Martin Orr
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If England decided it wanted to hold a vote on becoming independent, do you think it would have to ask Scotland’s permission first?
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Sauce for the goose - Indy PosterBoy
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December 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If England decided it wanted to hold a vote on becoming independent, do you think it would have to ask Scotland’s permission first?
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Everyone should watch this excellent explanation as to why the Highlands are being shafted by our incomprehensible energy strategy:
Who benefits from vast expansion of Highland wind energy? Scotland’s already an energy exporter: weak grid means windfarm owners get millions NOT to produce & little benefit comes to folk with Europe’s highest energy bills. A just transition? A new film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXy...
The Highland Wind Farm Revolt
YouTube video by Lesley Riddoch
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September 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Everyone should watch this excellent explanation as to why the Highlands are being shafted by our incomprehensible energy strategy:
The Government is planning to roll out mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
Reject plans for a mandatory BritCard (digital ID)
Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives.
Mandatory digital IDs give the state enor...
you.38degrees.org.uk
August 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The Government is planning to roll out mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
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"“If the people of Scotland return an SNP government, regardless if it’s a minority or majority, then that would be a mandate for a second referendum. It’s not up to the likes of me who live in England.” Keir Starmer, 2020
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Promises Promises - Indy PosterBoy
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indyposterboy.scot
July 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"“If the people of Scotland return an SNP government, regardless if it’s a minority or majority, then that would be a mandate for a second referendum. It’s not up to the likes of me who live in England.” Keir Starmer, 2020
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The #football world mourns the loss of players in tragic circumstances but #Palestinians murdered don’t seem to count in the beautiful game
July 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The #football world mourns the loss of players in tragic circumstances but #Palestinians murdered don’t seem to count in the beautiful game
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/yv...
Yvette Cooper- Proscribe the IDF
The "IDF" has repeatedly carried out large-scale, deliberate acts of violence against civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
It is our sincerely held belief that the atrocities and tactics use...
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July 4, 2025 at 6:17 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/yv...
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On this planet we call ourselves civilised 🤔
#Gaza Hind Rajab ❤️
#IsraelTerroristState
They also murdered six of her family members and two paramedics coming to her rescue
#Gaza Hind Rajab ❤️
#IsraelTerroristState
They also murdered six of her family members and two paramedics coming to her rescue
April 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
On this planet we call ourselves civilised 🤔
#Gaza Hind Rajab ❤️
#IsraelTerroristState
They also murdered six of her family members and two paramedics coming to her rescue
#Gaza Hind Rajab ❤️
#IsraelTerroristState
They also murdered six of her family members and two paramedics coming to her rescue
@kermodemovie.bsky.social and @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social What film should I watch on Mubi tonight? If you had to choose one?
April 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
@kermodemovie.bsky.social and @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social What film should I watch on Mubi tonight? If you had to choose one?
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It took me a long time before I was prepared to ask this question, but here goes. If this ISN'T attempted genocide, what is it?
Since Israel resumed its bombing of the Gaza Strip last month, more than 142,000 people have been forcibly displaced, says the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/9drhnc
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/9drhnc
April 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It took me a long time before I was prepared to ask this question, but here goes. If this ISN'T attempted genocide, what is it?
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Scotland’s North Sea oil industry also created jobs, but all other benefits bypassed Scotland entirely and went into London’s coffers. The same is going to happen again with Scotland’s 2nd energy boom: jobs but no revenue, and still we’ll pay the highest energy prices.
www.agcc.co.uk/news-article...
www.agcc.co.uk/news-article...
March 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Scotland’s North Sea oil industry also created jobs, but all other benefits bypassed Scotland entirely and went into London’s coffers. The same is going to happen again with Scotland’s 2nd energy boom: jobs but no revenue, and still we’ll pay the highest energy prices.
www.agcc.co.uk/news-article...
www.agcc.co.uk/news-article...
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The "promise" of carbon capture utilisation and storage is essentially the fossil fuel companies saying "let us keep doing what we're doing and we'll get a wizard to fix the climate later".
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March 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The "promise" of carbon capture utilisation and storage is essentially the fossil fuel companies saying "let us keep doing what we're doing and we'll get a wizard to fix the climate later".
