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alanferrier, 3 months ago to random

They could save paper by just issuing a joint manifesto.

alanferrier, 3 months ago to random

If you issue a manifesto that's "bombproof" to Tory attacks, you've issued a Tory manifesto.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/03/labour-ditches-radical-reforms-as-it-prepares-bombproof-election-manifesto

alanferrier, 3 months ago to random

We in Scotland understand and sympathise with the bitterness of having to choose garbage-capitalist neo-liberals in order to stop literal fascists but here, thankfully, we have an - albeit imperfect - alternative.

alanferrier, 3 months ago to random

British WhatsApp deletions are virtuous deletions that are performed for constructive, helpful and necessary reasons.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68165349

alanferrier, 3 months ago to random

Day 23: We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken the bridge and the second hall. The end comes soon. We hear drums in the deep.

They are coming.

alanferrier, 3 months ago to random

Everything you need to know about Starmer's Labour in a single tweet.

alanferrier, 3 months ago to random

Or perhaps it was because the long-retired bacteriologist's "Covid advice" invariably turned out to be hogwash, like when he claimed in July 2020 that Scotland didn't need the coronavirus vaccine because it could be "Covid-free by Hogmanay".

alanferrier, 3 months ago to random

You hid in a fridge to avoid Piers Morgan.

alanferrier, 4 months ago to random

Stanley Baldwin, March 17, 1931:

alanferrier, 4 months ago to random

Cartoon by Tim Hamilton in the @nytimes

alanferrier, 4 months ago to random

"The road from job creation employee to legendary Scottish artist was a long and painful one for Alasdair Gray. If he's left one lesson for Glasgow it's that the Poor Things are Glaswegians themselves, perpetually and serially robbed of their own culture."
https://yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/poor-things/

alanferrier, 4 months ago to random

It's neither the right nor the responsibility of Scotland to stop England getting the government it votes for.

And vice versa.

alanferrier, 4 months ago to random

I really can't understand why COVID is spiking again when we've tried so hard to ignore it.

alanferrier, 4 months ago to random

Dirty tricks, eh? Sarwar promised no deals or coalitions, but in Edinburgh, West Lothian, Fife, Stirling, South Lanarkshire, Moray and South Ayrshire the Labour Party entered into agreements with the Tories to take joint control of local authorities.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/08/snp-resort-to-dirty-tricks-to-keep-tories-power-anas-sarwar/

alanferrier, 4 months ago to random

The Archbishop of Canterbury says that Prince Andrew is 'seeking to make amends' having settled his sexual abuse lawsuit and we must 'learn to be a more open and forgiving society'.

By a strange coincidence, the Archbishop of Canterbury's boss is Prince Andrew's brother.

alanferrier, 4 months ago to random

I'm sure BBC Reporting Scotland will be all over this. https://archive.is/5VRAc

alanferrier, 4 months ago to random

Who could blame it?

alanferrier, 4 months ago to random

A deeply weird attempt to put a negative spin on a positive story. 94% ARE in work, education or training and %age of those who aren't falls to 5.7% — down from 7.8% in COVID-ravaged 2021 and 7.6% last year.

Also, unsurprisingly, NO comparison with rUK.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1-in-17-young-people-in-scotland-not-in-education-work-or-training-rhbwtr9kq

alanferrier, 5 months ago to random

Fuck, and I cannot stress this strongly enough, right off.

alanferrier, 5 months ago to random

It's worth remembering Alan Bissett's prophetic words from 2015 in light of yesterday's Scottish budget:

alanferrier, 5 months ago to random

Another little gem from the lovely - if inarticulate - Michelle, who in 2011 called for rioters in London to face the army and to be denied all human rights.

alanferrier, 5 months ago to random

Via the Daily Express: "Operation Branchform costs hit £1m, expanded in recent months to include alleged embezzlement and misuse of public funds, confirmed former chief constable Sir Iain Livingstone. A number of items bought by the SNP have been scrutinised, including pens."

alanferrier, 5 months ago to random

A reminder of Paul Kavanagh's reaction to "Lady" Mone's elevation to the peerage in 2015.
https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/a-moan-about-useful-idiots/

alanferrier, 5 months ago to random

Robin Cook, 2005 - just one month before his death: