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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 1d

So, Starmer is going to be visiting Scotland more often in the months leading up to GE2026. Maybe the media could get off their arses and ask him these questions.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 1d

The attitude of other European countries to Scotland joining the EU is something I discuss in this free Substack. It's mostly quite different to how they feel about England.

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The SNP Media @thesnpmedia.bsky.social · 21d

Brexit is leaving a generation of young Scots behind, a senior German politician has said. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🇪🇺 👇
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'We would welcome Scotland back into the EU with or without UK'

Brexit is 'leaving behind an entire generation' of young people, according to a senior German politician who said Scotland would be welcomed back…

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Graham Laurie🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @grazza62.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul Kavanagh: Tory conference shows what death of a major political party looks like

IT’S party conference season and this week it’s the turn of the Tories. Well, we are supposed to call it a party conference, but it looks much…

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Graham Laurie🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @grazza62.bsky.social · 1d

£1m donation to Better Together and gave us all the nauseating analogy of the strained marriage being given one last chance. Nothing from her since Brexshit apart from what you mention. A typically hideous New Labour and “Union” protector

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Graham Laurie🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @grazza62.bsky.social · 1d

Shyster who, of course, got away with his purdah-pumping bullshit.
I was also annoyed with the SNP for signing off on the Smith Commission which had fallen so obviously short of Broon’s last minute proclamations

Graham Laurie🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @grazza62.bsky.social · 1d

How calamitous is the Scottish indyref result from 2014 looking now?
No wonder Westminster won’t ever allow another vote. The “Union” is completely bolloxed. Scotland will have to find another way or suffer a future that would make the Thatcherism of the 80s look like a picnic.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

We need constantly to remind ourselves that there's nothing normal or inevitable about it. It would be a catastrophe from which we would not recover for many years, in which terrible things are done, to minorities, to vulnerable people, to the rest of the living planet. We cannot let it happen.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 2d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border

In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 3d

The 'Scottish' media is, to a large extent, the campaigning arm of WM rule of Scotland. Between now & May 2026 it will spin every positive story about Scotland as a negative one, and where that's impossible, will not report positives at all. Try other sources.
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🌻Sheila 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺✌️ @sheilzz.bsky.social · 4d

This is a brilliant moment for Scotland!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@johnswinney.bsky.social & @believeinscotland.bsky.social have signed a partnership deal to advance independence. A united movement for a fairer, stronger, self-governing Scotland.The momentum is building 😊 The future’s in our hands! #ScottishIndependence

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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer asks students not to join protests on 7 October

The prime minister says it is "un-British" to hold pro-Palestinian protests on the second anniversary of Hamas's attacks on Israel.

www.bbc.com

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Graham Laurie🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @grazza62.bsky.social · 2d

“Un-British”? Yes please.

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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 2d

The real scandal is that Scotland’s media is not reporting the news where we are! talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/06/i...

Infected blood scandal – The mob who supposedly ‘report’ political news within Scotland are not exactly the same calibre of the Washington Post’s Carl Bernstein or Bob Woodward

By Liz S People in Scotland need to realise that these UK political parties, whenever they achieve any power, they then have a tendency to hold the ‘purse strings very very tightly’ ……….t…

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The Scottish Government has written to the Foreign Office to ask for an 'urgent' update on the Scots imprisoned by Israel

Scottish Government requests 'urgent' update on Scots imprisoned by Israel

www.thenational.scot

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Graham Laurie🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @grazza62.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately likely to be ignored as with everything else. The downside to being a virtual colony in the north of an increasingly fascist island

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 2d

Complicit.

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 2d

Israel’s arms imports from UK hit record high values

Last week, our FactCheck team exclusively revealed that Israel’s imports of UK arms hit a record high value in June. Now, we can reveal new figures showing September was the second highest month on re...

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 2d

' KEIR Starmer’s spokesman has said that the detention of activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters is “a matter for the Israeli government”. '

Four of those activists are Scots.

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Detention of flotilla activists 'matter for Israeli government', says No 10

KEIR Starmer’s spokesman has said that the detention of activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters is “a matter for the…

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

A few people control our power, our public services and our wealth.

It's time to take it back.

My longer chat with @owenjones.bsky.social about @greenparty.org.uk plans to build on our success.

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He’s Got Starmer Scared w/. Zack Polanski

YouTube video by Owen Jones

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JR Tomlin (she/her) @jrtomlin.bsky.social · 2d

Labour blasted over 'cuts by stealth' to DWP Access to Work payments

www.thenational.scot/news/2552216...

Labour blasted over disability payment 'cuts by stealth'

LABOUR have been blasted for imposing “cuts by stealth” on a benefit to help disabled people get back into work.

www.thenational.scot

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d

I think I’ve got part of that postcard

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

Answers on a postcard. Farage - who is currently in line to be the next Prime Minister of the UK - won't explain this mounting ties to a hostile foreign power. We need more investigation and public inquiry before its too late 12/12
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 3d

Green Party calls for the IDF to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation bright-green.org/2025/10/05/g...

Green Party calls for the IDF to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation

Members overwhelmingly backed the motion

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 2d

Pt1 🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "There's a live-streamed Genocide in front of our eyes in Gaza. No one will be able to say they didn't know this was happening. The Global Samud Flotilla only existed because our leaders failed. Our international systems are betraying Palestinians."

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d

Scottish Flotilla activist Margaret Pacetta has arrived back in Glasgow after being detained in Israel

She describes the 'awful' conditions she was subjected to

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duncan2024.bsky.social @duncan2024.bsky.social · 3d

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Starmer and Mahmood's attack on protest is naked genocide collaboration

Mahmood is targeting anti-genocide protest in an outright collaboration with Israel - even though these protests have frightened no one

www.thecanary.co

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