Average White Band from Perth, Dundee and Montrose. Cited as the 15th most sampled act in music history, with their catalog contributing to over 600 individual samples across hip-hop, R&B, and dance music. Pic: Brian Cooke
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It was never missing - he just didn’t understand the accounts
The immigration doom loop, summed up here by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
2026: David Frost criticises Labour for believing the 'propaganda' that GDP has shrunk 4-8% 2015: David Frost says being in the EU has raised GDP 5-8%
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‘Overnight, everything was dead’: the Teesside fisherman turned activist dubbed the Mr Bates of the seas
When thousands of dead crabs washed up on a Yorkshire beach in 2021, Stan Rennie’s livelihood was immediately threatened. Five years later, he’s leading the fight back against toxic ocean pollution – ...
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Labour hid the Truth from Scots. We need reviolution in Scotland called Independence x.com/rosscolquhou...
Ross Colquhoun (@rosscolquhoun) on X
It was a Labour Chancellor, Denis Healey, who was in office when Westminster kept the McCrone Report secret from Scotland. Published in 1974, it warned North Sea oil could make an independent Scotlan...
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“Farage campaigned for Trump in the last 3 presidential elections and notably came to his defence at a low moment when Trump fell badly behind in 2016 over his grotesque “grab ’em by the pussy” remarks” Farage will never dump Trump. He owes too much to MAGA money and the far right oligarchy.
Sainsbury's has posted an annual profit of £1.02bn. It current has 10,000 young people working for free, paid by you. With £1.02bn it could hire 105,905 people aged 18-20 for 16 hours a week all year. Why not MAKE the scumbags hire instead of giving them free workers?
Left: Keir Starmer campaigned with WASPI women, and then rejected the recommendation to compensate them when PM Right: Andy Burnham supported an end to fossil fuels with @fossiltreaty.bsky.social but then opened up Jackdraw for gas extraction when he became PM
Beverly and Jeff Morris lived in peace and quiet on their beautiful farm before Meta broke ground on a data center complex next door. Now, they don't have clean drinking water and are dealing with constant noise pollution.
Hysteria over SNP plans to bring buses under public control reveals disturbing truths about Scotland: 1 the govt can’t communicate. It failed to explain public control isn’t nationalisation 2 the media fails to inform the public 3 the electorate is left lost & confused In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Hysteria over John Swinney’s bus plans has exposed something rotten about Scotland
The nonsense spouted over the SNP's bus policy provides a glimpse into how badly politicians communicate as well as the failings of the Scottish media, our Writer at Large Neil Mackay argues
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What the Jackdaw decision means is that Scotland has no say in the extraction of our valuable resources, nor will we benefit from the financial rewards🇬🇧 🏴 Scottish customers energy bills won’t reduce by a single penny as a result of the uk westminster raid on Jackdaw / Rosebank🇬🇧 🏴Are you YES yet?🏴
The Herald@heraldscotland.bsky.social · 2d ago'Rosebank still presents an unanswered question for both governments' Jackdaw approved: What it means for Rosebank and the SNP || Hannah Brown www.heraldscotland.com/news... @hannahmargbrown.bsky.social
‘Last I checked Swinney isn’t Idi Amin’ There’s been some astonishing nonsense spouted over SNP plans to bring buses under public control, not least from members of the industry who have shown themselves to be as stupid as they are hyperbolic and fragile. My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Hysteria over John Swinney’s bus plans has exposed something rotten about Scotland
The nonsense spouted over the SNP's bus policy provides a glimpse into how badly politicians communicate as well as the failings of the Scottish media, our Writer at Large Neil Mackay argues
heraldscotland.com
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How the SNP’s ‘Biggest success story in social policy in the UK for 40 years and the biggest fall in child poverty anywhere in Europe for at least 40 years’ was effectively hidden for two years, from ...
A quick, one-day Twitterpoll of 306 suggests that just over 90% of Talking-up Scotland followers had not heard these words, from 2023, reported here two days ago : To my mild embarrassment, I had b…
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Irvine Welsh on Sally Rooney and the Palestine Action ban.. "If you've defecated the bed you have to change the sheets. This legislation has to go"
🇬🇧 “You couldn’t mark that Brass-Neck with a blowtorch” Since the 1970s Scotland & Norway have drawn similar amounts of North Sea oil & gas 🇳🇴 Value of Norwegian Oil Fund : €2,100,000,000,000.00 🏴 Value of Scottish Oil Fund : £0 (🇬🇧All thanks to uk westminster Rule) 🏴 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺
🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage's Reform UK has been fined £2,187 by the Electoral Commission after failing to identify itself as the publisher of campaign material distributed to voters.
@daliagebrial.bsky.social "We are captured by the interests of oil/gas who want to maintain the status quo & structure of our economy, we are being prevented from pursuing a path that would not only help prevent the excesses of climate breakdown but make us more energy & financially secure"
Banking lobby pushes misleading numbers on tax. Claims UK banks paid £47.8bn in tax; includes PAYE, NIC, VAT paid by other parties; that leaves £25.7bn borne by banks. Silence on profiteering, £100bn subsidy over last 3 years via interest on central bank reserves. Banking frauds buried - HBOS.
UK Finance publishes 2026 banking sector tax report
Read the latest news and insights from UK Finance: UK Finance publishes 2026 banking sector tax report
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The BBC’s PM show just ran the most astonishingly biased report on migrant workers in industries like the care sector. A columnist from The Times (rightwing, Murdoch owned) was allowed to attack immigration without pushback. The union chief defending workers was sweated like an enemy. Totally loaded
9/22 Israeli🇮🇱settlers damage a Palestinian🇵🇸family's olive crops, Al-Batum area of Masafer Yatta, S of Hebron #ACT Invoke Res.377A (V) “Uniting 4 Peace" Provide protective presence, push to SUSPEND the EU-ISRAEL AA... @unocha.org @tomfletcherun.bsky.social @melissafleming.un.org @reuters.com
@daliagebrial.bsky.social : "Sally Rooney.. was also making a point about the proscription of Palestine Action as an unprecedented overreach of govt power, an abuse of govt power.. [that] the actions of PA do not fit any conventional respected intl definition of terror.." 🎯
🧵Every year The National does a series investigating Scotland's lost energy wealth - reporting on the McCrone Report, the resources exploited by Westminster, and looking at the Norwegian wealth fund to show how Scotland's immense capital was frittered away
The SNP have hit out at the BBC ahead of a Question Time show which is due to debate Scottish oil and gas without any Scottish representation on the panel 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
The McCrone Report told ye this! Mark Carney told ye this! Noo, the UK Govt are ADMITTING it. If yer no fkn YES yet, yer a fkn moron. #ScottishIndependenceNOW 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW: A North Sea wealth fund would be 'worth probably £1 trillion', the Chancellor has admitted The SNP said the figure shows the UK tried to 'pull the wool over Scots' eyes' 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
