Andrew Crawford

Chartered accountant, Rangers fan, Darts fan, Proud father of two

[Bairdric @Bairdric1]

World football needs to see this. One of the worse use of VAR decisions I have ever seen. Not one Hibs player claimed. What you don’t see is play continued for over a minute. Ball went out of play twice. Out and out cheating

[SM Media @SMMediaEnt]

Regarding the penalty at Ibrox, what Don Robertson and Matthew McDermid have shown us today is that 50/50 pulling in the box should always go the way of the attacking team and that SHOULD lead to 10 penalties a game.

The SFA continue to push the boundaries of how ridiculous their vision of officiating can be and IF you have the nerve to rightfully question and call out their incompetence then brace yourself for the nonsensical punishment that awaits you.

[BBC Scotland Slayer @Naefearrfc]

Rangers need entry to English football as the SFA cheating is absolutely beyond belief…..🤬

[Blair Malloy @blairwords1]

A quite astonishing decision to award Hibs a penalty at Ibrox having seen it back.

Rangers haven’t looked particularly fluid but the penalty call has shaped the narrative of the half.

[The Ref’s View @TheRefsView]

Absolutely incredible decision, both are at it.

No way you can punish one and not the other.

[Andrew Crawford @castleheights1]

No wonder they have done away with the Key Match review of decisions 😆😆

[Rangers Spares @Rangers_Spares_]

That’s absolutely mental

Hibs player grabs Drago’s face and Hibs get the penalty about 5 mins after it 😂😂😂😂

Not even hiding the blatant cheating now. That’s is the most crazy penalty you’ll ever see gave but does it even surprise you now

[Andrew Crawford @castleheights1]

Haha. Even Michael Stewart says never a penalty in a million years. Joke decision. VAR getting involved about 10 minutes after the event for no reason. Scottish football is pointless.

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

In Buddhism we understand that every action comes with a consequence. Due to my decision to stand up for my Jewish friends I am losing a few people from my life. Today I parted company with Tony Pontius who has run my record label BGP for a number of years. I wanted to release 'We Will Dance Again' but he was unequivocal and said 'I want nothing to do with this song' and I responded 'ok, we are done'.
When someone is gutless it really does not hurt to say goodbye. My faith in humanity will not diminish and the truth will always win.

I will release it!

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

.@AmnestyUK Your Friday afternoon “apology” — for the grotesque Amnesty report attacking female rape victims for wanting a women-only crisis center — is a textbook exercise in damage control, which you timed to vanish into the weekend news vacuum. That you chose not to publish this apology on your social media channels is a telling indication of the importance you attach to it.

You claim the report “should never have been published” and that “full responsibility for this error rests with Amnesty International UK.” But then you immediately dilute it: the briefing was taken down “as soon as management were notified of its existence.” So leadership only learned of a major public report after it was already live? That is not an explanation. It is rather an indictment of total managerial failure and a culture that allowed ideological activists to weaponize Amnesty’s name without basic oversight.

You still cannot bring yourselves to speak plainly. “Whilst we do not share the views of all these organisations…” You smeared Beira’s Place — a women-only sexual violence support service founded by JK Rowling for female survivors of male violence — as part of an “anti-rights” movement. You listed For Women Scotland, Sex Matters, LGB Alliance and dozens of grassroots women’s and same-sex rights groups alongside anti-abortion organizations, then called for scrutiny of their funding and status.

That is not a “labelling” error. It is a deliberate attempt to delegitimize sex-based rights after the Supreme Court ruled that “woman” means biological sex.

JK Rowling was right: You attacked female rape victims for wanting male-free spaces and treated belief in biological reality as a human-rights threat.

As reported in The Times, the granddaughter of Amnesty co-founder Seán MacBride, Iseult White, said that your organization now acts like the authoritarian regimes you once exposed, and that she wouldn't give you a penny. https://t.co/VxVcH2qPzc

Your pledges about an “ongoing internal investigation” plus a self-commissioned “independent external review” do not constitute accountability. The problem with your organization is not about one rogue briefing. It is deep-rooted institutional capture, which treats protected gender-critical belief and single-sex provision as inherently suspect.

Most important of all: there must be real leadership consequences. Those who allowed this blacklist to be produced and published, and those who failed in their duty of oversight, cannot simply continue as before. This includes the ultimate responsibility of Secretary General Agnès Callamard, who leads the organization globally and oversees its national sections. So far she has chosen silence and evaded any resposibility. Resignations, or at the very least clear accountability at the highest levels, are required. Anything less is more of the same mealy-mouthed evasion, process without principle, regret without responsibility.

