Nostr notes by Alan Ferrier

Still the most iconic Scottish weather picture, in my humble ...

2026-04-06T08:18:22Z

Still the most iconic Scottish weather picture, in my humble opinion.

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be ...

2026-01-24T20:52:30Z

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
―Antonio GramscI

Glasgow has world-class artists and some pretty astonishing ...

2026-01-20T16:41:23Z

Glasgow has world-class artists and some pretty astonishing murals already, so this is just - excuse the language - fucking stupid. What's that building? And why the American Bald Eagle? Back to the drawing board, lads.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25780679.plan-ai-generated-glasgow-mural-given-green-light/

America isn’t the way it is because he’s president. He’s ...

2026-01-12T10:44:16Z

America isn’t the way it is because he’s president. He’s president because America is the way it is.

Fixed that for you, BBC. ...

2026-01-07T17:27:52Z

Fixed that for you, BBC.

But not you, Scotland. ...

2026-01-06T19:05:21Z

But not you, Scotland. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9yq8znq37o

When your Chicken Tikka Masala tastes a bit municipal swimming ...

2025-12-29T17:05:08Z

When your Chicken Tikka Masala tastes a bit municipal swimming pool, you'll know it's the taste of #Brexit freedom.

This will drive all the right people bananas. ...

2025-11-30T08:41:51Z

This will drive all the right people bananas.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9891455007o

If a person is working full-time and has to be on Universal ...

2025-11-28T20:09:39Z

If a person is working full-time and has to be on Universal Credit, then the "benefits scrounger" is their employer.

Oh, the grand old Duke of York, He had 12 million quid. He gave ...

2025-10-18T15:14:23Z

Oh, the grand old Duke of York,
He had 12 million quid.
He gave it to someone he’d never met,
For something he never did.

From the sadly missed author and national treasure Iain Banks in ...

2025-09-23T13:43:05Z

From the sadly missed author and national treasure Iain Banks in a letter to the Guardian, 3rd June 2010. (15 years ago…)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/03/boycott-israel-iain-banks

Tony Blair invented New Labour. Keir Starmer's invented New ...

2025-08-30T10:23:40Z

Tony Blair invented New Labour.

Keir Starmer's invented New UKIP.

Under Stalin, repression was so severe that the Soviet Gulags ...

2025-08-30T09:39:38Z

Under Stalin, repression was so severe that the Soviet Gulags held one sixth of the entire world's prison population.

Just kidding - that's the United States, today.

Starmer refuses to criticise anything about Farage's speech ...

2025-08-26T19:29:37Z

Starmer refuses to criticise anything about Farage's speech today.

Not his description of ‘invasion’, nor his prediction that the UK is on brink of civil war, nor his plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back refugees.

A pathetic excuse for a Prime Minister.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25417920.keir-starmer-refuses-condemn-nigel-farages-mass-deportation-plans/

I thought daubing paint on stuff was terrorism leading to your ...

2025-08-24T15:05:54Z

I thought daubing paint on stuff was terrorism leading to your organisation being proscribed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crr2p9zpg7do

Frankie Boyle on the fragrant J.K.Rowling: “It’s almost as if ...

2025-08-18T11:48:11Z

Frankie Boyle on the fragrant J.K.Rowling:

“It’s almost as if being a billionaire and feeling like the status quo is pretty good go hand-in-hand. ‘Oh - I see you’re all eating from foodbanks. Well, personally I’m sitting on top of a mountain of children’s pocket money like a dragon in a fucking fairy story and everything looks fine from up here.’”

Frankie Boyle on the fragrant J.K.Rowling: ...

2025-08-18T11:34:58Z

Frankie Boyle on the fragrant J.K.Rowling:

Letter in today's Times: ...

2025-08-15T09:59:50Z

Letter in today's Times:

Orwell's "1984" was not intended as an instruction ...

2025-08-13T11:47:57Z

Orwell's "1984" was not intended as an instruction manual.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4wy21dwkwo

"The scenes in Gaza have moved beyond description. We write ...

