We've already heard the legend that is Allaster McKallaster commentating on Seventies football at its finest, but it turns out he's just as much at home with rugby union. Before their coverage of the Calcutta Cup on Saturday, ITV screened a highlights reel from McKallaster's commentaries on Scotland's four consecutive victories in the contest. We may at last have found a worthy successor to Bill McLaren.

Posted by Jonathan Calder on Liberal England

Cactus and Paperweight Pastel drawing available in my Etsy shop now (click link here). Retro Glastonbury Tor Collage available in my Etsy shop now (clink link here).

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Tue 25th
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The Joy of Six 1328

"With just two days until we mark three years since the invasion, we need to talk about this man, because no one truly knows what could have happened if he hadn't been there to lead. This is a man who could have left. A man who was expected to leave. The world was really expecting he would run."Victor Kravchuk pays tribute to Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Jennie Kermode is worried that US politicians are again talking about mass sterilisation: "The US first began sterilising people with mental illness - requiring neither their consent nor that of their next of kin - in ...

Posted by Jonathan Calder on Liberal England

Our revised joint weekly ward surgery takes place tonight. This week it is as follows : Blackness Library (Tuesdays 5pm - every week during school term time) All welcome - no appointment necessary!

Posted by Bailie Fraser Macpherson & Cllr Michael Crichton on Councillors Fraser Macpherson & Michael Crichton - working for the West End

The Guardian reports that a Guardian investigation into the House of Lords has raised questions over the accountability of parliament's second chamber, with revelations about how a string of peers are benefiting from commercial interests. The paper says that one in 10 members have been hired to give political or policy advice, according to their own declarations, and others do paid work for companies that could conflict with their role as legislators: The findings expose weaknesses in the Lords code of conduct and raise questions about whether the rules on lobbying and paid employment should be tightened in line with ...

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