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.

I'll bet he's sweating now.

And now, of course, the electorate will be bombarded by claims that "Nigel saved your elections." Could even Liz Truss have played such a blinder? bsky.app/profile/poli...

How Glasgow is making the world a better place: faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-glasgow-...

Glasgow Subway Map 1896 vs 2025 bsky.app/profile/bril...

In 2024, Scotland exported £7.14 billion worth of food & drink, equivalent to £1288 per person. By contrast, England exported £12.12bn, £207 per person. Scotland’s food and drink exports per head are more than six times England’s, and on a par with France. www.thenational.scot/news/2585468...

Is anyone from the government now going to resign over wasting £millions arresting and prosecuting decent people for opposing genocide? I think we all know the answer.

An 18-year-old Diego Maradona looking up Glasgow's Hope Street from a window of the Central Station Hotel, June 1979.

I see we've reached the "isn't it about time we sent children back up chimneys?" point of late-stage capitalism. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02...

Sarwar's playing a high-stakes game of political poker. Unfortunately his hand is the Starship Enterprise, the 3 of Cups, Mr Bun the Baker, Vine Street and Colonel Mustard.

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

If both Starmer and Sarwar survive, Sarwar is going into the election campaign with the message, "Vote for a Labour leader I called on to resign".

Via @labourlewis.bsky.social at the other place.

A senior Labour source messages: "Currently looks like Anas has gone over the top by himself."

“Idiocy, incoherent, and self-defeating. Anas does not have authority to speak on behalf of the Scottish party in this way. It’s a fucking shitshow.” If Sarwar can't command the respect and co-operation of Scottish Labour then he himself must resign. www.thenational.scot/news/2583922...

Douglas Alexander is both a cabinet member and *co-chair of the Scottish Labour election campaign*. How do you run a campaign when your leader and the co-chair of your campaign disagree on whether the Labour PM should resign? How is that sustainable?

Looks like we might be getting that change after all. But not the change that was promised.

Reminder: it was a certain Gordon Brown who bestowed a peerage on Peter Mandelson and appointed him as Business Secretary in his cabinet. Mandelson had already been sacked twice from high office for scandalous behaviour and actions. Mr. Brown would prefer that we forget this.

I see Labour's promise of "change" and their much-vaunted vow to end corruption and sleaze is going well.

I don't know if Epstein was working for the Russians, as our media seems keen to persuade us, but I do know that a spy was once found dead folded inside a holdall in a bathtub and news outlets told us that he put himself in the bag and padlocked it from the outside.

Blimey. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” ―Antonio Gramsci

Well, that aged like a fine milk.

If this goes ahead Glasgow City Council will have to spend as much time painting over giant graffitied cock and balls as they do in removing traffic cones from the Duke of Wellington's napper. www.thenational.scot/news/2578067...