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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 08/01/2026

If you want to hear about cancer treatment challenges before and during the latest genocide, here's a talk by Dr Philippa Whitford, based on her own experiences. youtu.be/5dkmumRbJD8?...

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The Fight for Healthcare in Gaza

YouTube video by Calum Kerr SNP

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Engender @engenderscot.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

We're starting 2026 by focusing on each of the 10 vital areas covered in our manifesto for the Scottish election in May. Gender inequality is not inevitable. To see a Scotland where women & girls achieve their full potential, the next Scottish Govt must design policy to meet women's needs. ⬇

Graphic with an illusrtation of women and children playing and working on top of a report from the National Advisory Council on Women and Girls above a box containing text that reads: Holyrood 2026 Scotland is a global leader in securing gender equality for all women.

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The @FoEScot statement on the new 'climate plan' is scathing (and 100% correct): 'Dreadful' Climate Plan does nothing for households, workers and communities foe.scot/press-releas...

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'Dreadful' Climate Plan does nothing for households, workers and communities

Scotland's climate plan criticised for failure to provide positive climate solutions for households, workers or communities

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 07/11/2025

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐲𝐥𝐮𝐦 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 is obvious to anyone with half an ounce of human empathy. Unfortunately Scotland doesn't yet control its own borders, so we have to stand and watch the effects of Labour's 'hostile environment' instead.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The #BBC News website has clearly been living in the age of neoliberalism too long. Summarising the election of Zohran Mamdani it says he is "a democratic socialist which has no clear definition." Er, there is a world of literature & studies on what democratic socialism is.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 05/11/2025

Only c10% of Scotland's population is made up of people born in other countries. But when did they arrive - and where from? I thought I'd take a look... Most have arrived after 2010, and from the EU: for other EU members, Scotland was clearly attractive! And why not? www.datawrapper.de/_/42CF6/

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When immigrants arrived - and from where | Created with Datawrapper

Scotland: year of arrival vs country of birth

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy says at #PMQs that the SNP are "a national security threat.' Repeating words said by Defence Sec John Healey & Scottish Sec Douglas Alexander. Desperate stuff from a govt which cannot categorically say China is a threat to the UK.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 05/11/2025

Why do Scotland's Islands have such a high proportion of people who were born in England? In some it's as high as 2 in 3. In virtually all its higher than the Scotland average... public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

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Scotland's Islands: Emigration from England

A Flourish data visualization by Yes in Pictures

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The same old same old as Mamdani sweeps New York.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The path from abusing foreigners to abusing the disabled is well-trodden. I I hope this nugget is bright enough to reflect on who else has walked it.

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Alan Ferrier @alanferrier.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

When you hear, "new information has emerged in recent times..." from a former royal press officer you know it actually means, "what the royals have known in full for years and which was so damaging they paid £12m to suppress it, is now coming into the public domain."

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/10/2025

The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

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Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

NEWYDD - @jaclarner.bsky.social a minnau ar Etholiad 2024 yng Nghymru NEW - Jac Larner and myself on the 2024 UK GE in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 2024 UK General Election in Wales url: academic.oup.com/pa/article-a...

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The 2024 UK General Election in Wales

That Labour emerged victorious from the 2024 UK General Election in Wales must count among the least surprising political outcomes imaginable. It has, afte

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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

"The age of consequences is here. Which means that the Age of Adaptation is here." Our new report, We Need to Talk About Adaptation, is OUT NOW. Summarised in this story 👇 www.desmog.com/2025/10/28/w...

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Why We Need to Talk About Adaptation

Introduction: the story so far I’m delighted to be writing today as the co-author of a new report called ‘We need to talk about adaptation’. This report is co-produced by the Climate Majority Project…

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Lesley Riddoch @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I spoke at Yes Cymru rally in Rhyl last weekend and was blown away by their wall-to-wall use of Welsh. Astonished to be only non-Welsh speaker on that platform. Its obvious their language is massive part of Plaid’s Caerphilly by-election success.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 30/10/2025

Scotland has all the energy, but no power. We should have the lowest bills not the highest. And for that, the policies of successive British governments are clearly to blame. Independence will benefit everyone. Support a Scottish party. Preferably by joining one... www.snp.org/join/member/

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Join the SNP — Scottish National Party

Join the SNP, Scotland’s largest political party and social-democratic party of government.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

No more blatant example of Question Time’s bias than this. Goodwin is a Reform activist and GB News presenter - you’d have to be intentionally blind to think he’s an academic

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The maintenance of the cruel two child benefit cap condemns a growing number of families & children to poverty. It does not have to be this way; government can act & go further in taking hundreds of thousands of families & children out of poverty. HT @resfoundation.bsky.social

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇 1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK 2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves 3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

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Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward

The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.

