Neil Drysdale

YouTube video by Walid Khalaf Michael Franks - Cinema (with lyrics)

This is gorgeus! youtu.be/c8_vasgRGs8

Youngsters don’t pay tax at 16. What are you talking about?

He’s a psychopath. Nothing is his fault. I’m 65 years of age and I hate Trump witn all my breath. Where are the youngsters?

Do you ever think about the end of the world. I look at Trump and his madness and ignorance of what he is even doing. The world is on a knifedge. He could finish us all. It’s insanity and illegal.

Love it. Brian is so talented!

A socialist newspaper might have seemed a good idea. But I worked with “News on Sunday” in Manchester in 1987 and it was a clusterf**k of incompetence and madness. One or two really good journalists rise above the chaos, most notably Kate Muir and Vanessa Engle!

I was close to accepting the offer, then reality hit home. I told my mother about the job and, as a lifelong socialist, she simply said: “Okay son, but I’ll never ever buy that rag!” That settled it for me!

I looked at the English newspapers today - most of them - and their reflex move is to support war. I still remember turning turn a job with the “Daily Mail” and I’m so relieved I did. The same malevolence which brought us the Zinoviev letter and “Hurrah for the Blackshirts” is still there!

Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.

I really enjoyed Deborah Masson's brilliant new thriller "I'll Be Watching You". And I reckon it would make an excellent TV drama, set in the heart of Aberdeen!

A canceled Kennedy Center debut, a Carnegie Hall stage and De Niro reading 'Lincoln' Robert De Niro will appear this week at Carnegie Hall. He will read excerpts from a Philip Glass symphony about Abraham Lincoln that the composer once intended to stage at the Kennedy Center.

Robert De Niro will appear this week at Carnegie Hall, where he will recite excerpts from a Philip Glass symphony about Abraham Lincoln that the composer once intended to stage at the Kennedy Center.

So far we’ve heard 12 different primary reasons for the war, 7 different main objectives, and 5 different exit strategies.

This has been on the front page of the BBC Scotland website all morning. It talks about “eight years after the referendum”. The latter was in 2014. A child could do the arithmetic better!

It's 30 years since The X-Files came to our TV screens, but is the truth still out there? Mulder and Scully brought paranormal phenomena to an international audience and millions of people still want to believe.

I've just started re-watching "The X Files" and, praise be, the stories by Vince Gilligan, James Wong, Glen Morgan and Howard Gordon are still terrific. David Duchovny's mother hails from Aberdeenshire, so here's a piece about the series! #TheXFiles

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Trump says ‘special relationship is obviously not what it was’ after Starmer’s refusal to back Iran strikes – UK politics live Minister says UK not going to be ‘involved in a wider conflict’ despite US president’s frustration

Excellent. I must admit it is easy for people like me to be very critical of Starmer from my armchair, and of course it is not all I would like, but for now I think the fact that we seem to be so far keeping out of this war, despite pressure, deserves some credit. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Jesus. F*cking. Christ.

Sad news about the death of former Scottish cricketer Mike Smith at the age of only 59. He was a terrific attacking player and I still recall watching him play in Scotland’s first-ever World Cup match against Australia, Waughs, Warne and all, in Worcester in 1999. Condolences to his family!

Come on Keir Starmer. It can be done. Grow a backbone

Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more.

It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.

A mug decorated as the cover of The Cromarty Library Circle by Shona MacLean, alongside the Sunday Times Books section's historical fiction pick of the month, The Cromarty Library Circle.

For a more cheerful post than the one about scammers, this was me yesterday, matching my coffee mug to The Sunday Times books section.

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Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150 Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media

A horrific war crime for which Trump will take no responsibility. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

BREAKING: The Pentagon says three U.S. service members have been killed and five seriously wounded in hostilities with Iran

Opinion | War With Iran Is a Mistake We don’t know how likely it is that the attacks will be successful, nor what costs or risks they bring.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“We Americans have begun another Middle Eastern war based on dubious intelligence claims, and as in 2003, I fear we haven’t thought through the substantial risks and uncertain gains,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.

“Mr President, the bombings have begun in Tehran and also customers are complaining we have run out of shrimp at the pool buffet.”

Everything seems awful and chaotic and powerless, so I am left to do what I can only do: share some beauty with the world. I have no wise words or platitudes, but I do have a camera and empathy. A shot from my first global geomagnetic storm (2024) 💛

#iceland #northernlights #aurora
#peace

What an absolutely gorgeous day in Aberdeen. After a couple of months of winter’s worst, it really feels as if spring is round the corner. The Hutton’s a nice place for a wander - and a coffee!

School librarians do a very important job. They offer a world of wonder to youngsters and, given that fewer of the latter are reading books now than in the last 50 years, they are invaluable. We should all keep an eye on where councils decide to make budget cuts!

THIS.