ArgyllanderⓋ🏴🇪🇺😷
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Scottish : Independence : 🏴 in 🇪🇺 : Detest Tories (red & blue flavours) : Left / Green leaning : Vegan🌱 : Equality : Ally : Environment : Politics : Pro EU : Music fan🎶 : Covid aware😷 : He/Him : 50 something : Live in Argyll, Scotland
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www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...
NHS has issued a UK wide stay at home alert and advised people to stay away from others and ‘cover noses and mouths’.
UKHSA are incapable of saying wear a respirator & clean the air.
NHS has issued a UK wide stay at home alert and advised people to stay away from others and ‘cover noses and mouths’.
UKHSA are incapable of saying wear a respirator & clean the air.
NHS 'cover your mouth and nose' UK-wide update as H3N2 strain spreads
People are being urged to follow safety procedures as the virus spreads
www.mirror.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...
NHS has issued a UK wide stay at home alert and advised people to stay away from others and ‘cover noses and mouths’.
UKHSA are incapable of saying wear a respirator & clean the air.
NHS has issued a UK wide stay at home alert and advised people to stay away from others and ‘cover noses and mouths’.
UKHSA are incapable of saying wear a respirator & clean the air.
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From energy bills to unemployment, big claims about Reeves’ budget are travelling fast on social media. Ferret Fact Service dug into the numbers behind a widely shared social media post so you don’t have to.
Our latest fact-check: www.theferret.scot/s...
Our latest fact-check: www.theferret.scot/s...
December 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
From energy bills to unemployment, big claims about Reeves’ budget are travelling fast on social media. Ferret Fact Service dug into the numbers behind a widely shared social media post so you don’t have to.
Our latest fact-check: www.theferret.scot/s...
Our latest fact-check: www.theferret.scot/s...
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No good deed, thanks to the vicious propaganda campaigns of the billionaire media, now goes unpunished.
They hate it when anyone tries to make life better for vulnerable people.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
They hate it when anyone tries to make life better for vulnerable people.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK charities face ‘culture of fear’ as threats and violence surge
Exclusive: Charity Commission chief condemns public hostility towards staff helping women and refugees and at places of worship
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
No good deed, thanks to the vicious propaganda campaigns of the billionaire media, now goes unpunished.
They hate it when anyone tries to make life better for vulnerable people.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
They hate it when anyone tries to make life better for vulnerable people.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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REMINDER: People need to get the fuck off X.
December 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
REMINDER: People need to get the fuck off X.
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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Also- it’s time. Being going back and forth on this decision for over a year. But I can’t in all conscience stay. In a week or so, Bluesky it is wholesale.
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Also- it’s time. Being going back and forth on this decision for over a year. But I can’t in all conscience stay. In a week or so, Bluesky it is wholesale.
Get me outta here.
Nowcast Update - LAB & CON Gain at the expense of GRN & RFM post-budget:
RFM: 331 (+326), 28.9% (12 Maj.)
LAB: 102 (-309), 20.2%
LDM: 74 (+2), 12.3%
CON: 50 (-71), 19.7%
SNP: 45 (+36), 2.7%
GRN: 13 (+9), 12.0%
PLC: 7 (+3), 1.1%
Oth: 9 (+4), 3.2%
electionmaps.uk/nowcast
RFM: 331 (+326), 28.9% (12 Maj.)
LAB: 102 (-309), 20.2%
LDM: 74 (+2), 12.3%
CON: 50 (-71), 19.7%
SNP: 45 (+36), 2.7%
GRN: 13 (+9), 12.0%
PLC: 7 (+3), 1.1%
Oth: 9 (+4), 3.2%
electionmaps.uk/nowcast
December 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Get me outta here.
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It's wild how quickly Labour has turned into an overtly right wing party
December 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's wild how quickly Labour has turned into an overtly right wing party
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We were attacked by fascists on Saturday.
On Saturday, the Aberdeen Trades Union Council held its annual St Andrew's Day parade along with community groups and refugees. It was explicitly a march against fascism, so we were expecting fascists to show up. And they did.
1/
On Saturday, the Aberdeen Trades Union Council held its annual St Andrew's Day parade along with community groups and refugees. It was explicitly a march against fascism, so we were expecting fascists to show up. And they did.
1/
December 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We were attacked by fascists on Saturday.
