James Christie
@jamesdchristie.bsky.social
Semi-retired IT consultant. Experienced in software dev, IT audit, testing, info security management. Still active in whatever engages or angers me (eg #PostOfficeScandal). Match reporter for Dundee FC.
Loves writing. See clarotesting.wordpress.com.
Loves writing. See clarotesting.wordpress.com.
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My current #PostOfficeScandal project is a deep dive into the contractual confusion between the Post Office and Fujitsu about what Horizon was meant to do. Neither corporation took the trouble to be clear about the system's purposes, specifically about how system evidence would be used in ... 1/4
One hopes that the BBC will refer Trump to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram.
If Trump didn't want to be accused of instigating a violent riot and attempting to stage a coup he should not have done either of these things. It's quite simple really.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
If Trump didn't want to be accused of instigating a violent riot and attempting to stage a coup he should not have done either of these things. It's quite simple really.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Trump threatens $1bn legal action against BBC over 6 January speech edit - live updates
The BBC chair earlier apologises for the
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November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
One hopes that the BBC will refer Trump to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram.
If Trump didn't want to be accused of instigating a violent riot and attempting to stage a coup he should not have done either of these things. It's quite simple really.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
If Trump didn't want to be accused of instigating a violent riot and attempting to stage a coup he should not have done either of these things. It's quite simple really.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Dundee FC 0 Rangers 3. Some ok spells of play, but with no end product and a porous defence the Dark Blues were nowhere near good enough. My report for the club website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/ranger...
dundeefc.co.uk/match/ranger...
Rangers - Dundee Football Club - Official Website
The Dark Blues were beaten 3-0 by Rangers at Dens Park this afternoon. Nico Raskin and Mikey Moore gave Rangers a 2-0 lead after only quarter of an hour. Dundee kept working hard but never threatened ...
dundeefc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Dundee FC 0 Rangers 3. Some ok spells of play, but with no end product and a porous defence the Dark Blues were nowhere near good enough. My report for the club website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/ranger...
dundeefc.co.uk/match/ranger...
Hearts 4 Dundee FC 0. A poor performance by the Dark Blues in Edinburgh. My report for the Dundee FC website.
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dundeefc.co.uk/match/heart-...
Heart of Midlothian - Dundee Football Club - Official Website
Dundee went down to a 4-0 defeat against Hearts in Edinburgh this afternoon. The Dark Blues contained Hearts for the first half hour but the outcome was never in doubt after Lawrence Shankland put the...
dundeefc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Hearts 4 Dundee FC 0. A poor performance by the Dark Blues in Edinburgh. My report for the Dundee FC website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/heart-...
dundeefc.co.uk/match/heart-...
I loathe the Hearts press box. It is exposed to the rain and the view is terrible. Half the pitch is blocked by screens to try and keep the rain off electrical equipment. It is awful for a stand that is only seven years old
November 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I loathe the Hearts press box. It is exposed to the rain and the view is terrible. Half the pitch is blocked by screens to try and keep the rain off electrical equipment. It is awful for a stand that is only seven years old
I've just noticed I sent a message in which, as an afterthought, I referred to a famous work by Richard Strauss.
I actually typed 'Also Also Sprach Zarathustra...' without thinking it odd. 'Also' is one of the classic false friends for students learning German.
I actually typed 'Also Also Sprach Zarathustra...' without thinking it odd. 'Also' is one of the classic false friends for students learning German.
October 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I've just noticed I sent a message in which, as an afterthought, I referred to a famous work by Richard Strauss.
I actually typed 'Also Also Sprach Zarathustra...' without thinking it odd. 'Also' is one of the classic false friends for students learning German.
I actually typed 'Also Also Sprach Zarathustra...' without thinking it odd. 'Also' is one of the classic false friends for students learning German.
Falkirk 2 Dundee FC 1. The Dark Blues threw a point away at the end. They were short of their best but should have taken a point today. My report for the club website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/falkir...
dundeefc.co.uk/match/falkir...
Falkirk - Dundee Football Club - Official Website
Dundee lost 2-1 at Falkirk this afternoon. The Dark Blues had the edge in a first half in which they took the lead from Clark Robertson’s header at a corner. Falkirk started the second half strongly a...
dundeefc.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Falkirk 2 Dundee FC 1. The Dark Blues threw a point away at the end. They were short of their best but should have taken a point today. My report for the club website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/falkir...
dundeefc.co.uk/match/falkir...
Driving up the A846 on the Isle of Jura at sunrise. It's surely one of Scotland's most scenic 'highways'.
