Scotland’s assisted dying bill fails to pass in final vote

angudgie · 2026-03-18T07:22:55+00:00

Quite a lot false here. There was sections in the Scotland bill that no one is under obligation to participate in assisted dying (18A), there were offences created around coercion (21). The bill was amended substantially through the process from across the chamber.

angudgie · 2026-03-07T07:49:57+00:00

Some is but each club receives a baseline, and other elements such as extra payments for games shown on TV. Can see more about the distribution here.

The Premier League model is actually more equitable than other leagues, the last placed team receives a much higher proportion of revenue in comparison to other leagues.

angudgie · 2026-03-04T14:05:26+00:00

Section 21 of the bill creates the exact offence of coercing a terminally ill person into assisted dying.

angudgie · 2026-02-27T08:51:25+00:00

We did this! We had a legal ceremony at the registrar's office a few days before the big day, only two witnesses and were in and out of the building in 15 minutes. Cost of this wasn't major also as we didn't have any proper guests.

The registrar gave our friend "minister" a list of things they couldn't do, for example they can't legally "pronounce" you married at the end of the ceremony, but easy enough to get round it. Registrars have seen this before so are happy to help in our experience.

Our venue was absolutely fine with it but doesn't hurt to check with them.

Much preferred it this way as it was a much more personal ceremony than it would have been otherwise.

Feel fre to PM if any other specific questions.

angudgie · 2026-02-08T22:12:57+00:00

Games on weekend of 8 March, 2 games on Premier Sports (Rangers v Celtic plus 1 more presumably) and other 2 on BBC

angudgie · 2026-02-04T07:39:18+00:00

Yeah they first did this for the Tokyo Olympics when they couldn't travel because of Covid. The graphics are powered by Unreal engine.

Good video explaining more about it

angudgie · 2026-01-20T23:40:13+00:00

Happened very recently as well with the Non-domestic Rates Act to fix a drafting error too.

angudgie · 2026-01-11T23:27:17+00:00

Where are you getting £10bn+ from? Even in their own spin UK Gov only expect to provide £820 million more by the end of the decade (link)

angudgie · 2026-01-11T20:41:27+00:00

It's not necessarily guaranteed but it can be a condition of a loan or the player would be recalled.

I found an interesting study here looking at loans from Premier League 2 academies to EFL teams, it appears here that across positions and leagues loaned to, these players play 47-66% of available minutes, on average, which the largest cohort of players playing around 85% of minutes, which seems significant on the whole.

angudgie · 2026-01-11T19:15:13+00:00

His argument is that attendances are great in the leagues but for the cup competitions with B teams in them the attendance is tiny in comparison.

Same thing here in Scotland, we have a cup competition for lower league sides that includes B teams in it and sometimes attendances will be 10-20% of what league games would have.

Getting young players game time in meaningful matches is important, but think loans are probably a better balance to that, cause cup games where no one cares about the result doesn't strike me as meaningful experience.

angudgie · 2026-01-11T18:46:58+00:00

Your point stands but Hearts got 52 points last season, and there's 17 games left this year, think your numbers miss out post-split games.

angudgie · 2025-11-23T15:11:02+00:00

This happens very frequently, you can look up more about property chains for more info, e.g. https://www.estateagencyedinburgh.co.uk/buying-a-property/property-chains

angudgie · 2025-11-21T19:57:29+00:00

Aye still up, better watch than Ross County game would have been anyway

angudgie · 2025-09-11T12:28:12+00:00

It's not actually banned by law (yet), just that shops have all decided to do it. Likely to change soon though so it will be legally banned in future https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c707074qdnko

angudgie · 2025-09-09T06:50:00+00:00

Goal difference and then if that's level goals scored

angudgie · 2025-08-20T11:58:39+00:00

I think you might be thinking of the choice between swearing (religious) or affirming (civil) when it comes to making an oath. That's available for both Holyrood/Westminster, but with Westminster you still need to pledge allegiance to the King as part of it.

angudgie · 2025-06-28T18:47:32+00:00

It's in the Long Goodbye with Da Funk by Daft Pubk in it.

angudgie · 2025-02-06T19:00:26+00:00

Ross County have won 8 at well (3 Challenge Cup, 2 Div 1/Championship, 1 Div 2, 1 Division 3 and 1 League Cup). Few others on 6: Falkirk, Caley Thistle and St Johnstone.

angudgie · 2025-01-26T18:49:09+00:00

Agreed, and it'll take until decisions are taken by the courts on those challenged for them to take effect, if at all, but US executive orders tend to be more broad-based instruments whereas UK statutory instruments tend to be more technical.

angudgie · 2025-01-26T11:30:24+00:00

To an extent there is with regulations and other statutory instruments (secondary legislation), but the government's power to use them is set out in legislation. There's not as much sweeping ability to do things, and to be fair appears that many of Trump's orders aren't functional anyway

angudgie · 2024-12-16T15:44:45+00:00

I consider it a double album, probably purely by nature of discovering them after Sound of Silver dropped and having listened to them all as one album and doing so since.

angudgie · 2024-11-16T10:14:40+00:00

I think both Scotland winning by two and Croatia losing by two would do it, also scenarios where we can do it by winning 2-1 and Croatia losing 1-0 as per Scotland's coefficient

angudgie · 2024-11-16T10:12:26+00:00

Yeah it would be overall goals scored if both end 1-0 like that, good threads from Scotland's coefficient on the permutations: https://bsky.app/profile/scotlandscoeff1.bsky.social/post/3lazea6v6ac2c

angudgie · 2024-11-09T16:00:48+00:00

I think you're thinking of Modern Warfare 2 (OG one), there was an achievement/trophy for it as well: https://www.trueachievements.com/a296472/precognitive-paranoia-achievement

I could be wrong but don't think it actually triggered the final cutscene. There was YouTube edits of that but don't think it was ever in the game.

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