Paging H.P. Lovecraft... www.earth.com/news/ran-rob...

People are living in cardboard boxes, but at least the King's hat has its own coach, escorted by six household cavalry officers, like something out of a second-rate children's fantasy novel. This is supposed to be the 21st century. The UK is beyond parody. www.dailymotion.com/video/xa9l5og

Indeed.

I see they've brought Gordon Brown out of retirement to dance on a ball like an old, abused circus bear. Again.

We already know Westminster will refuse any direct Section 30 request despite yesterday's results, so here's a modest proposal: The SNP should hold a referendum with the question being: "Should the Scottish Parliament have the legal right to hold an independence referendum?"

What's clear from today's election results is that three of the four constituent nations of the so-called United Kingdom have now elected political parties whose primary raison d'être is to bring an end to the United Kingdom. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

I see the "Scottish" Daily Express is taking the election results well.

The BBC appears to be running a story about a petrol station not running out of petrol. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From the so-called "Scotsman" so-called "newspaper". What the - and I cannot stress this strongly enough - actual fuck? www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Using pejorative attack language from political opponents as a news headline is absolutely not impartial public service broadcasting. They're throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the SNP a few days before polling. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The only reason Westminster granted a section 30 order and referendum in 2014 was because, in their ignorance and arrogance, they were utterly convinced they would win, and win easily. The result scared the crap out of them. We won’t be "allowed" another.

Worth a read to remind yourself of the oleaginous Offord's extreme right-wing views and the dark money which enabled his political career. I don't really care how much money or how many yachts he has. I care that he proves UK democracy is for sale. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/10/03/b...

Who wore it best?

If he's only got five cars, how does he get from his sixth house to his sixth yacht?

Offord probably shouldn't have relied on advice from Andrew Windsor's PR agency.

These lads may wish to reconsider their branding if they ever plan a Scottish branch. bsky.app/profile/cnn....

"A biased, London-centric branch office" - Scotland's top media academic on BBC Scotland. archive.is/TB24k

Best bit is they won't forget it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

For clarity, this happened on the B4437 outside Burford in Oxfordshire. Perhaps you should have mentioned that, @STVNews news.stv.tv/politics/tra...

"That was a party election broadcast on behalf of the Scottish National Party." bsky.app/profile/lbc....

❤️Glasgow.

Started, going, etc.

Still the most iconic Scottish weather picture, in my humble opinion.

A quote from Tom Johnston's book, "Our Scots Noble Families". It was first published in 1909 and caused a sensation. He later became wartime Secretary of State for Scotland and first chairman of the North of Scotland Hydro Board.

Oh, do fuck off. www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2599...

This story's currently being covered by The Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Herald, The Telegraph, Daily Express, The Sun, The Mirror, Daily Record, The Scotsman, The National, and many others. BBC Scotland? Not a peep. Radio silence. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The new goal of Trump's Iran War appears to be opening the Straight of Hormuz, which was open before the start of Trump's Iran War.

The Iran war is such a clusterfuck Trump may need to release the Epstein files as a distraction.

There's a small minority in Scotland (History Woman, Effie Deans, AgentP and their chums) who'll be wetting themselves at this prospect. Scotland back in its box and then bled dry. Independence is imperative. www.thenational.scot/news/2595106...

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: "To every American who wants peace through strength: may Almighty God bless our troops. Please pray for them every day on bended knee in the name of Jesus Christ." But it's Iran who are the religious nutters, apparently. www.war.gov/News/Transcr....

I'm not a Green voter but well said, @zackpolanski.bsky.social. About time we had a politician in the UK with the courage to articulate this fundamental, undeniable truth. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Dutch urinals: disturbing.

Thanks to BBC Wales for reporting this. I'm sure BBC Scotland will also be all over it haha. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"When a lazy aristocrat from a dying dynasty uses a helicopter to travel seventeen miles, the edifice shakes. But when that same man rapes a 17-year-old and calls her a liar, it is the end of days." Utterly excoriating from Mr O'Hagan. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I have no issue with Tony Blair expressing his opinion, other than the fact that he should be doing it from a dock in The Hague.

If Iran didn't want to be attacked they shouldn't have put their country right in the middle of all those US military bases.

Glasgow's Cowcaddens Cross looking east towards Hope Street, c1900. Image credit: commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

Glasgow city council’s property company forces the closure of a jewel in Glasgow's arts scene just a month after we lost the CCA. Short-sighted cultural vandalism and totally unacceptable. @glasgowcc.bsky.social - sort it out. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2589875...

Well, that FIFA Peace Prize was worth its weight in shit.

Union Street entrance to Glasgow Central Station, 1950s.

Straight out of the Trump playbook. Fanny.

Good news and a good decision by @scotgov www.thenational.scot/news/2588183...

The Royal Family - for two decades, at every stage of these shabby, squalid, dishonourable proceedings - protected, covered up, and ultimately paid for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's behaviour. His disgrace is their disgrace. bsky.app/profile/kerc...

King Charles says, "the law must take its course." Cool. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021...

The last senior royal to be arrested was King Charles I in 1647. He was executed two years later.

A timely reminder of how Ireland views the British monarchy, via the @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Wee thought for the day: but for a twist of fate in the great womb lottery that is the British Royal Family, Andrew might have been the head of state of the United Kingdom.