Dr Richard Simpson
@docrjs.bsky.social
Retired GP and Psychiatrist. Ex Member and Minister in scottish Parliament current Hon Professor St Andrews medical School and Stirling University health faculty
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Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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“It is far too easy for the true owners of property to hide behind secret trusts and offshore structures.”
Our latest investigation shows how an oligarch praised by Putin controls UK property, including in Scotland’s biggest town
www.theferret.scot/r...
Our latest investigation shows how an oligarch praised by Putin controls UK property, including in Scotland’s biggest town
www.theferret.scot/r...
www.theferret.scot
https://www.theferret.scot/russian-oligarch-paisley/
www.theferret.scot
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“It is far too easy for the true owners of property to hide behind secret trusts and offshore structures.”
Our latest investigation shows how an oligarch praised by Putin controls UK property, including in Scotland’s biggest town
www.theferret.scot/r...
Our latest investigation shows how an oligarch praised by Putin controls UK property, including in Scotland’s biggest town
www.theferret.scot/r...
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I'm getting reports that a firm is cold calling people "offering grants for renewables and quoting that MARTIN LEWIS had encouraged people to engage with the company."
The call is UTTER BOLLOCKS! This is not true. Don't trust them. Politely disengage and don't speak to them.
The call is UTTER BOLLOCKS! This is not true. Don't trust them. Politely disengage and don't speak to them.
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I'm getting reports that a firm is cold calling people "offering grants for renewables and quoting that MARTIN LEWIS had encouraged people to engage with the company."
The call is UTTER BOLLOCKS! This is not true. Don't trust them. Politely disengage and don't speak to them.
The call is UTTER BOLLOCKS! This is not true. Don't trust them. Politely disengage and don't speak to them.
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Fiscal creep has been an amazingly easy way for recent Governments to raise tax without anyone noticing.
Here's the higher rate tax band since 1990.
It rose faster than inflation from 1994 to 2009. Then began a steep decline - with many more people paying higher rate.
Here's the higher rate tax band since 1990.
It rose faster than inflation from 1994 to 2009. Then began a steep decline - with many more people paying higher rate.
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Fiscal creep has been an amazingly easy way for recent Governments to raise tax without anyone noticing.
Here's the higher rate tax band since 1990.
It rose faster than inflation from 1994 to 2009. Then began a steep decline - with many more people paying higher rate.
Here's the higher rate tax band since 1990.
It rose faster than inflation from 1994 to 2009. Then began a steep decline - with many more people paying higher rate.
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There was absolutely NOTHING in the Chancellors press conference to suggest income tax was going up.
That was the media.
Again.
Going into it believing it was going up a coming out of it repeating the claim.
I never thought it was going up before & didn't think it after.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
That was the media.
Again.
Going into it believing it was going up a coming out of it repeating the claim.
I never thought it was going up before & didn't think it after.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
There was absolutely NOTHING in the Chancellors press conference to suggest income tax was going up.
That was the media.
Again.
Going into it believing it was going up a coming out of it repeating the claim.
I never thought it was going up before & didn't think it after.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
That was the media.
Again.
Going into it believing it was going up a coming out of it repeating the claim.
I never thought it was going up before & didn't think it after.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
It would be sad if the continued failure of the SNP was ensured by another win
Base on false Indy information for the cult
Base on false Indy information for the cult
"The SNP’s election pitch seems to be yes, we have a record of failure, but we are the least bad option. And for many voters that might just be enough," writes @chrismarshll.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/comment/view...
After nearly two decades in power, the SNP has embraced 'project fear'
The party which once decried ‘project fear’ during the independence referendum is now employing the same tactic to maint...
www.holyrood.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It would be sad if the continued failure of the SNP was ensured by another win
Base on false Indy information for the cult
Base on false Indy information for the cult
On holiday recently i binge read most of Val McDermid’s Kate Brannigan PI series they were great fun. Even better than V.I. Warshawski series from Sara Paretsky with
greater complexity and depth
Perfect lighter holiday reading
greater complexity and depth
Perfect lighter holiday reading
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
On holiday recently i binge read most of Val McDermid’s Kate Brannigan PI series they were great fun. Even better than V.I. Warshawski series from Sara Paretsky with
greater complexity and depth
Perfect lighter holiday reading
greater complexity and depth
Perfect lighter holiday reading
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To mark Family Business Week at the end of the month, I want to award local family businesses doing good in our communities.
