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Ex-American living in Scotland. Former charity development director/consultant. Mother and wife. Violinist and artist. Recently retired from Scottish Parliament constituency office. Working for an independent Scotland. #ScottishIndependence #Indy
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J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Yeah -- I remain unsubscribed to Wapo and expect to be for the rest of time.
It would be helpful if the UK Prime Minister knew that it is NOT a Union Jack, which is what is flown on ships. Ignorance on display at the very top.
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Also, even if Labour won Scotland and Wales (they certainly won't win Scotland), it wouldn't make the slightest difference to the GE outcome. That's why they can treat Scotland like something nasty stuck to their shoes while extracting everything they can from us.
Musk had his own non-US staff members in South Africa vote for Trump. My source is reliable and the information is first-hand. (The guy actually said he regretted voting for Trump!). Time for Musk to bugger off to Mars and leave us Earthlings alone.
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He has lost the plot, the government, his mind ...
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Israel kills 29 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-29-palestinians-gaza-dawn
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Coward isn't the first word that comes to mind. Gleefully filming deportees on a plane out of the UK before Trump even did it speaks of a far worse reality.
I'm not sure his two brain cells are. communicating with each other.
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Destroyer of the UK.
🏴 INDEPENDENCE means that we KEEP our HUMAN RIGHTS 🇬🇧 Staying in the UNION means that we LOSE our HUMAN RIGHTS #IndependenceOrFascism2026
Abandon Labour, along with hope.
Yvette Cooper: the kind face of fascism. What is in the Home Office water that makes its secretaries into monsters?
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↑↑ ~ Yes, an incoming illiberal and radical UK government would have absolute constitutional power ~ https://emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-incoming-illiberal-and-radical?r=7aibo&triedRedirect=true
WATCH FROM 7pm, Friday, August 22nd, 2025: Police Scotland warned over potential human rights abuses as UK slides into becoming a police state. News4Scotland, Scotland’s news without Anglo-British mainstream media gaslighting. www.youtube.com/@TheScotland...
Britain is in crisis. Doom and gloom are everywhere. The right sees this as an existential mess where everything they detest can be torn down. Meanwhile, what passes for the centre-left shifts ever rightward to appease the increasingly emboldened right, writes Gerry Hassan ✍️
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Sick.
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Drax inquiry will raise fresh questions about its billions in subsidies. Drax burns wood pellets to produce electricity. The most expensive electricity Claims of using sustainable sources are suspect. Biggest emitter of carbon. Despite being highly profitable receives billions in subsidies.
Via SNP: "The SNP has hailed the benefits of public ownership of essential services...Earlier this year, Scotrail was ranked the best large rail network operator in the UK by passengers. A survey showed customer satisfaction levels have risen from 67% to 91% since coming into public ownership" (1/2)
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The Westminster system made people poorer with austerity and Brexit - and now it’s trying to distract from those failures by scapegoating people who have been through unimaginable hardship. It is pathetic, it is cowardly and I will have no part in it. #RefugeesWelcome
Scotland’s net exports of electricity to other UK nations in 2023 amounted to 15.9 TWh (Terrawatt-hour is a unit of energy which represents one trillion watts of power used for one hour.) and worth £1.5billion. theorkneynews.scot/2024/03/30/s... All we need to do is fit a meter after independence.
Please help me share these #giveaways that I'm doing. This one is for my book on behaviour. Thank you! 🙏🏻
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This is disgusting. Adult education is a sacroscant thing and learning for life should be a sacrosanct thing
He’s going to get everyone killed.
So acc to a very agitated Malcolm Rifkind on Today we are in a national crisis re Immigration and the only solution is to leave the EHCR. - This won’t solve anything. It’s just Brexit 2.0. The absolute hysteria that has engulfed some politicians and the U.K. media is astonishing. To put it mildly.
Bacteria/bacterium, data/datum. I won't surrender!! And yes, the post was on point.
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That's cool. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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And SNP climbing.
Chicagoans will rally and march on Labor Day starting at 11 a.m. at the Haymarket Memorial to protest Trump's threat of a military occupation of the city. It's time to speak out. Join us.
Yeah, you should.
chng.it/YYjbqWWg7d Come on Starmer, do what’s right, not what’s wrong. Children are dying of malnutrition.
