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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🇬🇧 The bbc british State Broadcaster Headlining News about 45 Police Scotland Officers being currently suspended for alleged crimes against women What the bbc don’t state is that there are currently 923 officers in England & Cymru who are similarly suspended 🇬🇧 Propaganda by Omission 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Police Scotland clear-up rate for ‘revenge porn’ is TEN times that in England & Wales
In the Guardian today, the above and: Police forces are routinely failing to investigate complaints about the circulation of image-based abuse, previously known as “revenge pornography”, according …
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Is Burnham sending a regiment of Gurkhas over to help in Nepal.
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
What is happening with the cairngorms fire? No coverage or updates on the news? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social , @itvnews.bsky.social
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Anne Frank's Great Cousin condemns Israel's starving and murdering of the civilians in Gaza as crimes against humanity.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 10/07/2026
If you care about a publicly funded NHS and ending corporate profiteering in public services, this is essential listening. WATCH NOW: vist.ly/5atfh
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If you care about a publicly funded NHS and ending corporate profiteering in public services, this is essential listening. WATCH NOW: vist.ly/5atfh
If you care about a publicly funded NHS and ending corporate profiteering in public services, this is essential listening. WATCH NOW: vist.ly/5atfh
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 01/07/2026
Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The real news – SNP era sees massive increases in attainment by looked after children with three times as many passing at Higher and eight times as many at Advanced Higher talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/06/29/t...
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The real news – SNP era sees massive increases in attainment by looked after children with three times as many passing at Higher and eight times as many at Advanced Higher
In the Herald today, under a frankly creepy image: Scottish Labour has accused the SNP of “breaking The Promise” after new figures showed the attainment gap between looked-after children and their …
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/06/2026
Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
So how are the DUP ers feeling today.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Even funnier. Russia kicking itself in the goolies bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
@skynewsrss.bsky.social why are you interviewing a man who is not an MP, yet calls himself the shadow minister. He’s deluded and you interviewing the oik gives him coverage.
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Do you think Farage has ever had an original thought? DEI guff was implemented by Trump and funnily enough it affected more poor white boys than anyone else. ECHR removal by REFORM will allow these misogynists to limit women’s access to work. Was Farage a plagiarist at school as well as a bully?
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Ooh look, Has Jacqui Baillie seen this? Has @jeremyvine.bsky.social ?
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Is it just me? WHY are we AND Australia doing defence deals with the USA ? Were they not shown to be sharing information with Russia about Ukraine? Do most countries not consider them untrustworthy now? Ridiculous
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I don't remember this being front page news for days? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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No action against ex-Tory worker in £1m VAT scam
Malcolm Macaskill, who was also caught laundering money, is living with a brain tumour at his home in Cambuslang.
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Indystitcher 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indystitcher.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Who will ever tell you this? Murder in Scotland now at the lowest level since 1976 and the lowest in the UK due to targeted interventions by Scottish Government
From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: May 2026 published yesterday, the above graph and: Number of victims of homicide at the lowest level since 1976. There were 45 hom…
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
When will it dawn on fellow Scot’s that the Labour government are continuing to implement the Gove/Osborne Agenda for Scotland. Strip the assets from the country, cripple our industry and energy so that Scotland turns into a McDisney tourist country.
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Can someone point this out to Labour. The tories, Lib Dem’s and REFORM PLEASE
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Catriona @catrio.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Obviously this will be the lead story on BBC Scotland tonight because we all know they are obsessed with ferries www.thenational.scot/news/2610003...
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Normal CalMac service returns to 5 islands as major ferry repaired
Several key CalMac routes are set to be 'restored to normal service' with the return of a major ferry ...
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Question: is it protocol for the VP to be saved before the President?
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So what do we think JD Vance asked the Iranians for to achieve peace? 50% of their oil revenue? Free access and control of their land by USA? Tell me what do you think
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Peter Magyar, what a refreshing speech. People deserve honesty, YES WE DO. I hope this rolls out around the world and the peddlers of lies at called out.
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Oooh is that a Muslim Country that’s helping to facilitate a peace deal? Well done Pakistan.
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Does the stock market in the USA have no qualms about having its reputation trashed? Do people think that they have no access to good stock market deals because of apparent insider trading? Why would anyone “invest” in a game where the house and its mates are playing by their own rules apparently?
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Labour liars now , always
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Dear god Pete hegseth continuous outpouring of lying. Avoidance and utter guff. Tell us what Iran had to agree too, go I . Was it to give their oil to USA?
