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My guess is that many in the Greens can see that Yousaf isn't that popular and they wanted an out. If he'd been riding high in the polls they'd have swallowed the climate targets being ditched.

One thing I picked up on when Harvie spoke was that he said, the SNP members had rejected the right of the party. I mean, he might be technically right, but Forbes still picked up nearly half the vote, despite being quite open about her feelings on same sex marriage and abortion.

Can't imagine there will be a queue of people willing to pay them that sort of salary again.

He should've got rid of the Greens weeks ago, this was always likely to happen. If he had, he might have come out with a bit of credibility with the wider public. Also, is it just me or does Yousaf sound so patronising when he speaks? Like someone who's gone into a primary school to talk about their job. I've just had to turn the radio off. For a career politician who'll have had no end of media training, he's not very good at it.

At least then we could all be raging together. That would feel quite natural at least.

I'd imagine they'll stick with the team that kept a clean sheet against Hearts. Souttar is a good player but I always feel he has a mistake in him, and whilst Balogun was excellent on Sunday, there's a reason why he's not been a mainstay in the team this season. As always in these games, we'll need to be at our best and Rangers will have to have an off day if we're to pick anything up. I think we have players that can cause them problems though, I just hope we can find a bit of cutting edge that we've often lacked in these games.

I'd have Olusanya watching exactly what Simon Murray did, it seemed like a text book performance against them. We've not really got close to either Celtic or Rangers this season (possibly the 2-1 defeat at Parkhead), so hopefully we can cause them some problems this weekend.

Whats a lunchtime reflection? Is it just a detention with a slightly more positive slant on the word? Or is it something different?

I don't think your first paragraph is right. Cardiff University did a study and the findings were pretty clear. Listening to music adds to cognitive overload (how many people turn the radio down when when they're driving somewhere busy and unfamiliar?). The reduction in stress applies, but when people are 'experts' in what they're doing. Then the issue of cognitive overload doesn't really apply. Most pupils in school will be learning new things, or revising something that they've learned in the past year or so, so not at the 'expert' stage that highly trained surgical staff are at. It's good to hear that phone policies are working well in a lot of schools. Edit to include: https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/music-while-studying/ One study admittedly

Really?? Am I being wooshed here? Is that a whole school policy or the odd teacher? I'd be very surprised if that's a school policy as there's pretty strong evidence that students who work and study in quiet environments perform significantly better than those who listen to music. Music without lyrics is better than with, but no music is better still. Not to mention, kids will be forever wanting to change tracks, meaning the phone comes out and they'll see a notification which they'll want to respond to. Easier said that done, but banning phones in schools should really be a no brainer. I think it has to start when kids enter school, from P1 (there will be kids that age with phones), all schools. Kids that are 13 up wards might be a battle that can't be won, but schools should be trying to put rules in place which the next cohort might be more likely to follow.

They'll probably start regardless.

More embarrassing was Steven McLean stopping the game for it.

Roos just piled the pressure on Duncan before that penalty.

Carter Vickers is in the motion of playing the ball when Hoilet sticks his leg in front of Carter Vickers'. Exactly the same thing happened when Rangers had a goal chalked off in the first Old Firm game of the season. St Mirren also had a very similar one against Rangers last season when Ayunga did the same the Goldson. And Rangers against Dortmund (?) a few years ago. We can argue over whether it should be a foul, but by the rules it is.

As much as I'd love it to have been given, it's not a penalty.