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Kenny Farquharson 
Columnist and senior writer with @TheTimes in Scotland. I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king. Orwell Fellow.
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Analysed 30,526 tweets, tweets from the last 274 weeks.
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| Reply | 21,547 | 70.6% |
| Tweet | 3,777 | 12.4% |
| Retweet | 3,327 | 10.9% |
| Quote | 2,311 | 7.6% |
| Top Content Types | Count | % |
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| URL | 3,784 | 12.4% |
| Photo | 1,601 | 5.2% |
| GIF | 68 | 0.2% |
| Video | 64 | 0.2% |
| Top Domains in URLs | Count | % |
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| #tweetyourtea | 56 | 0.2% |
| #dufc | 31 | 0.1% |
| #tomorrowspaperstoday | 17 | 0.1% |
| #brexit | 14 | 0.0% |
| #flegs | 13 | 0.0% |
| #p2baa | 9 | 0.0% |
| #indyref2 | 7 | 0.0% |
| #scotpapers | 7 | 0.0% |
| #scotlab19 | 7 | 0.0% |
| #thenine | 7 | 0.0% |
| #coronavirus | 6 | 0.0% |
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| scotland | 1,157 | 3.8% |
| scottish | 1,123 | 3.7% |
| snp | 1,111 | 3.6% |
| column | 965 | 3.2% |
| brexit | 512 | 1.7% |
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| every | 286 | 0.9% |
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| government | 260 | 0.9% |
| cheers | 260 | 0.9% |
| holyrood | 249 | 0.8% |
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| 🙄 Face With Rolling Eyes | 84 | 0.3% |
| ❤ Heavy Black Heart | 63 | 0.2% |
| 😮 Face With Open Mouth | 53 | 0.2% |
| ✊ Raised Fist | 31 | 0.1% |
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Tweets
I've watched the goal countless times now :) but this is my fav skill of the night @dundeeunitedfc @DylanLevitt #p2baa
@KennyFarq surprised wee visit at Commy Games pic.twitter.com/mtiqssPJlb
Is this a different gang from the Times Appeasement Division led by separatist-in-chief @KennyFarq?
ok so this batgirl tax situation gave me an idea: what if you made a movie and then raised way more money than you actually needed to spend and so intentionally made it really bad so that you could write the whole thing off as a loss and keep the investor cash
🧡🖤
Dundee United 1-0 AZ Alkmaar
What a goal this is from Glenn Middleton! 👏
Watch the superb strike ⤵️
📺 TV Coverage on @BBCScotland
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What a goal this is from Glenn Middleton! 👏
Watch the superb strike ⤵️
📺 TV Coverage on @BBCScotland
📲 Live text
📻 @BBCSportsound
#BBCFootball
Very pleased to be chairing this in-person event at The Festival of Politics at Holyrood.
Are we witnessing the return of strongman politics, where elected leaders from around the globe become ever more authoritarian under a veneer of liberal democracy?
Join @KennyFarq's chat with experts from @scga_scot, @aberdeenuni and @uoessps at #FoP2022:
ow.ly/XQvP50K9L5v pic.twitter.com/Tsk3HI35my
Join @KennyFarq's chat with experts from @scga_scot, @aberdeenuni and @uoessps at #FoP2022:
ow.ly/XQvP50K9L5v pic.twitter.com/Tsk3HI35my
Latest addition to my library: the splendidly titled Address to Highlanders Respecting Their Native Gaelic: Showing Its And The Broad Scotch’s Superiority Over The Artifical English For The Family And Social Circle, And Also For Lyric Poetry. By Archibald Farquharson, 1868, 40pp pic.twitter.com/lpbh79yk8m
Latest addition to my library: the splendidly titled Address to Highlanders Respecting Their Native Gaelic: Showing Its And The Broad Scotch’s Superiority Over The Artifical English For The Family And Social Circle, And Also For Lyric Poetry. By Archibald Farquharson, 1868, 40pp
You voted, at least!
Haha brilliant. For various reasons my Dad was living full time in Crombie and Johnson hall's of residence from 86 for a few years. So every weekend of mine at that age was spent hanging round the uni campus
Ha! Fancy that!
If it’s declared legal on the basis that it has no effect and is just an opinion poll, then I think people are justified in ignoring it if they choose to, and the Government is entitled to make a judgement on its legitimacy on that basis too.
