Gail Hendry

Absolutely enthusiastic about Scottish gin & Scottish Independence. Mum, teacher, election agent, candidate. Once, all 4 at same time! Both votes YES. ALBA

[Football Away Days @FBAwayDays]

A spine tingling rendition of Flower of Scotland being belted out by The Tartan Army, before their first World Cup Finals game in 28 years.

A moment that many have waited a lifetime for. 🥹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️

[adidas Scotland @adidasUK]

CHOOSE SCOTLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏆

@ScotlandNT @LewisCapaldi

[Gail Hendry @AbsoluteGinius]

@DrMoragKerr @stephtaylor65 @overlandertheb1 Was that the woman at the meeting in Galashiels who kept going on about Labour for Indy? In the Borders!! She had no ideas and little enthusiasm. I think her name was Susan, but she didn’t know the local area. We did get lots of leaflets to deliver… most of them not suitable.

[Paul McManus DR11UMS @Dr11Ums]

@PeteWishart Facts are best established & exposed in court under oath. You stick to your cosy wee committees - leave the grown up stuff to me and my formidable legal team. Watch from the public gallery whilst I haul your ex and current colleagues in front of a judge. Actions have consequences

[Gail Hendry @AbsoluteGinius]

@richard_1874 The month doesn’t matter … it’s chilly 🥶 🤣

[Gail Hendry @AbsoluteGinius]

@richard_1874 What a lovely photo Richie ☺️

[Gail Hendry @AbsoluteGinius]

@JimSpenceDundee So sorry for your loss.

[James Mitchell @ProfJMitchell]

Loyalty is a virtue but misplaced loyalty -to an individual over principles and honesty - becomes a vice. SNP politicians have become enmeshed in a growing web of deceit. Cost of failure to extricate themselves will only mount as more emerges, as it certainly will.

[Sister Rosetta @quineofthenorth]

I'm older than John Swinney and Nicola Sturgeon. I was an independence supporter when they were still at school. Between them they've totally destroyed the possibility of independence for a generation. Maybe even forever. They did that in 12 years. Liars, cheats, bullies. But

[Frankie Kent @frankiejkent]

@JamTarts 🪄 🎩 ❤️

[Gail Hendry @AbsoluteGinius]

@AustinRSheridan @KennyMacAskill You used to worship Alex Salmond Austin. You wouldn’t shut up about him. Are you a poor judge of character?
I’m a good judge of character. I’ve always thought that you’re a plonker.

[Kenny MacAskill @KennyMacAskill]

Murrell was central to the Alex Salmond conspiracy. He has not pled or been charged with any crime relating to that. But this affects his credibility and the others involved many of whom remain in senior positions in the SNP and SG now need held to account.

[Gail Hendry @AbsoluteGinius]

@m1lllavvies @Roeburnscar @AngusBMacNeil @AvalonBunny1 It was Swinney who appointed him.

[Alexandra Epps @ArtGuideAlex]

Moonlight and Roses at Windermere #JeffSudders

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'Evening Muses' by Natalia Drepina, contemporary photographer #WomensArt

[Gail Hendry @AbsoluteGinius]

@Fergie_CJ I follow a lot of art accounts and it really lifts my mood if I check in to Twitter.

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Georgia O'Keeffe
Lake George Reflection, 1921-22

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Craig Gordon is remarkable. In Scotland squad at 43. As a goalkeeper he obviously enjoys longevity but still to be active, and heading to a World Cup a third of the way through his fifth decade, is impressive. Gordon made his Scotland debut aged 21 against Trinidad & Tobago in a team that included - *deep breath* *checks notes of outfield players* - Steven Pressley, who has now been in management for 15 years; Gary Caldwell now in management for 10 years; Richard Hughes who stopped playing 12 years ago and is now sporting director at Liverpool; Malky Mackay who retired as a player 18 years ago and is now sporting director at Hibs.

Again, Gordon’s position affords longevity, but his hunger and professionalism are admirable. If he plays, Gordon will become the second oldest World Cup participant after Egyptian goalkeeper Essam El Hadary (45 years and 161 days at Russia 2018) whose gloves have been exhibited in the FIFA World Cup Museum.