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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇪🇺Celtic FC. Disillusioned turf accountant. Independence is normal. “Engaging on the vicissitudes of Sheffield Wednesday.”
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Today's events in Washington are a clear cause for deep concern, for shock, for anger. What we need now are cool heads and clear thinking. We must stand firm with our European allies in the steadfast defence of Ukraine. That is where Scotland stands. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦

London bus stop. #Swasticar

"radical departure." just absurd NYT . dangerous. insulting, irresponsible. Not a "departure." FFS, do better. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

Hamilton Accies 2 Queens Park 1 Just for context.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Leave the poor alone and start targeting hoarded wealth of the elite within Britain & those who actively evade tax. @uklabourparty.bsky.social @scottishlabour.bsky.social

When your domestic season’s over by February you’ve got plenty of time on your hands

Denis Law celebrates his goal against England at Wembley, congratulated by teammates Willie Henderson and Pat Crerand. Scotland fought from 2-0 down to draw the match 2-2 in the Home International. 10th April 1965. Pic: Kent Gavin

Vote @scottishlabour.bsky.social and get Nigel Farage. @thesnp.bsky.social

My piece for today's @scotnational.bsky.social a case of the I told you so's. www.thenational.scot/politics/249...

Apparently there was this song from the 1930s www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dNY...

When will Govt learn you can’t out-Reform Reform - you end up simply legitimising their toxic narrative. To see off populists, Labour needs to invest in public services & local communities, making a real difference to people’s lives - levy a wealth tax & use it to improve people’s lives *now*

Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.

New York Times headlines are so sanitized of value judgments. This one says, basically: Is Ethnic Cleansing Practical?

Labour going all Punch and Judy with Farage at PMQs, and quietly preparing to do business with him the rest of the time. www.thenational.scot/news/2490888...

NEW POLL-Progress Scotland 82% back free prescriptions 65% back Scottish Child Payment 63% back ScotRail 73% back free university tuition 88% back free bus travel 71% back entitlement to childcare 68% back business rates discounts 71% back generating 100% renewable energy #ScottishIndependence

GET IN THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aberdeen lose 2-1 Rangers draw 1-1 Celtic smash Hearts at Tynecastle to go three points clear! And Ange just slapped Pep about like he was Michael Beale..

Happy birthday to Jason Pierce and Pete Kember, both born on this date in 1965. Spacemen 3 - Losing Touch With My Mind youtu.be/rvFs9F2J-vU?...

Vote for us again, and your prize (if we don't lie to you again) will be what you already had under the Tories. Absolute chancers.

We’ve changed our handle so you know it’s really us! 🦉🔵⚪️ 👋 Wednesdayites on Bluesky #swfc

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Just a reminder of what trade deals “with the rest of the world” have done for us compared with what we have lost and continue to lose… (Private Eye)

Just had a reminder that my first ever #swfc Sheffield Star column was about Royston Drenthe. If anyone would like to know what he's up to now, see below.

The truth on Gaza. "This is a situation of daily atrocities, we are waiting to die."

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