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Scottish : Independence : 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in 🇪🇺 : Detest Tories (red & blue flavours) : Left / Green leaning : Vegan🌱 : Equality : Ally : Environment : Politics : Pro EU : Music fan🎶 : Covid aware😷 : He/Him : 60 something : Live in Argyll, Scotland

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The SNP @snp.org · 01/10/2026
Andy Burnham's "National Care Service" turns out to be Free Personal Care in England. Inspired by a policy already delivered in Scotland by the SNP.
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Truss, who said that what we all needed for a safer world was Trump back in the White House (2024). A true visionary.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics. Like Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, hired to open govt networks to companies and corporate capture of the state. They sell political capital built with public money. What do we get in return?
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Worth a watch (21min) video doc on social media AI rage bait slop. If you do anything at least watch first few min. It's mind blowing, & all because rage bait engagement creates most engagement and profits head to the creator of this, & it's not who you might think. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCvP...
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How to rage bait Americans
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Scottish Labour do whatever they are told to do by Labour HQ, so I'd say almost certainly another desperate spin op.
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James Aithie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jamesaithie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Tonight on Reporting Scotland, we dedicate the entire programme to the fact that Scotland is still Europe's Drug Death Capital. Whilst Drug Policy in Scotland is reserved to a government in England, & all the drugs are brought in by gangs in England, we ask "What are the SNP doing about it?""
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BUT only in a "significantly reformed EU". Like UK can dictate terms lol. Makes for good headlines to keep Labour FBPE's onside ahead of an upcoming by-election.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am so damn close to cancelling my licence fee. So damn close. As a journalist of 35 years standing, I never in my wildest dreams thought I’d feel like this. The BBC has come to disgust me. It’s damaging our country and I can’t assist it in the damage it’s doing with my money.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh, we're still on the "significantly reformed EU" nonsense are we? Like the UK has the power to dictate terms as a returning hero or some such? Same EU as per the last 40 years at least. Be part of it or not. Full stop. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The vicious and corrupt cycle of monopolization: 1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market. 2) Use their monopoly power to price gouge consumers and shaft workers. 3) Use profits to make political donations. 4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement. 5) Repeat.
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
March seems a life time ago- "President Trump said Wednesday he won't call the conflict in Iran a "war" because "you are supposed to get approval," suggesting the label itself could trigger congressional authority the administration says it doesn't need."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
6 weeks from the election & suddenly Republicans pretend to care more about their constituents than cultish obedience to Trump. But 5 minutes after the election they’ll be right back selling you out so they can get a signed hat in the Oval Office or a dinner invite to Mar-a-Lago.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pretty shameless and pitiful that Republicans who have backed the Iran War every step of the way, never spoke out or criticized it, and voted against every war powers resolution, are suddenly coming out against it 6 weeks before their election while trailing in the polls.
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Article from Dec 2025, but an absolute must read. The connections explain everything that is currently going on today, including the rise of fascism everywhere.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Guardian joins the campaign to abolish the state pension triple-lock. Portrays it as a old v young, social security v defence spending issue. Silence on corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich, maldistribution of wealth, low govt spend on state pension, how future retirees will survive.
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Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of the most honest articles I've seen appear in The Guardian, (if not all the British MSM) on Scottish independence since @georgemonbiot.bsky.social wrote his excellent piece in 2014 ahead of the vote. Although I disagree with the bit about data centres. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Slowly then all at once: this emboldened Celtic alliance could spell the end of the UK | Simon Jenkins
It’s something akin to a quiet earthquake: home nations jointly declaring their wish to be freed from English domination. A big move needs a big response, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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mohope.bsky.social @mohope.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"British loyalist though I may be, if I were a Scot I would have no hesitation. This is a real nation, and has been throughout history. Scotland has a personality and a culture recognised worldwide. Its capital, Edinburgh, is among Europe’s finest cities. ... That is why Burnham should welcome indy
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Intending to write another column about the treatment of #ME/CFS patients this week, pegged to new research findings on the biological basis. My question for sufferers: Are any of you still being offered inappropriate (psych/GET etc) "treatments"? Please email george at monbiot dot info. Thanks.
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Revolving doors between corporate world & politics. Sir Nick Clegg did it too. Until we remove corporate influence from politics the UK will have a captured state.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government. No other word to describe this other than corruption. How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip?
