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Gavin Steven

@gavinsteven.bsky.social
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Scot, old and retired, but still breathing Passionate about Environment 💚, Scottish Independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and European integration 🇪🇺. Tha Gàidhlig beagan agam

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William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 4h
'The BBC axing World Pipe Band Championship is tone-deaf cultural vandalism.' Iona Fyfe, via The National archive.is/hypRE
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association World Pipe Band Championships 2023 at Glasgow Green (Image: Colin Mearns)
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Hugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social · 21h
October 7th, a reminder. The Prime Minister of Israel helped finance & strengthen Hamas to ensure that there would never be unity between Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank, and therefore never a unified Palestinian state.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4h
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure on the UK rejoining the European Union tells the BBC, "Come back. Anytime" My view: Across Europe, the message to Britain is increasingly simple: come back. We are stronger working with our closest neighbours — economically and in our shared defence.
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 4h
Why are some SNP politicians and Indy supporters getting their Y-fronts in a twist over Humza Yousaf's comments on approaching the UN They have a Decolonisation Committee and are best placed to Backlash as Humza Yousaf suggests UN could 'break indyref2 impasse' www.thenational.scot/news/2661642...
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Backlash as Humza Yousaf suggests UN could 'break indyref2 impasse'
HUMZA Yousaf has sparked backlash from figures in the independence movement after suggesting the UN could help to broker a deal to break the “impasse” between Holyrood and Westminster.
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 6h
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BBC Scotland are yet again ‘gunning for Swinney’
By Liz S Clearly the BBC are yet again ‘gunning for Swinney” on behalf of a (pro) UK party (just as they also did , and still are doing, to former FM’s who were SNP leaders). That is their BBC 24/7…
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Gerry Flynn @gerryflynn.bsky.social · 6h
1/2 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Thoughts from a colonised land🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 There are words for a larger country controlling a smaller nations trade, industries, resources, & culture whilst applying unprecedented & evolving legal mechanisms to prevent their captive nation from ever gaining Independence. Cont.
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para-handy.bsky.social @para-handy.bsky.social · 6h
The UK Unionist Establishment as the last resort to save the Union. May well launch an agent provocateur operation to justify clamping down on the independence movement. The movement for Scottish self-determination must be peaceful and non-violent and careful what is said.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 9h
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 19h
"There have been attacks by #Israeli settlers & raids by #Israel 's military across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday morning. A Palestinian was killed in an attack by Israeli settlers accompanied by soldiers in the town of Burqa, N. of Nablus." www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWVY... #News #Palestine
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Israeli settlers shoot three Palestinian farmers in West Bank pogrom
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 9h
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Things just get worse for Scotland under Westminster subjugation. Now the pension triple lock is being broken on what is already Europe’s lowest state pension.👇
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If the UK can reconsider its relationship with the EU, it cannot keep insisting that Scotland’s relationship with the UK is settled for a 'generation', Paul Kavanagh writes ✍️ 👉 www.thenational.scot/politi...
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Gerry Flynn @gerryflynn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Thoughts from a colonised land🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 London dictating to Scotland that we only get the democracy they permit us. They use their laws & courts to enchain us & stipulate we don't have the right to make our own choices! That is not equality. That is colonial control. No other argument is feasible.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEW: John Swinney has hit out at Tory plans to strip the Scottish Parliament of powers if they win the next General Election👇
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John Swinney warns Tory devolution plans pose ‘very direct threat’ to Holyrood
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Prestwick Branch SNP @prestwickbranchsnp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Let’s break free . #areyouyesyet #indy #indyref #yes #snp #independence #endlondonrule
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 21h
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Gavin Steven @gavinsteven.bsky.social · 7h
So the Westminster Govt capitulated. There's a surprise. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Most UK diplomats to leave East Jerusalem consulate, Israel says, as Miliband says 'vital services' to remain
Israel said in September it would act in response to UK sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Johnnie Walker sells 20 million Cases of Whisky a year. Each Case has 12 bottles. It's one of the World's biggest brands but is only a fifth of all Scotch Whisky. Scotch Whisky is being exploited, it can ONLY be made in Scotland.
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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The SNP @snp.org · 8h
🚨 Polls are open in the Midstocket and Rosemount by-election - they’ll close at 10pm. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Get out and vote Jeff Diack SNP!
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 8h
Some of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱'𝘀 current issue bank notes: featuring red squirrels, ospreys, otters and mackerel. www.natwestgroup.com/heritage/sub...
