ForthWrite2
@forthwrite2.bsky.social
Scottish & European. Writer mostly, now; was lecturer. Love literature, culture, languages, natural world. Environment & climate issues. Fed up with X.
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This article is like a case study in the media normalisation of the far right.
The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Farage branded racist over campaign video remark about Glasgow pupils
The Reform UK leader said the proportion of children who do not have English as a first language in Glasgow was
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This article is like a case study in the media normalisation of the far right.
The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Farage has now boycotted the BBC - THREE times - in a little over a year...
Including his latest today.
Why, therefore, is Zia Yusuf on ##bbcqt tonight?
Including his latest today.
Why, therefore, is Zia Yusuf on ##bbcqt tonight?
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Farage has now boycotted the BBC - THREE times - in a little over a year...
Including his latest today.
Why, therefore, is Zia Yusuf on ##bbcqt tonight?
Including his latest today.
Why, therefore, is Zia Yusuf on ##bbcqt tonight?
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December 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Crypto investor gives £9m to Reform UK as donations exceed those to Tories.
Super rich don't donate, they invest to shape party policies to secure advantages for their class.
Normal people can't match them.
Direct donations to political parties must be criminalized.
Super rich don't donate, they invest to shape party policies to secure advantages for their class.
Normal people can't match them.
Direct donations to political parties must be criminalized.
Crypto investor gives £9m to Reform UK as donations exceed those to Tories
Christopher Harborne’s record gift revealed in Electoral Commission figures prompts renewed calls for cap on political donations
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Crypto investor gives £9m to Reform UK as donations exceed those to Tories.
Super rich don't donate, they invest to shape party policies to secure advantages for their class.
Normal people can't match them.
Direct donations to political parties must be criminalized.
Super rich don't donate, they invest to shape party policies to secure advantages for their class.
Normal people can't match them.
Direct donations to political parties must be criminalized.
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Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
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This week’s #blog explores the distinctive contribution of #socialcare in #palliativecare. The role of #carehome and #homecare at the end of life. The Trees of Hallaig: Roots of Care, Leaves of Memory. #poetry #dying #grief
scottishcare.org/38088-2/
scottishcare.org/38088-2/
The Trees of Hallaig: Roots of Care, Leaves of Memory
The following extended blog is the substance of an address delivered to the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care conference on the 13th November. I want to begin not with policy, nor with strategy...
scottishcare.org
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This week’s #blog explores the distinctive contribution of #socialcare in #palliativecare. The role of #carehome and #homecare at the end of life. The Trees of Hallaig: Roots of Care, Leaves of Memory. #poetry #dying #grief
scottishcare.org/38088-2/
scottishcare.org/38088-2/
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Royal Mail made an average of £230 million in profits per year for the last decade yet they’ve missed every letter delivery target since 2020.
It is time to end the privatisation disaster and bring Royal Mail into public ownership.
weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-...
Royal Mail made an average of £230 million in profits per year for the last decade yet they’ve missed every letter delivery target since 2020.
It is time to end the privatisation disaster and bring Royal Mail into public ownership.
weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-...
End the Royal Mail privatisation experiment now
Ofcom is consulting on stamp prices. It is time to demand that they end Royal Mail privatisation.
weownit.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Please sign & share if you can.
Royal Mail made an average of £230 million in profits per year for the last decade yet they’ve missed every letter delivery target since 2020.
It is time to end the privatisation disaster and bring Royal Mail into public ownership.
weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-...
Royal Mail made an average of £230 million in profits per year for the last decade yet they’ve missed every letter delivery target since 2020.
It is time to end the privatisation disaster and bring Royal Mail into public ownership.
weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-...
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From Europe's southernmost point through Greece, Bulgaria, Romania then west and north to Edinburgh. My latest travel/photo blog
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From Europe’s Southernmost Point to Scotland - part two: from Crete to Edinburgh
A journey by train, boat, bus from the island of Gavdos to Scotland's capital through Greece and Europe's eastern countries, including Bulgaria and Romania.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
From Europe's southernmost point through Greece, Bulgaria, Romania then west and north to Edinburgh. My latest travel/photo blog
open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhu...
open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhu...
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2025 was heat and drought. 2024 was incessant rain
Three of the five worst British harvests on record have now occurred since 2020
Some farmers are asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Three of the five worst British harvests on record have now occurred since 2020
Some farmers are asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
2025 was heat and drought. 2024 was incessant rain
Three of the five worst British harvests on record have now occurred since 2020
Some farmers are asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Three of the five worst British harvests on record have now occurred since 2020
Some farmers are asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Reform gets largest ever political donation by an individual in UK history from a crypto baron living in Thailand
This is not normal
www.ft.com/content/db73...
This is not normal
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Reform UK gets £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne
Nigel Farage’s party attracts far more funding than both Labour and the Conservatives
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Reform gets largest ever political donation by an individual in UK history from a crypto baron living in Thailand
This is not normal
www.ft.com/content/db73...
This is not normal
www.ft.com/content/db73...
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📢 have your say 📢
Edinburgh Airport's consultation on their airspace modernisation is open and running until 25 Jan 2026.
I encourage constituents who have thoughts or concerns to take the time to share their thoughts and make sure their voice is heard!
Edinburgh Airport's consultation on their airspace modernisation is open and running until 25 Jan 2026.
I encourage constituents who have thoughts or concerns to take the time to share their thoughts and make sure their voice is heard!
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
📢 have your say 📢
Edinburgh Airport's consultation on their airspace modernisation is open and running until 25 Jan 2026.
I encourage constituents who have thoughts or concerns to take the time to share their thoughts and make sure their voice is heard!
Edinburgh Airport's consultation on their airspace modernisation is open and running until 25 Jan 2026.
I encourage constituents who have thoughts or concerns to take the time to share their thoughts and make sure their voice is heard!
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Farage.
Grifter-in-chief. Racist. Russian asset. Trump groupie.
He gets an MP’s salary and spends his time doing anything but.
A professional piss-taker and national security (and sanity) threat, leading the polls to be the next PM.
Come on UK.
Get some sodding self-respect.
Grifter-in-chief. Racist. Russian asset. Trump groupie.
He gets an MP’s salary and spends his time doing anything but.
A professional piss-taker and national security (and sanity) threat, leading the polls to be the next PM.
Come on UK.
Get some sodding self-respect.
Nigel Farage made 90 times more Cameo videos than speeches in Parliament, records show
Nigel Farage made 90 times more Cameo videos than speeches in Parliament, records show | LBC
The Reform UK leader has filmed close to 2,000 fan videos in the last 12 months, which he sold on the US-based Cameo platform
www.lbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Farage.
Grifter-in-chief. Racist. Russian asset. Trump groupie.
He gets an MP’s salary and spends his time doing anything but.
A professional piss-taker and national security (and sanity) threat, leading the polls to be the next PM.
Come on UK.
Get some sodding self-respect.
Grifter-in-chief. Racist. Russian asset. Trump groupie.
He gets an MP’s salary and spends his time doing anything but.
A professional piss-taker and national security (and sanity) threat, leading the polls to be the next PM.
Come on UK.
Get some sodding self-respect.
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Laughing all the way to the bank. English water companies can't fail to make money.
Thankfully we have publicly owned water in Scotland, like most of the world. But what if an English party controlled Holyrood?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thankfully we have publicly owned water in Scotland, like most of the world. But what if an English party controlled Holyrood?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water half-year profit leaps to nearly £400m after it raises bills by third
Revenues jumped 40% to nearly £2bn after debt-ridden utility hiked water bills sharply in April
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Laughing all the way to the bank. English water companies can't fail to make money.
Thankfully we have publicly owned water in Scotland, like most of the world. But what if an English party controlled Holyrood?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thankfully we have publicly owned water in Scotland, like most of the world. But what if an English party controlled Holyrood?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says:
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says:
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
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Feel free to add your favourite #climate book that you read in the past year to the thread 📚 📖
I'm curious to know what I should be reading next 😉 😄
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I'm curious to know what I should be reading next 😉 😄
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Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Feel free to add your favourite #climate book that you read in the past year to the thread 📚 📖
I'm curious to know what I should be reading next 😉 😄
👇 🧵
I'm curious to know what I should be reading next 😉 😄
👇 🧵
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Unity is stronger than division.
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Unity is stronger than division.
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
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A new campaign against the far right - to bring us TOGETHER against division and racism.
Could not be more urgently needed 🙏❤️
Could not be more urgently needed 🙏❤️
Unity is stronger than division.
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A new campaign against the far right - to bring us TOGETHER against division and racism.
