All the stars!
23.01.2026 15:09
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All the stars!
Cannot stand NIMBYs but especially cannot stand left wing ones such As this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“Semi-rural” is doing some heavy lifting by the journalist here too 😂
If you build more houses you will increase supply, the interaction between demand and supply will reflect the price.
It’s really handy that international law allows you the scope to bomb a capital city with no declaration of war & just kidnap the leadership.
Kasper Schmeichel must absolutely have nightmares about Hampden now 🥰
Genuine outside chance that we win a majority next year on 35-38% of the vote.
Reform is taking more votes from the Tories & Labour than from the SNP, we aren’t that popular either, but “de-fault” is the two sweetest words in the English language
If we make those level of chances, at home, versus Denmark, my gosh we have a chance.
A very decent chance. We’ve rode our luck this campaign but we have good players - it’s still on (somehow) CMON SCOTLAND
Too many players are far too complacent in our team.
They are good players but far too many just get picked regardless of form: Hanley, Robbo, McTominay, McGinn especially, no one should be able to just coast through games & we do that so, so often.
We need to wake up
Very much looking forward to listening to this later today.
Pretty amazing access that Tom has got there, a really fascinating read.
Reminds me a bit of the Big Short scene when they realise that the sellers are openly bragging about dodgy deals and morally dubious dealings (that aren’t necessarily illegal)
Just more SNP failure isn’t it, turning Scotland into the UK region with the highest performing productivity 😂
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Not a Hearts fan but cheered their goals today, desperate to see anyone other than Rangers or Celtic win the league, 40 years, longer than I’ve been on this earth, is a ridiculous timeframe of dominance from two teams.
I’ve just seen “A TAKE” that says that they would rather us not qualify if we are going to stink the place out.
Take a hard look at yourself. 100% I’d take those performances in games over Greece & Belarus if you guarantee me the win.
Football doesn’t work that way though, no guarantees
I want us to play better & was one of the moaners & groaners last night at times (though I didn’t boo a win ffs) but I’m annoyed as we know we can do better & I want us to do better.
Performances have to improve in November and in Athens/home to Denmark we can’t just ride our luck but….
This is why I think the stock market in the US will crash, pretty much the majority of folk getting any use form AI right now are the utter weirdo’s and wrong-ins.
That’s not a way to build a profitable business in the long run
The B team experiment in the challenge cup isn’t going too well, while the mighty Caley Jags are romping the first phase
I wonder if this will bring benefits to the young boys of the 10 Prem sides, as they are being hammered by League One & League Two teams
Championship teams arrive next round
Maybe he’s just channeling his inner man inside him youtu.be/Po4adxJxqZk?...
The only thing I would say in support of this that if you have to go above 32, then you should go in a multiple of 32.
The “best” third place teams getting through the group with the 48 team format doesn’t sit well with me.
Not a fan of it in the Euros either.
64 can at least can go: 32/16/8/4/2
This is a great win for the Caley Jags.
Very poor match overall but it’s a long season and these are the sort of games we have to win if we want Inverness back to where we should be, at the very least, the Scottish Championship
I think the hype afforded to any youngster showing an ounce of promise in the EPL does lead to tonnes of kids being exposed to too much scrutiny far too young
I really like that Scotland are now seeing players move to Italy allowing them develop outwith the goldfish bowl of the EPL.
Just listened to Roy Keane’s take on the Irish National team on the latest episode of Stick to Football & I just remembered a YouTube video that was recommended to me 2 years ago via the algorithm
The golden generation secret is so secret that not only do the fans don’t know, neither do the players
Or the reception Margaret Thatcher received at the 1988 Scotland Cup Final - both sets of fans loudly booked her and waved red flags at her
This is very long and goes into many different threads but I starting watching it yesterday and had to finish it today, expertly researched and incredibly hard hitting video essay youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
Listening to Hibs on Sportscene, sounds like a great game, really invested in wanting Hibs to go through, pretty sick of Scottish glorious failure.
You could see this Hibs team getting through the league stage if they win tonight.
David Gray has done some job
That’s not considering that different policy choices & the requirement to operate more “cannily” as a small independent state, would see a divergence of the structure of the current Scottish economy under the UK in the event of independence.
But the fiscal position is not insurmountable
Debt ran up by the British state, which is a state that has been badly mismanaged & defence spending - £13.6billion that are the two main drivers of the notional deficit of Scotland - take these two out and it’s broadly a country that can tax its citizens to afford the standard of spending as now
The only comparable example of a section of the British state leaving was the Republic of Ireland, politics & defence considerations directly affected the level of actual debt paid by the state, with the continuation state being the ultimate debtor publisher-prod65.cliffordchance.com/content/dam/...
This deal would involve Scotland not becoming a member of NATO, nor committing to spend at the current proportion of its revenue on defence.
Switzerland spends 0.76% of GDP on defence, that would be around £700 million for an independent Scotland, a notional deficit reduction of £4.4 billion!
Scotland “owns” a proportional percentage of the assets of the British state, such as militarily equipment. We’d likely forego assets such as these in return for a deal over debt.
This would also likely see the continuation of the Faslane as a “leased” base for a generation.
The reserved function categories though clearly would not have the level of spending afforded to them if Scotland was independent.
Scotland could not afford to pay £5.1 billion on defence.
In fact, it would be likely that a political deal would be done with rUK over the assets of the British state
Take this section in particular.
If you add in the oddly bolder capital spending section “missed out” you get a total social security & capital spend of 94.4 billion versus revenues of 94.1 billion - a ‘deficit’ here then of £300 million