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Robert Carlyle at the NTS Celebration of Scotland's National Treasures Gala 2025 in the USA, where he was presented with their Great Scot award.

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I am in actual goddamn tears

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“Honey, Love Me.” / “Love Sick Blues.” Melody by Jackie Bird.

♪ “ Honey, love me, hug me, hold me, close to you. Because you’re my one and only, I still love you. Take me in your arms, will you keep me in your heart. Honey, love me. Honey. Hold me close to you. ” ♫

♫ “ Whenever I’m away from you, I always get these love sick blues. Never, ever, leave me, and I’ll never leave you. ” ♪

“ She called it “Indian Blues Rock.” America has never head anything like it. But Native America has. Combining English lyrics and Indian vocal traditions with rock drums, keyboards, guitar and native instruments. You will see why Jackie Bird is becoming a household name. ”  –  Indian Blues, [x]

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Did anyone else watch the Hogmanay thing on BBC1 with Jackie Bird? Did anyone else hear her saying 216 instead of 2016? Or did I just have too much vodka? 

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Happy New Year my friends with the GMT time zone

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The independence campaign is a new pinnacle for women and politics

Oh, BBC Scotland, you were doing so well. In last week’s ‘What Women Want’, Jackie Bird strode around Scotland and asked women what they thought about the IndyRef. Since both sides have been gearing up like sweaty Casanovas to seduce women voters in the wake of the latest Scottish Social Attitudes Survey showing a marked division in voting intention along gender lines, the time is ripe for a serious, thoughtful analysis of women and the indyref.

That’s not to say only the opinions of women who work are worthwhile; just that this kind of positioning implies that ordinary women don’t. Scottish comedienne Kim Griffin summed it up when she drawled “women are only wired to 50% think of the next generation, or weans as they’re called… [Men and women are] no’ even the same species, Jackie – we’re too busy thinking about weans. I’m going to sit back and knit something and have a wean. The next generation.”

Nobody’s blaming Jackie Bird here. We love Jackie over here. In fact, should Scotland vote Yes in 2014, we’re going to kidnap Kirsty Wark and make her and Jackie joint Glorious Leaders of the Alba Media Empire. Because we recognise them as sharp, talented people at the very top of their game, we wouldn’t relegate them to reporting on the latest trends in bridal wear or the week’s top recipe tips. And we’re not alone here.

Women in Scotland are at the forefront of the IndyRef, particularly on the Yes side. The irritable, angry old men of the 1980s and the keyboard-and-irrational-air-of-victimhood-wielding CyberNats are yesterday’s news. The real faces of the Yes campaign are people like Miriam Brett, Kate Higgins, and the cross-party members ofWomen For Independence. The IndyRef is a genuinely vibrant political campaign; instead of identikit men in suits mouthing party platitudes, it’s full people who wouldn’t usually be involved in politics. The Yes campaign has genuine momentum because people are seeing it as a way to effect change instead of giving careerists a leg-up into the system. You might not be political but when you’ve been terrified by welfare reform, hit with draconian benefit sanctions or forced to accept foodbank donations so you can feed your children, the idea of getting rid of a government that seems only to care about rich Londoners and Tory-voting Home Counties folk is very appealing.

House of Commons Speaker John Bercow recently spoke out against the culture of intimidation against female MPs, who face jeering, boob-gestures and other forms of juvenile behaviour utterly unbecoming of middle-aged backbench MPs with second mortgages and ponds to consider. Westminster boasts a whopping, er, 22% while Holyrood storms ahead with 34%; it’s still not great but that does include two party leaders and the deputy First Minister.

Really, it seems fair to say that what women really want from the IndyRef is to be included and respected in the political process, to have their opinions valued and for female  MSPs and high-profile campaigners to be fairly standard instead of an anomaly. When it comes to women and the Indyref, Scotland is doing exceptionally well right now. It just would be great to see more of that reflected in the media.

