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Smile 😁 at someone today. Kindness costs you nothing. Scottish Independence #YouYesYet Republic of Scotland Liberation.scot and Salvo.scot Dundee United Fan 🧡🖤 Las Vegas Raiders Fan 🖤🩶 F1 & IndyCar Fan 🏎️🏁 MotoGP, WorldSBK & BSB Fan🏍️🏁

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Demonstrators have lined the streets in Edinburgh as part of a national march in solidarity with the people of Palestine to mark three years since Israel's deadly assault on Gaza began
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Pro-Palestine protesters line Edinburgh streets as part of UK-wide demonstration
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Understanding Economics: What is inflation? You would think we'd know by now, and that the Bank of England would know how to manage it. Unfortunately, they don't, and we pay an enormous price for that. youtu.be/dHeC4HsD3rA?...
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Understanding Economics: What is inflation?
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William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'For all its linguistic shifts, Labour continues to deny ‘genocide’, not just as a terminological denial. It protects the UK’s relationship with Israel and the USA, and Labour ministers responsible for previous pro-genocide policies.' Martin Shaw via Byline Times
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Gaza Three Years On: The Changing Politics of Genocide Denial
Martin Shaw, who argued that Israel was beginning to commit genocide in October 2023, examines the tensions between recognition and denial as the Burnham Government tries to reset its Palestine policy.
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William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'Scotland is being held hostage by the Better Together parties which have a vested interest in resisting being held to account, even though they have lost every Holyrood election since 2014.' weegingerdug
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Labour’s gone from jam tomorrow to maybe jam eventually
One of the key promises of the Labour party in Scotland during the 2024 Westminster general election campaign was that a vote for Labour was a vote to save the jobs of the workers at the Grangemout…
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Unequal Union: Why the Broken Promises of 2014 Have Left Scottish Pensioners Exposed There is a distinct moment when a lifetime of observing British politics collides with an undeniable, infuriating reality. I am 60 years old, living in Scotland, and as I stand on the cusp of retirement, 👇
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sign me up for the Official Trump Administration Enemies List. It’s AI.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Could Asda or Morrisons vanish within a decade? It will be a blow to many. Both owned by private equity, loaded with debt, cut staffing/wages, low investment, strangled by asset-stripping, struggling to compete, losing market share. What future for others being devoured by private equity?
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Supermarket shake-up: why Asda or Morrisons could vanish within a decade
Talks between Sainsbury’s and Morrisons have set industry tongues wagging, with analysts saying the market is ripe for change
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Broadcasting Scotland @broadcastingscotland.scot · 07/10/2026
When the BBC Scotland channel was launched, we said it was set up to fail. If we had 1% of the money the BBC takes from Scottish licence payers we would provide a full schedule of programmes. We only exist because of the generosity of grass roots supporters. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/donate/
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear Mr Burnham, We are either English, Welsh, Irish or Scottish. Our birth certificates are correct. None of us is "British", & you are NOT Scotland's leader. The Labour Party are mostly English Nationalists, right of centre & not friends of Scotland. We choose to be different, Because we can.
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Believe in Scotland @believeinscotland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It's Scotland's right to choose. ❌ Reject Labour's double standard - sign the petition: www.believeinscotland.org/indyref_peti...
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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No matter how they try Scotland is not having England’s maternity crisis – It’s just a review
BBC Scotland’s Lisa Summers trying to keep up the exaggerated image of the significance of Scotland’s National Maternity Review interviewing the Chair, Professor Christine McCourt and c…
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Neoliberalism is failing, but what is it? This is a new version of our infographic on neoliberalism. AI drew the image. I wrote the text.
An infographic on neoliberalism
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Independence Live @independencelive.net · 07/10/2026
“Brits” & “British” are words used by a diseased imperialist English mindset clinging to the past. How else could you explain their leaders continually mocking democratic mandates from the Scots. Friends not governors. Republic of Scotland, Celtic Alliance
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I see BBC Scotland, and the anti-independence press, all of whom made a huge song and dance about Gordon Brown's Vow in 2014, aren't too bothered that the Tories - one of the signatories of the Vow - have just ripped it up and now want to strip powers from Holyrood.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reform UK investigates Reform UK and finds Reform UK has done nothing wrong and Reform UK is in fact the real victim here. news.sky.com/story/reform...
