Music legend and BBC journalist.

Anyone who was familiar with his history and past career could see clearly that Peter Mandelson was not fit to be appointed US Ambassador, no vetting required. The Epstein revelations just added even more evidence but he should never even have been under consideration. Terrible judgement by Starmer.

A reminder, the security services advised Theresa May Johnson was a security risk before she appointed him Foreign Secretary, they advised against giving Lebedev a peerage, he got one, Johnson misled (lied to you and me) about what he knew about Pincher when he made him Deputy Chief Whip.

Very long piece by BBC news on immigrants pretending to be gay to secure right to remain. I have NEVER seen the BBC do such reporting on: Millionaire tax dodgers PPE profiteers Corporate tax dodging. Anyone

The explosion in decent cookery advice means that eating out is very unappealing. Seems to me that you have to spend a fortune to get something significantly better than you could make at home. Hence we hardly ever eat out except for convenience food.

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie... I clearly recall the start of the ‘What currency will you use?’ attack line. 1st TV debate, Salmond was asked & answered ‘we will use the pound’ amid heckling from panel. Next morning on BBC Breakfast, Douglas Alexander started the lie & went unchallenged.

This is Unionist kryptonite. They cannot answer the question as their position is untenable. They weaponised ‘what currency will we use?’ in 2014 and continued with ‘once in a generation’ despite Indy side having clear answers for both. Payback time: ‘How do they get one?’ Keep asking.

‘It is a story about how America invented a manufacturing philosophy, exported it to Japan, forgot it, relearnt fragments of it through a handful of companies & then re-exported the whole synthesis to Asia.’ Article ostensibly about Apple but really the quality movement! www.ft.com/content/0800...

Orbán defeated & McIlroy wins back to back Masters. Decent Sunday.

It’s been a vintage year for terrible Masters coverage by SkySports. Seriously - why do they think any golf fan wants the opinion of the England football manager? Just show the flipping golf, like you’re doing on the Red Button channels.

Rechargeable vacuum cleaners are great - cordless, lightweight and easy to use. However, if you actually want to get crap off your carpet, buy a Henry.

Rory McIlroy is six ahead at the halfway mark. This is insanity.

The new Explore tab on @bsky.app is terrible. What were you thinking? I can’t remove the suggested feeds from that page and there are only the top 2 trending topics showing. Please revert.

this reminds me of Bill Clinton's "I did not have sex with that woman" denial

Just one more birdie from Rose & we can pick up from where we left off last year. Rose & McIlroy head to head rematch - yes please. #golf #masters

Excellent swearing performance from Bob McIntyre today. We’ve had a ‘fuck’s sake’ and a ‘Jesus Fuck’ already.

Usual annual rant about Sky Sports shitty coverage of the Masters. There are 4 channels on the guide (501, 506, 513 & 516 on Virgin) billed as ‘Live Masters Golf’. None are showing any golf - it’s Nick Dougherty chatting to Butch Harman. But hit the red button and there’s real golf. Utterly stupid.

Pete Hegseth will die in a Motel car park with his trousers around his ankles.

Well at least he can legitimately claim to have played a part in stopping this one war. Shame he was entirely responsible for starting it, the mad cunt. #taco

Boiling A Frog is a Kindle Daily Deal today. NB. This is not a recipe book. www.amazon.co.uk/Boiling-Frog...

So many lies from the malignant narcissist, but the suggestion that Iran can perpetuate terror attacks is one which some Americans will seize as justification. But surely, if Iran had both the means and desire to attack US, they would already have done so? US hasn’t been terror attacked in ~25yrs

I was one month old when Armstrong & Aldrin landed on the Moon, and under 3 when Cernan & Schmitt departed. I’ve watched every documentary I’m aware of on Apollo. #artemis2 is magical. Can’t wait for 3 & 4. #artemis

There are precisely four human beings in all of existence right now who cannot possibly be served Holyrood campaign ads on YouTube no matter how hard you try, and I think that's beautiful 🌑

The message was a good one, but it didn't have to get religious. It's not everyone's religion and it makes it a lot less than for everyone. #Artemis #Orion #Moon #NASA

40 minutes with no contact with any other humans. Provided your 3 crew mates are cool, sounds like bliss! #artemis

NO! you’ve ruined the whole mission narrative. Just before LOS, they bring in religion. A phenomenal human endeavour, built from science and facts. Don’t bring mythical deities into it FFS. #artemis

Nutella, Nikon, GoPro & Apple all having a good day of product placement. #artemis

There is a reason competent organisations scrupulously vet any public announcements. The idea that someone as unhinged as Trump should be permitted direct access to a public platform with no layers of editorial scrutiny is as mad as he is.

