Derek Nash
@derekanash
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Personal views and musings about stuff like books, funnies, faith, golf, history, film, music and film music. The occasional lighthouse. 🇬🇧
Edinburgh & St Andrews, UK.
Joined August 2013
Let’s raise a pint to BrewDog – and hope it bounces back.
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BrewDog is in trouble. Its beers have been axed by nearly 2,000 pubs. Punk IPA – once a craft beer titan – has vanished from bars
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3 of the remaining 8 women in the QFs of the #USOpen2025 are Czech. Seriously impressive. 🎾
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Scottish civil Engineer Thomas Telford died #onthisday in 1834. Dubbed the ‘Colossus of Roads’, Telford is famous for designing infrastructure projects in both Scotland and England, along with bridges and harbours that stand to this day. He was elected as the first president of
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Gosh Chris Sutton doesn’t half moan when Rangers get a decision…
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The head of Scotland’s Equality Network accuses women campaigning for their rights and the safeguarding of children of being in the pay of the far right and under influence of MAGA. This nasty, defamatory rhetoric from a senior charity leader illustrates everything that is wrong
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When high-profile food critic and journalist @gilescoren revealed he had begun attending church as a 'lapsed atheist' he joined an increasing number of people now using that label to describe themselves. I investigate why other public figures like @KonstantinKisin,
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Interesting.
China commissioned 21 GW of new coal-fired power stations in the first half of 2025 (that's the highest first-half total in 10 years). With that in mind, I’m re-publishing this @Opinion video column from exactly a year ago about why coal remains king . https://t.co/PSHMZFHzuy
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One of the topics discussed on @ScotlandTonight was our falling birthrates. Our Chief Executive @ShonaHaslam was able to talk about the importance of family in modern day Scotland, and how until we value families more the birth rate will continue to fall.
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🇰🇿 KAIRAT ALMATY HAVE BECOME THE EASTERNMOST CLUB TO EVER REACH THE GROUP/LEAGUE PHASE OF THE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE! Kazakhstan's second city is so far east that it is 4,500km from Central Europe & even further east than China's western border! Some epic away days lie ahead!
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Great article. Serie A: 'In our DNA' - how the Scots took over Italian football - BBC Sport
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With six of the Scotland squad lining up in Serie A this season, BBC Sport looks at how Scottish players took over Italian football.
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“Full fat faith” - a fascinating article in today’s Sunday Times about the huge return to church, especially among the young. Reasons include “contempt for the triviality and banality of secular culture.” Truth also matters.
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The #EdBookFest event with Reeta Chakrabarti was fascinating. 👏
If you’d like to talk #FindingBelle in person, please do come along - lots of events in the next weeks and months
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🚨NEW: Belief in God among 18-24 year-olds has tripled in 4 years 2021: 16% 2025: 45% (+29) [@YouGov]
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Kate Forbes’s treatment at the Edinburgh Fringe was a farce.
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She also holds gender-critical views. Despite these being entirely lawful, they bring instant pariah status in the arts world.
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Retweeting our letter in daylight - which is what this needs lots of. Please share widely, on here, and other platforms. This has truly shocked us, in a sea of shocking behaviour by public institutions. We await her response.
We have written to the National Librarian about her decision to remove The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht from the centenary exhibition for the National Library of Scotland, Dear Library, in response to complaints from its LGBT staff network. 1/2
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The strangeness of Edinburgh’s race review.
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The University of Edinburgh's race review is a tendentious attempt to recast history and race through a modern ideological lens.
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