Updated Scotland poll tracker, accounting for yesterday's @ballotbox.scot and Find Out Now polls. SNP 1 short of a majority. Pro-independence majority of 21. Seats (+/- 2021) SNP: 64 (nc) Lab: 17 (-5) Ref: 17 (+17) Grn: 11 (+3) LD: 10 (+6) Con: 10 (-21) 1/2

Hill Dickinson is Red.👏

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

Global super-rich may have hidden $3.55tn from tax officials, says Oxfam

No midfield. No idea. No energy. No attacking patterns. No movement. No nothing. Slot needed to go a month ago.

Completely, inexcusably abject from Liverpool - the worst result of a horrible season. It may well be the case that this league no longer allows you to play good football, but ineffectiveness isn't compulsory, too. How can Arne Slot possibly make the case to stay this summer?

Thank God for that. The commentators completely unprofessional at the end, though. They sound heartbroken. #FRAVENG

Lamin Kongira: hero.

Read this in the voice of Dr Seuss

I am once again appealing to the club to see sense and drop this man. #LIVWHU

Victory for the Edinburgh bourgeoise over the valleys proletariat #WALSCO #WALVSCO

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

Cody Gakpo is not good enough to play for Liverpool Football Club. There, I’ve said it. Technically fine, but his decision making is abysmal.

I have been to a fair amount of gigs over two decades. That Magdalena Bay one at the O2 might be top 5. What a band.

Jeffrey Epstein took more photos of people he only hung out with once than I have of my best friends of 15 years

Liverpool got everything they deserved for another utterly abject performance tonight. Bournemouth had won one in 14 prior to this, but they were up against a side that has been in bottom-half form since September. This squad is flawed, but should they be this bad? Not a chance.

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Turgid, dire, dull, passionless, flat, predictable, slow, weak, bereft of fight, effort, creativity and desire with no fight and no direction - none of this should ever be possible if playing for the reds - they are just the bare minimums #LFC

‘I’m not going to tell them I’m a police officer’ says the woman who looks more like a police officer than any other person in the entire world #Traitors

But he is the middle management by definition because the secret traitor is giving them directions. This kept winding me up 🤪

How on earth did Man Utd win that?!

Final Scottish Parliament poll tracker of the year, before the Christmas holidays start in earnest. SNP projected one short of a majority. Seats (+/- 2021): SNP: 64 (-) Lab: 18 (-4) Ref: 18(+18) Grn: 12 (+4) Con: 9 (-22) LD: 8 (+4) Alba: 0 (-) 20 marginals: 16 SNP, 3 Labour, 1 Conservative. 1/3

We were literally playing Driving Home for Christmas an hour ago while heading to my parents. Very sad. A fixture in my Dad's collection growing up.

Glad we won, but Liverpool were an absolute disgrace in those last ten minutes. Why were we letting the ball bounce and knocking it long?!! We had a two-man advantage, just pass around them ffs!!! 😂 #LFC

My top 50 albums of the 2020s in rough order. Makes me tempted to indulge in some lightweight listicle blogging again 🤡

RIP Rob Reiner :(

The Glasgow e-bikes are lit

Gakpo is full of endeavour, but he really overthinks his last ball/shot. It’s v frustrating #LFC

Roger Ebert

Woke nonsense

I’m sorry, but nine losses in 12 and we aren’t improving. If Slot doesn’t win at the weekend, he has to go. #LFC

This list thinks that Ace Ventura, Pet Detective is funnier than Blazing Saddles. There are very few matters of taste that I can say are absolutely definitely definitively wrong, but that is one of them.

Liverpool are absolutely tragic.

I would say Eddie Howe is for the chopping block, but I don’t want to give Newcastle’s owners ideas…

SPOILER: the secret to winning Traitors… is to be objectively bad at lying. Who knew? 😂 #TheTraitors

Conor Bradley, the former Gaelic football player, putting Los galacticos to the sword. Los gaelictico if you will… #LIVRMA

UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan

This Liverpool side is an embarrassment. I don’t care how much money we’ve spent or how players need to “adapt”, defending like that is criminal at any level. #BRELIV

Are we really going to do this every game? FFS.

Been in Japan the past two weeks, including for my birthday, and it’s been incredible.

I always wondered why France had so many heists but if you can still just put a ladder up to a window on the Louvre in the year 2025 and get away with a big bag full of priceless jewels I guess that solves the mystery

This is what my inbox looks like right now. I’m not paying to see Mr Worldwide, I’m sorry.

Okay, I’m gonna say it: Andor is the best Star Wars-related thing since the original trilogy and almost makes up for its Disneyfication/oversaturation.

I *ahem* agree with this sensible chap

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