Reposted by RobbinsThe SNP @snp.org · 01/10/2026Andy Burnham's "National Care Service" turns out to be Free Personal Care in England. Inspired by a policy already delivered in Scotland by the SNP. 12173107
Reposted by RobbinsWoodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sharing some of the upland willows that Trust volunteers spotted on a recent trip to Dùn Coillich, Highland Perthsire. Annotated photos are meant to help with ID, but willows are famously variable and often hybridise. Share your willow finds with us ⤵️ #Uplands #MontaneWoodland #WillowID 061
Reposted by RobbinsThe Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 01/10/2026Bad news, everyone - Brexit has apparently caused the entire United Kingdom to detach from Europe and drift several thousand miles west. We are now slowly approaching Newfoundland. Can someone please let Eurostar now there might be some issues. 2621491284
Reposted by RobbinsColin Dunn 🏴 @indyposterboy.scot · 01/10/2026And another one bites the dust. #Scotland #IndependenceIsNormal 033
Reposted by RobbinsThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 01/10/2026BREAKING: First Minister of Scotland John Swinney has called on Andy Burnham to row back from his proposed changes to the triple lock on pensions It comes after official analysis found Scotland's pensioners could be almost £2000 a year worse off by 2049/50 66045
Reposted by Robbins🌻Sheila 🏴🇪🇺✌️ @sheilzz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So true 😡 #Scottishindependence 35230
Reposted by RobbinsDr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026*DJ voice* Millennials! Put yours hands up in the air if you're ready for another once-in-a-lifetime recession?? 85613
Reposted by RobbinsPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Brexit was a huge loss both for the British people and for the European project as a whole. If the United Kingdom were to make such a decision, Spain would welcome it with open arms and once again embrace our friends in Britain.” - President Sánchez 421386342
Reposted by RobbinsTom Gordon MP @tomgordonld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We talk about fairness, yet our answer is to give the same increase to every pensioner, treating the one choosing between heating and eating exactly the same as the one with millions in the bank. I can see no moral or fiscal case for above inflation rises for millionaires. 32645
Reposted by RobbinsAlastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just did an event at @crowneplaza Gerrards Cross. Don’t recall many hotels with so many great trees in the car park. No 1 Tree of the Day 71603
Reposted by RobbinsThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 01/10/2026John Swinney has called on Andy Burnham to row back from his proposed changes to the triple lock, after official analysis showed the cost to Scotland’s pensioners would be £4 billion by 2049thenational.scotJohn Swinney urges Andy Burnham to rethink triple lock changes after shock analysis 62429
Reposted by RobbinsZamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What's nice about Larkin is that his poems lend themselves to being read (dramatically)aloud. "A serious house on serious earth it is, In whose blent air all our compulsions meet" is a great line to perform. 031
Reposted by RobbinsZamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And then, finally, Larkin's Church Going, which is quiet and beautiful and which I shall not degrade with a cherry picked screenshot. Read it all. thepoetryhour.com/poems/church...thepoetryhour.com » Church Going 141
Reposted by RobbinsZamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A very happy National Poetry Day folks, I gather this year's vague theme is 'Wonder' so here's some Walt Whitman on the stars (When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer) 1174
Reposted by RobbinsThe Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A Tennessee death row inmate survived two lethal injections and is being treated in a hospital. thedailybeast.comDeath Row Inmate Survives Two Lethal InjectionsChrista Pike was sentenced to death in 1996. 10246
Reposted by RobbinsShortbreadfairy©️ @shortbreadfairy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Aye we have water but wait until the Data Centres arrive. I've a draft about water usage but paussed it because the water usage seems oot of this world. I can't believe my maths when l scale it up to the mega data centre. Now l've seen another story about uk Gov subsidizing their electricity bills🤬 065
Reposted by RobbinsRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”. 211252449
Reposted by RobbinsHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 01/10/2026The chairman of Manchester City was granted diplomatic immunity in 2020. The investigation into the club began in December 2018. www.ft.com/content/1256...ft.comManchester City chair shielded by diplomatic immunityKhaldoon al-Mubarak was granted immunity six years ago, protecting him from potential legal proceedings in the UK 126633
