Billy Kay
@billykayscot.bsky.social
Scriever/Braidcaster in Scots, English, an a wheen ither leids forbye.
Writer/Broadcaster in English, Scots and a few other languages as well. Passionate about Scottish independence, my wife, my weans and grandweans. Oh, and Scotland & Dundee United.
Writer/Broadcaster in English, Scots and a few other languages as well. Passionate about Scottish independence, my wife, my weans and grandweans. Oh, and Scotland & Dundee United.
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When Dundee United wins a big match 🧡🖤Scotland beats England at the rugby 🏴 ♥️ and your Valentine is the beautiful @joaokay.bsky.social it’s time to toast life with a special bottle of mature claret. Jammy forest fruit bouquet & a rich Merlot/Cab Franc mouthful balanced with ripe tannins. Delish! 🏴♥️🇵🇹
February 14, 2026 at 9:12 PM
When Dundee United wins a big match 🧡🖤Scotland beats England at the rugby 🏴 ♥️ and your Valentine is the beautiful @joaokay.bsky.social it’s time to toast life with a special bottle of mature claret. Jammy forest fruit bouquet & a rich Merlot/Cab Franc mouthful balanced with ripe tannins. Delish! 🏴♥️🇵🇹
When Dundee United wins a big match 🧡🖤Scotland beats England at the rugby 🏴 ♥️ and your Valentine is the beautiful @joaokay.bsky.social it’s time to toast life with a special bottle of mature claret. Jammy forest fruit bouquet & a rich Merlot/Cab Franc mouthful balanced with ripe tannins. Delish! 🏴♥️🇵🇹
February 14, 2026 at 9:12 PM
When Dundee United wins a big match 🧡🖤Scotland beats England at the rugby 🏴 ♥️ and your Valentine is the beautiful @joaokay.bsky.social it’s time to toast life with a special bottle of mature claret. Jammy forest fruit bouquet & a rich Merlot/Cab Franc mouthful balanced with ripe tannins. Delish! 🏴♥️🇵🇹
The greatest Valentine gift for any Scot - beating the auld enemy! Love is in the air. A big thank you to the lads.♥️🏴♥️🏴♥️🏴
February 14, 2026 at 6:44 PM
The greatest Valentine gift for any Scot - beating the auld enemy! Love is in the air. A big thank you to the lads.♥️🏴♥️🏴♥️🏴
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Thinkin o ma late faither Alexander Kay on this his birthday. A passionate Scot - he gied us aw pride in oor Ayrshire heritage, oor leid, oor leiterature, and oor kintrae, Scotland.
Delighted tae that his name is reborn in oor wee grandson Alexander Kay Dawson.
Delighted tae that his name is reborn in oor wee grandson Alexander Kay Dawson.
February 14, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Thinkin o ma late faither Alexander Kay on this his birthday. A passionate Scot - he gied us aw pride in oor Ayrshire heritage, oor leid, oor leiterature, and oor kintrae, Scotland.
Delighted tae that his name is reborn in oor wee grandson Alexander Kay Dawson.
Delighted tae that his name is reborn in oor wee grandson Alexander Kay Dawson.
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This is fae the chapter The Last Gemme in ma memoir Born in Kyle. The Cuban Missile crisis wis ragin in 1962 sae me an ma pals decidit we’d organise ae last gemme, jist in case! Later in life I learned it wis a fellow 🏴 nationalist, Paul Scott wha defused the tension in Cuba. It’s aw on Audible.
February 14, 2026 at 11:29 AM
This is fae the chapter The Last Gemme in ma memoir Born in Kyle. The Cuban Missile crisis wis ragin in 1962 sae me an ma pals decidit we’d organise ae last gemme, jist in case! Later in life I learned it wis a fellow 🏴 nationalist, Paul Scott wha defused the tension in Cuba. It’s aw on Audible.
This is fae the chapter The Last Gemme in ma memoir Born in Kyle. The Cuban Missile crisis wis ragin in 1962 sae me an ma pals decidit we’d organise ae last gemme, jist in case! Later in life I learned it wis a fellow 🏴 nationalist, Paul Scott wha defused the tension in Cuba. It’s aw on Audible.
February 14, 2026 at 11:29 AM
This is fae the chapter The Last Gemme in ma memoir Born in Kyle. The Cuban Missile crisis wis ragin in 1962 sae me an ma pals decidit we’d organise ae last gemme, jist in case! Later in life I learned it wis a fellow 🏴 nationalist, Paul Scott wha defused the tension in Cuba. It’s aw on Audible.
Thinkin o ma late faither Alexander Kay on this his birthday. A passionate Scot - he gied us aw pride in oor Ayrshire heritage, oor leid, oor leiterature, and oor kintrae, Scotland.
Delighted tae that his name is reborn in oor wee grandson Alexander Kay Dawson.
