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mactakeshi.bsky.social @mactakeshi.bsky.social · 9h

"I quote that not to seek sympathy nor to criticise John Swinney – I don't think he knew the news at the time, and anyway my dad Roy would have been the first to defend his right to say it. I relay it because I want you to know how it made me feel: utterly determined to prove him wrong."

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 7h

For those who were dazzled yesterday by The Speech. A sober analysis of what it actually offered. (Spoiler: Diddly squat.)

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Question pre Burnham's speech. The proposal appears to be that to pay for social care in England all pensioners in the UK should lose the triple lock. Is this fair to pensioners in Scotland where free personal care and free nursing is available to those who are deemed to need it?

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

WTF? Sorry trying not to be flippant but I hope that RBS doesn't use this as an excuse to close as the number of banks in the south of Scotland is declining at an alarming rate. Have you seen this @calumkerr.bsky.social? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Bank cash machines ripped out in Peebles in early morning raid

Two cash machines are taken away in a horsebox from the Royal Bank of Scotland in Peebles.

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wonder if certain Americans heard the words "Red Diesel" and thought 'foreign actor' rather than the stuff that powers tractors.

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

US threatening to embargo diesel exports. Makes the decision to close Grangemouth look even stupider.

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MLB Europe kindly giving us DBacks @ Padres for our final live regular season game. And all the jeopardy that comes with it.

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BBC Shortbread on Glasgow City Council pay dispute. Fails to mention which party was responsible for the pay mess (Labour) but screams that its an SNP run council now. Fair and balanced as ever.

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Branch Office has a new manager but appears to have only marginally more members than the Scottish Greens - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... - although DWL's maths doesn't quite math. The Greens could only afford to run 44 candidates for Holyrood in 2026. Labour ran a full slate. Who paid?

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Read it and weep if you're English. If you're a Scottish unionist here's an example of something that Scotgov has done for us. Kept Palantir out of NHS Scotland. www.gov.scot/publications...

gov.scot

Palantir contract information: FOI release

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tonight I am presenting Scotlandat7 on @broadcastingscotland.scot including an interview with photojournalist @jimmacmillan.com about his experiences of 9/11.

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Scotrail app. I got an anodyne response to a complaint I raised which really missed the point. But hopefully they will fix the glitch which after you've asked for an eticket sends your tickets to be printed at the station, especially at stations which are unmanned and don't have ticket machines...

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 16/09/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland and 🇮🇪 Ireland have a lot of shared history and culture. Great to see ties being strengthened. "Connolly is embarking on a trip to Scotland to strengthen links between the two countries in areas including education, language, sport and culture." www.thenational.scot/news/2655359...

thenational.scot

John Swinney to meet with Irish president during four-day Scotland visit

John Swinney is set to meet with Irish president Catherine Connolly on Wednesday as she begins a four-day visit to Scotland

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

From the Herald 30th January 2006. Also apparently a discussion on R4 the same evening.

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Please share. Working conditions in academia have been on the slide for years.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 14/09/2026

Because the "UK" government isn't.

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I saw Coyote v Acme this weekend. I appreciated seeing a film with a coherent narrative. I appreciated seeing the cartoons frpm my youth. I appreciated that it was based on the New Yorker article. But most of all I appreciated that my grown up child asked me to go with her. And it was fun.

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"So many ways to lose" is currently being read to us on the MLB Europe... #LGM

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

9/10/01. Evening. Monsoon weather in Manhattan. Here's to the staff who looked after us as we sat dripping in their restaurant. To the cop who sat stoically drenched on his horse on Broadway. To the subway staff who laughed at the bedraggled Brits. To all the New Yorkers who never got to 9/12. Vale.

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ah Bluesky. The number of Spode themed memes and wodehouse quotes were wonderful but perhaps may support the thesis debated elsewhere that we are a bunch of middle class wokerati. Still funny though.

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just received my bbc shows and tours email about a certain science/comedy show. Sadly no "apologise to Robin for all the shit you put him through while still having the brass neck to keep calling it Monkey Cage" option.

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Last night I discovered that Americans saying 'Mowette" (re the Moet et Chandon bar at the US Open) weren't being gauche and arriviste but actually pronouncing as the founder of the company would. He was Dutch and the 't' is sounded. I have no comment on whether a 'Moet' bar is gauche and arriviste.

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Caroline Keep @ka83k.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Finding it really telling right now we CAN arrest people holding signs peacefully about their political views. But we CAN'T arrest men beating women with literal sticks at Reform UK for expressing their views. So freedom of speech includes violence now for certain groups?

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

New Grand Tour. Same as the old Grand Tour but even more irritating hosts. Meh.

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

God bless the NHS. 24/7. Free at the point of need. Even on a Friday night in Glasgow...

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

NEW: The SNP have accused the BBC of double-standards for England and Scotland after the broadcaster's measly bid for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games was revealed to be just 9% of what they paid for the Birmingham event in 2022 👇

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New podcast series in production - please sign up to patreon.com/robininnce

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Reposting this absolute howler from bbc radio Scotland trying to catch out John Swinney and squarely aiming both barrels at her own feet.

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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Backboneless Burham and his cronies underestimate the capability of the Celtic Alliance and support for Independence in Scotland, and the other celtic nations. Wakey Wakey UK, calls for Scottish Independence wont go away! scotland independence End The Union 👇

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What has the BBC ever done for you? Robin Ince's answer below. Perhaps read before tuning into the latest series of IMC.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 02/09/2026

Yes, the BBC's presenter in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland really did ask this 👇. It reveals so much about their attitude to our Government. The BBC has only reported on the SNP's ambitious new Programme for Government where it can find criticism. The full Programme is published here: www.gov.scot/publications...

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 02/09/2026

After a landslide fifth term win, the SNP's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Programme for Government 2026-2031 was published yesterday. Well worth reading if you want to know its priorities. It goes unreported by the 🇬🇧 British media here which, like Westminster, never puts Scotland first. www.gov.scot/publications...

gov.scot

Programme for Government 2026 to 2031

This Programme for Government lasts for five years. The focus of this programme for government is eradicating child poverty, growing the economy, tackling the climate emergency, delivering high qualit...

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Spot the gulf in the treatment of Burnham and Swinney by the BBC when setting out programmes for government? Burnham offered platitudes and action later. Swinney set out actions which are going to happen. No analysis of Burnham. Swinney, a long way down the running order, dismissed with a sneer

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Currently engaged in a battle of wits with a financial services company. Waiting to see who blinks first... (Details withheld as it may go to arbitration) but jeepers the system has to be made more accessible. I've got a background in law and im finding it arcane. Heaven help a lay person.

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Kim Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 @kimmarshall.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Small point. In the BBC's coverage of Starmer's resignation it refers to former PMs and whether they stayed as MPs or not. It states "... Johnson [...] quit the Commons shortly afterwards." He didn't. He remained for almost a year until he flounced. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

bbc.co.uk

Why did Boris Johnson resign?

The former prime minister has stepped down as an MP, but did he jump before he was pushed?

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