Working in Scottish politics but somehow still finding the time to tweet about the Labour Party, Generic Nerdy Stuff and, of course, the Kingdom of Strathclyde.
Stephen Watt
Stuck on the slow train to Edinburgh and at this point I think they are just adding extra stops for the sake of it.
I'm not even sure the train should be able to stop away at Stornoway!
Stephen Watt
Labour's @paulsweeney.bsky.social says the first duty of MSPs is to their constituents "not American neo-Nazis on social media".
He says some MSPs have "sought to fan the flames of division" with the talk of 'strangers' and calls for further protests.
Me: Love the new Park Run app which let's you see all the runs you've done on a map.
Friend: I guess that explains why you've been our more.
Me: What do you mean?
Friend: Well now you've now got a Pokedex to fill up!
Bluesky, I was devastated by the truth of their statement!
Ah, the simple joy of getting a front row seat on the upstairs of a double-decker bus!
Feeling like a 16th century bishop after having just been given word that my copy of the Pope's latest encyclical has arrived in Scotland!
Book 11 of 2026 and did somebody say they wanted essays from January 1989 on the prospects of a Scottish Constitutional Convention where a good chunk of them are "devolution will never happen?"
There's some gems - Bernard Crick, David Martin and Christopher Harvie's essays - but wow it is dry!
You can get a t-shirt if you do 25 runs - I'll go out every couple of months
There is this map that can be filled up with green ticks - I'm out every weekend
First Jane Austen I've read and by the last couple of chapters was starting to worry things weren't going to all work out.
Basically the antidote to having already read Wuthering Heights this May!
