I mean, I like Sophie Ellis-Bextor, but I'm not a fan of this cover at all. #RaceAcrossTheWorld

Lost in the noise elsewhere, but Martin Boyle did the Tavernier celebration at Ibrox after scoring the opener for Hibs tonight. Great patter IMO.

If it's hit his hand, it's a penalty. But I just don't know how they can say conclusively from that footage.

Whatever you think of Celtic, whoever you want to win the title, not rating Callum McGregor is one of the wildest Scottish football takes. Such a good football player.

Me when I see someone wearing a TfL 'Baby on Board' badge on a crowded Tube:

Something I will say for Hearts is that it seems like they rarely miss chances. I don't know if it reflects in the data, but it feels like they rarely need lots of chances to win games - a very functional team.

I get that they technically lost to the sixth-placed team, but Millwall could legitimately feel a bit aggrieved about this, no? The fifth-placed team essentially getting a bye to the final.

If I ran a Twitter-based, engagement-farming banter account, I would now be cropping Andy Burnham's head onto an image of Peter Odemwingie arriving at QPR's training ground and say it was Burnham turning up at Westminster.

Dons (and Boavista) in Camden Market.

Went to The Producers at the Garrick Theatre tonight. Both fun and funny. A bit disappointed to miss Richard Kind's guest run, but Andy Nyman and cast were excellent.

"The desire not to have an argument means we rarely make an argument," is devastating precisely because it is obviously true. It's also why I think Labour would actually gain more than they lose from a full leadership contest and debate, and it would stand them in better stead for next three years.

When you have less than an hour until the deadline but really need to hit the minimum word count:

Keir Starmer has told Labour MPs calling for him to resign that they need to watch Adolescence.

I am confident that, as a country, Scotland has progressed well beyond the need for 'beef' between Andrew Neil and Michael Stewart. A situation from which it is simply impossible for anybody to win.

This guy has just used it on the million-pound question.

Arsenal having their January 2023 bid for Mykhailo Mudryk hijacked by Chelsea and instead turning their interest to Leandro Trossard for about a third of the price is certainly a moment in time.

I think that is a foul, but given the very high bar that the Premier League has adopted for VAR interventions, it does feel a bit incongruous.

Extremely amusing, in retrospect, to recall the collective head's gone when Mikel Arteta had the temerity and wrongheadedness to replace English homegrown hero Aaron Ramsdale with Spanish jobber David Raya as Arsenal #1.

Has the "summer of sex" Labour MP called for Keir Starmer to resign yet?

Horrendous week for Rangers. Ibrox has a Green MSP, the SNP win the election, lose 3-1 to Celtic, and consigned to third place for the first time since, well, 2018.

That is some goal, to be fair.

Andy Burnham is by far Labour's best - perhaps only - bet. But I think it can be true that some of his detractors ignore his appeal and overlook his popularity, while also being true that some of his supporters underestimate many of the fundamental challenges he would face once in Downing Street.

Hearts getting the benefit of yet another 'questionable' refereeing decision, is it? Make no mistake, it will be a tainted title if it ends up at Tynecastle.

Another clean sheet, another three points. Huge credit to Stephen Robinson for picking this team up off the floor after Paisley and dragging us over the line. Time will tell what happens longer term, but deserves huge credit for his work over the last four weeks.

One last Saturday 3pm, although there has been too few for my liking. COYR.

Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman being unveiled in Downing Street as Keir Starmer's two new signings.

Keir Starmer is excellent at telling people that he "takes responsibility" for bad things that happen, but never actually explains what that looks like beyond just saying that he "takes responsibility".

Really enjoying my first day as Chief Votes Counter in the Highlands and Islands region for the Scottish Parliament election. Just taking a well-deserved coffee break now and then back at it.

Slightly confusing that the sort of Labour people supposedly most concerned with "winning" have suddenly decided to pursue and prop up everything that most reduces their chances of actually doing that.

Even before this….let’s accept for a moment that Labour do have more to fear from Reform. Labour have done essentially everything that Luke and Morgan wanted and it hasn’t worked. It’s like saying the fact you have to win football matches validates Igor Tudor!

There is always an excuse for Scottish Labour not to be as self-critical and introspective as is required. Jackie Baillie saying it's all Keir Starmer's fault on BBC now. UK Government performance is clearly a factor, but kidding themselves on if they think it was *all* that.

Dumbarton when it comes to re-electing Jackie Baillie as their MSP:

The pro-Starmer/anti-Burnham Labour argument seems to be: 'No by-elections because we're doing shit.' But have you thought about why you are doing shit? Is your solution to doing shit to continue with the same PM, even if there is clear evidence that they are a fundamental and unfixable issue?

The MSP for Ibrox Stadium is a member of the Scottish Green Party.

Bernard Ponsonby is great. Just no appetite for bullshit whatsoever.

Cheers, Paul Hutcheon's crying, nice one.

Ooft. That's a dismal result for Angus Robertson in Edinburgh Central.

Anas Sarwar calls for Keir Starmer to resign (2026, colourised)

This lot are absolutely determined to help Farage and Reform into Downing Street, by the way. Anything that might move the dial even slightly - changing strategy, Burnham back to Westminster - vigorously opposed for factional and entirely wrongheaded reasons.

But… but… the worst people in the Scottish political media convinced me that Anas Sarwar was actually good?

Scottish Labour deserve to be beaten, and beaten badly. Anas Sarwar is an obviously transparent opportunist with precisely no interest in policy or ideas. A manifesto written almost entirely to appease the worst people in the Scottish political media. Dim and grim.

I have absolutely no recollection of the 2019 Europa League final between Chelsea and Arsenal, which apparently ended 4-1 to Chelsea. I must just have slept through it or something because this is definitively the first I am hearing of it.

Four Oaks will be a ghost town the week after next. A much needed boost for the burglary industry, though.

Andrew there. #RaceAcrossTheWorld

Jo and Kush are just a proper good pair of lads. #RaceAcrossTheWorld

It is utter woke nonsense that Scotland isn't doing an overnight count. I must know at 1am that a ballot box has been misplaced in Bathgate. I must hear at 2am that a Lib Dem paper candidate has lost their deposit in Glasgow Southside. I must learn at 4am that Dumbarton is going to a third recount.

Just took 93yr Mum to vote, she's registered blind. In a very loud voice she said, "Which box for turning Malcolm Offord's yachts into asylum accommodation?" A cheer went up from waiting voters.

I could check my ballot paper for a full hour before leaving the booth and still be convinced, once I leave the polling station, that I have accidentally voted for the wrong party. Every fucking election, every single time.

Just took 93yr Mum to vote, she's registered blind. In a very loud voice she said, "Which box for turning Malcolm Offord's yachts into asylum accommodation?" A cheer went up from waiting voters.