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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 11h

I knew Sinéad through Ungagged. Her opinion- her principles- where- ARE important. In a world in which principles are for sale, and hate makes money- Sinéad was unbuyable. A solid, kind person who is a huge loss to the world. Rest in power. Duine le linn na ndaoine.

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 22h

_SIR_ Jeffrey Donsldson. He is connected to the British Establishment.

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

at least 75,000 of them - family lines wiped out- children sprayed with shrapnel and bullets in Palestine... and others celebrating this. Pause to think. Have a watch of Stephen's video.

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

the world and by fascists and nazis - and into the gas chambers of the Third Reich. And it has lead to the dehumanisation of muslim children, women and men to the point of

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

women and men dying in freezing cold water. It leads to sons and daughters dying at the end of a needle. It leads directly to the murder of people on the streets of Omagh, Belfast, Enniskillen and Warrington. It leads directly to the dehumanisation of Jews across

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

places to be... if you dont believe they stole from you). The work of the Empire in those days to smash a new call for real democracy, equality and the emergence of a chance at a better world has left trauma and oppression that leads directly to children,

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

their lives. The establishment will always fool poor and working class people into fighting and killing each other. Because the rich hate paying tax on their stolen wealth (read about the Enclosures and how they fooled poor people into giving up free food, free heating and free

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Martha McTier, Lady Mount Cashell, Matilda Tone, Betsy Gray, the French Revolution and the American Revolution has bitterly divided the British Isles to the point of dehumanising people who just want a chance to live and have a say in

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

scared, rich establishment who just loathe paying taxes, the reaction by the equivalent of today's billionaires and Trillionaire to Locke, Rousseau, Paine, Frances Hutcheson, Wollstonecraft, Mary Ann McCracken and Henry Joy McCracken,

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

othering of minorities in Northern Ireland has been particularly vicious lately- especially in Belfast- a city that during the 1700s was considered one of the most progressive in Europe, if not the world at that time. The lessons learned by a

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

campaign and legacy, and the (parallel) online rise of the far right and the rhetoric and hatred towards refugees, immigrants, brown people, LGBT+ and Muslims that shocks me every time i'm in England- and is now creeping in to Scotland. The

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Stephen's video is worth watching (@stephenjreid.bsky.social ). I've worried about the Northern Ireland-isation of the rest of the UK for quite some time. From the division caused by the tories in the lead up to their (and the Lib dem) government in 2010; the brexit youtube.com/watch?v=Hni7...

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Sneaking Into The UK In a Small Boat

YouTube video by Stephen J Reid

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

change. The Tele’ was passed to me, and over the next hour, I made myself carsick pouring through the pages, finding out about this Troubled, quirky, pop-song vibrantly melancholic place I lived in.

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

across the Peace Wall onto the Falls and somewhere down the “get the f* out of Belfast" traffic jam, my da’ would burl his windie down and give one of the young guys standing yelling in the middle of the road with an arm full of “Tele's’” some

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

long love of learning. When I was 16 (1982), I laboured on building sites in Antrim and Belfast (Belfast on a Friday). At the end of the day on Fridays, Dad used to drive a yellow Farrans Transit van full of knackered builders to their turn, town or village. We'd drive

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

sister to get ready to walk to school with her. It had pictures of Australia and ‘roos and seemed very foreign. Comics, tabloids, books, magazines and my family and friends taught me. Teachers oppressed and persecuted me. School was not the place I found my life

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

did.Yes-the school reading books were THAT exciting.How in the blue blazes did anyone learn to read with that pap?I couldn't wait until P3 when I'd get the book of stories that included the short story about Joey the Kangaroo-as my sister's friend Elaine used to read it to me while she waited for my

The front page of the Belfast Telegraph newspaper dated December 29, 1983, with the main headline "WOMAN (83) DIES IN BLAZE DRAMA" alongside photos of a house damaged by fire, a news article about a department store sale, and advertisements for Bell's Whisky and Martell Cognac.

