Reposted by Norrie MacQueenNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The flag of the British Batallion with the names of the places they fought in Spain against Franco: Madrid, Brunete, Quinto, Belchite, Gandesa, Pàndols... It was embroidered by women in Barcelona in 1938. Now held by the Marx Memorial Library in London. 411632
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Beer brewed in 2019 to mark the unveiling of the "Blockade-Runners to Spain" monument, Glasgow to honour the British seafarers who died breaking the naval blockades to supply the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. (spanishsky.dk/unveiling-bl...) Image kindly sent to me by Tom N. 04312
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Britain is just looking on as a handful of tax hating billionaires buy our political future. 941356428
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenCitizens Advice Scotland @citizensadvicescot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A big milestone for our Help to Claim project. It recently saw its 100,000th case of supporting people to get the financial help they need. Kieran, who works on the project, explained in this article in The Herald and Third Force News.👇 tfn.scot/opinion/here...tfn.scotHere’s 100,000 reasons why charities like ours need to exist - TFNKieran Bruce on an essential service 021
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Nigel defeats the Establishment. Meet the Establishment: 000
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026It's the image of a "winsome" Farage that does it. Provokes a uniquely umpleasant physical reaction. 010
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It won't, obviously. But then he knows that. 000
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenBilly Kay @billykayscot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026If you also follow me on X please ignore anything published there. I was hacked 24 hours ago and so far X has done nothing about it. 287
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenJonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 07/08/2026On the Keminaissance that isn't: the bad strategy and poor judgement of the Conservative leader. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comA ‘Keminaissance’ for the Tories is wishful thinking – Badenoch’s Reform-lite summer will only end one way | Jonathan FreedlandHiring a convicted antisemite as an adviser; rabble rousing at a time of violent unrest. She is still in a race to the bottom and making too many mistakes, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland 24810
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Not all mutually exclusive. But the fact that she just being left where she is might point to 3. 000
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenScott Brown @scottawbrown.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The chairs of @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social @uaces.bsky.social have written to the University of Dundee in support of the Politics and IR team, as we currently face the threat of redundancy. We are extremely grateful for the support. www.psa.ac.uk/news/joint-l...psa.ac.ukJoint Letter on Proposed Changes at the University of Dundee - Political Studies AssociationThe PSA, BISA and UACES have written to leaders at the University of Dundee in support of Politics and International Relations colleagues facing redundancy to ask them to value the excellence in teach... 045
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The Greens are being a bit coy about running in the Farage theatre piece in Clacton. If they do, they’re probably finished as a serious electoral entity. They need, for once, to read the room. 010
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Looks like “the People versus the Establishment” has dwindled to “Nigel versus Count Binface”. Not quite so resonant, but certainly more entertaining. 010
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026This is a very good point. Re-election is supposed to confer immunity from any further scrutiny. Very Trump. 010
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Don't like to talk down Scotland, but it obviously lacks ambition when it comes to embezzling your employer. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comSenior CIA official accused of stealing $40m in gold bars from agencyDavid Rush’s trial for allegedly taking 303 gold bars and $2m in foreign currency from agency was pushed to next week 010
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenThe Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 20/03/2026The Green MPs and Peers have written to Keir Starmer to urge for an end to the UK's involvement in the US and Israel's illegal war. Under international law, the UK is obliged to have no involvement in illegal military action, including the use of UK bases and UK-made weapons. 18743265
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 06/03/2026António Lobo Antunes’s exhilarating novels forced Portugal to confront its darkest moments 000
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Been listening to the excellent @natashadevon.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk this evening mediating the different factional voices poised to take over post-Ayatollah Iran. Makes Trump’s ‘not-Iraq’ quick-and-easy regime change idea seem utterly reckless. 000
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Pure sectarianism! Muslim voters opt for a party led by a Jewish man with a moral compass rather than one with no ethical sense of direction or one full of Islamophobes. 010
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenAntonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social · 10/02/2026cbn.globo.com'Houve rejeição da extrema-direita até pelo eleitorado de direita', analisa cientista político sobre eleição em PortugalO cientista político, António Costa Pinto, em entrevista ao Jornal da CBN, faz uma análise da vitória expressiva do candidato da esquerda, António José Seguro, e sobre os principais desafios do novo p... 031
