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Fittiequine

@fittiequine.bsky.social
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Microbiologist. MSc Oil recovery. Researcher. NHS activist. Yes to Scottish Independence Former Chair of Scottish Currency Group Campaign Team and member of Scottish Currency Finance & Banking working group. Author @ Bylines Scotland.

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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.thenational.scot/politics/265... Archived version for non-subscribers here: archive.ph/x3vMf
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The case for a Scottish Central Bank from day one of independence
AN independent Scotland requires tailored institutions designed to create a wellbeing economy. Rather than replicating the Bank of England’s (BoE)…
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please have a  look at this new website You will find lots of answers and information. Launched by an Edinburgh tax advisor Scott Lamont. Well done Scott. It’s an excellent resource newscot.scot/currency.html
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Currency - NewScot · Alba Ùr
A Scottish pound, a Scottish Reserve Bank, and a credible path from sterling to an independent currency. The full plan, stage by stage.
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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Breaking news. - UEFA decides to boycott future FIFA World Cups over investment plan
UEFA says the World Cup "cannot be treated as an investment product" and has threatened to pull its national teams from FIFA competitions unless the proposal is permanently withdrawn. #EuropeNews
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
No CEOs were held accountable! www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Court upholds CMA findings that firms charged excessive and unfair prices for lifesaving NHS-funded medicine
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that firms broke the law by charging excessive and unfair prices for hydrocortisone tablets over a decade.
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
www.thenational.scot/politics/262... archive.ph/he91P
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Why are some major SNP figures still not making a compelling case for independence?
LAST week, Andy Burnham did something which the SNP leadership has failed to do in years. He delivered a speech providing an overview of some of the…
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Keith Baker gives us an update on the progress he’s making on helping to improve Scotland’s home energy efficiency standards by having the Scottish Government adopt principles that he and Common Weal have been pushing towards. www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...
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Retrofit is on a roll, Let’s keep the momentum going — Common Weal
Keith Baker gives us an update on the progress he’s making on helping to improve Scotland’s home energy efficiency standards by having the Scottish Government adopt principles that he and Common Weal ...
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Rudi Lutz @rudilutz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
An early test for Burnham? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
The deal on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Bobby Moore can tell you how dangerous this is.
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026
Wow!
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
@scg1.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/fitt...
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Read Jim Osborne of Scottish Currency Groups comment under the article. Pure and simple economic illiteracy from the SNP! Archived version here: archive.ph/ZYOxU www.thenational.scot/news/2623505...
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SNP Government bonds plan 'breaching Scottish Parliament's Israel boycott vote'
THE SNP have breached a Scottish Parliament vote for an Israel boycott amid preparations to issue government bonds, it has been alleged.
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Joanna Cherry speaking from her heart on the way forward for Independence youtube.com/shorts/UXVxv...
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Joanna Cherry calls for John Swinney to resign as SNP leader
YouTube video by The Scottish Sun
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
An interview with whistleblowers with much more detail youtu.be/INbKk6mtzTY?...
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'It was a pantomime’ | SNP insiders speak out on Peter Murrell and party finances
YouTube video by LBC News
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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Joanna Cherry: "One of the many reasons I left the SNP was the sort of dishonesty which pretends not to know the difference between concerns about poor governance, mismanagement of funds & bullying of whistleblowers as opposed to criminality which the FM has displayed today at #FMQs;"
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Worthwhile watch. youtu.be/R_qqi6NLGJs?...
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Bombshell SNP Whistleblowers: Nicola Sturgeon ‘BULLIED’ Us After Sounding Peter Murrell Fraud Alarm
YouTube video by The Scottish Sun
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
www.facebook.com/groups/scott...?
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
SNP plans to issue Scottish Government bonds to raise funding have taken a step forward as nine major banks have joined up 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
And it just so happens that DOJ dropped the charges against Adani a few months later.