Could not be more urgently needed 🙏❤️
Could not be more urgently needed 🙏❤️
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So the UK Government can reduce electricity bills for data centres coming to Scotland, but it can't find a way to reduce bills for ordinary people?
What is going on?
itbrief.co.uk/story/...
join our Data Centre Campaign here: aprs.scot/data-centres/
What is going on?
itbrief.co.uk/story/...
join our Data Centre Campaign here: aprs.scot/data-centres/
Scotland to cut grid costs for AI data centres by GBP £24 per MWh
Scotland plans to slash electricity costs for AI data centres by GBP £24 per MWh, boosting competitiveness and green energy use without raising consumer bills.
itbrief.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
So the UK Government can reduce electricity bills for data centres coming to Scotland, but it can't find a way to reduce bills for ordinary people?
What is going on?
itbrief.co.uk/story/...
join our Data Centre Campaign here: aprs.scot/data-centres/
What is going on?
itbrief.co.uk/story/...
join our Data Centre Campaign here: aprs.scot/data-centres/
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Here's our attempt at clickbait to draw attention to our new report on Battery Storage and the Planning System ....
📢 Checkout this interactive map to find out if battery storage is planned near you. 🧐
📢 Checkout this interactive map to find out if battery storage is planned near you. 🧐
Is there Battery Storage Planned near you? - Action to Protect Rural Scotland
Our report published 3 December shows that there is already nearly three times as much Battery Storage with planning permission
aprs.scot
December 3, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Here's our attempt at clickbait to draw attention to our new report on Battery Storage and the Planning System ....
📢 Checkout this interactive map to find out if battery storage is planned near you. 🧐
📢 Checkout this interactive map to find out if battery storage is planned near you. 🧐
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“We are facing a manmade disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in 1000s of yrs: climate change. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”
David Attenborough, Dec 3 2018
allouryesterdays.info/2025/12/02/d...
David Attenborough, Dec 3 2018
allouryesterdays.info/2025/12/02/d...
December 3, 2018- David Attenborough on the end of civilisation - All Our Yesterdays
Seven years ago, on this day, December 3rd, 2018, “The collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon, Sir David Attenborough has told the UN climate change summit in Poland. “The na...
allouryesterdays.info
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
“We are facing a manmade disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in 1000s of yrs: climate change. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”
David Attenborough, Dec 3 2018
allouryesterdays.info/2025/12/02/d...
David Attenborough, Dec 3 2018
allouryesterdays.info/2025/12/02/d...
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📺 BBC’s latest Panorama dives into the hidden threats posed by #PFAS, the forever chemicals.
🧪 PFAS are a group of over 10,000 persistent chemicals, nicknamed the forever chemicals because they hardly degrade in the environment. PFAS are used in many products, and have been found in drinking water.
🧪 PFAS are a group of over 10,000 persistent chemicals, nicknamed the forever chemicals because they hardly degrade in the environment. PFAS are used in many products, and have been found in drinking water.
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
📺 BBC’s latest Panorama dives into the hidden threats posed by #PFAS, the forever chemicals.
🧪 PFAS are a group of over 10,000 persistent chemicals, nicknamed the forever chemicals because they hardly degrade in the environment. PFAS are used in many products, and have been found in drinking water.
🧪 PFAS are a group of over 10,000 persistent chemicals, nicknamed the forever chemicals because they hardly degrade in the environment. PFAS are used in many products, and have been found in drinking water.
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Watch @itvnews.bsky.social tonight, as Martin Stew covers our joint report with @investigate-europe.eu on pollution from landfills in the UK + Europe - many so old they're not lined or filtered - in flood risk, coastal erosion or drinking water protection zones.
www.itv.com/news/2025-12...
www.itv.com/news/2025-12...
December 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Watch @itvnews.bsky.social tonight, as Martin Stew covers our joint report with @investigate-europe.eu on pollution from landfills in the UK + Europe - many so old they're not lined or filtered - in flood risk, coastal erosion or drinking water protection zones.
www.itv.com/news/2025-12...
www.itv.com/news/2025-12...
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Reminder that when the Times had similar worries about Reform, its response was to give Farage this advice on implementation:
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
December 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Reminder that when the Times had similar worries about Reform, its response was to give Farage this advice on implementation:
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
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Nigel Farage’s Legacy — Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Nigel Farage’s Legacy — Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)… confirms the Treasury’s 2016 analysis, claiming a relative fall in GDP of between 6% and 8%.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...