Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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English-born but not lived there for over 40 years. Live in Scotland and love it. Bring on independence. Vegan for the animals and to save the world.
Well, they're on their way back to Morocco actually, as they never had any way to reach mainland Spain, let alone the UK, but who needs facts when you're Bobby J the King of Bullshit.
I read this when it first came out - highly recommend!
Sara Sheridan@sarasheridan.bsky.social · 5d agoBargain! Today on #kindle The Jewel Keepers is 99p. Ideal #holidayread #summerread. I mean, I would say that 😂 but if lost treasure, family secrets and hidden Scottish history is your thing, then nip over to amazon and get it on your device. There are also deals going on #audiobooks. White rabbits!
Trump hates PM Sanchez. Could he be trying to destabilse the Spanish Govt? youtu.be/BuZPGvDuvRs?...
Morocco Migrant Crisis: Trump’s Hidden Hand Exposed?
YouTube video by Maximilien Robespierre
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The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 6d agoBreaking news: Migrants rushing a Spanish exclave in North Africa triggered political attacks against Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, with the White House and voices from the right in Spain, Germany and Italy lashing out against Europe’s leading liberal.
This appears to be a scam event being circulated directly to Yes pages by 'anonscot'. Yes groups around Scotland have been checking with other Yes bodies and no-one yet has ascertained who is behind this. We won't share the link but here is a screenshot. Tagging @scotnational.bsky.social
Still the best speech in the LOTR trilogy. And feels extremely relevant to the times we live in. A lot of days do feel this hopeless.
They really are insensitive and thick as pig shit these far right/alt right/nazi grifters.
'Anas Sarwar has undone any credibility Andy Burnham amassed north of the Border in his first week' www.thenational.scot/politics/264...
Lesley Riddoch: Anas Sarwar fleeing Scottish Labour's sinking ship proves one thing
NUMBER 10 of the North – aye, it’s actually south for Scots, but whatever ...
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Genuinely terrifying. And remarkably similar to how the Nazis began their criminalisation of dissent and their dehumanisation of any who resisted. It's happening. In the US. Right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner
Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis
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Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.
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“Farage, the money launderer & me: a decade of denial The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years…Carole Cadwalladr, who’s tracked him for a decade, reports on why” www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...
Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...
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My latest blog piece before taking a break for a family visit. Silly season politics, Burnham's coronation, a Tory columnist's boredom and a desperate and inherently implausible attempt to fan the dying embers of the Murrell saga. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/07/17/s...
Silly season politics
With Friday’s coronation of Andy Burnham as leader of the Labour party and his official accession to Ten Downing Street on Monday, the UK is now on its seventh prime minister in ten years. Me…
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Good graphic. Manipulation of the public in favour of capitalism.
Reform UK plans to jail candidates for using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish on their election leaflets. Nigel Farage’s party propose amendment to the elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison bylinetimes.com/2026/07/13/r...
Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets
EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage's party propose amendment to the Government's elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison
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🔴 NEW: Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK’s Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed By @nafeez.bsky.social, @peterjukes.bsky.social and @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation…
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why?
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NEW: Stacy Lentz and Kurt Kelly, the owners of The Stonewall Inn (considered the birthplace of the modern gay pride movement) have accused JK Rowling of "doing damage" to the LGBT+ community globally. Story from @emmagraeauthor.bsky.social
🧵I’d rather spend my weekends doing something else than post about Nigel Farage’s murky finances, but his behaviour poses such a threat to our democratic norms that I wanted to flag a number of points in the public interest.
Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
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Andy Burnham has rejected a second Scottish independence referendum if he becomes prime minister Burnham told Labour MPs that he is 'not willing to consider' a second vote, despite his support for further devolution 👇
The Labour party is attempting to subvert the result of the Holyrood election and impose the Labour Holyrood manifesto Scotland rejected at the ballot box on the country regardless. The British media in Scotland colludes with this brazen electoral theft. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/l...
Labour’s attempted theft of the Holyrood election is being aided by the media
Something is seriously wrong with democracy in Scotland, but the media has told us vastly more about Peter Murrell’s cruet sets than it has about what can only be described as an attempt by t…
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Appeasing Trump. UK would need to divert £44.7bn from essential NHS services to pay for new medicines under the terms of the UK-US trade deal. US corporate profits boosted. Could result in more than 200,000 avoidable UK deaths. Self-sufficiency for essentials saves lives.
US-UK drug deal could result in 229,000 excess deaths in England, analysis suggests
Analysis reveals extent of impact on NHS of placating Donald Trump over price of British medicine exports
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United Nations Commission of Inquiry says Israel's 'deliberate targeting' of Gaza children part of ongoing 'genocide' https://aje.news/zgn9rf
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
My latest blog piece. Reaction to yesterday's by elections, lessons for the SNP on energy. Labour's civil war, the wheels have come off Reform's hate-mobile, and no one really cared about the Murrell scandal despite the media hysteria. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/t...
Three by elections and no one cared about the Murrell affair
The Tories are celebrating their Westminster by election win in Aberdeen South today. But just as Labour celebrated its Holyrood by election win in Hamilton, Larkhall, and Stonehouse in 2025 only t…
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I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Call on Scottish Government to demand Environmental Impact Assessments on Data Centres. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
Call on Scottish Government to demand Environmental Impact Assessments on Data Centres
Sign our petition to call on the Scottish Government to demand Environmental Impact Assessments on Data Centres. Data centres use huge amounts of energy and water – a recent proposal for a data centr...
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THIS is a much bigger political scandal than the Murrell affair. Someone hired an Israeli company to interfere in the Holyrood election, an attempt to use a foreign actor to subvert the democratic process. Yet there's near silence from the anti-indy media. www.thenational.scot/news/2619162...
UK Government silent after Israeli firm found to have meddled in Scottish election
The UK Government has refused to comment on the findings of a French government report stating that an Israeli firm attempted to meddle in the…
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