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Children were "labelled as fighters even after (age confirmed) - held alongside adults in Israeli military and prison facilities." Subjected to "beatings, prolonged blindfolding, attacks by dogs, electric shocks, forced nudity and sexual assault, including rape and threats of rape." #OpDeathEaters
The report documented the systematic mistreatment of detained Palestinian children. Boys aged 12 and over were separated during mass arrests, labelled as fighters even after identity cards confirmed their age, and held alongside adults in Israeli military and prison facilities.
The Commission recorded beatings, prolonged blindfolding, attacks by dogs, electric shocks, forced nudity and sexual assault, including rape and threats of rape against boys. One 15-year-old described 54 days of repeated interrogation and torture, including being electrocuted through a needle in his shoulder. The Commission concluded the treatment amounted to torture, enforced disappearance and persecution based on age intersecting with nationality and gender.
In the West Bank, more than 1,655 children were detained after October 2023, 600 of them in 2025. As of 31 December 2025, 51 per cent of 351 child detainees were held in administrative detention, imprisoned indefinitely without charge, a record number.
A 17-year-old from Ramallah died in Megiddo prison on 22 March 2025. An autopsy found severe prolonged malnutrition; the Commission found his death amounted to the war crimes of torture and wilful killing. As of 17 February 2025, Israel was withholding the bodies of 40 Palestinian children.
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Scottish Currency Group @scg1.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Scottish Currency Group's Jim Osborne in the National today www.thenational.scot/comment/2613...
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It's time to end Scotland's reliance on private-sector consultants
Scotland's parliament has a different look to it after the election. The right has fewer seats than previously
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Scottish Currency Group @scg1.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Check out these papers on our website scg.scot/resource-lib...
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Publications repository - Scottish Currency Group
Downloads of these publications are available to all, at present: click the “Download Now” box below the relevant publication to read it. If you prefer printed copies of SCG reports click this link.
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Scottish Currency Group @scg1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
To cross a river you must feel for the stones - the problem is that we have to get our feet wet - that takes vision and courage The SCG article in The National www.thenational.scot/politics/261...
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SNP have no plan for Scottish independence. But that's not the biggest problem
PEOPLE are asking if the SNP have a plan for independence. No progress has been made towards that objective since the 2014 referendum ...
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Scottish Currency Group @scg1.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"Carnegie Conference and events centre". maps.app.goo.gl/9FADCxJhdpqW...
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
@scg1.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mone...
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"[W]e are demythologizing banking. We’re demythologizing money. We’re really looking at a new possibility." moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/01/t...
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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BEST OF BYLINES: AI – the approaching economic disaster
As part of a wider survey of the emerging threat posed by Artificial Intelligence, North East Bylines takes a look at the global economic catastrophe that AI is likely to unleash
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Shot
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David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dab13rp.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Countries that have spoken out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and other barbaric behaviour have been targeted by that nation of psychopaths. Did Israel’s attempt to influence our SGE have the approval of their shills in ukgov, or did Starmer and co. merely turn a blind eye?
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The most important slides at NHS ConfedExpo were these ones delivered to a group of GPs in a small meeting room Focus on Access means less continuity But less continuity reduces access Patients suffer Can’t see a GP blame MPs @skinnock.bsky.social @nhsconfed.org
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Really important win for journalism but it’s the last paragraph that really struck me Palantir has to pay 95% of the Swiss magazine’s costs - which are $11,000 A case like this in the U.K. would cost *millions* in legal fees. Why it’s so easy for rich to suppress criticism
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Toys oot the pram! Pity he hadn’t gone nuclear and removed the “deterrent “ from Faslane!
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
An interesting read: murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2026/04/16/l...
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Losing focus: Women’s charities and the UK Supreme Court ruling - Murray Blackburn Mackenzie
Women’s charities and the UK Supreme Court ruling Our latest report focuses on charities whose objects, as set out in their governing documents, state that they should benefit solely women and/or girl...
