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John MacDonald

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Abrach. Ex-everything. Watch this space.

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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 11h
Apolitical observation: using your father's death to score political points in a conference speech is both crass and cynical.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'O, Lochabair, mo Lochabair fhein gu bràth.' From Alice C. MacDonell's 'Lochabair Gu Bràth'. Amen.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Walk.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Black Isle.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Excellent.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This London-based landowner is putting the iconic Glenelg to Skye ferry at risk. Please support the local community - not millionaire financiers - and save the world famous Glenelg to Skye ferry by joining me and signing the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save the Glenelg - Skye ferry!
This ten minute crossing is famous around the world - and is believed to be the last turntable style ferry anywhere. It's an iconic part of Skye's history, but it's under threat thanks to a wealthy la...
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Apolitical point on Swinney World Cup travel - - Yes, FM should represent 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on world stage. - No, he shouldn't travel alone. - Yes, travel's expensive. - No, he shouldn't travel economy and (critics) 'make us look cheap.' I've previously written this in defence of Jack McConnell too.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Current listening 🎧
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Excellent conditions at Spean today for the Lochaber v Skye game. I took this picture from the Roy Bridge end, just before Skye scored their fourth. #shinty
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Capitalism peaked with the Harry Kane USB cable.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/07/2026
Mapping Israeli settler violence in the West Bank aje.news/u84e4w
Mapping Israeli settler violence in the West Bank
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
What I've learnt from being on this platform today. Time for a beer.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Male Common Blue.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/06/2026
"No other world leader can claim to have survived and thrived on the enmity of both Trump and Vladimir Putin" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Zelenskyy may have the last laugh over Trump
Ukraine’s president increasingly looks as if he holds the future of the west in his hands
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Charting the plummeting percentages. As unedifying as our football. Just get us home. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⚽
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
You can embrace it, lie about it or ignore it, but the Brexit impact is indisputable. Scotland's passivity over an outcome it rejected is, frankly, astonishing. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Brexit
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026
Trump opens Medal of Honor event: "The stock market just hit an all-time high" (note the total silence of the audience 😬)
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
'There is now a broad consensus that Brexit has made the UK economy 2–6% smaller... Yet Labour’s proposed ‘EU reset’ is unlikely to add more than half a percent to UK GDP over fifteen years.' Ten years on: What next for UK-EU relations? ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/ten-...
ukandeu.ac.uk
Ten years on: What next for UK-EU relations? - UK in a changing Europe
This report highlights the ‘stark divide’ between the economic impact of Brexit and the government’s proposed response, and sets out a ‘staircase’ of options for the future relationship.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Morning 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⚽
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
x.com/i/status/206...
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adidas UK (@adidasUK) on X
CHOOSE SCOTLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏆 @ScotlandNT @LewisCapaldi https://t.co/p31LR5QjjE
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
'Alone amongst the mountains a man can have dignity.' 🏔️
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
No-one tells me where to grow.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Sad to hear of the passing of Angus Grant, a Lochaber great and true champion of the Gàidhealtachd. His wonderful legacy can be measured in red tassels and much more. Check out this interview with the great man - youtu.be/1no0zqhx-4k?si…
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Morning 🍀
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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
My bachelor’s degree in a nutshell. 😆
Picture of various authors from different countries and what their books are mainly about.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Picking wild garlic today. Quite the crop.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Trump congratulates Swinney.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
May Day is a holiday in 144 countries www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This is a really interesting listen.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The man who rescues books from rubble: Omar Hamad opens Phoenix library in Gaza www.channel4.com/news/the-man...
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The man who rescues books from rubble: Omar Hamad opens Phoenix library in Gaza
The recent turmoil in the Middle East began in one place, that is Gaza. Although a ceasefire has been in effect there now for six months, Israel continues to regularly conduct strikes.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The US fumbling and thrashing around.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...
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Clannad singer and harpist Moya Brennan dies in Co Donegal, aged 73
Celebrated musician won a Grammy and an Emmy during hugely successful career
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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
⚔️ 9th-century sword hilts ⚔️ Left: Eigg, Inner Hebrides, Sco. (copper-alloy, silver, gilt) Right: Søndersø, Jutland, Den. The immense expense of, and status associated with, the swords owned by Scandinavian elites across the Viking world is self evident here. My 📷 NMS | NMD
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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Updated Scotland poll tracker, accounting for today's Norstat poll for @thetimes.com. SNP 2 short of a majority. Pro-independence majority of 23. Seats (+/- 2021) SNP: 63 (-1) Ref: 18 (+18) Lab: 17 (-5) Grn: 13 (+5) Con: 9 (-22) LD: 9 (+5) 1/2
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I was in Washington DC in 2006 and remember well the protests against a misjudged US war that was going horribly wrong. Twenty years later, we're on the cusp once again, engineered by a White House whose stupidity and arrogance is unprecedented.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/03/2026
As troops push towards Litani River, mourners gather for the funeral of three slain journalists killed in line of duty.
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Netanyahu orders military to expand invasion of southern Lebanon
As troops push towards Litani River, mourners gather for the funeral of three slain journalists killed in line of duty.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
'There is no joy without Clan Donald.' kyivindependent.com/sense-of-nor...
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McDonald's re-opens 70km from Ukraine’s southern front line
The reopening of McDonald's restaurants — the first American fast food chain to enter Ukraine in the 1990s — is always met with great fanfare after Russia’s full-scale invasion forced the company to p...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/03/2026
Viktor Orban wants Hungarians to re-elect him, even though he has turned Hungary into the most corrupt and one of the poorest countries in the EU. To do so, he is telling Hungarians to fear sabotage, thievery, or even a military attack from … Ukraine www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The First Post-Reality Political Campaign
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This is not government.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
War crime on hold for the time being.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Trump is a hideous human being.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/03/2026
Scottish parliament votes against legalising assisted dying
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Scottish parliament votes against legalising assisted dying
MSPs reject bill after concerted campaign to block it and despite amendments intended to placate critics The Scottish parliament has voted against legalising assisted dying after critics and religious groups led a concerted campaign to block the measures. MSPs voted 69 to 57 to reject the proposals in a late night vote on Tuesday, despite a series of last-minute amendments designed to placate critics of the private member’s bill. Continue reading...
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Alex Massie's tribute to his remarkable father. Take a few minutes out of your day to read and enjoy. alexmassie.substack.com/p/allan-mass...
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Allan Massie, 1938-2026
Father died this afternoon.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Humans. The smarter they get, the stupider they get.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Authentic Scotch.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A fine dram.
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John MacDonald @1johnmacdonald.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
'US abandons Kurdish allies.' I've seen this movie.
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