Meanwhile, in Brigadoon....

England never win against top 10 sides....oh.....hang on....

I'm an old man now. So every couple of years I get to shit on a stick and post it to Dundee. Seems appropriate....

So that's the Bond franchise ruined then. The US just destroys everything it touches at the moment. Sad.

First Ice Cream Van of the year....yum!

Ooooohh!! Polling card dropped through my door....tick tock.... Seems Scotland still hasn't got around to requiring ID to vote....interesting....

Did anyone else find Cumming's weird affectation of an accent vaguely disturbing at the BAFTAs? Also, why is the ScotNat American supporting a British institution this week...is a fat cheque involved?

One interesting fact. MUP has driven me back to the delights of homebrewing....so that's nice. Another application of the law of unintended consequences....

Where has the BBC got the commentators from for all the silly, teenage, twizzly, baggy pants on snow events? They are just making up random words and numbers and inserting them in incoherent sentences....is there a red brick somewhere producing these odd people?

Interesting. Suddenly I am unable to interact with a whole bunch of Nat accounts! Whodathunkit! Not a desperate dying cult, using bots to spread disinformation.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The Night Manager was good....not as good as the original, and neither were a patch on the book...but quite good.

Internet is down in parts of Persia again. Interesting to see what the effects are hereabouts......🤣🤣🤣

This struck me at the time, @JimSpenceDundee, but it stayed with me too, enough to come back to it this morning. Silent coup isn’t a rhetorical flourish. It’s the only honest way to describe what you see when you look at Scotland without blinking. And nothing exposed it more clearly than the Sandie Peggie case. Here’s a nurse who raised a concern any woman in the country would recognise. She said she felt uncomfortable sharing a female changing room with a colleague who was born male. Instead of offering a practical solution, NHS Fife reacted as if she’d challenged a sacred doctrine. The tribunal had to remind them her belief was lawful, her discomfort was real, and she had the same equality protections as anyone else. That a public body needed to be told this by a judge says everything about how far our institutions have drifted from the people they are meant to serve. And this wasn’t a one-off. You see the same reflex in the gender self-ID debate, in the way critical race theory is smuggled into public life, and in the harm-reduction dogma that insists addiction is a permanent identity rather than a condition people can recover from. Different issues, same pattern. Ordinary people raise ordinary concerns, and suddenly they’re treated as if they’ve committed a moral crime. The institution’s job is no longer service. It’s enforcement. You’re not allowed to question the script. You’re not allowed to use the language everyone used for centuries. You’re not allowed to suggest that addicts can get clean without being accused of stigmatising them. In Scotland, we now have documentation that simply believing recovery is possible is itself labelled harmful. That is what ideological capture looks like in the wild. All this unfolds while the country is visibly collapsing. Schools slipping. Hospitals breaking. Addiction deaths the highest in Europe. Infrastructure cracking like old plaster. And don’t get me started on the potholes. Navigating Glasgow’s roads is now a full-time obstacle course. Yet instead of governing, instead of tending to the basics, the political class fixates on symbolic battles. Pronouns. unconscious bias courses. language policing. theatrical offence-taking. Dead cats everywhere, strategically flung to stop the public noticing the state can’t perform its most basic duties. Harm-reduction ideology fits this whole worldview like a glove. It treats people as static objects, not as souls capable of rising. It strips agency and calls it compassion. It rejects hope and calls it realism. And when you challenge it, you get the same cold institutional stare that Sandie faced. Not evidence. Not discussion. Just punishment for thinking outside the approved script. This is the pattern. Not a conspiracy. A worldview. Not voted for. Slowly absorbed. Not about helping people. About disciplining them. Sandie Peggie didn’t invent the pattern. She & other brave women revealed it. And once you’ve seen it at work in gender policy, in race discourse, in addiction, in policing, in education, in the NHS, you realise Scotland didn’t drift into this by accident. Our institutions quietly swapped their foundations. Truth replaced by ideology. Competence by ritual. Service by policing thought and speech. So what do we call this thing? It’s not old-school Marxism, It’s the modern offspring of that family, wearing updated clothes. It grew out of the cultural left, from the theories that replaced class struggle with identity struggle. It treats people not as individuals but as categories. It treats ordinary disagreements as moral offences. It doesn’t seize factories like the old communists. It seizes institutions, language, policy, HR departments, and moral authority. It governs through shame and intimidation, and because it never announces itself, it slides into public life without a single vote cast in its favour. Academically you can call it postmodern critical theory, or the critical social-justice ideology. But ordinary people recognise it more plainly for what it is: a new ideological class that has captured the state while the country wasn’t looking. That’s why your phrase silent coup landed so hard. It names what people feel in their gut but haven’t yet put into words. And the more plainly we say it, without fear, the more others will finally see it too.

Interesting effect tonight. Responses to some old posts popping up. Some flag run it's course perhaps?

The smell, sound and smoke of burnt gunpowder hanging over Easterhouse and the East End this night. Where the bureaucratic fun police still fear to tread....thank goodness.

Ayr North (South Ayrshire) Council By-Election Result [1st Prefs]: 🙋 Ind: 25.1% (New) 🎗️ SNP: 23.3% (-22.5) 🌹 LAB: 20.4% (-3.7) ➡️ RFM: 17.3% (New) 🌳 CON: 5.8% (-14.8) 🙋 Ind: 4.5% (New) 🔶 LDM: 2.2% (+0.5) 🙋 Ind: 1.5% (New) Independent GAIN from SNP - Stage 8. Changes w/ 2022.