Donald Gillies

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Q Manivannan is the perfect poster child for everything that has gone catastrophically wrong with the West. An Indian national on a student visa somehow ends up as a Scottish Green MSP, immediately starts demanding "reparative justice" payments from Scottish taxpayers to Palestinians, and parades around as non-binary while the media treats "their' identity like a sacred shield. How is Scotland's electoral system so broken that a non-citizen can get elected into parliament? This is not representation but invasion by invitation, the deliberate importation of foreign activists who have zero loyalty to Scotland, zero stake in its survival, and every incentive to turn it into just another globalist playground for their pet causes.

🚨🎙️Thierry Henry on why Celtic’s goal should have been ruled out as offside and Hearts have a case for a 3-0 forfeit, applies the laws of the game to it: “Football laws are supposed to be based on consistency, not emotion. And when you actually break this game down properly, there are two enormous controversies that, in my opinion, completely changed the outcome of the title race and the SPFL just let it happen. First, that Maeda ‘goal’ that made it 2-1? It should never have stood. Law 11 is crystal clear: Offside is judged at the moment the ball is played by a teammate. The scorer was offside when the initial pass went in, lurking in an illegal position for a good 3 seconds, gaining a massive positional advantage. Then he benefits from it and pokes it home. That’s gaining an advantage from an offside position, textbook offence. VAR drew their lines on the ‘second pass’ and said ‘onside,’ but that’s gaslighting. The player carried the illegal head-start straight into the goal. They hand Celtic the title momentum. Disgraceful. Then comes the real scandal. Osmand bangs in the third with 30+ seconds left, game has to restart. Kick-off, more time to be played. Instead? Thousands of Celtic fans storm the pitch. Hearts players assaulted, shoved, punched, chased. Lawrence Shankland and others physically attacked. Chaos. No proper restart. Game abandoned due to home fans’ violence. Law 5,The Referee: Full authority to abandon for outside interference. When one side’s supporters prevent the match from finishing and assault the opposition? Forfeit. Precedents exist, teams have been handed 3-0 losses for far less pitch invasions. SPFL/SFA competition rules allow awarding the match to the innocent team. Hearts players had to be escorted out for safety. The game was never completed fairly. look at Slavia Prague recently getting a forfeit 3-0 loss for a similar pitch invasion in their derby. Fans storm, game can’t finish? Opponents get the win. Simple. That’s why this game will always leave a stain on the title race for a lot of people. A controversial offside interpretation followed by a match that technically never reached its proper sporting conclusion because of crowd interference. And somehow Celtic come away with the league-winning result untouched. Football rules are either applied equally or they mean nothing.”

The SFA have a chance to actually apply their rules, and confound all those of us who say you are corrupt. Celtic fans caused an abandonment. They should forfeit the game 3-0. But, we all know they won’t.

No, I don't think it's sweet when I see MSPs make affirmations in languages that most Scots don't understand. No, the Scottish parliament is not the forum for MSPs to peacock their Tamil/Pakistani, etc roots or fixation on Palestine. There are people who despise Scotland, Scots and our culture, and cheer our erasure and replacement. This circus is a symptom of that coloniser mindset.

In Japan, children clean their own schools. Every day. After lunch. About twenty minutes. Classrooms. Hallways. Toilets. Not because the schools are too poor to hire someone. Because in 1947, this country decided that cleaning your own space is part of becoming a person. The cleaning rag is on the school supply list. Right next to the pencils. Egypt teaches it now. So does Indonesia. So does Mongolia. Think about the last time you watched a seven-year-old mop a floor without complaining. Japan does that in every elementary school in the country. Not as punishment. As education.

1/ Fascinating clip from committee stage of bill which gave foreign nationals without leave to remain the right to stand for Holyrood. Professor Alistair Clark says bad ideas shouldn’t become law just because they are unlikely to be used. Scottish Greens quickly prove him right.

1/ Holyrood turns 25 this year, with the 7th devolution election In 1999, 81% of Scots trusted the new parliament to work in their long-term interests. That figure now sits between half and two-thirds. A thread on what 25 years of devolution has actually produced. 🧵