Do you know a family business dedicated to our community?
🏆 Nominate them today:
👉 www.chriskane.net/superstar
Do you know a family business dedicated to our community?
🏆 Nominate them today:
👉 www.chriskane.net/superstar
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
To mark Family Business Week at the end of the month, I want to award local family businesses doing good in our communities.
Do you know a family business dedicated to our community?
🏆 Nominate them today:
👉 www.chriskane.net/superstar
Do you know a family business dedicated to our community?
🏆 Nominate them today:
👉 www.chriskane.net/superstar
I dont remember you welcoming the big increase in minimum wage for 21-25 year olds
If you did please repeat
If you did please repeat
Why should workers under 18 be paid different rates to do the same job? Young people don’t get a discount on their rent or their food bills ⬇️
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I dont remember you welcoming the big increase in minimum wage for 21-25 year olds
If you did please repeat
If you did please repeat
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Lower wages reducing impact of Scottish taxation, Audit Scotland finds www.holyrood.com/news/view,lo...
Lower wages reducing impact of Scottish taxation, Audit Scotland finds
Auditor General calls for transparency over impact of tax choices
www.holyrood.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Lower wages reducing impact of Scottish taxation, Audit Scotland finds www.holyrood.com/news/view,lo...
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£33 billion investment plan from SSE is a huge vote of confidence in our clean power mission.
Helping transform our electricity transmission network to connect clean homegrown power to where it's needed and supporting jobs in this booming sector.
www.sse.com/news-and-vie...
Helping transform our electricity transmission network to connect clean homegrown power to where it's needed and supporting jobs in this booming sector.
www.sse.com/news-and-vie...
SSE unveils £33bn investment plan to unlock clean, secure, affordable energy and support economic growth
SSE plc has announced a £33bn fully-funded five-year investment programme, to transform the UK’s electricity infrastructure and deliver long-term benefits for society.
www.sse.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
£33 billion investment plan from SSE is a huge vote of confidence in our clean power mission.
Helping transform our electricity transmission network to connect clean homegrown power to where it's needed and supporting jobs in this booming sector.
www.sse.com/news-and-vie...
Helping transform our electricity transmission network to connect clean homegrown power to where it's needed and supporting jobs in this booming sector.
www.sse.com/news-and-vie...
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Jeffrey Epstein: Donald Trump “Knew about the girls”
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Jeffrey Epstein: Donald Trump “Knew about the girls”
Everyone doesn’t include Scotland- @danneidle.bsky.social you were kind enough to chart for scotland can you update in the light of the changes [75k ‘advanced’ tax level and highest threshold reduced to 125k]
I proudly present the internet's nerdiest and prettiest tax calculator.
Other calculators just calculate your tax. This one calculates your tax now, and under various Budget proposals. And draws a pretty chart showing the marginal and effective rates for *everyone*.
Other calculators just calculate your tax. This one calculates your tax now, and under various Budget proposals. And draws a pretty chart showing the marginal and effective rates for *everyone*.
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Everyone doesn’t include Scotland- @danneidle.bsky.social you were kind enough to chart for scotland can you update in the light of the changes [75k ‘advanced’ tax level and highest threshold reduced to 125k]
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EXC: A Glasgow 'grooming gang' victim has urged John Swinney to launch an inquiry into child exploitation.
Glasgow 'grooming gang' victim urges John Swinney to launch child exploitation probe - Daily Record
EXCLUSIVE: The young woman has contacted the First Minister directly about her experience.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
EXC: A Glasgow 'grooming gang' victim has urged John Swinney to launch an inquiry into child exploitation.
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Douglas Alexander calls for ‘new crusade’ on Scottish devolution www.holyrood.com/news/view,do...
Douglas Alexander calls for ‘new crusade’ on Scottish devolution
Scottish secretary to address Cosla convention
www.holyrood.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Douglas Alexander calls for ‘new crusade’ on Scottish devolution www.holyrood.com/news/view,do...
Apart from money it would reduce hospital admissions and crime.
