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SNP MSP Mairi Gougeon says she recognises the threat from Putin, but won’t back investment in Rolls Royce’s welding centre because it’s linked to munitions. “It was important to take a principled position.” Have you ever heard anything so idiotic? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Well that was the plan…but having gone to bed on the sleeper in Glasgow, we woke up…in Glasgow! Tree down on the line, we were told. There are currently no trains out of Glasgow on the West Coast Mainline.

Puffins of the Isle of May…nothing more to add really. Enjoy…

Starmer says no independence referendum while he is PM bbc.in/4dKJs9P

It is a curse that every damned Scottish Parliament or General Election has to be accompanied by threats that the result must mean a referendum on independence. Completely abnormal. Student union politics to nth degree.

I watched this happen on the morning of 4 June 1989 in Chang’an Avenue, near Tiananmen Square, the morning after the night’s massacre. Don’t believe the propaganda lie that no massacre took place: I saw 40 people killed in front of me before giving up counting in despair.

Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Babcock and Sheffield Forgemasters are just some of the companies investing hundreds of millions of pounds, and creating thousands of new jobs, to support the meteoric growth of the UK’s defence industry. Bolstered by the recent multi-billion pound

Alison Johnston lied. She has to go!

A simple apology from the PO would suffice to end this. It’s a difficult job and mistakes easily made. This is emphatically not a party political matter but about the integrity of the institution. The PO can recover but only by apology + correction.

MSPs I could admire for their parliamentary skills (in alpha. order): Jackie Baillie, Fergus Ewing, Robin Harper, Margo MacDonald, Douglas Ross, Alex Salmond (yes, even him), Adam Tomkins, Andy Wightman. That’s it. *Waits to be told how he got it wrong …*

You have to admit this is clever: constituent parts of the UK to be funded according to area. On that basis Scotland would get 32% of all UK capital funding. SaorAlba! PS Scotland has 8.1% of the population PPS I haven't checked his figures.

Now in a very long queue for a shuttle bus to Anfield for Bruce Springsteen though the age profile suggests the opening of a garden centre sale 😜

Facts are stubborn things. Since the beginning of this year, the Russian army has carried out attacks against Ukraine using nearly 27,700 aerial bombs, almost 11,200 Shahed drones, around 9,000 other types of attack UAVs, and more than 700 missiles, including ballistic ones. And

I've been trying to think of the essential characteristics an effective speaker or presiding officer of a parliament needs. Is this a fair list?

Curious, this account seems to have blocked me. If it hadn't my reply would have been, "For God's sake, put the battering ram away. If you wait long enough, someone always opens the door."