JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺

Journalist. Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 European 🇪🇺 Harvard & U of Glasgow alum. Harkness Fellow. Kennedy Sch. ex US Senate, BBC & ITV news anchor & MP. He / him.

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@alfaetrin Agreed. Though I have a soft spot for @PeteButtigieg whose intelligent and calm debating style is the very antithesis of the rage fuelled ranting so prevalent in American politics.

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“I'm not thinking about running, but it's a path that I could see unfold,” https://t.co/1PBC6DsM3q

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@nawtheclaw Err … Tesco grown.

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Summer peppers in the ashet ready to roast for lunch. Bonny colours!

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It’s 1832 & Alexander McKenzie - my 4x great grandfather - writes from Ulapul to his secret fiancée Isabella at Langwell imploring her to make their engagement public.

They later married & had ten children.

Sadly Langwell now owned by Paul Dacre of Daily Mail disrepute.

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@brexshitshmexit @LBC @IainDale Terrifying.

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As yet another temperature record is broken today (& excess heat related deaths are reported all across Europe) a wee clip from @LBC with @IainDale last month. I triggered climate change deniers. You should read some of the hysterical, abusive comments…

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@Alithoms78 @LBC @IainDale No they weren’t. That’s nonsense as the records show.

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@DRFW @Scotland_exp @scotcivictrust @scotgov @newglasgowsoc Indeed. Though the building, even now, could, of course, be redeveloped as housing.

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I strongly support this @scotcivictrust initiative to protect the Hillhead Baptist Church from demolition. The last thing Glasgow needs is yet more civic vandalism.

The @scotgov needs to call this in as the Trust asks. @newglasgowsoc

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@dalton_dalton99 @colz261 Indeed. All flogged off by the Tories & LibDems - and the public housing stock too. But worst of all has to be Scotland’s oil wealth squandered by Westminster as Norway built a massive sovereign wealth fund. All tragic.

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Amazing, sad footage. 1960s Glasgow. So much of what we see here has been destroyed - the fine buildings on the north side of the Clyde (the Georgian ones only recently), the Odeon cinema, the Classic, Union corner, the tram system….

[Past Glasgow @PastGlasgow]

Some amazing general views of the city, shot from a moving car in 1962. We start on the south bank of the Clyde, and then head into the city centre.

#glasgow #history #1960s

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@norriejam Progress ? No it’s wanton destruction.

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@MediaWeasel @scotcivictrust @newglasgowsoc We’ve always known that. No other city has fires like Glasgow.

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Darien. #Panama

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@Scotland_exp @scotcivictrust @scotgov @newglasgowsoc Agreed. Councils should not be in the business of rewarding developers for their deliberate neglect.

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@Irnbrukidsm @scotcivictrust @scotgov @newglasgowsoc Yes.

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“It was sold as Corbynism without Corbyn. They were obviously lying through their teeth, and did completely the opposite: junking people, policy & refashioning the Party top down... It was always going to end in catastrophe, which is what’s happened.” https://t.co/rlCdHaYGwC

[Past Glasgow @PastGlasgow]

Some amazing general views of the city, shot from a moving car in 1962. We start on the south bank of the Clyde, and then head into the city centre.

#glasgow #history #1960s

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@IainSneddon12 I fear not.

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There was so much that was grim about the Starmer premiership from targeting pensioners, betraying the WASPI women, flipping on the EU and his switch to hard line unionism. But for me his grimmest disappointment was on human rights & #Gaza Unforgivable. https://t.co/9Z1Uo0pa32

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@gazberto @implausibleblog The light will never go out. The EU very keen on welcoming Scotland back.

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On the ten year anniversary of #Brexit a speech I made at Westminster about absurd Brexiter promises, Brexit chaos & its real life consequences.

Have a watch. What do you think?

@implausibleblog