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Christine R
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Archaeology, local history, genealogy, environment and Scottish independence
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markrich68.bsky.social
🇬🇧 As usual, uk westminster acting in the interests of others, against the best interests of the people of Scotland

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The only way to get what’s best for Scotland, is to be able to elect fully empowered, independent, Scottish Governments, who WILL put Scotland’s interests first

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ?
heraldscotland.bsky.social The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 5d
EXCLUSIVE

New immigration rules could have the knock on effect of exacerbating depopulation in Highland communities, according to an expert in demographics

www.heraldscotland.com/news...
February 11, 2026 at 6:02 AM
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gavinesler.bsky.social
Surely now we have to recognise that the “two party” system of government and opposition, Labour and Conservative, is dead and needs to be buried?
February 10, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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goodlawproject.org
£600k on eight free parking spaces, six reserved for Reform politicians, whilst removing free parking for junior Council staff.

Total snouts in troughs from Reform. www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...
Reform council spends £600k on eight free parking spaces for senior councillors | LBC
The majority of staff, who will not be able to use the free parking facilities available to their senior colleagues, will still be expected to pay to park every day
www.lbc.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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toplandscaper.bsky.social
I really don't understand how white supremacists cannot know that the human race evolved in Africa and slowly spread around the world
We evolved from black ppl
White people evolved around 8000 years ago
www.ancient-origins.net/news-evoluti...
White Skin Developed in Europe Only As Recently as 8,000 Years Ago Say Anthropologists | Ancient Origins
The myriad of skin tones and eye colors that humans express around the world are interesting and wonderful in their v
www.ancient-origins.net
January 28, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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ross-greer.bsky.social
It very much looks like the US Government has just abducted two people from Scotland hours after our Court of Session ordered that they not be removed.

The US is a rogue state. It's time to evict their troops from their de-facto base at (publicly owned) Prestwick airport.
US remove tanker captain from UK waters as crew set to leave Scotland
The US Department of Justice told Scottish authorities that the skipper and his first officer were on board the US Coast Guard vessel Munro.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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gavinesler.bsky.social
What presidential leadership looks like:
barackobama.bsky.social Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 20d
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
January 25, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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frankieboy1964.bsky.social
Ask them 1 question, how can you make things better in Scotland, when everything is Worse down South?
January 13, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social
There seems to be an inverse correlation between the amount of time someone holds one of the great offices of state and their brazen lack of shame afterwards.
January 12, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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adilray.bsky.social
Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
January 12, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social
‘So halllow’d, and so gracious is the time.’ Have a fine evening everyone, and a happy Christmas morning when it comes.
December 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
Sometimes all the wisdom and truth in the world can be found on the side of an 18th century Wedgwood teapot;

Health to the sick
Honour to the brave
Success to the lover
And freedom to the slave

Sharing this one again because it's awesome, someone should start reproducing these.
December 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
'Tis the season to listen to George Bailey.
December 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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helenczerski.bsky.social
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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unionsteve.bsky.social
I see #bbcqt is platforming Reform Ltd again. With a Tory defector. And a Tory MP. No Lib Dem, despite them having more MPs in Scotland than the Tories. Reform have precisely none. #bbcbias
December 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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sundersays.bsky.social
This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time

"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"

Chair says "have English as a second language"

Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
British poster from the 1910 general election.
It was made by the Budget League, a "pressure group formed in 1909 by Winston Churchill to publicly campaign in favour of David Lloyd George's People's Budget":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_...
December 12, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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scottishgreens.org
The BBC must join the growing list of broadcasters from across Europe in withdrawing from the Eurovision Song Contest.

Our artists must not share a stage with war criminals!
The BBC must withdraw from Eurovision.
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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johnconnett.bsky.social
Wonder if Nigel Farage would have a problem with schoolchildren speaking Gaelic and Scots? Both now official languages north of the border: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages
The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew's Day from the Scottish Languages Act.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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bellacaledonia.bsky.social
Part of why Farage's racist dog whistle on Glasgow will fail is because he/they know nothing about the city. For 1,400 pupils who attend one of the five GME schools in Glasgow – Gaelic is their first language. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/03/f...
Farage’s Glasgow Dog Whistle
Reform UK’s attack on the children of Glasgow may at first seem an oddity, a bizarre lurch even for them. But, in fact, it has direct continuity with some of their most extreme views, many of…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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helenczerski.bsky.social
Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
chrisr49.bsky.social
Findings from the Covid enquiry are not surprising. In particular the lack of communication between the UK and devolved governments. This should have been a priority in the emergency facing the country. Uk politicians especially did not set a good example.
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
This is shocking. Up to 50,000 nurses could quit the UK over the government’s immigration proposals, plunging the NHS into its biggest ever workforce crisis, research suggests

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM