Scott Wortley

I enjoy Simon Jenkins' columns

Is it "I know you from linkedin"?

Not even the shouting witness questioning

Tv take.
Last salute to the commodore would have worked perfectly well asa conclusion to Columbo (as originally intended). Finally subverts the formula. Takes external view to the lieutenant thereby losing the complicity the audience has with Columbo in standard episodes.
More takes as I have them

Of course you want to see John Laurie as William McGonagall reading 'The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay'.

It took every ounce of willpower the great man had not to exclaim "doomed!"

Thank me later.

does he mean fewer wins?

(but I only became aware of this because of @worldoftelly.bsky.social and @neilperryman.bsky.social . It is magnificent)

Report on the Roles and Functions of the Scottish Law Officers This is a Report on research into the roles and functions of the Scottish Law Officers.

www.gov.scot/publications... - published today

This is the beginning of the end, and the end of the beginning. And the end. And the beginning.

BBC report headed "What is the UK's strategic oil reserve and where is it kept?"

Unfortunately, it was kept in the back of a vape shop next to Glasgow Central Station

Magma | Grove Atlantic A compulsive, propulsive debut about a young woman’s haunting experience of love, abuse, and sex in an era of pornification by one of Iceland’s...

oh my

The sheep who was Thursday

[resists commenting with reference to things what I have read which have somehow got through a review process]

Any word from the world's largest acidic geezer on the acidic geyser?

no really, holy shit

horrendous. Another example. Who knew putting vape shops in these old buildings ran risks...

oh no. sorry to hear that. A former scottish presiding officer (speaker of the parliament) seems to have been similarly affected.

Did you ever see Bob Roberts with Tim Robbins and Gore Vidal?

@beaubaumann.bsky.social your twitter account seems to have been hacked. Received an odd direct message from you with a malware link.

have you ever listened to Karin Krog and Rigmor Gustafsson? I hear shades of them in her work (and am going to look for more by her)

one of my former students explained to me that the thing about these models is that very thing it produces is a hallucination based on probability. the amazing thing is any of it being right.

the wee free by 93

Positive prescription in Scotland requires an ex facie valid title before the possession kicks in at all. Stops this sort of spurious stuff

Would be the best thing for the game up here.

I would quite like fans from both to be banned from znnsome upcoming games, but given scottish football authorities that action feels unlikely. Would be nice to have a behind closed doors thing, and no fans from one the team with the pitch invasion allowed at the semi final.

Fingers crossed

Ideal outcome this season is neither of them winning a trophy

Usucapio eh? Bloody hell

“Apparently their neighbours claim that they woke up one morning to find that the garden had suddenly been dwarfed”