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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
LATEST: The SNP’s Emma Roddick has taken Inverness and Nairn from the incumbent candidate, former SNP cabinet secretary Fergus Ewing
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Fergus Ewing fails in bid to become independent MSP as SNP candidate triumphs
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Laws on his membership of Restore bsky.app/profile/sund...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Times reports on far right support of Restore Britain. Report did not mention that Steve Laws - vocal racist advocate of 'total remigration' of all minorities from UK - is a party member, not just urging support. Party refuses to set any racism boundary for members www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Neo-fascist leaders back Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain and not Reform
Simon Birkett and Steve Laws urge followers to support the MP in move that could harm Nigel Farage’s prospects of an overall majority
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A warning that reproductive rights 'are not safe' with Reform UK has been issued after it emerged a leading anti-abortion figure is standing for the party in England's local elections
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Leading anti-abortion figure standing for Reform UK in May elections
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Research – NHS spending on private sector in Scotland only half that proportionally, in England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/04/13/r...
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Research – NHS spending on private sector in Scotland only half that proportionally, in England
In the Guardian today: Private firms providing services to the NHS including healthcare and consultancy have made £1.6bn in profits over the last two years, research reveals. The findings – on the …
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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 23/03/2026
Violence remains at record levels across the occupied #WestBank. As recently highlighted by the OHCHR, settler violence, often in the presence of Israeli forces, has escalated, driving repeated attacks, intimidation, property damage and forcible displacement of Palestinians. This must stop.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This is perfect. Honest Bob too stupid to sustain his own insincerity
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Prestwick Branch SNP @prestwickbranchsnp.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Do we expect an apology from Sarwar and Baillie and wall to wall coverage from BBC Scotland? This is all Scottish ? Labour had and it been blown out of the water. Let’s ensure we vote them out in May . #bothvotessnp #snp #yeswecan #nhs
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
BBC Scotland’s Sad Mould Alert! – Construction/renovation accounts for 50% of mould outbreaks, easily cleared up, zero deaths in UK talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/03/20/b...
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BBC Scotland’s Sad Mould Alert! – Construction/renovation accounts for 50% of mould outbreaks, easily cleared up, zero deaths in UK
Gleefully headlined today by BBC Scotland, another hospital mould story. The last time they had such fun was with hospital pigeon poo: Wall panels and insulation at two new Aberdeen hospital facili…
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Written Questions here questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
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Find written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament
Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
It is strongly in the interests of the Chancellor + Health Secretary and Prime Minister to ensure there are some realistic numbers about possible fiscal costs of status quo vs this reform *and* possible fiscal losses of this reform, to feed into the debate about the impacts, ethics and politics
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Should be more challenge from media about the £10bn dodgy dossier + the real fiscal estimates What - if any - saving does the government calculate (net) from its policy of delaying settlement by 10 years for care workers? Can't move forward without supplying the numbers bsky.app/profile/sund...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Good to hear @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social say on BBC Radio 4 Today (7.15pm) programme that "Home Office's whole premisef for these reforms is unfounded: "this £10 billiion does not add up" Govt have (v quietly) said they don't claim they'd save this! But must now provide their actual fiscal numbers!
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Forgive me if I find the idea of the Home Office coming up with its own unique economic stats rather uncompelling.
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
NEWS: Six months before the Trump admin began bombing Iran, the Department of State fired its oil and gas experts. State’s energy division got completely DOGE’d. And with it went the people who knew how to plan for a global energy crisis.
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Trump’s DOGE Cuts Slashed Staff That Handled Middle Eastern Oil and Gas Crises
Six months before going to war in Iran, the U.S. government cut staff that would have been central to the current situation.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/03/2026
French President Emmanuel Macron says France would never take part in operations to unblock the Strait of Hormuz: "We are not party to the conflict and therefore France will never take part in operations to open or liberate the Strait of Hormuz in the current context”
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Farage has sold videos of himself endorsing a neo-Nazi event, repeating extremist slogans supporting a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot etc But don't worry Nige will be along in a moment to blame it all on the BBC, or Coutts, or refugees... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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Newly unearthed Nigel Farage videos reveal support for rioter, neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans
Exclusive: Analysis of more than 4,000 of Reform UK leader’s paid-for Cameo videos also shows they contain misogynistic remarks and antisemitic conspiracies
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The Spectator here advocating for removing civil servants and replacing them with Reform UK appointed heads. It’s a step towards authoritarianism. They’ve lost it.
