You don’t realise how important Central is until you try and get on a bus when it isn’t operational.

Defeated by an Irish hip-hop trio in court and utterly discredited and humiliated on Mandelson. Another triumphant day for His Majesty’s Government.

<Middle class Radio Scotland phone-in voice> “You just don’t see this sort of disorder anywhere else but football….”

Could swear this has already happened about three times.

Those firefighters btw 👏

Oh man. This is not good.

Happily, the market for a socially conservative Scottish nationalist party turned out to be very limited. Good riddance.

'SHAME GAME' BINGO . Condemnation of 'ultras culture' by middle-aged pundits . Politicians wading in clumsily . All Scottish football fans being tarred with same brush . Rugby comparisons . Hot takes from people who think Rangers are managed by Dick Advocaat and Celtic by 50-year-old Martin O'Neill

“Scenes nobody wants to see” is usually deployed during scenes that we very much do like to see.

You quite simply have to say the Queen’s, The QP, The Queen’s Park, The famous QPFC

I see racists have come to Edinburgh to exploit fears and whip up hate following the knife incident in the Calders. Worth noting Scotland sees over 4,000 serious knife crimes a year, the vast majority of which are committed by white people of British ancestry. Don't let the hatemongers mislead you.

265-289 Allison Street, designed by Alexander Thomson, photographed on a sunny day in 1975. Stewart Campbell's off licence on the corner is making ever effort to get your carry out money, with its window displays and blue and white mosaic tiles 😁 📷 Glasgow City Archives #glasgow

David Byrne utterly astounding last night. Just incredible. “Love and kindness are a form of resistance”

This needs called out, called out and called out some more on a factual basis. Glasgow, pre Violence Reduction Unit, was a more violent place. Anyone who grew up in the 90s will remember schemes regularly battling other schemes and even different areas within the same scheme battling each other.

I still can’t believe Joani Reid’s husband is an alleged Chinese spy and an Alba plant snuck into the number one spot on the Labour Lothian list and Anas Sarwar tried and failed to coup Starmer. What a month for the Scottish Labour Party.

Waiting for Waiting for Godot.

<Burnistoun voice> WELL now. Weeeeeeeelllllllll now.

Joani Reid was the first user to block on me on here, I'm not saying today's events are connected but 台湾独立自由万岁.

Anyone know if there is an equivalent Mandarin word for schadenfreude?

Imagine writing this after the Greens have just absolutely battered Reform in a predominantly working class constituency.

This is an absolute fucking outrage btw. Evicting an organisation that provides artistic space for people with disabilities is monstrous, not to mention the livelihoods of the people who work there. Shameful.

Yer da posts tributes to Ayatollah Khamenei.

Can’t believe how dangerous those extremist Greens are.

“A good day to bury bad news” etc.

Voters: ‘We hate celery’ Labour: ‘clearly we need to offer more celery.’

Fatboy Slim followed by staying up until 5am watching by-election coverage was an odd combo. Can you get jet lagged by going from the Southside to Gallowgate?

Labour taking it well, I see.

This does not wash after nineteen years. Ultimately, the SNP hasn’t wanted to touch it with a barge pole because the enormous upheaval and inevitable teething problems would be electorally damaging. Lib-Lab did nothing about it either. The only thing stopping it is a lack of political bravery.

Important for politics across these islands that the good guys hold the line in Gorton and Denton today. Important that Reform are defeated and important that alternatives to Labour start to be seen as genuinely viable. Good luck @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social

Two things here. The idea that Muslim voters are a homogeneous group who can be easily manipulated is deeply offensive in itself. Secondly, Labour absolutely deserve to be punished for their stance on Gaza.

going to be mad circa 2028 when Peter Mandelson is acting as a key prime ministerial advisor from his cell, like a sort of New Labour Hannibal Lecter

“We didn’t know the extent to which Mandelson was dodgy” is up there with Gerry Adams claiming he wasn’t in the IRA as a bit btw.

Candidate will be absolutely raging. Last person she’ll want to see.

You know, it is remarkable that UK Labour have decided that they're going to use the Scottish Labour playbook on the Greens whilst Scottish Labour are on track for their worst result yet under devolution.

The mural from Lesser Hampden yesterday. Absolutely smashing game of football as well. Proper Championship nonsense.

Hibs fans 2011-2025: please win at Celtic Park Hibs: 😖😵😵‍💫🫨🥴 Hibs fans earlier today: it's ok if you lose today Hibs:

The problem is that there is no strategy. I don’t mean that in an Alba “UDI” type of way. A majority of seats with under 50% of the vote won’t fly again and, tbh, it probably shouldn’t. Make them say no to over 50% of the vote to pro-independence parties and they’d have a tougher time arguing.

Twenty-one years 💀

"Stop unionists getting in to Holyrood" says Scottish Labour's number 1 Lothian list candidate.

I see the “naebody uses cycle lanes” lads, having been proven wrong, have moved onto “aye, but it’s aw Just Eat delivery bikes!” which will then generally lead onto casual racism. Must be fucking exhausting living like that.

This is such Trumpian bollocks from Findlay and Sarwar on Dorothy Bain. Two parties who deserve the absolute chasing they’re going to get in May. Unfortunately, it’s going to be another set of bastards who’ll profit from them tanking, right enough.

Just last week, Kev was lamenting the Greens for being misogynistic and lesbophobic. This week he’s lamenting them for protecting the rights of women to obtain healthcare free from harassment and for schools to recognise that LGBTQ+ pupils should have rights. A roaring arsehole.

When? Genuinely?

First past the post is so stupid. This government could lock Reform out tomorrow if they wanted to.

Starmer’s Labour Party

On current form, I’ll go for a Thursday morning resignation date for this guy.

Lovely stuff 🕷️

Inverness should shout more loudly about itself as a city. Always struck by how brilliant a place it is to visit, even in the cold winter months.

Good morning from Loch Ness.