I’d be nothing without @CelticFC. They gave me my first opportunity in the game and the greatest football education anyone could have wished for. I’ll be forever grateful to the club, the supporters and especially Jock Stein for believing in me and giving me that opportunity.
When media people say climate change is not going to be as bad as World War II, it shows they clearly have no idea what’s coming.
And this is just the beginning.
As Colombia University’s Dr James Hansen, formerly of NASA, warns, climate change is going to cause the equivalent devastation of a direct hit from a massive asteroid.
It’s not like we weren’t warned.
I always like to pay my respects when in the area.
It lifts my soul that there are always flowers no matter the time of year ... 721 years on. 💙
"How can I be guilty of treason when England is foreign to me." 🏴
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Modern World stayed in the set right from ‘77 to the very end, it was his most searing biographical song in the Jam & was obviously very important to him #TheJam
He was born in a shepherd's cottage so poor and remote that they called him Laughing Tam, and he grew up to reshape the face of Britain with stone and iron.
Thomas Telford came into the world in 1757 in the lonely valley of Eskdale in Dumfriesshire. His father, a shepherd, died when Thomas was a baby, leaving the family in hard poverty. Young Tam was apprenticed to a stonemason, learning to cut and set stone with his own hands. He had almost no formal schooling. What he had instead was a fierce curiosity, a genius for how things were built, and a refusal to let his humble birth decide his future.
From those beginnings he rose to become the greatest civil engineer of his age, so celebrated that he was nicknamed the Colossus of Roads. He built more than a thousand miles of roads and over a thousand bridges across Scotland. He drove the Caledonian Canal through the Great Glen, linking the seas on either side of the Highlands. He raised the magnificent Menai Suspension Bridge in Wales, a wonder of the world in its day. Harbours, churches, aqueducts, whole networks of communication, all flowed from the mind of a poor Scottish shepherd's son.
Telford never married and had no children. His work was his family. When he died in 1834 he was buried in Westminster Abbey, the shepherd's boy laid to rest among kings and poets. A whole district of England, and a new town, would come to carry his name.
His life is the oldest and truest Scottish story there is. That where you start does not have to be where you finish. That poverty is not the same as failure. That a Scottish child with nothing but ability and grit can remake the world.🏴👑⚔️🧬🌉
They laughed at the poor boy from Eskdale. He built bridges that still carry us today
NEW: We often hear that Scotland’s more progressive income tax is “driving people out the country.”
New HMRC data shows the opposite. Far more taxpayers are moving to Scotland than leaving it.
Let’s look at the data 🧵
@KwinanaWA It’s always been one sided though.
What history were you taught at school ? Certainly not the genocides in India, Africa… Leopold 11 of Belgium killed more innocents than Hitler, as did Stalin…
@KwinanaWA The kids of today need to get their heads out of the devices & think outside the box.
There is no rebellious movement whatsoever now.
Lambs to the slaughter.
Trump as a president of the richest country in the world would never have happened in the 60’s, 70’s…
@KwinanaWA But we don’t guilt trip or educate.
Roman Empire… Good.. no wait a minute , actually was bad.
British Empire … good, no wait a minute, actually was bad.
USA empire… etc etc.
China BAD… oh wait a minute…
We are led by Donkeys. We believe the shit while they get rich 💰.