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EileenBW

@eileenbw.bsky.social
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Was a Maths teacher, then a ceramicist, recently retired so that I can be a hobby crafter. I’m a Scot born in England, pro Scottish Independence, pro-EU, Internationalist, Green, fearful of creeping fascism.

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EileenBW @eileenbw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Bloody Balfour open.substack.com/pub/thisisro...
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Bloody Balfour’s Legacy
The Balfour Declaration was an act of dispossession by Britain, the promise of the land of Palestine over which it had neither sovereignty nor the consent of its inhabitants.
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EileenBW @eileenbw.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I just signed the @stoprosebank open letter Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP. Please consider signing here to ask her to #StopRosebank or fail the very first test of the UK's climate leadership: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
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Open Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP
Our new Secretary of State for Energy faces the first big climate test for Andy Burnham's new government -- whether or not to approve new North Sea oil & gas developments. Sign the open letter asking ...
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Tomorrow's front page 📰 Refugees are woven into Scotland
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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Has anyone noticed that Elon Musk the renowned entrepreneur and newly-formed trillionaire who seems to be revered by much of the media bears an uncanny resemblance to Elon Musk the fascist and white nationalist who seeks the violent overthrow of western democracies? Could they be related?
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🚨BREAKING: Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists Amnesty opposes the use of terrorism powers in this case. The defendants in today’s case were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make an example of them. Today's decision shows how direct action protesters could be treated in the future
Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists, use of terrorism laws against protesters must end
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The Braes o' Bonúll @bonullbraes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Iran war is a Weapon of Mass Distraction. Release the Epstein files!
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 16/05/2026
I must say again—because so many do not see this: fascism does not start with concentration camps, that is where it can end. It starts with hollowing out the rule of law; with limiting rights; with denying some of us their existence on the basis of who they are. So that is where must be stopped.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Oh what a tangled web they weave... Farage now admits he bought the Clacton house, having told everyone last year that his partner Laure Ferrari bought the house.
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Gerry Flynn @gerryflynn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Imagine losing your life partner to illness. The devastation of loss. Then you receive something along the lines of this bill from the hospital. How do you pay? Sell the home you built together! This is what Farage & his ilk want. An end to our NHS & privatisation!....
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Believe in Scotland @believeinscotland.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"The Scottish people just elected the largest ever majority of pro-Indy MSPs, standing on a commitment for a second independence referendum. The Scottish people have voted for a second referendum and that means they should damn well get one."
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Believe in Scotland @believeinscotland.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
🟥 As the English council results come in, the only thing that is certain is that Scotland needs its independence.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
If you think 'Sov Corps' are not happening in the UK, think again. Starmer tweeted that the UK Govt was in an official Govt partnership with Blackrock, who just happen to be the most criminally corrupt shadow bank in the world. europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-neorea...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.
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EileenBW @eileenbw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It’s good work, please consider a wee donation
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Catriona @catrio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
🤦‍♀️
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EileenBW @eileenbw.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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Journalists of the world, unite!
You have nothing to lose but the cowardice/apathy of your corporate overlords. Something has to change.
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Also - Ed Miliband has ruled out zonal pricing for electricity- even although Scotland produces far more electricity than elsewhere in the British Isles. He did so on the grounds that it would disadvantage England despite Scotland having the coldest temperatures of any other part!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Big Oil companies, including shell and BP, making mega profits from Iran war but abusing tax system by using UK's network of secretive offshore tax havens. HMRC does special deals but does not disclose Staff from oil companies, tax dodge industry seconded to HMRC. Govts squeeze normal people.
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Big Oil and offshore Britain
How Big Oil reaps in the profits while avoiding contributions to the public good by using Britain's network of offshore tax havens.
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EileenBW @eileenbw.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Wow - interesting read
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EileenBW @eileenbw.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Good
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Shane @incompleteness.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
A U.S. federal jury found Elon Musk liable on Friday for claims he defrauded Twitter shareholders by trying to drive down the social media company's stock price so he could renegotiate or back out of a $44 billion takeover in 2022
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The £600,000 tax bill Richard Tice dodged would have funded the salaries of 20 nurses for a year
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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🇬🇱🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Hen Harrier 'Susie', whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Government deals with Palantir stink, and stank long before the Peter Mandelson scandal. The government must pivot away from companies like Palantir.
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Julia Adamo @juliaadamo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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Andy Pearson @macandroid.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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95% of Scotland’s schools in good condition up from only 62% under Labour and they struggle to do anything about it in England after 19 months in government
and need refurbishing or even replacing, according to a group of MPs in a report that’s out this morning. Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. That’s the message on BBC …
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This video is now banned for US users on Tik Tok. The platform has fallen to the regime. And this is EXACTLY the kind of footage they DON’T want US citizens to see.
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The truth about the Glasgow hospital infections in a short video
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Scotland has world’s greatest wind capacity per head of population in the World but uses it to benefit England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/23/s...
