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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 51m
Why is there no UK tax levied on dividends paid to foreign owners??? UK Westminster governments are failing in their duty to protect citizens not foreign owners.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 3h
Good.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 3h
Well who would have believed it. UK Westminster Tory, Tory/Libdem,and Labour governments economic management is the main factor in Scotland's battle against child proverty. An Independent Scotland can do so much better.
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School of Divinity @uoedivinity.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We're excited to welcome award-winning poet & essayist Alycia Pirmohamed back to #NCFestival to discuss ‘Shorelines’ (Canongate, 2026), her Nan Shepherd Prize-winning debut. In conversation with David Farrier, Pirmohamed will explore landscape, belonging, migration & memory 🎟️👇 edin.ac/4xVDkEc
Colour head and shoulders photo of Alycia PirmohamedColour head and shoulders photo of David Farrier
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William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
'Making capitalists poorer is never, ever allowed. Making workers poorer is the default policy. In fact, it is literally the only policy.' Robin McAlpine, via Common Weal
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Resist Inflation Madness! — Common Weal
You have been trained to believe that inflation must be controlled with rises in interest rates. Now take two seconds to stop and ask why and you’ll start seeing just how nuts a lot of economics is.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 6h
So sad to hear that the iconic, trailblazing, Apollo 11 moon landing software engineering lead, Margaret Hamilton, is no longer with us. Love this image of her, standing next to a print out of the software that landed Buzz Aldrin and Neil Amstrong on the moon! 👩‍🔬🔭🛰️🧪 ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A woman looking very cool in a 70's dress standing next to a massive pile of very thick books
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 6h
Westminster Tory party now supports Scottish Independence. Looks like all the Westminster parties are resigning themselves to Scottish Independence. Tíoraidh and close the door.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 6h
Why can’t we be more like the French? In France, young people are punching up at those in power demanding better education not decline and more cuts In Britain, middle-aged masked men with criminal records for domestic abuse punch down an at anyone who isn’t white In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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What French student protests reveal about Britain's broken political system
In France, even children can see that the political system needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. In Britain, we seem incapable of understanding that truth, Neil Mackay says.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
50% of modern medicines come from plants. 70% of cancer treatments come from nature. The Amazon holds 10% of all life on Earth. We've studied <1% of it for medicine. We are cutting down cures faster than we can discover them. Every forest cleared = A cure lost.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 20h
It is choral Anglican music. Never been to Lewis or Harris. Like in Scotland. Like non-Anglican.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 20h
Haud the press, past Tory Scottish leader n now in the Lords, Ruth Davidson has agreed with Labour Westminster PM. If elected politicians can decide to rejoin the EU then democracy demands elected politicians at Holyrood can decide Independence 4 Scotland.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 20h
Haud the press, past Tory Scottish leader n now in the Lords, Ruth Davidson has agreed with Labour Westminster PM. If elected politicians can decide to rejoin the EU then democracy demands elected politicians at Holyrood can decide Independence 4 Scotland. www.thenational.scot/news/2661523...
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Ruth Davidson shares fear of 'unilateral declaration of Scottish independence'
RUTH Davidson has suggested that Labour are opening the door to Scottish independence without a referendum ...
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 21h
And we're off. Happy Independence England.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Much easier for Scotland to be Independent. Then England can do whatever it wishes to England.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No
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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
After the disingenuous bollocks that was #bettertogether, only a deluded wazzock doesn't want Scottish Independence. If Burnham fails there will be a Badenoch/Farage coalition. Wake up, sensible Scots.
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Dorothy Bruce @dorothybruce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Many rural areas in Scotland have no gas so are dependent on oil for heating as well as having high petrol and diesel prices. Not sure how many will manage through winter.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
... Then there's standing charges. UK energy system does not work for Scotland. Westminster justs sooks oor energy and charges us for their privilege. I'd say Independence asap
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Absolutely. There's no caps on heating oil or LPG. Springtime had 80-120% rose in heating oil round here. Thoosands of Scottish households are looking out at adjacent windfarms and solar farms but can't get "smart meter connections to benefit from better tarrifs.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
International recognition and praise for the Scottish NHS. Just think what Scotland can do once Independent. UK media will ignore this as usual it doesn't fit their propganda.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
His was a very Great England speech, your reply is similar. Reads like England gets to redecide for the UK about Brexit.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
WM and the MSM all march to the same tune Scotland Bad SNP Bad 👇
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Scots will claim their Independence and save the uk Westminster labour/tory government all this hassle. Sorted
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well done. The National has had some excellent, thought provoking and heartfelt articles
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Neither have many hundreds of thousands off the gasgrid in Scotland. Another reason for Scottish Independence.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Awesome by Scottish Government. Bairns r us
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🇬🇧 LABOUR take Scots for absolute mugs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Out of use since 13th July missing their main holiday season.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Westminster UK labour govt - there will be industrial development on every postcode in th UK - sorry meant UK-England obviously. Cant have they furrin Scots actually earning money. See if they want to become Independent we in Westminster will lay waste to Scotland first.