Trump is effectively in the custody of his Secret Service handlers 24/7. A bloodless coup is trivially easy if the political will was there. Vance is a moron but potentially more controllable by Congress than the mad incumbent. Pop him in the Beast or Marine One & go direct to a secure facility.

Love watching Bob McIntyre play golf. 88 yards out, 9 o’clock pitching wedge. Comes up short, “That is fucking shite” Quick thinking from Coltart: “That’s Scottish for ‘not very good’” ⛳️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 😂

Dublin Airport Live is compelling viewing right now. #stormdave www.youtube.com/live/GemtD3z...

#totp Unacceptable top hat. Only Jerry Sadowitz can carry one off properly.

ok if we just shut up and give them this one then play the long game, it opens up a lot of poetic irony come 2028

#totp They need an AI edit of this episode to add in Savile & Glitter to ensure that Mummy song never sees the light of day again.

Shame she didn’t follow her late Grandfather’s exhortation that their would be ‘no bevvying’

Really sad news to hear about Jesus Christ. Interviewed him once for our BBC Leeds show. Did a lot of good work in the community and was a nice guy. Gone too soon #RIP

To get into the Easter spirit I am doing what I always do on Good Friday, I’ve nailed my son to a tree in the park and now I’m going around town telling everyone how brilliant I am.

How come it is okay for somebody to have a castle if one of their ancestors killed the previous owner and stole it, but if I do this with a bungalow I have to go to prison?

They should have posted the same headline on April 1st & said he was going to play right-handed. ⛳️

Iran now claiming to have downed a second F-35. America boasts of having the best military hardware. The flip side that is that any losses are stupefyingly expensive. So far we know of 3xF15, 2xKC135, 1xE3, 2xC130 and possibly the 2xF35. Many $000s destroyed www.globalmilitary.net/conflicts/ir...

One to watch for on the ballot paper in May. Alistair McConnachie aka ‘Manky Jaikit’, the far right holocaust denier & anti-independence balloon, has registered a fake party, ‘Independent Green Voice (IGV)’ to try to skew voters. Vote carefully people. www.thenational.scot/news/2599186...

Let’s hope Bondi turns out to be the evil vindictive horror she seems. The initial delight at her sacking instantly fades when you realise Trump will be sacking her for not being sufficiently evil. Just one thumb drive with the unredacted Epstein dossier would do it.

This is not in the least surprising. I binned LinkedIn years ago after it matched me to someone with whom I had no apparent contact whatsoever, apart from the fact he had responded to a single post I had made on a Mac tech support user forum.

East Kilbride & Strathaven hasn’t exactly had the best of representation in Parliament. First Lisa Cameron getting elected as SNP then bizarrely defecting to Tories. Now Joani Reid’s assorted shenanigans with Chinese spies & British submariners. Utterly bizarre.

I spend a lot of time near Prestwick airport. Today I saw USAF KC-135 & C-17 heading across the Atlantic. There are 4xC130 & a KC-46 on the ground just now. This is normal. They cannot move tankers & heavy lift planes without fuel stops. Europe has the ability to wield huge influence here.

Inviting Charlie to the 250th anniversary of independence is like inviting your ex-spouse along to celebrate the anniversary of your divorce.

If only they’d had some sort of airborne early warning system that could have told them an attack was incoming…

that’s quite a short flight, even for twenty five quid

‘MI5 and MI6 passed questions to his CIA torturers as they kept him in a coffin for 11 days, then waterboarded him 83 times until he died and was resuscitated’ International human rights lawyer Helen Duffy tells me the story of her client Abu Zubaydah and how the US and UK destroyed the rule of law