alexmassie @alexmassie
Columnist for The Times & The Sunday Times. Substack Newsletter: https://t.co/kuwqRaci4c Scotland Joined February 2008-
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Yes, she’s much too liberal.
Very rare that anyone pays the lobby a compliment as handsome as this.
Very rare that anyone pays the lobby a compliment as handsome as this.
Rethinking my views on the death penalty now.
Rethinking my views on the death penalty now.
I regret to inform you that Little Nell has died again.
I regret to inform you that Little Nell has died again.
It’s all here Bloke who just happened to have his pads with him, as wickie Bloke with two crutches as ump The batsman’s walk, bat under folded arm This my friend is England at its finest, most invincible and most silly
It’s all here Bloke who just happened to have his pads with him, as wickie Bloke with two crutches as ump The batsman’s walk, bat under folded arm This my friend is England at its finest, most invincible and most silly
You can find good news if you choose to look for it: some Bordeaux en primeur prices are 30% lower this year than last.
I am not sure it really is a Westminster problem. Prosecutions in Scotland were brought by the Crown Office and, as best I can tell (though am open to correction on this), the Lord Advocate disagrees with the views expressed here and, indeed, by Mr Yousaf too
I am not sure it really is a Westminster problem. Prosecutions in Scotland were brought by the Crown Office and, as best I can tell (though am open to correction on this), the Lord Advocate disagrees with the views expressed here and, indeed, by Mr Yousaf too
Colour writers across Fleet Street rejoice. (Monty will do no better than Ted Dexter did when he stood for the Tories in Cardiff South East)
A headline no-one would have understood the need for even a decade ago (and don't try persuading yourself otherwise).
A headline no-one would have understood the need for even a decade ago (and don't try persuading yourself otherwise).
Every tragicomedy needs a fall guy and it was Humza Yousaf's misfortune to be ideally cast in that role. thetimes.co.uk/article/snp-sc…
Well, sure. Fine. But, once again, I am struck by the way many London-based media folk are disinclined to hold SNP politicians to anything like the standard they demand of Labour or Tory ones. (Ditto with Northern Ireland, too.)
Well, sure. Fine. But, once again, I am struck by the way many London-based media folk are disinclined to hold SNP politicians to anything like the standard they demand of Labour or Tory ones. (Ditto with Northern Ireland, too.)
I wouldn't necessarily believe anything Salmond says but if this is true then he means that the "deal" was blocked by the people who know him best.
I wouldn't necessarily believe anything Salmond says but if this is true then he means that the "deal" was blocked by the people who know him best.
Humza Yousaf was a child of the SNP’s long summer suddenly required to lead the party through a winter campaign. No wonder he failed. thetimes.co.uk/article/snp-sc…
Politicians who won't tell their own supporters the truth are politicians who will not succeed. Humza Yousaf leaves office promising that "independence is frustratingly close", thereby proving my point. Delusional.
Give it to Neil Warnock until the end of the season
"The BBC understands" because the BBC has a subscription to @thetimes and has read @KieranPAndrews' story this morning.
"The BBC understands" because the BBC has a subscription to @thetimes and has read @KieranPAndrews' story this morning.
Would settle for Emma Harper as caretaker, though.
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Every few years, I search for this 2019 clip of Blair again. The bluntness of his ‚power is power!‘ doesn‘t only apply to geopolitics, but equally to energy policy & the delayed energy transition. Raw power. No longer a lack of technologies or knowledge.
What does a book cost? Back in 2015 we ran some calculations to figure out what a book costs, what it sells for, and where the money goes. We've done the sums again - for 2023 -and you head here for some grim, but hopefully also interesting, reading: galleybeggar.co.uk/what-does-a-bo…
The greatest French film ever made, and it's not even close youtu.be/unYu22Ign1E
@alexmassie Some of us are just taking the piss.
@alexmassie @Samfr We're like the farmers in The Magnificent Seven. We always win in the end.
‘What’s it all about?” The question that stumped Bertrand Russell…
If you could have any question answered right now by an all-knowing-entity, what would be the one thing you'd ask?
Can cows flip the climate narrative? Research shows grazing ruminant animals on land benefits the environment and improves carbon cycling. "The most striking finding is the discovery that beef production can be carbon negative. Another striking finding is that in some cases, the…
important thread 👇
1/ “Some of the questions… about electricity market reform potentially look quite penal for locations in the north.” Nationalists beware: Scotland has great resources, but great challenges too. With independence, the resources don’t get any bigger, but the challenges do.
I love Borges’s accent, which is an unlikely mixture of … Scottish and Irish? (Specifically Cork, I’d have said.)
In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most influential 20th c. Spanish-language writers, told William F. Buckley (whose first language was Spanish) his reasons for feeling, age 78, that English was 'far finer' than his native tongue. Right or wrong, I love his savor for language
@alexmassie @ShippersUnbound Or for foisting on unsuspecting Irish cricket teams (niche).
@mrianleslie A potentially serious person living in a deeply unserious milieu who is insufficiently serious to withstand the temptations of unseriousness
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Lowest government approval by PM (Gallup/MORI): Attlee 31% Churchill (51-55) 40% Eden 34% Macmillan: 30% Douglas-Home 36% Wilson (64-70) 17% Heath 22% Wilson (74-76) 27% Callaghan 17% Thatcher 16% Major 8% Blair 22% Brown 16% Cameron 24% May 8% Johnson 14% Truss 11% Sunak 10%
@alexmassie Can I offer you this? "James [Morton, of STA] and I were also asking if there could be bridging blockers for pubertal children on the waiting list to see the psychs. We will keep chipping away." x.com/hightreebud/st…
There's a Scottish version of Mermaids called TransparenTsees, who sit on the steering group of gender clinics. Not only do they share its confidential data with Mermaids, but team up with @ScottishTrans to 'chip away' at the NHS to get kids on the waiting list onto blockers.
So delighted to have this essay by @samanth_s in the magazine this weekend. A philosophical and scientific quest to understand why some batsmen are acknowledged beautiful and some not. It’s a wonderful and surprisingly moving read. on.ft.com/49zSene
'A collective shrug of the shoulders' - how official Scotland has reacted to the damning Pisa education findings. Great if worrying piece by @gordoh for @reformscotland reformscotland.com/2024/04/do-we-…
For no particular reason I can think of, I am reminded of this intro to Chapter 6 in my book, The Poor Had No Lawyers.
For the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament, I propose chiseling Tom Leonard's words into the walls of every room in the building. tomleonard.co.uk/online-poetry-…
BLOG - My initital observations on and analyis of the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill in which I conclude that it is unlikely to have any meaningful impact on the pattern of landownership in Scotland. andywightman.scot/2024/03/land-r…
Update: French people now produce 7% less carbon emissions of the average person on Earth
It's incredible that French people have about triple the income as the average person on Earth, but produce basically the same carbon emissions. Nuclear is a hell of a power source.
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