My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
07.12.2025 08:31 — 👍 12631 🔁 3889 💬 235 📌 92
Patriot by Norman McCaig
My only country
Is six feet high
And whether I love it or not
I’ll die
For its independence
07.12.2025 09:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yep
06.12.2025 23:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Scottish Championship living up to its well-earned reputation of being the best in the land
06.12.2025 15:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From P.G. Wodehouse's dark period
06.12.2025 13:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"If I'd known I'd have to sit through an hour of Gianni Infantino I'd have just played a square ball" - Kieran Tierney
05.12.2025 17:47 — 👍 306 🔁 73 💬 6 📌 0
👀The mesmerising sight and industrial orchestra of the new Nutmeg parading through the print presses.
🧎🏻It seems to do a celebratory knee-slide at the end.
🛒Order one of these beauties direct. The perfect football escape: tiny.cc/z32w001
05.12.2025 15:36 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Seamus Heaney on World Cup Draw day
05.12.2025 14:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s fantastic.
04.12.2025 21:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Me too. Bought it immediately and picked it up this afternoon. Nostalgic and a thing of beauty.
04.12.2025 21:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by ELAINE D
The Lee Jeans Sit-In (The Factory, BBC 2005)
A fantastic BBC Scotland documentary about The Lee Jeans Sit In. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmFr...
04.12.2025 18:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by ELAINE D
The Lee Jeans Sit-In (The Factory, BBC 2005)
Here's a fantastic BBC Scotland documentary about The Lee Jeans Sit In. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmFr...
04.12.2025 18:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Friday's World Cup Draw
03.12.2025 18:26 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
🆕 TTAM-0047 The Partick Thistle FC - It's The Jags / Firhill For Thrills 7" single, 1972
- Item 47 is added to our virtual museum today, and with a little of the background story... 👀
👉 thethistlearchive.net/archive-muse...
02.12.2025 12:25 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
4 panel comic
Panel 1:
Red Guy looking way way too happy yells “Hey Guys! Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?”
Blue Guy next to him calmly says “Shhh”
Panel 2:
Blue Guy tenderly puts his arms around Red Guy and says “You don’t have to do this”
Panel 3:
Blue Guy still holds Red Guy tightly and repeats “You don’t have to do this every year”. Red Guy begins to break.
Panel 4:
Red Guy dissolves into Blue Guy’s embrace, sobbing. He finally feels the weight of Christmas Discourse lifting from his shoulders. He is finally free.
i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse
02.12.2025 01:39 — 👍 12189 🔁 3439 💬 212 📌 208
Iowa City made buses free in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions and encouraging people to take public transit.
Now ridership is up, traffic is down, and the program is extremely popular.
So popular that the City Council has voted to extend it for another year.
20.11.2025 15:42 — 👍 1237 🔁 285 💬 14 📌 22
YouTube video by Scotland National Team
How THE WORLD reacted to Scotland Reaching the World Cup 🌍 | Crazy Commentary | Scotland 4-2 Denmark
Could play this on a loop. Still can't believe it. youtu.be/GdDtZD1jCKU?...
29.11.2025 19:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks that’s very kind of you. Best of luck with the book. It’s great!
28.11.2025 17:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is a great wee book for your football and/or poetry loving relative. And no, not a contradiction. You can be both
28.11.2025 17:02 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Well my Thursday night crew (ie my boarding pupils) have done it again. A film to promote HIGH BALL TO THE WEE MAN. Scotland’s World Cup adventures in poems. Inimitable/ irresistible/ a gem of a book according to the scribes. A perfect Xmas gift. @tasa1999.bsky.social @nutmegmagazine.bsky.social
28.11.2025 11:07 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Beautiful funeral service for George today. Standing room only. So much love in the room.
28.11.2025 15:48 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What I can offer - unique designs, high quality UK made products, customer service from a real person, a warm and fuzzy feeling because you are buying from a tiny independent business.
I'm not doing Black Friday discounts this year.
It’s just me in my Manchester studio. I can't compete with big brands slashing prices.
Every purchase keeps my tiny business going.
Shop independent this Christmas gailmyerscough.co.uk
28.11.2025 08:24 — 👍 109 🔁 85 💬 3 📌 1
David Goldblatt is one of the most eloquent, articulate and principled voices in football. He spoke about the issue of FIFA's inaction over Israel at @playthegame-org.bsky.social last month, and his words feel particularly relevant today as FIFA seeks to evade accountability.
27.11.2025 12:54 — 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
One of the many things planned for our 150th anniversary year is a commemorative book .
Please note that Partick Thistle - A People’s History has a deadline for submissions of November 30th.
More details at
ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/up...
27.11.2025 12:47 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Which does sound like a made up job title tbf
27.11.2025 10:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Superb thanks
27.11.2025 10:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Teacher, writer, translator. HIGH BALL TO THE WEE MAN out 1/10/25.
family man, jags fan, music fan, Socialist. Join a Union. It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand
Award winning sportswriter. Internationally best selling author of 16 books, including a football trilogy that led to three TV documentaries. The scope of my collaborations has widened recently to include a Holocaust survivor & special forces soldier.
Not hideous enough to merit rejection.
Beer Gerk, ShanDad, Techno Bozo, InclusiveDance #freshformass
Musician/band
The official blue sky of Steve Earle.
New record 'Alone Again (Live' out now.
Posts monitored by management.
linktr.ee/SteveEarle
https://events.eventgroove.com/event/2025-Red-Ants-Pants-Music-Festival-103376
@steveearle
Football history and culture, especially Tottenham Hotspur where I am a proud season ticket holder.
Football History of the Scotch Professor. Telling the story of how Scotland invented modern world football. Working to Preserve, Protect and Publicise the history of the game from a Scottish perspective and crush the myth that England invented the game.
Poetry Editor for Nutmeg Magazine. Winner of inaugural Liverpool Poetry Prize (Open category). Author of 6 poetry collections. Editor of 2 punk poetry collections for the Joe Strummer Foundation and Buzzcocks.
Photographer making my way about towns: joellemctigue.com
Writing about art: joellemctigue.substack.com
Political scientist. Poetry enthusiast. Author of Kicking (Duke UP, 2026); What Are the Olympics For? (Bristol UP 2024); NOlympians (Fernwood 2020); Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Verso 2016). www.julesboykoff.org
Wordsmith, lost deep in the word mines, collecting acceptable adverbs and credible similes. Keen to surface and present my findings to an astonished world.
Football writer and retired rogue referee. Latest book: 'The Last Amateur', published by halcyonpublishing.co.uk.
Stories for those who think about football more than everyone else. Edited by Jonathan Wilson and featuring writing from some of the best to cover the sport.
theblizzard.co.uk
Blogs from www.Footballfanzineculture.blog looking at the history & culture of football fanzines with occasional pieces about individuals and teams related to that.
He/him. Eco-zealot Marxist. Part-owner of the Jags. All I want is Scottish independence and Partick Thistle to win something. Is that too much to ask?
Author of Verona Campione, Verona at War and Notes from Verona. Optimistic Hellas Verona season ticket holder with a passion for the past. And wine. Also beer. Some whisky too.
I cover the business/politics of football & other global sports for The Athletic. In other words, I mainly do bad news.
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/matt-slater/
Co-director @fairsq.bsky.social
