Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 1hMy mother was given a (long obsolete) hat pin by her mother when she went to London by train in the 50s to work <for the tunnels> 010
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 2hDo you also own the .com, .org, .co.uk and .net variants of some domain names? 010
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 2hAs a school girl my old pal Susie sparked up a fag in the cinema and stubbed it out on his hand This would have been the 1970s 1122
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 3hAlso in the Bayeux Tapestry the side with the small boats won and the Native English were Great Replacemented surely? I thought Kemi was against that sort of thing? 031
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 3hAnd please note I an comparing Western Ukraine with Poland, not Ukraine 000
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 3hWas coming back from canvassing as a candidate, booted, suited and all rosetted up An excited crowd run towards me, I puff up to meet my people, newly arisen The cry goes up "You are the Real Radio Rebel and I claim my £100" I was hèlas, not, and the soufflé of acclaim swiftly collapsed 020
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 3hFinally the nutty right have our own version of Barbarossa, or the occluded 12 Iman of the Jafari Shia - the sleeping crusader who will awaken when the time is right 030
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 02/10/2026Ditto the UK 2016 General Election - SNP win 56 out of 59 seats - if Holyrood had FPTP the Parliament would have been unfunctioning 000
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 02/10/2026[Sounding my old favourite drum] At the February 1974 General Election NI split 51%-49% anti-powersharing and 92%-8% seats - the emboldened winners mounted an armed General Strike in May bringing down Sunningdale and leading to 1,000+ more deaths until power sharing was restored 100
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 02/10/2026I see the Socialist Rapist entryist scum have a new host to infest 150
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 02/10/2026They do everything better in the Unites States 070
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 01/10/2026The Italian for grifter is Fuffaguru Use this knowledge wisely Grasshopper 060
Reposted by Gordon GuthrieRosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I had no idea this was an option. 841081
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 01/10/2026Put the kettle on I don't think it would fit 170
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 01/10/2026Cornwall won the gold medal for Rugby in the 1908 Olympics www.cornwallforever.co.uk/history/corn...cornwallforever.co.ukCornwall v. Australia - 1908 London Olympic Games Rugby Union Final |Read all about Cornwall's history and culture with Cornwall For Ever! Find out more about this remarkable place and its people. 031
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 01/10/2026They should have included senior tech advisor David Sachs who was gung ho about the Iran War and shocked when they closed the Straights of Hormuz 000
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 01/10/2026Mind going to Aberdeen in the old corridor-compartments in the bad winter of 1982 with ice on the inside of the windows Not as bad as leaving Aberdeen in -27C by overnight bus to Heathrow to fly to Melbourne and arrive in 40C in full winter rig but only me balaclava off and in me pocket 130
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 30/09/2026Man who lost a war against ~checks notes~ Iran, sez wut? 050
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 30/09/2026Come down the club on a Thursday Evening at 7:30 - no obligation to join, come and meet the gang, see what's happening... 010
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 30/09/2026our Autumn programme of film-making activities is out now www.ecvs.co.uk/_files/ugd/8...ecvs.co.uk 120
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 30/09/2026Wanna make films? No experience? Fancy getting involved? You can do it... edinburghcinevideosociety.substack.com/p/what-if-lo...edinburghcinevideosociety.substack.comWhat if lockdown never endedDon’t panic it’s a film! 110
Reposted by Gordon GuthrieAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Beyond the scandal engulfing Manchester City, a lot of people in European football need to consider what might happen to investment from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar if further military escalation around Yemen and Iran forces Gulf states to reconsider their strategic priorities 8439
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 30/09/2026Which version? The Clash or the nursery rhyme? (or both to mix it up?) 110
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 30/09/2026My film buff friends tell me it's a remake of Chinatown Need to do a side by side screening at the cinema club 100
Reposted by Gordon Guthriegquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 28/09/20263 experiments in reimagining strategy in government... and many more to come www.linkedin.com/posts/gquagg...linkedin.comWhat are emerging experiments in reimagining the strategy process in the public sector? As part of my The Digital Statecraft Academy fellowship I collected around 30 cases - from Argentina to Japan… |...What are emerging experiments in reimagining the strategy process in the public sector? As part of my The Digital Statecraft Academy fellowship I collected around 30 cases - from Argentina to Japan. P... 012
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 28/09/2026History week not be kind to him and the Democrats 020
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 28/09/2026Pitt St-as-was, as me Mum who lived with her parents and sister in the kitchen of a shared basement in Dundas St always called it 010
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 28/09/2026I am excited and worried about the US midterms My hunch, if you deign to call it that, is the guy who tried to mount a coup last time he lost a critical election will, ya know, go Coup Two Electric Boogaloo 55853160
Reposted by Gordon GuthrieKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 28/09/2026if the kidz are looking for somewhere else deserted to hang out online, they could find some kind of US Treasury Bonds Fan Club site 4697
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 28/09/2026Terror Suspects On Bail - it's all getting a bit Mark E Smith 020
Reposted by Gordon GuthrieHeather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This was the same outfit that worked their PR connections to run the scare story throughout the UK media, in pre-covid 2020, declaring that children under the age of 10 were using the names of Nando's hot sauces as secret texting code for explicit sexual acts. The solution being ... their product. 231
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 28/09/2026Knew an American girl from an American Norwich (pronounced Nor Witch) who moved to East Anglian Norwich and hilarity ensued 010
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 28/09/2026The Mighty Sparrow has died Top Calypsonian Here is one of my favorites open.spotify.com/track/0f22E4...open.spotify.comWhat's the Use of Getting Sober?Mighty Sparrow · Ornithology Vol. 4 (Singles, B-Sides & Rarities, 1963–1974) · Song · 2024 000
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 27/09/2026Poland experienced both Russification and the closure of Polish Universities and Germanification too under the Partitions 010
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 27/09/2026You are aware that most people in that Commonwealth were illiterate 100
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 27/09/2026Not a dual national but like Shamina Begum possibly entitled to be due to being sprogged in foreign I don't support Eichmanisation of nationals either because I'm not a Nazi 050
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 27/09/2026To go back and describe, say, the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth as 'occupying' Western Ukraine is ahistorical in my opinion 100
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 27/09/2026Krakow and Lvyv were in the Austro Hungarian empire together as Galicia 100
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 27/09/2026And Krakow and Lvyv had been part of the same state till 1945, were similar in economic development between 1945 and 1989 and then suddenly diverged 110