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Graeme Purves
@gaspurves.bsky.social
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Citizen. Environmentalist. European. Spatial Planner. Democrat. Geddesian. Withered Botanist. Lapsed Munro-Bagger.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23h
in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21h
Teesside’s freeport, initiated in 2021 under Rishi Sunak, has cost £560 million far exceeding the standard £25 million allocation (22 times the standard £25m).
90% profits go to the private sector.
This clearly shows the UK model of State aid post-Brexit is utterly corrupt.
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 17h
Privatise profit, socialise loss.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19h
Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?
The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds
www.theguardian.com
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18h
Byline Times has been told by various sources that Farage has maintained a close interest in Ukraine’s conflict with Russia…
But Farage’s ignorance of this particular set of pro-Russian influencers around Nathan Gill is even more questionable….

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...
'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny
Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements
bylinetimes.com
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d
Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 21h
“We’ve initially lauded some mysterious tech Pied Piper as a brilliant, unconventional altruist, then belatedly realised he is not as he seemed and that his technology is more dangerous than imagined, then still failed to regulate, and are now being victimised by it.”
It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde
His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 21h
Don't bother reading this as you can rest assured the bsstard will face absolutely no consequences at all. As usual.

Joke country.
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 1d
Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds
Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian
www.theguardian.com
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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 1d
Monsters. They are monsters. 👇
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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 1d
Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds
Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian
www.theguardian.com
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 22h
Out of Chaos: Post-War Scottish Art 1945-2000, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, until 8 March 2026:
#ScottishArt🎨
Out of Chaos: Post-War Scottish Art 1945-2000
Scheduled to complement John Bellany: A Life in Self-Portraiture, this show examines the wider context of post-war Scottish art.
cultureedinburgh.com
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 22h
The BBC has been forced to issue a correction after exaggerating the number of drug deaths in Scotland.
Actually drug deaths are at their lowest since 2017.

Now if the Beeb have the humility to admit they are wrong, Why don't the unionist MP's do the same?

www.thenational.scot/news/2553069...
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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 22h
Neptune deploys an artificial planet to alter the orbits of Earth, Mars and Venus...

🚀 SPACE PATROL (1963) 8:25am 'Deadly Whirlwind' #TPTVsubtitles
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 22h
I'm beginning to think that Sir Keir Starmer is really quite mad. 🤔
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 22h
Having banned seven word posters, the PM now sets his sights on banning a six word chant bit.ly/46ZTuRo which as I (and @MichaelRosenYes) have explained before reflects a belief of some Israelis - expressed the other way round - as well as some Palestinians
Government could crack down on chants at pro-Palestine protests, warns Starmer
Students took part in protests at universities in London, Sheffield, Edinburgh and elsewhere on Tuesday.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22h
Printmakers interviewed for the best WA book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' include Gail Brodholt, known for her fantastic depictions of London life #WomensArt
Print featuring a curved London Underground station as a train arrives, with a small number of people waiting on the platform
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 22h
Introduction to Naboland and the Behrens Family at The Scottish Gallery, online event, 6:00 pm, Thursday 16 October 2025.
Introduction to Naboland and The Behrens Family at The Scottish Gallery
Thursday 16 October | 6 - 6:40pm
scottish-gallery.co.uk
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Y Wenhwyseg @wenhwyseg.bsky.social · 1d
Celtic languages in the 1880s.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 1d
Racism row heritage boss faces furious employees in 'painful' staff meeting.
#ScottishAffairs
Racism row heritage boss faces furious employees in 'painful' staff meeting
A TOP director of a heritage body embroiled in a racism row faced furious employees who called on him to be sacked at a “painful” staff meeting,…
www.thenational.scot
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Alister Clunas @alcatorda.bsky.social · 2d
The Scottish Government was hoodwinked by the shooting lobby. We need more public education about the danger of wildfires, the power to ban ALL open fires within specific geographic areas in times of high fire risk. Get a grip @scottishgov.bsky.social
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 2d
📣You really couldn't make this up!

On the day Scottish Govt announces it is delaying, for a second time, the implementation of muirburn licensing, this happens...

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/09/b...
Breaking news….’out of control muirburn’ on grouse moor in Cairngorms National Park
You couldn’t make this up if you tried… Breaking News….on the day the Scottish Government announced it was delaying, for a second time, the implementation of muirburn licensing af…
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 1d
Should we care? 🤔
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 1d
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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 1d
Sadly, the Sturgeon and Swinney administrations have capitulated to landed and corporate interests.
#LateNeoliberalism
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)
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