Bernie Hughes
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Last night I dreamt I went to Maryhill again.
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It's Time to Abolish the Monarchy
It's Time to Abolish the Monarchy -
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February 19, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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All this 'nobody is above the law' schtick would be a lot more believable if we weren't all absolutely fucking astonished at the fact that they've finally arrested the cunt.
February 19, 2026 at 12:45 PM
All this 'nobody is above the law' schtick would be a lot more believable if we weren't all absolutely fucking astonished at the fact that they've finally arrested the cunt.
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On the afternoon of 19th February 1876, Partick Thistle defeated local side Valencia 1-0 in the club's first official match.
150 years later, the Jags are still going strong ❤️💛
150 years later, the Jags are still going strong ❤️💛
February 19, 2026 at 1:01 PM
On the afternoon of 19th February 1876, Partick Thistle defeated local side Valencia 1-0 in the club's first official match.
150 years later, the Jags are still going strong ❤️💛
150 years later, the Jags are still going strong ❤️💛
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1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ Oh Valencia - forever ensconced in Partick Thistle folklore! It was 150 years ago today...
👉 thethistlearchive.net/match-1876-0...
👉 thethistlearchive.net/match-1876-0...
February 19, 2026 at 9:35 AM
1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ Oh Valencia - forever ensconced in Partick Thistle folklore! It was 150 years ago today...
👉 thethistlearchive.net/match-1876-0...
👉 thethistlearchive.net/match-1876-0...
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Photographer
Alen MacWeeney.
‘Nightwalkers’
Dublin, Ireland, 1965–1966.
Alen MacWeeney.
‘Nightwalkers’
Dublin, Ireland, 1965–1966.
February 14, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Photographer
Alen MacWeeney.
‘Nightwalkers’
Dublin, Ireland, 1965–1966.
Alen MacWeeney.
‘Nightwalkers’
Dublin, Ireland, 1965–1966.
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🚨ℹ️ Following a pitch inspection, this afternoon's game against Dunfermline Athletic at KDM Group East End Park has been postponed.
A new date and time for the fixture will be announced in due course.
A new date and time for the fixture will be announced in due course.
February 14, 2026 at 12:05 PM
🚨ℹ️ Following a pitch inspection, this afternoon's game against Dunfermline Athletic at KDM Group East End Park has been postponed.
A new date and time for the fixture will be announced in due course.
A new date and time for the fixture will be announced in due course.
February 14, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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Time to cash in on Wuthering Heights by releasing my erotic cotton mill story, Blathering Tights. A steamy tale of forbidden love between a cross-eyed seamstress and a one-legged hosiery magnate. Crammed full of how's your father and oddly shaped garden vegetables.
Soundtrack: Public Enemy.
Soundtrack: Public Enemy.
February 13, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Time to cash in on Wuthering Heights by releasing my erotic cotton mill story, Blathering Tights. A steamy tale of forbidden love between a cross-eyed seamstress and a one-legged hosiery magnate. Crammed full of how's your father and oddly shaped garden vegetables.
Soundtrack: Public Enemy.
Soundtrack: Public Enemy.
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As day draws to a close, landscape at sunset, 1522, by the extraordinary Albrecht Altdorfer of Regensburg. It’s been his day today.
February 13, 2026 at 1:52 AM
As day draws to a close, landscape at sunset, 1522, by the extraordinary Albrecht Altdorfer of Regensburg. It’s been his day today.
This is really good. And it applies not just to writing, but to other things, like teaching.
Everywhere, advice on how to write faster. A novel in 4 months, a blog post a day, Substack longform in an hour.
This essay argues for something else.
Speed doesn’t just change how we write, it changes what can be written at all.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-writin...
#WritingCommunity
This essay argues for something else.
Speed doesn’t just change how we write, it changes what can be written at all.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-writin...
#WritingCommunity
The Writing Factory
Craft on the Production Line
kristiedegaris.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:53 AM
This is really good. And it applies not just to writing, but to other things, like teaching.