2025-07-21T09:56:04Z

"The scenes in Gaza have moved beyond description. We write as artists who’ve chosen to use our public platforms to speak out against the genocide occurring there & the role of the UK government in facilitating it."
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/21/ckjv-j21.html

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2025-07-18T17:11:39Z

Opposing genocide is not a crime.

Well played. ...

2025-06-22T18:49:03Z

Well played.

Starmer Starmer Starmer Starmer Starmer Chameleon. ...

2025-06-22T18:30:01Z

Starmer Starmer Starmer Starmer Starmer Chameleon.

Three days apart. ...

2025-06-22T15:43:56Z

Three days apart.

Protest is terrorism. Genocide is defence. War is peace. Freedom ...

2025-06-22T12:27:19Z

Protest is terrorism.
Genocide is defence.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.

Starmer rules out a Scottish independence referendum. Starmer ...

2025-06-03T10:22:37Z

Starmer rules out a Scottish independence referendum.

Starmer rules out referendum on Irish reunification.

Starmer rules out return to the EU, Single Market or Customs Union.

Never asks what we want - just tells us what we're "allowed".

Let's just call him Viceroy Starmer.

I do find it rather amusing that Lawrence Fox went batshit when ...

2025-06-01T17:29:43Z

I do find it rather amusing that Lawrence Fox went batshit when Dr. Who became a woman, then he went batshitter when Dr. Who became a black guy, so they've made the new Dr. Who Lawrence Fox's ex-wife.

Three Orange Walks have been scheduled and approved by Police ...

2025-05-28T19:37:13Z

Three Orange Walks have been scheduled and approved by Police Scotland in the same city, on the same weekend.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20x84wxpvvo

Commit genocide and you can participate in the Olympics, the ...

2025-05-28T17:47:37Z

Commit genocide and you can participate in the Olympics, the World Cup and Eurovision. Object to genocide and you can't even play a gig at TRNSMT.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20x84wxpvvo

On this day four years ago, when Glasgow decided not to be part ...

2025-05-13T11:01:12Z

On this day four years ago, when Glasgow decided not to be part of an “island of strangers.”

“These are our neighbours. Let them go.”

#KenmureStreet

The National: not messing about. ...

2025-05-13T10:23:05Z

The National: not messing about.

"'Austerity' is the idea that the worldwide financial ...

2025-05-08T08:55:00Z

"'Austerity' is the idea that the worldwide financial crash of 2008 was caused by Wolverhampton having too many libraries."
—Alexei Sayle

Fixed that for you, BBC. ...

2025-05-03T12:44:25Z

Fixed that for you, BBC.

Thoughts for today: - Very few folk who are inclined to vote ...

2025-05-03T11:56:06Z

Thoughts for today:

- Very few folk who are inclined to vote Reform will vote instead for a party pretending to be Reform.
- Most folk who have zero intention of voting Reform won't vote for a party pretending to be Reform.

Labour is essentially shooting itself in both feet.

"Farage is right; don't vote for him." ...

2025-05-03T11:21:24Z

"Farage is right; don't vote for him."

The Prime Minister’s acceptance of right-wing economic ...

2024-12-21T12:32:35Z

The Prime Minister’s acceptance of right-wing economic orthodoxy is pushing his party and the country towards disaster, argues his former adviser Simon Fletcher.
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/keir-starmer-labour-policies/

A new poll from Norstat asks the question: "If Scottish ...

2024-12-19T19:46:58Z

A new poll from Norstat asks the question: "If Scottish independence meant that Scotland would become a republic, how would you vote if there were an independence referendum tomorrow?"

Result: 59% Yes.

Cool. Now ask about Scotland as an independent republic in the EU. 65%? 70%?

A commitment to both a republicanism and EU membership referendum within (say) 5/10 years should be part of any independence campaign.

Anas Sarwar MSP and Ian Murray MP have both deleted the pages ...

2024-12-18T21:42:45Z

Anas Sarwar MSP and Ian Murray MP have both deleted the pages giving their support to the Waspi women campaign from their official websites.

