Ian Black

@balmachreuchie

Ukraine = Europe. citizen. supporter of progressive causes: 💉 📚 🏡 🚌 🌻 🍉 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. speaker of 🇫🇷 & 🇷🇴

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Ian Black@balmachreuchie· 10d

Unbelievable

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Jul 13

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Jun 17

More wit coming down the line

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Jun 17

Bluesky delivering

Some of the witty, themed replies to the original post

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Jun 4

www.rfi.fr/fr/europe/20...

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· May 26

The Boroughs on Netflix - great stuff. Fun, but serious too.

Still of three characters in a scene from the Boroughs

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· May 17

Indeed. The persona is central to it.

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· May 17

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Ian Black@balmachreuchie· May 15

Of all the interpretations of the latest developments this is an illustrative example of the stupidest of them 👇

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· May 13

Read it. Not what I expected from the trailer 😀 In this bit, are you specifically referring to the far right? The idea that there is a tendency to take certain things for granted and that “they wouldn’t do/touch *that*” is interesting. The media and other politicians are responsible for that.

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· May 10

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· May 9

There will be a round table. You must banish.

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· May 9

Just reading up on Catherine West - she should go for it. There’s something to be said for the “if you don’t do this, I will” approach.

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· May 5

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· May 2

“Pride in Place”

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Apr 27

Never heard of anything like it

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Apr 25

The aforementioned…

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Apr 15

It’s noticeable in this piece that Sarwar doesn’t answer the question on what he said to Offord. Why not clear it up?

From the Daily Record interview with Sarwar: “Pressed by the Record on what Sarwar said to Offord at the alleged meeting, the Labour leader continued: ‘It was a green room back stage for all the participants of the Question Time panel, and the Wuestion Time staff. It’s just utter nonsense.’”

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Apr 3

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Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Mar 5

This is the next step, right?

Blue police tent and police officers in garden

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Mar 3

Hi 🥹

a rather fine-looking dromedary camel posing for a photograph in the desert somewhere

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Feb 23

There’s enough space in the Louvre for one of Mandelson

Photo of Prince Andrew arrested in the car on the wall of the Louvre in Paris

Mandelson arrested, being led to the car by some plods

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Feb 23

A vindicated David Tennant forced to listen to Kemi Badenoch on tv this morning

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Feb 14

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Feb 7

The Guardian here reporting on the saintly Gordon Brown who claims Keir Starmer is a man of integrity. This is obviously not the case.

From the Guardian 7 february 2026, 9.29 am

"Brown: Starmer a man of integrity but faces serious task amid leadership speculation

As speculation over Starmer’s future as prime minister continues, Brown has come to his defence, saying he is “a man of integrity”.

But he acknowledged that Starmer is facing a “serious” battle to keep his job.

“I mean, there’s always speculation. It happened to me, it happened to Tony Blair. It happens to everybody about how their future should be gauged,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

“But this is serious, and the task is very clear. The task is we’ve got to clean up the system, a total clean-up of the system, an end to the corruption and unethical behaviour. And if we don’t do it, we’ll pay a heavy price.”

When asked if Starmer was the right man to take the country forward, he said: “I can look in his eyes and I can see that he is a man of integrity. He wants to do the right things.

“Perhaps he’s been too slow to do the right things, but he must do the right things now, and let’s judge what he does, on what happens in the next few months when he tries to, and I believe (he) will try, to clean up the system.”

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Feb 4

So, how long do the two lettuces have?

Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney (two lettuces)

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Feb 4

Peter Mandelson for next series of Celebrity Traitors, pretends each night to go back to his 'individual lodgings', but he's in prison nearby with Prince Andrew. the contestants are all allowed to wear their own clothes except him. He has to wear an orange jumpsuit but still try to blend in.

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Feb 3

The idea that Jenrick is in a position to complain about corruption is something else. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

Ian Black@balmachreuchie· Feb 3

It's just the tiniest bit amusing the 'death in the family' manner in which Mandelson's fall from grace is announced by the truly odious Michael Forsyth.