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

were very middle class with wicker picnic baskets and politeness) - except for the most exciting in the series, which was about Dick and Dora going up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Dick played Jack- and he broke his head, which was definitely the best thing he ever

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

which became my route into reading. Reading with purpose. Reading for enjoyment. I loathed the boring, fusty Dick and Dora books we got in P1/2, and really couldn't bring myself to be excited about what the characters did- their lives were nothing like mine (their’s

The front page of the Belfast Telegraph newspaper dated January 12, 1984, displaying the main headline "JAILED RUC MAN GAINS FREEDOM" above a photo of two men outside court, with a Mercedes-Benz print advertisement in the bottom-right corner.

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jack the Ripper and greyhounds. And Orwell, Hemmingway and Clive Custler, Salinger. The Face, Blitz Magazine, The NME, Sounds, GQ… And 2000ad, Warlord, The Beano, Cheeky Weekly and Cor! As mum introduced me to comics,

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

referred to as The Old Tech- The Tech being the Technical College. Years later it became part of the Tech again, and I went to it to repeat my English O'Level. I read every night- I learned a huge amount from Blyton to Richard Adams, from The Titanic through to Hitler,

A collage of vintage 1980s issues of The Face magazine, highlighting bold stylized portraits, pop culture headlines, and iconic 80s fashion photography.

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

often “unwell.”). Our house didn't have a library or book shelves- but everyone read. Reading was visible- newspapers rustled every evening- dailies and weeklies alike. And we were introduced to the local library young by mum. It was downstairs from the dentist in a building at the time

A grid collage of various 1980s music magazine covers, including issues of Melody Maker, Smash Hits, and The Hit, featuring artists such as Sade, The Smiths, Eurythmics, and Echo & the Bunnymen.

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

comic in it that i used to look forward to), and Nanny and Granda’ Mulligan would do a swap with us on Sunday (when I was older, I liked their Sunday Mirror for the “Low Life” column by Jeffrey Bernard- the always down at heal writer who was

The front cover of NME (New Musical Express) magazine dated February 11, 1984, featuring a close-up black-and-white photograph of Yoko Ono wearing sunglasses, titled "Approximately Infinite Onoverse."

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

-especially the Sundays, were swapped around. We'd bring papers down to Granny and Granda’ Scott's on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (Granny and Granda’ used to get The Sunday Post and another Scottish paper- one of the papers they got had a

Three vintage British Warlord comic books from the late 1970s laid out side-by-side, featuring action-packed, illustrated World War II battle scenes with military planes, tanks, and soldiers.

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

and Western programme on Downtown Radio. The tinny sound of medium wave, the smell, steam and condensation of boiled spuds, boiled veg and whatever meat it was that night to me, are synonymous with the rustling of a paper. Our papers

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Telegraph, and at the weekend on Saturday nights he'd go into town to buy the Ireland's Saturday Night- a weekly paper that gave the sports results- and sit in the same spot, listening to the results- and on Sunday, listening to a Country

The front page of the Sunday Mirror newspaper from March 11, 1984, featuring a large headline reading "I'M BUST SAYS ERIKA" next to a photo of Erika Roe, alongside secondary headlines like "FURY IN THE PITS."

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

almost powdery spuds that my da’ liked to have with a “bit of butter and salt” Dad loathed the potatoes he got in England when we were on holiday there- they were like “bars of soap,” he'd say. After his dinner, he'd sit in the kitchen reading the Belfast

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

down to his “floury spuds” with a meat and veg. If you are Irish you probably know about floury spuds- if spuds were good, and boiled properly in their jackets, the potatoes when peeled were like “balls of flour.” They would almost peel themselves and reveal dry-ish,

My Nanny and Granda' sitting in matching light green leather armchairs in our living room. Nanny holds an open magazine, while granda' reads a newspaper with a small, long-haired chihuahua resting on his lap.

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All of the papers I've sold/am selling on ebay at present were bought by my dad or grandad. All of the papers had something I'd thought was important at the time within its pages. When I was young, dad used to arrive home from work, most probably utterly exhausted (he was a Joiner) and sit

A dark, atmospheric black-and-white photograph from the early 1980s showing my dad sitting in deep shadow near a bright window on the right. Natural daylight softly illuminates the side of his face and arm as he sits in a thoughtful, contemplative pose with his hand resting near his mouth.

