A Tory peer has just told Today that "We need to get back to a form of policing that is more colour-blind". When was that, precisely? The idea that we *used* to live in a colour-blind society, until minorities got special privileges, goes against *everything* we know of the history of policing.

If you want to see how BBC News editorialises compared to ITV News, rewatch Clive Myrie opening tonight's Ten O'Clock News and compare it to Tom Bradby on ITV.

It's switched itself off out of embarrassment. At last it's truly sentient.

Starting tomorrow 🙂‍↕️ 🏃🏿🏳️‍🌈

As one football season ends, another rolls around. Take my money now please.

Probably this Christmas Tree...

Please, please start putting iced buns on lampposts

Some minor hysteria over Nicola Sturgeon this morning ("how could she not know?"). The inconvenient fact is that everybody believes what they choose to, whether it's in relationships or politics, and some people (many in politics) are very plausible liars.

This reminds me of a visit to Florida where a hotel clerk suggested that I should not walk to a convenience store on the far side of the highway, about 200m away. The traffic lights had no pedestrian phase and it was "safer by car".

Slightly obsessed by this. I can't decide what it reminds me of. Talking Heads? The Tubes?

Drake meme Lawrence Shankland (Hearts) 🙄 Lawrence Shankland (Rangers) 😁

Child cruelty in the 21st century.

At lunch today and I sent back my margherita pizza after failing to find any basil. It came back with a single basil leaf on it. You have to laugh, especially when the waiter asked if it was OK now and I said "great".

Following the acceptance of an episode using AI guests, Question Time evolves to its final form.

#masterchef knocking it out the park with the granddaughter of a former national traitor as a guest of honour and reviewer.

What are The Dukes of Hazzard doing nowadays? Makin' their way the only way they know how, that's just a little bit more than the law will allow. Both still working because they've no pensions. Perfect for a job with ICE I reckon.

I cut the back grass today. When I say grass, its a mix of grass, dandelions, daisies, plantain, clover, moss, and various self seeded stuff. It's green apart from where my son's dog has peed on it. I love it. Much better than scalped lawns that are turning brown.

Can't say that I'm thrilled with Thistle's League Cup draw. Two teams in our league (Livingston and Stenhousemuir), one we played last season in the Scottish Cup (Forfar), and non league Brechin City.

I had a great kebab at Kurdish Street Food in Govanhill, Glasgow, last night. The experience has stayed with me for almost 24 hours - in a good way! A Kurdish version of spiced kofta with salad and a huge pickled chilli, all wrapped in a Kurdish style flatbread.

Partick Thistle fan checking in. Am I disappointed? Yes. Will I come back for more of the same? Yes. See you all next season. 🖤💛❤️

Today I reached the point in the Partick Thistle documentary on STV Player where Kris Doolan gets sacked. I'm quite pleased because it means hearing less of him swearing like Danny Dyer, which came as a surprise tbqh. Ye can take the boy oot o' Auchinleck etc.

Let's start arresting some UK based Russians and see how that goes.

Suitably light lunch for the weather and the normal Partick Thistle fan about town. I'd include a small glass of Sancerre but I'll be driving later.

Spotted at Craiglockhart Dell, a young Jay digging about on the shore. We don't see many of these round here. @wolct.bsky.social

A classic of the genre. Large bus turning left, car tries to undercut and gets minced on a bollard. A complete pain for the bus passengers and everyone else whose journey has been disrupted, but I'm sure the car driver was in a hurry so it's entirely understandable.

Well that would give us all some certainty going into the next General Election.* *irony counter at 11/10

People should be someone and not something. Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection. 🏳️‍⚧️

Can't believe its been ten years since Rangers fans invaded the pitch at Hampden to help Hibs celebrate their historic Scottish Cup victory.

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

When VAT was cut on tampons and ebooks, prices didn’t fall - the suppliers kept the benefit. Unclear why this will be different.

Spotted on Lothian Road Edinburgh, Ben McPherson's favourite pizza joint. #partickthistle

Wheel trims from two different cars at my local bus stop. Give it a week and we might see a full set of four.

There's no better way to spend ten minutes this morning than catching up on John McGinn interviews and clips from last night. What a guy!

Reading Mick Herron atm and as well as being a great thriller writer, he's also a great writer. How about this?

I have a ticket for St Mirren v Partick Thistle via a JFG Season Ticket. I missed games this season due to a broken leg. How could a points system for away matches have made it fairer for me? @drawloseordraw.bsky.social The fact is that no system is perfect, but the rules were clear at the start.

From this point forward, it seems that Trump will only pay taxes if he wants to. Justice department deal comes day after government set up $1.8bn fund to pay president’s allies hit by alleged ‘lawfare’ www.ft.com/content/5733...

The #BBC really showing what it values, with football stories ahead of the possible Grenfell prosecutions in its news coverage.

No excuse now for Manchester City not facing up to their 115 financial fair play charges. The delay has been ridiculous.

Middlesbrough players right now

At last some good news

Some really bad dog whistling by Jeremy Vine earlier (paraphrasing) "... and are these same shops selling shoplifted goods?" In an item about people smuggling via cash through dodgy shops.

Me, watching the UK #bondmarkets as they react to me selling some surplus Euros from my last foreign holiday.

Constantly at it. Nothing adds up. Imagine him and his cronies in charge of the Treasury?

Kevin McKenna is again in need of a wee holiday. Somewhere quiet, with good sound insulation and a cleansing diet.

Everyone's become bored with Iran so Trump is now threatening Greenland again. Coming soon... "they're so angry, (they're angry folks, real angry, no idea why) but they are so lucky because they can offload freezing cold Greenland on us, the hottest country in the world"

Celtic fans this morning have now got their paranoia hats on. It's a conspiracy and the establishment is out to get them.

This is a decent article, but the examples given of Celtic fans behaving outside the limits of normal and going unpunished, along with their friends in Govan, are far too few.

This is a decent article, but the examples given of Celtic fans behaving outside the limits of normal and going unpunished, along with their friends in Govan, are far too few.

At least 10 of the Scottish Parliament’s newly-elected members own more than one home, while six returning MSPs declared additional properties in the previous Holyrood session.  Our latest: https://www.theferret.scot/scotland-msp-homes-properties