The Mess We're In : The government won't tell the truth and voters won't hear the truth either. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...

It hasn’t rained for a month. Which means it is time, once again, for ‘Scotland’, by Alastair Reid.

S.T.R.A.M.A.S.H

The ruling determines what the law IS and, indeed, what it has always BEEN.

This "people will kill themselves" blackmail is increasingly popular (now seen in multiple policy areas) and utterly disgraceful.

This is madness. No way we can trust Ohio State with nuclear weapons.

When ‘Sorry’ is the impossible word. www.thetimes.com/article/6b46...

The Vindication of Women. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...

The Vindication of Women. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...

Good lord, hasn’t even California suffered enough?

This is extraordinary given the ideological diversity of the participants.

Five days after FWS vs Scottish ministers & far too many people still need to be reminded that the govt position was that quotas for women could be filled by men. How can that be anything other than marginalising, downgrading, even erasing, women?

as soon as someone attributes an opinion/ attitude to an entire jurisdiction (the people of this town “cherish their way of life”) you can stop reading

Classic Guardian correction

Longstanding peeve: I do wish people citing Teddy Roosevelt like this understood that “bully” in “bully pulpit” means “very good”.

Interesting, perhaps, but of zero legal or statutory relevance. However expert, the views of a policy official about what a law is ‘intended’ to be are as nothing when set beside the ruling of judges who determine what it actually *is*.

I for one am glad that attacking court judgments seems to be socially acceptable again among people who used to give very tedious lectures on the subject.

Boss move. Marvellous. No fucks given.

A question of supreme irrelevance. The court’s job is to rule on the law, not to rule with a mind to how their ruling will be interpreted by others. This should not be a difficult thing to understand.

This would be a great argument if sex and race were analogous. But they ain’t!

Sex is immutable. Sex is not the same as gender. This is only difficult to understand if you prefer to believe birth certificates are some kind of random sorting hat.

Very good job here: News Editor for The Times & The Sunday Times in Scotland. (One downside: the successful applicant will from time to time have to deal with me.) www.newscareers.co.uk/vacancies/38...

An era of magical thinking comes to an end and vindication is a dish to be enjoyed at any temperature. So three cheers for the ladies of For Women Scotland. www.thetimes.com/article/d5f2...

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

No I am not. Because it is not.

An era of magical thinking comes to an end and vindication is a dish to be enjoyed at any temperature. So three cheers for the ladies of For Women Scotland. www.thetimes.com/article/d5f2...

Very good job here: News Editor for The Times & The Sunday Times in Scotland. (One downside: the successful applicant will from time to time have to deal with me.) www.newscareers.co.uk/vacancies/38...

LOCK HIM UP!

One shouldn't laugh but actually it's fine to laugh.

It is a considerable sadness that HL Mencken is not around to write about this.

A good day to be writing a column for tomorrow's paper.

When the refineries at Coryton in England and Milford Haven in Wales closed, without being nationalised, was that anti-English or anti-Welsh? No. Only Scottish nationalism has a cult of victimhood which allows its politicians to so debase themselves, apparently without shame.

Who cares about fish? European defence and security is just a little bit more important than sole and haddock. www.thetimes.com/article/6905...

Who cares about fish? European defence and security is just a little bit more important than sole and haddock. www.thetimes.com/article/6905...

Who cares about fish? European defence and security is just a little bit more important than sole and haddock. www.thetimes.com/article/6905...

John Swinney’s anti-extremism summit won’t work (and targets the wrong party). www.thetimes.com/article/c049...

Column: Scotland is becoming Britain’s granny flat and it can’t afford it www.thetimes.com/article/4251...

Column: Scotland is becoming Britain’s granny flat and it can’t afford it www.thetimes.com/article/4251...

“We set our house on fire to heat up a pizza, then we decided to put out most of the fire. Now we are only left with a burned pizza, partially burned down house and a smaller fire in the corner of the living room.”

Anyway, still a very good day to watch ‘Margin Call’ again.

A 10% global tariff is still bad news and still stupid on an epic scale. Price in the uncertainty caused by having a baboon* in the White House and no sane person would decide to make any major investment now. Anywhere. Sub-optimal. (No offence to bona fide baboons).

Look, we have to take what entertainment we can these days. So, yes, it is important to note the names of all the very smart people who assured us Donald Trump would not do all the things he said he would do. Note their names and remember them. alexmassie.substack.com/p/what-are-y...

Trump is doing what he said he would do and reminding us, once again, that the moral of the fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that, in the end, THERE IS ALWAYS A WOLF. alexmassie.substack.com/p/what-are-y...

Trump is doing what he said he would do and reminding us, once again, that the moral of the fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that, in the end, THERE IS ALWAYS A WOLF. alexmassie.substack.com/p/what-are-y...

@norcrosscricket.bsky.social The final item here might (maybe) amuse you.

Come for Trump and Le Pen but please stay for what I (immodestly) think is a rather good TS Eliot joke open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...

Look, we have to take what entertainment we can these days. So, yes, it is important to note the names of all the very smart people who assured us Donald Trump would not do all the things he said he would do. Note their names and remember them. alexmassie.substack.com/p/what-are-y...

Audacious page layout in today’s @scotnational.bsky.social. Positive story about John Swinney pushing for closer economic ties with the US. Immediately adjacent: a story lambasting Anas Sarwar for doing the exact same thing.

Kim Il Trump announces new Great Patriotic Initiative.