Delighted tae that his name is reborn in oor wee grandson Alexander Kay Dawson.
February 14, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Thinkin o ma late faither Alexander Kay on this his birthday. A passionate Scot - he gied us aw pride in oor Ayrshire heritage, oor leid, oor leiterature, and oor kintrae, Scotland.
Delighted tae that his name is reborn in oor wee grandson Alexander Kay Dawson.
Delighted tae that his name is reborn in oor wee grandson Alexander Kay Dawson.
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Happy birthday tae ma braw lad Euan - the best boay in the haill wide warld. @joaokay.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Happy birthday tae ma braw lad Euan - the best boay in the haill wide warld. @joaokay.bsky.social
Happy birthday tae ma braw lad Euan - the best boay in the haill wide warld. @joaokay.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Happy birthday tae ma braw lad Euan - the best boay in the haill wide warld. @joaokay.bsky.social
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‘Abune The Tay’ is now available as a good quality greeting card (blank) link in bio.
February 11, 2026 at 8:28 PM
‘Abune The Tay’ is now available as a good quality greeting card (blank) link in bio.
It is decretit an ordanit that this wearisome wat wather on the east cost o oor beluvit kintrae is ayont bein drookit, ayont bein dreich and ayont bein dowie …and sae fae noo on it will be kennt for evermair as The Muckle Scunner.
February 11, 2026 at 6:30 PM
It is decretit an ordanit that this wearisome wat wather on the east cost o oor beluvit kintrae is ayont bein drookit, ayont bein dreich and ayont bein dowie …and sae fae noo on it will be kennt for evermair as The Muckle Scunner.
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“I thought Anas saying that he liked Keir but he had to put Scotland first was priceless - comedy gold in fact - because on talking to them both on the phone last night the one thing we all agree upon is that none of us gives a flying f**k about Scotland. We had such a good laugh!”
February 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM
“I thought Anas saying that he liked Keir but he had to put Scotland first was priceless - comedy gold in fact - because on talking to them both on the phone last night the one thing we all agree upon is that none of us gives a flying f**k about Scotland. We had such a good laugh!”
“I thought Anas saying that he liked Keir but he had to put Scotland first was priceless - comedy gold in fact - because on talking to them both on the phone last night the one thing we all agree upon is that none of us gives a flying f**k about Scotland. We had such a good laugh!”
February 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM
“I thought Anas saying that he liked Keir but he had to put Scotland first was priceless - comedy gold in fact - because on talking to them both on the phone last night the one thing we all agree upon is that none of us gives a flying f**k about Scotland. We had such a good laugh!”
The one constant in the MSM coverage of Sarwar’s Lone Ranger tribute act is their reruns of the bit of his speech where he puts Scotland first to get rid of an incompetent SNP government. They’ve totally missed out the climactic bit at the end where he shoots himself in the foot.
February 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM
The one constant in the MSM coverage of Sarwar’s Lone Ranger tribute act is their reruns of the bit of his speech where he puts Scotland first to get rid of an incompetent SNP government. They’ve totally missed out the climactic bit at the end where he shoots himself in the foot.
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Wee weans are stervin o hunger, guid fowk, sae please, please, please gie onythin ye can tae gie some hope the nicht tae their faimilies and carers luikin efter thaim. 🏴♥️🇵🇸Bliss ye. Emergency Aid for Gaza Families in Crisis
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February 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Wee weans are stervin o hunger, guid fowk, sae please, please, please gie onythin ye can tae gie some hope the nicht tae their faimilies and carers luikin efter thaim. 🏴♥️🇵🇸Bliss ye. Emergency Aid for Gaza Families in Crisis
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2 / 3 Fortunately, Burns was enough of his own man to ignore the advice of the literary elite to write solely in English; otherwise he would have been just another obscure, stilted versifier like Blacklock or Beattie, instead of one of the world's genuinely popular yet great poets
February 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
2 / 3 Fortunately, Burns was enough of his own man to ignore the advice of the literary elite to write solely in English; otherwise he would have been just another obscure, stilted versifier like Blacklock or Beattie, instead of one of the world's genuinely popular yet great poets
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3/3 All the Scots writers engaged in a balancing act between the two cultures, but it was only when Ramsay, Fergusson & Burns wrote in Scots that the balance tilted from precious gentility towards greatness ‑ proof that Scots still held the heart if not the mind of the intelligentsia of the period.
February 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
3/3 All the Scots writers engaged in a balancing act between the two cultures, but it was only when Ramsay, Fergusson & Burns wrote in Scots that the balance tilted from precious gentility towards greatness ‑ proof that Scots still held the heart if not the mind of the intelligentsia of the period.
