@born_celtic Nico Raskin 9 Goals 21 assists in 4 seasons - Scottish League Cup Runner Up
Arne Engels 15 Goals 20 assists in 2 seasons ….Scottish Premiership Winner & League Cup Winner
Note to the BBC: the power of Scotland and why they deserved more respect than a cringey wave-a-thon on Spoty. Where to start? Second oldest footballing nation in the world. Developed styles of football 150 years ago still pursued today. No Scotland, no passing. Helped spread the joy of football around the world, igniting the passion in Brazil and Argentina. Helped nurture famous English clubs like Aston Villa.
Introduced keepie-uppie to Wembley. Gave the game the wonderful Baxter, Law, Johnstone, McGrain, Bremner, Dalglish, Hansen, Souness and more recently Robertson and McTominay. Gave the game managers of the calibre and vision of Shankly, Busby, Stein and Ferguson.
Brought the refreshing and well-refreshed mobile party of the Tartan Army to tournaments, fans who raise spirits and raise funds for charities wherever they go. Have an anthem that stirs the blood and the soul. Qualified for the World Cup with a performance of guts and goalscoring glory. Staged their own Puskas award competition against Denmark.
Guided by a modest, proud and quietly inspirational manager in Steve Clarke.
Who should have had the successful, charismatic McTominay on the Spoty shortlist. McTominay deserved more respect from Spoty. So did Scotland.
There's a quiet coup under way in Britain, and it's not being led by mobs or tanks. It's being carried out by a government that has found a cleaner route to power: remove the public from politics, shutter the ballot box, and rule without interruption. Starmer's administration has delayed four mayoral elections for two years, on top of the previous postponements that already pushed votes back by a year. Add up the constituencies and timeframes, and you reach the blunt fact: millions of citizens are being stripped of the right to cast a ballot until the government chooses to permit it.
The excuse – "local authority reorganisation" – is the bureaucratic fig leaf regimes have always used to hide naked political self-interest. Labour claims it needs more time to "streamline" councils, as if democracy can be put in storage while Whitehall rearranges its paperwork. Yet if reorganisation were the real aim, the delays would be months, not years. Two years is not "administrative delay." It's a quarantine imposed on the electorate so the public cannot punish its rulers.
This is how democracies rot in the West. Not through force, but through rulers learning they can govern without consent. Starmer and his ministers talk endlessly of "restoring trust." They do the opposite. They extend councillors' terms from five years to seven. They install new super-authorities with no mandate. They insist votes can wait until the government has finished imposing reforms no one ever voted for.
The pretence that this is about "cost-saving" insults the public. Britain's ruling party has found £40bn for tax hikes, billions more for boondoggles, consultants and pet schemes, but claims it cannot afford elections because boundaries are "in transition." The truth is simpler: elections are expensive for governments that are losing. They cost legitimacy. They cost power. They cost heads.
What is corrosive is the normalisation of this power. Postpone one vote, then another, then a third, and the right to elect local government becomes conditional, subject to political convenience. A former Labour minister has admitted that trust has been "squandered." That is polite language for a colder truth: this government has decided the public must not interfere.
Britain isn't a dictatorship – yet. But the road bends that way. Centralisation. Mergers. Extended terms. Elections pushed into the long grass. A government that promised competence has discovered a harsher creed: power, once taken, will not be surrendered.
They claim to be reorganising councils. In truth, they are reorganising the people who vote for them. The public is being told to wait, to shut up, and to accept rule without voice.
Labour isn't reorganising democracy. It's rationing it. And once a government learns it can suspend elections without paying a price, it will do it again. And again. Until voting becomes a novelty, not a norm.
Democracy delayed is democracy denied. Britain is now learning how easily both can be done – with a press release and a shrug.
"Add up the constituencies and timeframes, and you reach the blunt fact: millions of citizens are being stripped of the right to cast a ballot until the government chooses to permit it."
We've been banned from advertising on the London Tube.
How petty can political policing and interference get...
After using the tube to advertise loads of times for gigs, records and our movie, all without issue.
The below poster has been rejected because:
"it is likely to cause widespread or serious offence to reasonable members of the public on account of the product or service being advertised, the content or design of the advertisement, or by way of implication."
Speak out against genocide and they'll use every single angle they can to silence you.
Join the IOF, murder kids, fly to London and nothing happens - you'll be welcomed and applauded.
During the pandemic, 129 billion disposable masks were thrown away every month. An estimated 3 billion masks (that take 450 years to biodegrade) now pollute the oceans. And yet, this is overlooked by many politicians and so-called environmentalists.
I have been involved in campaigning to protect the environment since I was at school. It’s massively important to me. Protect land, waters, nature, wildlife and ecosystems. But net zero isn’t holistic environmentalism. It’s draconian control that pretends to be environmentalism.
America is not only complacent in this slaughter we are actively protecting it
Many Arab countries want to step in and stop this inhumane massacre but the US has made it clear we will annihilate anyone who interferes
Sending Americans to die so Israel can keep killing women and children is an odd policy position
Bill Gates ask the Danish government to support DTP vaccination of 161 million African children…
Gates claimed it was saving 30 million lives, so the Danish government asked for the data, of which Gates had none…
So they went to Africa and looked at 30 years of DTP data. What they found was “SHOCKING”…
Girls injected with the DTP vaccine were dying at 10 times the rate of those who weren’t vaccinated