No organization that enjoys the prestige and vast multi-million dollar resources of Amnesty can blacklist a women’s rape crisis center and then pretend the problem was merely procedural. This was the predictable outcome of an institutional culture that has inverted the meaning of human rights. Until that culture and the ideology behind it are confronted and changed, Amnesty’s claim to moral authority stands exposed as a pretense.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Nauseating hypocrisy. You and your party’s green mongering over the years have driven BP and others away. You gave virtue signalling priority over jobs, families, communities. And now you express concern for them. Pass the sick bag. Scotland is truly run by a kakistocracy. But Scots only have themselves to blame. They keep electing self-serving numpties.

[Simon Fox @SimonFoxWriter]

When I were a lad, “Far Right” meant people who agreed with Hitler. Today, apparently, “Far Right” means people who voted for Brexit; who don’t hate the UK; who don’t feel guilty for being white; who don’t believe that men can get pregnant; who believe in facts & common sense.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

Zack Polanski has posted to his 713k Instagram followers a photo of a man in a T-shirt calling for the beheading of Nigel Farage.

To do this just 2 weeks after our friend Ann was murdered is staggering.

Polanski is inciting murder.

It must be treated as such by the police.

[GINGERSKOL💜💛 @GlowSurfing]

Spot on!! 🎯😎😆

I can’t wait for the comments!!

Nicklas Nilsson explains the difference between right-wing and left-wing people in spot-on text on Facebook:

"If a right-wing person is gay, then he is, and he doesn't care what others think.
If a left-winger is gay, then he demands legal changes, protests against everything and everyone, and turns it into a political struggle.

If a right-winger is vegan, then he simply doesn't eat meat.
If a left-winger is vegan, then he wants to ban meat, halt food production, and protest outside farms and chicken farms.

If a right-winger doesn't like guns, then he just doesn't buy any.
If a left-winger doesn't like guns, then he tries to ban them, prevent everyone else from owning one, and hates those who do.

If a right-winger is worried about the climate, then he flies less, drives an electric car if it suits him, and sorts his waste.

If a left-winger is worried about the climate, then he wants to ban fossil fuel cars, air travel, and meat for everyone else, protest outside factories, and demand that the state forces the change.

If a right-winger wants to give his children a good education, then he moves to an area with good schools, or chooses a private school, or gets involved himself.
If a left-winger wants to give his children a good education, then he demands more tax money from everyone, equal results for all, a ban on charter schools, and protests against every inequality.

If a right-winger complains about his job or workplace.. he doesn't. He changes jobs or starts his own business.
If a left-winger complains about his job – then it's the boss, the company, or the colleagues who are at fault. He demands collective agreements, strikes, changes for the whole community, and protests against the company so that it suits him.

If a right-winger is dissatisfied with his housing or rent, then he moves, renovates, or buys something else.
If a left-winger is dissatisfied with his housing or rent, then he demands rent freezes, more subsidies, regulations for everyone, and protests against landlords and politicians.

If a right-winger fails with a business or an investment that goes wrong, then he gets up, dusts himself off, and tries again tomorrow.
If a left-winger runs out of money on the 24th, then he blames the rich for having too much and needing to contribute more, blames the lottery win that didn't come home last week, and mutters that he has such damn bad luck.

If a right-winger sees this – then he sends it to a few friends for a good laugh.
If a left-winger sees this – then he tries to argue against it, get it removed, and delete me from Facebook."

[Airas @Airaswe]

They tried to cancel Sophie Cunningham.
Adidas dropped her shoe instead.
Sold out.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

A pantomine horse isn’t a horse.
An open secret isn’t a secret.
A hot dog isn’t a dog.
A shrinking violet isn’t a violet.
Crow’s feet aren’t feet.
Fair game’s not a game.
Trans women aren’t women.

[David Collier @mishtal]

This is Ramallah police station. The image captures the moment after a Palestinian mob lynched two Jews, and mutilated their bodies. Aziz Salha proudly shows his blood stained hands.

Ramallah is the city the Greens want to twin Manchester with.

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

‘Can’t believe they’re going after Amnesty’ say the people who went after a rape crisis centre for women.

[Laura Brannan @_LauraBrannan]

I see we're starting exactly where we left off.

[GorgieOPINION @GorgieOpinion]

Motherwell have been sanctioned harder than Celtic who prematurely ended a game….. phenominal