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Cairistiona

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Loving life 🌻 grannie 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 cyclist 🚲 knitter 🧶 walker 👣 still learning 📚 retired teacher👩‍🎓bread maker 🍞 Scottish Independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Iris Cook @montrose.bsky.social · 9h

Good evening 💚

Clash

Class

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Frank @frankieboy1964.bsky.social · 9h

Labour Lied to Scots in 2014, Energy Prices have gone through the roof, staying in the Failed State.

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Kevin NOT Kev! Veteran. LGBTQ+ . #Rejoin @polbikers.bsky.social · 14h

Important Public Service Announcement!

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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 1d

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1d

@democracynow.org

300+ writers announce
boycott of New York Times
over Palestine coverage

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Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · Sep 9

Our book, Race and the Scottish Enlightenment, now published, @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I were challenged to the ‘Page 99 Test’.
The challenge, as defined by Ford Madox Ford, is whether the whole book can be seen in a single page.
Here’s our response.

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Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan's "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment"

Linda Andersson Burnett is a senior lecturer in the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden. Bruce Buchan ...

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Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 5d

Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

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I have an even worse feeling about THIS:

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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 2d

for those that don't know already
immigration is a reserved matter to the UK Parliament in Westminster,that means
the UK Parliament has the sole authority to legislate on immigration, asylum, and nationality for the entire United Kingdom.

and has nothing to do with the Scottish government

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 2d

#Newsnight have only Labour & Tory bigwigs on their panel. The two parties were humiliated in Caerphilly winning 13% & on 17% each with YouGov today. They carry on as if they still were the powerful parties of yesteryear. And where is Plaid Cymru: last week's winner on any of these progs?

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Margaret McG🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @caledoni4.bsky.social · 1d

Scotland showing Westminster how it should be done.

James The Good @sirjamesdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

Leading the way since day dot

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

You could very easily translate the below to UK based Universal Credit, welfare, PIP, etc.

💙Red Hibiscus💙 @redhibiscus23.bsky.social · 2d

Facts about SNAP

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David Leask @leaskyd.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Heseltine: Reform is fascist. We must stop Nigel Farage

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Michael Heseltine: Reform is fascist. We must stop Nigel Farage

At 92, Tory grandee Michael Heseltine is making a comeback. He criticises Nigel Farage and Reform, whose policies remind him of Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 2d

If racism has no place in his party, then Nigel Farage should prove it by withdrawing the whip from Sarah Pochin immediately.

Photo of Sarah Pochin MP captioned 'remove the whip', overlaid with the Times' headline: Reform MP: ‘Adverts full of black and Asian people drive me mad’

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Chipper60🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @chipper60.bsky.social · 1d

Remember ONLY UKGOVT 🤮💩 Can house asylum seekers ANYWHERE,it's RESERVED to wastemonster,so if INVERNESS has a problem with refugee asylum seekers in your town,then please direct your disgust at,THE UK GOVT.NOT THE SNP,Scotland welcomes them, we're different up here,apart from the jack flagshaggers

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Cairistiona @caristiona.bsky.social · 1d

Fabulous, keep up the good work Wales. In Scotland we also have a poluting English media.

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Jockyfox @jockyfox.bsky.social · 1d

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 5d

Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism

Snippet of Byline Times, November 2025, pointing out how the British mainstream media has created a "perfect circle of self-perpetuating hype" around Nigel Farage, i.e. how his prominence in MSM feeds his popularity which in turn justifies further coverage, and so on. Author proposes that this is a predictable consequence of an industry that has restructured itself around virality.

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Cairistiona @caristiona.bsky.social · 1d

Yet again Scotland ahead of the curve. Thank you #SNP
childreninscotland.org.uk/children-in-...

Children in Scotland welcomes Scottish Government decision to end the two-child benefit cap

By bringing together a network of people working with and for children, alongside children and young people themselves, we offer a broad, balanced and independent voice. We create solutions, provide s...

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

The government's decision to slash foreign aid will lead to unrest, further crises and threaten UK security, a group of cross-party MPs has warned

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Slashing foreign aid will lead to unrest, crises and threaten UK security, MPs warn government

A damning report finds foreign aid spending on migrant hotels is not effective, and pulling development aid will lead to "devastating consequences".

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Cairistiona @caristiona.bsky.social · 1d

It makes you wonder why the London government is so keen to build eye wateringly expensive nuclear.

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Jester mouse @jestermouse.bsky.social · 1d

St Margaret’s Park in Corstorphine is looking for volunteers!

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 3d

Farage: epic grifter

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder that @bylinetimes.bsky.social wrote its first story on dodgy PPE procurement in April 2020 - a few weeks into lockdown.

As we pursued the story on our own for the next two years, senior journalists said it was a nothingburger story

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2d

“The government is leaving no stone unturned to investigate and recover public funds lost to fraud and error during the pandemic… Recovery action has resulted in some PPE suppliers being referred to the National Crime Agency for suspected fraud”

www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=20...

Fraud: Coronavirus

Treasury written question – answered at 20 October 2025

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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 2d

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

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Green Party Surges As Labour Hits Record Low | #novaralive

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