My dad begin his career as a uni lecturer at Aberdeen around 1979. Martin Ray? Youngest lecturer in the English Lit dept at the time I believe.
Did you study English Lit by any chance?
Kenny, when did you graduate? I was there 84-88, never got too politically active but did have the dubious honour of seeing Murdo Fraser and Douglas Armstrong start their journeys into twattery.
Dipping into the 2000's The Poems were Robert Hodgens, Bobby Paterson, Adrian Barry, Kerry Polwart, Ross McFarlane and Andy May. Recently picked up a copy of 'Young America' from @LNFGlasgow so I decided to make my own video for 'Just Say Something' @ThePoems1 @ROPoem @
Handsome devil
What a fine looking young fellow!
You're smiling 😎
Like brand new.
1980’s era Marti Pellow?
Wasn't it used more for voting in uni ballots than for library borrowings ? And yours has been stamped several times (embossed crosses in the numbered squares at the top).
From the top of the head to beneath the eyes there's a Tom Cruise look, then it all falls to fuck😆 Only joking mate
You’ve committed the cardinal sin of Scot politics at moment - look in corner of room! pic.twitter.com/jbzu9sbCMv
Neither of the main parties though are committed to anything like this. Both are refusing to enter any talk of how Scotland leaves the UK by its own choice. In these circumstances, that is surely a bigger test for Unionists who are democrats than the one you outline, no?
No because a more sensible UK government could and should introduce a more sensible arrangement. Constitution constantly in flux and reformable.
If the court rules it illegal rendering Scotland tied to the union by force and completely at the mercy of whoever happens to be living in Downing Street regardless of how we vote in elections - would that not be the litmus test?
My question to them is what IS the democratic route to Independence? Even if you don't want Scotland to go there, there must be one. Or are we prisoners rather than partners in this Union?
In my column in The Times today I argue a supreme court endorsement of indyref2 would be a litmus test of unionists' belief in democracy.
NEW: An indyref2 declared legal by the supreme court should not be boycotted by unionists.
My column in @thetimes.
thetimes.co.uk/article/truss-…
My column in @thetimes.
thetimes.co.uk/article/truss-…
I'm sure you'll recall that the Brexit vote was also advisory. With no later suggestion of ratification. Talking of "breakaway deals."
"The effect of a surprise Supreme Court decision would be to peel away moderate unionists from the zealots."
My column in The Times today.
My column in The Times today.
I didn't know the drafting was so shoddy! That could mean anything! Do you imagine that's accidental or deliberate?
"The effect of a surprise Supreme Court decision would be to peel away moderate unionists from the zealots."
My column in The Times today.
My column in The Times today.
NEW: An indyref2 declared legal by the supreme court should not be boycotted by unionists.
My column in @thetimes.
thetimes.co.uk/article/truss-…
My column in @thetimes.
thetimes.co.uk/article/truss-…
In itself? Right now? No. Like the Brexit referendum, it's effect is political, not constitutional.
"Nothing to do with" and "constitutional effect" are not the same thing either.
"Within the SNP at the start of the summer you could detect a quiver of concern. Would the ousting of Boris Johnson deprive Scottish nationalism of its finest ever recruiting sergeant? That concern has now eased" | ✍️ @KennyFarq thetimes.co.uk/article/truss-…
Liz Truss and her Margaret Thatcher cosplay are a gift to the SNP
thetimes.co.uk
A mandate for negotiations is not the same as UDI.
Tomorrow: Sunak to pledge “I don’t know, guys, what do these jackasses want? Slow water torture for cyclists? Think of something” the wrong email is forwarded to the press. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
NEW: An indyref2 declared legal by the supreme court should not be boycotted by unionists.
My column in @thetimes.
thetimes.co.uk/article/truss-…
My column in @thetimes.
thetimes.co.uk/article/truss-…
Liz Truss and her Margaret Thatcher cosplay are a gift to the SNP
thetimes.co.uk
Those who favour the Union south of the border should really take note … but they probably won’t.
Ah cannae keep up, does she want it or no Kenny?
Awful situation requiring swift ministerial intervention. @HumzaYousaf @KeithBrownSNP
Nevertheless, referendums are not legally binding events.
