Hurting those guys financially, post season ticket sales, is virtually impossible but they are prideful and can be embarrassed. Empty seats would do that and would also make Sky twitchy. A Sky boycott would also be impactful.
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Hurting those guys financially, post season ticket sales, is virtually impossible but they are prideful and can be embarrassed. Empty seats would do that and would also make Sky twitchy. A Sky boycott would also be impactful.
I dunno. Will he accept a signing bonus in jelly beans and gingy bottles, cos that seems to be the way things have been going?
Blairdrummond season ticket?
Maybe he isn’t following the far right, maybe he’s just a complete bastard.
Hard to escape the conclusion that Celtic’s board views Rangers (hopefully occasional) success as critical to their grand strategy of trousering as much cash as possible.
No need to worry. Apparently Argentinian superstar Diego Armando Maradona is unattached and available. Although he hasn’t scored in a few years, due to a slight case of death, the club are confident he could still do a job in the SPFL and sell a few shirts too.
Nothing would surprise me. Not ruling out a cheeky late bid for Willo Flood.
I wouldn’t be surprised if nobody is signed today.
Yet he didn’t. Because he is an arsehole.
He’s a complete fud.
I wonder when the penny will drop that people who seem to enjoy cosplaying as far right, xenophobic, disaster capitalist scumbags; might just be far right, xenophobic, disaster capitalist scumbags.
It’s definitely all gone sideways.
He’s definitely still alive - the land has not been shaken, or the skies split by the sound of a thunderous death-fart.
Yup. I’d say this reminds me of the Willo Flood window but, at this point, I’ll be surprised if Celtic sign anyone today.
Yup. Tune in next year for the ‘gravity is unnecessarily shackling the British economy’ debate.
Trump is not dead. We know this because the world has not been shaken by the sound of his inevitable, thunderous (probably lumpy) death-fart.
The marketing around AI is certainly growing exponentially, however the reality is heavy on the A and light on the I. However, irrespective of my views on its intrinsic crapness; it will succeed in saving rich modern day mill owners the bother of dealing with lots of pesky human employees.
I think it’s a content not a channel problem. Everyone knows what he’ll say and we’ve heard it all before. It’ll be a word salad extravaganza - difficult inheritance, refugees bad and a ‘promise’ AI will fix everything. He’s not brave enough (or permitted) to say or stand for anything real.
He went to school with loads of rich people, he’s rich and the rich people who own/run the platforms are demented psychopaths.
I want two things from next year’s Holyrood elections. A stonking pro independence majority and Reform to get an absolute hiding. If Nazi Farage happens to get run over by a steam roller at any point in the process, that’d be nice too.
It does seem inevitable but it doesn’t have to be. I still hold out hope that, in Scotland, the independence movement will get our act together and that elsewhere people will realise the best alternative to fascism is an alternative to fascism.
It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
So according to Maxwell nobody, especially anyone rich, did anything wrong. That settles that then.
It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.
Members of led by Donkeys have been charged by the UK government and face a court date in January, all for the temerity of calling out Labour for enabling a genocide.
Silly question I suppose but have any of the MAGA crowd noticed that orange Jesus is such a rampaging fuckwit, it takes seven grown ups to get him through a day without shitting the bed?
Marco Rubio. 25% chin, 10% Just for Men, 60% Botox, 4.9% brain, 0.1% spine… All shill.
I hope this is the unified front that it seems to be. However, I worry Meloni and Starmer will view their perceived ‘special relationship’ with the administration as a higher priority than Ukrainian sovereignty.
Keir Starmer right now…
The question Fraser Nelson has, apparently, never asked himself is… “Why am I such a cunt?”
I think the deeper meaning is lost on him. Like telling a lettuce you’ll keep it as long as Liz Truss is PM.
When you scroll down further is there a massive space cruiser..?
“…crimes against ‘humanity’…”
He stands in every election, yet ironically for nothing. The Duma is, surely, the next logical step.
What next - Alabama Azkaban?
One day we will examine US and UK media behaviour over the past few decades. We’re beyond journalism and deep into soap opera. Trump and Farage are just the latest Phil and Grant. They rise and they fall. The machine doesn’t care if the world burns, as long as everyone’s watching.
I’m not sure sitting on his hands for 18 months before, reluctantly, saying he’ll maybe/possibly do something in another two months really fits the definition of ‘bold’.
If he is, he’s the most boring Nazi in history. His spin doctors should be working on a rebrand - perhaps an opium addiction, or a secret passion for necrophilia.
Hand of history klaxon! Yup, David Lammy went there. These people are morons.
“Have you met my American cousin? He is really edgy and cool. He’s got a beard, initials instead of a first name and a car like Knight Rider.”
So if Israel continues to slaughter Palestinians, the UK will recognise their right to cinders, rubble and the bones of their children. And if Israel agrees to make Gaza a bit less uninhabitable, the UK will continue to refuse to recognise Palestinian statehood. He’s utterly barmy.
It’s strange. If they’re only interested in the bottom line, fine, but just a bit more of a liberal approach to spending would lead to more success and better brand exposure/income. Not to mention how damaging to the personal reputations of board members the constant low-balling must be.
Successive US administrations have armed Israel to the teeth (to the tune of billions), providing the means to commit genocide and the cover to do it in full view of the watching world. Now he wants thanks for a paltry amount of aid? He can ram it right up his big orange shite-pipe.
Good news America. Trump is toast. Bad news, it’s (likely) his own followers who are chucking him overboard and what’s waiting in the wings is just as bad.
Why is nuclear good? My view is, it really isn’t. Setting aside the huge grift around contracts, the consequences of today’s nuclear industry (waste) will need to be managed beyond the lifetime of our civilisation. Like digging around in 18th century Italy expecting Pompeii only to find Chernobyl.
Selling club: “…we value our player at £XM.” Celtic: “Would you accept a tangerine?” (leaks bid to Sun -“See, see..?!”)
John Swinney should absolutely not meet Trump when he visits Scotland.
Trump badly needs a distraction. Could be a bad time to be living in Canada or Greenland.
We’ve been here before. Of course it’s fake.
Tories gonna Tory.
They’re expecting a leak.
Trump is even more incoherent than usual in this press conference.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
It’s all concerning, frustrating and frightening. There is so much to be set right.
The heat is brutal, even here in Scotland, played tennis this morning and it was 30 degrees. I wasn’t very good.
So we’re back on the tariff phase of the Trump tombola. This is what happens when you let a creature made of cheddar, held together by spray tan, become president.
Compulsory voting would only mask the real problem - a broken system that has been completely captured by wealthy special interests. It’s sad, but people recognise the main parties have bugger all interest in them.
Too late. They are all called Gulliver!
Could you write something that would deter seagulls from nesting on my roof? My annual emotional investment in fallen nestlings is likely to lead to some kind of intervention if it continues into 2026.
When Moderation Becomes Appeasement. “Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do.” (via @jamellebouie.net) [thebulwark.com]
Only if you’re willing to believe he isn’t a lying wee shite. I suspect we’d all learn much more from whatever has been said to him by his wealthy backers in the private healthcare sector.
So his pitch is ‘I’ll only kick you in the baws once, maybe twice… Okay three times. And a head-butt but that’s it.”
Nazi friends?
Schmichard Rice Itchy Bum-Lice (and) Richbastard Thrice
Let’s be fair, his reticence is understandable. I mean, apart from cosying up to private healthcare firms, scaring the bejesus out of disabled people, rimming Trump, facilitating genocide, ordering new nukes and a few white lies about his politics - what has Keir Starmer ever done wrong?
It would also be a huge step forward if we could stop referring to people, who object to things like terrifying disabled people and bombing children, as the ‘awkward squad’. Perhaps ‘not one of the usual nanny-obsessed, sadist, weirdos’ is more accurate?
If your solution to any problem, never mind something as chronically underfunded and mishandled as the NHS, is AI plus some word-salad - I have some news for you. You don’t have a solution and you are either a liar, a moron, or both.
The commons is a horrible, toxic environment. The behaviours exhibited there on a daily basis would be prosecutable in any other workplace. But there is a ‘but’ - whatever discomfort she may feel now is only a fraction of the torment her government is putting millions through.
Starmer’s playing Keir-Plunk in at least two dimensions. According to the Marvel movies there are an infinite number of universes, so he’s made the tough choice to be the only Keir who’s a total cunt, thereby guaranteeing somewhere else there’s one who’s quite nice and (probably) very attractive.
