Neil Drysdale

YouTube video by West Coast 99 Steve Kipner - The Ending (1979)

The best solo you’ll ever hear! youtu.be/yBPRrsrj_6M

I could moan about things. But look at these rainbows - there is a double one if you take a look!

“It’s Your Party and I’ll Cry if I Want to, Cry if I Want to, Cry if I Want to…!”

George Benson and Carlos Santana jamming is sensational!

Hawthorn Audiobook on Libro.fm For fans of Michelle Paver and Sarah Waters, the first in a haunting quartet of ghost stories set in the wilds of Scotland. 'I was so impressed by Hawthorn' MICHELLE PAVER, author of Dark Matter'Delig...

libro.fm/audiobooks/9... Absolutely cannot recommend this book, Hawthorn, A Scottish Ghost Story, by Elaine Thomson, highly enough. A perfectly weighted classic in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson, and a delight to listen to, narrated here by Lorne MacNaughton. @elainethomson123.bsky.social

J.D. Vance once demanded answers on Epstein — now his old tweets are Blowing up in his face Vice President J.D.

J.D. Vance once demanded answers on Epstein — now his old tweets are blowing up in his face
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Grampian Hospital Radio: Meet the team behind 24/7 service and hear what songs patients request We meet some of the volunteer presenters and personalities who bring passion and a pulse to Grampian Hospital Radio.

Congratulations to Grampian Hospital Radio, which has just been given the King’s Award for Voluntary Service. The station offers an eclectic 24/7 schedule for patients in NHS Grampian hospitals. I visited them earlier this year and it was a blast! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle...

If that happens, Labour’s hopes of achieving anything, let alone being re-elected, are net zero!

The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging.

They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”.

They raped them.

Sex implies consent.

The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.

"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva

Because it’s being run by a PM and chancellor who are no more Labour than some of the Tories they welcomed into the fold. They have no vision, no big ideas, no coherent strategy and no left-leaning instincts. And they can’t even handle basic communication. None of this is a surprise, by the way!

I think this is the beginning of the end for Trump and not a day too soon. He and his MAGA crowd demanded the release of the Epstein files before the election last year, but now, even some of his supporters are inching away from him. He can scream like Violet Elizabeth Bott, but he’s toast!

This is full of mildly astonishing revelations about right-wing influence at the BBC, but foremost among them is the fact that he was advised that writing for the New Statesman was effectively unacceptable but doing so for the Spectator was fine - indeed, advisable. I am flabbergasted.

If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it: this could be the beginning of the end | Polly Toynbee Replacing the TV licence with a means-tested alternative may help disarm the right of one of its most effective weapons, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The BBC in Scotland has been nothing but Unionist propaganda every day for at least the past decade. Why the fuck would anybody in Scotland who wants independence from the unending shitstorm that is Westminster care about the end of its State Broadcaster?

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Lord Reith: Meet the Stonehaven-born founding father of the BBC who admired Hitler and loathed Churchill He was born in a house in Stonehaven which was known as "Beefy Castle" because it used to be the home of a prominent butcher. And even though John Reith

It’s 100 years since Stonehaven-born John Reith became the first Director General of the BBC and was soon embroiled in political controversy. Churchill expected the BBC to back the Government unreservedly during the General Strike. Reith disagreed! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aber...

Alistair MacLean: Meet the Gaelic-speaking Highlander whose Arctic heroics fuelled his books Alistair MacLean never had any pretensions about his literary talent even though many of his books became international blockbusters. As he said: "I don’t

There’s a lot of focus on Richard Burton today, but did you know that the actor and author Alistair MacLean were once involved in a punch-up at the Dorchester? (The Scot won). And that the two men are buried in the same graveyard in Switzerland? www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...

The 'Great Noticing' Era Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring

How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
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Neil Drysdale: The memorials to north-east teenage soldiers in Ypres show why Remembrance is still so important The scale of the losses in Belgium during the Great War are a reminder of why Remembrance is so important in 2025, writes Neil Drysdale.

This is a very personal piece. I made a trip to Ypres and the Menin Gate this summer and it made me more convinced than ever that remembrance matters - otherwise all the lives lost in the trenches will have been for nothing! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle...

He just doesn’t care. We knew that already, but this photo spells it out with such clarity it doesn’t need the caption: “Empathy is for losers!”

Looking forward to reading this. These men, in these raincoats, had no idea where they were.

Villagers lose fight to buy church that inspired Sunset Song as building is put up for sale The church dates back to the 13th century and is where Sunset Song author Lewis Grassic Gibbon is buried.

Sad news that the community group hoping to purchase Arbuthnott Church - the 13th century building which helped inspire Lewis Grassic Gibbon to write “Sunset Song” - has been unsuccessful. The Church of Scotland has put it back on the market - at £45,000! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle...

Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts

Nigel Farage's favoured Mayoral candidate for Doncaster said black people cannot be English.

Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.

The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times

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I was out on my bike for the 1st time in ages today, just 3 miles to a hotel in the next village for lunch with a friend. It poured all the way home and I was soaked and mud-splattered and felt brilliant. So liberating to get somewhere under your own steam, to feel you've got one over on "them".*

Former STV journalist Mike Edwards' new life as celebrant The former STV news journalist has covered myriad disasters and murders, but is now working as a celebrant to help bereaved families.

I talked to former STV journalist Mike Edwards about his new role as a funeral celebrant. As somebody who helped his mother Margaret through a long battle with dementia, he wants to help others through the pain of loss! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle...

This isn’t a review, it’s an assassination, an extermination, an evisceration. And very funny for anybody who wasn’t involved in making the series!

When someone pretends that something that happened four or five years ago is “ancient history,” they’re usually desperate to minimise or hide something.

I loathed “Brief Encounter” when I first saw it in the 1980s. But I watched it again recently and…nope, I still thought it was a lot of old tommyrot. It’s not the period - I love “The Third Man” and “Citizen Kane”. It’s the dialogue. As the line goes from “Some Like It Hot”: Nobody talks like that!

This is an excellent idea!!!