Izzy b
@bellagray.bsky.social
Eccentric old (in my head) person. Life long supporter of Scottish independence. Cat lover and supporter of wildlife. amateur gardener Housing officer for 30 years until retiring.
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How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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A "FIFA Peace Prize" is tantamount to getting an "AutoZone Best Actor in a Dramatic Play" award.
And "I want to really save lives" is rich coming from the homicidal slob who is murdering people on fishing boats in the Caribbean.
And "I want to really save lives" is rich coming from the homicidal slob who is murdering people on fishing boats in the Caribbean.
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A "FIFA Peace Prize" is tantamount to getting an "AutoZone Best Actor in a Dramatic Play" award.
And "I want to really save lives" is rich coming from the homicidal slob who is murdering people on fishing boats in the Caribbean.
And "I want to really save lives" is rich coming from the homicidal slob who is murdering people on fishing boats in the Caribbean.
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Scotland needs more carers, but Westminster is driving them away.
Labour’s hostile immigration plans and their tax on jobs are hammering Scotland’s social care sector.
With the fresh start of independence, we can build a migration system suited to our needs and interests.
Labour’s hostile immigration plans and their tax on jobs are hammering Scotland’s social care sector.
With the fresh start of independence, we can build a migration system suited to our needs and interests.
December 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Scotland needs more carers, but Westminster is driving them away.
Labour’s hostile immigration plans and their tax on jobs are hammering Scotland’s social care sector.
With the fresh start of independence, we can build a migration system suited to our needs and interests.
Labour’s hostile immigration plans and their tax on jobs are hammering Scotland’s social care sector.
With the fresh start of independence, we can build a migration system suited to our needs and interests.
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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bl...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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Can’t think why 0530 is too early to wake you up says #sophiefromromania
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Can’t think why 0530 is too early to wake you up says #sophiefromromania
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I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform!
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
OpenSAFELY team awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further
Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.
www.ox.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform!
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
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My Special 1.
Born 11/11/11
Happy 14th birthday to the best boy ever.
Born 11/11/11
Happy 14th birthday to the best boy ever.
November 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
My Special 1.
Born 11/11/11
Happy 14th birthday to the best boy ever.
Born 11/11/11
Happy 14th birthday to the best boy ever.
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If you're a bit silly, you probably don't realise, the UK Government uses Scotland, to dump and hide dodgy stuff.
Decrepit old Nuclear Power Stations and Weapons, Old and Rotting Nuclear Subs, from the 1970s.
Scotland has NO SAY, over ANYTHING.
Only a fool doesn't want Independent Scotland.
Decrepit old Nuclear Power Stations and Weapons, Old and Rotting Nuclear Subs, from the 1970s.
Scotland has NO SAY, over ANYTHING.
Only a fool doesn't want Independent Scotland.
Dounreay waste particle 'most radioactive' find for three years
The fragment has been categorised as "significant" and was found during monitoring work around the nuclear power plant, near Thurso.
www.bbc.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
If you're a bit silly, you probably don't realise, the UK Government uses Scotland, to dump and hide dodgy stuff.
Decrepit old Nuclear Power Stations and Weapons, Old and Rotting Nuclear Subs, from the 1970s.
Scotland has NO SAY, over ANYTHING.
Only a fool doesn't want Independent Scotland.
Decrepit old Nuclear Power Stations and Weapons, Old and Rotting Nuclear Subs, from the 1970s.
Scotland has NO SAY, over ANYTHING.
Only a fool doesn't want Independent Scotland.
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'When access to childcare depends on luck, income or geography, we don’t just fail to reduce poverty, we manufacture it.
We should stop treating childcare as a “nice to have” and make it a cornerstone of fighting poverty.'
@assasr.bsky.social, via The National
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We should stop treating childcare as a “nice to have” and make it a cornerstone of fighting poverty.'
@assasr.bsky.social, via The National
archive.is/iHYkH
October 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'When access to childcare depends on luck, income or geography, we don’t just fail to reduce poverty, we manufacture it.
We should stop treating childcare as a “nice to have” and make it a cornerstone of fighting poverty.'