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Was Burnham's speech ACTUALLY socialist? The Richie Venton Podcast. ...what about Burnham's rhetoric about public ownership? Why change the triple lock? How does Burnham's speech fit with proposed military spending..? @thessp.bsky.social @richieventon.bsky.social leftungagged.org/2026/10/06/r...

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Richie Venton: Was Burnham's Speech ACTUALLY Socialist? - Ungagged!

Richie Venton, National Trade Union Organizer for the Scottish Socialist Party, analyzes Andy Burnham’s Labour government and incoming Chancellor John Healey’s fiscal plans. For quick access to new po...

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Was Burnham's speech ACTUALLY socialist? The Richie Venton Podcast... Is Burnham's rhetoric about public ownership? Why change the pension triple lock? How does Burnham's speech fit with his Chancellor's proposed military spending..? @thessp.bsky.social leftungagged.org/2026/10/06/r...

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Richie Venton: Was Burnham's Speech ACTUALLY Socialist? - Ungagged!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

in order to sleep, I have to take pain killers and lather myself in a couple of different creams. Anyway Persil (made by Radion makers Unilever) has always been a problem.

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

and we could only find Persil. I've been itching ever since as we brought the box back with us. For me, only prolonged use of Fairy Non-Bio stops the flare up- the itch is diminishing as I have been rewashing my clothes and our bed clothes in the past week. Annoyingly

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Radion (a Unilever brand that no longer exists). It had bright neon- orange packaging, and what felt to me on my skin, radio active ingredients. I itched like mad. This recently became a thing again (the itch) when we visited Orkney

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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've been adding newspapers to Ebay that I collected (more - stored) over the years. I was photographing some pages this morning, when i came across this story. I wonder did they fix their nasty suds? I remember back then, my mum used

A newspaper clipping dated March 11, 1984, Page 15.
Headline: Washday rashes probed
Text: "TOP skin experts have been hired by the makers of Britain's biggest selling automatic washing powder after the Sunday Mirror revealed that it was being blamed for cases of eczema. Lever Brothers, who make New System Persil Automatic, said last week they had taken on two consultant dermatologists to examine users after receiving 5,000 complaints of skin irritations. Results of tests are expected within a month."

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

From one of our founders: (to @thelastmixedtape.bsky.social) "As someone brought up about ten miles from the Garvaghy Road- & also brought up as a protestant with Orangemen in my family-this video is superb. Orange walks and triumpharist drumming never ever sat well with youtube.com/watch?v=IWVY...

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The Sound of Garvaghy Road: Music, Protest & the Drumcree Standoff

YouTube video by The Last Mixed Tape

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Glasgow Council’s Fire-and-Rehire Crisis: Richie Venton, National Trade Union Organizer for the Scottish Socialist Party (@thessp.bsky.social) on Worker Solidarity and Equal Pay...

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Janis’s verbal postcard from the Middle East; the Palestine crisis – including UN, Ed Sheeran & Burnham... Plus the SNP programme for Government and Glasgow City Council equal pay crisis.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thousands of young people could lose key disability benefits Govt could limit the Personal Independence Payment (Pip), and further strip Motability support. Hope the govt sees sense and doesn't repeat Starmer policies. Why not end corporate welfare?

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Thousands could lose key disability benefits in welfare changes

The plans risk reigniting tensions with backbench Labour MPs over welfare spending

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The @snp-socialists.bsky.social, @janis-w.bsky.social & @cllrgrahamc.bsky.social discuss; Janis’s verbal postcard from the Middle East, the Palestine crisis – inc’ UN, Ed Sheeran & Burham, SNP programme for government and Glasgow City Council equal pay crisis. leftungagged.org/2026/10/01/j...

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Janis & Graham Ungagged - "Not much happened" this summer! - Ungagged!

Middle East Vacation, Palestine Crisis, SNP Prog' for Govt, GCC Equal Pay.

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Hauntit Quine 🇵🇸 she/her @rummlie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Warriors" who bomb schools full of little girls.

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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🎯 'A man raped her' instead of 'she was raped.' Have you ever read a headline that reads "A bank was robbed by a suspect?" Nope. It's "A suspect robbed a bank."

Christina Ricci in front of a patterned wall with the text: Maybe we should start talking about how many men out of 3 will sexually assault someone... instead of how many women out of 3 will be assaulted. Lets shift the ownership..

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