Not too many surprises here. (Except, perhaps, the 18% of respondents who claimed to be football fans yet also said they had no interest in the World Cup.)
Excluding the disinterested the numbers were:
England 24% England’s opponents 38% Others 40%
And for people actually born in Scotland the figures came out at
England 20% England’s opponents 41% Others 39%
And that’s pretty much the natural order of things. If you’re a “Rangers” fan and you cheer for Celtic when they play (let’s not say “compete”) in the Champions League, or a Celtic fan who backed “Rangers” in the Petrofac Training Cup, you’re the weirdo.
We were having an idle browse on Google Play Books this morning for some bargain holiday reading when we happened upon a startling new cover for Chris Mullin’s 1982 classic A Very British Coup.
We found ourselves thinking “rise to what, exactly?”
And as it happened, we had some new Panelbase polling data on that.
Now, we’re not sure “you’ve had the government you’ve voted for about half the time in a two-horse race” would be all that great a selling point in the first place, but shall we see if it’s actually true, readers?
We wouldn’t say that the Scottish Daily Mail was obsessed or anything, but this is just today’s hysterical coverage of possible changes to taxation in Scotland which haven’t even been PROPOSED yet, let alone actually passed into law.
The efforts by the Scottish Tories to pull off some frankly ambitious shenanigans over today’s Budget continued overnight in increasingly bizarre fashion.
As with the Poppy Scotland funding, the party appears to be quite openly punting the line “We knew all along that this was possible and the right thing to do, but we deliberately punished Scotland for not electing enough Tory MPs”, in what can only be reasonably interpreted as an attempt at blackmailing future electorates.
The Scottish media, meanwhile, is doing its best to sell the issue as “a plague on both their houses”, holding the Scottish Government and UK government equally culpable for the mess. So let’s see what we know.
We’ll be honest, readers – if this doesn’t make you want to leave the UK all by itself, it may be that there’s nothing that ever will and we should just give up.
(Alternative titles considered for this piece included Live And Please Let Die, Doctor Oh God No, The Barely-Living Daylights and Quantum Of Bollocks.)
Yesterday’s Daily Record (which would increasingly be an accurate three-word name for the paper) ran an innocuous piece of page-filler fluff rubbish, and for once we’re not talking about a David Torrance column.
It featured the “psychic” predictions of a man who, the Record told us – no fewer than FIVE times in the opening few lines – previously predicted Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, and who had a track record of “incredible accuracy”.
Young Lochinvar on The View From Row Z: “She probably did but any of the alphabetties needing “incentivised” would be one lead that should be followed..” Jun 1, 01:31
Cynicus on The View From Row Z: “Campbell Clansman says: 31 May, 2026 at 5:00 pm “With her lies Sturgeon climbed to the top of the (Holyrood)…” Jun 1, 01:19
Del G on The View From Row Z: “If oor Nicola didn’t see most of these items, my question is: Who were they going to? This sounds like…” May 31, 23:59
Mark Beggan on The View From Row Z: “No Comment. Mind your own business.” May 31, 23:52
Northcode on The View From Row Z: “Correction: Muriel Stark should of course read as Muriel Spark.” May 31, 23:38
Northcode on The View From Row Z: “You lot are too harsh on the lassie. She’s a simple wee soul who only wants to be known and…” May 31, 23:10
prj on The View From Row Z: “I suspect that when the police got involved they found a more serious crime to investigate and that was Murrell.…” May 31, 22:40
robertkknight on The View From Row Z: “Aye… Bring a tear to a glass eye, so it would.” May 31, 22:28
William G Walker on The View From Row Z: “Hello All, Whatever happened to the £667,000 which was “ring-fenced” in the late 2010s for Independence? Never mind the £410,000…” May 31, 22:26
Ex President Xiden on The View From Row Z: “She is currently on TV trying to reinvent herself amongst the wokeraty.” May 31, 22:26
Carol Neill on The View From Row Z: “My heart bleeds …. She should have just shut her pus and there might have been questions , but no…” May 31, 21:24
Andy Wiltshire on The View From Row Z: “The whole performance was a one-fingered salute with added crocodile tears.” May 31, 21:16
Ian on The View From Row Z: “Yes that is what a serious and responsible party would do.” May 31, 21:07
Callum on The View From Row Z: “The only victims are the people who donated money to a fraudulent scheme. They need justice and payback. That means…” May 31, 20:27
Northcode on The View From Row Z: “When the humbler ranks of society are plucked from obscurity and deposited — blinking and dazzled — into the chandeliered…” May 31, 20:13
Ian on The View From Row Z: “Amazing, is it not, that an albeit failed lawyer, however incompetent, has not the faintest idea what a company legal…” May 31, 19:46
Bilbo on The View From Row Z: “We are living in a time now where people don’t really care if supposed left of centre polictians like Sturgeon…” May 31, 19:44
Louise Hogg on The View From Row Z: “100% sure she was aware of, and involved in, both the ‘ringfenced fund’ ruse raised to repay the Weirs’ loan.…” May 31, 19:14
Stuart MacKay on The View From Row Z: “Since the fraud seems to have started some time ago. Is there any evidence that would suggest that all the…” May 31, 19:11
100%Yes on The View From Row Z: “There is something good came out of this mess, 1 Sturgeon had to stand down as FM and give up…” May 31, 19:00
Andouillette on Nicola’s Summer Reading List: “I prefer the KJV: “Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.” “As the partridge sitteth on eggs,…” May 31, 18:51
Willie on The View From Row Z: “The Crown Office Procurator Fiscal Service is rotten to the core. They traduce the prosecution service to what you would…” May 31, 18:43
Marie on The View From Row Z: “She claims to be serving a sentence. Nope – that sentence starts when she’s in a prison cell. Best place…” May 31, 18:25
David Lindsay on The View From Row Z: “If Nicola Sturgeon is “serving a sentence for a crime [she] did not commit,” then is she serving it on…” May 31, 18:16
Jon Drummond on The View From Row Z: “Regarding the pepper grinder I can assure everyone that Sturgeon has never had a “sausage” supper in her life. Maybe…” May 31, 18:14
The Friendly Sassenach on The View From Row Z: “John Crace in the guardian put it like this… https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/31/nicola-sturgeon-interview-peter-murrell-snp-politics-sketch” May 31, 18:06
Peter S on The View From Row Z: “A word to the wise, hen – when you’re in a hole, for goodness’ sake stop digging !” May 31, 18:05
James on The View From Row Z: “Blamed for a crime I haven’t committed But it was ok to try and get Salmond sent down? I can’t…” May 31, 18:04