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Panorama editor who oversaw entirely discredited episode stitching up Jeremy Corbyn with antisemitism smears wins top job at BBC News. Rachel Jupp is feted as a "trusted troubleshooter". In other words: a safe pair of hands, ready to do the British establishment's dirty work.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
From the Scottish Enlightenment to the Scottish Endarkenment Scotland’s universities are falling apart. Edinburgh is axing 90 degree courses in arts and humanities including single honours Scottish Literature. These are the courses that teach Scotland about Scotland In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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The Scottish Endarkenment has dawned in this dumbed-down nation
The mass closure of university courses is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the unravelling of Scottish culture today, says Neil Mackay
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Ferryoons @ferryoons.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well done @ross-greer.bsky.social on BBC Shortbread this morning, calling out Israel’s decades of genocide, while Martin Geissler defended it “for balance”. I’m surprised Mr Greer didn’t tell him to grow up and open his eyes.
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Steve N🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @nakedheid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Busking bagpiper boy, 12, donates £17,000 to pipe band after 'mob' incident
Elliot Wilson was left with a ruined pipe case after he was surrounded while busking in Edinburgh in a social media stunt.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They've done that. Has England or Wales?
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Scottish govt and society had managed to reduce child poverty to 21% with the strictures of being part of a Union. England (29%), Wales(34%). The Union controlled by England focused Westminster govt. Clear reason for an Independent Scotland managing even better making its own decisions.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reason #29 for an Independent Scotland
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Val McDermid n Jo Sharp have some RSGS Royal Scottish Geographical Society talks over the autumn/winter. The talks are well worthwhile.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Or we could just say no
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The union through the eyes of a union historian.
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I thought it reinforced unionist propaganda. At the very end we get some vox pop interviews on the union. We get someone citing the Darien scheme as evidence of Scotland being skint at the time of the act of Union. In fact the truth is England was skint but Scotland was in the black.
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It failed to distinguish between individuals being skint who had invested in Darien and the Scottish treasury. England was in debt due to the wars with France. So as usual- an England favourable coating. Other parts niggled me too. Anglo centric history is abundant- we don’t need more of it.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Probably when he delivers the 50,000 Scottish GB Energy jobs in Aberdeen.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BBC Scotland has never acknowledged the decades of distress BY LABOUR COUNCILS to female Glasgow Council workers, nor the unions who fought against the women through the courts. Resolutions began with an SNP Council - due to decades of inaction this has cost to the City of nearly £1billion
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flossyflook.bsky.social @flossyflook.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The illegal kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro has paved the way for BP and Shell to return to Venezuela and plunder its natural resources. Britain's Foreign Office appears to have been helping them. www.declassifieduk.org/trump-kidnap...
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Trump kidnapped Venezuela’s president. Now Britain looks to profit
BP and Shell are cashing in on Venezuela’s oil and gas following the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If only Scotland/Scandinavia interconnectors could be built. Hmm, oh but Westminster has scuppered them. Time for Independence
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The report doesNOT include thd Scottish NHS "The study took place across a two-week period in March 2025 at 134 A&Es in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, reflecting about 70% of emergency departments."
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am pleased that agreement has been reached on equal pay between the unions and Glasgow City Council. Thanks to DFM @jennygilruth.bsky.social for her intensive work and to all parties involved for their constructive engagement in this process.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well done to GCC, unions and Scottish govt for resolving this.
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Suspect fifth columnist involvement to undermine the Green Party of England n Wales
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is not about wrong constitutional or judicial principles. This is about the lack of constitutional and judicial principle. Partisan improvisation, instead of any consistency or depth.
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