@alanferrier@mastodon.scot
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

alanferrier

@alanferrier@mastodon.scot

I live in Glasgow and my hobbies include arranging my CDs in alphabetical order, discovering new and exotic whiskies, sheep-spotting and flying my kite.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

Andrew Neil quietly deleted this misinformation but not before it garnered over 150K views. In reality, the FM's pension is about £2K/annum. Has Neil issued a correction or an apology? No. Has he ever called out Truss or Johnson who each receive a pension of £115K for life? No.

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

Bitter, deeply unpleasant media shitlord thinks he's being acerbic and funny but actually comes across as just cringeworthy.

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

Oh, they know exactly what they're doing.

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

In a statement today, the Scottish Parliament said: “Humza Yousaf’s First Minister pension will be either 1/40 or 1/50 of his final salary of £104,584 (depending on which funding option he chose) for each year in office (ie one year in office) - his First Minister pension will therefore be in the order of £2k per annum, payable from age 65."

Mr. Neil has subsequently deleted his tweet but if he had any decency he'd issue a retraction and an apology.

He doesn't so he won't.

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

Green Party representation in Holyrood relies heavily on list votes from, predominantly, SNP supporters who won't look kindly on them for, as they see it, sabotaging the BHA. This means there's little likelihood of a pro-independence majority at the next election.

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

As the UK Home Office prepares to set the police on scared, vulnerable people in a desperate attempt to solicit votes from its racist base, we should all remember the words of historian and journalist Neal Ascherson, from 2017:
https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/15384883.neal-ascherson-scotland-must-act-independence-nation/

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

The UK Home Office will reportedly launch a surprise operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK tomorrow in preparation for their deportation to Rwanda, weeks earlier than expected and timed to coincide with council elections in England.

Setting the police on scared, vulnerable people in a pathetic, desperate attempt to solicit votes from their racist base. Utterly detestable.

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

What a xenophobic little shithole the UK has become.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/28/home-office-to-detain-asylum-seekers-across-uk-in-shock-rwanda-operation

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

Your party imposed a new, unelected First Minister on Wales 38 days ago.

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

Daniel Poulter, who's just defected from the Conservative Party to Labour, was Health minister when the state-owned NHS blood plasma supplier - Plasma Resources UK - was sold to Bain Capital, a US company co-founded by Mitt Romney, in a £230m deal.

Bain Capital then sold it on to the Chinese Creat Group. For £820m.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/minister-welcomes-bain-capital-buying-majority-stake-in-pruk

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

Your imperial masters have spoken.

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

I see King Charles has today given royal assent to human trafficking for the first time since slavery was abolished in 1807.

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

Do you remember, back in 2014, when our unionist chums persuaded a majority of Scots that the UK was a stable country where decency, human rights, respect for the rule of law, internationalism and standards in public life were cherished?

Seems a long time ago. A generation, even.

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

“Conspiracy theories about the royal family being lizards disguises the fact that they’re actually something even worse: a slightly dim German family to whom we’ve inexplicably given billions of pounds.”
—Frankie Boyle
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68882308

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

Truly remarkable, and a huge credit to both the engineers who built this thing 50 years ago and those today who were able to resurrect its comms. This actually is rocket science.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/23/voyager-1-transmitting-data-again-after-nasa-remotely-fixes-46-year-old-probe

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

"The way a state treats its aliens is the way it would treat its own subjects if it dared."
—Often misattributed to Tony Benn, but actually comes from the Scottish journalist and writer Neal Ascherson, writing in the Independent, January 1996.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-we-teach-children-morality-what-will-we-say-about-the-arms-trade-1325052.html

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

Nicely done, London Waterstones.

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

Douglas Adams, "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", 1984.

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

The wonderful Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007. He's up in heaven now.

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

One week Glasgow's a rat-infested, crumbling disgrace - the next it's:

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

Paul Robeson, legendary singer, actor and left-wing political activist was born , 9th April, 1898. This is him singing "Joe Hill" for the miners of Woolmet Colliery near Edinburgh in 1949. Spellbinding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0bezsMVU7c

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

Documents relating to the Royal household are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

The UK Foreign Office said an exemption relating to communications with, or on the behalf of, the late Queen, was “absolute”.

One simple question: why?
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/prince-andrew-files-royal-family-b2404639.html

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

The “Billy Boys” song originates with Billy Fullerton, leader of the Billy Boys of Brigton Cross, a Protestant street gang in the 1920s. Fullerton was awarded a medal for strike-breaking during the 1926 General Strike and formed a Glasgow branch of the British Union of Fascists.

video/mp4

alanferrier, to random
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

The laughable assertion from the Tories that "Britain is the Second Most Powerful Country in the World," (backed up by an article in the Daily Express, FFS) reminds me of this from Professor Nicholas Boyle, University of Cambridge. https://archive.is/6NC4N

alanferrier,
@alanferrier@mastodon.scot avatar

@coldclimate

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • thenastyranch
  • osvaldo12
  • Durango
  • ngwrru68w68
  • khanakhh
  • DreamBathrooms
  • mdbf
  • magazineikmin
  • Youngstown
  • everett
  • InstantRegret
  • slotface
  • rosin
  • megavids
  • kavyap
  • GTA5RPClips
  • cisconetworking
  • cubers
  • modclub
  • tacticalgear
  • ethstaker
  • tester
  • normalnudes
  • provamag3
  • anitta
  • Leos
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •