Alistair Coleman

@alistaircoleman.bsky.social

Former internet celebrity. Former journalist. Current human author and @apiln.bsky.social Supreme Leader. Ally. fizzandnonsense.bsky.social completes me.

Today is Scottish Borders Autumn Public Holiday, which is a holiday that people don’t know about until they find out the chemist is shut. And there’s no Disney Time* on the telly either. *In Scotland: Disnae Time

William Tell Overture on the radio, and singing along with the official Coleman family lyrics “Jillian’s got a head like a rugby ball”. These lyrics were adopted after a calamitous hair appointment the day before her school photograph, which left my sister Jillian with a head like a rugby ball.

ANYWAY, Holborn and St Pancras, and it’s always weird to have candidates who somehow got the required ten signatures to stand, but polled less than ten votes. Quite the achievement. Come to think of it, the Communist League probably schismed several times during the campaign.

Holborn and St Pancras results an independent got seven votes, the Communist League nine.