Motherwell 1 Dundee FC 0. There was no point turning up before the 2nd half, but Well did enough to deserve the win in the end. My report for the Dundee website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/mother...

My cousin just discovered this lovely photo. It's my 15 month old mother and her three year old brother Jack, taken in May 1929. Mum is still alive and living on her own. Jack died peacefully in January at the age of 98 after a long life lived well.

Livingston 2 Dundee FC 2 The Dark Blues have to be happy with a point in which they were second best for most of the match. That second half was grim viewing. My report for the club website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/living...

This is consistent with the outbreak of bubonic plague that devastated Europe, North Africa and the Middle East in the 530s & 540s. It followed the volcanic winter of 536 when massive eruptions cooled the climate, and caused widespread crop failures.

66 years ago today. The Broughty Ferry lifeboat disaster. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpE...

Dundee FC 1 Aberdeen 3. It was a closer game than the score suggests, but the Dark Blues have only themselves to blame. There were too many mistakes at either end. My report for the club website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/aberde...

Nigel Farage alleges that almost 1 in 3 Scottish schoolchildren do not have English as their first language. The claim was not about Glasgow. His actual words were; "nearly 1 in 3 pupils in Scottish schools only has English as a second language." 89% speak English, Scots or Gaelic at home. 1/3

Celtic 1 Dundee FC 0. It was a defeat, but a decent performance by the Dark Blues, who refused to cave in after Celtic took an early lead. My report for the Dundee club website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/celtic...

If you are curious about my BlueSky header photo it's Lagg Bay, on the Isle of Jura, where we go once or twice a year. Jura is the size of the Isle of Wight but the population is only 225. This house is 9 miles up the coast from the only village. It is so peaceful! www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/352612...

Dundee FC 3 St Mirren 1. Well, I didn't see that coming when the Dee shipped that dreadful opening goal, but the second and third Dundee goals were a joy to watch today. Get in there! My report for the Dundee FC website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/st-mir...

I was delighted to find this profile of my great-grandfather, Duncan Macpherson, "The Blind Musical Genius of Dundee". What an amazing man! My grandmother was his daugher Dorothy. jerrymoriarty.wordpress.com/2023/11/04/d...

Elon Musk believes that X/Twitter is now the main source of news. There are problems with that, as even Grok, X's own AI tool, recognised when I asked this question. I suspect that Grok will be swiftly forced to toe the corporate line. See link for the full answer. x.com/i/grok/share...

Hibs 2 Dundee FC 0. Nothing new today. Second best throughout. My report for the Dundee FC website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/oppone...

I checked the original transcript from 2021 and this story is correct.

The Wallace Monument. The Victorians knew how to build a spectacular monument. It looms over Stirling University and I could see it from my bedroom when I was a student there.

One hopes that the BBC will refer Trump to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram. If Trump didn't want to be accused of instigating a violent riot and attempting to stage a coup he should not have done either of these things. It's quite simple really. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Dundee FC 0 Rangers 3. Some ok spells of play, but with no end product and a porous defence the Dark Blues were nowhere near good enough. My report for the club website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/ranger...

Hearts 4 Dundee FC 0. A poor performance by the Dark Blues in Edinburgh. My report for the Dundee FC website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/heart-...

I loathe the Hearts press box. It is exposed to the rain and the view is terrible. Half the pitch is blocked by screens to try and keep the rain off electrical equipment. It is awful for a stand that is only seven years old

I've just noticed I sent a message in which, as an afterthought, I referred to a famous work by Richard Strauss. I actually typed 'Also Also Sprach Zarathustra...' without thinking it odd. 'Also' is one of the classic false friends for students learning German.

Falkirk 2 Dundee FC 1. The Dark Blues threw a point away at the end. They were short of their best but should have taken a point today. My report for the club website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/falkir...

Driving up the A846 on the Isle of Jura at sunrise. It's surely one of Scotland's most scenic 'highways'.

Populists live on simple answers and cheap applause. When those no longer work and they are confronted by unpopularity, they have nothing.

Aberdeen 4 Dundee FC 0. That was awful from the Dark Blues, who got what they deserved. My report for the club website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/aberde...

Is internal audit dead? No, but if it doesn't learn some important lessons (especially from the Post Office scandal) it might as well die. My blog. clarotesting.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/i...