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenCitizens Advice Scotland @citizensadvicescot.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Stephanie Mander, our Social Justice Policy Manager, gave evidence to the UK Parliament this week, saying that the energy market is broken. In this clip she says the onus should be on decisionmakers to fix it.👂👇🏼 023
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenDavid Clark @david-k-clark.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Adding to Starmer’s woes and questions about his judgement, the entire basis for his decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation has just collapsed. The proscription order should be rescinded at once and the Government should apologise for abusing anti-terror laws. 167
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Has the BBC now decided that Mandelson is the go-to-guy on US relations - and not a serially disgraced chancer? #BBCWATO 110
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenCitizens Advice Scotland @citizensadvicescot.bsky.social · 13/01/2026📢Urgent support is needed for those facing impossible choices. Ahead of today’s #ScottishBudget, our Policy Manager stressed the reality of debt on Reporting Scotland. Measures like a social tariff could transform lives. Everyone deserves freedom from debt—what do you want to see in the budget? 051
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenJohn Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 26/11/2025It was a great privilege to meet President Catherine Connolly this morning and to discuss the deep connections and shared values of Ireland and Scotland. 🏴🇮🇪 718350
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025🍿🍿🍿 parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...parliamentlive.tvParliamentlive.tvCulture, Media and Sport Committee 000
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Memorial to the Jewish volunteers of the International Brigades. It plays with Star of David and the 3-point of the IB. Around 20% (about 7,000) of Brigaders were Jewish. Fossar de la Pedrera, the mass grave of the victims of the Franco regime in Barcelona, Montjüic cemetery 17121
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenRTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 16/09/2025President Michael D Higgins said some of the EU's strongest members are "deciding to stay silent in watching emaciated children in what is a human, manmade, really atrocious infliction on people" in Gazarte.ieEU members 'deciding to stay silent' on Gaza - PresidentPresident Michael D Higgins said some of the EU's strongest members are "deciding to stay silent in watching emaciated children in what is a human, manmade, really atrocious infliction on people". 39434
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Perth asylum hotel this morning, No pasarán! 040
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/08/2025So, you mean 80% of graduates have benefited financially from it? And, whisper it quietly, but *UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ISN’T JUST ABOUT SALARY* 30469102
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenKirsty Hughes @kirstyshughes.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Does Starmer have a strategic foreign policy or is his government's backing of Ukraine, arms to Israel, seeking trade anywhere irrespective of human rights, Reform rhetoric on migration just an immoral mess? My blog open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhu...open.substack.comDoes Starmer have a Foreign Policy: progressive realism or immoral floundering?Does the UK have a clear or strategic foreign policy? Or is it best described as muddling through, ‘progressive realism’ or, most realistically, immoral floundering? 272
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Bewildering. 1. For the past week the Starmer has been calling for de-escalation. 2. Yesterday the US escalates - big time. 3. Today Starmer ‘supports’ this. 4. This evening the UK insists at the UN that there must be de-escalation. Is this what passes for a coherent foreign policy? 101
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 21/06/2025EXC: Labour have been branded 'deeply authoritarian' after reports emerged that the UK Government is set to proscribe Palestine Action 👇 912047
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Gaza: Open letter to EU heads of state www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gaza-...doctorswithoutborders.orgGaza: Open letter to EU heads of stateMSF International President Dr. Christos Christou and Secretary General Christopher Lockyear demand action to end the suffering in Gaza. 010
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Great initiative (and good to see that two of my favourite historical crime novelists - @stephmerritt.bsky.social and Andrew Taylor have signed). www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...theguardian.comZadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid 010
Norrie MacQueen @norriemacqueen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Very good background on the UK's paradigm shift on Israel-Gaza from @patrickwintour.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comLammy’s rebuke of Israel marks turning point after weeks of growing frustrationShift in rhetoric follows tense meeting with Israel’s foreign minister and growing global alarm over Gaza Humanitarian Foundation plan 020
Reposted by Norrie MacQueenRafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 16/05/2025This is Nick Clegg-post-tuition-fees level bad approval ratings. This is a cold, airless, lonely place in the nation's affections from which leaders do not often come back. 2820655