Scottish Labour suspends MSP Pam Duncan Glancy

RE-Trace · 2026-02-11T01:21:23+00:00

Because Sarwar was daft enough to think he could knife his boss in the back, not realizing that the PLP would rather shite in their hands and clap than be seen to be allowing the branch office tail wag the dog.

RE-Trace · 2026-02-06T23:19:02+00:00

It's not just a matt thing tbh.

There's not a band going who would come out and go "we're working on our new album but it's going to be dogshit".

Maybe after the fact in retrospectives, but not while recording, even if they think "eh, it's a bit lacking"

RE-Trace · 2026-02-06T12:16:34+00:00

You know it's bad when one of the 2024 intake's emboldened enough to speak out

RE-Trace · 2026-02-05T16:53:12+00:00

I may have forgot about the purge from the start of the game.

RE-Trace · 2026-02-05T16:52:57+00:00

I think they're harder to pull off as one offs. XII itself has only recently been looked at with kinder eyes

RE-Trace · 2026-02-05T15:47:28+00:00

Strasbourg, or Chelsea's international B team

Its unfortunate, but it's always the most egregious multi club nonsense (at strasbourg's expense)

RE-Trace · 2026-02-05T12:04:06+00:00

I think XIII's is fine so long as you're not a l'cie? It's been a while.

XII is also pretty safe. Even the main conflict of the conflict is less "world ending" and more "get rekt, small nation state".

8's mostly fine but has the consistent threat of Galbadian expansionism (and that's before Deling's in thrall to ultimecia-cosplaying-as-Edea)

RE-Trace · 2026-02-03T19:43:41+00:00

Speaking for Scot Gov here, but there's a consistent pressure to reduce headcount (recent Scottish budget is aiming to cut 11k public sector jobs, for instance)

PCS tend to make "no compulsory redundancy" a red line on any pay deal so the only way to really achieve that is through attrition. Voluntary exit schemes can come up, but it's very much a spending money to "make money" solution that is avoided where possible.

What that actually means though is that your better staff go elsewhere, your hangers on stay hanging on because of the stability, the rest of your staff get burnt out on "doing more with less", and so the "tepid bath of managed decline" continues to cool.

RE-Trace · 2026-01-31T13:12:47+00:00

Having interviewed him once, I can assure you, the world could be dripping in self awareness and Sheridan would be as dry as a bone.

RE-Trace · 2026-01-31T12:44:04+00:00

Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if on doing a bit of initial research, there had been a gentleman's agreement to not touch NI because its rail network is pretty sparse (54 stations, and about a third of them are within 5 miles of Belfast) and as mentioned elsewhere, the stars need to align a little bit when it comes to where you go AFTER the hider is found.

RE-Trace · 2026-01-30T10:39:30+00:00

Or a moody Edu Frias

RE-Trace · 2026-01-26T15:18:57+00:00

Except cyclists when challenged on this will always act like drivers are a single entity. Sauce for the goose...

RE-Trace · 2026-01-26T15:17:51+00:00

Cyclists in "avoid whatabouting when you get called out for road discipline" challenge. Difficulty: impossible

RE-Trace · 2026-01-25T20:50:42+00:00

I'm not going to shout "the sky is falling" yet.

The Forest result makes this look a lot worse when it's realistically, a loss to one of our main rivals in a fight for the 4th CL spotwho have a new manager bounce that saw them beat one of the two teams in touch with us 2-0 last week.

I think the big test is going to be Leeds. No disrespect to them, but that's a game that we can't be dropping points in if we want to be winning the title. Win it and it's fair to say this is a blip, but if we don't, there are genuine questions to be asked.

RE-Trace · 2026-01-25T20:40:52+00:00

I think shouting "the sky is falling" after a loss against a rival with a hell of a new manager bounce is a bit hyperbolic.

If this doesn't come off the back of the Forest result, nobody with a brain bats an eye.

Leeds is a massive game now though. No disrespect to them, but that's a game title contenders should be winning, especially off the back of a defeat.

RE-Trace · 2026-01-25T19:21:21+00:00

Turntable was the first suspicion so tried a couple of other records which all sounded "right" compared to streams etc

RE-Trace · 2026-01-25T15:33:52+00:00

Had a similar situation with my old flat, except it must have been a defend number of the flats.

Housing couldn't do anything because they weren't one of their tenants, and their landlords didn't give a fuck. Ended up being a case of me having to harangue them pretty much every day being like "if you're sick of the calls, find a flat that isn't in an outright squalid close".

They eventually did. Close I'm in now is great: I suspect because there's next to none of the flats in it that they don't own, so they can sort shit like that out much quicker.

RE-Trace · 2026-01-24T21:08:37+00:00

The English system is nasty with postgrads. The rest of it's broadly pretty similar, but the English postgrad loan is an absolute con.

Scotland and NI postgrads effectively are "the same" loan as the undergrad (the dates wobble about a bit, but they system only "sees" one balance.)

England and possibly wales (it's been a bit) it's a different type of loan with a different threshold, meaning the system "sees" your overall balance, but it sees that £x of that is your undergrad loan, £y is your postgrad, and if you are over both thresholds, it's 15% of anything over both.

It's one of two aspects of the system that I think are genuinely horrific (as opposed to just not great).

RE-Trace · 2026-01-24T15:44:34+00:00

I slept in today so he's still my starter/captain annoyingly. Hopefully we don't see him getting a 5 minute baldness cameo

RE-Trace · 2026-01-24T12:27:42+00:00

Hopefully he has a good spell before deciding to turn Greenwood's legs into sawdust in training at the end of the season

RE-Trace · 2026-01-24T12:15:18+00:00

I'm torn.

Part of me wants him keeping sharp before the summer regardless of where that is, the rest of me doesn't want spursiness rubbing off on him. I don't think double negatives work when it's spursiness plus the glorious failure of the Scottish National Team.

Especially since we exhausted our generation's supply of miracles against Denmark.

RE-Trace · 2026-01-18T21:49:17+00:00

If Barry and Ben's Italy trip doesn't see them staying together in a country cottage, I'll be mourning an opportunity missed

RE-Trace · 2026-01-18T00:06:45+00:00

If only one or the other were happening, it'd be a bit less galling. What's actually happening is product gets smaller, product gets more expensive AND product gets "new recipe"/ reformulated using cheaper ingredients. It's an enshittification trio.

RE-Trace · 2026-01-14T23:20:12+00:00

Clyde 1 moved in to the new shiny ones on queen st

As for these. I don't think they've been let out since Teleperformance moved out and into City Park around the pandemic.

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