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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’
If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050...
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
%raw(article_headline)https://www.thenational.scot/news/26455770.using-gers-attack-scottish-independence-is-misuse-it-fai-says/?ref=li
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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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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Raibeart #YES 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @raibeart.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Dr Smith, working in Gaza @BBCr4today “the inhumanity of Israeli military continuing to slaughter & murder & target essential support like food, water, fuel & medicines. Dr Smith says that Israelis control everything that goes into Gaza & there isn’t even paracetamol for patients with cancer”
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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The consequences of being a colony – the view from Norway
Capella writes: I don’t know how or if it’s possible but reporting on the consequences of being a colony would be interesting. We have no power over vital aspects of development and decision making…
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Charles Barr @charlesbarr.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Scotland has once again appeared near the top of a global education ranking, with recent figures placing the country second in the world for the proportion of adults holding a bachelor’s degree or higher. edinburghmagazine.com/scotland-ran...
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Labour's nuclear power, an offer we can refuse weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/07/02/l...
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Labour’s nuclear power, an offer we can refuse
It’s an offer we can refuse. The Labour government has identified a number of sites across Scotland on which it would like to build new nuclear power plants. A report was published this week …
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Manchesterism" is the UK's new big thing. Unemployment in Manchester 6.5% Unemployment in Scotland 4.3% Child poverty in Manchester 37% Child poverty in Scotland 21% But Manchester DOES have loads of empty luxury flats. Seems the UK needs less Manchesterism and more ScotGov.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. In earlier incarnation, he supported the Iraq invasion; was chairman of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. What next?
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Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff
Decision is one of Makerfield MP’s most significant since his Westminster return as he builds his team for government
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The world's crappiest whodunnit weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/t...
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The world’s crappiest whodunnit
I’ve had my cataract operation, the op was a couple of days early as there was a cancellation. The recovery period is four weeks, but I already notice a massive improvement in my eyesight. Th…
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The SNP has won 83% of Holyrood’s constituency seats, with more MSPs than all the unionist parties combined. The SNP and Scottish Greens together hold 73 seats, a record pro-indy majority. If that’s not a mandate to hold an independence referendum, what is? 👇
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Raibeart #YES 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @raibeart.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The UK will never rejoin the EU. It has been a long & costly English delusion that the interests of other countries & organisations exist to solve England’s needs & problems. The myth of “they need us more than we need them” & cakism remains hardwired. But things have changed & that’s a delusion.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 09/06/2026
Farage's Reform UK does not serve Scotland's interests. It doesn't even serve England's. It serves Farage's and his millionaire mates...
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 08/06/2026
£3bn from the British gov for yet another tunnel under the Thames? That's the same as the 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦 infrastructure budget that Scotland was allowed in 2025. Our Government can't create money for investment like Westminster can. We need independence for that. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Extra £174m earmarked for ‘spiralling’ bill for Lower Thames Crossing
More than £3bn is due to be spent on the proposed road tunnel between Kent and Essex, which is estimated to have higher costs per mile than HS2
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Explaining a parliamentary mandate for the staunch of hearing weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/e...
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Explaining a parliamentary mandate for the staunch of hearing
Today Holyrood gets the ball rolling on putting into action the pro-independence mandate given to it by the people of Scotland at the recent election, which as we all know by now resulted in the la…
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James Aithie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jamesaithie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Scottish Parliament votes for devolving Independence Referendum powers. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 BBC News at Ten main story... "Hot today wasn't it? Wasn't it hot? Oooh, it were soooo hot! Were it hot where you were, cos it were hot here."
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 22/05/2026
The Westminster bubble still thinks England is "special". Until they (ever) get over that arrogance the UK will get nowhere.
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The supposed "Once in a generation" pledge is a Westminster myth weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/t...
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The supposed “Once in a generation” pledge is a Westminster myth
On Thursday evening’s edition of BBC Reform Time, Fiona Bruce, the completely unbiased and neutral right wing unionist host, editorialised in aid of Tory MP Harriet Cross who had insisted tha…
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 18/05/2026
Westminster blocked 1500-job Chinese turbine yard plan in highlands due to 'security' concerns. Meanwhile it's opening its security doors to Palantir? Double standards much? #Scotland #ScotlandsRightToChoose
• Palantir
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"It beggars belief':
MoD sources warn
Palantir's role at heart of government is threat to UK's security
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THE NERVE:Outrage as snubbed
Chinese firm shifts £1.5bn factory plans from Highlands to Europe
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NEWS 17TH MAY, 2026
THE SNP have slammed the Westminster government after reports emerged suggesting Ming Yang, a Chinese energy company, is eyeing up investment into Europe after it was blocked from building a huge new factory in Scotland.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 11/05/2026
There's a fundamental issue when the London parties can centrally fund large online campaigns from England in a way Labour in Scotland couldn't afford on its own, yet there is no such cross subsidy for Scottish parties.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Labour spent about half a million £ on their digital campaign. They outspent the SNP 3:1. This is not just to revel in the completely botched Labour campaign – though it partly is that – but also to show that this pro-indy victory didn’t come easy.👇 bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/05/09/fro…
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Labour and the British media, stuck in the first stages of grief weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/l...
