My latest blog piece - Holyrood 2026, an election of unknowns. But it remains a certainty that only a vote for a pro- independence party which can win a seat will keep hopes of independence alive. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/h...
Just had to pass this along again, in honor of all the working people who keep America going. #LaborDayWeekend
Difference between a husky and border collie... 👀😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky
Love it!
That’s peak fares away…for good.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.
Texas maps are being litigated, Missouri is next. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Exactly!
While bills rise and Westminster sits back, I am focusing on your priorities. We ended peak rail fares to make your commute cheaper - putting more money in your pocket. That’s the difference the SNP makes. 🏴
I think this is Mentha x Verticillata, the hybrid between water and corn mint growing in abundance on the riverbank near Alnwick #wildflowerhour
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
Absolutely🙏
Science is real
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Yup Same old untruth’s become her!
The Covid Canvas – An artist’s view behind the scenes in the NHS www.channel4.com/news/the-cov...
I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children. They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
California stepping up.
Last night, at the final show of her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, Cyndi Lauper brought out Joni Mitchell (for “Carey”), Cher (“Girls Just Want To Have Fun”), SZA (“True Colors”), John Legend (“Time After Time”), and more. www.stereogum.com/2321337/cynd...
Yup! Seemingly the White House is turning into gold. Would not surprise me if he renamed it Trump Towers! ☹️
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from. I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR." It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
It is and do the folk listening to this rubbish understand what it actually entails? -
Has the “time for simple humanity” passed, Keir?
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I’ll be speaking at a big health tech conference in a couple of weeks, and my talk is about - you guessed it - NHS privatisation. It’s so important that these tech founders and start ups understand what politicians are doing. Will report back with how it goes 👍🚨💙
Did someone say it's #BlueSkyMonday? #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #Blue #Photography #EastCoastKin #ArtChallenge
Zack Polanski, "I'm really concerned that fascism is at our door" "We saw Nigel Farage run a press conference this week and Prime Minister Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer didn't even condemn the outrageous comments he made"
I think we all are! It seems to be everywhere.
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.
The #Beatles backstage at Atlanta Stadium, August, 1965
I’m posting this to over 35,000 brilliant people who care about the NHS. If everyone donated £1, we’d hit our goal in 5 mins. Can we do this? Please help us hold politicians to account! 💙🚨 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/everydocto...
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BREAKING: Government wins appeal against Bell Hotel closure for asylum seekers
Yup and could not believe the rhetoric from the councillor from Wimborne on BBC this morning. Awful!
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Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention facility to be empty within a few days.
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Time for independence!
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
A very tolerate grasshopper posed for #ColorADay #GreenSat #Insects #Bugs #NaturePhotography #Photography #Macro #BugSky
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Yup and I am sick listening to Farage at the BBC. Ten full Minutes of his toxic language tonight!
"Are asylum seekers the biggest political issue in Britain?" Asks radio 4. "We interview man who is determined to make it the biggest issue in Britain. And make it a headline every morning until it definitely is"
Just like Brexit!
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Kamala warned us.
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
Yes it’s endless. Getting to the stage of turning off the tv when he appears! How can folk be so stupid? Then I think of Brexit!
Women and children will be detained under Farage deportation plans - just think about that news.sky.com/story/women-...
The problem is his appeal to the non thinkers!
Yup!
Imagine fleeing war zones, finally arriving via dangerous boats to the UK then finding your hotel/hostel surrounded by a baying mob demanding you go back to the conflict you fled. Economic migrants are doing what Scots have done for generations: searching for a better life.
Labour heading for a crushing defeat with these figures. Reform set to dominate in England & @theSNP in Scotland. Graphics: @LeftieStats Polling: Lord Ashcroft polls.
The end is nigh for England in that case. Brexit/Farage.
This time we need to be clear about currency. UK pound during transition, then a Scottish currency as soon as possible. It is not difficult to set up your own currency look at recent independent countries like the Baltic states. www.gov.scot/publications...
The #Beatles photoshoot on Salvor, a Port of Liverpool salvage vessel. September 28 1962 📷Les Chadwick
Meanwhile, in Washington D.C., any excuse to lock innocent black men up.
Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”
Social media this morning: debunking everything Farage said. Will the media do the same, very unlikely!
