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Graeme Purves

@gaspurves.bsky.social
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Citizen. Environmentalist. European. Spatial Planner. Democrat. Geddesian. Withered Botanist. Lapsed Munro-Bagger.

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hugh MacDiarmid and a Hundred Years of the Scottish Renaissance bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/10/14/h...
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Hugh MacDiarmid and a Hundred Years of the Scottish Renaissance
“Hugh MacDiarmid belongs to a select few poets of the twentieth century, W. B. Yeats and Pablo Neruda among them, of whom it may plausibly be argued that they influenced, or even shaped, a na…
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 13h
OTD in 2016 Gorbachev stated quite categorically that he never received a promise by NATO not to admit new members to the alliance. He said the idea that Russia was betrayed is a myth. Which triggers my trolls.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14h
UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows. GB News, owned by hedge fund manager, is the propaganda arm of Reform/Farage. Politicians must be scrutinized, and not allowed to present news or current affairs programmes.
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UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows
Analysis of countries’ broadcasting rules confirms Ofcom code is highly unusual, amid concerns about impartiality
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ukraine's drones made inoperable by restrictions on the speed permitted by SpaceX's Starlink network. Musk blames Trump. Any country relying the US or foreign tech companies will be held to ransom, can't defend itself. Need own satellites and systems to fight new imperialism.
bbc.co.uk
Starlink: Musk says US government may be behind slowdown of Ukraine drone speeds
Ukraine says Starlink access has improved but it is still facing speed limits which are disrupting its battlefield "missions".
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 23h
It's that simple. 👇
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Reform UK councillors and candidates filmed making graphic threats of extreme violence, expressing racist and misogynistic views. Bromley councillor calling for King Charles to be killed. That's the kind of people Reform attracts. It has normalized hatred. What would a Reform govt unleash?
theguardian.com
Reform UK councillors and candidates filmed making racist and misogynist comments
Party faces fresh crisis as three councillors quit after ITV undercover filming exposed violence, misogyny and racist views
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Truth 👇
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This 👇
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Blocked for stupidity.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Sally Rooney: To publish my work in the UK could now constitute a serious criminal offence. After a process of consultation and deliberation, and with my full agreement, my publisher Faber has therefore determined that it can no longer supply my work within the UK. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
irishtimes.com
Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be available in UK over her support for Palestine Action
Faber blames UK antiterrorism legislation for decision to stop distributing bestselling author’s works
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Defector @defector.com · 14/10/2026
Sally Rooney stands by her principles: defector.com/sally-rooney...
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Sally Rooney Stands By Her Principles | Defector
Sally Rooney, one of the most popular novelists alive, says she will no longer sell her books in the U.K. In 2025, the British government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, and i...
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Lotfi El Hamidi @lotfielhamidi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Maar Sally Rooney, die moeten ze hebben.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The question is not "why has Donald betrayed Ukraine?" The question is "how big a cut of unfrozen Russian assets will Donald get for betraying Ukraine?"
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No wonder Badenoch and Farage are shitting bricks at the suggestion that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum. Their whole business model relies on Brexit and the racist anti- immigration bomb that it detonated. Their next bright idea - to leave the ECHR - would delight Putin too.
Gazette
ECHR withdrawal 'gift to Putin'
By Jonathan Rayner | 22 March 2012

Britain’s withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights in favour of a British bill of rights would be Vladimir Putin's
'best present ever', an East European delegate at a Council of Europe event for lawyers told the Gazette last weekend.

