Maureen Pickering
@maureenpickering.bsky.social
Retired Depute HT, Scottish granny. Wants Scottish Independence for a fairer, more equal society where Scotland’s vast resources are used for the benefit of the people of 🏴, not Westminster. I am a Sovereign Scot and will bow to no monarch. No DMs
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Vote SNP in May it’s payback time.
February 13, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Vote SNP in May it’s payback time.
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You can't hold the moral high ground if you act or speak in the same horrible way as those you criticise for acting and speaking horribly. Sauce for the goose.
February 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM
You can't hold the moral high ground if you act or speak in the same horrible way as those you criticise for acting and speaking horribly. Sauce for the goose.
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Jeffrey Epstein didn’t 'slip through the cracks'. He was the logical outcome of systems and structures designed to protect rich, powerful (usually white) men and discipline the rest of us, writes Maggie Chapman ✍️
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February 13, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Jeffrey Epstein didn’t 'slip through the cracks'. He was the logical outcome of systems and structures designed to protect rich, powerful (usually white) men and discipline the rest of us, writes Maggie Chapman ✍️
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Scotland's top trade unionist has warned the UK Government that it must oppose Donald Trump’s 'deliberate attempt to force mass starvation on an innocent population'
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February 13, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Scotland's top trade unionist has warned the UK Government that it must oppose Donald Trump’s 'deliberate attempt to force mass starvation on an innocent population'
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The SNP has called for full powers over Scotland’s rail network to be handed over by Westminster 🛤️
SNP call for full powers over Scotland's rail network from Westminster
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February 13, 2026 at 9:49 AM
The SNP has called for full powers over Scotland’s rail network to be handed over by Westminster 🛤️
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🚨Palestine Action's co-founder Huda Ammori has won a legal challenge over its ban as a terror group on two grounds, judges have ruled
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February 13, 2026 at 10:11 AM
🚨Palestine Action's co-founder Huda Ammori has won a legal challenge over its ban as a terror group on two grounds, judges have ruled
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Scotrail - Scotland’s publicly owned railway - is seeing record numbers of passengers returning to rail travel with high satisfaction levels and lower fares thanks to the support of the SNP Government.
February 13, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Scotrail - Scotland’s publicly owned railway - is seeing record numbers of passengers returning to rail travel with high satisfaction levels and lower fares thanks to the support of the SNP Government.
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Hi Scottish voters & people in Scotland, see this? Prompts the question, which entity would be in Scotland's best interests? Law based EU, or the institutionally dissolute, imploding, much corrupted, Westminster UK? Just saying.
"The European Union is, at its core, a system designed to protect smaller countries through the rule of law, predictability, and shared decision-making."
#EU🇪🇺
#Iceland🇮🇸
#EU🇪🇺
#Iceland🇮🇸
Iceland at home in the European Union?
Why joining the European Union is looking increasingly attractive for Iceland
bylines.scot
February 13, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Hi Scottish voters & people in Scotland, see this? Prompts the question, which entity would be in Scotland's best interests? Law based EU, or the institutionally dissolute, imploding, much corrupted, Westminster UK? Just saying.
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Can’t wait for Anas Sarwar to call for Yvette Copper to resign, have a bit of a riddy when nobody in the Cabiney follows suit, then just pretend he’s the world’s biggest Yvette Cooper fan.
🚨 BREAKING: The High Court has ruled that the Government’s banning of Palestine Action using the Terrorism Act is unlawful
February 13, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Can’t wait for Anas Sarwar to call for Yvette Copper to resign, have a bit of a riddy when nobody in the Cabiney follows suit, then just pretend he’s the world’s biggest Yvette Cooper fan.
Scottish Labour – Not just friends of paedophiles but by far the most actual convicted sex offenders, including 5 paedophiles, convicted since 2007 talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/11/s...
Scottish Labour – Not just friends of paedophiles but by far the most actual convicted sex offenders, including 5 paedophiles, convicted since 2007
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. To be fair, she’s in the top position, though we’ll soon see how long she lasts there and you’ll note they’ve kept the &…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Scottish Labour – Not just friends of paedophiles but by far the most actual convicted sex offenders, including 5 paedophiles, convicted since 2007 talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/11/s...
An actual 97% resident doctor vote to call off strike action is not news yet last year when they might hopefully in the future do so, it was talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/11/a...
An actual 97% resident doctor vote to call off strike action is not news yet last year when they might hopefully in the future do so, it was
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Four hours ago on the Scottish Government’s latest news site, surely followed by all political editors: Resident Doctors have voted to acc…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:31 AM
An actual 97% resident doctor vote to call off strike action is not news yet last year when they might hopefully in the future do so, it was talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/11/a...
BBC UK find ’55 babies who died may have survived with better care’ to add to police investigations into hundreds of avoidable baby deaths in NHS England but none in Scotland and NHS England pays out twice as much for maternity failings! talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/12/b...
