Derek Wilson

🎁 A very happy birthday to Douglas, our coolest cat Have a good one sir 🫡

This is how the SNP view Glasgow they don’t see it as a metropolitan city strategic to the west of Scotland economy. Penalising drivers coming to the City would be damaging to it. Glasgow has already lost shoppers to Edinburgh. No Vision.

Make no mistake: destroying world-class universities, like the US just did with Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, isn't just an attack on Iran but it's literally an attack on all of us, on all of humanity. It's not Iran that "won" when Maryam Mirzakhani made her discoveries that won her a Fields Medal: it's all of mathematics, and everything mathematics is used for. Human progress won, technology won, we all won. It's the same type of stuff the Mongols did during the sack of Baghdad and their destruction of the House of Wisdom: we ALL lost something irreplaceable back then, entire fields of human knowledge set back. That's what bombing a university does. It doesn't just destroy buildings. It destroys us, all of us.

Neil Young is also an awesome rhythm guitarist. There's a spaciousness to his playing, an elegantly delayed backbeat that makes Place. He sounds as if he's sketching the prairie or the scuzzy street where the melodic and lyrical action happens.