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Rob Connell

@robconnell.bsky.social
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Education, Socialism, Independence, Celtic, Music, #MDANT For a fairer country & safer planet. The opposite of poverty isn't wealth, it's justice. If you've ever wondered what you would have done during the rise of fascism, you're doing it now.

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chrisc35.bsky.social @chrisc35.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Strange how the national media and the SMSM are quick to put the boot into our Scottish NHS at every opportunity yet this story strangely appears to have completely passed them by. How odd. 🤔🤔.
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Look at the contrast here with what happened with the masked jackbooted thugs who descended on Dover the other day.
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Rob Connell @robconnell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
1. Bazunu is right. 2. If you want to condemn (or even boo) other players for not standing with him, then be consistent. We'd be booing every player who has played against Israeli clubs & the national side, not just the Irish. 3. At least the Irish made it an issue. Celtic FC & Scotland never have.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Burnham declares "I am not going to do politics as usual as PM.. politics has let people down. It has backed away from difficult issues like [social care]" Seconds earlier he explained he's kicking the can down the road on social care & won't do anything before the next election
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is a genuine incomprehension amongst many journalists and politicians that anyone might care sincerely about Palestinians or seriously object to their indiscriminate slaughter. The natural human response to this genocide is something they simply cannot understand.
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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gavin Bazunu has heard it 🙏 www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/spo...
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Ireland star explains decision to refuse to play against Israel
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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gavin Bazunu 💚⚪️🧡🇵🇸👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 The time has come for the rest of the players to stand alongside him and refuse to face Israel.
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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I see a lot of criticism of the SNP that they aren’t doing enough to push independence So genuine question If WM continues to deny us our democratic right to decide our own future, what are the options? Supreme Court? UN? UDI? #independenceNow #IndyRef2 #IndependenceIsNormal #ScottishIndependence
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Tam @tammckenna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You Yes Yet Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Dodgyfoo @dodgyfoo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So this scumbag stole charity money from the Bayleaf Restaurant in West Lothian and hes not yet been caught. Surely someone recognises him!
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 23/09/2026
If he wants to stem the poisonous tide of disinformation in the UK, shouldn't he start at home with the BBC, GB News and Leveson 2? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UN
PM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information Defence
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thread on the incident in the Channel.
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LawrieBhoy 🍀 @lawriebhoy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Decent men respect women. Parents, bring your sons up to be masculine feminists.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: Train drivers have warned they will boycott vehicles manufactured by a company linked to illegal Israeli settlements www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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Rob Connell @robconnell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
With his back to the wall, O'Neill reverts to type. Three centre backs, two wing-backs, three central midfielders, Nygren supporting Duran.
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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bleakly, grimly hilarious that people my age have been hearing this exact same tune on repeat for very literally our entire voting lives now. I'm 40. My daughter starts seconday school next year.
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Joe "Radical Left Scum" Fink 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇬🇱 🇺🇳🌈🇯🇴 @joefink53.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the same pic of Gaza before and after the genocide...over 73,000 Palestinians killed... ANYONE THAT CAN JUSTIFY THIS IS INHUMAN!
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hmcghel.bsky.social @hmcghel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AI Whistleblower WARNS: “We Are Not Prepared For What's About To Happen!” substack.com/@teeashby/no... @johnswinney.bsky.social @snp.org
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AI Whistleblower WARNS: “We Are Not Prepared For What's About To Happen!”
Okay, this is not a drill.
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Rob Connell @robconnell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Looks like another long hard season of "who's the least shit?" in Scotland. As for Celtic, I've been saying it for years, maybe someday it'll happen: Get the club under fan control. Throw money at Ralf Rangnick until he agrees to become DoF. Let him hire a Head Coach and restructure the entire club.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks
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606AlfieConn @606alfieconn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sorry for the long rant but it’s been building up! 🤬 For me, Celtic’s problems don’t start with one manager, one transfer window or one bad result. They start at the very top. We’ve had the same people, the same influences and largely the same thinking around the club for far too long.
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Rob Connell @robconnell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hard to get stressed about an impending years-long war with Russia when AI could destroy the world in a few months. I miss the days when we at least had a few decades before the petrochemical industry would make the planet unliveable.
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Rob Connell @robconnell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Jesus. What is MON doing at the pre-match interview, that was rude, uncalled for and embarrassing.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Rob Connell @robconnell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ed Sheeran new tour: Sun City Dubai Tel Aviv Abu-Dhabi Bergen-Belsen Wounded Knee Tiananmen Square Nuremberg **coming soon** Gaza Riviera
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Starting to look like the artist-boycott of South Africa back in the 80s. Maybe it can grow equally big? Boycotting ALL artists who support IsraHell/ refuse to use their voice against genocide? It only takes one to start the ball rolling. www.thenational.scot/news/2655742...