"Labour cynically used the Waspi women and their campaign as ...

2024-12-18T21:30:33Z

"Labour cynically used the Waspi women and their campaign as photo-op fodder. Those women are not likely to forget how they were used and then cast aside by party whose high-handed arrogance in government is approaching Boris Johnson's."
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24805548.labour-politicians-purge-websites-waspi-women-support/

Despite Labour's cynical demand that the Scottish Government ...

2024-12-18T21:10:39Z

Despite Labour's cynical demand that the Scottish Government compensates WASPI women, the 2016 Scotland Act makes it impossible for them to do so.

Section 28 of the act, which creates powers for Holyrood to legislate for new benefits, specifically omits pensions – which are a wholly reserved area.

The act further says that the Scottish Parliament cannot legislate for a new benefit “where the requirement for it arises from reduction, non-payability, or suspension of a reserved benefit”.

“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.” ...

2024-12-14T20:28:22Z

“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”
—Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background, 1993

"There's no agreement on who Britain’s ultimate ...

2024-12-14T20:14:10Z

"There's no agreement on who Britain’s ultimate authority is."

A thought-provoking wee piece from the ever-magisterial Neal Ascherson.
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24795046.no-agreement-britains-ultimate-authority/

Just a few short months ago our media pundits were celebrating ...

2024-12-12T21:28:29Z

Just a few short months ago our media pundits were celebrating “the return of grown-up politics.”

Hey-ho.

For #internationalmountainday, here's Stirling Castle looking ...

2024-12-11T09:18:51Z

For #internationalmountainday, here's Stirling Castle looking like something from Lord of the Rings, with snow-covered Ben Vorlich and Stuc a'Chroin in the distance.

Who are you and what have you done with the real BBC Scotland? ...

2024-12-07T09:14:49Z

Who are you and what have you done with the real BBC Scotland?

For 1st December, a wee insight into a difference between Irish ...

2024-12-01T17:11:27Z

For 1st December, a wee insight into a difference between Irish and Scots Gaelic (and, perhaps, psyches):

December:
Irish Gaelic: “mí na Nollag” (Month of Christmas)
Scots Gaelic: “An Dùbhlachd” (The Darkness…)

From 2018, when snow turned the Bannockburn statue of The Bruce ...

2024-11-23T20:07:30Z

From 2018, when snow turned the Bannockburn statue of The Bruce into something magical.

(Image credit: Marisa Braithwaite)

Of course he did. Because if he admitted it was genocide, ...

2024-11-15T15:02:09Z

Of course he did. Because if he admitted it was genocide, he'd also have to admit his own government's complicity in that genocide.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/keir-starmer-gaza-prime-minister-commons-israeli-b2646404.html

The end of an era for those of us who grew up in Glasgow: ...

2024-11-11T14:10:46Z

The end of an era for those of us who grew up in Glasgow: https://news.stv.tv/west-central/historic-glasgow-joke-shop-tam-shepherds-trick-shop-closes-after-140-years-in-business

"The world’s richest man bought a global communication ...

2024-11-11T10:06:13Z

"The world’s richest man bought a global communication platform and is now the shadow head of state of what was the world’s greatest superpower. That’s the message. Have you got it yet?"

Carole Cadwalladr is back and we need to pay attention.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/a-new-era-dawns-americas-tech-bros-now-strut-their-stuff-in-the-corridors-of-power?CMP=share_btn_url

The royal family charges the Scilly Isles RNLI for lifeboats ...

2024-11-07T08:06:31Z

The royal family charges the Scilly Isles RNLI for lifeboats crossing "their" beaches when they're launched. So when lives are saved there, by a volunteer charity, the royal family gets money from it. Is there anything more venal and mercenary than that?

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and ...

2024-11-06T19:44:27Z

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
—H.L.Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, 26 July 1920

I'm old enough to remember the outrage and hand-wringing from ...

2024-10-23T15:08:27Z

I'm old enough to remember the outrage and hand-wringing from western politicians and media when the Taliban destroyed ancient cultural and religious sites in Afghanistan.

