Could Israel be BANNED from Eurovision 2026? The unstoppable force of Irish and Spanish determination may be about to meet the immovable object of German intransigence.

Today's YouTube commentary is about Ireland's dramatic announcement that it will withdraw from Eurovision 2026 unless Israel is at long last banned from the contest.  I can also tell you that our resident fan of "GOD IS LOVE" in big wooden letters is in for a real treat in this video.

Take me to the depths to which even Murdo Fraser will not sink. What? What do you mean "no such place exists"?

Murdo Fraser on Twitter: "You were deputy to a First Minister who said ‘I detest the Tories’.
Just yesterday you called @CraigWHoy1 ‘disgusting’ and ‘despicable’ for raising constituents’ concerns over asylum hotels.
There’s a link between othering & demonising opponents & events in the US."
Do better. https://t.co/GC1ptnzqvU

— Murdo Fraser (@murdo_fraser) September 11, 2025

That's a despicable comment from Fraser. Imagine using a murder to make a petty opportunistic attack on a political opponent. The Scottish Tories are disappearing down the plughole and are showing their true colours in their futile fight against the inevitable. https://t.co/cQHWLSIZlL

— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) September 11, 2025

He's rightly pointing out the double standards, hypocrisy and self-awareness bypass of the First Minister you cretin.

— Blues Brother (@wavydot) September 11, 2025

On reflection, are you proud of that tweet?

— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) September 11, 2025

No idea who this guy is, but his attempts at spreading hate seem to have fallen pretty flat. Not a single like or share.
Oh, and it’s ‘Mr Fraser’ to you. https://t.co/fTSQw0akVv

— Murdo Fraser (@murdo_fraser) September 11, 2025

Gutted that my stellar year on the Alba NEC apparently passed you by, Murds, but c'est la vie. Oh, and that's Mr Guy to you.

— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) September 11, 2025

Murdo will be disappointed to learn that my original tweet has now been retweeted and liked, although there is actually a semi-serious point here.  Somerset Stew is forever gloating about my engagement rate on Twitter as well (presumably because Scot Goes Pop's steady rise up the SimilarWeb rankings over the last year has left him in need of a different angle), but the reality is that I have 12,000 followers on Twitter and there is something profoundly strange about the low engagement rate generated by such a large number of followers over the last couple of years.  I am scarcely the first person to wonder whether Elon Musk or one of his minions has 'massaged' the Twitter algorithms to target certain types of account - although whether I've fallen foul of that because I'm a general leftie, or because I'm a MAGA critic, or because I'm an opponent of genocide in Gaza, I have no idea.  What I will say is that I regularly post identical tweets on Twitter and BlueSky, and the engagement rate on BlueSky for the same tweet is often better than on Twitter - even though I have just 184 followers on BlueSky.  Draw your own conclusions.

SNP stay way out in front in simply sumptuous Scottish subsample from YouGov

Today's YouTube commentary is about the latest weekly GB-wide YouGov poll, and in particular its Scottish subsample - which is another good news story for the SNP.  You can watch via the embedded player below, or at the direct YouTube link.

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