October 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Driving up the A846 on the Isle of Jura at sunrise. It's surely one of Scotland's most scenic 'highways'.
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Populists live on simple answers and cheap applause. When those no longer work and they are confronted by unpopularity, they have nothing.
👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
October 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Populists live on simple answers and cheap applause. When those no longer work and they are confronted by unpopularity, they have nothing.
Aberdeen 4 Dundee FC 0.
That was awful from the Dark Blues, who got what they deserved. My report for the club website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/aberde...
That was awful from the Dark Blues, who got what they deserved. My report for the club website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/aberde...
Aberdeen - Dundee Football Club - Official Website
Dundee went down to a 4-0 defeat against Aberdeen at Pittodrie this afternoon. The Dons tied up the points with three goals in eleven first half minutes. Jesper Karlsson opened the scoring from the pe...
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October 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Aberdeen 4 Dundee FC 0.
That was awful from the Dark Blues, who got what they deserved. My report for the club website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/aberde...
That was awful from the Dark Blues, who got what they deserved. My report for the club website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/aberde...
Is internal audit dead? No, but if it doesn't learn some important lessons (especially from the Post Office scandal) it might as well die. My blog.
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Is internal audit dead?
This piece is prompted is a thought provoking post from Ankit Chakrabarty on LinkedIn. [Link opens in new tab with Ankit’s full post.] Ankit’s headline, that internal audit is dead, is …
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October 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Is internal audit dead? No, but if it doesn't learn some important lessons (especially from the Post Office scandal) it might as well die. My blog.
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I don't think I've ever seen a more stupid insult than "lanyard classes". Taken literally it means anyone with a job. In practice it just means "people I don't like".
October 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I don't think I've ever seen a more stupid insult than "lanyard classes". Taken literally it means anyone with a job. In practice it just means "people I don't like".
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I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt.
Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.
Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.
October 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt.
Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.
Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.
I love these old family photos I found. My newly married great-grandparents, Duncan & Florence Macpherson in the 1890s. My grandmother, Dorothy (Dolly) Macpherson, May 1920, at the Birks of Aberfeldy. That summer her boyfriend, my grandfather, left the army after joining up at the start of WW1. 1/3
September 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I love these old family photos I found. My newly married great-grandparents, Duncan & Florence Macpherson in the 1890s. My grandmother, Dorothy (Dolly) Macpherson, May 1920, at the Birks of Aberfeldy. That summer her boyfriend, my grandfather, left the army after joining up at the start of WW1. 1/3
St Mirren 1 Dundee FC 0. The Dark Blues can't do enough to save a tight game. My report for the club's website, which is awful to work with. The formatting is screwed up and won't recognise my HTML code to sort it. One is not amused.😒
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dundeefc.co.uk/match/st-mir...
St Mirren - Dundee Football Club - Official Website
Dundee went down to a narrow 1-0 defeat against St Mirren in Paisley this afternoon. Killian Phillips scored the only goal late in the first half. The Dark Blues had their fair share of the ball, but ...
dundeefc.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
St Mirren 1 Dundee FC 0. The Dark Blues can't do enough to save a tight game. My report for the club's website, which is awful to work with. The formatting is screwed up and won't recognise my HTML code to sort it. One is not amused.😒
dundeefc.co.uk/match/st-mir...
dundeefc.co.uk/match/st-mir...
I'm reading the excellent "The Black Friar" by @shonamaclean.bsky.social. A character called Marchamont Nedham has been introduced as the Proctorate's "mouthpiece to the masses... he would write whatever it paid him most to write, regardless of any truth". From that description I immediately...1/2
September 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I'm reading the excellent "The Black Friar" by @shonamaclean.bsky.social. A character called Marchamont Nedham has been introduced as the Proctorate's "mouthpiece to the masses... he would write whatever it paid him most to write, regardless of any truth". From that description I immediately...1/2
Dundee FC 3 Livingston 2. I quite enjoyed that. Well, most of it anyway, and certainly the 97th minute.🙂
My report for the Dundee FC website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/living...
My report for the Dundee FC website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/living...
Livingston - Dundee Football Club - Official Website
Dundee beat Livingston 3-2 at Dens Park to secure their first league win of the season and they did it in the most dramatic fashion. Simon Murray gave the Dark Blues a deserved lead late in the first ...
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September 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Dundee FC 3 Livingston 2. I quite enjoyed that. Well, most of it anyway, and certainly the 97th minute.🙂
My report for the Dundee FC website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/living...
My report for the Dundee FC website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/living...
Dundee FC 1 Motherwell 1. Strange game. It was an awful first half from the Dark Blues but an ok(ish) second half, so we'll take the point. My report for the club website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/mother...
dundeefc.co.uk/match/mother...