On Saturday, the Aberdeen Trades Union Council held its annual St Andrew's Day parade along with community groups and refugees. It was explicitly a march against fascism, so we were expecting fascists to show up. And they did.
1/
On Saturday, the Aberdeen Trades Union Council held its annual St Andrew's Day parade along with community groups and refugees. It was explicitly a march against fascism, so we were expecting fascists to show up. And they did.
1/
Looks like the tardis will be empty for a while. 😂
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Looks like the tardis will be empty for a while. 😂
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Here's the unvarnished reality of yesterday's pharmaceutical trade deal with the USA: Labour caved in. Folded. Blew it.
To avoid Trump's tariffs, they have committed the NHS to paying very significantly more for new drugs ie all the lifesaving medicines of the future.
archive.ph/2025.12.01-1...
To avoid Trump's tariffs, they have committed the NHS to paying very significantly more for new drugs ie all the lifesaving medicines of the future.
archive.ph/2025.12.01-1...
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Here's the unvarnished reality of yesterday's pharmaceutical trade deal with the USA: Labour caved in. Folded. Blew it.
To avoid Trump's tariffs, they have committed the NHS to paying very significantly more for new drugs ie all the lifesaving medicines of the future.
archive.ph/2025.12.01-1...
To avoid Trump's tariffs, they have committed the NHS to paying very significantly more for new drugs ie all the lifesaving medicines of the future.
archive.ph/2025.12.01-1...
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Palantir’s software is helping ICE track undocumented immigrants and deport them faster, according to federal procurement filings and interviews with people who have knowledge of the project.
How Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
“The truly progressive position on immigration” is “extreme skepticism,” says Alex Karp, a longtime Democrat and the data-mining company’s chief executive.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Palantir’s software is helping ICE track undocumented immigrants and deport them faster, according to federal procurement filings and interviews with people who have knowledge of the project.
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1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
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Yep, the Bain Principle. Who cares if it goes against the needs of the Scottish people? Certainly not Labour. Shocking bunch. My granny and my da are birlin in their graves. This Labour Party is a disgrace and a travesty
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Yep, the Bain Principle. Who cares if it goes against the needs of the Scottish people? Certainly not Labour. Shocking bunch. My granny and my da are birlin in their graves. This Labour Party is a disgrace and a travesty
Covid inquiry inadvertently makes case for indy: "Scotgov too dependent on WM".
It's ironic, but with no control over borders, or method to initiate lockdown & no powers for furlough, they did alright. No mention of politicisation of pamdemic by unionist politicos & MSM. But yeah blame scotgov.🤬
It's ironic, but with no control over borders, or method to initiate lockdown & no powers for furlough, they did alright. No mention of politicisation of pamdemic by unionist politicos & MSM. But yeah blame scotgov.🤬
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Covid inquiry inadvertently makes case for indy: "Scotgov too dependent on WM".
It's ironic, but with no control over borders, or method to initiate lockdown & no powers for furlough, they did alright. No mention of politicisation of pamdemic by unionist politicos & MSM. But yeah blame scotgov.🤬
It's ironic, but with no control over borders, or method to initiate lockdown & no powers for furlough, they did alright. No mention of politicisation of pamdemic by unionist politicos & MSM. But yeah blame scotgov.🤬
A govt deliberately trying to undermine the NHS & make it fail, to flog it off privately, by demonising NHS workers because they are 'immigrants'. It does make you wonder if that is just the plan. Utterly despicable but very on form.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A govt deliberately trying to undermine the NHS & make it fail, to flog it off privately, by demonising NHS workers because they are 'immigrants'. It does make you wonder if that is just the plan. Utterly despicable but very on form.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Scotland’s wild World Cup moment was built by collective will and individual brilliance | Ewan Murray
Scotland’s wild World Cup moment was built by collective will and individual brilliance | Ewan Murray
Steve Clarke’s history-making team has a ferocious work ethic that should typify what Scotland stands for
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Scotland’s wild World Cup moment was built by collective will and individual brilliance | Ewan Murray
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It’s pitiful to watch Labour cynically toy with ideas, hoping to win support, which should have come naturally to the government in its first days: like repealing the two-child benefit cap. It’s too late. If Labour’s guiding mission isn’t eradicating child poverty then what’s the point of the party?