33 of 37 of those fearless crusaders against injustice, Scottish Labour MPs, voted for Keir Starmer’s ‘blame the poor and disabled’ bill today. Fuck those guys.
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@tennispodcast.bsky.social the Wimbledon app’s ‘who’s coming out on top’ section has some brilliantly bad player profile pics. Honestly, they need to be seen to be believed - the human equinox of bad taxidermy. Here’s an example…
The collective bed-wetting this has caused is beyond parody. According to the government, the opposition and most of the media - genocide is perfectly fine but calling out genocide is jolly bad form.
It’s quite amazing the Labour government gets more upset about people saying nasty things about the IDF, than it does about the IDF committing genocide.
There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details
Mass Effect Andromeda. The absolute Daddy of dumbfuckery.
What European leaders like Starmer have failed to realise, is that all of their fawning platitudes will be used by Trump and his enablers to justify every deplorable action he takes.
At least it shows there are still some people in the PLP who’re willing to stand up to Tories.
Also, no matter what he says, he will sound like a secondary school geography teacher aiming for a promotion to head of social subjects.
War with who? Ukraine, although in a horrendous situation, has shown Russia’s army is an absolute mess. Despite the bluster, at some point soon Putin will be gone. This is about appeasing donors with shares in the arms industry and the transatlantic tangerine.
Every world leader and political figure engaged in verbally rimming a fascist should never be allowed to forget their cowardice and sycophancy.
Transparently, it’s yet another piece of epic brown-nosing of the big orange buffoon and a monumental grift - the cost of these things (the jets and the bombs) will be astronomical.
Scores of questions but none he could answer because, and this is the important part, he’s a fuckwit.
… where he plans to ask why Germany (baddies) is a member while Russia isn’t, impose tariffs on ties that aren’t red, offer to swap Greenland for California, and comprehensively shit himself during dinner.
As late as Friday the UK, France and Germany were in talks with Iran. Starmer was chirping about ‘space’ for negotiations. Now he supports an attack that torches the credibility of all three governments and, thanks to his claims of advance knowledge, exposes the UK as a bad-faith actor. Mental!
As late as Friday the UK, France and Germany were in talks with Iran. Starmer was chirping about ‘space’ for negotiations. Now he supports an attack that torches the credibility of all three governments and, thanks to his claims of advance knowledge, exposes the UK as a bad-faith actor. Mental!
Future historians will refer to this episode as The Battle of the Three Lying Old Bastards and some English weirdo with pom-poms.
It’s a very scary time to be on planet Earth. Take comfort in the fact that the prime movers behind all this chaos are elderly men who will soon be gone.
Time will tell. If anything, it will be in the standard jacket holding capacity.
Any further word on how MASSIVE the MASSIVE bombs were? The usual Airfix model enthusiasts the media turns to in these moments are all of a a quiver.
Male journalists salivating over how MASSIVE the bombs dropped on Iran were is a pretty good indicator of what this is all about.
Bombing hospitals is a straight up war crime. Unless you’re the IDF, in which case apparently it’s fine.
He’ll do thing but lie and dissemble. I’d suggest you call him on his earlier lies and make the point that questioning such a demonstrably unreliable witness is pointless, then leave. Ideally hitting him with a custard pie on your way out.
Went to see Mhairi Black’s stand-up/one woman show a few weeks ago and she talked a lot about that side of things, as well as how loopy the Commons is generally. Some very simple modernisation and basic workplace standards would transform our politics.
Trump’s actions are clearly political. He sees Newsom as a threat (arguable, obvs) and is trying to create (and curate) policy failures he can hang around his neck in 2028. Same reason Hegseth called out Walz at his hearing.
FFS this French Open presentation for the ladies finalists is a shit-show. First an, uncharacteristically, graceless runners-up speech from Sabalenka and then horrible mic levels for the winner. Great to see Gauff winning though, fab player and a formidable young person.
Somewhere in Texas, a refreshed Elon Musk wakes to face a new day…
Yep. Nobody should have to wake up to images of a smiling Jackie Baillie. All out for Indy, it’s what we’re here for and it’s all we’re here for.
