Nicola Sturgeon leaves Boris Johnson needing snookers: ‘It would be catastrophic for me to drop the stay-at-home message which is why I am not prepared to do it. And I’m particularly not prepared to do it in favour of a message that is vague and imprecise’
I’ve got to say this: the mocking contempt of ‘clever’ Remainers at ‘stupid’ Leavers being interviewed on tv last night and whom they obviously consider to be their intellectual inferiors is nauseating. It’s one of the reasons Brexit happened
The SNP have become obsolete. To vote for them now is simply to maintain the lifestyles of a nasty and vindictive cast of impostors who’ve been laughing at us for the last eight years: my column in The Herald
‘If Kate Forbes or Ash Regan were to win, a very large and serpentine gravy train would grind to a halt and a lot of professional spongers would be invited to hop off’: my column in The National
Six years ago it wasn’t the actual result that got to me badly: I could live with that; it was Labour people who’d stolen a wage from their communities dancing with the Tories, the eternal foes of those communities
Rangers might just have done us a favour here: a real 2016 Scottish Cup semi final moment of truth for Celtic. Lawwell and Desmond need to get tooled up and serious
The orchestrated campaign to intimidate Joanna Cherry has started again. It’s time some of her supporters at Holyrood and Westminster came out publicly and nailed this wickedness: my column in The Herald
Joanna Cherry is one of the SNP’s most talented politicians and a potential future leader of the party. She’s clearly made some influential people jealous
Important thread in my support from one of
@EdinCentralSNP
most respected activists. As I said I’m not yet in a position to fully tell my side of the story but be in no doubt these are politically motivated smears arising from
@theSNP
infighting
‘A Police Scotland initiative forcing all employees to use personal pronouns has been scrapped. A staff survey revealed 73% of police officers didn’t know what a pronoun was ...’
Ciara McKenna was
@UniofHerts
today to speak to trainee midwives about her fantastic life. The key objective of
@DSAinfo
#TellitRight
training is to ensure that health professionals have up to date, accurate & balanced info about living with
#DownSyndrome
Immense sadness at the death of Billy McNeill but pride in a life well-lived. Generations of Celtic supporters walked a little taller every day because he played for us and represented us. God rest him
I was privileged to witness the unveiling today of the An Gorta Mor memorial. And to honour the memory of all the generations of my family who came before me. This was their day too
The SNP & Greens need to stop claiming Scotland is overflowing with rivers of hate.🏴
It took Scotland centuries to earn its reputation as one of the most friendliest countries in the world,
and it has taken the SNP & Greens less than a year to run it. 🏳️⚧️
#ScotlandDeservesBetter
What is it with Ruth Davidson and her curious obsession with Scottish independence? She is stealing a wage from the public purse: my column in The Herald
Devastated about the death of my friend, Kevin McCarra. He was a good, kind and gentle man and the finest football writer Scotland has produced since Hugh McIlvanney and John Rafferty. God rest him
Here's what happened when employees of The Stand Comedy Club were confronted by their worst nightmare: an adult human female speaking the truth freely ... my despatch from the trenches at the Joanna Cherry event
Celtic have known since January they'd win the title and face four qualifiers yet tonight they played the third of these without a single new face: strictly small-time mentality
We all need to be patriotic and make sacrifices during this time of national crisis. So I’m sure the queen, most patriotic of us all, will understand if we requisition her ten palaces and castles
I just happened to bump into
@AngusMacNeilSNP
last night.
'It's been some day,' says he.
‘Come and tell your uncle Kev all about it,' say I.
So he did.
And it'll be in your
@heraldscotland
this Saturday
‘Lennon defended Celtic and bore the pain. He’s been doing that since he made his debut at Dens Park more than 20 years ago. He’s earned a free pass into Parkhead for life, and our eternal gratitude’
Bursting bubbles Glasgow style ...
Shop asst: ‘Do I know you?’
Me (stifling delight): ‘I do a bit of writing’
She: ‘Got it: you did a speech at our Clare’s school’
Me (affecting modesty): ‘oh aye; I went on a bit long’
She: ‘You didnae half; Clare had to keep nudging me awake’
Scotland's indolent political classes have eagerly participated in the lie that men can become women. But it's a convenient lie: my column in The Herald
At its time of greatest peacetime peril it’s the UK’s bad luck to be landed with its most inept government. There will never be a better time to reach for an independent Scotland: my column in The Herald
100 days without a manager.
No imminent second choice.
No captain.
No new players.
New CEO invisible...
Could the club provide us with a helpline number?
I witnessed this anger in the raw at Alloa Women’s Festival on Saturday. Sturgeon and Yousaf, unwittingly, have reinvigorated the real women’s movement across Scotland
I don’t think our politicians have the slightest idea how much anger is building among women from all walks of life at the attempts to threaten and intimidate them out of speaking publicly about their own rights, their own bodies and their own lives. 1/3
As the Scottish Government seeks to endanger vulnerable young people and women in prison the work and wisdom of these three women have never seemed so vital …
'The SNP has betrayed the people of Scotland and we’re long past the stage when they could reasonably deemed fit to govern. A period in opposition is long overdue' |
@kmckenna63
If you care about the steady erosion of basic civil liberties and free speech and how the police have been weaponised to enable it then this should chill you …
I’m going to do a thread and limit replies. You’ll see why. Please do not speculate with names. But I think what is happening to me is important. I am not prohibited from talking about things in general terms.
#Tory
plan to raise pension age to 75 "It proposes raising the eligible age to 70 by 2028 and 75 by 2035. The first people likely to be affected by such a change are those born between March 6, 1961 and April 5, 1977."
The reality of Yousaf’s leadership is that we can forget about independence in this generation. For him and the mediocrities who’ll join his cabinet it’s only ever been about gaining power: my column in The National
My interview with Bernard Ponsonby: ‘In 25 years of Holyrood nothing has changed in our poorest places. The people who live in them have no real connection with the institution that governs them’
After several years of political cowardice and cultural hostility a memorial to An Gorta Mor, Ireland’s Great Famine, was unveiled at St Mary’s Catholic Church in the Calton: my column in The Herald on a great day for the Irish
Under Neil Lennon, Celtic have gone five successive away games in Europe unbeaten. This has only been equalled once in our European history, between 2011 and 2012. Guess who was the manager then? Brendan Rodgers was a good manager, but Neil is better
Decent and tolerant England’s been abducted and won’t be coming back any time soon, so now is the time for Scotland to say ‘Enough’: my column in The Observer
Congratulations to Neil Lennon on being officially recognised as the best football manager in Scotland. This man makes me proud that I was born, raised and continue to be a Celtic supporter