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Watching detective hole, ıs he the only tv cop to have a ford escort since agent bodie’s RS2000 on the Prodessıonals?

@FionaHyslop What relatives (ın my case)

Linlithgow! What a sky! What a skyline!

@inimitablepgw Both

Curious how others see it: Is the humour in Wodehouse character-driven, or language-driven?

@PedDronio @plyons45 @Dumbartonfc Napoleon could well have watched some games from the ramparts if he’d been incarcerated there instead of @st Helena

Not many clubs whose game can be watched from a Castle’s ramparts. Dumbarton Rock. @Dumbartonfc

@afneil Ambassador to US not US Ambassador

BREAKING NEWS (with the potential to be massive): The Guardian reveals Peter Mandelson failed advanced security vetting before becoming US ambassador. He was initially denied developed vetting clearance in January 2025 - weeks after Keir Starmer had officially announced his appointment. Foreign Office was ‘encouraged’ to deploy a rarely-used power to override the recommendation from security officials. The Government promised total transparency on the Mandelson affair after MPs forced it to release of a batch of documents about the process. But nothing it has released reveals this startling fact. Indeed, Starmer has always insisted Mandelson was subject to 'security vetting, carried out independently by the security services, which is an intensive exercise that gave him clearance for the role'. Developing …

@andrewjonathanm I’m going to be back in June on a Rhine cruise , but we won’t be stopping in Bonn sadly

Vielen Dank, lieber Nathanael, für das warme Willkommen. Man fühlt sich wie zu Hause in der Landesvertretung NRW!

@realcolinquinn My recollection is that you don’t get in the front door without passing vetting!

How can a Prime Minister not know that his ambassador to the US -and all round dodgy guy-had failed vetting. Whatever way you want to look at it, this is not a guy in control.

@P_Kallioniemi I don’t think there were many celebrations on Firhill Road by the Maryhill Magyars following Orban’s defeat

Peter Magyar: "I know exactly what's going on in Serbia. I know the ties between Orban and Vucic in Serbia, between Orban and Fico in Slovakia, and I know who is the godfather behind all these ties"

@JohnSimpsonNews @DalrympleWill So does the Cuba thing mean he’s trying to out do Kennedy? And if he goes after Yellowstone is it John Dutton he’s trying to outdo?

President Trump has posted this picture on social media of himself as Christ healing the sick. I’ve long given up saying how hard it is to think of any previous US president who behaved like Donald Trump, but comparing himself to Jesus puts him on another level altogether.

Watching Alias and they mention a town called El Kef which reminds me of Spike Milligan’s book Rommel? Gunner Who? Which he translated to “The kef”

@luluphooey @Jackson_Carlaw Me too

@derek_lavery3 @Jackson_Carlaw I lived there

The SNP are going to tax you to visit friends, go to the hospital or shopping. Only a vote for me & The Scottish Conservatives can stop this ridiculous boundary toll tax.

@luluphooey @Jackson_Carlaw Reminds me of taxis when we were young. Bearsden? There’s a boundary charge

@Jackson_Carlaw Who are you ?

@ChrisFrean @Lightning_Seeds @Emishor My wife is a die hard Galatasaray fan and a huge fan of Da Hagi

@derek_lavery3 @Lightning_Seeds @Emishor I only have Dad’s number. Plus Popescu is his brother in law. Doddle…

Please ask @Lightning_Seeds to rewrite the song with Hagi and Popescu on vocals. Over to you @Emishor

@johnauldwebster @spacegirlgail I’d say the same for the Ashoka

Don’t want to start discourse but there’s a strong argument for the Shish Majal being Glasgow’s best Indian imo. Also £16 lunch menu is unsurpassed

So if you tube had been developed on the west coast of Scotland would it have been called “ya chube”

@RomeInTheEast @IraninSA I don’t recall it working well in Vietnam…

@IraninSA I don’t recall Darius enduring against Alexander all that well.

Stone Age? At a time when you were still in caves searching for fire, we were inscribing human rights on the Cyrus Cylinder. We endured the storm of Alexander and the Mongol invasions and remained; because Iran is not just a country, it is a civilization.

@realcolinquinn Heating up beans on a wee calor gas stove

I was explaining to my youngest what it was like as a young kid during the three day week. Candles and paraffin heaters!

The BBC is ignoring the biggest march against the far right in history. Can we keep sharing to get it trending?

@comedyray @stuthejag Nice to see Westerton on Twitter!

Two weeks today I'm doing my biggest show ever at The Glasgow Armadillo. Had some billboards put up around the city including one next to my mum and dad's house so they could see it. Didn't go to plan. Get tickets at my website.