Poem of the day … it made me smile!

If you read one U.S. president's remembrance of Rob Reiner today...

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

I am Jewish, and I believe with all my heart that there are more Muslims like Ahemed el Ahmed, who not only don't their Jewish brothers and sisters, but care enough to risk their lives to stop hate. Hero is almost too subtle a word.

🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years” Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏

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FULL-TIME | One of Scotstoun's greatest nights - what a comeback from the Warriors!! Analysis and reaction to follow...

it bears repeating over and over again that dr. upton did literally nothing except get changed in the changing room and assiduously mind her own business. what happened to her could happen to any trans woman who leaves her house

The right will come for Bari Weiss eventually. She's queer and Jewish, and they will not tolerate her once she's served their purposes.

dreher and his friends would save us all a lot of time if they just said “jews”

Donald Trump is set on regime change - in Europe. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ice rink at EK blaring Kelly Clarkson "My life would suck without you". A reminder, if one were needed, that it is a banger.

Anyone who thinks the anti-trans movement is an organic grassroots bottom up campaign responding to 'genuine concerns' should read this www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

My daughter's nativity made me think of a short story published in the LRB years ago from the perspective of the shepherds that conveyed just how bloody terrifying the experience of being addressed by an Angel of the Lord would actually be. 'Sore afraid' is an understatement!

Szalay - and I say this with the utmost collegial respect and admiration - often has the look of someone who decided to be a highly esteemed author as a prank, but it's gone too far, everyone is taking it very seriously and it's too late to back out.

Apparently opposing genocide "contravenes the work of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust." Beyond belief. www.jewishnews.co.uk/hmdt-organis...

SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/2 (Autumn/Winter 2025) The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via @projectmuse.bsky.social (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly! #litstudies muse.jhu.edu/issue/55415

The exact people now saying "Nigel Farage was young and foolish at school" (to excuse his racism, bullying and harassment of fellow pupils at Dulwich College) are the same people who said "Shamima Begum was old enough to know what she was doing".

My free advice to this couple? Instead of paying £47k a year in school fees and scraping by, stick 15k a year in each kid's bank account so that they each have around £100k at age 18 to spend on a house, business or uni. You then have £17k/year leftover to spend on luxuries. Better life all round

A new album at 340? Guy really ought to think about retiring......

I’m sure this sleeping will transfix the marquee media just as Biden’s infirmities did.

And I guarantee you that none of those predicting a mass exodus will now come back to the rostrum to admit they were wrong.

From today, Gaelic and Scots are recognised as official languages. A significant moment on St Andrew’s Day. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.bbc.com/news/article...

I feel personally attacked............ 😂

She is so profoundly intellectually incurious that I find myself fascinated how she ever learnt how to *speak*.

I know this story. It ends with Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert fighting Michael Ironside. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

In case you're not across the Budget next Wednesday, it looks like it's going to be really bad for helping Britain reduce its carbon emissions. I'll explain... 🧵

It really is worth taking the time to hear from people like “Mary,” who fled from Zimbabwe 20 years ago, to understand what life is like when the law denies you the chance to call the country where you’ve made your life home

Somebody has to take the rap for Scotland's inability to close out a match. I'm not one to rush to 'sack the coach' every time we lose a match, I'm not English, but this is a pattern of play and the buck needs to stop with the coach.

This is the point. Policy *should not* be adjusted or fine-tuned in response to minor forecasting judgements. Decisions about whether or not to break a prominent manifesto promise *should not* depend on minor forecasting judgements. This stuff matters. We've got to do better than this.

The University of Strathclyde is looking for unpaid carers to take part in this survey investigating the support, training and recognition needed by carers. To get involved, or find out more, visit: strathsci.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

2025 Dalrymple Lectures: "Prof Stephen Driscoll @uofglasgow.bsky.social will outline the contribution of archaeology to our understanding of Glasgow for over a millennium. This will include his own excavations at Govan Old & Glasgow Cathedral." 20&21 Nov 2025, 6:30pm, hybrid. tinyurl.com/bdz6yc3j

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this. But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

It’s a little known clause of the Labour party rulebook (Ch.5,sect.xii). “When the party is in office, no clear statement can be made until half a dozen people on Bluesky have embarrassed themselves by claiming that the silence is actually part of a grand strategy“.

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

American Christianity is a completely new religion. We just haven't had the official schism yet.

A moody and atmospheric scene this morning

To be replaced with "Welcoming oppression and injustice with a marching band and ticker tape parade"

Milngavie. If you're not from here, I dare you to try.

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

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This purchase, while it shall adorn my shelf and my reading, is also a personal FU to the Times and their dreary hack of a 'critic'.

Arrests of minorities. Mass deportations. Demonisation of the courts. The weaponisation of fake free speech to suppress real free speech. Attacks on reproductive rights. A climate of fear. People turned against each other. All that and more.

I read someplace that when INDECENT PROPOSAL came out a TV reporter, outraged at the concept, did some vox pops outside the theater, asking a woman "Would you sleep with Robert Redford for a million dollars?!" Only the woman without hesitation replied "I'd sleep with Robert Redford for fifty cents."

I heartily recommend this. Unfortunately there is little money in it whereas as a fringe political Youtuber/Tiktoker you can grift your way to bucketloads of cash.

There is a Shakespearean tragedy to be written about Mandelson. He is one of the greatest political strategists of the last 50 years (at least) and yet constantly falls out of power due to his own hubris and lack of personal judgement.

The people of Nuneaton started sharpening the pitchforks and lighting the torches as soon as rumours emerged of a busload of 'immigrants' arriving at a hotel in an industrial area on the edge of town. The standard facepalm emoji doesn't quite cut it for this one.