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Alistair McLean

@sandy-beach.bsky.social
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Stay in a wee cottage on the Scottish coast hoping one day independence will create a progressive, inclusive society for all. We're aw Jock Tamson's bairns. Glasgow Warriors.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No One Gives A Fuck About October 7 No one cares. They used to, but then Israel spent three years showing the world why October 7 happened in the first place. After witnessing the cruelty and savagery of the state of Israel, people get it now. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/no-one-giv...
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No One Gives A Fuck About October 7
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch’s 'The Right Way' is the wrong way. By looking at what Badenoch does not say in her new description of what it is to be a Conservative, I show that this is a charter for abuse that is riddled with arrogant inconsistencies. youtu.be/AB7Nid-tTFA?...
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Kemi Badenoch’s 'The Right Way' is the wrong way
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cultural vandalism
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everything that's wrong with our nation. Everything that's broken. Everything that's corrupted. Started with her.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rich privately educated prick who wasn’t even born until 1984 recasts era of rioting, poverty and mass unemployment as Britain’s golden age. Thatcher was the worst thing that ever happened to Britain
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
She stole my milk too 🤬 #MemeForToday
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If anyone suggests that the state of the UK now has fuck all to do with what this bitch done during her tenure in No10 needs to give their heads a fukin wobble. #ToryDeindustrialisation #Austerity #CostOfLiving #WinterOfDiscontent
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Alistair McLean @sandy-beach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Only thing missing is references to antiques and trying to scam Spainards out of their up for sale houses. But otherwise, top notch!
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Next up: ‘Is your addiction to talking shit about complex scientific subjects you know nothing about helping you?’
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Highway Code update.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There's the public image: Nigel Farage, man of the people, down the pub, railing against elites, pint in one hand, fag in the other. Then there’s reality: Nigel Farage, multi-millionaire pal of global elites, sucking up to a guy he thinks is a US tycoon, champagne in one hand, oysters in the other.
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Champagne, oysters and billionaire bucks: how can anyone vote for Farage’s party?
The reality of Nigel Farge: multi-millionaire best friend of the global elite, sucking up to a guy he thinks is an American tycoon, champagne in one…
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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The legwork, and the sting, which seems to have caught out James Orr, Nigel Farage and Reform-UK was carried out by Verbatim Investigations who have dropped their own take on the story.
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Dirty Money: A Year Undercover in Reform UK
A yearlong investigation into Nigel Farage’s fundraising operation reveals a plot to break the law by bringing foreign money into British politics
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You’re a grifting evil prick who got his face eaten by leopards, that’s what you are. Now fuck off and rot
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
SNP talk of a deal with Reform to put Nigel Farage in Number 10 in return for another independence referendum should disgust every single Yes voter in Scotland. Independence can be achieved without selling our soul to the Devil or trashing our own morality. My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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SNP talk of pact with Farage should revolt every Yes voter
SNP Westminster leader Dave Doogan said he’d put Reform in power for another referendum – before u-turning. That won’t be forgotten, says Neil…
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
☘️ First Minister of The North of Ireland Michelle O’Neill telling democracy denier Burnham exactly how it is 💪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 John Swinney take note !
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Alistair McLean @sandy-beach.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Tragically, Jason Arday has died after a vicious press campaign over the last few weeks. The Government must urgently launch an inquiry into the culture of the press, and any role it had in his death. Add your name now: hackedoff.org/campaign-actions/demand-an-inquiry-into-the-culture-of-the-press
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Nobody looks down on plumbers, painters, carpenters, bricklayers and health and social care workers You’re telling on yourself, Suella
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Newsnight, billed as the most intelligent news programme on the BBC, has so far spent the entire show talking about Harry and Meghan returning to Britain. It’s all done with the breathless hyperbole of a 1930s Pathe news reel. What a ridiculous country. It’s embarrassing to live here 90% of the time
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I just knew we'd get this bollocks. Farage - like the Telegraph- doesn't want progress or anything to improve he just wants Britain to sit in a miserable slump in which he can holler constantly about "migrants" and drink pints in slow motion videos with people who pine for WW2.
Farage: Burnham's pledge
to house homeless will
attract more migrants
Reform leader says rough sleeping plan
sends message that you get 'everything for
free if you come by boat
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"We must rage against its cruelty, against the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment, against the idea that because each blow can be defended in isolation no one bears responsibility for the beating" Poignant reflections by my colleague @iainoverton.bsky.social on Jason Arday's death:
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Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty
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Alistair McLean @sandy-beach.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Alistair McLean @sandy-beach.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
11 days ago Jason Arday resigned, saying he was at his limits. The press wrote 188 more articles. 9 days later Jason Arday was found dead. Enough is enough: Demand an urgent inquiry into the role the media had on his death: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Sign the petition: demand an inquiry into the culture of the press after Jason Arday's death!