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Lesley Riddoch @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Radio Scotland’s problem isn't GMS presenters but the station's inability to reflect the real, post-indyref, curious, questioning nation Scotland has become & all the narratives, sources & outlooks that exist beyond a weary mainstream. Today's National column. www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

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Lesley Riddoch: What should Radio Scotland be doing instead of current 'shake up'?

GOOD Morning Scotland is dead. Long live Good Morning Scotland

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Authoritarian Britain & the limiting of free speech & civil liberties. An academic wears a t-shirt declaring 'We are all Palestine Action" - an offence under the Terrorism Act. And where are those so-called defenders of free speech: Toby Young & his Free Speech Union? bit.ly/4qARBng

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 29/10/2025

🚨Wow - this will be huge if it bears out. Exit polls show the pro-EU D66 party has WON the Dutch election. The far-right PVV party of Geeet Wildsrs has lost 12 seats, according to exit polls. Huge if true.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 29/10/2025

Its Scotland! We love our gritters!

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The UK is being destroyed by reactionary older voters. Despite Reform media mania the Greens lead across GB with all voters aged under 50; the three main UK centre-left parties poll 61% compared to 30% for the right.

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magnificentseven67.bsky.social @magnificentseven67.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Get used to it, SNP have been killing elections for years but we still get mostly Unionist parties on every time

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

#Newsnight have only Labour & Tory bigwigs on their panel. The two parties were humiliated in Caerphilly winning 13% & on 17% each with YouGov today. They carry on as if they still were the powerful parties of yesteryear. And where is Plaid Cymru: last week's winner on any of these progs?

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Ionad Gàidhlig Dhùn Èideann @ionaddhuneideann.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Fascinating thread about the history of Darroch, now the Gaelic annexe at James Gillespie's High School. Previously Gaelic evening classes were taught there for almost 50 years, including 27 years by the legendary Barra piper and tradition-bearer Calum Johnston

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Too many people including senior politicians are using the grooming gangs scandal to make cheap political points & not caring abt victims of horrendous abuse. Step forward Nigel Farage who has been asked by female survivors of grooming gangs to apologise. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage

Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

This is Suella's hot take

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Can the @scottishgreens.org learn from the #GreenSurge of the @greenparty.org.uk & @zackpolanski.bsky.social' s appeal? Can the Scottish party build on their undoubted successes & tackle some of their long-term weaknesses? My weekend essay on my site. gerryhassan.com/blog/can-the...

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025

Farage: epic grifter

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/10/2025

Excellent action from The SNP - finding ways around Labour's bad policies, pending Scotland regaining independence 👏

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Lesley Riddoch @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

This looks good.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/10/2025

The state of Labour devolution. Westminster gives its leveling up money to their loyal local rep. Back when these were (much larger) EU grants, they were given based on need, not political preference. www.thenational.scot/news/2556621...

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Scotland to Europe ferry ‘could be funded tomorrow by Fife Labour MPs’

FIFE Labour MPs could help fund the proposed Scotland to Europe ferry as soon as tomorrow, campaigners have said ...

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Twitter since Elon Musk's takeover and complete domination by nazis basically is just a window into the ugliest parts of the world but some journalists and politicians take it as representative of the general public and that's the real danger (and utility to their movement)

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 24/10/2025

The bigger picture that the British commentators seem to be missing is one we've realised for some time outside England: we don't need Labour to beat Reform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Plaid Cymru’s victory in Caerphilly points to a new kind of electorate

The Welsh town’s byelection was a two-party race – but this time neither Labour nor the Conservatives were in it

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Believe in Scotland @believeinscotland.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

👀 Desire for the break up of the UK continues to grow! The Plaid Cymru result in Caerphilly, Wales, this week is just the latest example. 🤝 Let’s build better, fairer, independent nations: www.believeinscotland.org/momentum_is_...

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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 25/10/2025

The people of Caerphilly obviously recognise the danger of a Farage led Government, maybe the media could start doing their job and challenge Farage on his tin pot dangerous policies and downright racism.

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