Dennis Walder
@dennis9.bsky.social
Writer. Retreaded Lit. Professor. Friend of Ukraine. Listen, and you’ll hear someone knocking at the other side of the tunnel.
So gov.uk is a fiendish plot to kill Scottish independence with a black grant of £51 billion over 2022-5? Not to mention all the institutions that are GB and would be nigh impossible to divide eg all the Research Councils...
September 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
So gov.uk is a fiendish plot to kill Scottish independence with a black grant of £51 billion over 2022-5? Not to mention all the institutions that are GB and would be nigh impossible to divide eg all the Research Councils...
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Winold Reiss's portrait of Alain Locke, key intellectual architect of the Harlem Renaissance, born #OnThisDay in 1885 npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...
September 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Winold Reiss's portrait of Alain Locke, key intellectual architect of the Harlem Renaissance, born #OnThisDay in 1885 npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...
And if the massive financial support from UK gov leaves too?
Thanks to the SNP and NHS Scotland, A&E performance has been better in Scotland than under Labour or the Tories in England and Wales before AND after COVID.
To get back to earlier performance we'll need to regain independence and ditch Westminster austerity.
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To get back to earlier performance we'll need to regain independence and ditch Westminster austerity.
public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
A&E Performance
A Flourish data visualization by Yes in Pictures
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September 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
And if the massive financial support from UK gov leaves too?
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Wäre ich heutzutage Chefredakteur, dann würde ich darauf achten, dass sich zumindest ein Mensch in der Redaktion in den aktuellen Influencer- und Gamer-Szenen (samt dem dort üblichen Jargon) auskennt. Was viele etablierte Medien derzeit im Mordfall Kirk liefern, ist extrem peinlich.
September 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Well it’s all such a swirl of misinformation it’s difficult to know anything about him for certain. Meanwhile Trumpists turn it into a left wing plot of course…
Ehrlich gesagt habe ich vorher noch nie von Kirk gehört, obwohl ich permanent online bin und viel Nachrichten lese.
September 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Well it’s all such a swirl of misinformation it’s difficult to know anything about him for certain. Meanwhile Trumpists turn it into a left wing plot of course…
Support this. BBC news reporting is hopeless. Lack of balance, also obsessed with individual sob stories while Europe collapses.
I’ve signed the @libdems.org.uk petition to Balance The BBC.
Reform only have 4 MPs, yet Nigel Farage accounts for 60% of the BBC website's mentions of opposition leaders.
The BBC has a duty to deliver fair, impartial coverage - we need year-round rules to ensure all parties are treated fairly. 📺
Reform only have 4 MPs, yet Nigel Farage accounts for 60% of the BBC website's mentions of opposition leaders.
The BBC has a duty to deliver fair, impartial coverage - we need year-round rules to ensure all parties are treated fairly. 📺
Balance the BBC
The BBC is our national broadcaster, people expect and deserve balanced news coverage.
www.libdems.org.uk
September 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Support this. BBC news reporting is hopeless. Lack of balance, also obsessed with individual sob stories while Europe collapses.
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⚡️ US House passes $890 billion defense bill, includes $400 million for Ukraine aid.
While the Ukraine provision faced pushback, a proposal by Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to eliminate aid was rejected with bipartisan opposition.
While the Ukraine provision faced pushback, a proposal by Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to eliminate aid was rejected with bipartisan opposition.
US House passes $890 billion defense bill, includes $400 million for Ukraine aid
While the Ukraine provision faced pushback, a proposal by Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to eliminate aid was rejected with bipartisan opposition.
kyivindependent.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
⚡️ US House passes $890 billion defense bill, includes $400 million for Ukraine aid.
While the Ukraine provision faced pushback, a proposal by Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to eliminate aid was rejected with bipartisan opposition.
While the Ukraine provision faced pushback, a proposal by Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to eliminate aid was rejected with bipartisan opposition.
Happy 90th birthday Arvo Part!
September 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Happy 90th birthday Arvo Part!
My favourite Scottish poet is Norman Macaig, especially for his Assynt poems. Yours?
September 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
My favourite Scottish poet is Norman Macaig, especially for his Assynt poems. Yours?
I lived and worked in Scotland for 12 years, my closest family and friends are Scots and none of them support independence. They’re especially scathing of English incomers who do. They also know how too many Scots blather on about being colonised when they were foremost among the British colonists
Dennis, I appreciate that you’re not in or from Scotland, and ignorant of how things are here
You are exposed to the output from a british unionist fundamentalist media, hostile to independence
The Scottish independence campaign is an inclusive one, and includes so many “English Scots for YES” 🏴🏴🇪🇺
You are exposed to the output from a british unionist fundamentalist media, hostile to independence
The Scottish independence campaign is an inclusive one, and includes so many “English Scots for YES” 🏴🏴🇪🇺
September 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I lived and worked in Scotland for 12 years, my closest family and friends are Scots and none of them support independence. They’re especially scathing of English incomers who do. They also know how too many Scots blather on about being colonised when they were foremost among the British colonists
What a non issue. Let him focus on the economy and immigration…
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September 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
What a non issue. Let him focus on the economy and immigration…
What a dizzy height you’re on.
