Patsy Millar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Retired primary teacher. Supporter of Scottish independence for over 50 years

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

This video made me smile today 💖

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

If "not f*cking around" was a dog

[Simon Bates @SimonBatesUK]

I’d forgotten this gem

[Patsy Millar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @pmillar3]

@nee_massey Congratulations 🏆

[Ryan McGeary @RyyGaming]

A heartfelt thank you to the Tartan Army for welcoming me with open arms this weekend. Please never leave us! GO SCOTLAND! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #tartanarmy #scotland

[S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk]

This morning, I appeared on Good Morning Britain in a live interview about the grooming gangs. Before I went on air, I was told not to mention the race of the perpetrators. I, of course, didn’t listen.

I have now received an apology from the editor.

My interview is below: 👇🏻

[Cerfia @CerfiaFR]

🇫🇷🎻🏰 INSOLITE | Ce groupe normand de musique médiévale reprend « Beat It » de Michael Jackson avec des instruments d’époque. Le résultat est bluffant : on a l’impression d’entendre un tube joué dans une taverne du XIVe siècle. 😂

(Insta : @coursevalbardcore)

[Kat™ The Hammer ⚒️ @KatTheHammer1]

This is a fantastic break down of liberal hypocrisy. And it's seriously funny and spot on!!

[Patsy Millar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @pmillar3]

@SimonForrest11 Well said. An anthem that gets everyone singing no matter their age or background is not to be ignored.

[Simon Forrest @SimonForrest11]

People say we must change our national anthem - it's a dirge, negative or anti-english. Be suspicious of them. It's one of the great national anthems. They hate it because it is common - a 60s folk song, of the people, about our people, for our people. It is ours. It is us. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

Felis catus, nature's great hunter, stalks his prey like an assassin waiting for the perfect shot, then pounces with efficiency and precision.

[🅶🅾🆁🅺 @Raclure03]

Je suis sincèrement désolé de vous partager de telles images un dimanche soir, mais à l'approche de l'été, les gens doivent savoir ce qui se passe sur les plages en matière de racket organisé.

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Burros jóvenes llegan a una granja y refugio en el Reino Unido, y son recibidos con alegría por los demás burros rescatados…

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

This is beyond absurd. BlueSky is the one that’s stuffed full of paedos. There is no conceivable justification for banning Twitter but not BlueSky except simple deliberate political brainwashing.

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

Trumpet section is always jokers.

[Jeannie McCrimmon @IndyLassie]

Scott McTominay wins Rolex endorsement deal in Italy and the Longforgan scarecrow competition in Scotland. 🇮🇹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 😁

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

Everyone knows Dunkirk. 338,000 men rescued from the beaches, the "miracle" that saved Britain.

Almost nobody knows what happened 8 days later, 100 miles down the coast. This story was buried for years, and once you hear it you will understand why.

While Dunkirk was being evacuated, the 51st Highland Division was deliberately kept in France. Churchill wanted to prove to the French that Britain would not abandon them. So 10,000 Scotsmen kept fighting along the Somme while everyone else went home.

They fought well. Too well to retreat in time.

By June 10, Rommel's 7th Panzer Division, moving so fast the Germans called it the Ghost Division, had cut them off from every port. The Highlanders fell back to a tiny fishing town called Saint-Valery-en-Caux, with cliffs at their backs and the Royal Navy on the way.

A second Dunkirk. That was the plan. Operation Cycle, ships waiting offshore.

Then the fog rolled in.

The ships could not reach the beaches in the dark and mist. And by morning, Rommel had artillery on the cliffs above the town, firing down on anything that floated. Men climbed down cliff faces on ropes made of rifle slings trying to reach boats. Some fell. The rescue never came.

On June 12, 1940, Major General Victor Fortune surrendered the 51st Highland Division to Rommel. There is a famous photo of the two men standing together, Rommel grinning, Fortune staring into the distance like he is somewhere else.

10,000 men marched east into 5 years of captivity. In parts of the Highlands, nearly every family knew someone in the bag. They called it the lost division, and for decades many Scots quietly believed they had been sacrificed.

Two details worth knowing.

Fortune was offered better treatment as a general. He refused privileges and stayed with his men for the entire war, organizing care for the sick and keeping discipline in the camps. He was knighted from a hospital bed after liberation.

And in September 1944, the rebuilt 51st Highland Division was given one specific assignment, at the request of its commander. They liberated Saint-Valery-en-Caux. The pipers played in the same square where their brothers had surrendered four years earlier.

Dunkirk got the movie. These men got the long war.

Worth remembering them today.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Massive kudos to Scotland Tartan Army hero Craig Ferguson - who has arrived in Boston after an incredible 3,200 mile trek across America. The mental health campaigner has raised over £1 million for Scottish Action for Mental Health. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.