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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 20/04/2026
Let me be blunt: the way that the UK's media has approached this year's Holyrood election, particularly vis a vis commissioning MRPs, has been the most staggeringly and frankly offensively useless attitude that I have seen in any of the four Holyrood elections I've been able to vote in. Good gods.
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Andrew Wilson @aigwilson.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
www.justgiving.com/page/anne-ha...
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Gigi, Minty and Wolfie’s Trek for The Eric Liddell Community
Help Anne Hassler Nimmo raise money to support The Eric Liddell Community
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William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I know Saturday 14 March is a busy day for many, but here's an event at Oran Mor in Glasgow that I hope will catch your imagination. Convention-style meeting during the day and some excellent music and poetry in the evening - tickets available for either or both. www.thenational.scot/news/2581251...
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Eddi Reader leads line-up for Scottish independence 'revival' event
SCOTTISH music icon Eddi Reader will lead a line-up of performers at an event aiming to reignite the country’s independence movement at…
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 31/01/2026
Never forget that the almost entirely pro-union media is essentially an agent of the anti-SNP and anti-Independence campaigns. #Scotland #Holyrood26
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Andrew Wilson @aigwilson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/30/a...
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Are Scotland’s ferries the worst or the best in the world?
Four years ago, on BBC Scotland, I heard an island spokesperson suggest that CalMac ferries was the worst service in the world and that they should visit other countries to learn from them. Getting…
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
For a’ that, an’ a’ that, It’s comin yet for a’ that, That man to man, the world o’er, Shall brothers be for a’ that. From my family to yours, Happy Burns Night. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Just Stuart @juststuart.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A huge weapons contractor who owns a large part of land near me and still tests weapons for the MoD on it, hands Reform £22.7 million quid
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Ruth Wishart @ruthwishart.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Seems that Nigel Farage's first cabinet - should the old fraud succeed - will mainly comprise failures from the Tories and UKIP. Not a cheering prospect.
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Andrew Wilson @aigwilson.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
In case you were still in any doubt, here’s Keir Starmer confirming precisely what he thinks of Scotland, folks who live in Scotland, Scottish culture and Rabbie Burns. Oddly, Tunnock’s and Barr’s used to be Tory supporters. I wonder what’s changed… (Nothing, I’d suggest) #IndependenceNow
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Andrew Wilson @aigwilson.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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Callum Cox SNP @snpcallum.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Great to have @johnswinney.bsky.social join us on the doors in East Whitburn today! 🥀 The Labour-Tory council coalition failing our communities is barely clinging on So this by-election is our best chance to build a better West Lothian together! 🗳️ So please vote Callum on December 11 #ActivrSNP
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Callum Cox SNP @snpcallum.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Braw day in Blackburn campaigning for a more affordable, brighter and better connected West Lothian. Folks are resonating with our campaign to put your priorities first again, after a decade of neglect from West Lothian’s Labour-Tory coalition! Thanks to everyone who joined us today 💛 #ActiveSNP
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Callum Cox SNP @snpcallum.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Fantastic support in Whitburn today for @snp.org — including some first-timer voters I bumped into! Folks on the doors feel excited for our campaign to make West Lothian more affordable, brighter and better connected And I think it’s fair to say that meeting wee Hugo was the highlight! #ActiveSNP
Three photos in a collage.

Top two photos are of Callum holding a small dog, Hugo. The top left is Hugo looking at a smiling Callum. The top right is Hugo licking Callum’s chin.

Bottom photo is of 4 people smiling next to each other.

Promoted by Allistair Tatton, on behalf of Callum Cox, both at 34 Glenshee, Whitburn, EH47 8NY
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Andrew Wilson @aigwilson.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
We share the light and our love from around the world to you, we hope that you and your family enjoy a very Happy Diwali!
Happy Diwali 🪔
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Andrew Wilson @aigwilson.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur... @ehyslop.bsky.social
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Edinburgh Sick Kids 'lifesaving' social care team set to be removed after 30 years
Despite councillors voting to halt the move, officials took the decision and insisted it would cause “no loss of resource and no loss of service”.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 12/09/2025
It's pretty clear now. If Scotland wants to be back in the EU, the only route is for us to join after we've regained independence. Which, by my reckoning, would take no more than seven years (including our own referendum). Here's how: open.substack.com/pub/yesinpic...
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Eyebrows raised in the Commons as SNP's Stephen Flynn quotes Mandelson telling the FT to "fuck off" Jim Shannon's face says it all
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 16/09/2025
Scottish Devolution = Westminster claims credit for the good things that Holyrood achieves, whilst blaming Holyrood for the things that aren't devolved from Westminster and over which Holyrood has no control. www.thenational.scot/news/2546922...
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Douglas Alexander tries to claim UK Government credit for Alexander Dennis furlough
DOUGLAS Alexander has said that the UK Government has been “leading intensive work” on saving jobs at Alexander Dennis – despite the bus…
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Rob Williams @robwilliams71.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
All these Tory MPs switching to Reform.
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 16/09/2025
Now watch as the BBC treat the Holyrood 2026 election as dress rehearsal for the next UK general election, and relentlessly promote their agenda of giving disproportionate coverage to the right-wing parties.
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Meidas Scotland 🏴EU @sovereign.scot · 16/09/2025
@ruthwatson.bsky.social @andrew.sharpe.scot @porridgedrawers.bsky.social @maureenpickering.bsky.social @missallot.bsky.social @julia-campbell.bsky.social @yeskirriemuir.bsky.social @para-handy.bsky.social @aigwilson.bsky.social @jrtomlin.bsky.social @indyposterboy.scot
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Again, I really do have concerns about exactly how Justin Webb is acquiring his knowledge of US politics or what prompted him to make this exact point.
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 11/09/2025
This is the leadership countries should expect - one which stands up for all the people who make up that nation. A voice which speaks up for all of Scotland's people is needed, now more than ever. As Westminster and England lurch to the Far Right, It is clear #Scotland is on a different path.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
When I wrote this in 2019 some accused me of exaggerating the connection between the intellectual bigotry/racism of the Spectator and Telegraph (as exemplified by Scruton and Murray) and BNP/street-level thuggery. If anything I was too cautious.. www.politics.co.uk/comment-anal...
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Scruton is part of an intellectual culture giving respectability to racism
Howls of outrage over philosopher Sir Roger Scruton's loss of a government job ignore the reality of his output.
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Andrew Wilson @aigwilson.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
www.thenational.scot/news/2544410...
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Here's why energy is the key battleground for our children's future
Simon Forrest speaks about how energy is the battleground for our children's future.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 30/08/2025
Repeat after me: 40% of the men arrested for rioting against asylum seekers in Southport had previously been reported to the police for domestic violence. Why would anyone want to associate themselves with that lot? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Is a party with just four MPs getting too much coverage on the BBC? With me in the studio to discuss this are Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Lee Anderson and Sarah Pochin.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Reform will have to reselect in Croydon, as their initial candidate for Mayor had been dead for 6 months when they selected her, Inside Croydon report Being dead is one way to pass the social media vetting but was likely to get noticed eventually insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
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Farage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon Mayor
EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, sadly died in July 2024. But that didn’t stop Reform UK six months later picking her as their Croydon mayoral candidate. By our Political Edit…
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Photo of the Day. If you had suggested anything like this before November’s election, you would have been accused of being hysterical. Taken on Tuesday in Washington D.C. by J. Scott Applewhite for Associated Press.
National Guard soldiers walk past the Department of Labor in Washington on Tuesday. In the distance beyond the 6 armed soldiers is a huge draped banner with Trump’s fave and the words America Workers First. There is also a huge Is flag draped down the building. Photo credit to
J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE (AP)
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Nigel Farage's chaotic press conference shows he is a liability for Reform UK in Scotland
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Nigel Farage's chaotic press event shows he a drag for Reform UK in Scotland
Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says the Reform UK leader has a poor grasp of Scottish politics
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
SNP: "Meanwhile, a recent survey showed that Scottish Water is the joint most trusted utility supplier in the UK, scoring a remarkable customer satisfaction level of 94%...Customers pay over £100 less in water bills than those in England & Wales, for some of the best quality water in the world."