Rather than understanding a whole movement you seem to have met some exceptions. Many folk who want Scotland to regain independence were in fact born in England and have moved here. For the vast majority it has nothing to do with any feelings about England or you.
September 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
What a dizzy height you’re on.
Yes… do you find this hard to believe
Are you speaking from personal experience?
September 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Yes… do you find this hard to believe
Yes…only joking. But scotnats always a pain and while some want to seem right on re refugees, still unpleasant to arrivals from nearer at hand..
Do you mean English refugees?
September 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Yes…only joking. But scotnats always a pain and while some want to seem right on re refugees, still unpleasant to arrivals from nearer at hand..
As long as they’re not English?
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Instead of delivering support on the cost of living, Westminster is busy demonising people who seek sanctuary.
I will have no part in it.
Our Saltire is a flag of welcome - and refugees are welcome here in Scotland.
I will have no part in it.
Our Saltire is a flag of welcome - and refugees are welcome here in Scotland.
September 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
As long as they’re not English?
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1 - The Duke of Westminster's £5 billion estate is in a trust tax free.
2 - The King of England is wholly exempted from inheritance tax .
3 - A working class woman does well in life, gets a bit of cash & gets her tax bill wrong.
Which one do the right wing press set out to destroy?
2 - The King of England is wholly exempted from inheritance tax .
3 - A working class woman does well in life, gets a bit of cash & gets her tax bill wrong.
Which one do the right wing press set out to destroy?
September 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
1 - The Duke of Westminster's £5 billion estate is in a trust tax free.
2 - The King of England is wholly exempted from inheritance tax .
3 - A working class woman does well in life, gets a bit of cash & gets her tax bill wrong.
Which one do the right wing press set out to destroy?
2 - The King of England is wholly exempted from inheritance tax .
3 - A working class woman does well in life, gets a bit of cash & gets her tax bill wrong.
Which one do the right wing press set out to destroy?
Watching the big military parade in Beijing I’m reminded of The Dirty Dozen and Donald Sutherland: ‘very pretty, but can they fight?’
September 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Watching the big military parade in Beijing I’m reminded of The Dirty Dozen and Donald Sutherland: ‘very pretty, but can they fight?’
No vaccinations, no nursery or school place. End of story.
September 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
No vaccinations, no nursery or school place. End of story.
You can play Handel till the cows come home as far as I’m concerned 3bbcradio
August 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
You can play Handel till the cows come home as far as I’m concerned 3bbcradio
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Putting a 10 year old on tv to talk about his friend being shot at school is a different level of diabolical.
August 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Putting a 10 year old on tv to talk about his friend being shot at school is a different level of diabolical.
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DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH
The media who do this are heartless bastards
The media who do this are heartless bastards
August 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH
The media who do this are heartless bastards
The media who do this are heartless bastards
My book just published
August 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My book just published
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⚡️French, German, Polish leaders to visit Moldova amid fears of Russian election interference.
The visit comes amid what the Moldovan presidency described as Russia ramping up its "interference activities ahead of the high-stakes elections" scheduled for September.
The visit comes amid what the Moldovan presidency described as Russia ramping up its "interference activities ahead of the high-stakes elections" scheduled for September.
French, German, Polish leaders to visit Moldova amid fears of Russian election interference
The visit comes amid what the Moldovan presidency described as Russia ramping up its "interference activities ahead of the high-stakes elections" scheduled for September.
kyivindependent.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
⚡️French, German, Polish leaders to visit Moldova amid fears of Russian election interference.
The visit comes amid what the Moldovan presidency described as Russia ramping up its "interference activities ahead of the high-stakes elections" scheduled for September.
The visit comes amid what the Moldovan presidency described as Russia ramping up its "interference activities ahead of the high-stakes elections" scheduled for September.
@matthewsyed.bsky.social thank you for another excellent column in today’s Sunday Tines on the foolishness of calling the despot Putin ‘president’ as if he has any legitimacy on even the US model which at least elected Trump, sadly.
August 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
@matthewsyed.bsky.social thank you for another excellent column in today’s Sunday Tines on the foolishness of calling the despot Putin ‘president’ as if he has any legitimacy on even the US model which at least elected Trump, sadly.
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Darshini David makes economic news astonishingly clear. Terrific!
August 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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