BBC UK find ’55 babies who died may have survived with better care’ to add to police investigations into hundreds of avoidable baby deaths in NHS England but none in Scotland and NHS England pays out ...
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. First thing today, on BBC Breakfast, we hear of a joint BBC News/New Statesman, external investigation into maternity care at University Hospita…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:29 AM
BBC UK find ’55 babies who died may have survived with better care’ to add to police investigations into hundreds of avoidable baby deaths in NHS England but none in Scotland and NHS England pays out twice as much for maternity failings! talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/12/b...
Another attempt to hide the true NHS England performance as waiting lists in Scotland keep falling talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/12/a...
Another attempt to hide the true NHS England performance as waiting lists in Scotland keep falling
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. Today, BBC UK present, uncritically, the suggestion that waiting lists are falling at the same time as they’re getting longer, in NHS Alic…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Another attempt to hide the true NHS England performance as waiting lists in Scotland keep falling talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/12/a...
What kind of miserable wee s***e had the meanness of spirit to ask how much it cost to send the New York mayor an SNP baby box and which media outlet do they work for – what’s your guess? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/12/w...
What kind of miserable wee s***e had the meanness of spirit to ask how much it cost to send the New York mayor an SNP baby box and which media outlet do they work for – what’s your guess?
That is cute! I love that. It’s from Scotland not England? I’ve met Sir Keir Starmer the Prime Minister of England when he visited that creepy Mandelson guy at the British Embassy. Engl…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:27 AM
What kind of miserable wee s***e had the meanness of spirit to ask how much it cost to send the New York mayor an SNP baby box and which media outlet do they work for – what’s your guess? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/12/w...
Criminals stealing used cooking oil from Scotland’s chip shops are mobile groups ‘traveling to Scotland’ for opportunistic thefts talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/13/c...
Criminals stealing used cooking oil from Scotland’s chip shops are mobile groups ‘traveling to Scotland’ for opportunistic thefts
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. We know that the hundred’s of County Lines drug gangs terrorising small town Scotland, increasing violent crime, prostitution, child abuse…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Criminals stealing used cooking oil from Scotland’s chip shops are mobile groups ‘traveling to Scotland’ for opportunistic thefts talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/13/c...
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It’s a direct, if opposite, mirror of the BBC re the SNP and Scottish Independence .. SNP BAD we call it. Good news .. and there’s plenty .. is buried; bad news amplified or even worse, fabricated.
February 13, 2026 at 10:11 AM
It’s a direct, if opposite, mirror of the BBC re the SNP and Scottish Independence .. SNP BAD we call it. Good news .. and there’s plenty .. is buried; bad news amplified or even worse, fabricated.
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UK urged to negotiate with EU over Scottish energy funding
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www.thenational.scot/news/2585135...
Warning as Scotland 'misses out' on £15 billion EU funding package due to Brexit
The UK Government is being urged to consider closer ties to the EU as Scotland is missing out on a share of a landmark £15 billion pound funding…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM
UK urged to negotiate with EU over Scottish energy funding
www.thenational.scot/news/2585135...
www.thenational.scot/news/2585135...
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I'm listening to Scottish Independence Podcasts | Unbinding the Union - the Law of Leaving on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/pb-tfte9-...
Unbinding the Union - the Law of Leaving
What are the legal routes to an independence referendum—and who gets to decide? Fiona and Marlene bring you the standout highlights from Holyrood’s Constitutional Committee, featuring evidence from to...
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February 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM
I'm listening to Scottish Independence Podcasts | Unbinding the Union - the Law of Leaving on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/pb-tfte9-...
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Scotrail - Scotland’s publicly owned railway - is seeing record numbers of passengers returning to rail travel with high satisfaction levels and lower fares thanks to the support of the SNP Government.
February 13, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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The English Labour Party in Scotland has been handed £200,000 by American health care firms. Those firms expect something in return for their 'investment'. That 'something' is Sarwar and Baillie's relentless attacks on our Scottish NHS. To undermine it in the eyes of the public.
Know your enemy.
Know your enemy.
February 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM
The English Labour Party in Scotland has been handed £200,000 by American health care firms. Those firms expect something in return for their 'investment'. That 'something' is Sarwar and Baillie's relentless attacks on our Scottish NHS. To undermine it in the eyes of the public.
Know your enemy.
Know your enemy.
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February 13, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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Good to hear the STUC speaking out.
www.thenational.scot/news/2585034...
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UK urged to speak out as Donald Trump 'attempts forced starvation of innocent people'
SCOTLAND’S top trade unionist has warned the UK Government that it must oppose Donald Trump’s “deliberate attempt to force mass starvation on…
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February 13, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Good to hear the STUC speaking out.
www.thenational.scot/news/2585034...
www.thenational.scot/news/2585034...