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I wonder if the ludicrous FIFA Peace prize may end up being useful leverage. It’s inconceivable that the World Cup would go ahead if Trump were to attack Greenland. Gianni Infantino ends up playing the role which should be held by Tatiana Valovaya as UN Secretary General. It’s all mad. 😡

So, in stark contrast to everything else that’s going on today, I’m delighted to announce I’ll be with this joyous bunch of people in the next #Taskmaster. Let Counting-Backwards-From-Fifty-While-Miming -Your-Least-Favourite -Farm-Animal Commence! youtu.be/1OP6DuihCnk?...

Watched ‘Munich - the Edge of War’ yesterday. Covers Chamberlain’s attempts to deal with Hitler’s Lebensraum ambitions & we all know how that ended up. The parallels with Trump’s annexation of Venezuela are stark & no less scary. www.netflix.com/gb/title/811...

Replacing the situation room with a room in Mar-a-Lago, cheaply set dressed with black blankets and with big screens displaying X would be bad at any time. But when launching a *huge* military operation without even notifying Congress, it’s…once again, off the charts.

Watching the Amazon Prime Chernobyl documentary. How is it possible for an editor to allow a series to be released when the narrator continually mispronounces one of the most important words in the story? Ben Fogle: ‘Nucular’. Fuck’s sake.

Jessie J is absolutely smashing it on the Hootenanny. My Way Her Way. Magnificent. 🎵 ❤️

It’s the 2025 equivalent of Arkell v Pressdram Ltd (1971)

This from @vizcomic.bsky.social will never get old.

Farage’s goons now doing direct mail shots. Send it back in the prepaid envelope. Make the fuckers pay for it.

Turnberry Hotel & Golf Resort launches its new logo for 2026.

Keir Starmer genuinely does not seem to be aware that he has a 400+ seat majority in parliament. You can pass anything you like with that many seats. Fucking do something.

This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

The Epstein files are heavily redacted, but they haven’t censored the letter from Epstein to Larry Nassar which directly implicates Trump. ‘Our President also shares our love of young nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by, he loved to “grab snatch”’ www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Epstein Files, Scotland version. Newly-discovered image just released with redaction.

Huge boost for the illegal hacked firestick industry as TNT Sports gets the Commonwealth Games contract. #kodi www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Epstein: Welcome to my sex island! We have so many illegal things going on which i will happily provide for you. Drugs! Underage girls! You name it, I can provide it! Oh, and this is our photographer who will be taking 100 photos of you, that cool? Rich celebrity: yes

VirginMedia has added Stingray Djazz 24hr jazz channel to my package. The main programme guide bears no relation to what’s showing, you can’t record and there are ads, but only between tunes so OK. They have some incredible stuff. Jaco Pastorius on Wed, Mike Stern last night, John Scofield today. ❤️

Perfectly put.

If Trump is seeking to compare himself to JFK now, let’s all hope he commits to it 100%. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The turkey is out the freezer. I repeat, the turkey is out the freezer.This is not a drill! Countdown sequence initiated. T minus 166 hours. All systems nominal. 🦃 🎄

A dark, misty night in the graveyard at Whithorn Priory. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway

And just like that, I’m banned from Marks & Spencer’s.

Hello America 🇺🇸. I appreciate we’re in ’boiling a frog’ territory and this may have crept up on some of you, but you do realise that your current White House incumbent is quite quite mad, don’t you? Don’t you? Only problem with #25thamendment is that it begets Vance, but deal with that at the time

Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket. Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.

“The BBC has a long pattern of deceiving its audience in coverage of President Trump, all in service of its own leftist political agenda,” the spokesperson said. From www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Spokesperson’s statement is demonstrably false & defamatory to the BBC. Counter sue. Prick.

Trump suing the BBC is guaranteed to fail in any court which isn’t rigged. It’s completely ludicrous, but annoying. Perhaps we should retaliate in kind. Anyone fancy a game of guerilla golf at Turnberry? Just turn up, don’t pay his crazy green fees, tee off & treat the course with the utmost respect

This is what would happen if SNP votes switch their second vote to the Scottish Greens:

Really sad to hear @robinince.bsky.social felt he couldn’t continue at the BBC. One of my absolute favourite broadcasters & writers. Funny, intelligent, self-deprecating & has greatly enhanced my knowledge of science. Thanks Robin - on to the next gig. ❤️

Zero chance of me joining the Tartan Army for next Summer’s World Cup. I suspect a pretty substantial chunk of them would also fail the test. Let’s hope we make it to a group stage tie in one of the other 2 saner countries. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⚽️ 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽

Thank you Apple for changing the alarm clock stop button to a slide instead of a tap which nobody asked for. Idiots. Restore sanity by going to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Preferences Single-Touch Actions

Farage announces the recruitment to Reform of Malcolm Offord, Baron Offord of Garvel. Or, as he is commonly known in Scotland, Who….?

This FIFA World cup draw is the most cringeworthy thing I’ve seen since Mick Fleetwood & Samantha Fox hosted the BRITS in 1989.

Is it too late for Scotland to withdraw from this World Cup? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #WorldCup2026

#fifaworldcupdraw Looks like the price of hosting in the USA is this cringeworthy brown nosing of Trump. Utterly nauseating & devoid of truth.

Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

I dislike Streeting intensely. Untrustworthy. The NHS is not safe in his hands. ‘I did think there was overdiagnosis, that too many people were being written off, and too many people weren’t getting the support they needed.’ That’s 3 different things & 1 is false www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reform is funded by an intensely-private billionaire who lives in Thailand. I’m sure there’s nothing untoward to be inferred from that. Support for Reform alone marks him out as a wrong ‘un. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Pure Snake Oil. I recall helping a sound engineer/producer friend relocate his professional studio. He asked me to cable up the main speakers (huge Tannoy cabinets). I was expecting some gold plated OFC leads woven by fairies. He handed me a reel of cheap BT telephone cable. It sounded phenomenal.

The hi-fi that costs as much as a house on.ft.com/3KEbDNk | opinion

They really should name one the MV Martin S Williams in honour of his relentless pursuit of every possible negative story about CalMac procurement for The Herald for many years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Had the misfortune to catch a bit of #politicslive at lunchtime. Andrew Griffith just making crazy allegations unchallenged :”people drew down pensions & some left the country” WTF. Because of a budget leak? Pathetic, but Nandy was weak as Tennent’s in response. Labour really are shite at Politics.

I wonder if Trump’s increasingly diminished mental capacity is real or convenient? Probably real, but Ernest Saunders springs to mind. Trump simultaneously too far gone to face trial for any of the numerous allegations against him, yet smart, the smartest etc. when it comes to retaining power.

Me to Copilot: ‘write me a script to do a thing’ Copilot: ‘Sure - here you go’ Me: ‘It didn’t run’ Copilot ‘Stupid Human. YOUR script made the following error’ Me: ‘It’s YOUR script, not mine’ Copilot: ‘Here’s a corrected version fixing YOUR error’ Me: ‘Never mind, I’ll fix it myself’ Repeat….

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

For all the focus on its supposed “left wing bias”, the BBC’s heavy coverage of Rachel Reeves Budget "lies" shows how its political coverage is still largely led by the right-wing press bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...

Paging Robbie Gibb and Michael Prescott: if you’re pulling together another of those little dossiers on political bias at the BBC, I’ve got a submission for you.

Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.

This is glorious. Multiple media reports taking great pains to point out that ‘there is no evidence Coburn took bribes’ The perfect ‘when did you stop beating your wife?’ question He’s a Faragist who may or may not have acted in Russia’s interests. Keep slinging the mud www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...