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Ewan S

@ewansanderson.bsky.social

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Climate, environment, politics, food, reading, music, cycling, climbing, mountains, skiing, cold water swimming. Assistant of Assistant of Assistant to DePuTy LeAdEr ANTIFA. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hkj244ucqkay27p2trgmexyd/lists/3lbu5wpztlf2b

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Ewan S @ewansanderson.bsky.social · Dec 25

20 albums that defined my musical taste, in rough order of discovery but in one 🧵

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Stephen Gethins @stephengethins.bsky.social · 9h

The UK is heading down a dangerous & isolated path in flirting with leaving the European Convention on Human Rights. There is a space for the SNP to seize the ground of multilateralism and respect for the rules based system - www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

As UK flirts with leaving European Convention on Human Rights, SNP must stand by the rule of law

The quest for Scottish independence must adhere to democratic norms and Europe’s rules-based system – international recognition matters

www.scotsman.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

The BBC is slowly but surely destroying Radio 4 as well. It’s the last bastion of intelligent debate in Britain, yet it’s increasingly becoming a vehicle for culture wars. When the history of the UK in this period is written, the BBC will have a lot to answer for when it comes to stirring division

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Adrian Teal @tealcartoons.bsky.social · 21h

Our new episode of Spitting Image has dropped, in which Trump finds out he didn't bag the Nobel Peace Prize, and Kim Jong Un performs at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

Enjoy!

youtu.be/iERS42agaPg?...

Trump Finds Out He Hasn't Won The Nobel Peace Prize | The Rest Is Bulls*!t

YouTube video by Spitting Image

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Ewan S @ewansanderson.bsky.social · 1d

directly north without deviation nor life jackets...

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Catriona @catrio.bsky.social · 1d

Well worth watching Mairi McAllen SNP tearing Tory liars to pieces

www.instagram.com/reel/DPmb-PD...

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1d

The collapses of First Brands and Tricolor could be the canary in the mine of financial markets

“The fear is the private debt market has been too hot and [has been] giving out money at high rates to companies that just can’t pay it back,” says @ucirvine.bsky.social accounting professor Ben Lourie.

First Brands: why a maker of spark plugs and wiper blades has Wall Street worried

Investors fear that the collapse of the car parts company – and the size of its debt – could portend wider problems

www.theguardian.com

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Ewan S @ewansanderson.bsky.social · 1d

What, you've never been intrigued by the origin of the saying 'Don't Eat the Yellow Snow'.
The shame...😉

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Malcolm V Tucker @tuckerslaw.bsky.social · 1d

That's how a polite person says 'fuck off wotsit-face'.

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Ewan S @ewansanderson.bsky.social · 1d

all gone to Ash...es

Ewan S @ewansanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Don't threaten us with a good time...

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

Good Morning Scotland could be axed by the BBC in a huge overhaul

Good Morning Scotland could be axed by BBC Radio in huge overhaul

GOOD Morning Scotland could be axed by BBC Radio Scotland as part of plan to overhaul the station’s programming.

www.thenational.scot

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Ewan S @ewansanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Build it and they will come, adage...

Iris Cook @montrose.bsky.social · 1d

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More bikes than cars on main road at rush hour for first time, figures show

Cycling Scotland reported data from Victoria Road showed more journeys were cycled rather than driven between 8am and 9am on Thursday, June 5.

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 1d

🚨SHOCKING: police in Russia just arrested a man for HOLDING UP A MAGAZINE COVER.

Wait, did we say Russia? We meant THE UK.

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Ewan S @ewansanderson.bsky.social · 1d

I gave up when Eddie Mair left, Evan Davis is a lightweight gameshow host replacement for Eddie, much missed...

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Ewan S @ewansanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Reform UK Ltd. new signing.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Ash Regan has quit the Alba Party

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Venezuelan opposition leader Machado won the prestigious prize for promoting democratic rights in her country, and for her struggle to achieve a transition to democracy
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Maria Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

YouTube video by Reuters

www.youtube.com

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Ewan S @ewansanderson.bsky.social · 2d

I loved their pronouns: CUNT

Ewan S @ewansanderson.bsky.social · 2d

every one: the bastard son of David Coburn...

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 2d

Affordable housing stock has fallen drastically relative to population since the early 1980s ⤵️
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chart showing Affordable dwelling stock per 1,000 adults (left axis), and additional affordable homes (right axis): England

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Ewan S @ewansanderson.bsky.social · 2d

one year more, from 9 to 10

Ewan S @ewansanderson.bsky.social · 2d

An interesting alternative way of funding restoration by reducing out private finance profiteering and potentially profiting the tax payers.
What's not to like...

Future Economy Scotland @futureeconscot.bsky.social · 2d

Last week, BrewDog sold its Kinrara estate to a natural capital investor

Some say the deal proves private investors can fund nature restoration. But in reality, it shows why private finance can’t fix the nature crisis

New blog by @hannawheatley.bsky.social:

Peat, Profit and the Myth of the Nature Finance Fix

BrewDog's sale of the Kinrara estate shows why private finance is unlikely to fix the nature crisis

www.futureeconomy.scot

Ewan S @ewansanderson.bsky.social · 2d

IDF has been using 3D model images stolen from museum content. Yet major media organisations hang on every word uttered by the Israeli state as true...

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The Israel Defense Forces used a Scottish museum’s 3D models in propaganda videos – The Ferret

theferret.scot

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Ewan S @ewansanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Complicity in genocide charges will stick with Starmer the rest of his life... the trials haven't even begun.

Ewan S @ewansanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Well done that man for writing a tragicomedy, bravo 👏👏👏