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Kairin van Sweeden

@indyanatomist.bsky.social

Co-host of SCOTONOMICS, SNP Aberdeen City Councillor, interested in economics, the environment and politics. Born at 321ppm. Promoted by Kairin van Sweeden, Town House, Broad street, Aberdeen. AB10 1FY

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Kairin van Sweeden@indyanatomist.bsky.social · 6d ago

"The BBC would literally do anything to avoid broadcasting its main news programme every evening that gave Scottish news its correct prominence instead of adding a “news where you are” segment portraying Scotland as nothing more than a UK region. #broadcasting www.thenational.scot/comment/2642...

It’s time for bosses to explain why BBC continues to fail its Scottish audience

QUESTIONS about the service its Scottish audience receives from the BBC are continuing to mount. If I were working at the corporation, I’d be…

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Kairin van Sweeden@indyanatomist.bsky.social · last wk.

"The institution is corrupting precisely because it removes ­accountability. ­Politicians rejected by the electorate ­acquire titles, legislative power and, ­occasionally, executive office without ever having to trouble the public again for permission to rule over them" #HouseOfLords #UK

PeatWorrier@peatworrier.bsky.social · last wk.

"Nobody is here for Baron Humblebrag." Today's @scotnational.bsky.social column. www.thenational.scot/politics/264...

PeatWorrier@peatworrier.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The only self-sacrificing and public spirited thing for me to do is reluctantly to accept a lifetime peerage and a job I'm demonstrably unqualified for by any objective standard - in the public interest."

The SNP@snp.org · 2mo ago

Union Street should feel busy, welcoming and full of life. The Scottish Government’s £400,000 investment has helped clean up Union Street and brought people back into Aberdeen city centre. Now we’re putting in a further £600K to keep that progress going.

Historic Aberdeen building with clock tower under blue sky, decorated with red and white bunting for a festive atmosphere.
Kairin van Sweeden@indyanatomist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

So long as the rich and powerful can continue to pay lawyers exorbitant fees, this country is, in the words of the veteran human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson KC, “not the land of free speech. It is the land of expensive speech.” #slapps #justice #inequality #uk open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

How lawyers to the super-rich strangled Labour's Slapp bill

Exclusive: A discreet lobbying campaign by lawyers who have acted for oligarchs and the super-rich told government that reforming England's libel laws was too difficult.

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Kairin van Sweeden@indyanatomist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

a democracy dogged by fear of bond market vigilantes is unhealthy. In a country that is a monetary sovereign, this climate points to one thing: a disconnect between the government and the central bank the independence of the Bank of England has become a sacred cow." open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Chartbook 449: Voldemort on Threadneedle street. The Bank of England and the "haunted house" of English politics.

Imagine the scene:

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Kairin van Sweeden@indyanatomist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

""The UK government has a long and damaging habit of socialising risk and privatising reward, nationalising firms on the brink of collapse, and selling off strategic state assets at under market value" #ScottishIndependence #economics open.substack.com/pub/marianam...

Saving British Steel: Another Bailout or a New Beginning?

The debate around nationalisation vs. privatisation is missing the point: it’s about governing in the public interest

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Kairin van Sweeden@indyanatomist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is where the myth that "business people" would be good at governing hits the road. Neither of them seem to understand the basics of becoming a monetary sovereign, hence wondering where the money comes from. #economics #ScottishIndependence www.thenational.scot/news/2609721...

Leading Scottish founders slammed over calls to 'make Scotland a tax haven'

Two leading Scottish founders have been slammed after calling for Scotland to be made a "tax haven" to secure support from businesses

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Scotland's No1 Comrade@scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“We need to stop talking about a majority in the same terms as a Westminster majority''. Had we adopted the same voting system as Westminster we would have ended up with -60 SNP -4 tories -4 Lib Dem's -2 labour -2 greens. Crunch those numbers, Then tell me we have no mandate for an Indyref.

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Kairin van Sweeden@indyanatomist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"the Institute for Fiscal Studies has carried out an analysis which shows that under Labour, NHS Scotland would receive £1 billion less than it would do under the SNP over the five year term of the next Scottish Parliament" weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/04/19/l... #NHS #ScottishIndependence

Labour’s Holyrood campaign lurches from one crisis to another

There’s less than three weeks to go until the Holyrood election and the wheels have well and truly come off the Labour campaign. With the headlines being dominated by the Mandelson story &#82…

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Kairin van Sweeden@indyanatomist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"research by cognitive psychologist Shane Littrell introduces the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale (CBSR), a tool designed to measure susceptibility to impressive-but-empty organizational rhetoric." #bullshitjobs #work #employment news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs | Cornell Chronicle

Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study into “corporate BS” reveals.

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The SNP@snp.org · 4mo ago

Reading shouldn’t be a luxury. It should be accessible to all. A re-elected SNP government will expand access to free books for children across Scotland, in partnership with The Dollywood Foundation UK. On May 7, make it both votes SNP for a Scottish Government that’s on your side.

The SNP@snp.org · 4mo ago

Renting should not mean losing your home with no say in what happens next. If re-elected the SNP will give private renters the first chance to buy the home they live in at a fair market price if the landlord decides to sell. Make it both votes SNP on May 7th for a government that’s on your side.

Aerial view of a residential area with text about SNP giving renters first refusal if landlords sell homes.
Kairin van Sweeden@indyanatomist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"In legislative terms, Westminster is free to pass whatever cockamamie legislation a majority is ­prepared to support. In Scotland, it is ­increasingly a different story, managing a substantial legal risk and constant threats of legal challenge." www.thenational.scot/politics/258...

Scotland Act provides legal succour for opponents of assisted dying

AS introduced, Liam McArthur’s Assisted Dying Bill included a conscience clause. It said that an individual is under no duty “to participate in…

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Kairin van Sweeden@indyanatomist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Some of our politicians seem ­intensely comfortable making remarkably ­serious accusations against the integrity of the ­judicial process on the basis of no ­evidence, on the off chance there’s a gram of political advantage to be found in it." #law #scotland www.thenational.scot/politics/258...

Andrew Tickell: Contempt of court is coming from politicians, not TikTokers

‘THIS is your friendly neighbourhood reminder that the case is now active and the Contempt of Court Act 1981 applies.”

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Kairin van Sweeden@indyanatomist.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"We live in a country with a one-dimensional media class that all says the same thing and all agrees about everything. In no particular order: everything in Scotland is dreadful; the Union is sacrosanct forever; we desperately need new nuclear power" open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

Sarwar's Nothingburger

Much debate has raged about Anas Sarwar’s tactic of demanding the resignation of his colleague and leader, Keir Starmer, a week ago.

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