Tragically, Professor Jason Arday has died after a vicious and deeply personal campaign of press attacks over the last few weeks. The Government must urgently launch an inquiry into the culture and b...
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Gerry Flynn @gerryflynn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Scotland is an unequal society where you are either support Democracy or Unionism. There is no middle ground on this. I do not spend my time campaigning for personalities to further the future of my nation. They come and go, whereas my goal remains the same. Independence for Scotland
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The Daily Mail's best paid columnist is Boris Johnson. A man more deserving of scrutiny across the last two decades than practically anyone else in public life.
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Raibeart #YES 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @raibeart.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
GERS tells us NOTHING about an independent Scotland. Its only aim is political propaganda to tell Scotland it is too wee, too poor & too stupid to be independent. GERS is flawed, incomplete & misleading. But why don’t the SNP & @JohnSwinney SCRAP GERS? 🤔 youtu.be/6oDJrEOuaZE?... via @YouTube
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Why GERS tells us NOTHING about an independent Scotland
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Arron Banks is smack bang in middle of latest Farage scandal, threatening & surveillance journalists & the absence of reporting on his previous form in this area is…well, what? Answers on a postcard, please. It’s not me who’s being gaslit here. It’s anyone with eyes.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
#TheYearInReform Look, it's very simple. Nothing to see here. Move along. Reform UK is a party - sorry - a company built around British Patriotism and being frank with the public, and it is led by straight-talking anti-elite Nigel Farage.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
They're wearing the cats.....
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
You are being squeezed out
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John Lynch🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @calton56.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
BBC Scotland where you can look out the window and see the Main Venue and do nothing. Deliberately underbid. Imagine if it was London, Birmingham, Manchester.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Joseph Fourier described the greenhouse effect in 1824. That's 202 years of denial. And suddenly, the Telegraph has decided science is right after all. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...
Climate change is real – and the Right needs to get serious about it
The evidence is stacking up – we only have to look out of our windows
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Loving the Team Scotland tartan which I am looking forward to wearing tonight at the opening ceremony of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games!
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
NEW: A read-out from Andy Burnham's first in-person meeting with First Minister John Swinney shows he said another independence referendum if 'off limits' to Scotland
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Wildfires sweep Scotland, even the very centre of Edinburgh, yet political debate is dominated by calls for more oil and gas from the North Sea. It’s insanity - because more drilling won’t lower prices. That claim is a lie. We’re like Nero fiddling while Rome burns In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Drill, baby, drill: We’re like Nero fiddling while Arthur’s Seat burns
Wildfires sweep Scotland yet the political debate is all about extracting more oil and gas. It’s a total delusion, and believing it is an act of…
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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 23/07/2026
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. Scotland elected its biggest pro-Indy majority ever, bigger than the one which triggered the first referendum, but Burnham won't allow it to be discussed. Democracy UK-style.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 22/07/2026
Sex Matters is a charity that loves to hate trans people. And your tax money is paying for it. The stuff they spin isn’t just false, it’s dangerous. So we reported them to the Charity Commission with a dossier of evidence on their staff & trustees. ✊Help us fight back: goodlaw.social/anrx
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Great to see this, and thank you for sharing. Important journalism
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Scotland is ready to welcome the world. Honoured to open Team Scotland House in Glasgow today, ahead of the Commonwealth Games starting this Thursday.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
In a sane world there would be International Arrest Warrants naming every Oil, Gas & Coal billionaire for climate crimes against humanity not governments allowing more drilling kowtowing to billionaire greed aiding and abetting millions of heatstroke, wildfire, drought, hurricane, flood deaths
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/07/2026
I wasn’t ready for this. ☠️ 😭 Low T Pete will never live this down.
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The difference between normal people and the super rich
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
tinyurl.com/m98rdhj3 With the emergence of this report about which I posted earlier, It is clear that the ReformUK party (Reform2025 Ltd) has a problem with women. Here are the most egregious cases of misogyny, sexism, objectification and the desire to remove women’s rights that have emerged so far:
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Burnham is on a collision course with Scotland He claims he wants a new collaborative way of doing politics yet he’s already picked a fight with the Scottish govt with threats to strip power from Holyrood It’s just more of the same domineering crap from Westminster In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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'Andy Burnham? He’s just Labour’s version of Boris Johnson'
The presumptive prime minister is making the case for independence and offering the SNP an open goal thanks to his stupid comments on devolution,…
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