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@BenGoldsmith Englishman spends 2 seconds north of the border and is compelled to talk down to Scots, have a fucking day off. Every single problem you have listed can be traced back to the imperialism imported by *your* “population”.

I’ve just been in Scotland. The writer Aldo Leopold once said that even the smallest ecological education leaves you walking through ‘a world of wounds’ which nobody else seems to see. Scotland’s beautiful hills and glens have for the most part been stripped and scarred and left utterly desolate by generations of landowners, land managers and dreadful politicians. You can drive in any direction for hours and see nothing but sheep and more sheep on denuded hillsides, pockmarked with vast, artless blocks of monocultural conifer plantation deadzones. Even where there are few sheep, red deer numbers are artificially inflated for the canned shooting industry and the deer do just the same as the sheep, leaving nothing but cropped grass from the top of the hills to the bottom of the valleys, a gigantic bowling green with contours. Developing countries which have suffered a loss of trees and nature on anything like the same scale have the rest of the world rushing to offer assistance in restoring it. Think Madagascar, or Nepal, where things are fast now being turned around. Many of the pockets of natural woodland that remain in Scotland are totally infested with head-height invasive rhododendron. Some landowners are turning things around, to the fury of their neighbours, but they remain a small minority. Those places are fast becoming truly magical islands of what once was and what could be again. It’s even worse under the sea, out of sight, out of mind. Scotland says that marine protected areas represent 38% of its seas. It’s bollocks. Even the most destructive fishing practices such as bottom trawling are permitted with impunity in nearly all of it. Just 1% of Scotland’s seas are actually protected. This is what happens when you have a population that has lost touch with what nature is, and can’t see the ravages which surround it; governed by politicians who are in hock to a small minority of established vested interests who simply won’t have it any other way.

@Bricky67_ Not including this one, surely? x.com/urmlewis/statu…

I think i speak for the entire nation when i say this Fuck off 👍🏻

The only thing that could improve last night - a vintage Sportscene edit with Freak Out by @AvrilLavigne @ScotlandNT

McTominay 🚲😱 #FIFAWorldCup

@Thomas_Returns Thomas just like me fr

@Thomas_Returns It’s a good start

@Thomas_Returns This is exactly the kind of gibberish that has the potential to do crazy numbers on LGBT twitter, good luck Tomac

(explaining bugs bunny to a girl) ok the thing you gotta know about this guy is hes basically never serious. He is always clowning on others

@Thomas_Returns Gyatt-centred infrastructure perilously underfunded

Oh God the kids are losers

Take all their union jacks and stitch them together to make a giant sail, stick it on top of a raft made of industrial bins, wish these lads all the very best and send them into the Atlantic for pastures new.

@msm_monitor @StephenFlynnSNP Viva España first of all. Secondly, what’s your take on all this?

Greg Jackson, chief executive of Octopus Energy, has repeated his claim that reforming the energy market could see Scotland with the cheapest energy in Europe and BBC Scotland is yet again refusing to report the remarks. There needs to be a full Holyrood inquiry into BBC Scotland editorial decisions.

@LambLex @AtGF1988 More lateral maybe, but Nelson Mandela Place renaming? International story of righteousness and positivity

in one decade we have (off the top of my head): 1983 Glasgow's Miles Better 1983 Burrell 1985 SEC 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival 1988 Princes Sq 1989 Italian Centre 1989 St Enoch Centre 1990 City of Culture 1990 Concert Hall 1990 Dome of Discovery 1993 St Mungo's Museum (3 of 4)

Maybe it's time we had a retrospective name for that late 80s/early 90s period when Glasgow experienced a rash of positivity, and positive developments. It's something that comes up again and again when I speak to people for @AtGF1988. whether... (1 of 4)

@TheWapplehouse @mikerainey82 Michael…

Watching her make this pasta was life changing. Mama Mia.

The cost of meeting the nurses' pay demand - £1.6bn 🏥 Cost of Sunak's bank tax giveaway - £7.3bn 💸 They have the money to give nurses a proper pay rise- they just don't want to. RT if you back a real pay rise for our nurses 👊

What I admire most about our Secretary of State for the Environment is her obvious passion and enthusiasm for the role, along with a firm command of the brief, all underpinned by a deep commitment to professionalism & transparency. Dear god.🤦🏻‍♂️ #ToriesOut

Hunt claims that 90,000 students would drop out of private school system if tax relief was ended. I've found the source of the stat – the Independent Schools Council, the lobby group that represents private schools.

@DelaneyMan @IAmTheEggPod Touch of the Billy Zane about you here, Nifty

Come on to fuck man