Al D

Just a loon from Aberdeenshire.

Immediate block on use of colony and similar phrases. One of the Enemy.

#MCFC #AFC 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦

[raging545 @raging545]

Drones have again reportedly struck the PNB Grushovaya oil transfer depot in the city of Novorossiysk, Krasnodar region.

[Murdo Fraser MSP @murdo_fraser]

If the SNP don’t want a Westminster inquiry the solution is obvious - they should agree a Holyrood one. The truth is that they want to brush this all under the carpet. But the truth will out.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

🇺🇦 The President of Ukraine visited The King this afternoon at Windsor Castle

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

Interestingly, many people (correctly) pointing out that Yes Scotland and the SNP had to be legally completely independent, to comply with Electoral Commission rules. @Ross_Greer might regret revealing the CEO of the SNP organised a pay rise for him at Yes Scotland…

[Malcolm Tucker @gorbalsgoebbels]

👀

[Craig Houston @CraigHouston_]

Ross doesn't want an inquiry because "I wasn't affected by it" and Peter Murrell had nothing to do with a group that gave him 25% pay increase he was just a man with "influence". Interesting

[Agent P @AgentP22]

⚠️£600,000 gone.
⚠️A former SNP chief executive convicted.
⚠️Ministers found in contempt of court.

Yet Swinney's priority is blocking inquiries.

What exactly is he afraid of?

[Andy Preston @centre_right_]

Wow. Kemi is stunning the audience here tonight. Candour, passion and ideas 🥊⚡️💥

Do not bet against her leading the Tories to victory

#kemistry

[Agent P @AgentP22]

John Swinney's latest Energy Minister lasted about five minutes before becoming a national embarrassment.

Where do they get these people?

🙈

https://t.co/YOeWg4WbJz

[Ruth Davidson @RuthDavidsonPC]

Gary Smith is right.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Yes, definitely, and without any beating around the bush: Putin has deteriorated significantly, and he continues to weaken in plain sight.

He used to appear in public as a cold, psychopathic, cynical, cruel, treacherous, and calculating predator, always wearing that smug little sadistic grin. Now, month after month, he is increasingly descending into outright buffoonery and farce.

He is drowning in his own childish giggling, awkward antics, and crude off-color jokes. He now routinely blurts out poorly thought-out nonsense straight from the top of his head, which contradicts itself and even the mainstream narrative of his own propaganda machine. It's almost as if Donald Trump bit him. As a result, he now constantly shocks his own officials and Russia's Z-fascists on Telegram.

He keeps making mistakes. He keeps absorbing painful public blows from Zelensky. He keeps allowing himself to be backed into corners.

I don't know exactly what it is. Maybe age is finally taking its toll. Maybe accumulated exhaustion. Maybe a growing, reluctant realization that things are not going well in the war against Ukraine, that the prospects ahead promise nothing good, that a certain threshold has been crossed beyond which Russia will no longer be able to break Ukraine, and that only the countdown remains to the most terrifying thing of all: the eventual acknowledgment of failure.

And so the Kremlin war machine (and the dictator's own veins) are filling with nervousness, frantic activity, denial of reality, impulsive decisions, palace intrigues, and a growing loss of control. Add to that the recent setbacks in Syria, Hungary, Moldova, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

Most likely, it's all of the above.

Because you can puff out your chest, pound your fist, issue threats, and project as much small-dick-energy bravado as you want, but against the backdrop of devastating Ukrainian strikes on Russia's oil industry -- and now on its military and fuel logistics -- Putin nevertheless authorized Roman Abramovich's trip to Kyiv.

The thing is, the old Putin probably would never have bragged about something like that in public or signaled to everyone that beneath all the swagger, laughter, and bravado, he had blinked first.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

I thought we were past this in academia.

If you don’t agree with someone’s thesis, go, listen and challenge them. It’s part of what a university education is about.

Academics, including Michael, welcome dialogue. It’s part of our job.

[Jenny Lindsay @msjlindsay]

These shameless women disrespect every single woman's rights campaign in history. Deny us the language we need to describe ourselves; gift men the right to redefine us to include them? Enjoy the temporary applause. May imposter syndrome haunt each of you to the point of insomnia.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Major Ukrainian drone raid ongoing tonight targeting occupied Crimea and southern Russia.

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

Appalling and shameful.

@UniofOxford must act to ensure these lectures can proceed.

[Mark Irvine @Mark1957]

"PETER Murrell is being mocked by fellow inmates and wife Nicola Sturgeon won’t visit him in jail, we can reveal."

Sturgeon and Murrell spent Easter and Christmas together, but the former SNP leader and First Minister has no plans to visit him in prison!

https://t.co/pfCttDcRKD

[𝙾𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 @overlandertheb1]

If I was @theSNP 's candidate in an election I would not pose for photographs holding a brown envelope.

[Aviemore @Fyrishsunset]

Express: Sturgeon won't visit Murrell in prison despite him getting 'dog's abuse' from cons 🥱

This is a bit like watching a particularly tedious soap opera. All the lines written and rehearsed well in advance - the ‘finale’ a damp squib …
https://t.co/C8NWtK3jI6

[Brian Spuzuki @BrianSpanner1]

There are only two things in play with regard to the Sturgeon-Murrell affair.

The SNP inner circle are either so incredibly stupid they genuinely couldn’t see wholesale fraud occurring over a decade or they knew and the price of their silence was patronage from Queen Nicola.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Israeli interceptors seen engaging Iranian ballistic missiles over northern Israel a few moments ago.