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Scottish Independence supporter. Fan of Glasgow Warriors URC winners 2024. Munro bagger (currently suspended - dodgy hip but on the mend)

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Russell @russky.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
With the BBC Scotland building at Pacific Quay on fire just wanted to enquire where BBC Board member Muriel Gray was this morning. She has some track record.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Here's my argument with Sir Bernard Jenkin MP about the report showing how the racist intimidation of Black and Brown NHS workers on home visits has been exacerbated by the far right's wall of flags.
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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 12/11/2025
🌍 An "ecosystem of different providers"— that’s Alan Milburn, former Labour Health Secretary and current health adviser, describing his vision for the NHS. But with his ties to private healthcare firm , what does this mean for a truly public NHS? 👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...
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Charles Barr @charlesbarr.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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Graham Laurie🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @grazza62.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
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Paul Kavanagh: Live on BBC right now is a full-on far-right assault
ACCUSATIONS of BBC bias are nothing new to supporters of Scottish independence
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Russell @russky.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Well well well Muriel Gray has not only overseen the disastrous and devastating fires at The Glasgow School of Art but now as the BBC Board’s Member for Scotland she is heavily involved in yet another iconic organisation going up in flames.
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Felix Sylvestris @felixsylvestris.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Believing Better Together brought us Brexit. Better Together told us the oil would run out by 2019. Better Together told us our food and energy bills would be cheaper staying in the UK. Better Together told us Scotland would lead the UK, if we didn't leave the UK.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 30/10/2025
The British media will never acknowledge the progress The SNP has brought to Scotland - progress missing from Westminster. If you care about further success consider supporting them. Unlike the English parties, they don't have billionaire donors and depend on you. www.snp.org/join/member/
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Join the SNP — Scottish National Party
Join the SNP, Scotland’s largest political party and social-democratic party of government.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 31/10/2025
Remember this? Labour doesn't. Last time Alexander was Scottish Secretary he was mired in the controversy: forced to repay £12,600 of "expenses" earned by renting out his taxpayer-funded second home.
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Carlow Weather @carlowweather.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Multiple reports of strange light moving in sky over Ireland in last 15 minutes with some describing as a like a big object with light in front but no noise and moving very quickly. Reports from Southeast, Midlands and West. Moving West to East. Anyone else spot it
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Scots Abroad for Scottish Independence @scotsabroadforindy.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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Russell @russky.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The Home Secretary “Vile child sex offender” Deported In first reading I thought that Andrew Windsor had received his ‘just desserts’ however my hope that The Westminster Government had finally got something right was premature.
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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
One of the most senior members of Charles's household was the head of royal protection when Prince Andrew allegedly asked police to dig up dirt on Virginia Giuffre, it emerged today.
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King aide was Met chief when Andrew asked for dirt on Virginia Giuffre
Lord Peter Rosslyn was head of the elite Royalty and Diplomatic Protection squad for 11 years between 2003 and 2014.
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Greymane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @greymane54.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Kuenssberg biased? hard to believe.......unless you've seen her devotion to the tories over the years of course.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be. Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
A fact that the Global Sumud Flotilla kidnapping should have unveiled but hasn't, until now, is that Gaza has been under military blockade since 2008. Those weren't Israel's waters they were 'defending', they are Palestine's, that they have been illegally besieging for 17 years
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Israel have destroyed Gaza more completely than the Americans destroyed Hiroshima when they dropped a nuke on it. It's not an accident and it's not warfare. It's Genocide.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories... "Change", my left foot. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. 🧵
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 30/09/2025
There is some uncertainty in the track of the area of low pressure arriving on Friday - here are the most likely scenarios 👇
A graphic showing the possible track of a deep area of low pressure across the UK on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th October. 

In the most likely scenario, the low pressure tracks across northern Scotland, bringing very strong winds to parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and much of Scotland, with the possibility of inland gales. The strong winds and most damaging gusts in this scenario, as well as the heaviest rain, would be across central and northern Scotland.

If the low tracked further south, there would be the potential for widespread gales across the UK, with the strongest winds and most damaging gusts across parts of Wales, northwest England and Northern Ireland. As well as strong winds, there would be widespread heavy rain across the UK. 