The source, who asked not be named, said that Putin, just re-elected as president of Russia, has always said that the Strasbourg court's policing of human rights was ‘meaningless'.
Another unnamed source, a former north European government lawyer, described the UK government's attitude to the Strasbourg court as 'Britain shooting itself in the foot. If the British don't engage with Europe, they'll lose influence and shouldn't be surprised if
Germany and France fill the vacuum?
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💙🇺🇸DWally🇺🇸💙 @dkwally.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy володимир: Raised Fist
ALT: Volodymyr Zelenskyy володимир: Raised Fist
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LindaFly @lindafly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Lady Anytimenow working with Sir Nearlythere @lady-anytimenow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelensky is awesome 👏👇
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So, a Trump supporter told me that, “nobody gives a sh*t” about Indigenous Peoples Day. Please, tell me, do you care about Indigenous Peoples Day?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute. UK infrastructure is owned by foreign investors/states - ports, airports, water, energy, microchips, auto, steel, computers, phones. Can't reduce UK vulnerability without abandoning neoliberalism.
theguardian.com
UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute
George Williamson says ‘national resilience’ is key focus of ATI amid US and China’s runaway leadership in field
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Chants of 'Don't protect the women, we can fight. We don't need your fascist shite' rang out in Glasgow tonight. As anti-fascists, women's rights groups and trade unionists protested against 'patriot platform' and their supporters pushing their racist agenda in the city. Things you love to see ✊
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee' - Buffy Sainte-Marie www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJnw...
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Buffy Sainte-Marie - Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
YouTube video by Folk Roots and Blues
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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Russia knows as well as Ukrainians do that as bad as our terrorism on Ukraine is now, it will be worse if they surrender and let us occupy them. The only person who doesnt know this is Donald.
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𝓒𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮 @anondananda.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Israel has forced the UK to close its consulate in Palestine (located in occupied East Jerusalem), despite having no legal right to do so As Peter Oborne explains, our govt offered zero resistance & capitulated completely, leaving Miliband looking like a hypocrite
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Russia promises not to attack oil the refineries Ukraine doesnt have if they stop attacking the refineries Russia does have. So you can't complain that we keep killing civilians.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Farage's Reform are nothing but a Trump tribute act now. Out of desperation. Not strength. Today Farage has used the same words as Trump in 2016 to dismiss Russian state interference calling it a "Russia hoax." While Zia Yusuf wants a UK ICE: state sponsored thuggery & brutalism.
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Herbert @herbertschaub.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Also Le Pen in France? Kickl in Austria? I hope, everyone sees now, from where these fakenews come from.
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CheyenneWriter @cheyennewriter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yandex Go, Yandex Taxi, Yandex Music, Yandex Pay, and Yandex Pro). Since the Yandex Cloud platform provides computing power to third-party companies, the infrastructure of many major Russian enterprises also went down.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It would be perfect "brand Trump" if in buying an insignificant amount of diesel off Russia that helps Iran more than USA, Donald shamed Europe into cutting off a much bigger revenue stream for my war.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Jenrick’s been on quite the journey from a one nation, Remain-voting Tory, through to frothing Brexiter and on to demanding that Royal Marines murder people at sea for daring to seek refuge here. All to impress the country’s racist losers and maybe get a few more votes. Christ he’s repulsive.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There’s a few pages on Russian interference during Brexit referendum in my last book. A couple of reviewers singled them out as major flaws in the book (ie that I was wrong) What was obvious then is now being publicly stated now. Long overdue. Now needs proper investigation
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
'Fatherland', Pawel Pawlikowski's film about the road-trip through Germany by Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika in the summer of 1949 is in cinemas during October. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I2-...
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FATHERLAND | Official Trailer | Only in Theaters October 23
YouTube video by MUBI
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump announces deal to import Russian diesel. Yet he imposed tariffs on China and India for importing fuel from Russia. 3 weeks ago signed law threatening 500% tariffs on India and China. Now facing midterm election defeat ... and Utter bankruptcy of Trump foreign, economic and other policies.
bbc.co.uk
Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a 'gift to Putin'
Ukraine's president sharply criticised the move, calling it an "investment in war that must be ended, not prolonged".
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Lindsay @lindsayea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mason, always on the right
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 11/10/2026
In "Andy is doing another thing" news, on Wednesday I will be one of a panel of 3 speakers for the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust discussing "When Historic Buildings Go Viral". I will try impart my experience of trying to get the clicks about old buildings 🖱️ events.humanitix.com/when-histori...
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When Historic Buildings Go Viral: Preservation in the Age of Social Media, sponsored by Curtins
Are we making the most of the social media appeal of our iconic buildings? With Finlay McFarlane, Andy Arthur and Ben Tisdale.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Aren’t they all repulsive… These corrupt, evil, traitorous men… Farage is particularly pathetic, in his little cap, selling us out to his monstrous sugar-daddy.
Photo of Trump and Putin shaking hands on their deal… 


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Zelensky furious after Trump announces deal to buy diesel deal from PutinTrump and Farage grinning to camera. Farage wearing a Trump baseball cap. Loser.


Nigel Farage jets off to meet Donald Trump and 'talk down
Britain' over dinner
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
RIP to all my genuine american warm water oblast trump supporters who lived in this data center.
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Having now listened to the podcast, I agree that McAlpine has, perhaps inadvertently, misrepresented John Swinney's position on using an election as a de facto referendum. I agree with McAlpine's overall view on John Swinney's deficiencies as a leader.
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
On psephology, in 2016 Kelly predicted confidently that there was no way that Andy Wightman could win a second seat for the Greens in Lothian. Wightman promptly did just that, and I haven't trusted Kelly's judgement since.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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What specifically did Kelly regard as 'the polar opposite of the truth'? I haven't found his psephology particularly reliable.
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The BBC Scotland channel had a howling vacuum at its heart that made its demise inevitable | Pat Kane in 'The National'. #PublicDisserviceBroadcasting 📻📺 www.thenational.scot/politics/266...
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Pat Kane: The BBC's crisis is Scotland's chance to rethink public media
LIKE a skyscraper in a hurricane, the massive edifice of the BBC is doing some worrisome twisting at the moment
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
'Fatherland', Pawel Pawlikowski's film about the road-trip through Germany by Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika in the summer of 1949 is in cinemas during October. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I2-...
youtube.com
FATHERLAND | Official Trailer | Only in Theaters October 23
YouTube video by MUBI
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He's not talking to Donald like a man who has no cards.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Impeach his ass 👇
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