Now? You could hear a pin drop.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-dynamites-historic-lebanese-village-mhaibib-rubble

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been ...

2024-10-23T08:58:54Z

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
―Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)

If Labour doesn't push beyond the myopic parsimony of ...

2024-10-14T09:50:13Z

If Labour doesn't push beyond the myopic parsimony of pen-pushers and bean-counters, the future will not be about conditions deteriorating before they improve, but something much, much worse.

Bets on a RefCon alliance leading to a neo-Fascist landslide in 2029, anyone?

To see ourselves as others see us: the view from the USA, via the ...

2024-10-13T18:40:40Z

To see ourselves as others see us: the view from the USA, via the @NewYorker magazine.

"Keir Starmer's bafflingly bad start as UK Prime Minister."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/keir-starmers-bafflingly-bad-start-as-the-uk-prime-minister?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null

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2024-10-12T19:43:08Z

Alex Salmond, RIP. Thank you for everything you did, and tried to ...

2024-10-12T17:58:11Z

Alex Salmond, RIP. Thank you for everything you did, and tried to do, for Scotland.

Coming soon to a TV near you: a month of politicians wearing ...

2024-10-05T19:40:52Z

Coming soon to a TV near you: a month of politicians wearing poppies and serious faces while simultaneously arming a genocide.

Energy bills are going up by 10%. And I'll bet he sleeps like ...

2024-10-04T11:28:12Z

Energy bills are going up by 10%. And I'll bet he sleeps like a baby.

2014: "You'll be bankrupt! Like Greece without the ...

2024-09-30T12:17:24Z

2014: "You'll be bankrupt! Like Greece without the sunshine!"

2024: "Envy of the world! The Golden Ticket to UK growth!"
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24578891.cbi-chief-highlights-scottish-renewable-energy-potential/

This is from the Civil Service Code of Conduct. Why doesn't ...

2024-09-28T20:19:46Z

This is from the Civil Service Code of Conduct. Why doesn't this also apply to MPs, I wonder? Could it be because MPs make their own rules?
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cma-gifts-and-hospitality-policy/gifts-and-hospitality-policy

Now, why would a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund with shares ...

2024-09-28T15:39:17Z

Now, why would a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund with shares worth hundreds of millions of pounds in fossil fuels, private health firms, arms manufacturers and asset managers donate 4 million pounds to Labour's election fund?

Oh, yeah...

I'd forgotten that Gordon Brown doubled down on his promise ...

2024-09-28T13:38:44Z

I'd forgotten that Gordon Brown doubled down on his promise of "a modern form of home rule" for Scotland in a speech he gave four days after the independence referendum.

Not once has the Scottish media challenged him on this.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/20/gordon-brown-scotland-labour-party-strategy

I can't understand why COVID seems to be spiking again when ...

2024-09-26T18:01:26Z

I can't understand why COVID seems to be spiking again when we've tried so hard to ignore it.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/covid-on-the-rise-as-experts-say-england-has-capitulated-to-the-virus

He trained for this for 70 years and gets paid £86.3m to do it. ...

2024-09-24T13:31:19Z

He trained for this for 70 years and gets paid £86.3m to do it.

This is basically the same thing that David Cameron and George ...

2024-09-24T11:13:53Z

This is basically the same thing that David Cameron and George Osborne told us in 2010 and is symptomatic of a country in managed decline. There will be no jam tomorrow.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-23/under-fire-starmer-to-tell-gloomy-britons-pain-will-be-worth-it

Some folk seem to be struggling with the idea that the public can ...

2024-09-23T15:15:37Z

Some folk seem to be struggling with the idea that the public can be angry about both Tory and Labour sleaze and cronyism scandals.

You don't have to pick one to dislike and uncritically cheer for the other like it was the fitba.

"Labour’s cabinet has taken over half a million in ...

2024-09-23T12:40:44Z

"Labour’s cabinet has taken over half a million in donations from private healthcare lobbyists."