Motherwell - Dundee Football Club - Official Website
Luke Graham’s equaliser early in the second half gave Dundee a point from a 1-1 draw with Motherwell at Dens Park this afternoon. Tawanda Maswanhise gave Well a fully deserved half time lead after a first half in which the Dark Blues struggled. The Dee put in a far better performance in the second half … Continued
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September 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Dundee FC 1 Motherwell 1. Strange game. It was an awful first half from the Dark Blues but an ok(ish) second half, so we'll take the point. My report for the club website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/mother...
dundeefc.co.uk/match/mother...
The chief executive's expression tells us what she thinks about kids taking over the council.
Reform are still spending their time on councils obsessing over Pride flags. They seem to expend far more energy on this than LGBT+ campaigners do.
BBC: "The council's cabinet has now voted to hand the decision-making power [over flags] to the council chairman, Reform councillor Edward Harris."
BBC: "The council's cabinet has now voted to hand the decision-making power [over flags] to the council chairman, Reform councillor Edward Harris."
Reform UK flag policy strips Warwickshire council boss of power - BBC News
A Reform UK-led council has taken decision-making powers over flags away from its chief executive.
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September 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The chief executive's expression tells us what she thinks about kids taking over the council.
Reform UK's economic policies are incoherent; tax less, spend more on popular things, and reduce government debt. The figures are implausible, and I've got a letter in today's Dundee Courier pointing this out. For once the party helpfully revealed enough detail for us to see it's all nonsense. 1/2
September 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Reform UK's economic policies are incoherent; tax less, spend more on popular things, and reduce government debt. The figures are implausible, and I've got a letter in today's Dundee Courier pointing this out. For once the party helpfully revealed enough detail for us to see it's all nonsense. 1/2
Everything was rosy here in Pictland after we got rid of the Romans (with the help of our weather). Then immigrants arrived in boats from Ireland, rebranded themselves as Scots, and started acting like they owned the place. Scotland? Who are they kidding? Pictland for the Picts! Send the Scots home!
September 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Everything was rosy here in Pictland after we got rid of the Romans (with the help of our weather). Then immigrants arrived in boats from Ireland, rebranded themselves as Scots, and started acting like they owned the place. Scotland? Who are they kidding? Pictland for the Picts! Send the Scots home!
86 years ago the UK went to war. That afternoon my grandparents took their children for a walk. My grandfather told my father, who had just turned 16, "the only consolation is that you’re going to be too young for this one”. He was wrong.
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My grandmother’s war
In a sense I am a product of the two world wars. If they had not taken place it is unlikely that I would have been born. The wars shaped the lives of my parents and grandparents. Both sides of my f…
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September 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
86 years ago the UK went to war. That afternoon my grandparents took their children for a walk. My grandfather told my father, who had just turned 16, "the only consolation is that you’re going to be too young for this one”. He was wrong.
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The River Almond in Perth provided excellent sport for Labradors this morning. Enough of a current to be interesting. Not enough to be a problem.
September 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The River Almond in Perth provided excellent sport for Labradors this morning. Enough of a current to be interesting. Not enough to be a problem.
To be clear, the extremist that Musk is supporting here wants to expel from the UK all British citizens who are not pure white, even if they were born here. Mixed-race citizens would be deported too. Does that mean Musk is supporting a neo-Nazi? You can decide.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
September 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
To be clear, the extremist that Musk is supporting here wants to expel from the UK all British citizens who are not pure white, even if they were born here. Mixed-race citizens would be deported too. Does that mean Musk is supporting a neo-Nazi? You can decide.
When I saw references to this, from a former Conservative MP, I thought it might be a spoof. No. It is genuine. This sort of poison is entering the political mainstream now.
August 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
When I saw references to this, from a former Conservative MP, I thought it might be a spoof. No. It is genuine. This sort of poison is entering the political mainstream now.
Dundee FC 0 Dundee United 2. The Dark Blues never got going and can't have any complaints. My report for the Dundee website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/dundee...
dundeefc.co.uk/match/dundee...
Dundee United - Dundee Football Club - Official Website
Dundee lost the opening derby of the season, going down to a 2-0 defeat against Dundee United at Dens Park this afternoon. Zach Sapsford put United ahead in the first half and Ivan Dolcek sealed the w...
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August 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Dundee FC 0 Dundee United 2. The Dark Blues never got going and can't have any complaints. My report for the Dundee website.
dundeefc.co.uk/match/dundee...
dundeefc.co.uk/match/dundee...