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Follow @thecommonweal.bsky.social for more.
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Questions for the Scottish Government if any of my MSP followers care to ask them in Parliament:
1) What steps will you take to ensure that Scottish public assets such as Prestwick airport will not be used to transfer personal and materiel involved in the US's proposed ethnic cleansing of Gaza?
1) What steps will you take to ensure that Scottish public assets such as Prestwick airport will not be used to transfer personal and materiel involved in the US's proposed ethnic cleansing of Gaza?
February 5, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Questions for the Scottish Government if any of my MSP followers care to ask them in Parliament:
1) What steps will you take to ensure that Scottish public assets such as Prestwick airport will not be used to transfer personal and materiel involved in the US's proposed ethnic cleansing of Gaza?
1) What steps will you take to ensure that Scottish public assets such as Prestwick airport will not be used to transfer personal and materiel involved in the US's proposed ethnic cleansing of Gaza?
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Scotland, as you shiver in your homes in the coldest part of the UK subject to unaffordable energy bills, console yourselves with the fact that the cheap power generated in your country will be exported and used for the comfort of 2m homes in England. Gives you such a warm, cosy feeling, don't it?
February 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Scotland, as you shiver in your homes in the coldest part of the UK subject to unaffordable energy bills, console yourselves with the fact that the cheap power generated in your country will be exported and used for the comfort of 2m homes in England. Gives you such a warm, cosy feeling, don't it?
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Trump just took the weaponisation of antisemitism to a whole new level in the US: abolishing 1st Amendment rights to protect Israel's genocide from criticism.
But Starmer was ahead of the game. He started criminalising criticism of the genocide many months ago in the UK.
But Starmer was ahead of the game. He started criminalising criticism of the genocide many months ago in the UK.
January 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Trump just took the weaponisation of antisemitism to a whole new level in the US: abolishing 1st Amendment rights to protect Israel's genocide from criticism.
But Starmer was ahead of the game. He started criminalising criticism of the genocide many months ago in the UK.
But Starmer was ahead of the game. He started criminalising criticism of the genocide many months ago in the UK.
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I would like to encourage you to read this highly informative piece in the LRB on the real Hamas, not the cartoon version presented by the western media.
Except should I do so, I risk having my home raided by the counter-terrorism police. So I won't.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Except should I do so, I risk having my home raided by the counter-terrorism police. So I won't.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Stevenson · Illusions of Containment: Versions of Hamas
Hamas was founded to pursue armed resistance against the occupation, but in practice violent confrontation was always in...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I would like to encourage you to read this highly informative piece in the LRB on the real Hamas, not the cartoon version presented by the western media.
Except should I do so, I risk having my home raided by the counter-terrorism police. So I won't.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Except should I do so, I risk having my home raided by the counter-terrorism police. So I won't.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Found my Yes posters & banner designs useful over the years? Want some FREE banners to help you campaign? @meidasscotland.bsky.social is running a crowdfunder to print and share dozens of large FREE banners of my designs. Please promote, share and donate - www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/funding-fo...
January 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Found my Yes posters & banner designs useful over the years? Want some FREE banners to help you campaign? @meidasscotland.bsky.social is running a crowdfunder to print and share dozens of large FREE banners of my designs. Please promote, share and donate - www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/funding-fo...
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My article in this week's Common Weal newsletter.
We're told that the billionaires are necessary to create jobs and wealth for the rest of us.
But what if they actually consume more wealth than they create?
https://commonweal.scot/the-dragons-ate-your-lunch/
We're told that the billionaires are necessary to create jobs and wealth for the rest of us.
But what if they actually consume more wealth than they create?
https://commonweal.scot/the-dragons-ate-your-lunch/
The Dragons Ate Your Lunch – Common Weal
Craig Dalzell One of the arguments in favour of billionaires is that while they are wealthy beyond any possible realistic need, they in turn generate even more wealth by creating and supporting job…
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January 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
My article in this week's Common Weal newsletter.
We're told that the billionaires are necessary to create jobs and wealth for the rest of us.
But what if they actually consume more wealth than they create?
https://commonweal.scot/the-dragons-ate-your-lunch/
We're told that the billionaires are necessary to create jobs and wealth for the rest of us.
