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Tenement raised Scot. Pro Indy. Glasgow City resident. St Mirren man.
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Even before today’s results Scotland’s schools narrowed attainment gaps across the board and ‘most deprived’ 14/15 year-olds made major strides in literacy
The gutter press today, above, with the same old un-educated claims. The facts: Note how the those pupils from deprived areas improved by 10% while those least deprived barely did so. From Ach…
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My latest blog piece. The shameful anti-SNP hysteria of the British media in Scotland even spins good news into SNPbad as we saw this week with the media response to the news that the pass rate for exams in Scotland has increased for a second year. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/e...
Even good news is spun into SNPbad by the media in Scotland
It’s often said there are two kinds of people in the world, those who say the glass is half full, and those who say it’s half empty. This is in fact inaccurate as there is a third kind,…
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Also SMART METERS - UK govt install SM, NOT install working SM FAILURE for majority of Scottish rural homes and even city tenements.. SM needs good permanent 4Gsigmal to work. Fail in stone buildings, dodgy signal areas.. UK govt deliberately undermining Scotland. WTF Independence now.
Andrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺@andrew.sharpe.scot · 11h agoRegulation of mobile phone operators in Scotland is controlled by British governments in England. This is the result.
The UK has existed as a state since 1801. The current borders of the UK have been in place since 1922. Do Reform UK politicians NOT know the basics of UK history?
Eight of the world's biggest oil companies made a combined $93bn in just three months as the Iran war sent oil prices soaring. Europe and the UK are literally on fire from climate change caused by their product. And yet conservatives and right wing media view them as heroes. 🧵 #r4today
Schiff: "This is someone who has violated his code of ethics blatantly, misled this committee, supported establishment of a fund for cop beaters, covered up docs implicating president in the Epstein files, use DOJ to enrich the president. Is this who we're prepared to confirm as AG? It appears so."
Booker: "They have become so obsessed with the millions the Bidens made that they have ignored completely the billions of dollars the Trump family is making. That is like being obsessed with a stain on the living room carpet when behind you is a mountain of excrement."
BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.2 billion in the three months to the end of June. These are the profits of war and climate chaos. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.
Durbin: "Mr Blanche has aided and abetted the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States ... Blanche's willingness to casually lie under oath about he statement he made in a room full of witnesses shows the lengths he will go to to avoid offending President Trump."
Far right thug who marched as "defender of women" battered his own mum Alan Miller took to streets on march to "Protect Our Women and Kids". We can now reveal that he was convicted of assaulting his own mum at her home www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/far-rig...
Far right thug who marched as "defender of women" battered his own mum
Alan Miller took to streets on march to "Protect Our Women and Kids". We can now reveal that he was convicted of assaulting his own mum at her home
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Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
Whitehouse on Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell: "It was to get exculpatory information about Donald Trump and then reward her ... How often does a prisoner allegedly facing threats or danger get moved to a less secure facility? Think about it. It doesn't pass the test of common sense."
Whitehouse: "Next we get to this crooked slush fund Trump family tax amnesty scam. We've got these two new pieces of paper. One signed only by Blanche, one not signed by anybody. Neither of which has any legal effect whatsoever. They are decorative. Can you trust Todd Blanche? I do not."
And now, a little Vivaldi. Michel Tirabosco, a renowned pan flute player, collaborating with Raphaël Froissart. He is a professor at the Geneva Conservatory. Born with physical differences, he began playing the pan flute at 7 and has achieved international recognition for his skill. #streetmusic
Good news that you won’t read in crooked BBC Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/08/04/d...
Drug-related hospital admissions plummet to lowest level since records began, treatment service meets 90% target for last 15 years and world-first opioid overdose reversal programme enters 8th year bu...
From BBC Scotland this morning, the above and: A residential drug service in Glasgow is to close its doors after a long-running financial dispute with its council-owned landlord. The service run by…
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Suella Braverman, Priti Patel, Kemi Badenoch, Keir Starmer, David Lammy, Robert Jenrick support this… Imagine Palestinians doing this to the Israelis, what the response be?!
Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · 2d agoIsrael blocks ambulances in the West Bank again. Shoots Palestinians, then seals off medical access so they bleed out and die. Deliberate. Sadistic. State policy. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️
The Wash Act. 1823. It really was just a Tax, on making Scotch Whisky. It means, Scotch Whisky has been Taxed to fuck, by England, for over two CENTURIES. It's a MUCH bigger theft than North Sea Oil. Miles bigger. It's depressing that nobody knows this, about 25% of UK Food and Drink Exports.
COLONIALISM = RESOURCE EXTRACTION Unsurprisingly with annual droughts now likely in future, England wants to pipe Scottish water south to London. Read the details here: www.thenational.scot/.../26421513...
That would be the obvious play Did you see LibScot's answers to my other post? bsky.app/profile/libe... bsky.app/profile/libe...
Liberation Scotland@liberationscotland.bsky.social · 2d agoWe won't have a fairer country while we remain subject to colonialism. Swinney and other Scottish politicians, union leaders and intellectuals on the left often repeat their objective is "to end inequality". But they continue to enable inequality by maintaining & failing to understand colonialism.
Environment body admits Dounreay (Caithness) decades-long nuclear leak cannot EVER be cleaned up talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/08/03/e...
Environment body admits Dounreay (Caithness) decades-long nuclear leak cannot EVER be cleaned up
The above, which I missed 15 years ago, popped up in social media recently to shock me with the candour of the headline. More on it below, after this. Last October 2025 we had: Inspectors raise Sco…
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