Dreamer who loves nature, people and books. Addicted to depressing myself following politics. Supporter of Scottish independence. Proud to support a free Palestine
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STRIKE! Paying poverty wages, refusing sick pay, refusing to recognise unions and bullying our members. Disgraceful behaviour! @unitetheunion.bsky.social and our members will not stand for it. We have tried negotiating to no avail so now GFM will see the anger of our members on the picket line.
Tree of the Day
You read this right before No, here's the confirmation in colour and with a news clip Via TikTok #Israel
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Labour could have made the case for a humane immigration system that treats refugees with dignity and respect. Instead, they have fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far-right. My piece for @tribunemagazine www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/labour-is-paving-the-path-to-fascism
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
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Next Saturday 6th September, Regional Day of Action for Palestine Dublin – 1pm, Sanctions Now Assemble US Embassy, March to Dept Foreign Affairs. Join us! #SanctionsNow #FreePalestine
Happy #socialistsunday 😊 Do you believe in the promise made by our NHS that all will be cared for from cradle to grave? Then I ask you to support those of us trying to make sure that promise will be kept for generations to come. Lets follow eachother ✊️ please share 🙏
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... Every day more deaths, more injuries, more misery while Western govts make meaningless denouncement of Israel's crimes. #SanctionIsrael #HumanitarianIntervention #RecognisePalestine
...and I fear this authoritarian government will try to remove charity status from any organisation which dares to criticise their support for mass murderers of children "You’ve got to know you’re on the wrong side of history when Save The Children is criticising you" via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
The new co-leaders of the Scottish Greens have vowed to be 'relentlessly positive about the future of Scotland' and restore a narrative of hope in independence as they steer the party into a new era
The Scottish government has limited availability of Covid jabs the 75+ and immune suppressed people. No provision for front line workers. Can I suggest a journalism tracks the impact of this decision as the SG will hide from any analysis?
EXCLUSIVE: A coach who helped to set up a cricket team of Afghan asylum seekers in Scotland has said he fears for the safety and mental health of players following a display of 'vitriolic hatred' where some stay
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STARMER’S AMBITION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MAKING YOUR LIFE BETTER AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH HIS! Palantir and Blackrock all getting their feet under the table thanks to Starmer. Corporates being given Britain on a plate through SEZs (under the radar secondary legislation is seeing to that)
Deeply saddened to hear of the tragic loss of three young people in a car crash near Arisaig. My thoughts are with their families, friends and the whole community at this heartbreaking time.
Well researched article which highlights the sinister way our public infrastructure is being infiltrated.
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...
Worse when it's your Kindle!
@cates2012.bsky.social Pls don't ignore ourvoices.My family struggling with loss, illness,hunger,my baby getting weaker by day anemia.In this link, ,3other families are on brink of collapse.Share your voice help us with what you can Perhaps life will give us another chance ❤❤
The right-wing assaults on the rights of children and all people who have autism, ADHD, AuDHD and other special needs keep growing, and that's especially worrying for all those who know, care, teach and value such people for who they are and what they can do. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08...
Sick of BBC continuously promoting Reform U.K. and ignoring other parties with far more representation? Please sign the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Teacher EXPOSES harms of “Prevent” duty: "I remember when Prevent came in... It gave you, as a teacher, a legal responsibility, you had to oblige. It put a huge pressure of the teachers, it caused us all a lot of anxiety... 1/3
"Oddly the BBC never mentions this. It would be a shock to people in England to see how poorly treated we are down here." via Expats for Scotland Independence
Peter Thiel's outfit? Its as sinister as its name implies
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"The Westminster system has completely failed people and is looking to distract from those failures by scapegoating and stigmatising people who have been through unimaginable hardship." www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
This video could be a companion piece to this article. youtu.be/7Po7uwYtWjM?...
Also worth watching this interview with Greta Thunberg in Barcelona yesterday. European leaders will now reveal whether they care about International Law as they’ve so far been pretending, or whether they are simply weak powerless nobodies.
This, by @jasonhickel.bsky.social, is the clearest explanation I have yet read of why the US and UK governments continue to support the Israeli government, regardless of its great crimes against humanity. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...
"Labour came to power pledging not to grant any new oil and gas licences. Sanctioning drilling in Rosebank was the brainchild of Rishi Sunak’s previous government, and there lies the inconvenient conundrum for the Prime Minister and Labour." #Rosebank
she slayed www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/b...