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Current issue banknotes | NatWest Group Heritage Hub
Details about the banknotes of the Royal Bank of Scotland in current circulation.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 9h
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 17h
They told us we were too poor… while draining us of oil, power, and profit. Jim Eadie lays it out clearly: Scotland was never too small. It was too useful — to a system built to benefit London. From energy to industry, our wealth was siphoned away… while communities were left to crumble.👇
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 18h
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Dear auld Glasgow toon sees plummeting violence but try telling that to this lot
BBC Scotland’s Debate Night indulged in slagging off Glasgow based on no figures whatsoever and one old dear remembering fondly the period from the 1930s to the 1960s when the city and its ra…
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Zionists wanted an excuse to decimate Gaza & push ahead with a Greater Israel project “Netanyahu was willing to kill his own people on Oct 7 as pretext for genocide. That’s not only terrorism, it’s treason, and it’s yet another reason this man belongs behind bars” open.substack.com/pub/councile...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
More Reform UK propaganda using a Big Lie ... "Reform are constantly being platformed on Question Time. Zia Yusuf, an unelected donor with a big gob has been on 7+ times, representing a party with 8 MPs. That still isn't enough and now they are complaining of bias against them" via Theresa O'Shea
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Ginger Weegie @gingerweegie.bsky.social · 11h
The only reason we have had to deal with an Indy NO vote, Brexit, and the rise of the far right is because BBCQT platformed those who promoted these things. Without the programme and it's Mentorn audience selectors we'd have had none of these...
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 17h
A Tory pledge to take powers away from Scotland is not really an offer to Scottish voters at all. It is an offer to Reform-leaning voters in England, writes Xander Elliards ✍️ 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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para-handy.bsky.social @para-handy.bsky.social · 9h
Unionist Party policy announcements regarding Scotland are driven on one premise. What will go down well with the English Electorate (that's the voter segment that wins general elections) The more robustly, arrogantly and autocratically they kick Scotland the better it will go down.
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@X - #MBS burdened by the Saudi crown @justis4u.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The #Zionists' #IsraelWarCrimes and #Genocide continue@
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 10h
🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Tories have given a “VOW” to their base in England, that they’ll strip powers from The Scottish Parliament in order to build Nuclear power stations in Scotland, for the purposes of powering England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 NOTE: From renewable sources alone, Scotland already produces more electricity than it uses
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11h
"Voting will open today in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election, the seat vacated by the former PM Sir Keir Starmer. 15 candidates are standing" If I lived in the constituency I'd be voting Green. Good luck Zack!
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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 10h
How can any right thinking Scot read this and not get angry? How can any proud Scot read this and not be disturbed by the obvious disdain shown to us? How can any Scot with a modicum of ability for critical thinking not read this and be desperate to be free of the shackles of Westminster?
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 10h
I am sick and tired of being telt what Westminster's plans for Scotland We are not a nursery that can be shut So badenoch, stick yer ill-fated plans up yer arse Independence today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Penguin Says Bye Bye and Leaves
ALT: Penguin Says Bye Bye and Leaves
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 21h
No Iron Dome for Scotland just Nuclear weapons and power plant so the neighbours can feel safe ☢🎯
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
UK govt plans £1bn energy bills help for poorer households. How about cutting energy profit margins, 100% windfall tax on excess profits before turning to the public purse. UK energy sector is mostly foreign-owned. Dividends paid without any UK tax deduction. End this perk, raise billions.
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Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills
Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers
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Billy @cromartie7.bsky.social · 16h
England wants to bypass holyrood to force new nuclear reactors in Scotland ARE YOU YES YET🤬
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 12h
'Come all the way' back to EU, French finance minister tells Britain
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'Come all the way' back to EU, French finance minister tells Britain
Roland Lescure tells the BBC that being in the bloc enables members to better address the challenges facing the world.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 14h
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h
Vote Green in Holborn and St Pancras and watch Labour move. youtu.be/8uLaadrAliQ?...
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Did Andy Burnham End the Green Wave? | Zack Polanski and Russell Warfield interview
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 23h
Do I really need to spell it out? English choral music is NOT part of British or UK cultural heritage. It's part of England's. Written by a member of the B̶r̶i̶t̶i̶s̶h̶ U̶K̶ English Parliament. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...
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Choral evensong has been on our airwaves for 100 years today. Long may this vibrant, thriving art form continue | Jonathan Davies
One hundred years since the BBC first broadcast choral evensong, MP and former chorister Jonathan Davies hymns a beautiful and empowering collective experience that we should praise – and protect
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Billy @cromartie7.bsky.social · 16h
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 23h
I see BBC Scotland, and the anti-independence press, all of whom made a huge song and dance about Gordon Brown's Vow in 2014, aren't too bothered that the Tories - one of the signatories of the Vow - have just ripped it up and now want to strip powers from Holyrood.
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Prestwick Branch SNP @prestwickbranchsnp.bsky.social · 20h
The Tories have in Excess of £10bn to spend . The old favourites are queuing up , Boris may be back to supervise the project . 😁😂 #areyouyesyet #yes #snp #indy #indyref
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 20h
Ireland is set to increase its state pension by €10 a week, taking annual payments to the equivalent of £13,654.98 🇮🇪 The SNP say the move is a 'wake-up call' and shows what's possible when independent countries have full control over their own finances and welfare system 👇
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Ireland’s pension boost shows what independent Scotland could do, say SNP
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A red sandstone Edwardian tenement rising above Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's Sixty Steps on the north bank of the River Kelvin in Glasgow. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #tenement
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