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Scottish Republican Muso Some time in Stockholm where I was ground-rigger and stagehand Live Nation. A little Swedish. FBSI Everyday music and bitta politics. No DMs thanks Free Palestine DWTC SNP Celtic. Music linktr.ee/markhamiltonmccaffer

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 27/06/2025
Looks like we will be treated to the shoddy spectacle next week of rebellious Labour MPs being bought off, and voting in favour of hurting vulnerable people and people with disabilities because only new claimants will be hurt. That's still not ok. How can you have a 2-tier regime for disability?!
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
morning, not long now... www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBrQ...
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UK Will Collapse in 2026… And Here’s Why
YouTube video by Econet
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Morning, here's wee Gove's secret report on support for Scottish Independence as high as 72% download, read and share! yer welcome. www.ukonward.com/wp-content/u...
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
stagehanding, Cirkus Theatre, Stockholm
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Belize city summer 2000 taken by Frida
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River Speaks Out ☕💚🌍 @riverspeaksout.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
WELSH SOCIALISTS FOR INDEPENDENCE POST : All 3 leaders,all 3 parties agents of the Thatcherite Neoliberal consensus & the British establishment. There is NO distinction in policy,or economic outlook, only the speed with which they will allow predatory...
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
interesting
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Goodnight What are we waiting for
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Robert F @chippyman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Since 2014, every major argument for Scotland staying in the UK has crumbled. Brexit, broken promises and attacks on devolution show the Union does not serve Scotland. There’s no rational case left for Scotland to remain - only the denial of our right to decide our own future. HOLYROOD 2026 i🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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Stephen Flynn challenges Labour to back nationalisation of Grangemouth
YouTube video by The National
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Via Euronews: China raises tariffs on US to 125% in latest trade war escalation www.euronews.com/business/202...
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China raises tariffs on US to 125% in latest trade war escalation
Beijing is responding to the US' decision to hike levies, although China said it's unwilling to go any higher.
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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My latest blog article, the craven idiocy of Anas Sarwar and Keir Starmer in the face of Trump's bullying weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/t...
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The craven idiocy of Sarwar and Starmer
Regular readers of this blog will be well aware that I have a very low opinion of Labour’s branch manager in Scotland, the current – but soon to be former – claimant to the throne…
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duncan2024.bsky.social @duncan2024.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Time to leave the Colonial mother country and rejoin Europe
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Former MEPs head to Brussels to make Scotland's case for rejoining EU
FORMER Scottish MEPs are set to go to Brussels to reaffirm the country's desire to join the EU as an independent country.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The seven impostors.
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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
If you don't live in Edinburgh, you probably wonder what all the fuss is, about Air BnB taking over the City. Here's a 'stair' with NO permanent residents.
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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The Ocean
YouTube video by Richard Hawley - Topic
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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
They don't do 'walking away'. Well...sometimes they don't. We are the erm...Person.
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Lady4Freedom @sassylady4freedom.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Been warning the longest time I rather be dependent on the EU than America ❌
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Martin Blank🇮🇪🍀💚🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌊 @mrblack68.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
There are Scots who need to stop being afraid of Independence. Starmer is just another right-wing apologist. The Labour Party or Tory party same difference.
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Brian Mikkelsen @bam65.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The Unionist parties hate the @snp.org because with their limited devolved powers they regularly show them up with their wellbeing focused policies. Think how much better it could be with #ScottishIndependence and a left leaning Parliament having the full powers of an independent country.
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Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP @sa4dunfermline.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Pleased work has begun to transfer every adult in Scotland, currently getting DLA, to our new benefit Scottish Adult DLA. The SNP Gov is committed to ensuring everyone gets the financial support they’re entitled to & this has not changed following the UK Gov’s announcement on welfare.
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Why the Scottish Government’s free inter-island ferry travel for under-22s will tackle poverty and disadvantage and opposition criticism is just stupid
Professor John Robertson OBA The University of the Highlands and Islands campus in Lerwick, Shetland, offers a wide range of education and training courses which can help young islanders to climb o…
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
BBC Scotland is no longer even trying to hide the fact that its main goal is to protect the Labour party in Scotland, the current holders of the poison chalice "Saviours of the Union."
