Richie on the ball

Very good of the New York Times to invent the “league table”

Rewatching all of Poirot and a new reaction gif just dropped

“The rough-finish Mitre. Half football, half Portuguese Man o’ War. On the verge of a ban in the European Court of Human Rights, this model is not for sale to children” —from “Playground Football” by @brookmyre.bsky.social Today, 25 May, is #WorldFootballDay ⚽ dearscotland.com/2009/08/07/p...

Peter Murrell is a cunt, and as someone with personal experience of another light fingered cunt who inveigled their way into the SNP and wider independence movement and robbed thousands, I think that’s being kind on the Penfold cunt.

Scared the living shit out of me as a wean, who wants vaporised in the vacuum of space by a mobile aspidistra?

Is there a reason Ireland has bye-elections and we have by-elections or is it just one of those things?

The legend @cmatbaby.bsky.social said a lot more in her acceptance speech than what RTÉ are reporting. (Video posted by Lisa McLoughlin on Instagram - www.instagram.com/reel/DYnTKR3...) #Speirgorm

Reform 2025 Ltd's Thomas Kerr in parliament yesterday, a man who clearly has more respect for the difficulty of moving chairs than an average human.

The new Lego Batman game has a Limmy reference in it: youtu.be/Rfdwh2LA4iA?...

Idly browsing my photo roll and found this - newspaper circulations from 1999/2000…

Unnerving to me that literal MPs do not see why “security vetting gets a veto on whether elected MPs should take their seats” is not a good idea.

Streeting using his speech to lump us and Plaid in with Farage's Poujadist ratbags shows what a lumpen prat he is, a cartoon headed stereotype escapee from an early 2000s Steve Bell strip.

Anas Sarwar, four weeks ago: "what John Swinney and the SNP are proposing is something that might happen at some point, many years in the future." www.ft.com/content/8573...

We’re just normal men

Who doesn't love proportional representation?

What’s funny is that keeping Sarwar as leader for a couple of years is strategically the best option for SLab, get through the council elections and give the new group a chance to audition for the big gig. The fact this is the case shows how monumentally screwed SLab are.

The man who ran a secret campaign to target and smear journalists says anonymous accounts on social media are polluting our public conversation.

My MP posting across the road, I mean....

Currently at 3 by elections pending, if the other 647 very quickly take turns with the Chiltern Hundreds and the Manor of Northstead we can have some real fun.

If the by-election writ gets moved on Monday you could be looking at polling day on 18th June.

I repeat again en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Le...

Forgive me for being cynical about the guy who employed private spooks to dig dirt on journalists looking into Starmer’s little cabal suddenly looking to do Burnham a turn

CONGRATULATIONS VIN DIESEL MSP!

BBS Open Letter on Improving Scottish Parliament Results Reporting An open letter from Ballot Box Scotland urging significant improvements to reporting on Scottish Parliament elections; or, why does a hobbyist publish more data on the regional vote than the BBC?

Me explaining VAR to people who don’t like football: so each team pays about £100k a year to get some referees to watch the game in an office somewhere Them: so they can make sure there are no mistakes? Me: absolutely not, no

You can chuck the "Glasgow Football Association" patter, they'd fuck us and the Queen's over without a thought as well.

Just seen the Sellick "penalty", if that's the plan for Saturday there will be complete carnage in Edinburgh.

Motherwell you beautiful people

That frame in the World Snooker with the red balls around the black lasted 426% longer than Wes Streeting's visit to Downing Street.

Some laugh if Sarwar ends up the only Labour leader on this island still in post by the end of this month, not as if he led the worst SLab campaign in living memory, the worst result ever for Holyrood and the 2nd worst including UK elections since 1910.

These folk seem very brave dealing with serious threats like disabled people claiming benefits or old people heating their house but not very brave in their own world.

It's nice, isn't it? The quiet.

Only one man can bring Labour back from the brink to triumph over all the evil that threatens it...

Senga “deport all the Muslims” Beresford literally front and centre here.

Caithness Warble (pictured) - PPS in the Department of Natural Urban Themes - is the latest to resign, citing “irreconcilable differences” related to views on The Stone Roses’ second album.

FAO Andy Burnham en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Le...

this fella finished 3rd. nae luck.

Generally, if you drop below 13% 1st prefs in a 4-seater ward, you're toast. If you drop below 16% 1st prefs in a 3-seater, you're toast. Labour's list vote on Thursday was 16%.

Just listened to a Holyrood Sources podcast for the first time and I now understand what you all mean.

The idea Anas Sarwar can cling on as Scottish Labour leader now is absurd. He came. He saw. He lost. It's over. www.thenational.scot/politics/260...

Welsh national anthem absolutely batters our one

Some story this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Who wants a longish read about the colliery waggonways of Southside, illustrated with far too many maps? Nobody? Bah. You shall have one anyway. new-cleckit.dominie.scot/the-govan-wa...

I can report Cherry has been elected Commissioner of Lesbian Virtue, your true lesbianism will now be determined by her Committee of One sitting in session every Saturday night, I regret to say I received a 0.0 assessment.