Alan Ferrier

@alanferrier

I live in Glasgow and my hobbies include arranging my CDs in alphabetical order, discovering new and exotic whiskies, sheep-spotting and flying my kite.

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Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· 5d

The near-Dickensian "barred" list from the Half Moon pub in Herne Hill, south London.

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· 27d

Tattie scone tacos? Genius! Scottish fusion cuisine to rival the Macaroni Pie @ The Islay Inn, Glasgow.

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Jul 17

Ok, Baldrick.

Andy Burnham says 'I have a plan' as he is confirmed new Labour leader

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Jul 15

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Jul 13

John F. Kennedy with Count Binface: "Ich bin ein bin liner"

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Jul 8

Last month, Andrew "Lord Brillo" Neil feared a "return to the bad old days of Tartan Army football hooliganism" and had a "nagging feeling in the back of my head... something could trigger it all going badly wrong". Let's see what Boston's Channel 10 has to say about that:

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Jul 7

Well, over a century ago the Norwegian Parliament declared the union between Norway and its larger neighbour Sweden dissolved. Norway then went on to become one of the wealthiest nations in the world and a country that absolutely prioritises the well-being of its citizens. So I'd say - hell, yes.

BBC: "Can Scotland learn from history-making Norway?"

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Jun 29

Number 10 North, eh?

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Jun 17

Anyone who's even just visited London for a weekend must know that this is the most unutterable bollocks.

@alexmassie
Scotland is the most privileged part of the United Kingdom. This is disagreeable because it removes all grounds for reasonable grievance and whining. Nevertheless, the truth is that the Union is organised to serve Scotland first. And best.

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Jun 17

Good lads, those Croatians. #JustSaying

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Jun 16

Andrew Neil has a 'nagging feeling in the back of my head... something could trigger it all going badly wrong' What an utter tit that man is. Just can't bear to think of Scotland and Scottish folk doing well.

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Jun 15

Joan Baez crashes the Rolling Stones’ Glasgow party. Odeon Theatre, Renfield Street, 6th October 1965.

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Jun 11

Clean energy projects in Scotland are set to pay £1 billion to use the UK’s electricity network while projects south of the border will be paid to connect. First they fuck us over then they charge us a billion quid for the privilege. www.thenational.scot/news/2617285...

Data obtained under Freedom of Information by The Scotsman from industry body the National Energy System Operator (Neso) shows that forecast generation charges in 2030/31 for projects in the north of Scotland will hit £669 million while developments in central and southern Scotland will also be hit by a £291m bill.

Meanwhile, projects in England and Wales are forecast to receive a net payment of £436m that same year.

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Jun 10

The reason why a bunch of Scottish football fans have had their US travel visas cancelled becomes clear.

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Jun 10

Scale of the proposed wind turbines - twice as high as London's Gherkin and almost six times that of the Scott Monument.

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Jun 10

Clearly, Scotland is being fucked. I mean that word in the vulgar sense of "misused to give satisfaction or advantage to another." The area covered by this development will be 51 times the size of Iona. A mock-up of the view from Iona should it go ahead: www.scottishbeacon.com/news/opinion...

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· May 15

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· May 11

Indeed.

@flying_rodent:
"I voted No in the independence referendum because I thought it was a dumb distraction from the urgent need to drastically reform and improve Westminster, in everyone’s best interest. I then got an incredibly brutal 12-year demonstration of how stupid I was to have believed that."

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· May 8

I see the "Scottish" Daily Express is taking the election results well.

"Scottish Parliament elections 2026 live: Follow every result across the country as first SNP FILTH is elected into Holyrood"

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Apr 29

Who wore it best?

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Apr 26

On low trust in BBC Scotland, Happer says: “It’s very difficult not to see that as a historic legacy of the coverage of the independence referendum and the real disappointment in the way London was calling the shots on coverage. Some of those accusations are founded.”

Academic research revealed disparities in the positive and negative arguments for independence which were aired. Happer, who speaks extensively to BBC Scotland staff, said: “BBC Scotland journalists felt they couldn’t cover the referendum in the way they would have liked because of commands coming from London.”

Happer said referendum coverage “was inadequate. It was representative of an organisation that hadn’t adapted to the realities of devolution. I personally think there was bias in the coverage. Bias is inevitable when we are engaging with questions of such importance constitutionally, because at the end of the day the BBC is the ‘British’ public service broadcaster. That’s very important”.

On issues such as the break-up of Britain, or war, for those who run the BBC “questions of security and statehood come into play. The referendum was one of those situations when there was a real threat to the British state and the BBC did everything in its power to protect the state. That’s absolutely what happened”.

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Apr 12

❤️Glasgow.

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Apr 12

Started, going, etc.

Scottish Daily Mail, 2016: "Oil revenue plunges by 97% - SNP dream of leaving UK dead in water."
Scottish Daily Mail, 2026: "We're sitting on a goldmine! North Sea oil hits record high"

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Apr 6

Still the most iconic Scottish weather picture, in my humble opinion.

Lad sitting in t-shirt in the sun with his wife next to him wrapped up warm in the snow.

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Apr 6

A quote from Tom Johnston's book, "Our Scots Noble Families". It was first published in 1909 and caused a sensation. He later became wartime Secretary of State for Scotland and first chairman of the North of Scotland Hydro Board.

‘Show the people that our Old Nobility is not noble, that its lands
are stolen lands - stolen either by force or fraud; show people that
the title-deeds are rapine, murder, massacre, cheating, or court
harlotry; dissolve the halo of divinity that surrounds the hereditary
title; let the people clearly understand that our present House of
Lords is composed largely of descendants of successful pirates and
rogues; do these things and you shatter the Romance that keeps
the nation numb and spellbound while privilege picks its pocket.’

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Apr 1

This is BBC Scotland's top story. What a surprise.

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Mar 25

www.thenational.scot/politics/259...

PROFESSOR Danny Dorling has a game he plays with Labour audiences in England. He asks them to name the one country in Europe that has reversed child poverty over the last 16 years – not through revolution, not through vast increases in spending, but through relatively modest and targeted changes in welfare provision.

The room always goes quiet. Nobody ever gets it. He has to tell them. It’s Scotland. And the reason they don’t know is itself part of the story. The British press has never really told them.

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Mar 19

It's like he read my mind ;)

@alanferrier
Maybe we shouldn’t have sold off British Gas, British Petroleum, British Steel, British Telecom, British Rail - all the national and nationalised industries and utilities which belonged to the British people as a common treasury for the future - to a bunch of wide-boys and spivs.
2:59 PM · Jul 13, 2022

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Mar 19

I'm not a Green voter but well said, @zackpolanski.bsky.social. About time we had a politician in the UK with the courage to articulate this fundamental, undeniable truth. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“A sustained project of privatisation and deregulation has turned Britain from a place which made things people need into a place which makes money for people who own things.
“We live in rip-off Britain: an economy built to reward the few off the work of the many. A country where people work so hard and try to do the right thing but still struggle to afford the basics, and find themselves constantly cutting back.
“The very basics, the things we rely on to build the foundations of a good life, have been taken out of our hands, sold for profit – and then sold or rented back to us at crushing rates. The water that keeps us alive. The energy that warms us. The home that keeps us safe.
“We’ve stopped working to save for a deposit, a summer holiday or even to put a bit away for the future – so many of us are working just to cover the increasing cost of getting by every day.”

Alan Ferrier@alanferrier· Mar 16

Dutch urinals: disturbing.