For @theleaduk.bsky.social I had another look at the impact of the poorly-designed 'Making Tax Digital' policy on the most economically vulnerable workers in the economy. The added cost for disabled people at the same time as benefit cuts is inexplicable. national.thelead.uk/p/making-tax...
Since 2022, the Bank of England has quietly cost the Treasury £80bn, in a hidden transfer to commercial banks larger than many government department budgets. This is billions of pounds that could have otherwise been spent on public services. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Thank you for being #partofthebiggerpicture 🧩 YOU have raised an incredible £19,102 to help refugees to rebuild their lives here in Scotland. At a time of increased hostility, your compassion & generosity shows that a more welcoming and inclusive Scotland is possible. Thank you all! 🧡
“Food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel.” He added that the Gaza famine was “caused by cruelty, justified by revenge, enabled by indifference and sustained by complicity” #warcrimes #IsraelInhumanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Good piece of commentary from Marina Hyde. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Truss, Reeves and the Great Free Zone Con. Austerity for people, corporate welfare for the giants, this is the 'zone economy'. My latest article on Substack compares Truss and Reeves' economic policies in relation to the duopoly's deregulated free zones rollout. open.substack.com/pub/european...
📢 John Swinney MSP: “What is more depressing is that the UK Labour Government are so weak, so devoid of values and so out of ideas that they are willing to go along with it in an attempt to secure political gain.” www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
🚨NOW 402 DAYS since our nuclear test veterans - national heroes in their eighties - requested a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss how he will honour the commitment Labour made to their campaign for justice and compensation in opposition youtu.be/hSQNLn2Ocr8?...
Yes Asap
UK government says Israel’s decision to escalate war on Gaza ‘wrong’ as Israel decries ‘discrimination’.
📌 Scientists are not in the business of advancing missions antithetical to public health. ✊🏼
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...
Let’s get rid of these weapons of mass destruction and park them elsewhere.
Is Rachel Reeves going to extend national insurance to investment income? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08... Will Rachel Reeves begin to tackle the inequalities between work and wealth in our tax system this autumn? I hope so.
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
Activists in Scotland are expected to defy the ban of Palestine Action at a national demonstration in Edinburgh in defence of the right to protest 👇
While the mainstream discussions are depressingly about *how* best to remove and stop immigrants, it’s a revolutionary act nowadays to say that immigration is actually a positive thing and an essential component of a thriving country, so please join me in doing so!
LATEST: Zarah Sultana has said 'Scotland has to have autonomy' in the building of a new political party she is setting up alongside Jeremy Corbyn
For those of you who don’t like to open links or don’t have instagram. I downloaded the video for you. If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight
"Convener of the Scottish National Party’s Kelso and Jedburgh branch Ryan Whellans said, “many members have expressed to me anger and a sense of helplessness on an individual level for the situation in Palestine." #Gaza #Wellbeing #Economy #Politics #Scotland🏴
Far-right protesters in Perth opposing asylum seekers in a local hotel were outnumbered 2-to-1 by anti-racism campaigners | Sadia Sikandar @diyabutt.bsky.social
My analysis of the so-called US-UK post-Brexit trade deal reveals how what's being sold as a "trade deal" is actually part of a much larger project of democratic dismantling, and why the UK cannot rejoin the EU for the next 25 years. open.substack.com/pub/european...
Tony Blair is the architect of decades of death, destruction and instability in the Middle East — it is no surprise he wishes to associate himself with Trump’s plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza for profit.
What we're dealing with is the results of collapsing Sure Start, punishing local austerity, an exodus from mainstream schools with no adequate funding of specialist settings, a mental health crisis that ballooned on their watch , and more. Not 'overdiagnosis'. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
NEW - Labour must not award Elbit a £2 billion military deal By @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social, Paul Holden and Jack Cinamon Why are Israel’s largest arms firm and a company mired in a corruption scandal even being considered for training British troops? www.declassifieduk.org/labour-must-...
BREAKING: Labour just told a pack of lies to the UN over its DWP benefit cuts The UN Committee on the Rights of Disabled People has intervened over Labour's cuts to DWP benefits - and now, the government's shocking responses have been released www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
A massive THANK YOU to Sunday's Zipsliders who took to the Clydeside skies in support of our work! Together, with their generous donors, they raised an incredible £4,667!!! Thank you all for being #partofthebiggerpicture🧩 in making Scotland a more welcoming & inclusive place! 🧡
The far right is a threat to oor national order and will destroy Holyrood for the benefit of an ultra Uber English Party and man Fecking work your socks off to chip away at their cuntery and defend oor county. Last night l found oot that the other people l worked with voted YES & hate ReFuk Talk
Firms can’t build up profiles and dish out surveillance ads to children under 13 without explicit consent from their parents – it’s illegal. But they’re doing it anyway, and app stores are letting it happen. Join our complaint to the CMA: https://goodlaw.social/7luk
Energy bills are already too high - yet under Labour, they’re going up again. They promised lower bills, but today’s hike means bills are £187 higher since they took office. In energy-rich Scotland, this is indefensible. Only independence can deliver lower bills for good.