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CrackTheYank 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙 @cracktheyank.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Always money for wars too. Britain can never accept it's old empire is no more. Still needs to strut around the world and try to look important.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's always pensions and benefits and things for you that are unaffordable Never billionaires, never war, never MP's expenses. Let me tell you the richest 1% in the UK gain more wealth every year than the entire cost of the NHS and Pensions for everybody That's what is unaffordable
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
100%. Alba split inevitable, but at the time unexpected. I got the impatience aspect, but then a pile of them swallowed right wing culture nonsense hook line & sinker. These people should have been more aware & known better, but I guess that's what right wing culture wars are about - divide & rule.
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's a revolving door for these grifters. Boardroom seats await them after their political life has expired. It's that or peerages. They are not there to serve the people, that's for sure. They always fail upwards.
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not to mention already straining natural gas supplies driving all our consumer energy prices up. Bonkers. Labour only cared about growth at all costs. I'm glad you are giving ScotGov some much needed grief of these data centres that absolutely no-one wants.
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Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wildly irresponsible to even consider this. Absolute climate vandalism, to benefit the tech giants.
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"We are the person". lol.
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He also just shut it down yesterday too. Until after Nov elections. Just to avoid an impeachment vote on Hegseth and another on the Epstein Files. The House is locked shut.🗝️
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Either 1. Labour want that polarisation to continue so they can at next GE say it's 'Us'(Labour) v 'Them (Reform). OR 2. They are part of a bigger strategy in elite circles in the UK who actually want to install corporate governance via fascism. (same with Trump & his billionaire enablers in US).
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Absolutely. Trouble is, it is working for the 0.1% & they own the media & finance the campaigns that preserve the status quo & keep UK parliament in a permanent stasis. You are correct it does all need a complete reset.
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Great 🧵👇
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You might ask yourself “whose side are they on?”. You might not like the answer, but it becomes hard to deny. So why? Why, when we know that appeasing the far right empowers and builds it, do they keep doing it, alienating their base and helping to deliver the country to Reform or Restore?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So the favourite obsession of the far right, being weaponised by US billionaires to push us towards their technofascist dystopia, is repeatedly legitimised by a Labour government. Other concerns, including the longstanding concerns of the left, are vilified and delegitimised.
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Vote Labour for 'change' eh? Career politicians are all corporate lickspittles and grifters. UK is a corporate captured state no matter which flavour of Tory anyone votes.
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
and the Mail has never been held to account for anything ever have they. We urgently need some kind of press regulation in UK, but knowing the Govt, it would end up being regulation of the independent media and the Mail would still get off scot-free.
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mount Russia More
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Which side are you on? The side of abandoning Earth, and profiting from apocalypse? Or staying loyal to this planet and its people? This brilliant video from @naomiaklein.bsky.social asks the most consequential question in human history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...
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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Must watch (9 min) trailer for Naomi Klein's (vitally important for our times) new book - End Times Fascism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...
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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We've never been more interconnected than this. We have a constant 24/7 barrage of bad news, celeb gossip, right wing influence, populism/fasci$m, AI stealing jobs, wars, inflation, genocide & world climate/eco system collapse. Certainly not ingredients for optimism for young people in this world.
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Is there any promise he kept during office? He brought lying to a whole new level. #labourlies 🥀
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Delay until after by-election. FFS, how very Labour, thinking voters won't will notice.
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"A public health expert has issued a major warning about Scotland’s AI data centre boom. It comes with at least 24 proposed AI data centres currently in the planning system across the country, with others expected to be imminent." www.thenational.scot/news/2654205...
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Public health expert issues major warning about Scotland's AI data centres
A PUBLIC health expert has issued a warning about Scotland’s AI data centre boom ...
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"independence and a referendum are off limits" Burnham today.
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Any blue tents?
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ArgyllanderⓋ🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hypothetical: 270 Million adults in US @ $5000 handout = $1.35Trillion being printed out of thin air and added to the federal deficit. This would create inflation.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The cosy boys’ club of the anti-independence media in Scotland seems to be more concerned with defeating Scottish independence than with defeating far-right extremism, writes Paul Kavanagh ✍️ www.thenational.scot/politi...
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