If I’m understanding the English media, such as the BBC, correctly, FIFA are trying to stop the England men’s football team from winning by, er, changing their game’s kick off time. It seems from the coverage that the opposition start at the original time thus uniquely disadvantaging England.

Mordor on the Orient Express

🎉 SNP GAIN FROM CONSERVATIVES! Congratulations to Angus Matheson who has been elected as the new Councillor for Peterhead South & Cruden.

Huge congratulations to Angus Matheson, #snp ‘s newest councillor! Now Cllr Mathieson representing Peterhead South and Cruden!

Peterhead South & Cruden (Aberdeenshire) Council By-Election Result [1st Prefs]: 🎗️ SNP: 36.5% (-10.0) ➡️ RFM: 22.9% (New) 🌳 CON: 21.3% (-20.0) 🙋 Ind: 7.4% (New) 🙋 Ind: 6.5% (New) 🔶 LDM: 2.8% (-9.4) 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 SFP: 2.7% (New) SNP 'Gain' from Conservative - Stg TBC. Changes w/ 2022.

This isn't a Reform UK press release but if it were, how would it be any different?

The Labour party is attempting to subvert the result of the Holyrood election and impose the Labour Holyrood manifesto Scotland rejected at the ballot box on the country regardless. The British media in Scotland colludes with this brazen electoral theft. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/l...

The British Broadcasting Corporation are currently telling “us” that “our” game against Mexico may not happen at the advertised time and that “we” should be worried. Tell me again about BBC impartiality.

He creates his own reality & expects us to believe it. The FELON's FANTASY: Meanwhile, back on EARTH 1:

Alternative headline. John Swinney urged to implement Labour's Holyrood manifesto which the voters resoundingly rejected www.heraldscotland.com/news/2624491...

We vote for an indyref but Westminster says no. In May Scots rejected Labour's plans for nuclear & city mayors but we may still have them forced on us. Elections in Scotland are becoming meaningless. The media presents this as a challenge for the SNP but it's really a crisis in Scottish democracy.

"On average, many" elevates abuse of statistics to *art*

I'm enjoying reading the TrustPilot reviews of Reform UK, particularly from disgruntled former members...

I'm so proud of Yassin. He made Bristol and Britain his home. He has contributed so much as a Green Party Cllr to his city and to the community in Lawrence Hill. Solidarity in the face of this Reform fuelled racist hate. Hope always wins!

Ach shite. Many moons ago, on the night of the seismic 2011 Scottish elections, I put on a night of political comedy and poetry in Edinburgh Paul v kindly agreed to compere it - and was both terrific and a total gentleman Will be much missed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Uh oh. The "real devolution" to justify interfering with actual devolution argument.

Screensavers in the 90s

"You've had your referendum" is plain daft and facile too. The fact that it's an external political system that decides when and if we can hold one is the strongest argument *for* independence. indyposterboy.scot/undemocratic...

So there it is. Burnham wants to weaken the Scottish Government. That’s his unionist idea for strengthening ‘devolution’. No friend of Scotland then.

If the Labour party really wants to introduce the English concept of regional mayors into Scotland then how about putting it in a manifesto and letting voters in Scotland vote on it. Oh. Right. They just did, and went down to their biggest defeat ever in a Holyrood election.

The only good thing about Scotland going out is that we will no longer be subject to the awful ITV/STV coverage.

To work out how much the reflecting pool cost, does one use mathematics or algaebra????

apparently the bassist for the Oregon Symphony wore a shark costume for their performance of the Jaws score, you love to see it www.reddit.com/r/Portland/c...

This is without doubt the dullest game of the tournament so far.

Whilst the media commemorates 10 years since Brexit, it’s worth recalling that one of the principal causes of Brexit was the abject failure of the media to call out the lies and the liars.

NEW: Thiel's Dialog society privately told members their data was stolen in a cyberattack. But WIRED found it was just readable to anyone on a misconfigured web page. Its lawyers sent us a legal demand to hand over the data. We passed.

It's Monday night and it's #midsummer so it's time for a special edition of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 11.30pm this week?' You are not going to believe this, but it's the #SummerSolstice, there's absolutely no wind, and it's STILL THIS LIGHT! 💡❤️

83% of Remain voters support joining the EU. But of course the BBC focuses on the 12% who don't.

Future quiz question “Who is the current PM of the Uk?” Correct answer “What is today’s date again?”

“For us at the Globe, it’s been a reminder that we are a media organization, but we’re also part of the fabric of this region." www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/the-...

BREAKING: The SNP will introduce a bill in Westminster to devolve independence referendum powers to Holyrood. 🗣️ 'It's time we take the power out of the hands of Westminster politicians and put it into the hands of a Scottish Parliament.'

The English Political Psychodrama continues... Scotland, NI and Wales can keep busy while the decade long circus show continues.

The UK Westminster grown up politics club is on the verge of appointing it's seventh Prime Minister on a decade. Yet the Scottish media pages are full of disparaging remarks about Holyrood and calls for its abolition. What a pathetic stance Unionist is.

The BBC in Scotland just can’t help themselves. Apparently understanding climate science is dogma. For those who can’t be bothered to look it up: Dogma implies that an idea is meant to be accepted on faith or obedience rather than through direct questioning or critical reasoning.

Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.

Scotland is so beautiful! Isn't it?

As heat warnings are issued for England and Wales, please remember that there is no sound empirical basis for claiming that more people die of cold worldwide than of heat. Just because something is recited like a mantra doesn't make it true. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

More analysis of the Scotland game on Scottish TV than I expected. Almost fifteen minutes.

EXCLUSIVE: Voyager 1 will be 1 light-day away from Earth on November 18, 2026! The spacecraft is already the most distant human-made object in space, and in less than five months it will cross that incredible threshold!! www.iflscience.com/its-official... 🔭🧪

A really good second half, a disgrace of a referee and your standard Grant Hanley

The English commentary team being very clear that their own in house referee cannot be trusted when it cones to Scottish penalties. Why do we put up with this?

Outstanding draw for Scotland in tonight’s 11:02pm kick-off

So FIFA have gathered the best referees for the World Cup? I think they need to check again.

Imagine time wasting against us

Regardless of the result now, not quite seeing Morocco as the world-beaters I previously anticipated. #SCOMAR

This is the point where an engaged commentary team would get excited at a rare period of Scottish dominance. This STV team are too busy writing bon mots for the next England game. #scomor

Thank goodness we have an STV commentary team that is unwilling to call out obvious penalties. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Calls for foreign refs in the Scottish game should be binned forever based on the officiating at this World Cup

<Frantically searches for Norwegian commentary to replace the STV one. >