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Reform UK internal inquiry clears own advisors over donations sting
Reform UK's internal inquiry following an undercover sting has cleared two of its senior advisors of wrongdoing, the party says.
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Indy lass @pixie11.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Liberation Scotland @liberationscotland.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Under the UN Charter, UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 and the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties - a political arrangement concluded under duress and without the consent of the people is not a union. It is an annexation or a colonial imposition angrypict.substack.com/p/suspended-...
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Suspended, Not Extinguished
An annexation that was never lawfully made, and never lawfully ended, is not history. It is a wrong still being committed.
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Liberation Scotland @liberationscotland.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
OUR RESPONSE to recent criticism (incl by indy supporters) and misrepresentation of LS campaign to obtain international recognition of Scotland’s right to self-determination through the UN and to restore her historic standing as an independent and sovereign state. liberation.scot/coms/Article...
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Independence Live @independencelive.net · 29/08/2026
ZOMBIE BROONIE SAYS NO ZURRENDER & FK DEMOCRACY… Freedom for Ireland but Scotland has to suck it up. Fuck being governed by the English. Fuck Westminster. Fuck your Union Jack. Fuck your Brexit. Fuck off Broonie. All welcome if you support Scottish independence.
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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As Iran successfully hacks a ‘small’ gas-fired power station how do Scottish Labour propose to protect their multiple small modular nuclear reactors
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at:  Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 From the Gu…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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How can this one patient be the news when NHS Ayrshire & Arran treats 99% of cancer patients within 31 days, above the 94% Scottish average?
This story is on all the Daily Record-owned sites today, typically ill-informed anti-Scotland excrement. Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at:  Or by direct b…
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Liberation Scotland @liberationscotland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
COLONIALISM = MILITARY SUBJUGATION: US/UK (& now German-owned) nuclear missiles on our R.Clyde. Saves money for impoverished England & enables it to keep its UN Permanent Member 5 status by illegally using annexed Scottish territory without the consent of Scots. Colonial continuity from Burnham !
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Is £3 trillion of national debt a problem, or a sign of success and the finance sector's confidence in the government? I wrote this infographic. AI created the image.
An infographic on the UK's national debt.
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Liberation Scotland @liberationscotland.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
LIBERATION SCOTLAND & SALVO - reminder of our work & the international legal case for decolonisation of Scotland. Plus the important 1689 Claim of Right (a condition of the Treaty of Union that remains extant today, but ignored by WM) to protect Scotland's sovereignty liberation.scot/legalbase.html
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Burnham’s Manchester 25% more criminal than SNP’s Dear Glasgow
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at:  Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Asked yeste…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
'I’ve lived in Scotland for over a decade and the water coming from taps is clean and delicious' thanks to two decades of SNP Government of course. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar
Listening to debate, you’d think bringing English water companies into public ownership was a radical socialist idea. Here, we call it common sense, says chair of global public health at the Universit...
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Canada ought to tell Trump that it's considering renaming Lake Superior to Lake Release the Epstein Files.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said about Canada's relationship with the USA applies equally to Scotland's relationship with the UK.
Quote from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney after rejecting Trump's trade deal offer: "You cannot live through the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration is the source of your subordination."
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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The conspicuously non-Scottish membership of neo-Nazis on Princes Street
Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at:  Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Thanks to A…
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My latest blog post. Westminster blocked a £1.5bn Chinese investment in wind turbine manufacture in Scotland citing national security but is OK with Chinese investment in England, it seems it's Westminster which is a threat to Scotland's national security. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/08/25/w...
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Wind turbines and threats to national security
Scotland’s enormous potential for renewable energy could turn the country into a literal European powerhouse and generate immense revenues for an independent Scotland as well as giving Scotla…
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
20,000 children killed. And just one person jailed.
