Stuart Darling

Scottish politics, music (mostly electronic), sport & general observations as I circuit the globe...

[Stuart Darling @StuartMDarling]

@scotlandscoeff1 Score 5 or more goals in a league game?

[Stuart Darling @StuartMDarling]

@realcolinquinn Well, we do have a bit of an idea...

https://t.co/SQ6XRSVbEh

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Sky News: “[Trump] says you’re full of shit”

Abdul El-Sayed: “At least I don’t let mine go in the middle of the Oval Office”

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Stayt: Energy bills are going up in Jan by up to £469. You're giving £100. Its not going to make enough difference

Healey: "its fair.. & honest to say there's no way that govt can offset entirely the pressures people are facing"

You could do lots more. You're choosing not to

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

The Burnham Betrayal

[Stuart Darling @StuartMDarling]

And of course, the song is always worth a listen.

I just can’t understand why we’d let someone else rule our land, cap in hand…

https://t.co/TUi3Gdb3HE

[Stuart Darling @StuartMDarling]

Here is @andyburnham unknowingly referencing @The_Proclaimers - the PM could do with checking out all of the lyrics of Cap In Hand and he might get a sense of the true imbalance and failure of the UK system. The national restrictions are a bigger scandal than the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 regional ones

[Stuart Darling @StuartMDarling]

Hector Patterson surely pushing for the starting 9 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 jersey this autumn 🙌

[Edinburgh Rugby @EdinburghRugby]

66 | Hector Patterson. That's it. That's the tweet.

🏰 24 - 10 🦁 | #EDILIO

[Stuart Darling @StuartMDarling]

@ewangibbs Incidentally, the Alaska Permanent Fund was created by Alaskans, for Alaskans, to transform a finite natural resource into lasting, renewable value for generations to come:
https://t.co/H1UEuJZ3RQ

Lucky for them, and for Scotland it is a case of 'if only'!

[Stuart Darling @StuartMDarling]

@ewangibbs Alternatively your examples are every good reason for the comparison. Within the UK, Scotland the nation has a local government set-up that holds significantly less powers than a US state, & is financially hamstrung. Ergo, not good conditions for entities to make good decisions.

[Stuart Darling @StuartMDarling]

@WingsScotland Haha, I'm not sure how it sits in the scale of shocking (?) middle names, but full disclosure here, Maxwell is what my M stands for.

[Stuart Darling @StuartMDarling]

Oh oh, I am Stuart M Darling... I had never considered that could make some people uncomfortable before 🤔🤯

[Richard Gaisford @richardgaisford]

Illuminating exchange with a 19 year old voter in Detroit, worried about @AbdulElSayed’s name. @AJEnglish #Midterms2026 #Michigan

[Out Of Context Communism @OOCcommunism]

feels like there's kind of an elephant in the room with this map but I can't quite put my finger on it

[Stuart Darling @StuartMDarling]

@Hepworthclare @jruddy99 Also worth noting that the Alaska state oil fund now has almost $1trillion in it.

[The SNP @theSNP]

🇳🇴 Norway’s national wealth fund: £2 trillion.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland’s national wealth fund under Westminster control: £0.

Norway has invested its energy wealth for the benefit of current and future generations, helping to support its public finances. Whilst Westminster has squandered this opportunity for Scotland.

[Stuart Darling @StuartMDarling]

@Hepworthclare @jruddy99 He hasn’t made a fair point. US states have far more political autonomy than Scotland has with the devolved UK settlement. Here’s a poster to help him not make the same mistake again:

[The SNP @theSNP]

🇳🇴 Norway’s national wealth fund: £2 trillion.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland’s national wealth fund under Westminster control: £0.

Norway has invested its energy wealth for the benefit of current and future generations, helping to support its public finances. Whilst Westminster has squandered this opportunity for Scotland.

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

🔥Having spent the past few months waiting for the Jackdaw decision, it just so happens to have happened on the one week I'm on holiday 🤦‍♂️
Still. Plenty of coverage from colleagues at @skynews. If you want more background there's LOADS in the archive.
For instance... 🧵

[Stuart Darling @StuartMDarling]

@bellacaledonia Ha, although he unknowingly points towards another element that highlights how bad the UK has been for Scotland. At the start of the 1700s Scotland's population was ~25% of England's population. Today it sits at <10%. Partly down to clearances but also the imbalance of investment

[Stuart Darling @StuartMDarling]

@taxicab4u @Record_Sport Not sure about that - the government doesn't have much success imposing in this space. It has to be club / fan driven. The Tartan Army manages to work on a largely self-policing approach - call out people directly if / when anyone acts out of line (saw several cases in Germany).

[Stuart Darling @StuartMDarling]

@mmgeissler My dad (81) is a lifelong Jambo & in @The_FOH, he wrote to the club after a game at Fir Park a couple of years ago to highlight how bad the issue is. Ann Budge was active at the time to set the expectations. Hopefully Calum Paterson will do the same @JamTarts. There's no need.

[Stuart Darling @StuartMDarling]

@ewangibbs I completely agree - it is the biggest challenge for the independence movement. It has never been stronger in numbers, but also never been more fragmented. So the question is: who pulls it all together, and how?