Read more online at http://scotspolitics.com/entertainment/what-women-want-is-representation-in-the-indyref

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Voting SNP causes cancer in fluffy orphaned kittens

Thursday morning arrived with the dawning realisation that I had agreed to write up a guest blog for these intriguing coves at ‘I We Two Three’. My remit? Something scatological about the steaming pile of ordure that dresses up in its finest orangerie that passes itself off as Scotland’s NEWS. The first great imponderable for many a middle aged man is getting to the bottom of just who got hot and steamy with the trio of pregnant weather girls. Doesn’t the editor realise that when Judith Ralston stands side on, most of the South of Scotland and the Borders are obscured by shadows of little feet and fists desperate trying to escape from La Ralston’s scented mimsy?

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When it comes to matters of gravitas your average Scottish viewer would be better served tuning into Babe-station XXX for a more insightful and less partial take from the beguiling tiny costumed, giggling gals that make up their special correspondents. This week on Reporting Strathclyde we saw the three Unionist dependent parties and the TartanOverlord4FM party, breakdance their way into some electorate appealing moves, in order to mesmerise us with their silky shapes, just enough to put an X beside their name. Reporting Scotland with somewhat undisguised relish ran their obligatory Labour-are-Gods-and-we-are-not-worthy-of-their-munificence press release. Whilst exclusively releasing the scientific expert fact that voting SNP causes cancer in fluffy orphaned kittens.

  The programmes ‘anchor’ Jackie Bird, a sort of garish technicolor Mary Marquis for older readers, was squirming with girlish delight this week as events conspired to present her with an opportunity to bring us news of a trinity of famous Scottish shaggers. Yes, Monday saw former fitba player Andy Gray’s renowned inability to look a woman in the eye turn round and deprive him of his £30 grand a week gig for uttering gibberish on space telly. Tuesday brought us Burns Night in all its Rotary club, shortbread infused lachrymosity and gave Jackie the opportunity to look winsomely at the camera, in her stock ‘whaes like us’ face, that you might find on an oxygen deprived baby moo cow. Last night, we had the finale, the crescendo, the orgiastic shuddering climax, the all-out spectacular bukake-lite money shot as Tangerime Tam, the Satsuma Socialist was sent down for a long stretch in the Bar-L.

  This more than any other story is what makes Unreported Scotland well worth dodging the license fee van when it comes a-calling. The day started with the BBC Scotland twitteratti getting their collective gussets wringing damp, as our legal Lords and masters allowed reporters to do something legally, that they’ve been illegally doing for ages, tweet directly from the courtside.

  Raymond Buchanan was the Rep Scotland fastest fingerer, updating a slavering public with who the gargoyles behind Gail were, how often El Tommo would use the word ‘comrades’ in Sheridan Bingo and how long his stay in the pokey was to be. Mr Buchanan somewhat blotted his copy book when he later tweet-bitched that Tommy wouldn’t do a pre-sentencing interview with Rep Scotland because he ‘didn’t like their earlier reporting of his case’.

  Perhaps the realisation that Reporting Scotland illegally got their hands on the actual tapes from both of the Sherdian interrogation interviews by Lothian & Borders Police, quite possibly before they were played to the Judge and Jury in evidence, and the actuality that Lothian & Borders are the same plod who spent millions of pounds investigating, for the first time ever, an alleged perjury in a Civil case, you have to wonder why Mr Buchanan was surprised at the refusal of “Scotland’s Highest Profile Liar” to give a wee interview to Raymond and Jackie…Now in a fair and just society someone might just report BBC Scotland to OFCOM for acquiring these tapes illegally. Personally I look forward to Lothian and Borders plod spending millions revealing the guilty officer and his subsequent trial...

      In the run up to the 2011 election do yourself a favour, avoid Reporting Scotland, it’s relentless negativity and Labourite cheerleading is not good for your health or our future. For more of my ill-informed muses and spleen venting cyberifically wind your way to the blog that caused a lot of trouble...

