🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland remain the last team to beat the World Cup champions Spain in a competitive international.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤝🇦🇷 Without this Scotsman, you might not have had Messi. It sounds far-fetched, but the story starts in Dingwall, in the Scottish Highlands.

I’m obviously neutral, but this has been a fantastic game for the neutral.

We stood on an election pledge to devolve energy powers to Scotland. We won the election. So when will Labour listen?

From Burnham to Binface, Westminster is a riot and always will be.

@billykayscot.bsky.social has written and spoken extensively about Scotland introducing football to South America.

As they say: No Scotland. No party🍻

There must be quite a history of Scots in the Argentine. RB Cunningham Grahame, Don Roberto, spent much time there too, and apparently sourced horses there for use in European battlefields during WW1.

technically, the Scottish diaspora are playing tonight - as Argentina! bsky.app/profile/ross...

Ross Colquhoun@rosscolquhoun.bsky.social · 3w ago

🧵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤝🇦🇷 From a Scottish teacher to Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi lifting the World Cup, the path of Argentine football starts with one man. The father of Argentinian football isn't an Argentinian, he was a Scotsman - Alexander Watson Hutton.

🧵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤝🇦🇷 From a Scottish teacher to Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi lifting the World Cup, the path of Argentine football starts with one man. The father of Argentinian football isn't an Argentinian, he was a Scotsman - Alexander Watson Hutton.

Humans have existed for ~300,000 years. For almost all of that time, life expectancy at birth was just 20–35 years. In 1800 the global average was still only 29. Today it’s around 73. The greatest leap in human survival happened not over millennia, but in the last 150 years.

⛰️ UK and Ireland geography facts that feel wrong but are true: Edinburgh is west of Manchester. Liverpool is north of Dublin. Bristol is east of Edinburgh. Shetland is closer to Norway than London.

This was my original story on this, revealing Labour insiders would rely on Reform to vote in Anas Sarwar as first Minister if the numbers stack up.

David Bol@davidbol.bsky.social · 4mo ago

EXCL: Scottish Labour has plotted a route to put Anas Sarwar in Bute House. It involves Reform playing a part and Labour having the "moral mandate" to govern. It will also still need a big shift in the polls which hasn't looked like happening. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Well, that aged like a fine milk.

The greatest irony of our time is that we have an abundance of resources/energy to sustain our planet, yet our economic system - reinforced by imperialism and some political leaders, makes abundance feel scarce and impossible. That is what’s driving the climate/ecological crisis.

Anas Sarwar and Labour have been caught making up a quote and attributing it to a person who did not give their permission on one of their campaign leaflets. Extraordinary to not get the basics right. hellorayo.co.uk/clyde/local/...

Scottish Labour apologises after leaflet included 'made-up' quote

Anas Sarwar has apologised after Scottish Labour issued election leaflets...

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🥀 Labour promised change, but they are just delivering more of the same.

Vote SNP at the Scottish Election on Thursday 7th May 2026.

I get my first name from my Grandpa’s surname. His family came from Highlands & North East. This is my 4x Great Grandpa, William Ross, Sergeant Master Tailor of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders. He made the uniform he’s wearing - and those of regiment. Served in Corfu, Gibraltar, India, & Crimea.

Increasing UK inequality created a fertile ground for anti-migrant sentiment and Brexit due to perceived scarcity > Nigel Farage and Reform back Brexit which further increases inequality in UK > Whilst Tories and Labour echo them on Brexit and stoking up anti-migrant sentiment.

Vive la France.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last yr.

France will recognize an independent state of Palestine in September at the U.N. General Assembly, President Emmanuel Macron said. “The urgent need today is to end the war in Gaza and to rescue the civilian population,” Macron wrote on X. wapo.st/45jiof3

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The SNP will always keep Scotland’s water in Scotland’s hands. The current fiasco in England shows that public ownership works. Scottish Water delivers a better service, reinvestment not profit, and 20% lower bills than England. 🚰

Labour are increasing your energy bills, after promising to cut them - to pay for a nuclear plant in England.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💦 That’s that settled then.

Keir Starmer and other world leaders have stood by - or in his case, enabled - the deliberate starvation of Palestinians by Israel. It’s a shameful stain on history few of us will ever forget. It’s time to stop this now.

Let this sink in. ‘Scottish’ Labour are seeking advice from Blair who took the UK into an illegal war against Iraq, that killed 1 million people & who is now advising on the annexation of Gaza to create a Riviera style beach resort (FT). How utterly low can Labour sink?

Ross Colquhoun@rosscolquhoun.bsky.social · last yr.

Scottish Labour are seeking advice from the Tony Blair Institute for the Scottish Election, whose staff have been taking part in a project investigating turning Gaza into a Riveria. The final plan proposes “paying half a million Palestinians to leave the area”.

What greater indictment of our age than this: those who cry out for Gaza are silenced, while those who starve and kill its people walk free. A world that fears the oppressed more than the oppressor’s weapons is not just broken - it is complicit.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last yr.

At least 17 people, mostly children, were killed by an Israeli strike while waiting for food supplements in Gaza, health officials say.

Scottish Labour are seeking advice from the Tony Blair Institute for the Scottish Election, whose staff have been taking part in a project investigating turning Gaza into a Riveria. The final plan proposes “paying half a million Palestinians to leave the area”.

It’s 2025 and too much of geopolitics has de-evolved into modern cave men throwing rocks to protect power. All while many of the real existential threats to our planet and human survival go unanswered.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland’s future in our hands, or his?

The SNP@snp.org · last yr.

Nigel Farage wants energy-rich Scotland to become poorer by taking away vital support like free prescriptions and free tuition. And he has openly discussed privatising the NHS. Only the SNP can beat him in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse on 5th June.