The Scotland team have chartered an Iceland Air B757 to fly to the US, currently flying from Glasgow to Bangor, Maine, before presumably going on to North Carolina and their base at Charlotte FC's training centre. fr24.com/ICE1336/3ff5...

Imagine being afraid of this

Refusing to give my money to TNT sports and listening to 5Live like a damned patriot

devastating story:

👇 Absolutely. Charter renewal with a huge majority is a way to be a genuinely consequential politician that very few ministers are lucky enough to have, and she’s…done nothing with it. Absolutely staggered by it.

The jurassic coast has been doing alright for a while, in fairness

"technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate and use it."

Big 40 mins incoming

funny part about this posturing is that Reform's 2024 voters are the least likely of any party's to regularly attend church

Well, there is a pig near us who lives in a brick house who lost his relatives so calling that "little impact" is so heartless

Labour politicians can't come up with policy ideas because they're expounding 100% of their creative energies imagining labour parties that don't exist

The BBC is a shill for the Great Man Theory of history

Good morning from a Renfe high speed train

TEE (Trans Europ Express) posters of the 1960s

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

"Revisionist" - as in, "revisionist history" - is not a synonym for "false," "bad faith," "tendentious," or "self-serving." If you mean one of those those things, just say it. As for what "revisionist history" is:

It is dangerously inaccurate for Tony Blair to say "US security strategy [under Trump] describes the principal threats no differently to how Europeans see it" when one of its main concerns is of "civilisational erasure" in Europe being caused by migration & ethnic diversity

Sustained social media usage is very dangerous, but it isn't just to children. It's patronising to suggest only children are harmed by harmful things.

The word radicalisation does not appear nearly enough in our discourse despite how much it is shaping the politics of elites and voters. We haven't developed a language to talk about causes - community erosion, mainstream social media, COVID etc. - and so we are powerless to stop it happening.

In their letter on this issue, Sex Matters calls trans women in women’s spaces “deviants”. Yesterday, Sonia Sodha called them “fetishists”. This is a troubling escalation in rhetoric from a group that clearly feels emboldened.

They are the dog that caught the car. This nonsense is what happens when you get everything you’ve asked for, but what you’ve asked for makes no sense.

Visited the Alhambra today. Didn't want to leave. Very moorish.

i am ready and available for these religious accommodation claims

This sucks though!

I'm in spain both with and without the s

Nervousness rising about the jags tonight. At least we'll always have that whatever happens we have no chance of playing Ross County next season. Small mercies.

This doping swimming gala is embarrassing isn't it? Properly cringeworthy.

Thrilled to now have confirmation of which soulless London bowl I'll be enjoying an away day to next season

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Everyone who doesn't want this for every UK constituency is a coward

That Kemi Badenoch's job appears secure confuses me almost daily. I often ask myself if there's something I'm missing, am I reading too much liberal media and so I'm blind to her genius? Then polls like this appear and I remember I am not out of touch her rump party are just delusional.

Very interesting analysis of Burnham's rise and why that's probably inseparable from the job of Mayor of Greater Manchester.

You must understand: Lily, who works doing data analysis for the University of Bristol and lives in a house share is middle class. Brian, her landlord, who is a self employed plumber declaring around a third of his income is working class.

Constantly reading new things which give me new ways to see and understand the process of history Coming across innovative and novel methods and ways of doing the study of history, marvelling at how the author's brain works Research seminars and then the lengthy discussions that follow

Obsessed with the fact noone believes anywhere is the second city more aggressively than Midlanders do about Birmingham. We am bostin.

Fundamentally, the structure the Supreme Court has built is that we have a whole act prescribing how you change gender (GRA2004) and a protected characteristic of changed gender (EA2010) which combine to provide no legal protection for having changed your gender.

No words to add to the anger on the new EHRC guidance other than to say again to trans and non binary friends and comrades that I love you, I see you and I am with you today and always. I'm so so sorry that you are yet again being failed by the state.

Undefeated in home league games this season and all to play for on Paisley next week. Some job from Mark Wilson. 🟡🔴

Pretty even playoff final despite the goal. Thistle still in it. MTJ.

Seen suggestions that it would be hard to get PR enacted before the next GE and I don't think that's true. Give a 1 year time limit to your system-choosing commission and then tell the Boundary Commission to work using existing boundaries/government divisions to create districts.

Can anyone recommend any good books on the history of Spain - probably something generalist/trade (any era but preferably not too niche, anything pretty broad would be particularly appreciated)? I am heading on my holidays soon and fear I know far too little about its history

There should be a legal requirement [read: it is good editorial practice] to list the current clubs of players when you print a list of their international call-ups

I think I speak on behalf of everybody here when I say I’m cheering for the mutant super pigs and will happily die for them if need be

Hearing "the labour party is a moral crusade or it is nothing" and going all in for the latter

The Starmer government will do anything to avoid having to persuade the public of something or fund a cash transfer:

HS2's mismanagement makes me genuinely fizz with anger. It has set back *all* rail infrastructure development in Britain by decades both literally in how slow it has been to build, and culturally in baking in skepticism for big projects. Failure of untold scale in the face of a huge opportunity.

If you ranked the 1000 most corrupt things ever done by an executive branch official in the history of the United States something like 950 of them would have happened since Jan 20 2025.

Just finished about 6 hours of work (across a couple of days) completing a critically reflective methodological introduction to a chapter which came out at... 300 words. I have strengths (I think) but being happy with my writing is not one of them.

Playing with additional pressure this week with the added punishment that defeat to St Mirren will mean being forced, once again, against our will to play Stenny