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I got my blog out of cold storage to write about the Mark Goldbridge, tv rights and what it might eventually mean for Scottish football
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All the football. All the time. Yes, you are still subscribed!

I got my blog out of cold storage to write about the Mark Goldbridge, tv rights and what it might eventually mean for Scottish football
open.substack.com/pub/scottish...

How does woke start winning again? | Gaby Hinsliff The long read: British progressives have suffered major setbacks in recent years, in both public opinion and court rulings. Was a backlash inevitable, and are new tactics needed?

Found this to be a really interesting, thoughtful piece

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

Labour promised trans people dignity. I am not sure it knows the meaning of the word | Nicky Bandini The terror I felt after coming out as a trans woman was assuaged by the acceptance I encountered in the real world. Someone should let our policymakers know, says football writer and broadcaster Nicky...

Had to take a step out of my sports writing comfort zone this week to say a thing that needed to be said.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Delighted Andor’s back. Still easily the best thing in the Star Wars universe since Empire.

That’s absolutely brutal.

Trump's attacks on universities get ever darker, with the shadows reaching our shores The US has become a hostile and authoritarian state to foreign scientists and is choosing ideology over science.

Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics.

I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

Johnny Blood!

This is wild, dystopian stuff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

Robson’s figured out a way to keep us from conceding goals or chances. Unfortunately, it’s absolutely brutal going the other way too.

Thistle have been really good at this over the last year, so glad to see it’s paying off.

After the derby defeat could the much-vaunted Tynecastle atmosphere work against Hearts?

@andyharrow.bsky.social and @craigcairns.bsky.social preview the four Scottish Cup quarter-finals by debating a key question ahead of each contest.

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'It's Time to End the Trump Denialism and Admit the US Is No Longer Europe's Ally' Keir Starmer's attempts to be an "honest broker" with Donald Trump are doomed to failure, argues Adam Bienkov

It's time to end the Trump denialism and admit that the US is no longer Europe's ally.

Why while Keir Starmer's attempts to be an "honest broker" with Donald Trump have been well-intentioned, it is now clear they are doomed to failure

bylinetimes.com/2025/03/04/d...

Not the worst Rovers team I’ve ever seen, but they’ve still produced some of the worst performances I can remember this season.

That second half was abysmal. Never left a game as early as that. We’re a miserable team.

From the outside (the UK) it’s striking how little reaction there *seems* to have been to Trump inside America. Don’t get any sense of concerted pushback from the Dems or general public this time.

Well, here we are again!

In related news, I fully expect Blofeld to be the hero of the next Bond film.

Utterly bleak. Every day there's something to make you more despondent.

I couldn’t understand why he took so long to make changes when it clearly wasn’t working.

That’s the little bubble burst then. Defended ok but we offered *nothing* in attack.
Bannon, Mochrie and McStravick were all impressive for Airdrie.

Hamilton are so lucky Airdrie were so bad in the first half of the season. Dearie me.

After beating Thistle, the typical thing for this season would have been to drop points today, so that’s a big win.

Watt to Watch: New manager bounce(s)?

Gary Cocker and @andyharrow.bsky.social discuss:

🏭 Michael Wimmer's first match
🆕 Brian Graham taking over
👊 A huge match in the Championship title race
😬A relegation play-off six-pointer in Dingwall

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😂

I assumed this would be terrible given the only promo seems to be an advert before Severance, so that’s a pleasant surprise.

‘You’ve Blown a Hole in the Family’: Inside the Murdochs’ Succession Drama More than 3,000 pages of documents reveal how years of betrayals led to a messy court battle that threatens the future of Rupert’s empire.

This is fascinating.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m...

Really good performance today. Thistle never seemed to have a sniff and we put the game out of sight pleasantly early.
Promotion playoffs suddenly look doable (although we need to solve our inconsistency issues).

Via @mattbelloni.bsky.social:

This has been a good excuse to get away from the kids for a few pints and, well, that’s literally it.