Rab Bruce’s Spider
@rabbrucesspider.bsky.social
Supporter of Scotland becoming a normal, self-governing country.
Blind tech user.
I write articles for iScot Magazine.
If at first you don’t secede, try, try again.
Blogs at: rabbrucesspider.blogspot.com
Blind tech user.
I write articles for iScot Magazine.
If at first you don’t secede, try, try again.
Blogs at: rabbrucesspider.blogspot.com
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In case you're in any doubt of the limits that the Scottish NHS has imposed on it. He's now the Labour Health Secretary- being truthful for a change.
The Scottish NHS is THE best preforming NHS in the UK DESPITE the consequences of Westminster it'd be even better with #ScottishIndependence 💙
The Scottish NHS is THE best preforming NHS in the UK DESPITE the consequences of Westminster it'd be even better with #ScottishIndependence 💙
December 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
In case you're in any doubt of the limits that the Scottish NHS has imposed on it. He's now the Labour Health Secretary- being truthful for a change.
The Scottish NHS is THE best preforming NHS in the UK DESPITE the consequences of Westminster it'd be even better with #ScottishIndependence 💙
The Scottish NHS is THE best preforming NHS in the UK DESPITE the consequences of Westminster it'd be even better with #ScottishIndependence 💙
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Millionaire Tory peer defects to "anti-elite" party Reform UK. Offord was behind the Vote No Borders astroturfing campaign during the 2014 indyref which was mysteriously given massive publicity by the "impartial" BBC.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2567804...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2567804...
Millionaire Tory donor Malcolm Offord defects to Reform
The millionaire peer was announced by Nigel Farage as the party’s latest high-profile member during a rally in Falkirk.
www.heraldscotland.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Millionaire Tory peer defects to "anti-elite" party Reform UK. Offord was behind the Vote No Borders astroturfing campaign during the 2014 indyref which was mysteriously given massive publicity by the "impartial" BBC.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2567804...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2567804...
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The United States and Russia have officially formed an alliance against Europe, Ukraine, and Canada.
December 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The United States and Russia have officially formed an alliance against Europe, Ukraine, and Canada.
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🥀 Before the election, Labour promised to lower energy bills by £300 - but now they’re skyrocketing.
With independence, we can use Scotland’s energy resources for the benefit of Scotland’s people. 🏴
With independence, we can use Scotland’s energy resources for the benefit of Scotland’s people. 🏴
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🥀 Before the election, Labour promised to lower energy bills by £300 - but now they’re skyrocketing.
With independence, we can use Scotland’s energy resources for the benefit of Scotland’s people. 🏴
With independence, we can use Scotland’s energy resources for the benefit of Scotland’s people. 🏴
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“It was the most horrific thing I’ve ever seen in my life – ever”
www.theferret.scot/f...
www.theferret.scot/f...
Far-right agitators stand accused of stirring up trouble at asylum hotel protests. But anti-racists are standing firm
Following a sharp rise in far right activity, we’ve spent the last three months attending protests, speaking to activists under threat, and tracking anti-asylum seeker demonstrations across Scotland.
www.theferret.scot
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
“It was the most horrific thing I’ve ever seen in my life – ever”
www.theferret.scot/f...
www.theferret.scot/f...
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"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
www.publicnotice.co
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
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Norway’s oil wealth fund is now worth more than $2Trillion.
But for the ‛broad shoulders’ and BetterTogetherness of Westminster managing Scotland's oil and gas, Scotland would now be as poor as Norway. #DodgedThatBullet #IndependenceIsNormal #Scotland
But for the ‛broad shoulders’ and BetterTogetherness of Westminster managing Scotland's oil and gas, Scotland would now be as poor as Norway. #DodgedThatBullet #IndependenceIsNormal #Scotland
December 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Norway’s oil wealth fund is now worth more than $2Trillion.
But for the ‛broad shoulders’ and BetterTogetherness of Westminster managing Scotland's oil and gas, Scotland would now be as poor as Norway. #DodgedThatBullet #IndependenceIsNormal #Scotland
But for the ‛broad shoulders’ and BetterTogetherness of Westminster managing Scotland's oil and gas, Scotland would now be as poor as Norway. #DodgedThatBullet #IndependenceIsNormal #Scotland
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NEW: Reform UK are charging supporters to watch Nigel Farage speak in Scotland this weekend, it has been reported
Reform UK charge people to attend Nigel Farage's Scotland rally
www.thenational.scot
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
NEW: Reform UK are charging supporters to watch Nigel Farage speak in Scotland this weekend, it has been reported
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The Golden Age.