"Donations" out of the goodness of their hearts with no expectation of reward, obviously.
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/09/05/labour-private-healthcare-donations-nhs/

Corbyn's Labour: "For the many, not the few." Tories: ...

2024-09-23T12:16:18Z

Corbyn's Labour: "For the many, not the few."
Tories: "For the few, not the many."
Starmer's Labour: "For the money, not the many."

"Ooh, but he's not as bad as Boris," is, of course, ...

2024-09-20T21:00:07Z

"Ooh, but he's not as bad as Boris," is, of course, missing the entire point which is that Labour was elected on the back of multiple promises to eliminate sleaze, corruption and nepotism. "Not being as bad as Boris," is, as I'm sure most folk would agree, a ridiculously low bar.

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2024-09-20T17:38:05Z

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/i-will-change-government-policy-for-a-good-quality-mens-jacket-by-keir-starmer-20240918250987

"The SNP’s depute leader has insisted Scotland will never ...

2024-09-18T16:15:55Z

"The SNP’s depute leader has insisted Scotland will never receive another Section 30 order from Westminster."

Welcome to the party, pal.

From time to time I still think about this letter which was ...

2024-09-18T16:14:15Z

From time to time I still think about this letter which was written to the Guardian in August 2014 as a response to the so-called “celebrity lovebombers.”

Pretty much sums up the rationale behind Scottish self-determination for me.

Nobody can seriously claim that the last 10 years have been ...

2024-09-18T09:01:41Z

Nobody can seriously claim that the last 10 years have been positive ones for Scots and for Scotland. Out of the EU, fuel prices rocketing in this wee, energy-rich country, subjected to the varied fiascoes of Johnson, Truss and Sunak. But we still have hope. That's why I'm...

Via Paul Kavanagh: ...

2024-09-17T17:28:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…stjg
_________________________

Via Paul Kavanagh:

And yes, I realise Brown was an ex-PM with no authority ...

2024-09-17T17:13:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…nf0n
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And yes, I realise Brown was an ex-PM with no authority whatsoever to make these outrageous promises, but that didn't stop the BBC playing it on a loop for about a week.

As @moridura said, "A foolish man made promises he had no authority to make and couldn't fulfil then enlisted the support of cynical men who would inevitably renege."

Ten years ago, Gordon Brown urged Scots to vote No for “faster, ...

2024-09-17T15:45:40Z

Ten years ago, Gordon Brown urged Scots to vote No for “faster, safer, better change” within the UK. A “modern form of Home Rule" that's the “closest thing to federalism”, with Holyrood “handed equal status to Westminster.”

“This is a promise we will keep,” he said.

I'm not feeling it - are you? Empty promises of "change" leading to precisely bugger all seems to be these shysters' stock in trade.

I'm shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked. ...

2024-09-16T19:27:16Z

I'm shocked! Shocked!

Well, not that shocked.

Schrödinger's Scotland: simultaneously too poor to be ...

2024-09-16T18:47:30Z

Schrödinger's Scotland: simultaneously too poor to be independent but rich enough to be "the golden ticket for UK growth."
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24585570.scotlands-resources-golden-ticket-uk-growth-says-cbi-chief/

There's always a tweet. ...

2024-09-10T19:05:12Z

There's always a tweet.

One. One solitary Labour MP voted against the winter fuel payment ...

2024-09-10T15:12:59Z

One. One solitary Labour MP voted against the winter fuel payment cut.

Farage and the far-right are going to clean up in 2029.

Let me see now: 1. Providing winter fuel payments costs £1.4bn a ...

2024-09-09T15:20:25Z

Let me see now:

1. Providing winter fuel payments costs £1.4bn a year.
2. Energy companies make over £1bn profits a week.

If only there was a simple solution to this perplexing conundrum.

However, we seem to have forgotten that debate on the future of ...

2024-09-07T13:48:33Z

However, we seem to have forgotten that debate on the future of the monarchy we were told would have to wait until the queen died.
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/late-queen-will-never-be-forgotten-pm-pledges-ahead-of-anniversary-of-death

Only in Scotland would this question even be asked. Imagine ...