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Reform is right to take on the civil service blob
Last week Reform UK scandalised Whitehall. If they take power, they said, they would take a hard look at the top civil servants they inherited, and if necessary swap them out for their own external…
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Lari Don @laridonwriter.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Happy St Patrick’s Day! Here’s some Irish mythological magic for you: the Children of Lir being transformed into swans, one of @elisecillustration.com’s striking illustrations in our Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales. #StPatricksDay #ChildrenofLir #Irishmyths #kidlit #kidlitart #CelticTales
open book on wooden table, with vivid full-page illustration showing a woman wearing a brown and purple robe, standing between looming black trees, wielding a long wooden wand. Long green tendrils of magic are flowing from the tip of the wand towards and around three children and one swan in dark water at the woman’s feet. The children are transforming into swans. A girl with long hair has one wing sprouting from her left shoulder, and the fingers on her right hand are becoming long white feathers. Two small boys in the water both have a pair of wings. The fourth figure is already a swan, but with gold jewellery round its neck, suggesting it was a child moments before. The children’s faces look surprised and distressed. 
Shiny book on wooden table, a black horse leaping across top of cover,a  seal wearing golden crown at bottom, a wave of seawater curving between them. Title in green foil, centred between the horse and the seal: Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales, Magical Stories from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany. Two names in yellow at the bottom of the cover: Lari Don and Elise Carmichael
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Trump has just handed an enormous advantage to Putin’s fascist war machine by ‘temporarily’ lifting sanctions on Russian oil, and Britain’s right wing politicians and cheerleaders in the press are either silent or filming the themselves ranting about animals on bank notes…🤡
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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A sunny Saturday planting at #Formonthills last week🌱 Trees were planted with a new deer deterrent spray - no plastic tubes in sight! We look forward to monitoring the results 👍 Read more about our plastic-free planting pledge 👉 buff.ly/uZpRzUL
Two women plant trees in front of a residential area. There is lots of brash on the ground and a few mature trees in the background.
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Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · 13/03/2026
This is reprehensible.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 13/03/2026
Turkish-owned ship allowed to pass through Strait of Hormuz, minister says reut.rs/3P8drQH
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Turkish-owned ship allowed to pass through Strait of Hormuz, minister says
A Turkish-owned ship that had been waiting near ​Iran was allowed to pass ‌through the Strait of Hormuz after authorities received permission from Tehran, ​Turkish Transport Minister Abdulkadir ​Uraloglu was reported as saying by ⁠local media.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
A depressing but interesting conversation with @gregsargent.bsky.social @newrepublic.com on the miscalculation (noncalculcation?) the Trump administration made over the Strait of Hormuz. There’s gonna be a Trump premium on oil for a while.
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 12/03/2026
"It’s people like Lamin that make Glasgow, no matter the colour of your skin, or religion, or how you identify." #Glasgow
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Major fire guts historic Glasgow building
Businesses have been destroyed, but people saved, as a landmark of Glasgow's built heritage, 175 years old, is reduced to ash and rubble
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Chris Lewis @tokkyman.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Only last year Musk was appearing on a big screen in central London addressing a far-right rally and calling for civil war and the overthrow of the UK government...
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Lesley McG @lesleymac.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Carla Martin/Carlabela1 @carlabela1.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Cancel the King's visit to the Whitehouse I say.
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shardcore @shardcore.org · 12/03/2026
i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”
nigel farage tweet:

The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes.
This is the definition of woke.