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Golden Age.
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The start of 2026 will see the UK Unionist Establishment and their PR wing the Scottish Press and Broadcasters give it their all to break the SNP in the run up to the Holyrood Election.
The vitriol that has been in a cycle of escalation since 2012 will know no bounds.
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The vitriol that has been in a cycle of escalation since 2012 will know no bounds.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The start of 2026 will see the UK Unionist Establishment and their PR wing the Scottish Press and Broadcasters give it their all to break the SNP in the run up to the Holyrood Election.
The vitriol that has been in a cycle of escalation since 2012 will know no bounds.
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The vitriol that has been in a cycle of escalation since 2012 will know no bounds.
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Leaving the UK is normal returning is unheard of. 65 have left so far 0 have returned.
December 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Leaving the UK is normal returning is unheard of. 65 have left so far 0 have returned.
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🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
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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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December 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Scotland’s at the heart of the so-called “union” only because without it Westminster would be screwed.
We live in an extraction economy and are treated with contempt while our strategic assets are destroyed and our natural capital exploited for peanuts.
We live in an extraction economy and are treated with contempt while our strategic assets are destroyed and our natural capital exploited for peanuts.
December 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Scotland’s at the heart of the so-called “union” only because without it Westminster would be screwed.
We live in an extraction economy and are treated with contempt while our strategic assets are destroyed and our natural capital exploited for peanuts.
We live in an extraction economy and are treated with contempt while our strategic assets are destroyed and our natural capital exploited for peanuts.
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This is a brilliant interview with young refugee Motaz Amer from Glasgow - responding to Reform attacks on bilingualism in the city.
"We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division"
www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...
"We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division"
www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...
I'm a bilingual refugee in Glasgow. Here's what I would say to Nigel Farage
A GLASGOW refugee has urged Nigel Farage to stop playing “dirty games” by picking on children who speak different languages.
www.thenational.scot
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is a brilliant interview with young refugee Motaz Amer from Glasgow - responding to Reform attacks on bilingualism in the city.
"We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division"
www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...
"We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division"
www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...
Hands up anyone who actually believes this bollocks.
Nigel Farage says that Christopher Harborne, whose crypto firm the Reform leader plugged on air, while promising to hand massive tax cuts to, wants "absolutely nothing in return" for the £9 million he gave his party bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK as Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Hands up anyone who actually believes this bollocks.
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The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.
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Aye, a quick experiment and you can see that the BBC covers St. Patricks Day better. Googled both St Patricks and St Andrews Day separately. Even Starmer has a shindig for St Patricks Day 🤷♀️
Look at the dates. Coverage for St Andrews Day was more prolific 10 years back. It's a deliberate choice
Look at the dates. Coverage for St Andrews Day was more prolific 10 years back. It's a deliberate choice
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Aye, a quick experiment and you can see that the BBC covers St. Patricks Day better. Googled both St Patricks and St Andrews Day separately. Even Starmer has a shindig for St Patricks Day 🤷♀️
Look at the dates. Coverage for St Andrews Day was more prolific 10 years back. It's a deliberate choice
Look at the dates. Coverage for St Andrews Day was more prolific 10 years back. It's a deliberate choice
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If your doctor decided you needed an MRI (indicating concern about something serious) and you claim that you didn't ask why or what part of your body he wanted to look at, you are:
1. Really stupid; or
2. Dangerously detached from reality; or
4. Lying; or
4. All three. 🎯
1. Really stupid; or
2. Dangerously detached from reality; or
4. Lying; or
4. All three. 🎯
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If your doctor decided you needed an MRI (indicating concern about something serious) and you claim that you didn't ask why or what part of your body he wanted to look at, you are:
1. Really stupid; or
2. Dangerously detached from reality; or
4. Lying; or
4. All three. 🎯
1. Really stupid; or
2. Dangerously detached from reality; or
4. Lying; or
4. All three. 🎯
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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I just saw a woman on Reporting Scotland referring to asylum seekers as 'fighting age men' with the clear implication that asylum seekers are here to conduct a violent invasion. That's not just a racist dog whistle, it's a racist fog horn.
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I just saw a woman on Reporting Scotland referring to asylum seekers as 'fighting age men' with the clear implication that asylum seekers are here to conduct a violent invasion. That's not just a racist dog whistle, it's a racist fog horn.