Colin Dunn 🏴
@indyposterboy.scot
Pro-independence for Scotland and any other peoples that want it. Doing my little bit to push this agenda along. Here for comment not argument. It's nice to be nice, so trolls, name-callers and rude people will be blocked.
Come on, Scotland, make this happen!!! @glasgow.ac.uk
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d agoEXCLUSIVE: A group of students in Gaza have appealed to the University of Glasgow not to 'deprive us of our dreams' after securing unconditional offers to study in Scotland but being left without a way to take up their places
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706 wildfires across England & Wales neither covered nor politicised
Grok AI get the year wrong at the top – 2026 so far, see below As of 28 July 2026, fire and rescue services in England and Wales had responded to 706 wildfires so far in the year (208 of them…
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EXCLUSIVE: A group of students in Gaza have appealed to the University of Glasgow not to 'deprive us of our dreams' after securing unconditional offers to study in Scotland but being left without a way to take up their places
Gazan students plead with Glasgow University after securing offers
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Somehow I don't think it's by chance that Trump reserves his ultimate rudeness for female reporters.
A huge Scottish estate with its own private island is set to be purchased by the local community after a £1 million grant was secured
Locals win £1m to buy 27,000-acre Scottish island estate after 14-year campaign
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No Unionist politician will answer the question: "How does Scotland leave the UK?" So, do you think that Burham will codify that process into a written constitution? No, he will tighten the legal rope round our neck. We need #ScottishIndependence more than ever. www.thenational.scot/news/2643247...
UK constitution 'fundamentally flawed' without exit route from Union, Labour warned
Any UK constitution which does not establish a route out of the Union will be 'fundamentally flawed', Andy Burnham has been warned
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Sam Heughan told The National that if he could send a message to the First Minister and the Scottish Government about AI data centres, it would be a warning that 'this is short-term gain for very few' The full interview 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
EXCLUSIVE: Outlander star Sam Heughan has hit out at the boom in AI data centre proposals across Scotland saying 'they cannot be allowed 👇🗣️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
A new route between the Highlands and mainland Europe could be on its way, after a working group met for the first time to assess the feasibility of extending the Caledonian Sleeper service to the continent 🚄 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
There's 1. glass half full people 2. glass half empty people and 3. OMG that glass is about to shatter into 1000 pieces slashing my carotid artery and it's the SNP's fault, people. The anti-independence media in Scotland is exclusively staffed by type 3.
If the SNP don’t announce plan B for independence soon, as the begging Westminster for a referendum plan isn’t going to work, then I’m done voting for them. If the SNP aren’t advancing the fight for independence then independence supporters are wasting their time, and their vote, voting for them.
Every Lab, LibDem, Green, even Tory voter in Clacton need to get out and back Count Binface. If not, they risk the very future of their own Parties. A Farage government will destroy democracy as we know it.
'Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should have a constitutional right to hold regular referendums on independence under agreed rules. England's constitutional position should also be explicitly defined.' Richard Murphy's suggestions for Burnham's constitution.
Andy Burnham wants a constitution. This is what it should include.
The Guardian notes this morning that: Andy Burnham has said his programme of devolution strengthens the case for a written constitution for the UK, a move that would fundamentally alter the workings of the state that have developed over centuries. The prime minister has long believed the UK’s “antiquated” political system needs...
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Shadowy Secretary of State for Scotland cannot read teacher numbers trend as it ‘plummets’ up the way
In the BBC Scotland analysis of today’s exam results this ridiculous claim un-moderated by the editor: Scottish Conservative MP Andrew Bowie said “plummeting teacher numbers and spirall…
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'A warning shot was fired at Andy Burnham this week. He ignored it, but may not ignore the next one. The Scottish Government certainly shouldn’t. The best time to reform Council Tax was thirty years ago. The second best time is now.' Dr Craig Dalȝell, via Common Weal
How to reform Council Tax and why we must — Common Weal
In our In Common column in The National this week, Craig discusses the warning shot fired at Andy Burnham this week in terms of Council Tax reform and how Scotland could go about revaluing every house in the country to allow for fair taxation.
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Good. Grief. Yet soo many want him elected and PM. Totally mad, people. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Monday briefing: An (almost) comprehensive guide to Nigel Farage’s many scandals
In today’s newsletter: With allegations stretching back decades, here’s a compendium of controversies of (alleged) sleaze, schoolday trouble and more
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Watch out as they try again to blame the SNP but remember NO liberal democracy ANYWHERE has EVER closed the school attainment gap talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/25/n...
No liberal democracy ANYWHERE has EVER closed the school attainment gap yet in Scotland it’s a stick to beat the SNP with
Maoist China in 1960s closes attainment gap by simply sending middle-class students to the fields and not letting them sit the exams at all! BBC Scotland yesterday bypassed evidence of the attainme…
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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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Since Sep 2022, I've been building a website where you can find out who owns rural Scotland. Today I am publishing the latest update (July 2026) which contains ownership information on 5050 landholdings covering 5.9 million hectares (14.7 million acres) or over 77% of rural Scotland 1/2
2026 is Cromarty Pottery's *60th* anniversary. As part of celebrations, every customer making a purchase between 1st-16th August gets to try lucky dip for a chance to a prize including shop vouchers up to £60. #Pottery #Ceramics #Cromarty #CromartyPottery #Scotland www.cromarty-pottery.com
Scottish Ceramics & Pottery handmade in Cromarty, Scottish Highlands
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“‘Northernesia’: a debilitating condition that renders the sufferer unable to know where the North is.” (George Gunn, on @BellaCaledonia) cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/m...
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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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Today's front page 📰 Written UK constitution 'must include way out of Union,' Burnham told
John Swinney was labelled bonkers hoping to cap food prices on 50 basic food items Trades Groups called it a "potty gimmick" because he didn't want Scots to go hungry I'm telling you now, not only has the UK Gov stolen 🏴 oil/Gas wealth but now they're pinching the ScotGov ideas John Healy today👇
2) An Unequal Kingdom - Pitched as a document outlining the challenges around converting the UK into a Federal State, this paper also looks at the challenges around the uneven and ad hoc nature of devolution in the UK too. www.commonweal.scot/policies/an-...
An Unequal Kingdom — Common Weal
This paper examines the case for a Federal UK and outlines the challenges and barriers to reform of the UK in this manner.
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Two Common Weal policy papers that he should probably read to help here: 1) Foundations for Freedom - Essentially, how to write a modern constitution (Elliot Bulmer has also done bespoke work for a UK and English constitution using these principles). www.commonweal.scot/policies/fou...
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d agoDevolution plans strengthen case for written UK constitution, says Burnham
A rare moment of clarity from the Daily Mail. The SNP in the 1970s said Scotland's wealth was being stolen. It was, then frittered away on tax cuts that mainly benefitted London, with nothing to show for it. No legacy at all. Renewables are going the same way. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
Norway hit the North Sea oil jackpot - but they used the money wisely
Norway consistently ranks at the top of the UN Human Development Index. It can do so because, in the 1970s, it hit the same oil jackpot as Britain - but it went in a very different direction.
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Come on SNP and Scottish Greens. You both asked for our votes on manifestos that promised a second independence referendum. Together, you hold the biggest pro-independence majority in Holyrood's history. It's time to turn that mandate into action. It's time to deliver.