2024-09-05T14:12:10Z

Only in Scotland would this question even be asked.

Imagine Norway saying, "Let's give all our energy revenues to Sweden and wait to see what they give us back. I'm sure they'll play fair."
https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/09/05/should-scotlands-energy-revenue-stay-in-scotland/

If keeping pensioners warm this winter could have collapsed the ...

2024-09-03T16:24:08Z

If keeping pensioners warm this winter could have collapsed the UK economy and caused a run on the pound then there is something deeply, deeply wrong with the UK economy.

If, as we are continually reminded, "the sixth-largest national economy in the world," cannot afford to let its elderly folk live out their years in a modicum of comfort, then what's the fucking point?

Labour: "Yeah, we're fine with that. In fact, let's ...

2024-09-03T11:24:13Z

Labour: "Yeah, we're fine with that. In fact, let's have more of it..."
https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2022/october/headline_885099_en.html

A remarkably prescient quote from Tony Benn: ...

2024-09-02T11:45:10Z

A remarkably prescient quote from Tony Benn:

The "United" Kingdom in three headlines. ...

2024-09-01T12:35:19Z

The "United" Kingdom in three headlines.

Yeah, well - after your "read my lips - no austerity under ...

2024-08-28T14:40:53Z

Yeah, well - after your "read my lips - no austerity under Labour" claim, I find that a fucking insult, Mr. Sarwar.

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2024-08-28T13:22:54Z

The UK has essentially had the same Tory government since 1979.

The folk who were espousing that notion all seem to have gone a ...

2024-08-27T17:58:38Z

The folk who were espousing that notion all seem to have gone a bit quiet.

In the immediate aftermath of WWII UK debt was around 250% of GDP ...

2024-08-26T10:01:14Z

In the immediate aftermath of WWII UK debt was around 250% of GDP and the Attlee Labour government created the NHS, set up the welfare state, invested huge amounts in infrastructure projects and built millions of social houses.

Now, debt is about 100% of GDP and Starmer's Labour says there's no money to do anything worthwhile and that they must, effectively, continue with the austerity policies of the previous Tory administration.

Ask yourself why.

In its 2024 general election manifesto Labour pledged to ...

2024-08-23T11:37:05Z

In its 2024 general election manifesto Labour pledged to "drive down those bills" and "cut bills for good". Instead, a typical household's annual energy bill will rise by £149 in October.

Those dominoes just keep falling.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qgy11w5dyo

Farage: Silence. Tiny Tommy Ten-Names: Silence. Grimes: Silence. ...

2024-08-12T15:46:35Z

Farage: Silence.
Tiny Tommy Ten-Names: Silence.
Grimes: Silence.
Hopkins: Silence.
6-Bob Knob: Silence.
Fox: Silence.
Tice: Silence.

Odd, that.

Tommy Robinson is dripping his poison into Scottish ears by ...

2024-08-04T16:04:12Z

Tommy Robinson is dripping his poison into Scottish ears by tweeting about "three women" in Stirling being stabbed by an "alleged Muslim."

Police Scotland confirmed that a woman is in hospital with non-life threatening injuries after an attack by a 29-year-old local white man.

If you get five years in jail for a Zoom meeting about climate ...

2024-08-03T19:40:33Z

If you get five years in jail for a Zoom meeting about climate change I wonder what you get for inciting looting, burning and rioting.

Today isn't so much an election; more of an exorcism. ...

2024-07-04T18:17:31Z

Today isn't so much an election; more of an exorcism.

After the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum the Smith ...

2024-06-23T16:27:12Z

After the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum the Smith Commission recommended that various tax-raising powers be devolved to the Scottish Parliament. Who blocked virtually all of them? Why, that would be the Labour Party. Vote Labour, get nothing.

The Rector of the University of Glasgow, a Palestinian witness to ...

2024-05-04T13:45:37Z

The Rector of the University of Glasgow, a Palestinian witness to war crimes, is now banned from entering both Germany and France and, it would seem, the whole of Europe.