When the Darling duty escalator was in place alcohol deaths declined after Tories abolished it they rose
When the Darling duty escalator was in place alcohol deaths declined after Tories abolished it they rose
Raising alcohol duty by 2% above inflation for 5 years would bring an extra £3.4 billion into the Treasury.
This would pay the salaries of 37,000 NHS nurses over the period.
Try out the @aha-uk.bsky.social calculator to see the economic benefits of a duty escalator: ahauk.org/alcohol-duty...
This would pay the salaries of 37,000 NHS nurses over the period.
Try out the @aha-uk.bsky.social calculator to see the economic benefits of a duty escalator: ahauk.org/alcohol-duty...
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Apart from money it would reduce hospital admissions and crime.
When the Darling duty escalator was in place alcohol deaths declined after Tories abolished it they rose
When the Darling duty escalator was in place alcohol deaths declined after Tories abolished it they rose
This rating is for a devolved government ie within the UK
IF WE WERE INDEPENDENT with a DEFICIT much higher than UK it would be MUCH LOWER
IF WE WERE INDEPENDENT with a DEFICIT much higher than UK it would be MUCH LOWER
Moody's and S&P Global have given Scotland a credit rating equal to the UK www.holyrood.com/news/view,sc...
Scotland's credit rating matches UK ahead of first bonds issue
£1.5bn plan aims to raise money for public services from investors
www.holyrood.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This rating is for a devolved government ie within the UK
IF WE WERE INDEPENDENT with a DEFICIT much higher than UK it would be MUCH LOWER
IF WE WERE INDEPENDENT with a DEFICIT much higher than UK it would be MUCH LOWER
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Wood Mackenzie confirms new natural gas generation is expensive!
$126/MWh in 2030!
New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!
New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!
Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky
$126/MWh in 2030!
New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!
New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!
Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Wood Mackenzie confirms new natural gas generation is expensive!
$126/MWh in 2030!
New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!
New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!
Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky
$126/MWh in 2030!
New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!
New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!
Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky
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You mean you want the BBC to move even further to the right?
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/o...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/o...
'Over-use' of right-wing guests on Question Time revealed
Academic analysis detailing the over-use of right-wing guests on Question Time has resurfaced after Nigel Farage was platformed again.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
You mean you want the BBC to move even further to the right?
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/o...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/o...
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Breaking 🚨
Fiona Bruce to quit Question Time as BBC bias saga rolls on....
Fiona Bruce to quit Question Time as BBC bias saga rolls on....
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Breaking 🚨
Fiona Bruce to quit Question Time as BBC bias saga rolls on....
Fiona Bruce to quit Question Time as BBC bias saga rolls on....
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EXC: E-bike police seizures soar by 1450% as call issued for 'death trap' clampdown.
E-bike police seizures soar by 1450% as call issued for 'death trap' clampdown - Daily Record
EXCLUSIVE: New figures show a massive rise in seizures of the vehicles.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
EXC: E-bike police seizures soar by 1450% as call issued for 'death trap' clampdown.
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NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
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Scottish Labour will this morning publish a report on regional economic growth by former Glasgow University principal Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli www.holyrood.com/news/view,an...
Anas Sarwar: Muscatelli report will stop Scottish politics being an ‘economics-free zone’
Scottish Labour vows to 'push power out' of Holyrood and into communities
www.holyrood.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Scottish Labour will this morning publish a report on regional economic growth by former Glasgow University principal Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli www.holyrood.com/news/view,an...
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Fascinating and hopeful stuff, this, but my mind leaps immediately to the question of connectivity and how this sort of operation can fail safely in the event that it is lost. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dundee and US surgeons achieve world-first stroke surgery using robot
A Dundee professor carried out the first remote thrombectomy on a human cadaver.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Fascinating and hopeful stuff, this, but my mind leaps immediately to the question of connectivity and how this sort of operation can fail safely in the event that it is lost. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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1/ SNP position on tax claim becoming increasingly untenable. Scot Gov has no information to demonstrate the HMRC analysis (which shows claim is false) is wrong, and won’t say if it believes the claim turned out to be true or false in 2024-25. And yet Swinney keeps repeating it.
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
1/ SNP position on tax claim becoming increasingly untenable. Scot Gov has no information to demonstrate the HMRC analysis (which shows claim is false) is wrong, and won’t say if it believes the claim turned out to be true or false in 2024-25. And yet Swinney keeps repeating it.