@assasr.bsky.social, via The National
archive.is/iHYkH
We should stop treating childcare as a “nice to have” and make it a cornerstone of fighting poverty.'
@assasr.bsky.social, via The National
archive.is/iHYkH
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Laoch snoozing in the pub instead of smooching the lassies. He must be feeling no weel.
October 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Laoch snoozing in the pub instead of smooching the lassies. He must be feeling no weel.
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How nice that #sophiefromromania now joins us on the sofa for #strictly
October 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
How nice that #sophiefromromania now joins us on the sofa for #strictly
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It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
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Good morning my #bluesky friends!💙🌲🌞🌲🦋
"The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man"
- Charles Dickens
#sunshine #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #islandlife #green #westcoast #trees #forest #sunbeams
"The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man"
- Charles Dickens
#sunshine #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #islandlife #green #westcoast #trees #forest #sunbeams
September 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Good morning my #bluesky friends!💙🌲🌞🌲🦋
"The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man"
- Charles Dickens
#sunshine #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #islandlife #green #westcoast #trees #forest #sunbeams
"The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man"
- Charles Dickens
#sunshine #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #islandlife #green #westcoast #trees #forest #sunbeams
Feeling physically sick at the completely unnecessary and ridiculous display of colonial rubbish being hauled out for Trump to ogle at ,backed up the media comments every 5 mins about how his mother was Scottish and a ardent royalist. A good example of why royalty has to be abolished.
September 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Feeling physically sick at the completely unnecessary and ridiculous display of colonial rubbish being hauled out for Trump to ogle at ,backed up the media comments every 5 mins about how his mother was Scottish and a ardent royalist. A good example of why royalty has to be abolished.
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Says the man who is participating in genocide and who’s courting the racist vote.
This man makes me vomit.
This man makes me vomit.
"We are in the fight of our times between patriotic national renewal and decline and toxic division."
September 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Says the man who is participating in genocide and who’s courting the racist vote.
This man makes me vomit.
This man makes me vomit.
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There are bad hot takes, and there are Martin Kettle bad hot takes.In his latest piece inhe opines that the big problem with Nicola Sturgeon was her nationalism. Kettle's British nationalism is of course not nationalist at all, because it's British.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nicola Sturgeon’s immense political talent is undeniable. The nationalism was the problem | Martin Kettle
Many of her admirers gloss over her desire to break up the UK as Scotland’s first minister. But in her memoir, it plays a starring role, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
There are bad hot takes, and there are Martin Kettle bad hot takes.In his latest piece inhe opines that the big problem with Nicola Sturgeon was her nationalism. Kettle's British nationalism is of course not nationalist at all, because it's British.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump has told the Wall Street Journal its reporters are not welcome on his visit to Scotland. As a Scot living 3 miles from Trump's Turnberry golf course, I can tell you the unwelcome visitor is Trump. He's despised in Scotland & he'll be met by 1000s channelling the late great Janey Godley.
July 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Trump has told the Wall Street Journal its reporters are not welcome on his visit to Scotland. As a Scot living 3 miles from Trump's Turnberry golf course, I can tell you the unwelcome visitor is Trump. He's despised in Scotland & he'll be met by 1000s channelling the late great Janey Godley.
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I'll miss Trump's visit to his Turnberry golf course, as I will be in England visiting family, so I'll miss him. I'm distraught, devastated. I was planning to greet him with this very special Scottish welcome.
July 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I'll miss Trump's visit to his Turnberry golf course, as I will be in England visiting family, so I'll miss him. I'm distraught, devastated. I was planning to greet him with this very special Scottish welcome.
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My latest blog piece, Trump's visit to Scotland from the perpective of a Scot who lives 3 miles away from one of his Scottish golf courses - spoiler alert - we hate him.
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Trump’s visit to Scotland
On Friday Scotland will be infested with the presence of Donald Trump, a convicted criminal, abuser of women and best friend of deceased child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein – and those are his b…
weegingerdug.wordpress.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
My latest blog piece, Trump's visit to Scotland from the perpective of a Scot who lives 3 miles away from one of his Scottish golf courses - spoiler alert - we hate him.
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/t...
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/t...
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Frankie Boyle To Lammy:
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July 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Frankie Boyle To Lammy:
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