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Radio station drops Ed Sheeran music after listener feedback on Macklemore row
A radio station has dropped Ed Sheeran’s music after “the reaction from our listeners” to the decision to remove Macklemore from his tour over…
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington
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Gene Hunt 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @avin-oops.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Middle England today
Kombucha girl meme. Positive face: concentration camps. Negative face: concentration camps near my village
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Liz McKinlay🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @fagashlil44.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
substack.com/@peoplemustb... This is the army still supported by the rancid UK govt. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Free All Humans (@peoplemustbefree)
Following Orders they say 👇 Israeli Soldiers should be educated about the Nuremberg Trials
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A historic day in Cardiff today. Scotland, Wales and Ireland coming together to assert that the futures of our nations must be shaped by our people. If this is still a voluntary union, Westminster has no democratic right to deny our right to choose.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In the 25 years since 9/11, the United States has spent $8 trillion+ on wars that have taken millions of lives in the name of fighting "terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds here on climate, health care, housing, and education?
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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
BBC Have upheld a complaint that Pat Nevin was lying when he said that Celtic fans assaulted Shankland.
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My latest blog piece, Burnham's expected reverse ferret. Burnham is taking a leaf from Starmer's playbook and gaslighting us into believing that he did not say what we all heard him say and moreover has invented a pre-2014 consensus that never existed. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/b...
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Burnham’s expected reverse ferret
Andy Burnham has replied to John Swinney after the latter wrote to him asking for a meeting to put the process for triggering a Scottish independence referendum on a legal basis after Burnham repli…
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My latest blog piece, with Burnham's admission at PMQs that the trigger for a Scottish independence referendum should ber the same as the agreed process for a border poll in Northern Ireland, the independence cat is well and truly out of the bag. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/t...
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The independence cat is out of the bag
Speaking to The National this week after Andy Burnham – perhaps inadvertently – set out the conditions for Scotland to hold an independence referendum, polling expert Professor John Cur…
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Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Right, so we're now at the point where if a group of brown or black people book into a hotel, a Reform councillor has to go round and be shown proof they're not migrants to reassure baying mobs at the front door *This is fine.jpg*
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It is utterly deplorable that a housing project in Glasgow was deliberately set on fire because of racist misinformation spread online. Those responsible will be fully pursued and will face justice. Let's unite against racism and lies that seek to break our communities apart.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Essential thread.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat.
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Rob Connell @robconnell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Comparisons between today's black-clad right-wing gangs and Oswald's blackshirts are unfair. The blackshirts were in much better shape.
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Rob Connell @robconnell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Credit where it's due, sanctions on Israeli 'settlements' are an important first step. Much more needed, not least the immediate cessation of all types of military support to Israel, and criminal consequences for UK residents who have committed war crimes for the IDF. But a very welcome first step.
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🇬🇧 uk Government officially covers up records relating to the sleazy / fraudulent / criminal conduct of Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘best friend’, HRH Prince Andy Windsor 👑 🇬🇧 Perfidious Albion will alway protect the vile behaviour of its vile ‘elites’ 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What a ridiculous question. Once again the BBC drives a nail into it's own coffin.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
All I want is a PM that will oppose fascism.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
An RNLI lifeboat guy here, and as I’ve been saying for many years now: why is it that the public have been subjected to hate campaigns against hated enemies including rescue services, Stonewall, Amnesty International, the left of the Labour Party, the National Trust, the Proms and Match of the Day?
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Let me tell you about the Overton window:
A white, middle-aged, middle-class, clergyman in the Church of England, who volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a radical leftist seeking to bring down Western society.
That is how far it has shifted.
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annmacf.bsky.social @annmacf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Seeing the abhorrent treatment of a female heckler during Farage’s speech made me think of First Minister Humza Yousaf’s reaction to a female heckler at 2023 SNP Conference. He stopped and left the stage to speak to the woman about her issue. A gentleman and a principled leader. Respect. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised
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Rob Connell @robconnell.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Even if Nancy surprises everyone & gets the team playing well enough to win the league, that doesn't deal with the problem. Fans are demanding a club that treats the fans with respect, and has the vision & expertise to build a side that consistently competes in Europe. None of that seems likely. 1/4
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