I have no issue with Tony Blair expressing his opinion, other than the fact that he should be doing it from a dock in The Hague.
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I have no issue with Tony Blair expressing his opinion, other than the fact that he should be doing it from a dock in The Hague.
Or as that nice Mr. Orwell said: “The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
If Iran didn't want to be attacked they shouldn't have put their country right in the middle of all those US military bases.
Glasgow's Cowcaddens Cross looking east towards Hope Street, c1900.
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Glasgow city council’s property company forces the closure of a jewel in Glasgow's arts scene just a month after we lost the CCA. Short-sighted cultural vandalism and totally unacceptable. @glasgowcc.bsky.social - sort it out.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2589875...
Incidentally, old Uncle Alasdair was my creative writing tutor at Glasgow University many, many years ago...
Saw him at Gray Day 2026 last week. He's performing the play at the Cit's next month (I think).
Well, that FIFA Peace Prize was worth its weight in shit.
Union Street entrance to Glasgow Central Station, 1950s.
@realDonaldTrump Remember that | predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled! 2:55 AM - Nov 11, 2013
@Nigel_Farage This election was a victory for sectarian voting and cheating.
Straight out of the Trump playbook. Fanny.
Good news and a good decision by @scotgov www.thenational.scot/news/2588183...
The Royal Family - for two decades, at every stage of these shabby, squalid, dishonourable proceedings - protected, covered up, and ultimately paid for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's behaviour. His disgrace is their disgrace.
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King Charles says, "the law must take its course."
Cool.
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The last senior royal to be arrested was King Charles I in 1647. He was executed two years later.
Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news stories. More specifically, for the Irish, it’s like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown. Beyond this, it’s the stuff of children’s stories. Having a queen as head of state is like having a pirate or a mermaid or Ewok as head of state. What’s the logic? Bees have queens, but the queen bee lays all of the eggs in the hive. The queen of the Britons has laid just four British eggs, and one of those is the sweatless creep Prince Andrew, so it’s hardly deserving of applause. The contemporary royals have no real power. They serve entirely to enshrine classism in the British nonconstitution. They live in high luxury and low autonomy, cosplaying as their ancestors, and are the subject of constant psychosocial projection from people mourning the loss of empire. They’re basically a Rorschach test that the tabloids hold up in order to gauge what level of hysterical batshittery their readers are capable of at any moment in time.
A timely reminder of how Ireland views the British monarchy, via the @irishtimes.com
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Wee thought for the day: but for a twist of fate in the great womb lottery that is the British Royal Family, Andrew might have been the head of state of the United Kingdom.
I'll bet he's sweating now.
And now, of course, the electorate will be bombarded by claims that "Nigel saved your elections."
Could even Liz Truss have played such a blinder?
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How Glasgow is making the world a better place: faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-glasgow-...
HT @gem_ste @ the other place.
Glasgow Subway Map 1896 vs 2025
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In 2024, Scotland exported £7.14 billion worth of food & drink, equivalent to £1288 per person. By contrast, England exported £12.12bn, £207 per person. Scotland’s food and drink exports per head are more than six times England’s, and on a par with France.
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Is anyone from the government now going to resign over wasting £millions arresting and prosecuting decent people for opposing genocide? I think we all know the answer.
An 18-year-old Diego Maradona looking up Glasgow's Hope Street from a window of the Central Station Hotel, June 1979.
I see we've reached the "isn't it about time we sent children back up chimneys?" point of late-stage capitalism.
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Sarwar's playing a high-stakes game of political poker. Unfortunately his hand is the Starship Enterprise, the 3 of Cups, Mr Bun the Baker, Vine Street and Colonel Mustard.
Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit
Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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If both Starmer and Sarwar survive, Sarwar is going into the election campaign with the message, "Vote for a Labour leader I called on to resign".
