For any Blues travelling up to the match at Murrayfield, the Edinburgh Festival will be on and the hotels will be extortionately priced. When I travelled more for work there in August, I'd stay in Glasgow and take the train.

Your annual reminder that William Shakespeare was born in what is now Turkey, never visited England and almost certainly could not read or write in English.

Rumours are rife that Tiny Hibbert has purchased the rights to the @tonycampari.bsky.social media empire, including its extensive back catalogue and host of media personalities. A shift towards angling content is expected.

“There’s no hate like Christian love.” ffrf.com

Everton turn up heat on Rosenior as Beto double and Ndiaye sink Chelsea

Everton v Chelsea preview on @grandoldteam.com with art by @thebluedoodler.com and Chitty who doesn’t seem to be on here. Anyway in a nutshell we explore corporate coaching this week, courtesy of the new Chelsea Manager. And some soccer stuff. www.grandoldteam.com/2026/03/21/c...

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: "Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator... stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

Whenever I read yet another story about the Glen Sannox and Glen Rosa it astonishes me that the fact that we now know the SNP rigged the procurement for political purposes and faked a launch for political purposes hasn't disqualified them from government for a generation. It's pure corruption.

Quiet Sunday afternoon on the sofa with the dog and a pint. Anyone want to #AskAnAstronomer anything?

I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

I feel compelled to write a review thread 🧵 for The Liz Truss Show because in the madness of the content, other aspects - vital aspects - are being missed. 1. The Aesthetics Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... @letgirlshavefun.bsky.social

Could you imagine him walking around in public on his own?

Went on a little pilgrimage today to Parton, the resting place of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland’s very own Einstein, James Clerk Maxwell. Quite the pause when I realised he was only one year older than me (48) when he died. ⚛️🔭

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

La Haine at the Prince Charles. Mon dieu what a film.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law. These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

How does it feel to be a Nazi? San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch is a top target seat for the Scottish Liberal Democrats. We won the equivalent seat at Westminster last year. Scotland deserves better and people in the Highlands know that our hardworking champion Andrew Baxter is best placed to beat the SNP.

Here's the latest (oddly, not reported by the BBC, which has otherwise obsessively covered this - how curious!) on some that Scottish Labour figures like Anas Sarwar, Jackie Baillie, Claire Baker and Melanie Ward have fallen over themselves to back. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

BRAND NEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've pulled together 3 longer-priced players for the 2025 Open Championship at Royal Portrush #theopenchampionship #theopenportrush #TheOpen www.golfbettingsystem.co.uk/open-champio...

Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’

"Let it rip" is always a bad idea for containing epidemics. It's a REALLY bad idea for containing H5N1 in chickens. Besides the obvious biosafety issues, it has terrible ecological, economic, & food security consequences as well. Must-read in @science.org today 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Only the third ever interstellar object: a tiny world that started its existence at another star. Now cruising in toward our Sun at ~58 km/s, a faint dot (V~18) in the Southern skies. What a day 🔭

The ScotNats have never come to terms with their right wing element, and if they can away with it, they never will.

Something I wrote for the blue room theblueroomefc.co.uk/2025/05/good... @cbobblers1878.bsky.social @edscouse.bsky.social @generalzod.bsky.social @evertonthegear.co.uk @ianocally.bsky.social @jb1964.bsky.social @drjohnreed.bsky.social @jimkeoghan.bsky.social @nevillesouthall.bsky.social

Idrissa Gana Gueye belting out the Jordan Pickford song is everything.

Sometimes you don't need a family office. You need a FAMILY office ... www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

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My home last night. It's called a Bothy, and they are shelters in very remote places, mostly in Scotland. Big up www.mountainbothies.org.uk

Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy just sent out a memo directing staff to "give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average"

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.