In a country far away from London. “The radioactive material was released into Loch Long, a sea loch near Glasgow in western Scotland, because the Royal Navy failed to properly maintain a network of 1,500 water pipes on the base, a regulator found.” #ScottishIndependence
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Since the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Westminster and their Better Together campaign have provided no support or fresh ideas for a thriving Scotland. A decade on, their vision remains stagnant, offering absolutely nothing to improve our nation’s future. Remember that come Holyrood 2026.
This isn't really about changing ECHR 'flaws' (what are they?) to any advantage, for Starmer and Labour it's about appeasing extreme right-wing voters and especially Reform voters, in the erroneous hope they can be won over to Labour. Quite sad and depressing, really. www.politico.eu/article/left...
So now he has magic powers.
What a f*cked up place the UK has become. Bad enough to convince me to vote Yes to Scottish independence in 2014, but now so bad, greedy, cruel and dystopian that I'm struggling to understand why *anyone* in Scotland wants the UK to continue. 😳😬
Where is my claymore?
She really does want to destroy the UK economy, though Reeves is doing a great, if slow-motion, job of her own.
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Ed Davey taking a strong moral stance that he won’t banquet with Trump - the man who is able to end the starvation & massacres of Gazans - when he visits in September. Trump receiving honours is honouring a genocide. We cannot let it go by without protest #r4today
Good. I won't touch Meta products, even though I miss ALL local news. At least The National has grown up.
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Surely the singular is simulacrum?
Both he and Felon 47 are getting the best health care available while destroying ours.
It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
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A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.
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From Teresa Hamadan of the Globe: Get your shot ASAP: A British cardiologist who is a vaccine skeptic and an associate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told The Daily Beast that Trump and RFK Jr. plan to ban the COVID vaccine "within months."
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One of the most important speeches of this dictatorship.
Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.
A lot of analysts and scholars need to get their heads around the possibility that the Trump administration might smash the foundations of US global dominance
Why we need migrants into the UK www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08... Without inward migration, the UK faces a massive pension crisis. To pretend otherwise is to simply misrepresent the truth: without continuing inward migration, the UK, and those who live here, will be in the deepest trouble.
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Vance says today that Russia has made “significant concessions.” Meanwhile, Lavrov says he won’t even meet with the Ukrainians because Zelensky isn’t a legitimate president. What the Admin says to the American people about Russia’s position is far different from what Russia says.
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Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
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Perhaps the real ‘two tier justice’ is that the foot soldiers who do the racist tweets get jail time, whilst the lieutenants in journalism who write the racist articles and the colonels as editors who spew out the incendiary headlines, and generals who own the papers, just get lots of money.
So an article based on a report by National Institute for Economic and Social Research funded by unknown donors. Headlines Reeves heading for IMF bailout (see full article past the paywall archive.ph/P4WgR ) The rest of the media follow the narrative Instigating a sell fulfilling financial crisis 1/
EXCLUSIVE: The UK civil service forces Scots to classify their qualifications as 'other' in job applications, the Sunday National can reveal 🗣️ 'It undercuts the whole ‘union of equals’ rhetoric. Unless you’re playing by the English education system, you’re going to be an other on this island'
Oh for God's sake.
UK Govt slammed for failing to deliver £200m Grangemouth funding. Money promised in Feb 2025 to rejuvenate the industrial site. Meanwhile, troubled steel plants in England nationalised and subsidised at short notice. Why is Scotland treated badly?
But remember, Sarwar was going to move heaven and earth to save Grangemouth. Then all of a sudden ,when London said no, it was a private company, and nothing could be done. Unlike liberty steel, which is also a private company, its just happens to be in a liebour area!!! Think about that!
Great reporting from @catneilan.bsky.social on Farage’s money
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The Government is planning to roll out mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! 38d.gs/cx2a
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The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists
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I've dumped all Zuckerberg platforms. Bluesky and Substack are better-informed, saner places. The looneys are quickly dumped.
The wholesale price of vegetables skyrocketed by a whopping 40 PERCENT in July. You can thank Donald Trump’s chaotic tariff policies.
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I see UK Lawyers for Israel popping up again today, so let me remind you of perhaps the noblest & most rational use of their boundless legal skills, namely their bid to prevent Scottish pro-Palestine activists from registering a Palestinian tartan with the official Register of Tartans, for charity
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