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Kevin Stewart SNP @kevinstewartsnp.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Let’s get out of Broken Brexit Britain. Independence! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare. Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1997...
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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Roy Bennett @roybennett.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
How long before Starmer instructs the UK police to do this ? If you think it can`t happen here then you never understood what Scargill and the miners faced at Orgreave, this is why he was demonised, he, his fellow union men like McGahey knew exactly who they were fighting, see this
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"Moderate Tory", Seb Payne, on "why he changed his mind" on the ECHR. It would be better to just be honest and say: Because my boss told me, I am tired of swimming upstream, and I really want to be an MP. So, I've decided to go with the flow. Instead of these unedifying mental gymnastics.
Sebastian Payne
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And if you're interested in the ECHR, here's why I changed my mind and think we must bid it farewell
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The Scotland Channel @thescotlandchannel.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Straight Talk interviews Professor John Robertson who carried out research into mainstream media bias in Scotland in the run up to the 2014 independence referendum and how the BBC tried to have him sacked by his university for publishing the research. WATCH NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFEn...
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DISTORTING SCOTLAND
YouTube video by The Scotland Channel
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 28/08/2025
What a f*cked up place the UK has become. Bad enough to convince me to vote Yes to Scottish independence in 2014, but now so bad, greedy, cruel and dystopian that I'm struggling to understand why *anyone* in Scotland wants the UK to continue. 😳😬
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First Light @firstlightsw.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The UK Government will test its Emergency Alert System on Sunday, 7th September at 3:00 PM. If you have a concealed phone for safety, this alert could reveal its presence. You can opt out of these alerts. Find out how here: www.gov.uk/alerts/optin... Please help share to help keep others safe.
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Meidas Scotland 🏴EU @sovereign.scot · 26/08/2025
A wee repost would not go amiss ! @ruthwatson.bsky.social @andrew.sharpe.scot @porridgedrawers.bsky.social @maureenpickering.bsky.social @missallot.bsky.social @julia-campbell.bsky.social @yeskirriemuir.bsky.social @para-handy.bsky.social @aigwilson.bsky.social @jrtomlin.bsky.social
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Meidas Scotland 🏴EU @sovereign.scot · 09/08/2025
@ruthwatson.bsky.social @andrew.sharpe.scot @porridgedrawers.bsky.social @maureenpickering.bsky.social @missallot.bsky.social @julia-campbell.bsky.social @yeskirriemuir.bsky.social @para-handy.bsky.social @aigwilson.bsky.social @jrtomlin.bsky.social @indyposterboy.scot
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 05/08/2025
A neat summary. 1/4 - whisky's share of UK food and drink exports 1/3 - all UK food and drink exports 1/2 - UK's renewable energy. And ALL of the UK's progressive parties in government 👍
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Listen son, don't tell anyone but we know, we know that every public service in Scotland is doing better than they are in England or Wales. Of course they are. Look at the facts that daft prof Robertson has posted every day since we tried to get him sacked more than 10 years ago.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 01/08/2025
It's not difficult. So why won't Labour listen?
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Meidas Scotland 🏴EU @sovereign.scot · 31/07/2025
Morning all Indy peeps. Just an update on our #YESScots @sovereign.scot comms campaign. #freescotland26 #defacto26 First large banner measuring 2.5 x 1.25 metres has been ordered and will appear somewhere soon. We decided on design 2 and the strap line "From Westminster Rule"
banner with free sctoand from westminster rule and breaking links of chain
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SaltireBlack @saltireblack.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Whereas in Scotland, the government has brought in free tuition; free bus travel for young people; negotiates settlements with NHS staff so we don’t have strikes; blocks new nuclear power stations; gave you the vote at 16 years ago and gives you a free baby box to start you off!
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
They lie about Scotland to save face for England
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 23/07/2025
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