John Lang

Political and sporting addict.

[John Lang @langj83]

I’m not greetin, you are! What a night! The stuff of dreams and legends. Watch out world, we’re coming for ya!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿#FIFAWorldCup #TartanArmy

[Scotland National Team @ScotlandNT]

We. Are. There.

#FIFAWorldCup | @FIFAWorldCup

[John Lang @langj83]

@AndyBurke_ Z Fagerson, Russell, Tuipulotu, Jones, Van der Merwe, Schoeman, Kinghorn surely in. White, Graham, Jordan and Darge possibles. I’m going 9 in total.

[John Lang @langj83]

@jaredwright17 100%

[John Lang @langj83]

@thistlerugbypod Other than to show deference to Ireland at all times and plead for forgiveness for daring to share a field with them….

[John Lang @langj83]

@Murray_Kinsella Well, it's not a RWC knock out game, so Ireland may well win....😉

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[John Lang @langj83]

@MarkPalmerST @TimesSport @timesscotland An excellent, thoughtful piece Mark.

[John Lang @langj83]

100% #USElection2024

[The i Paper @theipaper]

Opinion | Terrible things will now happen. There’s no point dressing it up, or pretending it’ll be better than it is. We are in serious trouble. We are in a moment of acute danger, the likes of which we’ve never really seen before

🖋️ @IanDunt

https://t.co/0A9BxjR9X8

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

“ When a Clown moves into the Palace, he doesn’t become a King, The Palace becomes a Circus” is a Turkish proverb which is worth heeding in the coming days.

[John Lang @langj83]

Oh America. What has become of you….? All I can say, from the rest of us, is so long and good luck. #ElectionDay #USAElection2024

[Cameron Fisher 🏉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Huwipulotu]

Darcy Graham has one more cap and 12 more tries than Cheslin Kolbe

[John Lang @langj83]

Magnificent

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

Richard Harris (died #OTD in 2002) tells a story about working on a London theatre productions of Macbeth with an anti-Irish leading actor.

[John Lang @langj83]

@greg_jenner @BAFTA Quite right! My kids might have missed it the first time round, but they both love it and so do I!!

[John Lang @langj83]

@adamkeys_ I was at this game. The dive from Rooney will, sadly, live long in the memory!

[John Lang @langj83]

@historyinmemes Childhood memories of landing here. Thankfully I was too young to appreciate how ‘tricky’ it was…😬

[John Lang @langj83]

@thistlerugbypod Tui as Captain? I guess the bizarre co-captain thing has died which I’m not sad about…

[NFL Films @NFLFilms]

A fairytale @Giants season deserves the storybook treatment. 🐐

#NFLFilmsPresents: @EliManning and the GOAT - narrated by @KelseyGrammer

[John Lang @langj83]

@thistlerugbypod I was there. The darkest of rugby days.

[John Lang @langj83]

One for us energy geeks, but this is quite a moment….

[National Energy System Operator @neso_energy]

This is the moment Ratcliffe power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain!

[James Watson CEng, FIET @EngineerLondon]

A few minutes ago, Unit 4 turbo-generator at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station desynced from the GB grid system, marking the END of electricity generation from COAL after 142 years 🇬🇧🙏🏻 @RobBurnett92 and I present a 🪡🧵on the evolution of coal fired power from 1882 to today 1/n