Craig Ross

If you read my Tweets here's a sort of book of extended Tweets - short little politics pieces - from a few years ago. amazon.co.uk/Not-Guardian-Cr…

She came. She saw. She buggered everything up. She went away. Sturgeon's legacy is a Scotland that has never been further from independence.

Not the news story our Scottish political class wanted. thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10…

Sitting in an orthopedic clinic full of people on crutches while "Footloose" plays means somebody, somewhere has a sense of humour.

Okay, peanuts in a bag of mixed nuts is a bit of a cheat, but this Home Bargains £2.50 500g bag is quite good value. Full of broken nuts. They've obviously fought to keep the price down. But not bad.

Sharp slump in support for the SNP and for independence.

Sir Michael Wilshaw - phenomenally successful headteacher and schools inspector - said that all great schools have one thing in common. The head teaches classes and eats with the staff. No Scottish headteacher should have less that a 50% teaching timetable. That'll solve it all.

Tallest Lilliputian. Primary elections mean that US state legislatures have serious people in them; very able attorneys are a large slice. Our devolved parliament is full of failed students, fly-by-night business shysters and Scotland's managed decline public sector middle class.

Okay, medical Twitter. How does blood flow in the legs work? If your lower leg is immobilised - hence a DVT risk - does working your quad muscles, doing little leg extensions, promote blood through the entire leg, including the non-contracting muscles of the lower leg?

Notice how the people who champion free speech when it comes to Drill lyrics are the same ones who support cancel culture and hate crime legislation? theguardian.com/commentisfre…

If you're 75 and you give an insurance company £100,000 they'll give you a level payment of £8,786. So if they just gave your own money you'd be 86 and a half before you broke even. But they're getting 4-5% on the £100k. You'd be mid 90s before they lost the bet. Scandalous.

MRIs are nuts. I thought it was like an X-ray. Okay, I knew it was slightly more complicated, but I didn't expect half an hour, the kind of ear protection you need to fire a Carl Gustav anti-tank gun, and the gunfight scenes from Star Wars at full volume.

For the first time ever I've used the expression, "I'd better post that s***", and I literally mean, "I'd better post that s***".

Now the Guardian is racist. youtu.be/9G9FQDzMa40

Okay, you false defenders of women's rights. All of you who're transphobic, homophobic, misogynistic or racist, take one step forward. youtu.be/k0Uxw4pvWlI

Sturgeon has just attacked Starmer for not being prepared to rejoin the EU or "even countenance joining the single [internal] market and the customs union". What IS the EU but the internal market and the customs union? So we'll be an EEA rule taker, including free movement?

Sturgeon is on LBC saying that the SNP would "always" vote to get the Conservatives out of office, and then - five seconds later - said that Starmer would have to negotiate with the SNP as they'd "hold the balance of power". There's the Conservatives' campaign in England. Again.

Vaccine Conspiracy Test Radio 4's "The World Tonight" tells us that women with ovarian cancer start buying indigestion and over the counter pain relief 8-9 months before diagnosis. Do you think, a) they're suffering from the early cancer, OR b) the medicine causes cancer?

A professor of modern history is lamenting low productivity Britain in the Guardian. My response below. (It staggers me that we still don't understand what we've done). theguardian.com/commentisfre…

How is it possible for these typos to repeatedly get through? @heraldscotland

For those who insisted "woman" and "female" denoted the same thing, do you now see that failing to concede the difference means there are males in female prisons and changing rooms, because the males can dress as women, and you've insisted that woman = female?