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1 of 3 Henry MacKenzie's important review of Burns in The Lounger is favourable up to a point, but the
fashion for English propriety is gets in the way of objective criticism:
One bar indeed, his birth and education have opposed to his fame - the language in which most of his poems are written.
fashion for English propriety is gets in the way of objective criticism:
One bar indeed, his birth and education have opposed to his fame - the language in which most of his poems are written.
February 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
1 of 3 Henry MacKenzie's important review of Burns in The Lounger is favourable up to a point, but the
fashion for English propriety is gets in the way of objective criticism:
One bar indeed, his birth and education have opposed to his fame - the language in which most of his poems are written.
fashion for English propriety is gets in the way of objective criticism:
One bar indeed, his birth and education have opposed to his fame - the language in which most of his poems are written.
Wee weans are stervin o hunger, guid fowk, sae please, please, please gie onythin ye can tae gie some hope the nicht tae their faimilies and carers luikin efter thaim. 🏴♥️🇵🇸Bliss ye. Emergency Aid for Gaza Families in Crisis
chuffed.org/project/1580...
chuffed.org/project/1580...
Emergency Aid for Gaza Families in Crisis
We are Farah Rebhy and Aseel Matar — journalists and field photographers from Rafah, in southern Gaza.
chuffed.org
February 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Wee weans are stervin o hunger, guid fowk, sae please, please, please gie onythin ye can tae gie some hope the nicht tae their faimilies and carers luikin efter thaim. 🏴♥️🇵🇸Bliss ye. Emergency Aid for Gaza Families in Crisis
chuffed.org/project/1580...
chuffed.org/project/1580...
3/3 All the Scots writers engaged in a balancing act between the two cultures, but it was only when Ramsay, Fergusson & Burns wrote in Scots that the balance tilted from precious gentility towards greatness ‑ proof that Scots still held the heart if not the mind of the intelligentsia of the period.
February 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
3/3 All the Scots writers engaged in a balancing act between the two cultures, but it was only when Ramsay, Fergusson & Burns wrote in Scots that the balance tilted from precious gentility towards greatness ‑ proof that Scots still held the heart if not the mind of the intelligentsia of the period.
2 / 3 Fortunately, Burns was enough of his own man to ignore the advice of the literary elite to write solely in English; otherwise he would have been just another obscure, stilted versifier like Blacklock or Beattie, instead of one of the world's genuinely popular yet great poets
February 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
2 / 3 Fortunately, Burns was enough of his own man to ignore the advice of the literary elite to write solely in English; otherwise he would have been just another obscure, stilted versifier like Blacklock or Beattie, instead of one of the world's genuinely popular yet great poets
1 of 3 Henry MacKenzie's important review of Burns in The Lounger is favourable up to a point, but the
fashion for English propriety is gets in the way of objective criticism:
One bar indeed, his birth and education have opposed to his fame - the language in which most of his poems are written.
fashion for English propriety is gets in the way of objective criticism:
One bar indeed, his birth and education have opposed to his fame - the language in which most of his poems are written.
February 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
1 of 3 Henry MacKenzie's important review of Burns in The Lounger is favourable up to a point, but the
fashion for English propriety is gets in the way of objective criticism:
One bar indeed, his birth and education have opposed to his fame - the language in which most of his poems are written.
fashion for English propriety is gets in the way of objective criticism:
One bar indeed, his birth and education have opposed to his fame - the language in which most of his poems are written.
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A passage from my memoir Born in Kyle on our Scottish identity in the 1960s before the rise of the modern national movement. My dad had a dry wit that told it like it was. A true TV memory. You can get the book on Amazon & Kindle. I can even whisper it aw in yer lugs on Audible!
February 8, 2026 at 10:03 AM
A passage from my memoir Born in Kyle on our Scottish identity in the 1960s before the rise of the modern national movement. My dad had a dry wit that told it like it was. A true TV memory. You can get the book on Amazon & Kindle. I can even whisper it aw in yer lugs on Audible!
A passage from my memoir Born in Kyle on our Scottish identity in the 1960s before the rise of the modern national movement. My dad had a dry wit that told it like it was. A true TV memory. You can get the book on Amazon & Kindle. I can even whisper it aw in yer lugs on Audible!
February 8, 2026 at 10:03 AM
A passage from my memoir Born in Kyle on our Scottish identity in the 1960s before the rise of the modern national movement. My dad had a dry wit that told it like it was. A true TV memory. You can get the book on Amazon & Kindle. I can even whisper it aw in yer lugs on Audible!
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I was hoping Scotland might cheer us up today…but no. What we got was a depressing, disjointed shambles of a performance. FFS boys, I would have done better than you lot with the lineouts. Pass the vino collapso, please. I need to be anaesthetised.
February 7, 2026 at 4:31 PM
I was hoping Scotland might cheer us up today…but no. What we got was a depressing, disjointed shambles of a performance. FFS boys, I would have done better than you lot with the lineouts. Pass the vino collapso, please. I need to be anaesthetised.