Andy Duncan

[Andy Duncan @andywduncan]

Show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name now https://t.co/kD152cmzpY

[Andy Wightman @andywightman]

MAY 2026 UPDATE Who Owns Scotland now published with a total of 5000 landholdings (76.95% rural Scotland). All records updated & 19 new ones including an estate sale that I will highlight in a blog. New subscriptions welcome - they start at £6. Link in bio

[Prof. Devi Sridhar @devisridhar]

The underlying story of the past few days is billionaires became richer, working people became poorer & politicians will blame it on immigrants & foreigners. Textbook.

[Andy Duncan @andywduncan]

After some blue sky thinking 😉, it's time to join the Xodus. See you on the other side. 👍

[Sarra Hoy @SarraHoy]

Thank you so much for the huge wave of support and encouragement that has enveloped us. Thank you for the messages, letters and emails. We are so thankful and continue to feel very lucky. Onwards!

[Monsieur Cholet @stugoo17]

#PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #StateSponsoredCrimes #GLO #FullRedress
RIP Carol Riddell and deepest condolences to her Husband Alan and family and friends.😢
Yet another Core Participant dies without receiving full redress. Shameful.😡
@biztradegovuk @jreynoldsMP @gareththomasMP @liambyrnemp @CommonsBTC @HouseofCommons @premnsikka @UKHouseofLords @RtHonKevanJones @chrish9070

[Andy Duncan @andywduncan]

FFS America, what have you done?

[NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day @apod]

Why were the statues on Easter Island built? No one is sure. What is sure is that over 900 large stone statues called moais exist there. The Rapa Nui (Easter Island) moais stand, on average, over twice as tall as a person and have over 200 times as much mass. It is thought that the unusual statues were created about 600 years ago in the images of local leaders of a vibrant and ancient civilization. Rapa Nui has been declared by UNESCO to a World Heritage Site. Pictured here, some of the stone giants were imaged last month under the central band of our Milky Way galaxy. Previously unknown moais are still being discovered.

Credit & Copyright: Josh Dury

[Daniel Lloyd @daniellloyd1]

This is not good news for cycling in the UK.

Firstly, I'd like to say that there are a lot of passionate cycling fans working at WBD, in front of and behind the scenes. The company is automatically 'disliked' by a cohort of the general public because it's a huge international conglomerate, but Eurosport have been showcasing cycling since 1991. They have, and continue to do a hell of a lot for our sport.

On the flip side, exclusivity on the biggest race in the world, the ONLY race where non-cycling fans might tune is, is very worrying. It's a significant barrier to entry into what is already a relatively niche sport in the UK.

ITV not only do a fantastic job themselves of broadcasting the race, live and with easily accessible highlights, they provide a gateway to WBD. The fans they 'convert' each July are more likely to subscribe to Discovery+/Max/Eurosport once they've realised how amazing our sport is. They must have made lifelong cycling fans of millions of people over the last few decades (including me).

Anyway, I really feel for Ned, Dave, Pete, Matt, Daniel, Gary and all the others behind the ITV production - thank you for all you've done for the sport.

[Andy Duncan @andywduncan]

@harrym_vids Na, it's a great video, Harry. Thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, I have enjoyed the all the Countach anniversary adventures. (I suspect YouTube assesses these things on very narrow criteria). Keep up the good work.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

On June 28, 2009, British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking hosted a party for time travelers at the University of Cambridge. Hawking arranged balloons, champagne, and snacks for his guests but only sent out the invitations the following day, after the event had already passed.

The party took place at Gonville and Caius College on Trinity Street (52° 12' 21" N, 0° 7' 4.7" E) at 12:00 UT on June 28, 2009. In anticipation, Hawking expressed hope that copies of the invitation might survive for millennia, allowing someone from the future to find it and use a time machine to attend, thereby proving time travel possible.

Hawking waited in the room for several hours, but no visitors appeared. He humorously considered the event as "experimental evidence that time travel does not exist."

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

I wrote about the many ways that Israel has made trauma a weapon of war.

About how this exploitation betrays the victims of the past.

And creates many more victims in the present.

It was hard to write. It will be hard to read.

I hope it helps. https://t.co/ENQLh35YFw

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

I’m not buying this line of argument. Johnson knew, as everybody in the Conservative Party knew, that the Brexit referendum was about heading off the (over-stated) electoral threat from UKIP and simultaneously dealing with a fringe group of MPs in the party who were a distraction and wouldn’t shut up. Nobody, Johnson included, thought the country would actually vote for it. There was never going to be a White Paper because nobody sensible could think of anything to put in it. The expectation was that the electorate would sort the Conservative Party’s internal squabbles out for them by decisively rejecting it and all would be well. As an aside, we have the choice of continuing with this failed non-policy or not, and the current government have chosen to continue with it. I would love to see a White Paper laying out the case for staying out of the single market and customs union.

[Welsh Bollocks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @welshbollocks]

Absolute chaos in the Highlands of Scotland as monoglot English speakers' brains are fried by bilingual signs in Gaelic and English. It is believed the signs cause around 30,000 accidents a month. English-only speakers are asked to stay away from the area.

[BBC Debate Night @bbcdebatenight]

“Despite Brexit… it hasn’t changed the dial one little bit”

“Is that your argument? That really our democracy comes down to opinion polling?”

Scottish Conservatives' @dlumsden and @LesleyRiddoch clash over Scottish independence

#bbcdn

[BBC Debate Night @bbcdebatenight]

“They get megabucks for it, and that system is not being tackled on either side of the border”

@LesleyRiddoch says cracking down on companies “land banking” could offer a solution to Scotland’s housing crisis

#bbcdn

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

NEWS: Winter Fuel Payments could be reinstated for ALL pensioners this winter if new legal challenge succeeds – here's what you need to know... https://t.co/eJnXl6VZKf

[Scott Wortley @Scott_Wortley]

I would probably have sought a different interviewee on issues of moral probity and ethical behaviour, but I appreciate my standards are not those of a newsroom

[The National @ScotNational]

NEW: Kate Forbes, Scotland's Deputy FM with responsibility for Gaelic, has responded to Andrew Marr's comments about the language - after he said some signage is 'offensive'.

'If one of Scotland’s languages isn’t welcome here in Scotland, where will it be welcome?”' she asked.

[Alan Ferrier @alanferrier]

"If my mother tongue is shaking the foundations of your state, it probably means that you built your state on my land."
—Musa Anter, Kurdish writer assassinated by the Turkish government in 1992.
https://t.co/b4xArDqLpK