Gerry Hassan

Queen's Park have reached two semi-finals & two FA Cup finals; Glasgow Rangers one semi-final; Celtic are another big club who have never reached a semi-final.

GB News is a daily cesspit polluting UK public life going unchecked by an asleep at the wheel Ofcom. It has broadcast & clipped the statement: "there is a genocide happening in this island" due to immigration & demographic change. From Thomas Corbett-Dillon, a former adviser to Boris Johnson.

Farage & right-wing populism will pay an electoral price for their pro-Trump views. 67% of people are anti-Trump; a mere 4% very pro-Trump. While Farage's Reform are seen by 70% as pro-Trump; the Greens by 56% as anti-Trump. Putting Farage in an electoral ghetto. Via YouGov.

How long did that stupid & inaccurate comment take? The old there is no OF BS. Tell that to your Celtic and Rangers who hold jointly the intellectual property copyright for the term. Let that fact sink in!

100% agree with you. Why show what a sectarian dickhead you are? While protesting that there is no club in the universe like the one you support? Too typical of OF tossers.

What are we going to do about Glasgow? Nearly 20 years ago I led a project Glasgow 2020 which involved thousands of Glaswegians filled with hope, ideas & imagination. Since then the city has seen drift, decline & a lack of boldness from politicians. Where is the future of hope?

Glasgow Times front cover on the city centre fire in Union Street, opposite Glasgow Central railway station. HT @journostacey.bsky.social

#ScottishCup draw made. Possible to dream of a historic Scottish season where the Old Firm win none of the three senior trophies. Only happened TWICE since the creation of the League Cup in 1946-47: 1951-52 when Hibs won the league & 1954-55 when Aberdeen won the league.

As Kirkcudbright Book Festival comes to the end wonderful to celebrate the life, times & talent of Martyn Bennett. Martyn created a pioneering musical genre linking Scotland's past to the future: all covered brilliantly in Gary West's book 'Brave New Music' and in discussion with Alan McClure.

Some Celtic and Rangers fans seem to think this entire pantomime is acceptable in Scotland in 2026. It is not. On either side.

With the state of the world Rangers and Celtic show their pathetic small-minded & destructive obsession with each other.

Letting down Scottish football & Scotland again. Sadly the Old Firm never same to change: dinosaurs who cannot deal with how irrelevant they are in European football.

Welfare spending broken into categories. When the right-wing rail against "excessive welfare spending" they never say that over half of it is for pensioners. Taking the state pension & other pensioner support it amounts to 58% of ALL welfare spending.

The US-Israeli war with Iran is a real test of UK media. Too much UK media is obsessed with how the UK keeps in with Trump's America & cannot recognise it is no longer a reliable UK ally. Starmer being criticised by Trump, Blair & the warmongers in the hard right-wing media may help Starmer.

Penny Mordaunt railing away about the state of UK armed forces without a hint of apology. She was a minister for most of the 14 years of Tory rule which witnessed the strangling of the UK's military capacity. And she was even defence secretary for 5 mins. #bbclaurak

The collective lunacy of the British right. So beholden to Trumpism & UK support for the West's forever wars that they have even more lost their marbles on the Iran War. To them the problem is Starmer not going along with Trump's war of choice. Not Trump. Wrong call guys. Again.

Amazing to hear the continued arrogance of the way UK media talk about Iran and the need for regime change. How about talking for the need for regime change in Trump's America, Netanyahu's Israel & Iran?

"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." The same right-wing media that told us lies about Blair's illegal Iraq War and Brexit now present Blair making the case for UK involvement in war with Iran. Blair & these armchair warriors have learnt nothing.

Good to see that Starmer humiliating himself in front of Trump & practicing craven appeasement has really paid off. Rather Trump has reacted showing the utter contempt he has for Starmer & the UK. So much for the idiotic line that Trump loves the UK.

The Scottish Cup at its romantic best. Dunfermline Athletic 3 Aberdeen 0 as Neil Lennon's Pars pummel & put out the Scottish Cup holders in a memorable East End Park night to reach the semi-finals. #ScottishCup

Two fab sessions in Kirkcudbright Book Festival on the power of collective & individual joy. One on football saw Julie McNeiil & Ged O'Brien launch We are Saints. The other had Carrie Marshall & DJ McDowall on music, LGBT community & people coming together. Affirming & empowering.

These soldiers have lost their lives because of the Epstein files.

Kirkcudbright Book Festival today sees the launch of 'We are Saints': a new book with writer Julie McNeill drawing on stories & writing created with St Cuthbert Wanderers & published by the club & Kirkcudbright Fringe. 1.00pm, Scout Hall. Tickets on door. www.kbtbookfestival.org

The debasement of political judgement of Tory leader Kemi Badenoch & the neoconservative war advocates over Trump & Netanyahu's war with Iran is a watershed moment. Badenoch, Farage & the British right have lined up unconditionally behind Trump's war.

The aging out of touch Supreme Leader of a failing regime. Trying to justify itself with the cover of fake theologians while its supposed domestic revolutionary movement falls apart. Not Iran post-1979. But Trump's America now.

This emotive reading of the narcissistic, self-serving leadership of the US, Israel & elsewhere is not enough. The rise of such leadership is a product of the kleptocratic, corrupt capitalism of recent decades, hollowing of democracy by the billionaire class & trashing of the West's social contract.

Another sign Trump has no real clue about the war with Iran that he & Netanyahu started. If the below is true it means that Trump's pro-Putin stance & easing sanctions on Russia is assisting the Russians provide support to Iran who the US is attacking. The idiotic world of Trump.

Kemi Badenoch sending out unambiguous signals that she is a warmonger. One who wants the UK to unconditionally sign up to Trump & Netanyahu's war with Iran.

“Can I have a show of hands - how many of you think this is a war that Britain should be involved in?” asks Fiona Bruce about whether the UK should take part in the US-Israel attack on Iran.

Hardly anyone in the #bbcqt audience raises their hand.

“Can I have a show of hands - how many of you think this is a war that Britain should be involved in?” asks Fiona Bruce about whether the UK should take part in the US-Israel attack on Iran.

Hardly anyone in the #bbcqt audience raises their hand.

Despite everything the myth of Great British Power continues. Tory Shadow minister James Cleverly declares of Starmer's stance on the US-Israel war with Iran: "We have lost our seat at the top table of global influence because he has been slow off the mark." #bbcqt