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Cairistiona
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Good evening 💚

Clash

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

page99test.blogspot.com/2025/09/lind...
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 ...
page99test.blogspot.com
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Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
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🫢 😳 😧 🤢 🤮 😡

I have an even worse feeling about THIS:
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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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#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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Scotland showing Westminster how it should be done.
Leading the way since day dot
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You could very easily translate the below to UK based Universal Credit, welfare, PIP, etc.
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If racism has no place in his party, then Nigel Farage should prove it by withdrawing the whip from Sarah Pochin immediately.
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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
Fabulous, keep up the good work Wales. In Scotland we also have a poluting English media.
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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
It makes you wonder why the London government is so keen to build eye wateringly expensive nuclear.
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St Margaret’s Park in Corstorphine is looking for volunteers!
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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
“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
www.theyworkforyou.com