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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French owned Somerset nuclear power station delayed by 13 years with construction costs soaring from £18bn to more than £50bn and to produce electricity costing more than 3 times that of wind power
Image Grok AI Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Thanks to Dottie for alerting me…
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
BBC Sunday morninglive, no mention of BlackScottishAdvemturers or anything that’s happening in Scotland re accessing countryside?
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Read my liar lips Sarwar,
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Yet another BBC report on the Stonehaven rail deaths fails to tell you that responsibility does not lie with the Scottish Government but in Westminster
Sir Grant Shapps – where the buck should have stopped for the three Stonehaven rail deaths BBC Scotland today, has: Stonehaven train derailment inquiry told of ‘lives ripped apart’ &#82…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
As Tory MSP tries to dig dirt in the Daily Record today, what she doesn't want you to know - NHS Ayrshire & Arran Health Board is performing well above the 90% targets and above the national average on four important targets talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/06/n...
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NHS Ayrshire & Arran Health Board may be in considerable debt but is performing well above the 90% targets and above the national average on four important targets
BBC Scotland, other Scottish media and opposition politicians have been making hay with NHS Ayrshire and Arran’s level of debt, revealed in a recent Audit Scotland report. They’ve had n…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Ayrshire Labour MP backs new nuclear power stations that have made Scotland the ‘Cancer Capital of Europe’
In August 2024, I wrote to my new MP, Elaine Stewart (Labour) in Ayr on energy security and bills in Scotland. Today, 20 months later, I get a reply in which she writes: What the SNP could do to he…
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
This is a major confirmation, from a high status independent source, but ignored by Scottish media, of what the SNP is achieving in government - share very widely including with your MP and MSP talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/07/15/l...
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Leading health think tank praises new framework for population health co-created by Scottish Government and COSLA
– ‘this is a major step forward’ –  ‘Despite the now released Fit for the future: 10 Year Health Plan, England has nothing equivalent’ – ‘England would do well to draw …
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Significant fall in ‘bed-blocking’ in just six months as Scotland’s better integrated health and care system improves further
Image –  Professor John Robertson OBA From Delayed discharges in NHS Scotland monthly Figures for May 2025 published today, we see that the number of delayed bed days occupied in a calendar month p…
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
So the @bbcnews, are allowed into Israel? Other foreign journalists? But still not in Gaza.
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Nothing from the express or indeed the rest of them can be taken as read. Every single statement regarding Scotland by the billionaire press barons turns out to be ill informed guff.
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Well I’m shocked, absolutely shocked! Who would have thought it.
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
We have had quite enough of the staged arrests and Performative Christianity, thank you very much!!
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Unilever have fired the CEO of Ben and Jerrys for company social media posts. Did u know that Unilever largest brands are: Persil, Dove, Hellmans, amongst others. Interesting.
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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They’re never going to tell you about this – 100% seen within the target for years, 79% waiting less than half the target time and numbers well above pre-pandemic levels – Scotland’s IVF programme cre...
Professor John Robertson OBA I’ve been reporting this success story, unique to Scotland, for years and BBC Scotland never reports it. From Public Health Scotland today: During the current qua…
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
MD, AKA Phil Hammond, unpacks the circumstantial evidence in the Lucy Letby trial, including her notes and online searches. While these were used to suggest guilt, he highlights alternative explanations the jury never heard. Listen on Apple Podcasts + Spotify
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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Second Opinium poll in February puts SNP at twice Labour figure and Reform UK threatening to move into second place
The Talking-up Scotland fund raiser, finishing in 5 days, to enable the recruitment of some research assistance, in order to take pressure off me [74 in June and tiring] and hopefully to further im…
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
These Brexit Files are a damning indictment of Tory PMs and Westminster dysfunction
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The Brexit report that names the guilty parties.. and why it will be so hard to rejoin
These Brexit Files are a damning indictment of Tory PMs and Westminster dysfunction
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
@lbc.co.uk You serious compared musk Zuckerberg and Besos to Carnegie?! Carnegie died with less than $1k in the bank, he built libraries and community buildings. He gave his wealth away. The triumvirate will be remembered as Neros, who fiddled while our perfect planet, burned. Dangerous
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smilingsoor.bsky.social @smilingsoor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Sad to hear Linda Nolan has lost her long fight with cancer and died at age 65. Hellish disease.
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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I knew this piece about Neil Gaiman was in the works, and still, I felt sick reading it. TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.
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There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
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The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
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