Easy explanation - Scotland is shite.

Only joking my nationalist brothers and sisters.

It's worse than that.

scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/…

Some people were praised for celebrating their faith while serving as First Minister of Scotland - other people seem unable to enjoy the same privilege.

Funny that.

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Here is Gillen again...

Ross Greer is the Andrew Tate of the Green 'movement' in Scotland it would appear.

A toxic Alpha male, spreading misinformation, accumulating power, bullying those who disagree with him, and a misogynist.

archive.is/esfCE

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There is much to love in this article on #britpop in The Guardian.

Most wonderful is this quote from Stuart Maconie:

ReturnoftheMax Wendy Singleton Says a lot that you don’t think Britain First are racists

Don't vote for ANYONE who supported the things that Cole-Hamilton supported.

As with Jesus chasing the money lenders from the Temple - so too Scottish politics must be cleansed.

nothingelseon oursoundmusic.com/osm/1294185_tr…

You know how Billy Bragg likes to suggest that women with concerns over gender ideology are suspect because of who they 'stand' alongside?

Does that mean that we should dismiss Billy's take on things because he stands beside this fucking incel?

For Women Scotland

WOW!

Billy, it can be difficult to accept when you are wrong - to acknowledge when you have chosen the wrong side.

But grown ups don't double down on the mistakes they have made - they acknowledge them, apologise to those they have harmed and move on.

Grow up.

ReturnoftheMax #pettylarceny

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Maconie, of course, is absolutely correct.

He makes a point that I made, more than once, in my book on the era...including here from the prologue:

I'm not sure that his wife is 'everything' to him.

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Kenny Farquharson slings the following accusations at Kate Forbes:

'That single mothers are sinners'

Interestingly he praises Humza Yousaf for being the first Muslim to lead a national government in the West...

'...the issue of trans exclusion'

By which he means, of course, the issue of ensuring that women's sex based rights are not sacrificed to appease...men.

He really is an odious individual.

Miriam Cates We have pledged not to give our child a smartphone until 14.

Seeing friends already being bullied in WhatsApp groups, sharing photos of themselves, and spending warm summers days indoors, is depressing.

delaysmartphones.org.uk

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When people like Patrick Harvie and Ross Greer smear opponents as 'right wing' they do not mean far right, fascist, neo-Nazis, like the ugly barbarians in groups like National Action or the BNP.

archive.is/DEz0L

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Many years ago when the elections for the first Scottish Parliament were taking place I threw my lot in with the Scottish Socialist Party - a left wing group led by Tommy Sheridan.

I saw myself as a 'man of the left'.

'Who's laughing now?' asks Huggy Bear

I'll tell you who, Iain.

ME!

All day long...and I reckon you might be laughing too!