The legend @cmatbaby.bsky.social said a lot more in her acceptance speech than what RTÉ are reporting. (Video posted by Lisa McLoughlin on Instagram - www.instagram.com/reel/DYnTKR3...) #Speirgorm

I have put together a little video guide to Nigel Farage's umm... evolving views on hecklers. They seem to be quite dependent on whether the heckler disagrees with him (bad, boring, frightening, dangerous), or shouts abuse at a woman in the street (buy him a pint/give him a peerage).

If AI is so clever, how come after years and years of predictive text, it still can't work out the appropriate use of its and it's?

..says man who wouldn't hold a by-election when he changed parties.

Got up early, caught a ferry, climbed a hill, home in time for tea. A fiver each way on good old CalMac (I know, I know). The best of days.

Interesting analysis for those of us interested in hope and aware of the big graph that shows Reform peaked in October last year and is sliding inexorably down.

My entirely unscientific polling information for the day. I live next to a polling place in Scotland and I've never seen it so busy. Our constituency is usually one of the highest turnouts in the country so maybe not representative but it looks busier than the last GE, which is quite wild.

His closest aide sentenced to 10.5 years for spying for the Russians. Failing to disclose £5m donation and how he bought a house in Clacton. A decade of school antisemitism and racism. Cavorting with Neo Nazis and planning mass deportations. What is the media love about Farage?

Lots and lots of feathers on show at the #MetGala last night. My question - are they farmed? I'm curious about the ethics (I mean, it's the fashion industry, so not sure what I'm expecting, but still).

Like when the monestries were dissolved, people aren't realising what they are doing away with until they they need it. A lot of voluntary work is done by older people who want to use their time productively but do not need remuneration.

If you'd told me a few years ago that I'd be agreeing with John Major... I don't think it's just a function of growing older and I'm in no danger of voting Tory, ever, but he's absolutely right. BBC News - UK should not keep changing prime ministers, warns John Major www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spring sprang

Unsatisfactory situation involving this lump in which she now has coffee on her tail and I now have cat tail in my coffee.

THIS. The media would do well to add some more context here

This isn't just a problem of funding cuts, or of Loch Lomond. It's about the attitude of people who think it's fine to litter. Scotland has a *huge* litter problem, everywhere you go. I was in London recently and really struck by how *clean* it is compared to Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

I think this might qualify as the most pointless article ever written. It sets out to compare various aspects of NHS Scotland with rUK and in each case ends up with "data is not comparable". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s time for my favorite cartoon of the year.

If Democrats aren’t plastering the airwaves and social media with this clip non-stop for the next couple of months, they don’t deserve to win.

As if to remind us of the best April Fool we ever played on our kids, in which we persuaded them briefly (until my fact-finding firstborn raised a point of information) that one of our (male) guinea pigs had laid an egg, we found a large hen's egg in the middle of our lawn this morning.

Any idea why the ScotRail app has suddenly decided that the best way to go from Central Station to Edinburgh is to take a train to Partick, change trains and come back to Queen St to change again, instead of, y'know, walking for 5 mins between Central and Queen St. WTAF?

For those of you who haven't heard, the arts and cultural hub at 103 Trongate is being threatened with eviction. Amongst other things, it's home to the Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, one of Glasgow's best-loved and unique visitor attractions. Cont./ #glasgow #103trongate #trongate

Extremely wholesome. 1000% better than the stupid layabout pandas.

Wonderful Sweep was a childhood hero. Punk af.

Well, I don't know about everyone else, but personally I think fighting a dragon is probably the less likely of these two things.

I'd really really REALLY like Trump to have to face the consequences of his own stupid decisions for once in his miserable life. He and his cronies have done nothing but disrespect and denigrate other countries and their armed forces and now he wants our help to clear up his mess.

Wow. England - France. What an amazing match! 🏉 Well done France. I've really enjoyed this year's 6 Nations. Lots of really exciting matches and it felt more open than many recent seasons.

This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.

Armchair civil engineering experts are one of the best comedy acts around in the 21st century.

It's funny, to see all this fuss you'd think Churchill had been on the notes forever, as opposed to just the last 10 years. By the time they make the change I guess it'll be 12-14 years, much like Fry and Stephenson had?

Ah March in Scotland. The time when the morning goes from "lovely day for a walk!" to "oh, perhaps not" in the time it takes you to lace your boots up. Some better news though... *Sounds "The Frogs Have Arrived" klaxon*

It's no wonder the stories Robert Burns was told about this place as a child scared the bejesus out of him and fired his imagination. You can well imagine Tam keekin through the window to see the witches dancing. Alloway Old Kirk.

Do you remember when Trump and his gang bullied Zelensky about not wearing a suit to the White House and how disrespectful that was? Just saw Trump on the news receiving the returning dead US soldiers in a baseball cap.

Wanna lead Iran?

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Went and climbed a hill to get away from the absolute shitshow.

The Department of Languages at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social is facing serious cuts with a proposal to make 11 of its staff redundant, stop offering undergraduate Chinese and German and eliminate intercultural studies courses. Please sign this petition: heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/05/s...

If this tree is not heading off somewhere once nobody's looking, then I don't know what's going on here.

Google ad during the rugby: "if your friend asks you a question and your phone knows the answer, shouldn't it just answer?" No, no it very much should not.

Notice we never have an "open debate" about whether tax payers money should be put aside for badly run businesses. I'd love a fucking debate about about that.

Small Prophets. What a delight ♥️.

But… but is there *ANY* way this could be a woman’s fault…?

Have a read of this. Great scoop, obviously, but it’s also an absolute masterclass in how to report on these jokers. Plenty of London-based hacks could learn a lot from Martin Shipton here. If they actually wanted to… nation.cymru/news/the-new...

Our media rightly rages about the already-disgraced Mandelson and Andrew but wrongly fails to hold others in that murky moneyed network to account. Our democracy is under attack from these dismal people right now. Do not be exposing that a decade too late. www.middleeasteye.net/news/steve-b...

Smashing it to the "elites" indeed. Same idiots who thought Boris Johnson was a man of the people will probably vote for this bunch of grifters. www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...

A month in 4 photos January 2026 1. The Thread that Pulls exhibition, Edinburgh 2. Extremely good tail management 3. Woman dyeing wool at the Burrell, Glasgow 4. Colour planning for a big project

A little timeline cheer. This little boat will be arriving in Antigua in the next hour. Milli is just about to complete a solo unsupported row across the Atlantic as part of The World's Toughest Row. She's just about to turn 50, 5 foot tall, and only took up rowing about a year ago. What a gal. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

L O L Love where I live.

The wonderful Diana Henry strikes again. Sausages onions and apples in cider from Simple, with mash and Savoy cabbage and I am so full I think I might pop, but that was just the ribsticker I needed on a cold night.