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Author of 'A Murder in Auschwitz'. Currently looking for an agent for my new novel, 'Merle'. www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Auschwitz-J… Inventor of the chip omelette. 🚫 Be aware, DMs may result in a block.

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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 26m
They didn't have to - Farage had Cambridge Analytica. BBC News - MI5 chief warns against overstating Russian interference in Brexit vote www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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MI5 chief warns against overstating Russian interference in Brexit vote
It comes after Andy Burnham said Moscow had tried to interfere in the 2016 referendum.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The 'British' Press is racist and antisemitic.
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Alan Ferrier @alanferrier.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sympathy for Burnham's hand-wringing over Russian interference in the #Brexit referendum is somewhat lessened by the recollection that his predecessor explicitly asked Russia to interfere in ours. www.heraldscotland.com/news/1314005...
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Cameron's plea to Putin: help me stop Salmond
Itar-Tass, citing a source in the Conservative Prime Minister's office, said Britain was "extremely interested" in referendum support from Russia, which this year holds the presidency of the influenti...
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is genocide.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In a rare turn of events, politicians, islanders and Loganair all seem to be in complete agreement that a coherent ­island flight strategy is needed, writes Rhoda Meek ✍️
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
He needs to go. We need a leader, not a lickspittle. It NEEDS to be Scotland's peoples' choice - NOT a politician's in London.
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Verminous Scot @etkwebster.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Swinney is gonny lose voters at the next GE with this capitulation to WM sovereignty 💩 You don't ask your overlord to please be nice and give you what you want you have to take it. Our independence is ours to take not WMs to give, that way lies failure forever.
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ive been watching The Wargame on Sky. Really interesting, and if anything, it shows that we were extremely lucky not to have Michael Gove as PM. Even in a fictional scenario, he was fucking useless.
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It really isn't. BBC News - It's within DUP's gift to remove O'Neill as first minister, says Lockhart www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Drumcree: It's within DUP's gift to remove O'Neill as first minister, says Lockhart
Carla Lockhart says unionist voters are angry at Michelle O'Neill over her role in the Garvaghy Road protests.
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Another Trump triumph. apnews.com/article/trum...
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AP source: Trump, Rubio weigh firing U.S. envoy to Greece after mounting reports of improper conduct
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are considering firing U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle after a series of reports alleging she has engaged in improper and possibl...
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'm sure Saudi Arabia won't be questioning their investment in American Patriot missile systems. apnews.com/article/saud...
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Passenger terminal at Riyadh airport is struck again, a day after 12 were killed
A projectile has struck a passenger terminal at the international airport in Riyadh, a day after a missile hit the same complex and killed 12 people.
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'm surprised the Swedish supergroup have such clout. apnews.com/article/pale...
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Mahmoud Abbas postpones Palestinian legislative elections another year
Palestinians won't head to the polls next month to vote on reviving a dissolved parliament. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas postponed what would have been the first legislative elections...
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Same in Edinburgh. Again, not sure if they are still on the go.
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It had been a while since I stopped posting on X. But I have now deleted my account. I would pop on every once and a while to see what was happening, but it is full of Nazi ideology and more recently, a decent into something mulch worse. The far right certainly show their true colours there.
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I think some of the Victorian swimming pools that still exist have baths. At least modern swimming pools could offer showers.
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Why don't we do that in Scotland?!
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
in 1981 workers at Britain’s chemical defence research centre found a bucket sitting outside the complex Inside was soil taken from a remote Scottish island. The soil contained anthrax the British government had deliberately contaminated Gruinard Island a tiny island off Scotland 👇
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is about more than Trump deflecting from oil prices being his fault. He could have bought Canadian oil. BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq... Zelensky accuses Russia of striking power plant after Trump's claim of energy ceasefire - follow live - BBC News
bbc.co.uk
Zelensky says Ukraine supports 'energy ceasefire' announced by Trump - follow live
The US president, who is under pressure domestically to bring down fuel prices, provided few details in his post on social media.
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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
On Facebook, this has 2400 laughing reactions and the comments are worse. A stark example of the dehumanisation of migrants
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Shouldn't the 'Greek' owner of this tanker be sanctioned? Perhaps other 'Greek' tankers full if Russian oil destined for the US should be intercepted by Nato ships?
