Peter Dempsie

What about Wales!

Implausibly, it appears that this “limited time” half price offer for #TheCutThroatTrial is still going strong.

If you haven’t yet exploited the opportunity to get 48% off a legal thriller described by one reviewer as “not for me”, then tuck in.

"Pretending to like you is EXTRA!"

Its arrived! @deaconbluemusic.bsky.social Tour Edition of The Great Western Road with bonus tracks.

Current state of UK political discourse.

If you have so far resisted the relentless self-publicity in the hope of grinding out a bargain, then your strategy was top notch.

Those fiends at Asda have #TheCutThroatTrial at nearly 50% off.

TEN GREAT BRITISH POUNDS.

Go on. Take food out of my publisher’s mouth.

www.asda.com/groceries/pr...

Evening all

We have scrapped peak rail fares across Scotland, for good.

It means cheaper, fairer fares - and more money in your pocket on your commute. ✅

Gig 50 is now Sold Out : The Saw Doctors at Glasgow Barrowland on Nov 15. There are approx 100 tickets left for Friday night at the Barras (Nov 14). Thanks a million to everyone who has supported The Saw Doctors in Scotland.

Friday Nov 14: tinyurl.com/f2ktfdfr

Billy Connolly
Robbie Coltrane
Mel Gibson
Irvine Welsh
Kylie Minogue
Annie Lennox

Thank you @petergeoghegan.bsky.social for the opportunity to write for Democracy for Sale about our @oxunipress.bsky.social
@tenaprelec.bsky.social Tom Mayne book #IndulgingKleptocracy.

Kamala Harris warned the American people that this would happen . . .

He’s tanking the economy, destroying our standing in the world, depriving women and LGBTQ communities of their fundamental rights, attacking the environment, disappearing legal immigrants, gutting Veteran’s benefits and Social Security. And he’s making you pay for his golf trips while he’s at it.

I'm cured of my Labour nostalgia. Now I know it's indy for me Occasionally, we find ourselves without the necessary words to express an emotion or idea because the language hasn’t yet been invented.

Neil Mackay: "Labour’s betrayal of its heritage fuels indy as much as repulsion at Tory cruelty."
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Too busy watching CNN

NEW: The UK Government has refused to say anything at all after Trump berated Zelenskyy on the world stage.

Culture Secretary Angus Robertson called the silence 'appalling', pointing to other European leaders speaking out

Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2497356...

“When the kids at school found out your parents were away, news spread like wildfire. ‘Oh I hear you’re having a party.’ Having is probably the wrong word to use…you’re GETTING a party." Kevin Bridges

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

Word of the day is ‘matutolypea’: extreme grumpiness in the morning.

From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.

Here it is:

Thomas was a nice chap. He attended one of Scotland Stronger IN events during the #EUref.

Nicola Sturgeon: ‘The independence movement has proven itself resilient’ The former Scottish first minister on SNP scandals, falling out with Alex Salmond — and why pressure for a new referendum will return

"An independent Scotland won’t be magically better. It will be down to how well it’s governed, and the political choices people make: the difference is it will be our choices"

www.ft.com/content/2f91...

The world’s most powerful passports for 2025 | CNN An Asian island country is top of the ranking in a newly released report on travel freedoms worldwide.

UK citizens used to have one of the most prized passports in the world.
Now it's behing Singapore, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
Yes. Behind 11 leading EU nations.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/t...

Doggie!!!!

Any chance of feeding back to the techies that it would be awfully handy when you open up an article in a browser, it gives you an option to read it in the app? Takes a while to scroll thru the app to find the article. 🖖

Word of the day is ‘pavonise’ (19th century): to strut about like a peacock, all puffed up with conceit.