"Historians will debate whether it was economics, media culture or incompetence that led the Starmer government’s moral compass to break so completely that in its obsession with electoral calculation it entirely forgot that politics had a moral component too." open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/i...
The Thirst of AI The problem isn’t just electricity. AI data centres also consume vast amounts of water to cool their servers. A 100MW data centre can use up to 2 million litres of water every day—the same as thousands of households. Free to read on my Substack. bsky.app/profile/euro...
Appearances on standard BBC question time: Nigel Farage: 38 Jeremy Corbyn: 1 Now tell me the BBC don't have an Agenda...
First Friday of September ✊️
At least 80 people are wounded, including several shot with live ammunition, medical sources say.
🚨NOW 400 DAYS since our nuclear test veterans - national heroes in their eighties - requested a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss how he will honour the commitment Labour made to their campaign for justice and compensation in opposition youtu.be/hSQNLn2Ocr8?...
Leonard Cohen Canadian singer-songwriter and poet (1934–2016 youtu.be/NGorjBVag0I?...
🎧 Melanie - Brand New Key Melanie Anne Safka Schekeryk(February 3, 1947 – January 23, 2024) #DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 2️⃣7️⃣ Each day choose a song by an artist who is no longer with us. #nowspinning #musicsky music.youtube.com/watch?v=-mXl...
Brits, you should read this Labour policy paper 'Industrial Strategy Zones Action Plan', published June 23rd 2025, because this is going to impact your lives for the next 25 years, that is the duration of the licenses on all deregulated free zones. www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Absolutely massive Japan For Palestine rally an estimated 5 million people ...
The kind of thing that Starmer should be saying right now. In response to Farage’s rage bait and the media’s disgusting drlight in promoting it all at every opportunity.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" So can we get a firm plan for independence before our country is under the jackboot of this evil man. #ScottishIndependenceNow
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Labour just stripped 13 million disabled and vulnerable people of the COVID booster jab To put it simply, it’s too expensive to give disabled people the COVID booster, so the government won't be doing that anymore, writes @rachelcdailey.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Israel killed five journalists when it attacked Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday using a ‘double-tap’ attack.
A new Scottish independence campaign is being launched🏴
Reuters journalist sensationally quits - exposing Western MSM collusion with Israel Zink said Western MSM were partners in "covering up crimes, justifying genocide, and creating conditions for the targeting of journalists" - and tore up her press card www.thecanary.co/global/world...
“Across 87 aspen stands, researchers documented, in 2020 to 2021, the first new overstory cohort since the 1940s, with 43 percent of stands now containing young trees about 2 to 4 inches in DBH (Diameter at Breast Height).” Yellowstone recovering because of wolves is amazing. Go wolves go!
What you missed overnight night.🥳 Utah's gerrymandered congressional map was struck down. The judge reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Every time living standards fall, Nigel Farage blames migration. And every time, Keir Starmer nods along. People are struggling with the cost of living and blaming migration won’t fix that. Scotland deserves better - a fairer, wealthier, welcoming future with independence.
A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.
The total lack of basic journalistic professionalism of this BBC story - summarising Farage proposals with (at time of writing) no attempt to include the views of other parties, refugee advocates etc www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sunday in Melbourne, Australia. People support Palestine governments support genocide
Pensions in an independent Scotland – Part 1 bylines.scot/news/scotlan...
Israel bombed a hospital. Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded. Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV. Read that again. Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
I feel Starmer is handling immigration badly. Not because I think they should all be rounded up in camps or being forced to drown in the channel but because no one in the government seems to think it’s politically acceptable to treat these people as human beings news.sky.com/story/starme...
“Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty read out the names of the 22 members of the UK Government Cabinet “guilty of collusion with genocide” before he was arrested this morning.” #LabourFriendsOfGenocide #UKComplicitInGenocide www.thenational.scot/news/2541493...
BREAKING: Award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested after wearing a T-shirt reading 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action' Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning
Well done 👍