Scotland will be Starmer’s Waterloo … unless he takes this one daring gamble
The Labour Party is now fighting like cats in a sack, and the Prime Minister risks being ousted after May’s elections unless he is brave enough to…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
It’s pitiful to watch Labour cynically toy with ideas, hoping to win support, which should have come naturally to the government in its first days: like repealing the two-child benefit cap. It’s too late. If Labour’s guiding mission isn’t eradicating child poverty then what’s the point of the party?
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I'm a UK pensioner living in Spain, without the benefit of a winter fuel allowance.
My pitiful UK state pension is my only source of income yet I can afford to heat my home.
Would that more pensioners living in Blighty could say the same.
My pitiful UK state pension is my only source of income yet I can afford to heat my home.
Would that more pensioners living in Blighty could say the same.
Spain’s rapid deployment of wind and solar energy has slashed the influence of expensive gas and coal plants on electricity prices by 75% since 2019..... As a result, the country is now one of the cheapest electricity markets in Europe.
theprogressplaybook.com/2025/10/02/i...
theprogressplaybook.com/2025/10/02/i...
In numbers: Renewables have turned Spain into one of Europe's cheapest electricity markets
Wind and solar met almost half of Spain’s electricity demand in the first half of 2025 (46%), up from 27% in the same period in 2019.
theprogressplaybook.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I'm a UK pensioner living in Spain, without the benefit of a winter fuel allowance.
My pitiful UK state pension is my only source of income yet I can afford to heat my home.
Would that more pensioners living in Blighty could say the same.
My pitiful UK state pension is my only source of income yet I can afford to heat my home.
Would that more pensioners living in Blighty could say the same.
Labour are stuck in last century thinking. "More nuclear!" "Reclaim our heritage!" Wtf? We don't need your nuclear power up here thank you, and please remove your subs and weapons too while you are at it.
www.thenational.scot/news/2561787...
www.thenational.scot/news/2561787...
Keir Starmer pledges to 'reclaim our heritage' in bizarre attack on SNP
KEIR Starmer has said the UK will “reclaim our heritage” in a bizarre attack on the SNP ...
www.thenational.scot
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Labour are stuck in last century thinking. "More nuclear!" "Reclaim our heritage!" Wtf? We don't need your nuclear power up here thank you, and please remove your subs and weapons too while you are at it.
www.thenational.scot/news/2561787...
www.thenational.scot/news/2561787...
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Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...
BBC Gives Israeli Deaths 33 Times More Coverage, New Study Reveals | Novara Media
An analysis of over 35,000 broadcast segments and articles found that the BBC referenced the 7 October attacks in at least 40% of its coverage - but only 0.5% of articles referenced Israel’s decades o...
novaramedia.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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Scottish Independence folk- will you vote:
A SNP 1&2
B SNP 1 Green or SSP2
C Green or SSP 1 SNP 2
D SNP 1 Your Party 2
E Your Party 1 SNP 2
F Other (explain- but just remember, if Alba is one of your choices, you'll be laughed at).
A SNP 1&2
B SNP 1 Green or SSP2
C Green or SSP 1 SNP 2
D SNP 1 Your Party 2
E Your Party 1 SNP 2
F Other (explain- but just remember, if Alba is one of your choices, you'll be laughed at).
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Scottish Independence folk- will you vote:
A SNP 1&2
B SNP 1 Green or SSP2
C Green or SSP 1 SNP 2
D SNP 1 Your Party 2
E Your Party 1 SNP 2
F Other (explain- but just remember, if Alba is one of your choices, you'll be laughed at).
A SNP 1&2
B SNP 1 Green or SSP2
C Green or SSP 1 SNP 2
D SNP 1 Your Party 2
E Your Party 1 SNP 2
F Other (explain- but just remember, if Alba is one of your choices, you'll be laughed at).
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That the labour party see anything Zach Polanski is doing as a "threat" rather than the ideal ally in a desperately difficult time for the UK is pretty much everything wrong with them. Labour dropped* the torch of representing the people, Greens picked it up.
*threw away/sold/etc
*threw away/sold/etc
When I said we weren't here to be disappointed with Labour but to replace them. I meant it.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Join.greenparty.org.uk
October 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
That the labour party see anything Zach Polanski is doing as a "threat" rather than the ideal ally in a desperately difficult time for the UK is pretty much everything wrong with them. Labour dropped* the torch of representing the people, Greens picked it up.
*threw away/sold/etc
*threw away/sold/etc