Scottish Labour and the Tories demanding transparency of party finances for the SNP and then immediately about-facing and voting against a Scottish Green motion to investigate ALL party finances is, above all, very funny

Another victory for the Eye

My book on how the media works (and when it doesn’t) is out in paperback on August 27. If you want to get behind the headlines or have someone in your life who is far too taken in by the Mail or the Telegraph, snap up a copy. geni.us/BreakingMicW...

A job application system where you have to fill in individual boxes asking what you'd bring to the role etc, add individually each previous role... and THEN upload your CV and a covering letter saying the same things you've just added is royally taking the piss.

Right arm in pain now from holding it up for an hour during Gianni Infantino’s press conference World Cup press conference and being studiously ignored by FIFA’s comms head Bryan Swanson. What was there to worry about after all FIFA is now a transparent and trusted organisation. 😳

having spoken to multiple reporters who agreed to it, I can confirm that ubisoft embargoed outlets from reporting on layoff news earlier today, and yeah, it’s a weird situation!

Wake up, kids. brewdog’s successor has arrived.

If they gave any consistency, Fifa should ban the singing of "La Marseillaise" as well.

Get absolutely fucked. The referees should boycott the World Cup en masse.

Glasgow: there's an anti-fascist demo on Saturday 13th June at 1300 on Buchanan Steps in response to the far-right terrorising our streets this week. More info on (unfortunately) Instagram: www.instagram.com/standuptorac...

An ongoing series of original novels, using the written format to tell stories too broad and too deep for televisi… Naah, that would be silly.

Ahahahahahahah fucking hell man, quit while you’re behind.

When the hospital start having conversations with you about DNRs is the point it gets horribly too real and soon.

There’s an opportunity for the BBC to learn from how the MCU and Star Wars stumbled in the need for content over consistent output and fucked their brands in the long term with existing and new audiences. Take a long pause, decide what tv Doctor Who needs to be and to say in the current landscape.

Hi Rich. Another safe fifty quid bet, was it?

📰 HEADLINES · Jun 10 412 / 500 · Very Good · www.headlines.games I’ll take it

Now he's been named, Sky News have the attacker's name on their screen in a giant yellow sidebar. It's not moving, been there for at least the last 5 minutes. I can guarantee Sky News will not do this for a single person involved in burning people out of their homes when their names are known

Hi Rich. Another safe fifty quid bet, was it?

Honestly? Let it rest. A good few years anyway. It needs time to shake off the issues that have blighted it since the end of the Capaldi/Moffat run in terms of budget declines and script quality. Not sure it lands in the current TV landscape, with streamer consolidation and spend dropping.

Aston Villa have put up a montage of John McGinn’s goals this season on IG and it can’t help but draw the memory back to BBC Scotland’s chief correspondent’s expert insight when Celtic tried to buy him in the cheap from Hibs…

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That Mox clip is why Uncle Tony’s Haus of Sickos will always be a better promotion than the Sex Traffickers World Of Sportswashing lot…

My contempt for Starmer and his milquetoast responses to everything knows no depth

I see Scotland’s newspapers are focused on the big issues of today.

Meanwhile, Sky’s morning politics podcast reports that the right-wing parties in the Makerfield by-election seem to be wearing AI glasses in their doorstep canvassing, as they’re looking at voters in their own homes.

Race riots on British streets, incited by a man currently in Moscow and amplified by a South African paedophile. But your engagement.

Furious about what has happened in Glasgow tonight. Nae pasaran

The incident is racist neo-Nazis wandering around in a pack and attacking anyone they decide looks like an immigrant.

True story. I started my reporting career in Stonehaven. The senior reporter in the office suggested I try a deep fried mars from the Carron Chipper on my first day there. Girl behind the counter asked if I wanted salt and vinegar. Figured if she was asking it must be a common thing. It wasn’t…

Don't bother with a 650 page outline of how an independent Scotland will function next time we have an independence referendum, just send every voter this clip of English people on Good Morning Britain discussing (some) Scottish people having a single day off work.

Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.

In 2023, Indonesia were stripped of the under-20 World Cup for refusing to allow the Israeli team entry. Fifa's justification then was the vague "due to the current circumstances". Quite a contrast to the hardline "FIFA is not involved in host immigration processes" now.

UKPG will now be campaigning for the BBC News site to be shut down entirely to keep their awards dinner table purchasers happy.

New aftershave in Lidl: gives you the precise aroma of a widowed policeman investigating the murder of his daughter, drawn into a wide-ranging political conspiracy involving nuclear weapons.

On the one hand, I increasingly couldn’t give a shit about this WC because of the behaviour of one of the hosts. But then I’d also quite like is to do really well because, alongside qualifying, this squad deserves their flowers and seem, pretty much to a man, like a good bunch of lads.

I mean, given we’re going to need to recover from the trauma of Clarkey’s murderball being undone by sodding Haiti, frankly a single day off isn’t nearly enough.

never do the research. never explain. never back down. we're lucky to be observing this.

Dune (Dir: David Lynch, 1984)

Was nice to have an evening of normalcy. And some much needed normal company. Today is going to be the hardest one yet.

Again, can you imagine the outcry if one of the 2030 hosts were to, say, ban entry for diplomatic/political reasons to a FIFA referee from, say, a country conducting a genocide against another country? Can‘t imagine FIFA saying it’s nothing to do with them then. Grotesque, despicable appeasement.

Well, this was infinitely better, funnier, camper and cleverer than it had any right to be. A legitimate joy.

Well, this was infinitely better, funnier, camper and cleverer than it had any right to be. A legitimate joy.

Shit. Eriksen again.

Very amused to find I’ve been locked by a particular Scottish newspaper hack for pointing out their own paper happily employs AI on the cheap after their railing against Martin Scorsese for his AI comments last week.

This is a devastating interview. Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good. Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

Class World Cup display at the Cats Protection shop on Crow Road.

Will need to answer the door and sign for a delivery shortly so of course…

Progress running Edinburgh? Nikki sticking a tank on her former employer’s lawn?

Columnist of the year at the 2026 Scottish Press Awards Kevin McKenna there, specifically comparing Sturgeon to Papa Doc Duvalier, who was responsible for the murder of up to 60,000 Haitians. Columnist of the year.

What absolutely performative horseshit. The BBC needs to do better at how it covers certain issues, and that needs a change in management and less bullshit shadow threats from govt and Ofcom but the idea fhe national broadcaster should not offer a news service is absolutely fucking loopy.