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
apnews.com/article/marg...
apnews.com
Margaret Hamilton, who led a software team for NASA's Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program, has died.
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Erik Prince's forces suffer battlefield loss in Congo - www.reuters.com/world/africa...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: Erik Prince's forces suffer battlefield loss in Congo, former UFC fighter among wounded, sources say
Popular former UFC fighter Tim Kennedy was among the wounded in an ambush that killed or wounded at least 20 people deployed by Vectus Global.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What an astonishing revelation. I'm shook. Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report | Christianity | The Guardian share.google/wadtpXc7GohN...
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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
He dishonours the Saltire by wearing it whilst being a racist cnut This is not who we are
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Black Scottish workers have called on both governments to take a 'zero-tolerance approach' against far-right politicians 'spreading lies and hatred' about migrants
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The US public knew this is what he was like from the first time around. Yet they voted for him again. US allies will realise that the United States can never be relied on or trusted ever again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Donald Trump says Nobel Peace Prize decision leaves 'stain' on Norway
The US president told a rally he had "never heard of" the winner, former International Criminal Court judge Navi Pillay.
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I know the answer to this. BBC News - Public executions in the US stopped nearly a century ago - why are they resuming now? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Public executions in the US stopped nearly a century ago - why are they resuming now?
The Pentagon says the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed, but experts suggest officials are reading the country wrong.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Are the nations that recognise the ICC going to impose sanctions on the United States? BBC News - US unveils sanctions on ICC in move court condemns as 'assault on rule of law' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
US unveils sanctions on ICC in move court condemns as 'assault on rule of law'
Several member states of the international tribunal, including the UK, say they "strongly disagree" with the sanctions.
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The United States should never be trusted again. BBC News - Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky criticises 'gift to Putin' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky criticises 'gift to Putin'
Ukraine's president said allowing Russia to sell petroleum products would prolong a war that must be ended.
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I need a new kitchen. BBC News - King pays Andrew's £1.5m repair bill on Royal Lodge www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
King pays Andrew's £1.5m repair bill on Royal Lodge
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was charged £1.5m in repair and restoration costs after surrendering the lease on the 30-room mansion.
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Paul Da Pork Hunt & Mr Moo (Friends with Larry) @paulcwgb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.trackisraellobby.uk
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I am a separatist.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Won't let". Do these people not understand what that kind of language does?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ireland is pushing a motion to ban Israel from FIFA and UEFA. It has made JD Vance very mad. It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
😊 (6 June 1944, Colosseum, Rome. An Italian woman inspecting the kilts of Pipe Major William MacConnachie and Pipe Major William Boyd. #WW2 #HISTORY)
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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Is Scottish Literature being cut at Edinburgh? Media and management confusion mire the University’s programme changes
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
From the Scottish Enlightenment to the Scottish Endarkenment Scotland’s universities are falling apart. Edinburgh is axing 90 degree courses in arts and humanities including single honours Scottish Literature. These are the courses that teach Scotland about Scotland In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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The Scottish Endarkenment has dawned in this dumbed-down nation
The mass closure of university courses is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the unravelling of Scottish culture today, says Neil Mackay
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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Scotland didn't vote for Brexit. Scots STILL thinking we're #bettertogether in 2026, should be ashamed and aren't really paying attention.
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am pleased that agreement has been reached on equal pay between the unions and Glasgow City Council. Thanks to DFM @jennygilruth.bsky.social for her intensive work and to all parties involved for their constructive engagement in this process.
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JC Stephenson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jcvstephenson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Big brave America. BBC News - No 10 insists RAF Fairford is safe after US withdraws bombers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
No 10 says RAF Fairford is 'safe' after US withdraws bombers
US media reported a new threat led to the bombers being removed on Sunday, following an incident near the base last week.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Suella Braverman too proud for benefits... Went to university for free Studied in Europe using the heavily subsidised Erasmus program Claimed ALL her rent, energy, council tax bills for at least 5 years Millions of pounds in expenses claims She just doesn't call them benefits
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