Reposted by RobbinsSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That 200 people volunteer for asylun seekers shows its a town where there will be an activation - again - for community spomsorship of refugees. (People who want to do that everywhere; more than those who don balaclavas; fewer than moderate sceptics re control) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comOpen doors, free meals and British borscht – is this the Ukraine-friendliest town in the UK?Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have been welcomed to Britain – but nowhere more so than in the leafy town of Crowborough, East Sussex. How are the new arrivals settling in? 1207
Reposted by RobbinsSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Diane Taylor on Crowborough divided; showing it reflects the mobilisation of those at both poles of the asylum debate, in response to the use of Crowborough Training Camp by Home Office, housing 300 asylum seekers in a town of 22,000 people www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comIt was the most welcoming town in Britain. Why has Crowborough become so divided?In 2022, they opened their arms to Ukrainian refugees. But this year, the arrival of more than 300 asylum seekers has split the community. Can the rift be healed? 5328
Reposted by RobbinsGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Compare @angelaeagle1.bsky.social's statements to those of Reeves and Starmer, who repeatedly deployed the Cauldron Principle, casting the living world as nothing but an obstacle, and a slimy, scuttling, creepy one at that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George MonbiotThe government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 315227
Reposted by RobbinsGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In terms of messaging, this is very positive, and a big shift from the nature-hatefest of the Starmer administration. Mind you, most tree-planting is unnecessary: I'd like to see much more emphasis on natural regeneration. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comHalf a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says governmentExclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather 981306304
Reposted by RobbinsByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🔴 NEW ‘Andy Burnham’s Plans to Make Britain Great Again Are the Polar Opposite of Trump’s’ By Alexandra Hall Hall Read below. ↓bylinetimes.com‘Andy Burnham’s Plans to Make Britain Great Again Are the Polar Opposite of Trump’s’If Burnham succeeds where Trump has failed, the whole MAGA agenda will be exposed, argues Alexandra Hall Hall 59933
Reposted by RobbinsCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities 17442185
Reposted by RobbinsCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...thenerve.newsThey’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising PalantirIn a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla... 37682453
Reposted by RobbinsMatthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s possible this results in rejoining the EU. A more bearish scenario: Labour agrees to get rid of its red lines on customs union and single market; it fails to resolve whether that means it actually wants to join the CU & SM; it looks to the EU with big eyes to ask it resolve the contradiction 1183
Reposted by RobbinsIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026All this 'well you've forgotten to ask the EU, you won't get your previous deal you know' commentary is so boring and theatrically dispassionate. Everyone knows that. 4476772
Reposted by RobbinsThe Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Trump has spent years demanding Americans believe he won the 2020 election, but it only took seconds for his shiny new government website to tell them he didn’t.thedailybeast.comTrump’s Own Website Calls BS on His Election LiesIt took seconds for the administration’s new website to contradict the president. 13913
Reposted by RobbinsHannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In some ways, the BBC is facing the same existential crisis that mainstream politics is. Ironically it’s going to have to take a few tips from Burnham how to have a massive rethink if it wants to survive. Shoddy. 0321
Reposted by RobbinsThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dunno if Manchester City were fraudulent, as I have not seen the underlying evidence, but that is certainly the impression conveyed by the published ruling. 6492
Reposted by RobbinsThe Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 29/09/2026The mystery surrounding what happened over the weekend at a U.K. air base housing U.S. bombers has only deepened. on.wsj.com/4AzwmHjon.wsj.comMystery Deepens Over Alleged U.K. Terror Incident After Suspects Are FreedThe release of the five men has raised questions about the initial narrative and has left officials on both sides of the Atlantic scratching their heads. 6178
