Colin Callander

Golf writer, happy hacker and big Forfar Athletic and Stevenage fan. Grumpy old git.

[Colin Callander @ColinCallander]

So why are non season ticket holders getting the opportunity to buy tickets now? As a long term season ticket holder, I’m told I have to wait 5 plus hours even to get into the system. Pathetic.

[Stevenage FC 🔴⚪ @StevenageFC]

History in the making. 💫 Be part of it - get your tickets now!

Season Tickets seats held until Tuesday 4pm.

[Stevenage FC 🔴⚪ @StevenageFC]

History in the making. 💫 Be part of it - get your tickets now!

Season Tickets seats held until Tuesday 4pm.

[Colin Callander @ColinCallander]

I’m a season ticket holder. I have been trying to do that for about 5 hours. The system is an absolute shambles. I will try again tomorrow and, if needed, go to the club shop, if it’s open. Then what do I do because I’m travelling abroad?

[Stevenage FC 🔴⚪ @StevenageFC]

History in the making. 💫 Be part of it - get your tickets now!

Season Tickets seats held until Tuesday 4pm.

[Colin Callander @ColinCallander]

Mom as far as I was concerned. Magnificent performance. Well done and thanks.

[Jasper Pattenden @JasperPattenden]

Another big night under the lights at Broadhall!
We keep moving forward ❤️

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

Urgent:
Nigel Farage says he barely knows Trump. He’s heard of him but he’s never campaigned for him, or modelled himself on him.
He DOESN’T want photos like those attached to be circulated at a delicate time with local elections looming.
Please DO NOT circulate these.

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

Help me make sense of this. On one side, Russia is sending drones, medicine and food to Iran (in addition to targeting info of US interests in the Mid East). On the other, a group of sanctioned Russian lawmakers have been welcomed in Washington for meetings on the Hill

[Colin Callander @ColinCallander]

Absolutely deserved. Congratulations @MattHarrisPIXs

[PGA of America @PGA]

Congratulations to Matthew Harris (@MattHarrisPIXs), our 2026 PGA of America Lifetime Achievement Award in Photojournalism recipient! 📸

[Max Mitchell @max10mitch]

An absolute legend in his own right! Serial Winner and a dieing breed…. Privilege to have managed him towards the back end of his career 💪🏼

@Louie_Henry10 the apple never falls far from the tree 💪🏼⚽️

[David Frum @davidfrum]

A savvy UK government would prioritize EU ties, not talks with Trump. His word is worthless, his intentions are malign, his method is chaos, and his preferred partner is Putin. There is no time to waste building strategic autonomy for EU+UK. Trump talks will only waste time. END

[Robert Peston @Peston]

We just learned that the world’s most powerful person, Donald Trump, has a boss: the bond market.

He may not have acknowledged this to himself, yet, but the global financial tumult he caused - and has temporarily eased - has locked him in a fiscal prison.

Because, as I have been saying for 24 hours, he came perilously close yesterday to having caused such an extreme fall in the price of US government debt that it would have become prohibitively expensive for his administration to fund a large deficit - more than 6% of GDP - and also to refinance the almost $8 trillion of government debt that matures in the coming year (almost a third of America’s sovereign debt).

The point is he is totally in hock to the good will of bonds investors.

And when he announced his reckless roster of massive tariffs eight days ago he alienated them, because they feared he would tank the economy such that tax revenues would plummet and the deficit would balloon.

So they sold US government bonds, Treasuries, and the yield on the bonds - the de facto interest rate - soared.

Which is why Trump blinked, and put on hold the more extreme tariffs, except for the 140% on China, for 90 days.

You might think the worst part of this is the uncertainty he has created for businesses and investors for the next 90 days. Since no one in their right minds would make a major US investment till the final tariff determinations are made.

But the cancerous uncertainty is not the worst of it.

The worst of it is he has shredded any respect that overseas governments and investors might have had for America’s economic and fiscal competence.

Shades - you might say - of how Truss and Kwarteng’s unwise unfunded tax cuts undermined the perceived fiscal competence of the UK.

But unlike Truss and Kwarteng, there is pretty much no mechanism for removing Trump.

All of which means that bond and stock markets will remain fragile and volatile - fearful that Trump will regain his mojo and engage in some other fiscal extravagance.

He has also handed a loaded gun to his perceived enemy, China, and his supposed ally Japan.

This matters in both cases, because he is engaged in the mother of all trade wars with China - and Japan wants a trade deal with him that would see it escape mega tariffs.

The loaded guns they have are their massive loans to the US government. Japan owns more than a trillion dollars of US Treasuries and China not much less.

If they were to sell those bonds, or even if they chose not to refinance maturing bonds, that could be a disaster for Trump. Because it could cause another potentially crippling spike in bond yields.

Here is the measure of Trump’s debacle.

He may well have trashed America’s single most important financial competitive advantage, namely that investors have traditionally bought the dollar and US Treasuries at a time of economic and political uncertainty.

No more - because he personally has become the world’s source of economic uncertainty snd anxiety.

So, as I say he, is now in a fiscal prison. And if bond investors, including Japan and China, see him imposing tariffs or cutting taxes in ways they don’t like, they learned yesterday they have the means and power to stop him.

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

Imagine being this heartless. This guy should be banned from the ballpark for all time.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Elon Musk has called Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) a “traitor” after visiting Ukraine this weekend. Kelly is a 25-year U.S. Navy pilot veteran and retired astronaut.

RETWEET if you stand with @CaptMarkKelly against Elon Musk’s unpatriotic attacks!

[Colin Callander @ColinCallander]

Why? He had one hole left to play, could ditch his shoes and then get some free new ones.

[Kyle Porter @KylePorterNS]

Leaving your shoe on here is wild.

[Akash Maniam @ManiamAkash]

"I won't provide air defense because I want to stop death"

Remember these words. A US president chose to enable russia's airstrikes to compel their victim into submission.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

If you watch one thing today make it this remarkable speech by an independent French senator. It captures the moment @ClaudeMalhuret

[Colin Callander @ColinCallander]

I hope there will come a point nobody will believe a single word this man says.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

'We can be self-sustaining... our forests are massive, we just haven't been able to use them because of the environmental lunatics that stopped us'

Donald Trump tells reporters 'we don't need trees from Canada, we don't need anything from them'

https://t.co/DnIH5R550u

Sky 501

[Steve in Toffeeland. @marrtoffee]

Best seller in Canada.

[Stevenage FC 🔴⚪ @StevenageFC]

From the first minute to last.

Outstanding!

[TheBroadhallWay @TheBroadhallWay]

Stevenage Loyal - A Tribute🕊️

Today we were informed by our @StevenageFC_SLO of long-term fan Richard Gillis sad passing in November.

Many of you would’ve known Richard as “Loyal” on the terraces, regularly carrying his suitcase.🧳

RIP Loyal, the Boro faithful thinks of you.💫

[Colin Callander @ColinCallander]

Hugely deserved honours David, congratulations to you and the team.

[David Scott @davidscottPGA]

Thank you Martin. A great feature on our amazing 2024 at Dumbarnie Links.