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PJ @septemberrising.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢🤬🤬https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYzR-p3Mlel/
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officialannielennox on Instagram: "Dear Friends,There is rarely a passing day when we don’t hear, read or see the latest grotesque and dystopian horror events emergin…"
Dear Friends,There is rarely a passing day when we don’t hear, read or see the latest grotesque and dystopian horror events emerging from Gaza or other countries now being attacked by Israel.And each time something comes to our attention it seems to become worse and worse. Just when you thought it couldn’t be more sadistic - more brutal - and more inhumane than the last atrocity. Earlier today the most gruesome reports have emerged regarding the remains of hundreds of hospital patients - women, children and babies whose wrists had been zip tied behind their backs before being buried alive!!!!FOR THE LOVE OF GOD….SANCTION ISRAEL!!!!SHAME ON THOSE WHO FACILITATE-SUPPORT and EXCUSE THIS GENOCIDAL REGIME!!!#stopkillingchildren
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
“We in the Scottish Currency Group have been asking it for the last 7 years. It's actually official SNP policy since their 2019 conference but the SNP hierarchy continue to ignore it” Archived version for non subscribers : archive.ph/e2M67 thenational.scot/politics/26175…
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 05/06/2026
To my grandkids, sorry for the world I leave An octegenarian's musings on the world, climate change, and our collective duty to future generations for World Environment Day | Mike Phillips @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk
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To my grandkids, sorry for the world I leave
An octegenarian's musings on the world, climate change, and our collective duty to future generations for World Environment Day
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I've said it before - fuck the USA. BBC News - Fans 'devastated' as last minute US visa cancellations - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Fans 'devastated' as last minute US visa cancellations
People travelling to the World Cup have had their ESTA applications changed from approved to "travel not authorised".
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Breaking: Scottish Government found in contempt over FOI practice. Read more at: foi.scot/court-rules-fa…
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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The Faction That Was Right
Inside the SNP Common Weal Group's failed attempt to reform the SNP
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Fittiequine @fittiequine.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
www.commonweal.scot/daily-briefi...
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Rogue officials must be brought to heel — Common Weal
Is a technical report from a quango available on its website or not? This sounds like the kind of question which few but political anoraks could be interested in, and yet it is another indicator of a ...
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Landed in Yerevan, Armenia, for the 8th European Political Community Summit. This is the first time a non-European nation has taken part. Bound by shared values, Canada is working with our European partners to create more certainty, security, and prosperity for all our peoples.
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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
image of Tanwa Abilu and quote following 

We call ourselves intelligent, yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water --- all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.
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Monty 🇨🇦 @onlymonty.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
He’s a war criminal… he should be arrested if he ever leaves the US.
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Absolutely NO LIES TOLD....
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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Not a word of this is true. The administration spouts propaganda and the media report it verbatim.
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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Trump’s presidency has degenerated into the Lord of the flies It has lost all moral compass and the US should be ashamed of themselves a they are no better than Iran m.economictimes.com/news/defence...
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Trump says US Navy acting 'like pirates' to carry out naval blockade of Iranian ports
President Trump described U.S. naval actions against Iran as "like pirates" after seizing a ship and its oil cargo. This comes amid the ongoing war between the U.S., Israel, and Iran, which has led to...
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people are in the streets in DC as part of the #MayDay day of action and solidarity. We refuse to cooperate with a regime that is killing people, ignoring the law, and destroying our rights.
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Julie Patchouly @juliepatchouly.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Release the Trumpstein files!
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Shortbreadfairy©️ @shortbreadfairy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Alison from Tunbridge Wells wants to Unite Scotland and goes on Tommy Robinson Marches. She wants the UK united 🤣 Its people like Alison that make me 🤮
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Democracy USA @oilgaschemicals.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
To the ICE members who murdered Alex pretti and Renee Good... When we have a dem DOJ I'm hoping you are arrested and convicted by a jury of your peers. Your protection today by this criminal DOJ will hopefully be decimated.. IN America murder in cold blood is illegal
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