Thanks to The SNP, this is where Scotland is now relative to the UK and other European countries, when it comes to child poverty. Imagine if we had the benefit of Independence. public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
Ashworth: "I've been coming on programmes, its been going on for nearly 2 years now, saying we need a ceasefire" Liar. For months after Oct 7th you & the Labour leadership said a ceasefire would be wrong. In the vote for a ceasefire in November 2023 you abstained.
The Labour response to Farage policy of leaving the Refugee & Humam Rights Convention should not be “he won’t deliver”. It should be “this is not morally right” (not “British values” even). Voters want to see authentic consistent leadership. Not debate the workability of cruelty.
Yup and I am sick listening to Farage at the BBC. Ten full Minutes of his toxic language tonight!
“I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.” —Molly Ivins
Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
"Israeli forces killed Palestinian correspondent Hassan Douhan, a journalist and academic who worked as a correspondent for Al-Hayat al-Jadida publication, in a separate incident in Khan Younis later Monday, bringing the death toll of journalists to six." www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
Don't be fooled. The only reason anyone would want to leave the European Convention of Human Rights is so that they can abuse the rights of people less fortunate than themselves. The only reason.
Nigel Farage tells his press conference that his deportations will save the UK "hundreds of billions" of pounds. He knows he can make literally anything up at this point and not be called out for it
Just like Brexit! If you want to give up your rights - vote for Farage!
The people around him are so afraid of him that they won’t even tell him how math works
Oh dear!
@toplandscaper.bsky.social
Yup not a lot of folk know that!
Scotland is a nation of immigrants. If you go back 3 generations in your family tree you are likely to find somebody born in another country. It has always been so from the first post ice age hunter gatherers that followed the game and fauna as the ice sheets retreated. 1/
"Starving people who are under constant threat of bombardment do not enjoy the same patience as suited officials in marble offices. They plead for food, water and air while politicians debate conditions and timing." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #Gaza #GazaStrip #Israel #Palestine
Money money money….
Reform: We need to ban wind turbines because they might possibly kill rare birds and ruin the landscape. Also Reform:
gift link Home renovations can be a headache. But when your home is a UNESCO World Heritage site that receives hundreds of thousands of visitors a year and (small caveat) was built atop a waterfall, renovations are more like a migraine: protracted and high-pressure.
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The silence from Yvette Cooper , Lisa Nandy & Starmer etc about Far Right 'demonstrations ' & attacks on asylum seekers is shameful. Quick to condemn & criminalise those protesting genocide but unable to string a sentence together against mob racism & vandalism .
Totally agree!
We’re working hard to make it easier to see your GP. According to today’s stats, the number of whole time equivalent GPs increased by 4%. Our investment of extra £15 million will help recruit even more.
Florida banned The Diary of Anne Frank. Whoever signed off on that should have to eat every page of that book — one by one — and choke on the lesson they’re trying to erase. 📚🔥 #BannedBooks #AnneFrank
The PM's spokesman tells lobby journalists just now that the Government is not looking at suspending the ECHR (as Reform are demanding) But he refused to condemn Farage's language about an "invasion" of illegal migrants, instead saying the PM "recognises" people's "strength of feeling" on the issue
FFS these Cookers 😡
Totally agree!
"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the Citizens of the United States ..."
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
Nigel Farage and Reform have consistently voted against the Employment Rights Bill which introduces key worker protections like statutory sick pay from day one and a ban on zero-hours contracts - is that a party you would want to trust with your human rights?
NO No No!
In a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847 [Historic Vids]
Farage doesn't have plans. He has the back of a cigarette packet. And after ten years of this nonsense, chaos and hate you'd think someone would have the bollocks to point that out.
Rain in North Fife at last. Also overdue - John Swinney suggesting Palestine arrests are unwarranted in Scotland: action to stop massive private land sales & spirited SNP/Green opposition to Reform’s call for mass deportation of asylum seekers. Listen at lesleyriddoch.com/podcast
Photos by Mariam Abu Daqqa, who was murdered yesterday by #Israel 's occupation forces in the attack on Nasser Hospital in #Gaza along with 4 of her colleagues and 16 other people: Mariam Abu Daqqa palestinefoundation.org.uk/projects/mar... #BDS #BoycottIsrael #GazaStrip #FreePalestine #Palestine