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Scotland has world’s greatest wind capacity per head of population in the World but uses it to benefit England
The above table is not clearly linked to its source. I’ve asked and will update when I get it. As you are aware, the above is doing nothing for our energy bills, the highest in the UK and in …
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
#SayNotToPFI (And #SayNoToPPP, which is PFI dressed up and called by another name)
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 24/01/2026
I listened to an item on BBC R2 Tina Dahili It's been reported that many over 65s are waiting up to 3 days to get a bed in hospitals in England They're not been fed properly and they are lucky to have a chair never mind a trolley The SNP should be fighting back with this Ppl need to be made aware
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Jack @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Who could possibly have foreseen that Capita would fuck this up? Yes, that's right, everybody. Utterly disgraceful www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
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Retired civil servants left without pensions as Capita delays payments
Thousands of retired civil servants are struggling financially due to unpaid pensions and lump sums.
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Patrick_Woodside🏳️‍🌈 @pjwoodside.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Reminder
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 08/01/2026
Falkirk rallies show stark divide: solidarity with asylum seekers faces hate, threats and rising far-right hostility, yet hope for unity endures | Sadia Sikandar
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Bearing witness in Falkirk: A hijabi amid hate and solidarity
Falkirk rallies show stark divide: solidarity with asylum seekers faces hate, threats and rising far-right hostility, yet hope for unity endures
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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Strange that he forgot "ethics".
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 08/01/2026
Oh
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Labour 'bypasses' Scotland in growth fund row sparking devolution anger
LABOUR in Wales will decide how a £547 million growth fund is to be distributed – while the UK Government will decide how Scotland's £140m…
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 08/01/2026
There's not a lot we can do to stop what is happening in America but we can certainly tell our politicians that we're not happy being seen as supporting Trump. #EmailYourMP
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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
My take on the £30 million Teesworks dividend scandal, courtesy of @northeastbylines.co.uk Teesside scrap metal firm pays nearly £30mn in dividends northeastbylines.co.uk/business/tee...
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Teesside scrap metal firm pays nearly £30mn in dividends
Teesworks Limited published its 2024/25 accounts this week
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 20/12/2025
Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit? – Byline Times
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Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?
Keir Starmer's decision to exclude Russian interference in the 2016 EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in our elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
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Colin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (cms48X) @cms48.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The Scots looked from Labour to Tory, and from Tory to Labour, and from Labour to Tory again; but it was impossible to say which was which. Why then do we continue in this miserable condition because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by the Westminster Establishment!
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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
My thought's on BP's decision to cancel the blue hydrogen project at Redcar, courtesy of @northeastbylines.co.uk The hollowness of Houchen’s hydrogen hype northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...
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The hollowness of Houchen’s hydrogen hype
BP has confirmed that it is calling it quits on both of its Teesside hydrogen projects
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
My latest blog piece, just days after the Scottish Languages Act comes into force, Farage attacks Glasgow school kids in order to scaremonger about immigration. A new low even by his disgusting standards. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/f...
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Farage’s contemptible attack on Glesca weans
Nigel Farage has been a racist bully again. But don’t worry, he’s only doing it indirectly and without intent to offend or insult. So that’s OK then. Just days after the Scottish …
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EileenBW @eileenbw.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Just think how much more could be achieved if we were independent of Westminster 🤷🏼‍♀️
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EileenBW @eileenbw.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Hate to share anything from BBC News, but ….
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
UK govt ditches flagship policy from the workers’ rights bill. Removes the right to protection from unfair dismissal from the first day of employment, introduces a six-month threshold. Victory for bosses, Tories and LibDems. Insecurity for workers.
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Government to ditch day-one unfair dismissal policy from workers’ rights bill
Flagship Labour plan to be replaced with six-month threshold after Peter Kyle vows to not let businesses ‘lose’ under new law
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EileenBW @eileenbw.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Well worth a read I think… Robina Qureshi: Shabana Mahmood's plans will cause a huge humanitarian emergency www.thenational.scot/politics/256... For more great content like this subscribe to the The National app here: www.thenational.scot/subscribe/
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Robina Qureshi: Shabana Mahmood's plans will cause a huge humanitarian emergency
HOME Secretary Shabana Mahmood is engineering the biggest humanitarian emergency this country has seen in decades with the latest shake-up of asylum…
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Only with independence Scotland would go from the most expensive electricity in Europe to the cheapest talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/20/o...
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Only with independence Scotland would go from the most expensive electricity in Europe to the cheapest
Professor John Robertson OBA The above video excerpt is already out these across social media. I’m just giving another wee push and, importantly reminding folk that location pricing is never,…
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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Reality bites for Reform voters. Excellent reporting from Peter Morris, courtesy of @northeastbylines.co.uk Reform cabinet backs £10mn cuts to start filling Durham’s growing black hole northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform cabinet backs £10mn cuts to start filling Durham’s growing black hole
Reform is now learning that running a big council is not as easy as it probably thought
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Hey, the government is letting a few greedy fishing companies overfish our UK waters, destroying marine life and local fishers’ livelihoods. Join me and sign the urgent petition to fight back: act.gp/47zTvNu
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Stop Greedy Fishing Corporations
The UK government is putting big business over the health of our precious UK waters and coastal communities - this betrayal ends now.
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