Maria João Kay

Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!

Thanks to everyone who ordered. They’ll be posted out tomorrow.

America is losing its soul.

I look at the hateful rhetoric across England's media and English politics, and wonder how many outside the ##NigelFarage #RichardTice #TommyRobinson hate-filled #ElonMusk cash-fuelled bubble understand this is where it leads?

Reform UK councillor slapped with a £40,000 fine for hiring an illegal worker. 🤔

So much for "taking back control", apparently the rule is: deport them… but only after we’ve squeezed some cheap labour out of them.

A masterclass in hypocrisy!

This bonnie wee wean, Habiba Abu Radwan, is 1 month old & needs urgent treatment for a huge blood cyst on her back. My friend Israa in Gaza is begging for help to save her life. If you can donate, plz add BK to the name so it goes directly to Habiba’s care. Plz repost
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:

Police dusting off the blue tents as we speak? Of course not.

Just the best definition of the current US Government I have seen.

A screenshot of a post from the account fesshole but from another social media. It is black text on a white background in a square box. The text says: “I live in wales and today received my join us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru. “

@fesshole.bsky.social posts tickle me silly, but sometimes they also give very sound advice

Anarchy in Londonistan.

A great dancing party with the brilliant cast of Lost in Music at the Caird Hall in Dundee last night. @joao_kay and I met in Edinburgh in the summer of Saturday Night Fever lang syne and still love diving into a Disco Inferno! #StillGotIt

Thank you to the folk who have ordered books. I can’t take card payments, so it needs to be by Bacs transfer. Posting the books out on Wednesday, so the more the merrier!

I was behind the goals when Narey scored in Seville and Bremner missed in Frankfurt so looking forward to more memories of Scotland v Brazil in the States next June. 🎶🎶🪘Yes, sir we can Samba! 🇧🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A 15th Century royal proclamation in Scots from Scots The Mither Tongue. It illustrates the official Scots of the period and reveals
the “lang pedigree” of our unquestionable claim to be the home of football. I narrate the whole history of your language in the Audible version of the book.

I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious

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Sabrina walking the dog

Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.

Snort 🤣

Typical CEO In Chumplandia......

From Born in Kyle a reference to my first world cup experience, supporting Scotland v Brazil in Germany in 1974. Looking forward to more great fitba memories next summer in the Americas with the Famous Tartan Army.

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Belonging to a Scoto-Portuguese family, I hope we avoid each other in the draw this afternoon. This was @joaokay.bsky.social and I before the Scotland v Portugal match at Hampden…by far the greatest 0-0 draw in the history of fitba. Having in house Italians, I want to avoid them too, please. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹🇮🇹

Lithgow wis better kennt in Lanark as Lugless Wull - his lugs haein been cuttit aff by the irate brithers o a lassie he’d had a liaison wi as a lad. In later life, when asked aboot the pain, he confessed that it could hae been meikle waur - it could have been a lot worse!!

A passage fae Born in Kyle on Scottish identity in the 1960s. The book is a love letter tae an Ayrshire childhood and is available in paperback, hardback, Audible and Kindle. It’s thrang wi guid Scots words. Tak tent or they’re tint - use them or lose them.

Scotland needs more carers, but Westminster is driving them away.

Labour’s hostile immigration plans and their tax on jobs are hammering Scotland’s social care sector.

With the fresh start of independence, we can build a migration system suited to our needs and interests.

It's decided.

Europe is closing the tap on Russian fossil fuels once and for all.

Energy independence starts now.

→ link.europa.eu/tykVJf

Lithgow was the first Scottish travel writer. Poland was a favourite destination and a home from home:
"And for auspiciousness I may rather term it to be a mother and nurse for the youth and younglings of Scotland who are yearly sent hither in great numbers, than a proper Dame for her own birth..."

For anyone who still seriously believes that Trump is anything other than evil and depraved as well as being mentally ill, my advice would be for you to seek help as a matter of urgency.