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Couldnae happen to a 'nicer' guy Folks I present to you Lucky Jim Ratcliffe www.carscoops.com/2025/03/ineo...
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Brexit Champ's Ineos Outraged At EU Over Trump Tariffs: "This Is What Happens When Politicians Sit On Their Hands" | Carscoops
European Commission spokesperson says the block is hopeful it can reach an agreement with the Trump administration
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Grantass 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @grantybot.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Come then on chief, sell the union to me? Again, it will be England's choice if they want a trade barrier. We'll open up the EU market we currently don't have access to which will more than replace UK trade. Where will you get your water? You haven't answered
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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
arresting people for having a peaceful discussion about political protest? smells like fascism in the UK. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Positive news for under 22 free ferry service from Shetland, Orkney and the Hebrides but sadly not mentioned in the media! talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/03/27/s...
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SNP Government to give free ferry passes to all under 22 year-old islanders in Shetland, Orkney and Hebrides
Professor John Robertson OBA In the Orcadian today but getting no mainstream media coverage: Orkney residents aged under 22 will soon be able to travel between islands free of charge, the Scottish …
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Bishop Whitewind @bishopwhitewind.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Looks like the failed neoliberal policy of austerity is going over well in England. Or whatever it's called these days 🤔
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 27/03/2025
Yet more reasons that UC should be replaced by UBI. UC acts as a low wage employer subsidy, whereas UBI provides the power to refuse to work a job until the employer offers a high enough wage. UBI would also reach more people in need and already be there under everyone's feet before they need it.
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdz8.... good track, Morning!
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Panda Bear - Ends Meet (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Animal Collective
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Anything to say about this Scottish media.
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
open.spotify.com/track/3nnYuX.... Morning
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Cold Catch
The Lewis Express, Chip Wickham · Doo-Ha! · Song · 2025
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 18/03/2025
Gives' you a nice warm feeling, don't it? #Indyclan #Scotland (posted *again* due to typo. I think I need a break 🙄)
Poster depicting the UK as very cold in Scotland, warm and toasty in the SE of England due to Scottish renewable power gong both to heat homes there whilst Scots can't afford to heat their homes properly.
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/music/2021/m...
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Greentea Peng: ‘A pop star? I have no interest in being a pop star’
Likened to Erykah Badu and Amy Winehouse, the south Londoner’s nu-soul sound looks set to reign supreme this summer – whether she likes it or not
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JohnNicolson he/him @johnnicolson.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
As Labour slashes benefits for the disabled & other vulnerable groups how do you think Labour promises compare with Labour reality? And in Scotland how do assurances given by Labour’s anti independence leaders look a decade on? youtube.com/watch?v=2I0vUA…www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0v...Rs
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John Nicolson: 'so many people feel betrayed at the moment'
YouTube video by John Nicolson
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Shortbreadfairy©️ @shortbreadfairy.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I wouldn't normally say this, but thisman needs to be hunted down by the media in Scotland and held to account. I don't care if they camp outside his house. Labour Austerity/Attacks on Welfare by Sarwars boss in Westminster WILL HIT SCOTLAND HARD. Scots will die. Yet again this Union hurts Scots
Screenshot from The National Newspaper Screenshot from The BBC. It's not the BBC in Scotland. Otherwise, it would read something like 'the SNP refuse to fund U22s Incapacity Benefits'
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
open.spotify.com/track/4fxzJn.... getting a lot of Radio6 airplay and rightly so. Good day folks!
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Never Felt Better
Everything Is Recorded, Sampha, Florence + The Machine · Never Felt Better · Song · 2025
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jpkearney.bsky.social @jpkearney.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Can you imagine Kier Starmer doing something like this? Me neither. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Please sign and share this wee petition I put together thanks. We've been getting shafted by WM for far too long chng.it/nzkS2y49N4
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
they have had years perfecting this big fat con.. but all is not lost we can put a stop to it with Independence wake up Scotland and See for yourself" nothing will ever change until we change it 👇🏻
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
GM folks, a wee share would be lovely thanks
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
GM folks, a wee share would be lovely thanks
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
chng.it/GzwQwYwHqv thanks if you have signed already, please keep sharing
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇸🇪 @markthescotsman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
lmao, the utter ridiculousness of the Scottish MSM
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