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Dr Mairianna Clyde @mc1yde.bsky.social · 3h

What a nerve Starmer has! His government is causing a crisis in the care sector by removing visas for overseas workers + job losses in many sectors including struggling local authorities by increasing employer NI costs. Scotland has the best performing NHS & lowest child poverty tx to SNP.

John Swinney 'insulting Scots intelligence' with independence plan, says Keir Starmer

JOHN Swinney is “insulting the intelligence” of the Scottish people on independence, the Prime Minister has said ...

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Carol Brown @girlinafankle.bsky.social · 2h

I have found most independence supporters to be among the most interesting, informed and reflective people I know - that’s why they see through Starmer.

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 17h

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Jersey Island supermarkets pay nearly SIX times as much for their lorries to cross as those in Barra thanks to SNP generosity

Professor John Robertson OBA In the Jersey Evening Post on 15 October 2025: Representatives said they had “zero involvement” in the tender and warned that rising freight costs under the new arrange…

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 1d

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SNP-run Glasgow City built 110 times more social rent homes than Labour-run Liverpool last year

Liverpool’s complete social rent homes build last year – 5 Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks, once more, to Dottie for alerting us to this: In the Guardian yesterday: According to the…

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Carol Brown @girlinafankle.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I walk down
Byres Road I try to recall what used to be there in my university days in the 1970’s.

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 1d

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There is no evidence of public services in Wales being consistently better than those in Scotland – on the contrary

By stewartb What’s so hard for opponents of the present Scottish Government (SG) to grasp? If public services in Scotland fall short or fail but the same ones in Wales are exemplary, then yes sever…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 2d

How Westminster Hid Scotland’s Wealth From Its People
An energy-rich nation is now in an energy crisis. 👇
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How Westminster Hid Scotland’s Wealth From Its People | Novara Media

49 years ago, Westminster buried a report on Scotland’s abundant natural resources to suppress growing support for Scottish independence. Laura Webster discusses the consequences.

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 4d

My latest blog piece. Joani Reid and the rat pack. Labour's MP for East Kilbride and Stathaven has become one of those people that her late great grandfather Jimmy Reid warned us about

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Joani Reid and the rat-pack

Maybe it’s something in the water in East Kilbride and Strathaven, but the Westminster constituency seems to be cursed with morally bankrupt MPs. The present constituency boundaries are new a…

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 8d

The National's front page today highlights how genocide was allowed to happen in Gaza, accompanied by a four-page special report 👇

The National's front page today: How genocide happened

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 10d

Miriam Margolyes is just a warrior woman. That's the post.

She said it all.

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Humanist Society Scotland @humanistsociety.bsky.social · 9d

If you, like us, believe every young person deserves the right to choose whether to take part in worship, help spread the word. 💪

👉 Write to your MSP today and tell them why pupils deserve the right to opt out of religious worship without parental consent. humanist.eaction.org.uk/religious-ob...

Tell your MSP why school pupils deserve the right to opt out of religious worship

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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 10d

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?

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10d

Former PM Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office.

Secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture,
Used senior contacts in the Saudi govt to pitch for a consultancy firm.

Lust for private wealth is the main cause of UK decline.

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

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 11d

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Jewish Scot confirms research suggesting there is less anti-Semitism here to spoil BBC Reporting Scotland agenda that we’re just as bad as elsewhere in the UK

also hopeful it is safer as Jewish people to live in Glasgow, in Scotland than there is not as much anti-Semitism, ant-Zionism, there is not these much going ahead, there is not so much hatred. Pro…

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 11d

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Homeless deaths in Scotland fall as they climb in other parts due to lack of national leadership

Professor John Robertson OBA Once again, I’m grateful to Brenda Robb for finding this and researching it for us. From BBC UK today but ignored by BBC Scotland, the above and: The figures show…

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Carol Brown @girlinafankle.bsky.social · 11d

Me too!

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 11d

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Why is Reporting Scotland still headlining the three-day-old news of ‘hundreds’ of operations cancelled in one NHS board when it never tells us of the month after month 98% of thousands completed acro...

with faulty sterilising equipment that’s led to the cancellation of hundreds of operations, is fixed. Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland’s insert in BBC Breakfast this morning op…

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 14d

A group of Jewish academics working at universities across Scotland have condemned 'unfounded, irresponsible and dangerous' attempts to link the Manchester terror attack with pro-Palestine protests

Jewish staff at Scottish universities condemn 'weaponisation' of Manchester attack

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 14d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 14d

Surely Humanism demands respect for the victims on both sides. Hamas are barbarians. Netanyahu is a barbarian. Both of them glory in slaughter. The Hamas attacks were a hideous crime designed to provoke a response. But that response morphed into genocide. On both sides, the victims are the innocents

Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 14d

Full story here 👇

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'Show Some Humanity': Starmer Urges Pro-Palestine Protesters Not To Attend October 7 Demos

"Just because there is a freedom to protest doesn’t mean that you should necessarily go ahead."

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 14d

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SNP Cop numbers more than under Labour, crime halved and murder less than in Denmark, as Express puts mental health of hundreds at risk

Professor John Robertson OBA The Express today with Cop cuts putting public at risk? Rubbish. Cop cuts? From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: August 2025, publishe…

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 15d

People need to be aware that leaving the ECHR opens the door to reinstating the barbarity that is the death penalty. Protocol 13 commits member states to the abolition of the death penalty under all circumstances. Leaving the ECHR allows a future Westminster Govt to bring it back.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15d

THE ECHR PROTECTS US ALL

We must protect it, not leave it

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15d

When the Tories were last in office - according to international Human Rights Watch - UK was on course to make list of countries that abuse rather than protect human rights. Is it any wonder they want us to join Russia & Belarus as only European countries outside the ECHR
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🚨UK will leave the ECHR if Tories win next election Kemi Badenoch has announced

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 16d

EXCLUSIVE: The UK Government has refused to reveal which companies are encouraging them to sell Britons’ data to Silicon Valley despite transparency fears

The NHS’s records trove alone is reportedly estimated to be worth £10 billion per annum

Firms are pushing for your data to be sold to big tech. Labour won't say who they are

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