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A cracking strike by the looks of it

I see Galloway is now mouthing off against asylum seekers and refugees. Complaining 'our forces' cannot 'interdict' a single boat. So now back on the side of the Farages and Trumps. Complaining we can't control 'our' borders - while the last time he was up for election in Scotland, he didn't want a Scottish border at all.

Has anyone seen Poor Things, is it any good? However good it is, it would be weird to see a film based on Glasgow-set Alasdair Gray novel with Glasgow erased and set in London instead.

To be honest I hadn't heard of 'Mr Big'. Will need to look into. Though if Living Colour are on first I could imagine giving unknown rockers a miss and going home to bed early 😅

Interesting I see Jesus & Mary Chain are doing a 40 years tour later this month, including Edinburgh but sold out

I see what you mean. Though what Mick Lynch and George Galloway have in common here is that they have a relatively small constituency they are having to please or fight for - a union of specific workers in one case, a single geographical area (parliamentary constituency) in the other. A mainstream political party representative (especially a party of government) simply could not tell the media to 'stuff it' like that, much as they may like to.

I don't recall Motherwell looking so vibrantly claret. Or maybe I just wasn't paying attention.

In the interview above, Galloway said he'd be meeting the Speaker on Monday, and also David Davis.

Yes, on matters Scottish he flips from progressive worker underdog to become the gentry-friendly imperialist, right-wing flag-waving 'nationalist' of the British kind, despite tarring his independence-supporting opposition for being the nationalists/fascists. All the while the media lap it up, don't notice the flip, just the punchline.

Galloway is a brilliant orator, attached to a very mixed-up political brain. If your views coincide on a particular issue you can cheer him on, if your views are at odds, he comes across as arrogant, shouty, petty, vindictive and full of red herrings. Compelling viewing, though it's the mainstream media (following Sunak, perhaps ill-advisedly) suddenly giving him the airtime. I love that you can see the curly wire into the intervieweer's ear, as if he is the hapless mouthpiece of the scrambled establishment brains behind Sky.

Friday night 🧀

No one wants 'mob rule'. But the thing about protest is that it's often those who are the underdog, who feel they are under attack, who don't otherwise have a voice, who take to the streets, that are then labelled the angry mob. But they are right to be angry. It's just if an establishment type or big business guy feels his/her interests threatened, they have a quiet word with someone in high places, they don't need to be angry, they don't need a 'mob' to be heard.

Seems Westminster will bend or break the rules with impunity, knowing the unionist media will see no stitch-up, hear of no stitch-up, speak no stitch-up

'we've got computers... that will find us friends...' all that technology... (and the band) 40 years on