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Liberation Scotland @liberationscotland.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
SCOTLAND'S COLONIAL MARKERS. Not Yet. Not Never. Just Not Yet. The word that has held Scotland as an English colony for 300 years and the international law that outlawed it in 1960. www.decolonise.scot/not-yet-not-...
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Not Yet. Not Never. Just Not Yet. The word that has held Scotland as an English colony for 300 years and the international law that outlawed it in 1960. Engaging with Liberation Scotland's Colonial Ma...
Abstract. This is the third and final post engaging Liberation Scotland’s Colonial Marker 0, Postcolonial Theory Applying to the Scottish Situation, closing the trilogy where the marker itself begins,...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It was obvious from the start - and the media should have said so.
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Liberation Scotland @liberationscotland.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
THE ENGLISH EMPIRE - portrayed by Joseph Keppler cartoon in US satirical journal Puck 1885 (after military defeat in Sudan) - clearly showing Scotland & Ireland as its first acquisitions. And just like Ireland, Scotland was an early victim of London's East India Company colonial empire (est. 1600)
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Liberation Scotland @liberationscotland.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
COLONIALISM = RESOURCE THEFT e.g.Transfer of 15,500km2 of Scotland’s territorial seas (incl. fisheries & mineral rights) to England, enabled by passing of the Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999 by Westminster (before the Scots Parliament or people could object). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfbf...
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The Stolen Seas
YouTube video by PeopleOfScotland
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Investors in UK companies reap record dividends. Dividends to UK shareholders taxed at lower rates than wages. No national insurance paid. Unlike the USA, UK doesn't have withholding tax on dividends to foreign investors. Those holed-up in offshore tax havens escape tax altogether.
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Record dividend payouts as banking and mining flourish
Total payouts, which include special dividends, climbed 2.5 per cent in the year to the three months analysed, but regular dividends soared 7.4 per cent.
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Mike 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @1tutree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Infographic: Fiscal policy www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07...
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Infographic: Fiscal policy
Two of the terms least understood in economics are fiscal policy and monetary policy. This deals with one of them.
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Mike 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @1tutree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Neofascist New Labour. Will Burnham stop it? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07...
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Neofascist New Labour. Will Burnham stop it?
Nesrine Malik noted this in the Guardian yesterday: This is the end. I don’t see myself surviving. They brought me here to kill me.” These were the words of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya to his lawyer earlier ...
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Mike 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @1tutree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Infographic: PFI www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07...
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Infographic: PFI
I think the design for the infographics is settled. It was option C from yesterday, with a few tweaks. This is today's offering in what I think will be the style we will use. The plan is to now prod...
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Rejecting neoliberalism www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07... Andy Burnham cannot say he is rejecting neoliberalism unless he is really going to do so. There are some key signals as to whether he will.
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Rejecting neoliberalism
On Friday, Andy Burnham said this when accepting the leadership of the Labour Party: Change starts with honesty. We must recognise that this generation of politicians – myself included – have failed ...
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I was asked yesterday what neoliberalism is. This is the answer:
An infographic on neoliberalism
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Why is women’s work so often neglected within traditional economic theory? How have pensions become affected by gender? Why does the gender pay gap still exist? This weeks podcast with Dr Daniella Jenkins - Executive Director of the Womens Budget Group. youtu.be/9zeGy4BNOhY?...
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How The Economy Is Rigged Against Women | Dr. Daniella Jenkins
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Will former Modern Studies teacher and Labour Junior Minister for Energy now accept this final demolition of the case for nuclear energy from the London-based top medical journal in the world and accept that SNP policy has been factually correct all along? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/07/17/w...
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Will former Modern Studies teacher and Labour Junior Minister for Energy now accept this final demolition of the case for nuclear energy from the London-based top medical journal in the world and acce...
I’m going to have to have a serious word with some of the 11 0000 plus folk following us on xtwitter. I posted the basic details of this earlier with a request to ‘share, share and shar…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Labour disappointed after SNP cleared of responsibility for seagulls pooping on Portobello beach
BBC and STV News tonight report that Sepa has said the e-coli readings on Portobello beach are ‘likely’ due to gull-fouling rather than sewage spills of the kind being repeatedly champi…
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