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[Lionel Barber @lionelbarber]

Very revealing - and very funny

[Gillian @GillianBowditch]

Breastfeeding tips for non-mothers reveal how civil service is milking the taxpayer Me for ST.

https://t.co/YIclKm11P2

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

HM Treasury not doing much for credibility of its distributional analysis by presenting effects of taxes and spending changes on households but ignoring impact of NI increase - so you see benefits of more spending without costs of biggest tax rise.

[Guardian culture @guardianculture]

‘It was hard not to stare at him all the time’: inside the remarkable rise and shocking loss of Leonard Rossiter https://t.co/ThFlYrciMc

[colindonald @colindonald2]

Capitalising on change: Japan's growth champions https://t.co/aKNn500G1p via @YouTube

[Alexander Linklater @ARLinklater]

It’s a longstanding trope of revolutionaries and separatists to refer to those who don’t want what they want as “reactionaries”. In a literal but limited sense, it’s the correct term: a smaller group proposes a revolution and a larger group reacts against it. While the larger group just says “gonnae no dae that”, however, the advocates of revolution ascribe to them an identity they didn’t previously possess, projecting onto this unsuspecting collective an equal and opposite agency to their own. But it’s a false equivalence. The nae-sayers are under no obligation to propose anything, or even to defend the status quo. Saying “no thanks” to the establishment of a separate Scottish state doesn’t by default make you a reactionary in the sense of being opposed to other kinds of reform and change. It doesn’t mean you necessarily have anything else politically in common with your comrades in demurral who have turned down the secessionist proposal. Above all, it doesn’t mean you are obliged to have a counter proposal, or opposing world-view.

The revolutionary nationalist is the protagonist in search of an antagonist. The “reactionary unionist” is the opponent of their creation. But most of those “unionists” don’t share the same terms of reference. Many wouldn’t even have thought of themselves as unionists prior to 2014. Some may be cock-a-hoop at the collapse of the nationalist movement; some may be nationalists themselves, just of a different constitutional stripe; most simply don’t think secession is a good idea.

I’ve always been drawn to the revolutionaries in history: the ferocity, romance and clarity of their arguments, their phenomenal self-certainties and bizarre self-deceptions. They are figures, generally, of charisma, poetry, tragedy and - when successful - usually - of cruelty and horror. Being psychologically fascinated by them doesn’t mean I am under any obligation to promote an opposite world-view to theirs. I simply don’t believe what they believe and don’t want what they want.

[David Leask @LeaskyHT]

Scottish visitors to Spain, of course, are all culture-vulture cosmopolitans who shun the fried breakfasts, burned beer bellies and bar brawls of the unlettered Saxons in favour of Lorca readings, pintxo sampling and binge-watching Cuéntame cómo pasó .

[Kiefer Sutherland @RealKiefer]

With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.

[UK Dividend Stocks @UKValueInvestor]

Just reading the latest edition of Trust Magazine. For the price (it's free) it's fantastic (it would still be fantastic even if it cost five quid): https://t.co/gPLJgXRkLo @BaillieGifford

[Nona Mamulashvili @NonaMamulashvi]

How to amazingly destroy russian propaganda in a less than 5 minutes
@sikorskiradek masterclass

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST was released 49 years ago. Acclaimed as one of the greatest films of the 1970s and among Jack Nicholson’s greatest performances, the making of story is as big as The Chief…

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[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

This is incredible. A snowball fight filmed by cinema pioneers the Lumiere bros in France, 1896. It's been colourised and had the speed adjusted.

[colindonald @colindonald2]

@Clyde1News Wow!

[Tom Gordon @DMScotPol]

From the new Private Eye

[colindonald @colindonald2]

So that’s where’re it comes from (according to obit of BBC business journalist Peter Day)

[colindonald @colindonald2]

FMQs sketch: Let's all play continuity bingo https://t.co/o1135Eg0sD

[colindonald @colindonald2]

FMQs sketch: Stay classy, Scottish Tories | HeraldScotland https://t.co/ASWr7sd8YL

[Murdo Fraser MSP @murdo_fraser]

SNP leadership contest sees Sturgeon’s legacy trashed - my latest ⁦@TheScotsman⁩ column https://t.co/LYp4lPilUd

[colindonald @colindonald2]

@peepsmacdonald @mrblairbowman @scotgov @Ian_Fraser @_KateForbes Hear hear Peeps, if the @scotgoveconomy were as efficient at making Scotland investor-friendly as they are pious and meddling diktats, they would have achieved a lot more for our economy and national/international profile and, for that matter, their ultimate cause.