Reposted by RobbinsSan Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 29/09/2026Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 21 bills into law on Tuesday that are a direct response to the Trump administration’s mass deportation crackdown.bit.lyIt just got easier to sue an ICE officer under raft of immigration bills signed by NewsomGov. Gavin Newsom signed 21 bills into law on Tuesday that are a direct response to the Trump administration’s mass deportation crackdown. 0134
Reposted by RobbinsUSA TODAY @usatoday.com · 29/09/2026A suspected shooter was arrested for murder of a first responder after an intense search.bit.lyState trooper 'senselessly murdered' during traffic stop, officials sayA suspected shooter was arrested for murder of a first responder after an intense search. 074
Reposted by RobbinsColin Dunn 🏴 @indyposterboy.scot · 29/09/2026If you're from the uk and moved to another country you are not an 'ex-pat'. You're an emigrant. 13511
Reposted by RobbinsThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 29/09/2026BREAKING: John Swinney has responded after Andy Burnham took aim at him over claims he will be the 'last prime minister of the UK' The First Minister said Burnham should let Scotland 'have a referendum and we'll see who is right' 118442
Reposted by RobbinsAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Joe Pike: "I'm here with the only person anyone wants to speak to, Sharon Graham." <Graham bellyaches at length about triple lock> Joe Pike: "So, this gives you a flavour of the debate here." NO IT DOESN'T! You literally only spoke to one person, sought out explicitly because she disagreed. 😂 1433741
Reposted by RobbinsJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026Remember, Jenrick is not stupid. He's a trained lawyer, he knows the difference between police and court bail. He's just a turd. 29459105
Reposted by RobbinsMother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026Students for Life’s Kristan Hawkins is the Charlie Kirk of abortion. Now she’s trying to find a middle ground as the anti-abortion movement grows more extreme.motherjones.comKristan Hawkins helped kill Roe. Now she’s fighting to control the movement she created.How the Charlie Kirk of abortion moved from the fringes to the mainstream. 136321
Reposted by RobbinsThe Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There's a crucial difference between the new celebrities seated at the White House dinner table and the old ones: They are not there to amuse us but to monetize us, writes @joannacoles.bsky.social. joannacoles.substack.comTech Moguls Have Stolen Hollywood’s Seat at the White House Dinner TableIt’s a power grab. And a political bargain. 0148
Reposted by RobbinsGeorge Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Essential from Alan Lockey on how young people have been failed for nearly two decades and why Burnham must stop the rot. www.arguably.uk/p/the-speech... 12913
Reposted by RobbinsThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28/09/2026Every decision he makes is the wrong one and makes the situation worse. trib.al/QZchimptrib.alThe Last Recession Wasn’t Trump’s Fault. The Next One Will Be—Utterly.Trump is following one of the Republican Party’s longstanding traditions: Burning the economy to the ground. 44920
Reposted by RobbinsThe Independent @the-independent.com · 28/09/2026James McEnroe encourages tennis players to boycott the Grand Slam after stars protest Wimbledon and French Open 793112
Reposted by RobbinsDavid Wilcock @davidtwilcock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I see your lack of power sockets and raise you a lamp screwed into the centre so that it’s hard to set up a laptop or do anything else useful. 182
Reposted by RobbinsMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The article. Do read & share. Kudos to The Independent. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...independent.co.ukBurnham edges Labour closer to rejoining EUExclusive: After Ed Miliband told the Labour conference in Liverpool that Britain’s future is at the heart of Europe, ministers say it is ‘not if but how’ the prime minister puts rejoin in the next el... 39441
Reposted by RobbinsMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026🔥 HUGE NEWS - Exclusive with The Independent. 3732278
Reposted by RobbinsThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Nicola Sturgeon will teach women from around the world how to lead under pressure in a new masterclass launching next yearthenational.scotNicola Sturgeon to teach women to 'lead under pressure' in new masterclass 0105
Reposted by RobbinsNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost. 31872636