Christmas Ident Calendar Day 15. BBC2's '2' stayed with Wallace & Gromit in 1995 to promote A Close Shave, which was watched by 10.62m on Christmas Eve. This presentation won a BAFTA for Best Graphic Design. Look out for the nod, the wink & the raised glass at the end.

personally rate the chances of Reform’s Senedd and Holyrood groups making it to the end of 2026 without a suspension/defection/resignation/split at 0%

this might be the worst opinion i’ve ever seen on this website

Catherine Connolly's explicit position is that Ireland should not spend any money on any military equipment through EU programmes to stop things like this from happening which doesn't sound like a belief in Irish sovereignty or neutrality at all, to me

annoying that the UK has only had one by-election in this Parliament, and Ireland now have two fun ones on the go even the Senedd and Holyrood have had one recently ffs

Scotland shouldn’t make a World Cup song, they should just re-release stone-cold banger “Don’t Come Home Too Soon” again youtu.be/2T68AXsUAEI?...

🏈 TB 32 - 44 BUF FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1095th unique final score in NFL history.

@seatsixtyone.bsky.social might be one for you - Scottish Government supporting/facilitating a freight-and-passenger ferry link between Rosyth and Dunkirk www.gov.scot/news/support...

this is a ludicrous article if you think James Bond has a rigid canon and that films should respect the events of previous ones, you're not just ignorant of the franchise, but you have no business making creative decisions tbh

🏈 JAX 29 - 36 HOU FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1094th unique final score in NFL history.

weird thought: if Labour do properly collapse at the next GE, they’ll likely be left with a weird group of MPs who survived on random local dynamics/vote splits/personal votes, some of whom will potentially be doomed to lose in 2033/34 no matter what

the Dutch Lib Dems winning a General Election is an absolutely crazy result

as I said when Jeremy Corbyn and Catherine Connolly said the same thing: this is, explicitly, a pro-Russia political position

fine, I guess i'll have to be the first Ulster Presbyterian elected as President of Ireland

Because from where we are now, it seems, really that everything is growing in a thousand different ways that the soil is soaked through with old blood and with relatives who were buried here, or close to here, and they are giving rise to what is happening, or can you tell me otherwise?

Macron needs to call in the experts in running a country with zero political leadership and no chance of forming a stable government, and simply let the Northern Irish Civil Service run France for a bit get Sue Gray to the Élysée by late this afternoon imo

🏈 GB 40 - 40 DAL FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1093rd unique final score in NFL history.

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day! On this day one man prevented the apocalypse.

@edsouthsub.bsky.social mention of tram-trains in here...

despise the narrative that Eurovision is “non-political” - it was not coincidental that the Contest grew out of the push for European integration among Western European states in the 1950s the year ABBA won, the Contest had three fascist dictatorships competing!

🏈 BAL 40 - 41 BUF FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1092nd unique final score in NFL history.

Alex Cole-Hamilton says he won't prop up an SNP-led government Ross Greer says he won't prop up a Labour-led government so a (plausible) Holyrood outcome that looks like this next May leads to...a second election in the autumn?

Some excellent news. "More than 16.1 GW of new renewable energy capacity spread across 323 projects was given permission to start building during the second quarter of this year - 195% rise on the same quarter last year." www.ft.com/content/926a...

this post, on a totally different topic, is the clearest explanation of the rhetorical/political strategy of the anti-trans rights campaign in Scotland in the last decade or so

if I had a quid for every time someone from my rough era of university debating made news for impacting UK foreign/national security policy, i'd have two quid which isn't much, but it is weird that it has happened twice

@footballcliches.bsky.social going to need a ruling here, on Kieron Bowie's comments about his screamer for Hibs last night:

feel like a whole swathe of British TV and culture is different if Terry Nation actually got his proposed American Dalek TV show made in 1966-7 youtu.be/O90k3g8VPgc?...

Good news alert In 2024, renewables supplied more than half of the UK's electricity for the first time over a year, reaching a record share of 50.4% Renewables and nuclear combined hit a new high of 64.7% assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6889ec...

at university, @groovydegroovy.bsky.social said that every year, one student on his course on the 1960s in America became a massive fan of Tom Lehrer, and that person ended up being me what a remarkable life - Lehrer even outlived the man who wrote his obituary www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

so *that's* where the massive slice I hit on the Portrush Valley Course in August 2010 ended up

the Provisional IRA blew up Manchester city centre *during* Euro 96

@ballotbox.scot More in Common have done some Senedd polling - correct me if i'm wrong, but they've never polled for Holyrood before, have they?

new social media platform, new thread for showing off @amymcveigh.bsky.social making delicious soup starting with: chicken and sweetcorn

@footballcliches.bsky.social feel I should alert you to the existence of this truly absurdly detailed wiki page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam...

remain astonished by how unwilling the British media is to talk about how straightforwardly evil the men who own Manchester City and Newcastle United, and use them for propaganda purposes, are

haha, Edinburgh Lib Dem by-election machine goes brrrr

the East Coast Main Line, the Edinburgh Fringe, the world’s best football pyramid, the variety/quality of takeaway sandwiches, inventing the Maris Piper potato, the norm of our political representatives being publicly accessible to constituents, and Tebay Services on the M6

well, I sure am looking forward to seeing how [HEAD WRITER] and [CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY] approach that next episode/series of Doctor Who on [DATE] anyway, here is a pic of the UK Parliament jerk chicken we had for dinner

This is why nation states buy soccer teams.

crazy how, but for one Romanian referee, I would have 100% attended the 2018 World Cup in Putin’s Russia but, even if Northern Ireland qualify, there’s almost no chance I go to a 2026 World Cup in the United States, even though I have friends who live there

@ballotbox.scot Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart by-election confirmed for Thursday 26th June: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article...

I basically think if Labour delivered on this sentiment from Antony Crosland (a labour right hero figure!) they’d win, so many places in the country have been left to fall into disrepair (closed shops, badly maintained space, nowhere to go), it’s barely a political talking point

Liverpool have won the league maybe we'll all be all right

a habit and belief i'm trying to instill in myself is committing to actually doing something, rather than just posting through it this is something, regardless of whether it goes anywhere or not

this Motion called for direct train travel between Scotland and Europe - a thing that will never happen for many practical political and engineering reasons - but it warms my soul that, conceptually, it is a thing that people *want* to have happen

Angie leaving BBC Northern Ireland weather after doing it for my entire lifetime is like the ravens leaving the Tower of London - a foul omen that can only mean the fabric of our society is falling to pieces and the abyss lies straight ahead

last night my subconscious dreamt about Diotoir, the Robot Wars competitor who was covered in fur, got set on fire in almost every battle, and then they just repaired it, covered it in fur again, and sent it back out to get set on fire bringing that energy to the next decade of my life I think