https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07xdrv3/jimmy-johnston James Connolly Johnstone was born on the 30 th September 1944. He died on 13 th March 2006. We all know who Jinky is. We voted him Celtic’s best-ever player and if you look at the footage of that night, you’ll see a young looking Martin O’Neil and a grinning number seven with dreadlocks called Henrik Larsson. A statue of Jinky is outside Parkhead, but he rests in our hearts. Because...

Greatly excited about our next online Reading Event, on 26 August! These evenings are always a lot of fun, and it's so lovely to hear people reading their work. Many thanks to Mark Burrow for doing the organising again, and you can find out more (and sign up!) here: https://tinyurl.com/9t4mr45u Our Story of the Week goes to Simon Barget's funny, brilliant and bizarre 'Me'. Narcissism isn't just about shouting your mouth off to gain attention,...

Please remember there’s an online reading event on the 26th of August, organised by Mark Burrow for us all. If you want to sign up to read or be in the audience, the link and info is here: https://tinyurl.com/9t4mr45u Poem of the Week is ‘In IKEA, he dreams about the woman he loves’ by stevepoet. It’s a fabulous love poem. https://www.abctales.com/story/stevepoet/ikea-he-dreams-about-woman-he-loves Story of the Week is The Train You Rode In On...

$5K - 52 Weeks - 20 Penny Stocks One Winner!! Current Status ( -$3,170.44 ) Week - 23 Layers! Stonks got layers... Stonk: Penny stonks are like onions. Donkey: They stink? Stonk: Yes. No. Donkey: Oh, they make you cry. Stonk: No. Donkey: Oh, you leave em out in the sun, they get all brown, start sproutin’ little white hairs. Stonk: No. Layers. Penny stonks have layers. Stonks have layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both have layers...

$5K - 52 Weeks - 20 Penny Stocks One Winner!! Current Status ( -$3,161.26 ) Week - 22 The Future’s So Bright! I gotta wear shades... My crystal ball might have been working better than I thought! My favorite little mico-penny hired a big important mucky-muck to serve in an advisory capacity and the market responded with a 125% jump in the share price. World Health Energy Holdings (WHEN) on Tuesday gained one half of one tenth of one penny in one...

Context – Third Wave of Covid Pandemic, now amidst the riots and looting of the KwaZuluNatal, South African, livelihoods. Gunshots have been ringing out beyond my window for 4 days now, with fewer shots starting on Saturday evening, to a more continuous stream this Tuesday morning. A WatsApp video showed police shooting at gatherers in my area to disperse them from a mall car park this morning. The government knew that this would be going down...

$5K - 52 Weeks - 20 Penny Stocks One Winner!! Current Status ( -$2,976.91 ) Week - 21 I can see the Future! Well, some of it anyway... It’s not that big a trick really, almost anyone can do it. I was reminded of this when the young couple next door moved in, replacing the slightly older but still young couple who had moved out. Seeing the future only requires reaching an age in life where a younger person’s future is your own past. Oh the...

England can beat Italy and win the Euros. They’re playing at home and favourites. Even I’ll admit that. I’m not anti-English, and I don’t mind them winning the odd game. Although I was never there, I’ve telly memories of Scotland going to Wembley on the fitba specials, beating England, tartan clad hordes of Bay City Roller fans stealing the goalposts and ripping up the turf and eating it to show how hard we were. Payback for all those invasions...

I qualify for an Irish passport. My Da was born in Belfast, but lived his life in Glasgow, and fought in the second world war for Britain. When he married my mum, he moved to Clydebank. John Burrowes is telling us something we already know—many of us have much the same story. How many? Most folk find statistic boring. My Da was born in 1923. The Irish Free State was formed in 1921, with the six counties still part of Britain. Susan McKay 2021...

Professor James Hunter revisits a student historical dissertation to remind us that it wasn’t just Ireland that suffered from famine, after potato crops failed year after year in the late 1840s, but most of Europe suffered from the fungal spores of Phytophthora infestans . The poor people of the Scottish Highlands and Islands did not experience to the same scale as the Irish Holocaust, but many of the structural problems were the same. The...