Scott Dougal
@scottdougal.bsky.social
Strategy, communications, digital and broadcast for World Sailing. Formerly British Cycling and the Press Association.
Fail we may, sail me must.
Face like a dad.
Fail we may, sail me must.
Face like a dad.
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
Bonus tracks. Like it or not, he’s still hot.
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Bonus tracks. Like it or not, he’s still hot.
Good evening and welcome to Saturday night dad in the kitchen.
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Good evening and welcome to Saturday night dad in the kitchen.
Nothing more pleasing than missing your connection at Huddersfield.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Nothing more pleasing than missing your connection at Huddersfield.
Is this an advert in my hotel room?
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Is this an advert in my hotel room?
The mighty Georgie Eliot there with an early documentation of the ick.
November 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The mighty Georgie Eliot there with an early documentation of the ick.
On Friendship by Andrew O’Hagan
Nothing more or less than a lovely wee (less than a hundred pages) book which will cheer your heart on a cold day.
Beautiful meditation on friendship in all its guises which I now want to buy for all my pals.
#BookSky
Nothing more or less than a lovely wee (less than a hundred pages) book which will cheer your heart on a cold day.
Beautiful meditation on friendship in all its guises which I now want to buy for all my pals.
#BookSky
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
On Friendship by Andrew O’Hagan
Nothing more or less than a lovely wee (less than a hundred pages) book which will cheer your heart on a cold day.
Beautiful meditation on friendship in all its guises which I now want to buy for all my pals.
#BookSky
Nothing more or less than a lovely wee (less than a hundred pages) book which will cheer your heart on a cold day.
Beautiful meditation on friendship in all its guises which I now want to buy for all my pals.
#BookSky
Hell of a scribbler is old Andrew.
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Hell of a scribbler is old Andrew.
Tremendous. Best story I’ve read in ages.
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Tremendous. Best story I’ve read in ages.
James Joyce Casuals (a).
November 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
James Joyce Casuals (a).
They’ve got to tour this, shurely?
Made to play live.
Made to play live.
November 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
They’ve got to tour this, shurely?
Made to play live.
Made to play live.
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Puts forward a new, “liberal” (in the US politics sense) vision where technological advances, economic growth and sustainability work together not against each other.
Convincing, albeit nothing you won’t have heard from Klein’s podcasts etc.
#BookSky
Puts forward a new, “liberal” (in the US politics sense) vision where technological advances, economic growth and sustainability work together not against each other.
Convincing, albeit nothing you won’t have heard from Klein’s podcasts etc.
#BookSky
November 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Puts forward a new, “liberal” (in the US politics sense) vision where technological advances, economic growth and sustainability work together not against each other.
Convincing, albeit nothing you won’t have heard from Klein’s podcasts etc.
#BookSky
Puts forward a new, “liberal” (in the US politics sense) vision where technological advances, economic growth and sustainability work together not against each other.
Convincing, albeit nothing you won’t have heard from Klein’s podcasts etc.
#BookSky
Vive le France 🇫🇷
October 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Vive le France 🇫🇷
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
Set in the winter of 1962, in a Britain still shabby and shaken by the war.
Redolent of the time - damp duffle coats, two-bar fires and endless cigarettes - and populated by vividly drawn characters.
Just the right amount of weird too.
Very good.
#BookSky
Set in the winter of 1962, in a Britain still shabby and shaken by the war.
Redolent of the time - damp duffle coats, two-bar fires and endless cigarettes - and populated by vividly drawn characters.
Just the right amount of weird too.
Very good.
#BookSky
October 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
Set in the winter of 1962, in a Britain still shabby and shaken by the war.
Redolent of the time - damp duffle coats, two-bar fires and endless cigarettes - and populated by vividly drawn characters.
Just the right amount of weird too.
Very good.
#BookSky
Set in the winter of 1962, in a Britain still shabby and shaken by the war.
Redolent of the time - damp duffle coats, two-bar fires and endless cigarettes - and populated by vividly drawn characters.
Just the right amount of weird too.
Very good.
#BookSky
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Best book I’ve read this year (so far).
A reviewer called it a feminist War and Peace, and I assumed that was partly because of its length.
But it really is about the violence women face, and the ceasefires, treaties and resolutions which follow.
#BookSky
Best book I’ve read this year (so far).
A reviewer called it a feminist War and Peace, and I assumed that was partly because of its length.
But it really is about the violence women face, and the ceasefires, treaties and resolutions which follow.
#BookSky
October 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Best book I’ve read this year (so far).
A reviewer called it a feminist War and Peace, and I assumed that was partly because of its length.
But it really is about the violence women face, and the ceasefires, treaties and resolutions which follow.
#BookSky
Best book I’ve read this year (so far).
A reviewer called it a feminist War and Peace, and I assumed that was partly because of its length.
But it really is about the violence women face, and the ceasefires, treaties and resolutions which follow.
#BookSky
We’re all listening to this aye?
October 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
We’re all listening to this aye?
2024 by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf
Frame by frame account of a slow motion car crash for the Democrats.
The authors have spoken to many of the players on both sides and delivered a comprehensive picture. Occasionally lacks for a variety in tone or pacing but does a job.
#BookSky
Frame by frame account of a slow motion car crash for the Democrats.
The authors have spoken to many of the players on both sides and delivered a comprehensive picture. Occasionally lacks for a variety in tone or pacing but does a job.
