Roddy Martine

@theSpurtle Does Edinburgh need another hotel?

Anyone wishing to comment on plans to redevelop 16–26 Forth St as an apart-hotel (26/00661/LBC) can do so here: citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/idoxpa-web/app… The deadline to do so is Fri 27 March. #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #planning

@kmckenna63 What a lovely and insightful essay.

Alex is one of the very best at what we do. This is a beautiful tribute to his dad, Allan who’d be very proud of him

@alexmassie So sorry to read this, RIP

Allan Massie, 1938-2026 open.substack.com/pub/alexmassie…

@ChountisFabbri @timothy_stanley A great, astute and gentle man whom I was privileged to know.

In retirement, an elderly lady engaged Douglas-Home in conversation on the Berwick train, and said, “My husband and I think it was a great tragedy that you were never Prime Minister.” “As a matter of fact I was,” replied Home, before adding, “but only for a very short time.”

What planet is this President on? China has the largest wind power capacity of any nation. What a load of drivel. This lunatic is such an embarrassment.

@campbellclaret Can’t anybody see the obvious?

1. “I have to take Greenland because Putin is a threat to Arctic Security” But 2. Putin wants peace in Ukraine and that pest Zelensky gets in the way. And now 3. “I would like to have Vlad on the Board of Peace.” “Weird” doesn’t get close

@dj_forrester @GlasgowCC Is that a pigeon roost?

Possibly the stupidest, ugliest and most pointless of @GlasgowCC many “projects”.

For followers of The Swinging Sporran written by Roddy Martine and Andrew Campbell over fifty years ago, Heel to Heel - The Story of Scottish Dance by Cindy Gray (Luath Press) £20.00, comes highly recommended,

@UnrepentantYoon So scary…

Morning everyone. Happy Halloween.

@benonwine Why not?

Do YOU like Rylan Clarke 🇬🇧❤️ YES or NO?

@staylorish Good heavens….

“And suddenly there was this incredibly attractive human person that I warmed to immensely.” Rory Stewart on Nicola Sturgeon. No wonder she is tempted to move to London…

@Tedii69 Rather a warn carpet …

How did that cringe ever become first minister? It's embarrassing beyond words

@ch_talks_to Next stop Penthouse Magazine

This will be the weirdest thing I see today.

@OldManLefty1 Bling

It's just so....... what's the word I'm looking for?

@alexmassie Some twenty plus years ago I sent your father a draft m/s of my book Scorpion on the Ceiling. He either hated it or it was mislaid! I know it is a moral dilemma but you and I would certainly not be here had those bombs not dropped.

Thinking of my grandfather today, a rubber planter who served with the Johore Volunteers, was captured at the fall of Singapore and spent more than 3 years as a guest of the Japanese; his life, like so many others, almost certainly saved by the atom bomb.

@jk_rowling Spot on

The Twilight of Nicola Sturgeon My review of Frankly jkrowling.com/in-my-own-word…

@GeorgeFoulkes @NicolaSturgeon Margo leaves them all in the shade.

Nonsense to claim @NicolaSturgeon most impressive female MSP since start of Holyrood. Also with no disrespect to Kezia Dugdale, RuthDavidson or Jackie Baillie there is one who was by far the most impressive politically & personally, the redoubtable Margo MacDonald

@heraldscotland @andrewlearmonth Why would she bother?

Nicola Sturgeon said she did not think JK Rowling would be willing to debate with her 👇 #Echobox=1754984207" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">heraldscotland.com/news/25382398.… @andrewlearmonth

@montie Byeee

Vegetarian wants meat. Atheist wants God. Nicola Sturgeon wants to move to London.

@DownWithTheSNP “Lecture” more appropriate word.