💻 Dad + Head of Digital @theSNP @YesScot on 9 winning national elections 🎸 Co-founder of National Collective 🎨 Edinburgh College of Art grad 📱 The revolution will be digitised.https://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3mqzrw2t4nk2u🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland remain the last team to beat the World Cup champions Spain in a competitive international.19 Jul 2026 22:04 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqzrw2t4nk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3mqqofcswd22g🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤝🇦🇷 Without this Scotsman, you might not have had Messi. It sounds far-fetched, but the story starts in Dingwall, in the Scottish Highlands.16 Jul 2026 07:07 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqqofcswd22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3mqpn5dlvrs24I’m obviously neutral, but this has been a fantastic game for the neutral.15 Jul 2026 21:12 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqpn5dlvrs24https://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3mqomyt5bdk2c🧵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤝🇦🇷 From a Scottish teacher to Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi lifting the World Cup, the path of Argentine football starts with one man. The father of Argentinian football isn't an Argentinian, he was a Scotsman - Alexander Watson Hutton.15 Jul 2026 11:36 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqomyt5bdk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3mqobmsp4hc2cHumans have existed for ~300,000 years. For almost all of that time, life expectancy at birth was just 20–35 years. In 1800 the global average was still only 29. Today it’s around 73. The greatest leap in human survival happened not over millennia, but in the last 150 years.15 Jul 2026 08:13 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqobmsp4hc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3mqn2acz5c22r⛰️ UK and Ireland geography facts that feel wrong but are true: Edinburgh is west of Manchester. Liverpool is north of Dublin. Bristol is east of Edinburgh. Shetland is closer to Norway than London.14 Jul 2026 20:28 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqn2acz5c22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3mcnmelim4c2kThe greatest irony of our time is that we have an abundance of resources/energy to sustain our planet, yet our economic system - reinforced by imperialism and some political leaders, makes abundance feel scarce and impossible. That is what’s driving the climate/ecological crisis.17 Jan 2026 22:00 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcnmelim4c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3mchkdwiwsk2nAnas Sarwar and Labour have been caught making up a quote and attributing it to a person who did not give their permission on one of their campaign leaflets. Extraordinary to not get the basics right. https://hellorayo.co.uk/clyde/local/news/scottish-labour-leaflet-fake-quote15 Jan 2026 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mchkdwiwsk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3lztct2xjxs2tI get my first name from my Grandpa’s surname. His family came from Highlands & North East. This is my 4x Great Grandpa, William Ross, Sergeant Master Tailor of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders. He made the uniform he’s wearing - and those of regiment. Served in Corfu, Gibraltar, India, & Crimea.27 Sep 2025 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lztct2xjxs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3lxfpxgfm3s2qIncreasing UK inequality created a fertile ground for anti-migrant sentiment and Brexit due to perceived scarcity > Nigel Farage and Reform back Brexit which further increases inequality in UK > Whilst Tories and Labour echo them on Brexit and stoking up anti-migrant sentiment.27 Aug 2025 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxfpxgfm3s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3luqiibjqdc25Vive la France. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Jul 2025 21:35 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3luqiibjqdc25https://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3lukqkfwnu22o🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💦 That’s that settled then.22 Jul 2025 14:44 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lukqkfwnu22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3luez5cgobc24Keir Starmer and other world leaders have stood by - or in his case, enabled - the deliberate starvation of Palestinians by Israel. It’s a shameful stain on history few of us will ever forget. It’s time to stop this now.20 Jul 2025 08:02 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3luez5cgobc24https://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3ltnecjg6a227What greater indictment of our age than this: those who cry out for Gaza are silenced, while those who starve and kill its people walk free. A world that fears the oppressed more than the oppressor’s weapons is not just broken - it is complicit. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Jul 2025 22:18 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltnecjg6a227https://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3ltd5l75k6c2wScottish Labour are seeking advice from the Tony Blair Institute for the Scottish Election, whose staff have been taking part in a project investigating turning Gaza into a Riveria. The final plan proposes “paying half a million Palestinians to leave the area”.06 Jul 2025 20:50 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltd5l75k6c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3lrhyknyauc2jIt’s 2025 and too much of geopolitics has de-evolved into modern cave men throwing rocks to protect power. All while many of the real existential threats to our planet and human survival go unanswered.13 Jun 2025 08:14 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrhyknyauc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosscolquhoun.bsky.social/post/3lqn3vuaaxs2m🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland’s future in our hands, or his? [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Jun 2025 15:32 +0000at://did:plc:aoqr55ebj2o7podbgsib4ci3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqn3vuaaxs2m