Brian gourlay

Chief Yolo, Guardian of the underpass & banana facile.

[The National @ScotNational]

BREAKING: The SNP have called for a 'full, independent investigation' into new revelations which they say prove the Labour Party deliberately sought to wreck the SNP motion on a ceasefire in Gaza.

Story to follow.

[Dennis Canavan @DennisCanavan]

Delighted to present the Dennis Canavan Scholarship to Helin Salo who came here as a refugee from Syria after losing her Dad. On arrival in Scotland, she could speak no English. She is now a super star going on to study medicine at Glasgow University.

[Brian gourlay @BrianGourlay_]

Just in case your wondering have a guess who's the most reviled country in the world .

[vmp1re @velvtrr]

Just in case you don't know Israel has finally admitted killing hind rajab her whole family and the 2 paramedics who were going to save her it took 933 days to confirm they shot 335 bullets in a 5 year old girl 335 bullets in a 5 year old girl

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Twenty Marvel stars call for release of Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti https://t.co/zawbuoGGT6

[Mark Lambert @sitsio]

Does anyone remember this amazing story? On July 2, 1982, a truck driver from California flew 16,000 feet into the sky in a lawn chair. Larry Walters, 33, from San Pedro, had dreamed of flying his whole life. He bought 42 eight-foot helium weather balloons, tied them to a regular Sears lawn chair, strapped on a parachute, packed a BB gun to pop balloons to descend, a CB radio, sandwiches, and a six-pack of beer.
He expected to float a few hundred feet above his backyard. He cut the rope and shot up like a rocket — to 16,000 feet. He drifted directly into the main approach path for LAX. Two airline pilots radioed the tower: they had just passed a man in a lawn chair holding a gun at 16,000 feet. For 45 minutes, he floated over Los Angeles, freezing cold, too scared to shoot balloons because he might fall. Finally, he started popping balloons one by one and slowly descended.
He landed tangled in power lines in Long Beach, California, causing a blackout. When police arrested him, they asked why he did it. He said, "A man can't just sit around." The FAA fined him $4,000. He became a national folk hero — Lawnchair Larry — and inspired the movie Up.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

American actress Jennifer Lawrence:

"What is happening in Gaza is clearly genocide, and I will never accept it. I'm afraid for the future of my children and all our children. It's shameful."

[Acyn @Acyn]

El-Sayed: You don't want to talk about gas prices. You don't want to talk about groceries….You want to bring up all this culture war

Watters: Do you think men should play in women’s sports?

El-Sayed: I'm running for U.S. Senate. It's insane. I'm out here trying to take on the health care crisis and big pharma, and you're asking me about who gets to play what sports

[James Dewar @IndigoFast]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 GLASGOW
Has been named the friendliest city in the UK
https://t.co/TqBSlQ8Nfc

[Brian gourlay @BrianGourlay_]

Where would we be without the humble generosity of spirit, sheer kindness & love of humanity J K Rowling shows to all around her .

I loved those juvenile films about boarding school wankers & it’s so weird that the cast won’t have anything more to do with her .

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you walked up to Mike Tyson in a bar and punched him in the face, I doubt ‘you can’t hit back because I’m so puny!’ would save you from consequences.

Same on X. If you want to punch me in public but don’t want to risk a brain injury in return, stick to your own weight class.

[Brian gourlay @BrianGourlay_]

@FoxNews Man who has completely lost both the plot & the Iran war rambles more incoherent bollocks to a dwindling support .

Up Next

Trump declares war on Nato allies & anyone asking him to release the Epstein Files .

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

I remember my father, a Holocaust survivor, being attacked for being a "bad Jew", the "wrong kind of Jew", a "self-hating Jew", for supporting Palestinian human rights. Plus ça change, eh.🤷‍♀️

Full solidarity with @ZackPolanski and all human beings supporting human rights, really.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

The French Government have found hard evidence of election interference in France, Africa and even Scotlands elections

Not by Russia-

But by an Israeli based company called "Blackcore"

Heres the story.

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

Renting in the UK is fucking backwards.

You can spend £1,200 a month paying someone else's mortgage.

That's £14,400 a year going towards an asset you'll never own.

But the bank won't give you an £800 a month mortgage because you “can't afford the repayments.”

Apparently £1,200 a month is affordable when it goes to your landlord.

But £800 a month is suddenly unaffordable when it goes towards owning the place yourself.

Make it make sense.

[Brian gourlay @BrianGourlay_]

Weird how with all its many resources :
Tourism, vast amounts of clean water, renewables, whisky, gas & oil not to mention Salmon, fisheries & crop production etc etc Scotland somehow has the largest deficit in Europe .

It’s almost as if being in the UK is bad for the country .

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

You’re now reduced to making things up. The Scottish Government — not Scotland — has to balance its budget. Overall Scotland runs the biggest deficit in Europe thanks to all the money Westminster actually spends in Scotland on top of Scot Gov spend. About £25bn more than total Scottish revenues last year. Capiche?

[ren ᶻ𝗓𐰁 @acorpseofagirl]

i love how everyone still calls twitter twitter

[Will Self @wself]

Count Binface took 27 per cent of the vote. Nigel Farage took back Clacton. In a Norman church in Sussex, Will Self encountered the modern stab-in-the-back myth.

It was wearing beige trousers. https://t.co/HV717D61A2

[Iain Strachan @from_dove]

My young lad, who loves movies and going to the cinema more than anyone in history, was at a posh cinema in Edinburgh tonight seeing The Odyssey (for the fourth time). He went to the loo and on his was back he thought he recognised a guy at the bar...

[Brian gourlay @BrianGourlay_]

Self proclaimed 'expert' on Scottish affairs sharing his wisdom on UK climate change ..

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

All next week London temperatures won’t get above the late teens and it’s forecast to rain everyday.
It’s called the British Summer. ☔️
But at least we can expect some respite from the London-based media’s climate hysteria.

[Covie @covie_93]

Having sailors trying to jump off ships during a war you won 37 times is not a good look.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

PIERS MORGAN : “The IDF has KILLED 200+ Palestinian journalists & tried to pretend ‘they’re all HAMAS.”

🇮🇱RABBI SHMULEY: “That’s a lie and a blood libel.”

PIERS MORGAN: “Oh, shut up with your ‘blood libel” accusation.’