Catriona
@catrio.bsky.social
Lefty supporter of Scottish Democracy, Trans Rights are Human Rights 🏳️🌈 She/Her
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Shamaan Freeman-Powell: "For black women the stats are particularly stark. They're more likely to have serious complications, they're more likely to lose a baby, more likely themselves to die during or after pregnancy"
February 16, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Shamaan Freeman-Powell: "For black women the stats are particularly stark. They're more likely to have serious complications, they're more likely to lose a baby, more likely themselves to die during or after pregnancy"
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MSPs are to vote on whether to evict US military forces from Prestwick Airport, following continued military activity and reports of breaches of Scottish jurisdiction
Greens to force vote on evicting US troops from Scotland
www.thenational.scot
February 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
MSPs are to vote on whether to evict US military forces from Prestwick Airport, following continued military activity and reports of breaches of Scottish jurisdiction
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This is some of the far right Farage-loving lunatics. Employers: if you see anyone here and they work for you, check their online activity. They could end your reputation.
February 16, 2026 at 6:38 AM
This is some of the far right Farage-loving lunatics. Employers: if you see anyone here and they work for you, check their online activity. They could end your reputation.
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This is a massive victory for the Palestinian Solidarity movement and for civil liberties, but it has also completely exposed the British Government, and it is impossible to see how Yvette Cooper’s position is tenable, writes Mike Small ✍️
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
February 16, 2026 at 2:42 AM
This is a massive victory for the Palestinian Solidarity movement and for civil liberties, but it has also completely exposed the British Government, and it is impossible to see how Yvette Cooper’s position is tenable, writes Mike Small ✍️
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
So the far right racists protesting really care about women and girls safety!!
They are scum who don’t give a shit about our safety
www.thenational.scot/news/2585681...
They are scum who don’t give a shit about our safety
www.thenational.scot/news/2585681...
Women targeted after taking part in asylum seeker hotel counter-protests
WOMEN who demonstrated in support of asylum seekers living in Scottish hotels have been forced to install CCTV and alter their daily routines after…
www.thenational.scot
February 16, 2026 at 9:10 AM
So the far right racists protesting really care about women and girls safety!!
They are scum who don’t give a shit about our safety
www.thenational.scot/news/2585681...
They are scum who don’t give a shit about our safety
www.thenational.scot/news/2585681...
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Labour Betrayal of Aberdeen!
They pledged thousands of GB Energy jobs for our city, but so far only thirteen posts have been created.
Their HQ deal allows for only 50 desks so what happened to the thousands of jobs Aberdeen was promised?
They pledged thousands of GB Energy jobs for our city, but so far only thirteen posts have been created.
Their HQ deal allows for only 50 desks so what happened to the thousands of jobs Aberdeen was promised?
February 15, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Labour Betrayal of Aberdeen!
They pledged thousands of GB Energy jobs for our city, but so far only thirteen posts have been created.
Their HQ deal allows for only 50 desks so what happened to the thousands of jobs Aberdeen was promised?
They pledged thousands of GB Energy jobs for our city, but so far only thirteen posts have been created.
Their HQ deal allows for only 50 desks so what happened to the thousands of jobs Aberdeen was promised?
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'Somebody think of the Scottish Labour MPs' said absolutely no-one. Caught in a nasty civil war they neither desired or anticipated they are the nobody's children of UK politics. Read about their week from hell. My National column.
www.thenational.scot/politics/258...
www.thenational.scot/politics/258...
Pete Wishart: Who’d be a Scottish Labour MP, professing loyalty to opposing leaders?
SCOTTISH Labour MPs must now be the most forlorn, despondent and politically adrift parliamentarians across these isles
www.thenational.scot
February 16, 2026 at 8:21 AM
'Somebody think of the Scottish Labour MPs' said absolutely no-one. Caught in a nasty civil war they neither desired or anticipated they are the nobody's children of UK politics. Read about their week from hell. My National column.
www.thenational.scot/politics/258...
www.thenational.scot/politics/258...