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OUT NOW: Love Orient Hate Racism scarf, as modelled by Theo. #bandcampfriday #LOFC
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February 6, 2026 at 12:58 PM
OUT NOW: Love Orient Hate Racism scarf, as modelled by Theo. #bandcampfriday #LOFC
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This piece is about drystone walling, and about belonging. About building something solid before building something beautiful. About making a life, and a place in it, with your own hands.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-work-o...
#Scotland #UK #Books #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Women
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#Scotland #UK #Books #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Women
The Work of Belonging
The first stone is always the hardest.
kristiedegaris.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:08 AM
This piece is about drystone walling, and about belonging. About building something solid before building something beautiful. About making a life, and a place in it, with your own hands.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-work-o...
#Scotland #UK #Books #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Women
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-work-o...
#Scotland #UK #Books #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Women
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Calls to remove the cone from the statue of the Duke of Wellington in Glasgow have restarted (it happens interminably every few years)
It’s clearly a stupid idea. Like making New York taxis grey instead of yellow
If anything needs to go it’s the aristocratic twat on a horse. Bin him. Keep the cone
It’s clearly a stupid idea. Like making New York taxis grey instead of yellow
If anything needs to go it’s the aristocratic twat on a horse. Bin him. Keep the cone
February 5, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Calls to remove the cone from the statue of the Duke of Wellington in Glasgow have restarted (it happens interminably every few years)
It’s clearly a stupid idea. Like making New York taxis grey instead of yellow
If anything needs to go it’s the aristocratic twat on a horse. Bin him. Keep the cone
It’s clearly a stupid idea. Like making New York taxis grey instead of yellow
If anything needs to go it’s the aristocratic twat on a horse. Bin him. Keep the cone
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In 'I wonder why so many Labour MPs are absolute cunts?' news.
February 4, 2026 at 8:47 PM
In 'I wonder why so many Labour MPs are absolute cunts?' news.
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Emerald Fennell has said Wuthering Heights left its greatest impression on her at 14. Here’s my interpretation after reading at 41.
Turns out it isn’t really about love at all, but about inheritance, race & power.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/wuthering-...
#Books #Writing #Scotland #UK #Film
Turns out it isn’t really about love at all, but about inheritance, race & power.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/wuthering-...
#Books #Writing #Scotland #UK #Film
Two Terrible Children on a Windy Hill: A Rereading of Wuthering Heights
In 2026, Wuthering Heights has become synonymous with Jacob Elordi’s finger appraising Margot Robbie’s gag reflex.
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February 2, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a Substack note on parental estrangement. After many requests to share it more fully, I’ve published it here.
It isn’t prescriptive or up for debate. It’s simply an attempt to describe my own experience.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/parental-e...
#Writing
It isn’t prescriptive or up for debate. It’s simply an attempt to describe my own experience.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/parental-e...
#Writing
Estrangement Is the End of a Long Process
A Personal Reflection On Parental Estrangement
kristiedegaris.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:57 AM
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a Substack note on parental estrangement. After many requests to share it more fully, I’ve published it here.
It isn’t prescriptive or up for debate. It’s simply an attempt to describe my own experience.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/parental-e...
#Writing
It isn’t prescriptive or up for debate. It’s simply an attempt to describe my own experience.
kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/parental-e...
#Writing
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Six years ago today England ripped Scotland out of the EU against our clearly expressed wishes in referendum and election results. The UK then used brexit to disembowel devolution removing much of what little agency we had. While continuing to deny us the right to choose our own path.
Fuck the UK.
Fuck the UK.
January 30, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Six years ago today England ripped Scotland out of the EU against our clearly expressed wishes in referendum and election results. The UK then used brexit to disembowel devolution removing much of what little agency we had. While continuing to deny us the right to choose our own path.
Fuck the UK.
Fuck the UK.