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Labour and the British media, stuck in the first stages of grief
They’re not taking it at all well are they. Ever since the SNP handsomely won the Holyrood election, for the fifth time in a row, winning more seats than all the branch office parties combine…
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The problem with our children www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05...
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The problem with our children
The Telegraph reports in a morning newsletter headline today that: One million children to be claiming disability benefits next year They add, and I make no apology for quoting a free newsletter at  l...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/05/2026
Brexit damaged our economy and left us isolated. We asked people in Glasgow if they've benefitted from Brexit. Here are their answers ⬇️
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George Futers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @wee-jordi.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
40 years of Thatcher's privatisation "experiment" we're not just still paying the price, it's a major cause of the affordability crisis in the UK. youtu.be/aQ8k1a-OOHY?...
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Thatcher got it SO wrong 🤦
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 19/04/2026
So now Labour as well as Farage's Reform have been caught out using bots to promote themselves on social media. I guess they can't be believed in real life *or* online.
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Labour's Holyrood campaign lurches from one crisis to another weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/04/19/l...
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Labour’s Holyrood campaign lurches from one crisis to another
There’s less than three weeks to go until the Holyrood election and the wheels have well and truly come off the Labour campaign. With the headlines being dominated by the Mandelson story &#82…
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Scotland – Too wee? bylines.scot/news/scotlan...
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Scotland – Too wee?
Is it time to look again at the long-debated theory that Scotland is ‘too wee’ to be a successful independent country?
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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SNP must stare down the culture warriors after the election
SCOTS might be forgiven for feeling some whiplash. In 2016, same-sex marriage had become legal, most of Scotland’s political parties were led by…
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Anas Sarwar, the Wile E Coyote of Scottish politics weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/a...
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Anas Sarwar, the Wile E Coyote of Scottish politics
You can smell the desperation from Scottish Tory Holyrood leader Russell Findlay. At a campaign event, the soon to be sacked Findlay, pulled out the anti-English racism card against the SNP, accusi…
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
🇬🇧 “SNP Bad / Scotland Bad / Independence Bad..etc” 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 22/03/2026
7 May is getting closer (21 April if you're voting by post) 👏. It'll soon be time to choose the Scotland we want. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 22/03/2026
So a Scottish charity acts as a funnel for £m's directly supporting illegal occupation of Palestine in breach of international law and the charity regulator claims that this is an ok charitable purpose!? www.thenational.scot/news/2595813...
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Questions as Israel-linked Scottish charity sees income spike by 1750 per cent
A SCOTTISH charity with ties to Israel is facing questions over donations after its income spiked by 1750 per cent in one year ...
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 22/03/2026
Even just a few years ago if a candidate was even suspected of fuddling finances it would be end if career. Now brass-neckery has risen so high I expect Reform to say "so what?" and carry on as if nothing has happened.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 22/03/2026
It costs the London parties about £2m every time they send out an electoral communication to Scotland. They do this because they don't have enough members in Scotland to create and distribute them locally. If it wasn't for their big donors in England they couldn't afford to do it.
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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The SNP @snp.org · 18/03/2026
50 days to go. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #BothVotesSNP
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
No member of a political party should vote for another party.
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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As healthcare in England becomes a full-blown two-tier system with only 84% now in the NHS how health care in Scotland remains 96% within the NHS
Headlining on BBC Breakfast this morning, this claim from Health Watch UK: NHS Scotland is not part of the study: The poll of 2,593 people in England, aged 18 and above, was run by Savanta between …
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Major tribunal calls for ICC probe into British 'complicity' in Gaza
THE UK must face a full investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for "complicity and participation in genocide", a major…
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Devolution has run out of road weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/d...
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Devolution has run out of road
This always happens, every time I decide to take a bit of time off, a big news story breaks and it’s back to the keyboard. On Tuesday, a Labour government memo was leaked which proves that Ke…
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
What the end of Alba means for May's election and the broader independence movement weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/w...
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What the end of Alba means for May’s election and the broader independence movement
Well that’s it. The Alba party has gone and will not be contesting the Holyrood election in May, or indeed any elections in the future. Unlike some, I am not gloating about the party’s …
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Colin White @clnwhite.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Westminster's great Scottish energy rip off weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/w...
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Westminster’s great Scottish energy rip off
In news that hasn’t appeared anywhere on BBC Scotland to my shock and surprise, that’s shock and surprise as in “I was shocked and surprised to learn that the Pope believes in god…
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