But what if they actually consume more wealth than they create?
https://commonweal.scot/the-dragons-ate-your-lunch/
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Some thoughts from @andy-wightman.bsky.social on the Scottish Land Commission's advice to Scottish ministers on the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill.
A discussion on Land will be an important component of our Spring Convention in Edinburgh on Saturday 1 March, so this is valuable.
andywightman.scot/20...
A discussion on Land will be an important component of our Spring Convention in Edinburgh on Saturday 1 March, so this is valuable.
andywightman.scot/20...
Scottish Land Commission Amendments - Land Matters
10 minute read. The Scottish Land Commission (SLC) has published advice to Scottish Ministers on changes that it recommends be made to Part I of the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill introduced to the Scottish Parliament by the SNP/Scottish Green coalition government in March 2024. A copy of the advice can be found here. The key
andywightman.scot
January 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Some thoughts from @andy-wightman.bsky.social on the Scottish Land Commission's advice to Scottish ministers on the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill.
A discussion on Land will be an important component of our Spring Convention in Edinburgh on Saturday 1 March, so this is valuable.
andywightman.scot/20...
A discussion on Land will be an important component of our Spring Convention in Edinburgh on Saturday 1 March, so this is valuable.
andywightman.scot/20...
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Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
January 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
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Every place we livestream to is owned by a billionaire Trump supporting tech bro. No way round it unless we stop doing what we do.
That includes us covering cultural, social issues, environmental etc as well as Scottish Independence.
What a bind.
That includes us covering cultural, social issues, environmental etc as well as Scottish Independence.
What a bind.
January 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Every place we livestream to is owned by a billionaire Trump supporting tech bro. No way round it unless we stop doing what we do.
That includes us covering cultural, social issues, environmental etc as well as Scottish Independence.
What a bind.
That includes us covering cultural, social issues, environmental etc as well as Scottish Independence.
What a bind.
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Theory that Labour would ramp up its 'Scotland's NHS is shite' agenda to try to counter their polling slump is proving true. Effective response is to ask them how Labour-run NHSWales is doing. This design and other NHS-related designs for printing & sharing from - indyposterboy.scot/news-youre-n...
January 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Theory that Labour would ramp up its 'Scotland's NHS is shite' agenda to try to counter their polling slump is proving true. Effective response is to ask them how Labour-run NHSWales is doing. This design and other NHS-related designs for printing & sharing from - indyposterboy.scot/news-youre-n...
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Lest we forget . . "Scotland is the coldest part of the UK and pays the highest heating costs, despite producing massive amounts of surplus energy. In September 2024 the Labour UK government, including 35 of Scotland’s 37 Labour MPs, voted to cut pensioners’ Winter Heating Allowance." #Indyclan
January 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Lest we forget . . "Scotland is the coldest part of the UK and pays the highest heating costs, despite producing massive amounts of surplus energy. In September 2024 the Labour UK government, including 35 of Scotland’s 37 Labour MPs, voted to cut pensioners’ Winter Heating Allowance." #Indyclan
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Should Poland arrest Netanyahu?
Yes - Like
Hell yes - RP
Yes - Like
Hell yes - RP
January 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Should Poland arrest Netanyahu?
Yes - Like
Hell yes - RP
Yes - Like
Hell yes - RP
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Israel isn't eradicating 'the terrorists'. It's turning Gaza into a wasteland, where no one who cares or tries to cling on to their humanity can survive. Where doctors do not exist, aid workers are a memory, and compassion a liability.
My latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/dr-h...
My latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/dr-h...
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya symbolised humanity in Gaza. Israel and the West are destroying it
The abduction of the Kamal Adwan hospital chief is the latest manifestation of Israel's campaign to destroy the territory's healthcare system
www.middleeasteye.net
January 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Israel isn't eradicating 'the terrorists'. It's turning Gaza into a wasteland, where no one who cares or tries to cling on to their humanity can survive. Where doctors do not exist, aid workers are a memory, and compassion a liability.
My latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/dr-h...
My latest: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/dr-h...
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Keeping the lights on in England is dependent on Scotland according to the National Grid.👇🏻
January 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Keeping the lights on in England is dependent on Scotland according to the National Grid.👇🏻