my first @thefence.bsky.social feature. Wet your whistle here: danielshailer.substack.com/p/shetlands-.... But, really, buy a copy here: the-fence.com/issue/28.

Less written about his many lives before the isles. If you have lived in London, for example, you have probably consumed a Stuart Hill artwork.

Meet Stuart: amateur jurist, historian and leader of Shetland First. Much has been written about how Stuart ended up in Shetland; just Google 'Captain Calamity'.

In between tales of art fraud and Afghan aid money/American Candy Stores, I am in the latest @thefence.bsky.social mag spending some time with Britain's most northerly separatist...

How this fund is (mis)used is increasingly significant as many of the Scottish Government's other environmental stewards watch their budgets dwindle. @cieem.bsky.social cieem.net/scotlands-bu...

It’s hot! And fossil fuel companies are turning up the heat up North Sea drilling. My latest for Private Eye:

I'm in the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social answering the question on no one's lips: what does Cuomo's NYC housing plan have in common with "cutting edge" Scottish fish farmers? AI!

Delighted that my scribblings about fish, wind and whisky won a clutch of gongs at the Highlands and Islands Media Awards last week. Especially proud to have taken best feature and be picked journalist of the year. Shetland is a bustling patch and I'm lucky to cover it!

I'm thrilled to share that I’ve been picked as a winner of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications (@scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org). www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/10...