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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 3h

Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead The final book in Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy featuring the further adventures of Carney and Pepper. The whole series is brilliant, but Cool Machine is maybe the best of the three. Also a good companion to Heather Ann Thompson’s (non-fic) Fear and Fury. #BookSky

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 3h

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 10h

Could very easily have had Steve McQueen, Hatful of Hollow and Psychocandy on my list.

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 10h

I loved both those albums but Bummed took over my life for about six months. What a record.

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 19h

First seven wrote themselves, then it got really difficult.

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 19h

Balls. Forgot Haunted Dancehall.

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Been at a thing in Mayfair this evening. It’s, um, it’s not Barnsley.

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I pretty much give everything four stars because very few books are five stars, and if I get to the end, it’s going to be at least three stars. Because if it’s shit, I’ll chuck it…

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

1873 by Liaquat Ahamed Engaging account of the first global financial crisis. States, institutions and individuals all go big on new technology (the railroads), then a crash, then political instability, then a rise in extremism. Sort of. Really, the story is far from simple. #BookSky

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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

Let’s say I’ve had a variety of experiences but - true - I’ve never done that.

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nothing I’ve ingested in my life has made me iller than the night I got pissed on K Cider.

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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

Ha! We used to have a picture up in one of the offices - an aerial shot of the site before development and it was classic post-industrial wasteland. I also remember some iffy-looking tyre garages and maybe a scrapyard?

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Funny - I was just trying to work it out. Is that bus stop on Ashton New Road (so heading into town)?

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ah interesting! I first went there in 2000 - the velodrome - and it looked like a spaceship that had taken a seriously wrong turn. Worked there 2012-2022 and, even in that time, the change along Alan Turing Way… it’s hard to imagine unless you knew what it was like before.

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With ‘Girls…’ they do make up an excellent triptych.

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Aye I think a lot of the tutting about Burnham’s comment is coming from people - eg Winter - who didn’t know that bit of Manchester before the investment (lottery, Commonwealths, Abu Dhabi). Whatever you think of the means, the outcome has been pretty transformative.

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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

That was me last night - except it was a Travelodge and a tin of red wine.

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah - it’s lovely. Loads of young people, every colour under the sun, just hanging out. And the Museum and the Library are amazing institutions which are free get into - blows my mind.

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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

87-94 - the greatest era in the history of popular music. And we never told anyone.

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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

Sebago Ranger boots with the commando sole are tremendous value and get better the more you wear them. GH Bass Alpine boots also very good. Or get Fracaps with the commando sole…

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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

theguardian.com

‘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

You wonder who he’s narked off with. The Bangladeshi curry house with a picture of Mick McCarthy and a framed letter from the Queen behind the bar? The takeaway run by the same Chinese family for about 30 years? The shop selling Italian bicycles?

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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

💯 The stress was the mess over the ownership - Green, Ashley, etc - which did feel existential, but that was a whole other story. Going to the game? Had a ball supporting the team, didn’t miss the aggro of Old Firm games one bit.

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is what we learned when Rangers got done - the whole point was to support the club, not who we were playing, or even (really) who was in the team. And I never missed the aggravation of playing Celtic. The only stress was the ownership/financial stuff - but that was a different story.

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Scott Dougal @scottdougal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There’s an Orwell prize at stake here.

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