#BookSky
September 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
2024 by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf
Frame by frame account of a slow motion car crash for the Democrats.
The authors have spoken to many of the players on both sides and delivered a comprehensive picture. Occasionally lacks for a variety in tone or pacing but does a job.
#BookSky
Frame by frame account of a slow motion car crash for the Democrats.
The authors have spoken to many of the players on both sides and delivered a comprehensive picture. Occasionally lacks for a variety in tone or pacing but does a job.
#BookSky
Electric Spark by Frances Wilson
Wilson brilliantly captures how Spark wove biography into her fiction and fiction into her biography.
This is not a linear life story. Rather, Wilson circles her subject in a way which is often compelling, sometimes bewildering.
#BookSky
Wilson brilliantly captures how Spark wove biography into her fiction and fiction into her biography.
This is not a linear life story. Rather, Wilson circles her subject in a way which is often compelling, sometimes bewildering.
#BookSky
September 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Electric Spark by Frances Wilson
Wilson brilliantly captures how Spark wove biography into her fiction and fiction into her biography.
This is not a linear life story. Rather, Wilson circles her subject in a way which is often compelling, sometimes bewildering.
#BookSky
Wilson brilliantly captures how Spark wove biography into her fiction and fiction into her biography.
This is not a linear life story. Rather, Wilson circles her subject in a way which is often compelling, sometimes bewildering.
#BookSky
Spook Street by Mick Herron
In a pattern of reading these after watching the adaptation on telly but before watching the next one.
What I can tell you? Masterful story telling, the grimy face of London, spies and intrigue…. If not already, get involved.
#BookSky
In a pattern of reading these after watching the adaptation on telly but before watching the next one.
What I can tell you? Masterful story telling, the grimy face of London, spies and intrigue…. If not already, get involved.
#BookSky
September 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Spook Street by Mick Herron
In a pattern of reading these after watching the adaptation on telly but before watching the next one.
What I can tell you? Masterful story telling, the grimy face of London, spies and intrigue…. If not already, get involved.
#BookSky
In a pattern of reading these after watching the adaptation on telly but before watching the next one.
What I can tell you? Masterful story telling, the grimy face of London, spies and intrigue…. If not already, get involved.
#BookSky
The Names by Florence Knapp
Variation on the sliding doors idea in which the narrative splits three ways, depending on which of three names a mother chooses for her son.
The thread running through all three is domestic violence, and the whole adds up to a compelling and moving story.
#BookSky
Variation on the sliding doors idea in which the narrative splits three ways, depending on which of three names a mother chooses for her son.
The thread running through all three is domestic violence, and the whole adds up to a compelling and moving story.
#BookSky
September 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The Names by Florence Knapp
Variation on the sliding doors idea in which the narrative splits three ways, depending on which of three names a mother chooses for her son.
The thread running through all three is domestic violence, and the whole adds up to a compelling and moving story.
#BookSky
Variation on the sliding doors idea in which the narrative splits three ways, depending on which of three names a mother chooses for her son.
The thread running through all three is domestic violence, and the whole adds up to a compelling and moving story.
#BookSky
“Change a memory, make it 4/3
Visualise what you want to be
In your ear sings Paul Westerberg
He says: ‘I’m in love
What's that song?’”
Big 👌
Visualise what you want to be
In your ear sings Paul Westerberg
He says: ‘I’m in love
What's that song?’”
Big 👌
August 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“Change a memory, make it 4/3
Visualise what you want to be
In your ear sings Paul Westerberg
He says: ‘I’m in love
What's that song?’”
Big 👌
Visualise what you want to be
In your ear sings Paul Westerberg
He says: ‘I’m in love
What's that song?’”
Big 👌
Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor
Well-told account of the work done by MI5 and MI6 agents to maintain engagement with the IRA throughout the Troubles, laying the path to the Good Friday Agreement.
Brilliant long-form journalism.
#BookSky
Well-told account of the work done by MI5 and MI6 agents to maintain engagement with the IRA throughout the Troubles, laying the path to the Good Friday Agreement.
Brilliant long-form journalism.
#BookSky
August 25, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor
Well-told account of the work done by MI5 and MI6 agents to maintain engagement with the IRA throughout the Troubles, laying the path to the Good Friday Agreement.
Brilliant long-form journalism.
#BookSky
Well-told account of the work done by MI5 and MI6 agents to maintain engagement with the IRA throughout the Troubles, laying the path to the Good Friday Agreement.
Brilliant long-form journalism.
#BookSky
James by Percival Everett
Retelling/reimagining of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of Jim. Brilliant and funny and incisive.
Small caveat: if you’re not that familiar with Twain, there are sections which feel like listening to an argument at the next table.
#BookSky
Retelling/reimagining of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of Jim. Brilliant and funny and incisive.
Small caveat: if you’re not that familiar with Twain, there are sections which feel like listening to an argument at the next table.
#BookSky
August 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
James by Percival Everett
Retelling/reimagining of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of Jim. Brilliant and funny and incisive.
Small caveat: if you’re not that familiar with Twain, there are sections which feel like listening to an argument at the next table.
#BookSky
Retelling/reimagining of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told from the perspective of Jim. Brilliant and funny and incisive.
Small caveat: if you’re not that familiar with Twain, there are sections which feel like listening to an argument at the next table.
#BookSky