If the low tracked further north, the strongest, most damaging winds would remain offshore, with a risk of gales in northern England and Scotland. Heavy rain would be confined to northern and western Scotland.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Incidentally, Glasman and David Starkey - a hero to the racist far right - were nodding along with each other on almost every question, like a beast with two heads. It was profoundly disturbing and shocking to witness.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Trying again, as the original article has now vanished. ‪ I don't know who wrote this anonymous memo: archive.ph/5imGV But its themes and language overlap strongly with some of the things the "Labour" peer Maurice Glasman said in this discussion: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2025
From publicly demanding that Pam Bondi pursue his political enemies to the reported decision to close a Tom Homan bribery case, the Justice Department is essentially Donald Trump's personal law firm now.
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The Justice Department is basically Trump's personal law firm now
From public demands to go after his political enemies to reportedly closing $50,000 bribery investigations into Tom Homan.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/09/2025
From publicly demanding that Pam Bondi go after his political enemies to the reported decision to close a Tom Homan bribery case, the Justice Department is basically Donald Trump's personal law firm now.
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The Justice Department is basically Trump's personal law firm now
From public demands to go after his political enemies to reportedly closing $50,000 bribery investigations into Tom Homan.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right… What a grim betrayal of our democracy. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
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Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins
Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.
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Wullie @wullieforindy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
On this day.. in 1964.. Malta was no longer a colony of Britain. Their independence makes them the country they are today. There is nothing more positive than a country that chooses to stand in its own two feet. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 has the energy..we just need the power. maltadaily.mt/why-malta-ce...
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Why Malta Celebrates Independence Day
This significant holiday marks the culmination of our country's long journey towards self-governance and freedom from British colonial rule.
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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Both Andrew and herself are nothing more than self serving parasites news.sky.com/story/duches...
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Duchess of York says gushing message to Epstein was not what it seemed
Sarah Ferguson spoke in an email to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein about not wanting to "hurt Andrew" and being in "over-riding fear." But she now says the message was a ruse.
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Russell @russky.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Morgan McSweeney - Labour Together. When do the forensic tents get erected ?
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Starrmer will not be recognising Palestine today: recognition has to come without conditions attached www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...
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Starrmer will not be recognising Palestine today: recognition has to come without conditions attached
As the Guardian notes this morning: The UK is expected to recognise a Palestinian state on Sunday after Israel failed to meet the conditions set out by Keir Starmer in July. The prime minister is to ...
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Margaret McG🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @caledoni4.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
www.thenational.scot/news/2548110...
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BBC panned for failing to cover sold-out Palestine charity concert
THE BBC has been panned over its decision not to cover a star-studded benefit concert for Palestine
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
David Lammy: "We have to keep two states alive for the children of both Gaza, and the West Bank and East Jerusalem" How about keeping the children alive? #trevorphillips
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
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Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins
Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.
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Pete Wishart @petewishart.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
We all know where the UK is heading and the rise of Farage and the far right is now a constitutional issue. The fight here in Scotland will be between independence inspired social democracy and the far right. It's a battle we can't lose. www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
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Pete Wishart: Rise of the far right must be fought across Scotland
There is a new toxic atmosphere in our national politics – and it’s only going to get worse ...
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Jinky @ynwa1888.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Still not yet how complicit the msm is when it comes to Gaza, just watch kunsberg and lammy justifying what Israel is doing. Not a mention of the West Bank. Fkn shocking #bbcarecomplicit #lammyiscomplicit
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Reform UK receives £100,000 donation from firm that faced winding-up petition; cost borne by workers/creditors. Party funded by the super rich, tax exiles, offshore entities, hedge funds, foxhunting enthusiasts. Reward: policies that will enrich a few
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Reform UK receives £100,000 donation from design firm that faced winding-up petition
Exclusive: Interior Architecture Landscape, which faced closure by HMRC early this year, made donation in June
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
David Lammy: "What do we say to the children of a future Palestinian state..." How about, we'll stop supporting & helping Israel while it slaughters your family, starves you, blows off your limbs & murders you #bbclaurak
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J.P.Mullen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @buzzbomb11.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This clown will have a Poppy on soon. #irony
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 21/09/2025
Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions. Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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TV tonight: an essential record of the Covid contracts scandal
An investigation into the extent of greed and deception in PPE provision. Plus: weird drama Coldwater goes off the rails. Here’s what to watch this evening
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/09/2025
I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot
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I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot
Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
If you went to the Far Right March in London You don't mind that all the organisers are racist You didn't mind that all the speakers are racist You don't mind that their goals are racist So actually even if you think you aren't, you are a racist
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Joke Tamson's Wean @whyno-scotland.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Jackie Baillie- Have you had any contact with the Loch Long Jetty Association since the radiation leaks? Is everybody ok, how do your constituents feel about the spilling of toxic waste into their environment & the lack of transparency from the UK MoD? #SOS #SaveOurSeas
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pictland @pictland.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Oooft. 56% of Scots disapprove of Labour Government 22% “very unfavourable” view of Anas Sarwar Labour vote collapse from 36% on par with SNP to 16% on par with Reform Yet another fuck-up from the pro-Israeli (yet antisemitic), pro-Atlanticism, pro-banker, pro-fossil fuel digital swamp. #VoteSNP
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/07/2025
"Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and journalist who helped make the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been killed during an attack by Israeli settlers in the south Hebron hills" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Palestinian who helped make Oscar-winning No Other Land killed in West Bank
Israeli settler Yinon Levi, whom Trump removed from US sanctions list, arrested after death of Awdah Hathaleen
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/07/2025
Israel is attempting to extinguish an entire group of people by starving them to death
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Famine under way in Gaza, UN-backed experts say
IPC alert reports mounting evidence of widespread starvation and says ‘worst-case scenario’ is playing out
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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
It's now £51,000,000,000. Do deeply unenlightened Scots realise exactly how much 51 BILLION is? Energy alone, is reason for immediate Scottish Independence! There are LESS than 3 million homes, in Scotland! We'd EASILY be Energy self-sufficient, without this. Wake up, #bettertogether loonies!
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UK’s $51B Nuclear Gamble Divides the Nation as 6 Million Homes Get Promised Power and Millions More Fear the Fallout
IN A NUTSHELL 🔋 The UK government has approved the $51 billion Sizewell C nuclear power plant, aiming to provide clean energy to six million homes. 💼 The project involves major shareholders, including...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The police have been wrong-footed by this absurd attempt to ban people from caring about Gaza as much as the rest of us have. Press release from Defend Our Juries. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Policing of Palestine Action protests in disarray as police decide not to arrest sign-holders for terrorism in Totnes and Edinburgh
PRESS RELEASE Policing of Palestine Action protests in disarray as police decide not to arrest sign-holders for terrorism in Totnes and Edinburgh Action photos and videos Journalist George Monbiot j...
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Love this for him
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The famine in Gaza has been entirely manufactured by Israel. Israel and its cheerleaders are lying through their teeth about the crime of the century. Here are Israel's lies taken apart 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israels-li...
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Israel's lies about Gaza's famine taken apart
Israel has deliberately starved Gaza. Here are its lies taken apart one by one
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