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa
Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The Bank of England has only put non royals on bank notes since 1970. Farage and Co. losing their minds over a relatively modern tradition.
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I remember that JRF was very complimentary indeed, “game changer” - was that not the phrase used? What is so wrong about the BBC report is that they don’t name the charity. Now that should mean that this attack is political and not an impartial opinion!
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Dorothy Bruce @dorothybruce.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Was the Joseph Rowntree Foundation not very complimentary about the Scottish Governments schemes to help children, saying they had contributed significantly to raising many out of poverty?
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Dawn Robertson 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷 @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Per Capita basis, Scotland maybe 2 to 2.5 times UK figure. So a v successful financial sector which is why London has spent last 40 years in efforts to buy its magic. These are ratios that can embarrass Switzerland & economists & others still queue up to tell us we're too wee, too poor & too stupid
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Dawn Robertson 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷 @hayloftbooks.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Scotland is 14th richest country in the world per GDP & has assets N of a trillion. This information from French TV & pointed out by (Wee G) Wake Up Scotland
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 11/03/2026
⚖️💥 WIN 💥⚖️ We have successfully defended award-winning journalist @danneidle.bsky.social from an ‘oppressive’ claim which tried to silence him – but the law still needs reform goodlaw.social/5w7w
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WIN: High Court throws out £8m lawsuit over tax avoidance investigation | Good Law Project
We have successfully defended award-winning journalist Dan Neidle from an ‘oppressive’ claim which tried to silence him – but the law still needs reform
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Amanda Wheatley @awheatley24.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
They keep on about the Barnett formula, but the proportion we get extra from E+W is small when you compare it to our GDP. And that is before you start thinking about the stuff we pay into which we may not get proportionate amounts back from.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney Ignored Warnings About Peter Mandelson’s Epstein and Russia links – @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/03/11/k...
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Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney Ignored Warnings About Peter Mandelson’s Epstein and Russia links
Documents reveal Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to the US was rushed through despite warnings about the “reputational risks” of his financial and personal ties
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
No principles, no morality, no information, no expertise, just endlessly appeasing Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and assorted billionaires and foreign oligarchs or chasing the next headline, until suddenly colliding with reality. Bang, oof. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
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Farage U-turns again on Iran war as Reform’s policy descends into ‘chaos’
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
On the missing Epstein files: It's not JUST that DOJ is still withholding a bunch of pages re allegation he raped a teenager. It's that they only released duplicates (those sent to Ghislaine in discovery), raising questions if the originals still exist. emptywheel.net/the-alleged-...
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The Alleged Trump Victim's Claims about Blackmail Are as Important as Her Claims about Rape - emptywheel
One day before Jeffrey Epstein suicided, the woman who claimed Donald Trump had abused her told the FBI that Epstein and Trump had spoken about blackmail in front of her.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Important to seek clarity today on whether Home Office and No 10 will try to defend - or will now withdraw - a false+misleading claim applying settlement reforms to 2022-24 cohort saves £10bn Not just overspinning lifetime saving in 30 years time Gvt policy doesn't save maybe £8-10 billion of it!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I had no idea until this all started that the UAE licences and pays many influencers to live there and write positively about the regime. That puts a whole new spin on things. Propagandists in pocket of regime. It's why all the messaging is the same. www.lbc.co.uk/article/duba...
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Dubai influencers share near-identical videos with footage of Dubai crown prince | LBC
Videos featuring the caption ‘I know who protects us’ have been circulating on social media
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Janet Law @jlbps.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Deal agreed to take Ardrossan harbour into public ownership
Scottish government-owned ports body CMAL has agreed a deal which will be completed by the end of the month
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Janet Law @jlbps.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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First Minister update on the Middle East
Swinney urges diplomatic solution to bring violence to an end.
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William Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @brown666w.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The American Taliban have arrived.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Three weeks of mass exposure to Matthew Goodwin’s worldview have not done the Reform brand much good
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If this thread on North Sea oil was good enough to upset Aaron Banks it's good enough for you. Read it whilst you still can.
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