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@WingsScotland Got me: I thought it was a woman with one of those 70s expanding Christmas decorations

Don’t like the programme YOU CHOSE to watch? Turn it off. Don’t like the jokes of the comedian YOU CHOSE to see? Leave quietly. Don’t approve of the play YOU CHOSE to see, because you “weren’t expecting to be triggered”? Tough tits. Is this REALLY THAT complicated??

@WingsScotland As a Celtic fan, I get it what an atmosphere driven by relief and frustration to have won the league on the last day. But stay off the pitch, how would it be if the consequences were to have a 3 nil defeat. Show some respect to EVERYONE on the pitch.

@MrJamesMay Most PCs will have one on the motherboard James

The CR2032 must be the most commonly used ‘coin’ battery. They are in car keyfobs, hi-fi remotes, airtags, small bedside clocks, and the shifters of my SRAM-equipped bicycle. Do you have any exciting CR2032 applications or adventures to share? #Raining

We birds of a feather must flock together… please share!

Good people, the Danes.

Craig, I've read your article and the simple and fundamental problem here is highlighted in your last paragraph, where you say “A lot of people voted Green . . . . . . . This member of the Scottish parliament, elected by the Scottish people, must be defended against any attack from the London-based UK Home Office”. This is nonsense, because none of the Scottish people actually voted for Manivannan in any meaningful way. If you ask the question “Why did the voters of Edinburgh and Lothians East choose Manivannan?” the only honest answer to that question is that they didn't. He was elected because the Scottish Green Party put his name third on a regional list which was chosen, and ordered, by a small group of Green party activists. The Scottish proportional representation mechanism puts parties in charge, not voters. This is presented as democratic because constituency votes are supposed to be proportionately balanced with with members from the party lists. But, in practice, it is profoundly undemocratic because the party machine decides who sits where on the list and, in practice, voters have no way to approve or get rid of list MSPs. . If you go back to Tony Benn's five questions to ask people in power - What Power Have You Got? Where Did You Get It From? In Whose Interests Do You Exercise It? To Whom Are You Accountable? How Can We Get Rid Of You? - it's obvious that Manivannan's election fails most of the tests. He got his power from the party, he is there to serve the party's interests, he is not accountable to voters because they have no direct say in his election and, for all practical purposes, he can't be voted out “A lot of people” voting Green is not, in any way, equivalent to them voting for or endorsing Manivannan. Do you honestly believe that a foreign national on a student visa, with a minimal connection to Scotland, would have been voted for if the Edinburgh and Lothians East voters had been choosing actual candidates? There is a reason that he was third on the list and not standing in the constituency election. To suggest that there is a strong “democratic mandate” supporting his election is simply Orwellian Newspeak. And please don't tell me that he's a “pleasant and gentle soul” who's done nothing wrong – no-one forced him into standing and he must have known perfectly well what he was doing when he agreed to take part in this profoundly undemocratic charade.

Have you seen this? Words matter, especially when they describe the material reality of women’s lives.

@HavelockRoadBtn 😂👏👏👏

@GraemeHampton Jack the Ripper made a similar comment about Dr Shipman. Sometimes it's very funny. #HIGNFY later....

.@TheNewsQuiz can sometimes plumb the depths but with Nish Kumar & Mhairi Black on the same show we have reached Mariana trench proportions

@HavelockRoadBtn @TheNewsQuiz Yet still streets ahead of Mhairi Black 🙄

@GraemeHampton @TheNewsQuiz 🥱 Nish Kumar is nowhere near as funny as he thinks he it. #TheNewsQuiz

@alexmassie But not as difficult as next week 🤔

Never mind Labour, it's been a difficult week for the podcast.

AR YA REET BOR!!😁

Here’s where you can donate to @salltweets If you aren’t able to chip in, please share. Thank you. 🙏

This is a brutal situation for Starmer. It’s like his Mrs has said it’s over, but he can stay until he gets a place. Meanwhile another bloke is already creosoting the fence.

@salltweets @DawnNeesom A judgement that should shame every man who reads it and still stays silent on women's rights. Now is the time for them to speak up too. You are a warrior and have many allies across the world. Thank you 💜 x

JASON TICKLE IS A MAN! Pass it on. #IStandWithSallGrover

I am absolutely devastated Men who claim to be women have more rights than actual women in Australia. It is women who are being discriminated against, not the men who claim to be us. But in a sense, nothing has changed: we will all wake up tomorrow & men will still not be women.

The number of men who don't see women as fully human can be measured by their indifference to trans-identified males invading women's spaces. 'What's the harm?' they shrug. 'Who's it hurting?' Women. It's hurting women. And the essence of misogyny is thinking that doesn't count.

.@australian Guys a question. How do you manage to breed when you don’t understand the difference between men and women. Do you just shag everything that moves and hope for the best?