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Just clearing out the loft, and found these Scottish classics, all bought around UK... @texastheband and FoP from HMV Union Street or Impulse East Kilbride @ropoem The Bluebells from a stall on Blackpool’s Central Pier Sept w/end 1985. @jamthrawn L&M from Woolworths, Alton in 91.

@Heccles94 More than that, stop saying they are “wealth creators”. They’re not - they’re wealth takers. I can’t imagine anyone on the minimum wage, relying on benefits just to get by, would ever think of themselves as being “wealthy”.

Billionaires do not create jobs. Stop saying it. Without billionaires, we would still build things, design things, teach things, sell things, buy things. Billionaires capitalise profits. That's it.

@ChinaliveX “We”? He speaks for the few, but not the many.

@CountBinface A crutch of…

What is the collective noun for a group of c***s?

@topskillsportuk They should refuse to pay it.

🚨💣 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄: UEFA have fined Crvena Zvezda €95,500 over their stunning Jesus/Saint Simeon tifo 🔥😳 €40,000 of the fine is specifically for the banner that read: “May our faith lead you to victory” UEFA’s official reason: “Displaying a message deemed inappropriate for a sporting event” and “undermining the reputation and integrity of football and UEFA.” Serbian fans are raging, calling it the biggest and most beautiful tifo of 2026 — now punished like a crime.

@bambibristol That long?

The Ipswich Town saga should be a stark warning to this country ahead of 2029… Let that frog faced fucker wrangle his way in and you’re guaranteed to deeply regret it within 48 hours.

@marcrileydj @creepingbentorg 👍

DUGLAS is a hugely talented man.. but much more importantly he is lovely, funny… and has great taste in music… so please follow him. You’ll be thankful you did! ❤️

@Daractenus @Jgs_x 😂😂

"No leaders left. The leaders are all gone. Nobody knows who to talk to, but we're actually talking to the right people, and they want to make a deal so badly." Hard to find a single sentence uttered by this man where the beginning and the end agree with each other.

@InsiderWorld_1 @DavidM_Friedman Shocking images of destruction and devastation caused to Israel. Oh, sorry… caused ‘by’ Israel.

@DavidM_Friedman You used much worse weapons against kids and women in Gaza. You even used forbidden weapons by international laws.

This is what Iran is dropping on civilian neighborhoods in Israel. There’s no army base here, no soldiers hiding behind civilians, just regular people with older parents and young children. Never try to draw an equivalence between this and how the IDF engages in battle.

@IpswichTown So inclusive and diverse even racists are welcome.

Following Monday’s visit by the Reform party and its leader, Nigel Farage, the club would like to issue the following statement: Ipswich Town Football Club has, over several years, hosted representatives from a range of political parties. The club remains apolitical and does not support or endorse any individual or party. The club will continue to engage with representatives from across the political spectrum as part of its role within the community. Ipswich Town is proud to be an inclusive, diverse, and welcoming organisation that supports all members of the local and wider community. This commitment remains unchanged.

@nee_massey It was refreshing to hear place names that you not only recognised, but from your home town or city, tae boot! How’s the tour going?

Loved Hipsway in 86 ‘ seven in the morning, on the Great.. Western.. Road’ 😉

@BladeoftheS @SimonForrest11 That 15mins time saving is proving just too fast for some. Anyway, @BBCScotlandNews - what’s happening with the ferries?

So not only is it £800m a mile it is also just normal rail. These thieves all needs to be in jail and the stolen money back in your pocket.

@PaulJohnDykes @ACSOMPOD I feel Daizen’s day is done. His contribution this season is nothing short of lamentable. Hatate’s form, and effort, may have improved in the last few games, but he has also been woeful this season. I never thought I would say this, but I won’t lament the day they leave.

I’d change to 3-5-2 for the run-in: Sinisalo Arthur Trusty Scales Johnston McGregor Nygren Engels Tierney Cvancara Maeda

🇮🇱🇮🇷🇪🇺 JUST IN: Netanyahu says Iran proving it can strike Europe means it's time for all allies to join the war. Israel bombed Iran first. Assassinated its scientists. Threatened its existence. Now Iran builds to defend itself, and suddenly Europe is in danger? Iran never invaded anyone. Israel never stops. The allies shouldn't join. They should stop arming the aggressor.

A Union of 4 equal partners. That's the UK message. 3 are the so called devolved nations. One has the UK Gov. Starmer." We will do things directly in the devolved nations whether they like it or not". That's UK equality. England is the boss. The colonial master. That's reality.

I can’t see how we can send the Navy to the Gulf. The US and Israel have no plan and they are deeply unreliable partners. We should be focused deescalating and if we lose ships and lives that does the opposite. Israel wants us all in and Trump wants out… how do you work with that?

So let me get this straight. FIFA is threatening to penalize Iran for not coming to the world cup in the United States, which just bombed the hell out of them and this is the same FIFA that gave the president of the country that bombed them a peace prize.

@ruth_wishart Yeas, it’s called the Prize Knob ‘Ed.

Is there a Nobel prize for warmongering?

@MidgeUreUpdates Would that be the A-side, and the B-side?

I’m delighted to announce that my brand new album, A Man Of Two Worlds, will be released on 8th May - my first album of new material in 12 years. Partly inspired by my lockdown exploration of instrumental music, it’s divided into two distinct halves.

Saint John Ogilvie, the Scottish Jesuit hanged in Glasgow in 1615 for being Catholic. He committed a crime that governments throughout history have always found intolerable. He insisted that the state did not own his conscience Ogilvie was offered a way out. No one was desperate to hang him. The officials simply wanted a small concession. A sentence. A declaration. Just say that the king was the final authority in matters of religion and public life. Sign the formula and go home. He refused. Because if the state can command what you must believe, it does not merely govern your actions. It governs your soul. And once a government claims authority there, nothing remains outside its reach. That was the threat Ogilvie posed. A man who believed there was a law higher than the government of the day. Every regime finds such people inconvenient. So they killed him. Four centuries later the gallows are mostly gone, but the temptation of power remains exactly the same. Every age produces authorities who would quite like your public compliance, your signed declaration, your carefully worded affirmation. Ogilvie’s answer still rings across the centuries. The state can govern many things. But it does not get to govern the conscience. Today, 10 March, is the feast day of Saint John Ogilvie in Scotland, commemorating the day he was executed at Glasgow Cross in 1615 Artist Peter Howson

@Devon_OnEarth Aka, Sandy McSandface.

You're telling me the British Defence Attache to a Desert country is a guy called "Captain Sandy Sandilands"