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🥁 Exciting news, an update on the ‘Worst Guest Championship 2026’ will be coming soon as this week I encountered the wor...
21/08/2026

🥁 Exciting news, an update on the ‘Worst Guest Championship 2026’ will be coming soon as this week I encountered the worst human beings I’ve ever had on a tour! 🙌🏻 🥳 everyone else was amazing though, I was actually starting to worry we’ll have to end the ‘Worst Guest’ Series as everyone has been so sound recently, but then divine intervention gifted me the worst group of people I’ve ever met! A big thank you to everyone who joined Brahan and I at our busiest time of the year and everyone who also then came to see my Fringe show 😊🙏🏻 you’ve one week left to come and see it!
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17/08/2026

In the late 17th century Scotland attempted to gain control of a tiny but immensely important trade choke point in a vast foreign empire we knew little about, the endeavour was a total disaster and would result in thousands of deaths and economic ruin - it makes the Strait of Hormuz seem less ridiculous when you consider Donald Trump has Scottish ancestry 🤷🏻‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

DANIEL DOWNIE: ALBA - Macbeth (1047-1057) was the last truly Celtic King of Scotland and King James IV (1473-1513) the l...
04/08/2026

DANIEL DOWNIE: ALBA - Macbeth (1047-1057) was the last truly Celtic King of Scotland and King James IV (1473-1513) the last Scottish monarch fluent in Gaelic. Celtic Scotland reached its zenith with the medieval Kingdom of Alba but as the political centre moved south the Scottish Highlands and Islands retained its Celtic, Gaelic roots whereas the Lowlands became Anglo-centric and a disdain for the barbaric, ‘backwards’ Highlands became prevalent in Scotland’s economic heartlands. After the 1707 Union with England a new Scot emerged, the ‘North Briton’, eager to cast off any past Gaelic associations and align themselves with the new, modern, British state. Scots rallied against this ‘North British’ homogenous identity and in the 19th century a powerful New Romantic version of Highland identity emerged. So, are modern day Scots more Albannach or Sasannach? ‘Alba’ is a show about Scotland’s Celtic history and identity, both real and imagined 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Come and see ‘Daniel Downie: Alba’ 7th - 30th August, 2.45pm, Beehive Inn Grassmarket

26/07/2026

Texas ties with Florida in the lead for the Worst Guest of the Summer Championship. China and Minnesota also get on the board 🥇but the Edinburgh Fringe is just around the corner and it tends to bring some truly unhinged individuals to the city, so there’s still everything to play for……🏆

Summertime vibes in Edinburgh! 😎☀️ I got to do my ‘the weather’s always like this in Scotland’ gag for pretty much two w...
26/07/2026

Summertime vibes in Edinburgh! 😎☀️ I got to do my ‘the weather’s always like this in Scotland’ gag for pretty much two weeks in the trot! A big thank you to everyone who joined Brahan and I on a tour this past few weeks, the Fringe is just around the corner so this is the last time you’ll see me smiling for a while! 🙈
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14/07/2026

So, you can just about scrape together a rendition of ‘Amazing Grace’ and/or ‘Highland Cathdedral…???’ Congratulations, you’re officially ready to become an Edinburgh piper! 🙌🏻 🎶 🎵 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A massive thank you to everyone who joined the Bonnie Prince and I for a tour these past few weeks, we had walk off’s fr...
04/07/2026

A massive thank you to everyone who joined the Bonnie Prince and I for a tour these past few weeks, we had walk off’s from Texas and Florida buuuuut I managed to get my first Mormon couple to make it to the end! 🥳 I had a 100% Mormon walk-off rate before then! 🙌🏻 It’s been very busy and very fun and not a zillion degrees like it has been down south, happy days! 😊👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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23/06/2026

Florida stretch into the lead in the WAGC 2026 🏆 but in a massive turn up for the books the Americans have been so normal I’ve had to extend this year’s Championship to include some mental guests I’ve had recently that have come from outside the US. Congratulations to Calgary 🇨🇦 Bristol 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and Germany 🇩🇪 - never found out where in Germany the angry lady was from! - on making this year’s board! 🙌🏻 🥇

16/06/2026

The settling of a Scottish Colony at Darien on the Isthmus of Panama was the sole obsession of one man, William Patterson. Paterson was a banking visionary who, despite his shady goings on in the Caribbean, gained the trust of some of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the country, he was a kind of 17th century Jeffrey Epstein

11/06/2026

Was Scotland in the 1690s really as awful as the Bertie Vogts era…??? 🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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