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Voting SNP causes cancer in fluffy orphaned kittens

Thursday morning arrived with the dawning realisation that I had agreed to write up a guest blog for these intriguing coves at ‘I We Two Three’. My remit? Something scatological about the steaming pile of ordure that dresses up in its finest orangerie that passes itself off as Scotland’s NEWS. The first great imponderable for many a middle aged man is getting to the bottom of just who got hot and steamy with the trio of pregnant weather girls. Doesn’t the editor realise that when Judith Ralston stands side on, most of the South of Scotland and the Borders are obscured by shadows of little feet and fists desperate trying to escape from La Ralston’s scented mimsy?

When it comes to matters of gravitas your average Scottish viewer would be better served tuning into Babe-station XXX for a more insightful and less partial take from the beguiling tiny costumed, giggling gals that make up their special correspondents. This week on Reporting Strathclyde we saw the three Unionist dependent parties and the TartanOverlord4FM party, breakdance their way into some electorate appealing moves, in order to mesmerise us with their silky shapes, just enough to put an X beside their name. Reporting Scotland with somewhat undisguised relish ran their obligatory Labour-are-Gods-and-we-are-not-worthy-of-their-munificence press release. Whilst exclusively releasing the scientific expert fact that voting SNP causes cancer in fluffy orphaned kittens.

  The programmes ‘anchor’ Jackie Bird, a sort of garish technicolor Mary Marquis for older readers, was squirming with girlish delight this week as events conspired to present her with an opportunity to bring us news of a trinity of famous Scottish shaggers. Yes, Monday saw former fitba player Andy Gray’s renowned inability to look a woman in the eye turn round and deprive him of his £30 grand a week gig for uttering gibberish on space telly. Tuesday brought us Burns Night in all its Rotary club, shortbread infused lachrymosity and gave Jackie the opportunity to look winsomely at the camera, in her stock ‘whaes like us’ face, that you might find on an oxygen deprived baby moo cow. Last night, we had the finale, the crescendo, the orgiastic shuddering climax, the all-out spectacular bukake-lite money shot as Tangerime Tam, the Satsuma Socialist was sent down for a long stretch in the Bar-L.

  This more than any other story is what makes Unreported Scotland well worth dodging the license fee van when it comes a-calling. The day started with the BBC Scotland twitteratti getting their collective gussets wringing damp, as our legal Lords and masters allowed reporters to do something legally, that they’ve been illegally doing for ages, tweet directly from the courtside.

  Raymond Buchanan was the Rep Scotland fastest fingerer, updating a slavering public with who the gargoyles behind Gail were, how often El Tommo would use the word ‘comrades’ in Sheridan Bingo and how long his stay in the pokey was to be. Mr Buchanan somewhat blotted his copy book when he later tweet-bitched that Tommy wouldn’t do a pre-sentencing interview with Rep Scotland because he ‘didn’t like their earlier reporting of his case’.

  Perhaps the realisation that Reporting Scotland illegally got their hands on the actual tapes from both of the Sherdian interrogation interviews by Lothian & Borders Police, quite possibly before they were played to the Judge and Jury in evidence, and the actuality that Lothian & Borders are the same plod who spent millions of pounds investigating, for the first time ever, an alleged perjury in a Civil case, you have to wonder why Mr Buchanan was surprised at the refusal of “Scotland’s Highest Profile Liar” to give a wee interview to Raymond and Jackie…Now in a fair and just society someone might just report BBC Scotland to OFCOM for acquiring these tapes illegally. Personally I look forward to Lothian and Borders plod spending millions revealing the guilty officer and his subsequent trial...

      In the run up to the 2011 election do yourself a favour, avoid Reporting Scotland, it’s relentless negativity and Labourite cheerleading is not good for your health or our future. For more of my ill-informed muses and spleen venting cyberifically wind your way to the blog that caused a lot of trouble...

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