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Few ppl can derive lyric poetry from a slag-heap but Marc has. There’s something ironic in that the planted conifers are causing damage to Welsh soil, just as the coal did. In the foreground weeds dominate - many alien to local ecology. The image & the landscape are both facets of a living loss.
Plate 16
From my new book, ‘The Edge of Ruin’
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Tylorstown, Rhondda Cynon Taf
It was the fatal blast at Tylorstown in 1896 that led to the use of canaries in coal mines to indicate the presence of deadly carbon monoxide gas. The local colliery was known by the Welsh name of Pendyrus, however...
From my new book, ‘The Edge of Ruin’
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Tylorstown, Rhondda Cynon Taf
It was the fatal blast at Tylorstown in 1896 that led to the use of canaries in coal mines to indicate the presence of deadly carbon monoxide gas. The local colliery was known by the Welsh name of Pendyrus, however...
January 27, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Few ppl can derive lyric poetry from a slag-heap but Marc has. There’s something ironic in that the planted conifers are causing damage to Welsh soil, just as the coal did. In the foreground weeds dominate - many alien to local ecology. The image & the landscape are both facets of a living loss.
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Is there, for honest poverty,
That hings his head, an' a' that?
The coward slave, we pass him by,
We dare be poor for a' that!
For a' that, an' a' that,
Our toils obscure, an' a' that;
Yhe rank is but the guinea's stamp;
The man's the gowd for a' that
That hings his head, an' a' that?
The coward slave, we pass him by,
We dare be poor for a' that!
For a' that, an' a' that,
Our toils obscure, an' a' that;
Yhe rank is but the guinea's stamp;
The man's the gowd for a' that
January 25, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Is there, for honest poverty,
That hings his head, an' a' that?
The coward slave, we pass him by,
We dare be poor for a' that!
For a' that, an' a' that,
Our toils obscure, an' a' that;
Yhe rank is but the guinea's stamp;
The man's the gowd for a' that
That hings his head, an' a' that?
The coward slave, we pass him by,
We dare be poor for a' that!
For a' that, an' a' that,
Our toils obscure, an' a' that;
Yhe rank is but the guinea's stamp;
The man's the gowd for a' that
To Òran Mór to see Kirsten Harvey once more, this time as part of #CelticConnections .
Voice of an angel, but I always miss her playing this one.
Voice of an angel, but I always miss her playing this one.
Kirsteen Harvey - Lifeguard (Official Visualiser)
YouTube video by Kirsteen Harvey
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January 23, 2026 at 11:08 PM
To Òran Mór to see Kirsten Harvey once more, this time as part of #CelticConnections .
Voice of an angel, but I always miss her playing this one.
Voice of an angel, but I always miss her playing this one.
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❤️💛 This Saturday, we will be hosting Thistle Welcomes Day in partnership with Jags For Good!
As part of the day, there will be a pre-match collection supporting Refuweegee taking place outside the ground.
Read all the details: buff.ly/VaRJFEz
As part of the day, there will be a pre-match collection supporting Refuweegee taking place outside the ground.
Read all the details: buff.ly/VaRJFEz
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
❤️💛 This Saturday, we will be hosting Thistle Welcomes Day in partnership with Jags For Good!
As part of the day, there will be a pre-match collection supporting Refuweegee taking place outside the ground.
Read all the details: buff.ly/VaRJFEz
As part of the day, there will be a pre-match collection supporting Refuweegee taking place outside the ground.
Read all the details: buff.ly/VaRJFEz
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They paywalled this shite?
January 22, 2026 at 1:59 PM
They paywalled this shite?
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Keir Starmer: Stop British bases or GPS facilities being used by the Americans to attack Greenland
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Open letter: Don't help Trump invade Greenland
An open letter to Keir Starmer, organised by the Abolish Westminster investigative journalism newsletter.
tally.so
January 21, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Keir Starmer: Stop British bases or GPS facilities being used by the Americans to attack Greenland
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