I don't think I've ever seen a more stupid insult than "lanyard classes". Taken literally it means anyone with a job. In practice it just means "people I don't like".

I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt. Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.

I love these old family photos I found. My newly married great-grandparents, Duncan & Florence Macpherson in the 1890s. My grandmother, Dorothy (Dolly) Macpherson, May 1920, at the Birks of Aberfeldy. That summer her boyfriend, my grandfather, left the army after joining up at the start of WW1. 1/3

St Mirren 1 Dundee FC 0. The Dark Blues can't do enough to save a tight game. My report for the club's website, which is awful to work with. The formatting is screwed up and won't recognise my HTML code to sort it. One is not amused.😒 dundeefc.co.uk/match/st-mir...

I'm reading the excellent "The Black Friar" by @shonamaclean.bsky.social. A character called Marchamont Nedham has been introduced as the Proctorate's "mouthpiece to the masses... he would write whatever it paid him most to write, regardless of any truth". From that description I immediately...1/2

Dundee FC 3 Livingston 2. I quite enjoyed that. Well, most of it anyway, and certainly the 97th minute.🙂 My report for the Dundee FC website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/living...

Dundee FC 1 Motherwell 1. Strange game. It was an awful first half from the Dark Blues but an ok(ish) second half, so we'll take the point. My report for the club website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/mother...

The chief executive's expression tells us what she thinks about kids taking over the council.

Reform UK's economic policies are incoherent; tax less, spend more on popular things, and reduce government debt. The figures are implausible, and I've got a letter in today's Dundee Courier pointing this out. For once the party helpfully revealed enough detail for us to see it's all nonsense. 1/2

Everything was rosy here in Pictland after we got rid of the Romans (with the help of our weather). Then immigrants arrived in boats from Ireland, rebranded themselves as Scots, and started acting like they owned the place. Scotland? Who are they kidding? Pictland for the Picts! Send the Scots home!

86 years ago the UK went to war. That afternoon my grandparents took their children for a walk. My grandfather told my father, who had just turned 16, "the only consolation is that you’re going to be too young for this one”. He was wrong. claro2.wordpress.com/2016/12/04/m...

The River Almond in Perth provided excellent sport for Labradors this morning. Enough of a current to be interesting. Not enough to be a problem.

To be clear, the extremist that Musk is supporting here wants to expel from the UK all British citizens who are not pure white, even if they were born here. Mixed-race citizens would be deported too. Does that mean Musk is supporting a neo-Nazi? You can decide.

When I saw references to this, from a former Conservative MP, I thought it might be a spoof. No. It is genuine. This sort of poison is entering the political mainstream now.

Dundee FC 0 Dundee United 2. The Dark Blues never got going and can't have any complaints. My report for the Dundee website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/dundee...

I've got a letter in today's Courier pointing out the ludicrous rewriting of history from a fan of the vile Clive of India. It's not 'woke' to argue that Clive was a villain. Calling him a hero simply reveals ignorance of history. He is no more admirable than Putin's thuggish military.

A whistleblower says that a former senior US government DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to an insecure private section of the agency's cloud. 1/2 www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...

The office on International Dog Day.

May I point out that it is never acceptable to write a date as DD/MM/YY (or MM/DD/YY if you're an eccentric from the far side of the Atlantic). It is always YYYY, even if you're only labelling food for the freezer. Yours authoritatively, a former Y2K Fix/Test Manager. (Some scars never heal.)

Kilmarnock 0 Dundee FC 0. Nothing special, but a solid, organised performance and a clean sheet on the road. Nothing much to moan about there. My report for the Dundee FC website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/kilmar...

This shows what a great view I had in the Ibrox press box. It's all the more entertaining because of the mass seething from the posh seats behind us when Rangers are toiling. Maybe it wasn't diplomatic to wear a green jacket, but I think I got away with it. Btw - it should never have been a penalty.

Rangers 1 Dundee FC 1. Rangers are happy to get a (barely deserved) point against the impressive Dark Blues. My report for the Dundee website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/ranger...

This captures nicely the scepticism many people in IT have about the enthusiasm for adopting AI.

I let a goat from my local zoo run SQL commands against prod without protection and it nuked my data The comments: have you tried this other much smarter goat

Dundee FC 5 Montrose 0. Aye, well that was better. Almost ok at times. But there's still plenty of room for improvement, despite the happy scoreline. My report for the Dundee website. dundeefc.co.uk/match/montro...