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Thank you, as always @mellino.bsky.social, for excellent reporting on the ongoing scandal of conidtions for the workers who put food on our tables 🙏
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
Government criticised for inaction on farmworkers abuse
Criticism comes after the rejection of various ideas, put forward by its own advisers, on how to protect migrant workers from exploitation
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Thank you, as always @mellino.bsky.social, for excellent reporting on the ongoing scandal of conidtions for the workers who put food on our tables 🙏
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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It's the world view of rich white men who employ nannies and send their kids to boarding school
The fact that Reform want people to have more kids and also want to end working from home shows how incoherent their world view is.
February 16, 2026 at 8:58 AM
It's the world view of rich white men who employ nannies and send their kids to boarding school
If you are England sign this
Obviously England is neither Britain or the UK and the little Englander mentality is irritating
Obviously England is neither Britain or the UK and the little Englander mentality is irritating
🚨When we go to hospital, it’s rarely for something easy. But patients and their families are being immediately met with fees just to park their cars. And these charges are going up!
I’ve just signed the petition to Scrap hospital parking charges now
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/parking-...
I’ve just signed the petition to Scrap hospital parking charges now
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/parking-...
Scrap hospital parking charges now!
Need to visit the hospital? Patients, families and NHS staff are being met with rising fees just to park their cars. Join me and sign this petition from 38 Degrees to demand these unfair charges are s...
act.38degrees.org.uk
February 16, 2026 at 8:59 AM
If you are England sign this
Obviously England is neither Britain or the UK and the little Englander mentality is irritating
Obviously England is neither Britain or the UK and the little Englander mentality is irritating
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February 16, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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Scottish Labour must hand back tens of thousands of pounds donated by a scandal-hit think-tank which has been accused of spying on journalists, the SNP have said
Scottish Labour should return cash from scandal-hit think-tank, say SNP
www.thenational.scot
February 16, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Scottish Labour must hand back tens of thousands of pounds donated by a scandal-hit think-tank which has been accused of spying on journalists, the SNP have said
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NEW from @tbij.bsky.social:
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
February 16, 2026 at 8:43 AM
NEW from @tbij.bsky.social:
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
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I’m not normally that person but….
It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago
Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!
It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago
Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!
February 16, 2026 at 8:25 AM
I’m not normally that person but….
It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago
Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!
It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago
Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!
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This is one of the critical swing group of UK voters: people scunnered by Labour & Tory tempted to vote Reform who know the risk: "I'm scared to death of Reform getting in and me being like, 'Shit, I was one of them that voted for it'" says Eve in a focus group. HT @luketryl.bsky.social
February 15, 2026 at 8:08 PM
This is one of the critical swing group of UK voters: people scunnered by Labour & Tory tempted to vote Reform who know the risk: "I'm scared to death of Reform getting in and me being like, 'Shit, I was one of them that voted for it'" says Eve in a focus group. HT @luketryl.bsky.social
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This week on Bylines Scotland...
" Poverty has been demonized, priorities are for profits, not for people or our planet, humans dehumanised to those who can be exploited for further wealth contribution or discarded for their uselessness."
" Poverty has been demonized, priorities are for profits, not for people or our planet, humans dehumanised to those who can be exploited for further wealth contribution or discarded for their uselessness."
Jim Ratcliffe and the art of shamelessness
Immigrant billionaire owner of Manchester United condemns immigrants – just the poor ones, though
bylines.scot
February 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM
This week on Bylines Scotland...
" Poverty has been demonized, priorities are for profits, not for people or our planet, humans dehumanised to those who can be exploited for further wealth contribution or discarded for their uselessness."
" Poverty has been demonized, priorities are for profits, not for people or our planet, humans dehumanised to those who can be exploited for further wealth contribution or discarded for their uselessness."
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This rhetoric should land poorly with any European with two brain cells to rub together.
Remember Biden's "America's back"? You only get one of those. The benefit of the doubt is gone, rightly so.
How can we be *sure* that what comes after Trump is any better *in the long-run*?
Remember Biden's "America's back"? You only get one of those. The benefit of the doubt is gone, rightly so.
How can we be *sure* that what comes after Trump is any better *in the long-run*?
