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Scott Dougal

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 17h
Feel for Dermot Desmond. I honestly don’t think the Tennent’s Sixes are worth getting that upset about.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Great I can watch baseball from Ohio on the BBC - love the game - but tiny shame I can’t watch rugby league from Manchester.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Spending my Saturday drafting legislation to change how people drive in multi-storeys. Ie, if you have a queue of people following you, it is not acceptable to hold them all up while you tiptoe your Range Rover into the one space on Level 4, while there are clearly loads of spaces on higher levels.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So we’re all agreed… Time After Time *is* better than True Colours?
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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s Friday afternoon lads and lasses. Another week without getting found out. And a new Hermanos Gutierrez record.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Working ‘in town’ so walked to Kings Cross. Route took me past the British Museum, through Russell Square Gardens, past the Brunswick, past the British Library. Do that on the right sort of evening/morning and you’d be forgiven for thinking there wasn’t much wrong with London/Britain/the world.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Solidarity, not separation. Sign me up.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Card in the new Christmas catalogue from the RNLI might be a little too on the nose.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hats by the Blue Nile.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There’s got to be a campus novel in this. “Our beloved Scottish town is day by day turning into a microcosm of Manhattan’s elite world; complete with intrigue, privilege, and secrets that spread like wildfire.” www.theguardian.com/education/20... #booksky
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‘It’s like the Scottish Upper East Side’: shame and snobbery as American students blamed for St Andrews classism
Online comments reflect class tensions at Scottish university between those from lower-income families and wealthier US undergraduates
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s a satellite village of a satellite town. Before that is was a mining village. Before that it was a clayworks. Before that farmland. Nowt wrong with it - used to live there myself - but it’s never been Jerusalem.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lol. Spare a thought for the fringey elements of the Celtic support who are getting ready to jemmy their way into English phone-ins about City.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Boy in the next village has taken to flying a Knights Templar cross in his back garden. I don’t recall a time when fascists were so keen to advertise.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
God bless the 20th century.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Might start the English Football Monitor. Where’s Cosgrove when you need him?
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Very excited that English football fans will now get the Rangers Tax Case experience first hand. Oh the blogs, the blogs, the blogs.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reminds of a friendly we played at Wednesday. The waves of our fans as we go into the ground, realising: “oh aye, you can drink in England!” then all coming away from the little caravan selling Heineken with four bottles in each hand. They ran out about 20 minutes into the first half.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A tremendous afternoon of Scottish football. Full steam for Clyde Superscoreboard.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
God bless Sarah, Bob and Pete.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What was the Leadmill. Last time I was here, it was to see Mercury Rev when they were touring Yerself Is Steam. The lead singer - the troubled one - got hoyed out for fighting with the lad on the t-shirt stand.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Off to see Saint Etienne. Expecting a lot of middle-aged weeping.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Watching the fourth series of True Detective. Bleak. So is it wrong that I want to move to the Arctic Circle?
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s Friday afternoon lads and lasses, we made it. www.mixcloud.com/worldwidefm/...
mixcloud.com
Luke Una // 09-09-26 by Worldwide FM
Luke Una's 3 hour monthly show, on the 2nd Wednesday of the month. "This is homage to playing music in various woods, trees and gatherings of humans in forests over this long hot summer from spirit...
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Very entertaining night of a European football.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Glad I booked a window seat
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Could this be some sort of app?” Sounds like this is indeed “some sort of app.” www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
scotsman.com
ScotRail chief reveals cause of chaotic new app launch
More than 3,000 complaints after travellers unable to log on or access tickets
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
That’s been a tremendous afternoon of Scottish football.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Play up the Glasgow Rangers. (Please don’t pick Devlin).
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Fear and Fury by Heather Ann Thompson Bernie Goetz was previously only a line in a Lou Reed song to me. A flawed but brilliant book, it traces a line from Goetz to Zimmerman to Rittenhouse to January 6. Peaks with a gripping account of the Goetz trial and again in the closing chapters. #BookSky
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Saw a blackboard today that Einstein wrote on. So that’s something.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You could say the first 50 years weren’t tremendously good news (the harrowing of the north etc) but “ultimately”???
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
On a train. Boy opposite me would be facing jail time under the first legislation to be passed under a Dougal administration: “Only food bought on the station concourse or the train, or prepared at home, may be consumed on board.” (He’s unpacking a massive burger and chips and coke).
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Please can we can get back to making the future look more like the Jetsons, and less like Blade Runner. It’s a taxi ffs - you don’t have to make it look like the First Order.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You can donate to the RNLI here rnli.org Or also consider the St Abbs lifeboat stabbslifeboat.org.uk I’ve met some of the latter crew. They are, at the same time, ordinary lads but also fucking incredible.
rnli.org
RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Targeting the RNLI? Truly vile.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“The fascists have got their marching boots on. So we'd better had too.” I often think of this prescient column by @tompeck.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Donald Trump is close to power and that should terrify you
"You'd better get your walking boots on," Nigel Farage told Jackson, Mississippi, like they don't know how to march in America's Deep South
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
*Far right protesters boarding bus for Dover* Organiser: “Stevie, did you bring the balaclavas?” Man clutching cake box: “Ummmm….”
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026
With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
(Screenshots from the Times report) People have been warning for years about the risks of polls-led journalism. So I think we need more from the newspapers than this - What due diligence was done before publishing these polls? What will they do differently in the future?
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New series of Taskmaster. This Reform shenanigans. And my football club appear to have had a mad final day of the transfer window. I will confess to being entertained.
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Also since Orr is an academic at Cambridge who has actually been caught lying I look forward to the month of hounding on a deeply personal level and strokey chin pontificating about whether any white men should even get to be professors
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Book the ads @thetimes.com
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Have you stayed here before?” “Yes, many times. In fact I could give you a rundown on every Travelodge in west London.” “Nevertheless…”
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Tell Glasgow, I love her. (In a complicated way).
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Let’s also pave the way for returning the Lindisfarne Gospels to Lindisfarne.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Against expectations, this is good from Giles Coren. www.thetimes.com/article/becc...
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hoyed it down every day. The mud, the mud, the mud. Me and my mate James in my 10-quid-out-of-Woolworths tent which leaked on the first night. Vodka and irn bru and some other shenanigans. Was mostly terrible (because of everything I owned was wet) but the Bad Seeds and Public Enemy blew my mind.
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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Mladic. I hope it wasn’t easy. People talk about “lessons from history” quite a bit at the moment. You don’t have to go back all that far. This was rampant ethno-nationalism, fuelled by religious fervour. And all happening in Europe. In my adult lifetime. www.thetimes.com/article/8d26...
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Sarajevo safari hunters ‘used code name for human prey’
An innkeeper in Italy has claimed wealthy tourists stayed with her on the way to shoot trapped civilians in Bosnia during the 1990s Balkans war
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