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.

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My brother served in Afghanistan (more than once). Before deployment, he had to get his troops to write a letter, to be sent to their families if they died. I assume he wrote one too, but he was lucky enough to get back ok. Hundreds weren't so lucky. Trump is a truly despicable human being.

457 British troops. You evil, senile bastard.

Spreading this before they get a chance to take it down and revise the story

Found this website this morning, useful as a starting point if you’re trying to boycott American goods and services, which we absolutely all should! https://www.goeuropean.org

Robert Jenrick says the Tories "broke Britain," so he's joined a party that includes: Nadhim Zahawi, Nadine Dorries, Jonathan Gullis, Ben Bradley, Danny Kruger, Jake Berry, Marco Longhi, Aiden Burley, Anne Marie Morris, Lee Anderson and Andrea Jenkyns.

@Grok Add a Bikini Atoll

Ah, nothing says "smashing the metropolitan elites" like recruiting the guy who got taxpayers to pay for the heating of his stables.

It's a shame this dude isn't a Traitor because nobody seems to have noticed that he's even in the castle. He hasn't been mentioned by anybody, at all. I didn't even know what his name was. #TheTraitorsUK

Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

*struts in triumphant circle round the room* Head removed from sand ✔️ Tax return submitted ✔️

The #traitors hashtag is a strange mix tonight of delight at the unmasking of a reality gameshow villain and the terrifying actions of a reality gameshow villain.

I guess Infantino would be feeling a bit sheepish this morning if that "Peace Prize" was an actual peace prize and not a shameful display of toadying.

What are Scottish people eating at Hogmanay that involves such vast amounts of cream that the shelves are always cleaned out by the 30th?

How lovely. A warm and merry Christmas to all. 🎄🌲🎄🌲🎄🌲

I'm extremely invested in these absolute lunatics, who are currently ROWING across the Atlantic Ocean. Particularly the legend Milli Abrams, who is 5 foot tall, rowing solo, and will turn 50 in the middle of the Atlantic.