Democrats seek to reassure Europe about post-Trump America
Opposition politicians flocked to a summit in Munich to offer an alternative to America First - and stake a claim as future party leaders.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 8:16 PM
This rhetoric should land poorly with any European with two brain cells to rub together.
Remember Biden's "America's back"? You only get one of those. The benefit of the doubt is gone, rightly so.
How can we be *sure* that what comes after Trump is any better *in the long-run*?
Remember Biden's "America's back"? You only get one of those. The benefit of the doubt is gone, rightly so.
How can we be *sure* that what comes after Trump is any better *in the long-run*?
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TV highlights: Paedo Island
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1615, January 2024.
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1615, January 2024.
February 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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She was Tory, then Reform, then Restore Britain. If she continues on that trajectory she'll be a neo-Nazi next week.
February 15, 2026 at 8:52 PM
She was Tory, then Reform, then Restore Britain. If she continues on that trajectory she'll be a neo-Nazi next week.
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President Trump, "Me and Jeffrey Epstein, I have nothing to do with that"
"I've nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein"
"Other than Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and lots of people, there are a lot of questions about it"
"But nothing on me"
"I've nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein"
"Other than Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and lots of people, there are a lot of questions about it"
"But nothing on me"
February 15, 2026 at 9:12 PM
President Trump, "Me and Jeffrey Epstein, I have nothing to do with that"
"I've nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein"
"Other than Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and lots of people, there are a lot of questions about it"
"But nothing on me"
"I've nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein"
"Other than Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and lots of people, there are a lot of questions about it"
"But nothing on me"
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Good evidence to believe authoritarian right may significantly overreach on British public appetite for mass deportations & remigration (esp given the dramatic visual evidence from Trump).
BUT also depends on "eıite cues": how media, political voices + online ecosystems legitimise/stigmatise this
BUT also depends on "eıite cues": how media, political voices + online ecosystems legitimise/stigmatise this
February 15, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Good evidence to believe authoritarian right may significantly overreach on British public appetite for mass deportations & remigration (esp given the dramatic visual evidence from Trump).
BUT also depends on "eıite cues": how media, political voices + online ecosystems legitimise/stigmatise this
BUT also depends on "eıite cues": how media, political voices + online ecosystems legitimise/stigmatise this
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Eh?
“We are not reversing Brexit but we are turning our back on the Britain of the Brexit years that we've had for the last decade…“
Says PM Keir Starmer
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Says PM Keir Starmer
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Starmer backs closer EU ties as he says Britain is ‘turning our back’ on Brexit years
Prime minister comes out fighting after calls for him to resign over Mandelson scandal and says he will still be Labour leader at the time of the next election
www.independent.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Eh?
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Scottish Labour has been a branch of the British Labour Party since the latter was founded in 1900. Since devolution many commentators have assumed an independent Scottish Labour Party is just around the corner. It is not. It will take effort, will & challenging Labour vested interests.
Opinion | Anas Sarwar has paved the way for a separate Scottish Labour party.
Anas Sarwar has paved the way for a separate Scottish Labour party - Daily Record
Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says the Scottish Labour leader calling on Keir Starmer to quit is a defining moment for his party.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Scottish Labour has been a branch of the British Labour Party since the latter was founded in 1900. Since devolution many commentators have assumed an independent Scottish Labour Party is just around the corner. It is not. It will take effort, will & challenging Labour vested interests.
This is the ridiculous level of “journalism” in the UK
The picture shows Josh Simons MP and Gov Minister and director of Labour Together until his selection to stand in 2024 and has also been a Labour spokesperson
The picture shows Josh Simons MP and Gov Minister and director of Labour Together until his selection to stand in 2024 and has also been a Labour spokesperson
February 16, 2026 at 8:28 AM
This is the ridiculous level of “journalism” in the UK
The picture shows Josh Simons MP and Gov Minister and director of Labour Together until his selection to stand in 2024 and has also been a Labour spokesperson
The picture shows Josh Simons MP and Gov Minister and director of Labour Together until his selection to stand in 2024 and has also been a Labour spokesperson