BBC Scotland - never knowingly accentuating the positive about our nation. What a disgrace of a public broadcaster they are. https://www.thenational.scot/news/26688148.bbc-scotland-backlash-tartan-army-drinking-claims/?ref=rss

How the bbc Gaslight Scots: 🇬🇧The bbc have published ONLY 6 articles in relation to uk westminster’s shambolic ‘Ajax Armoured Car’ programme, squandering £6,300M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿The bbc have however published 55 (FIFTY-FIVE!) articles (and a ‘Documentary’) on the ‘SNP Bad’ Scottish Govs Ferries overspend (£250M)

So Joani Reid is married to a Chinese spy, had an affair with a military nuclear sub captain, and also an editor of a significant Scottish newspaper, and no media outlet in Scotland thinks that's a big story?

Why on earth does ANYONE in Scotland expect it to change? Scotch Whisky has been an entirely Westminster cashcow, for 200 years? Wake up, exploited Scottish mugs! Scottish Independence will be the ONLY catalyst for change.

£1.25bn subsidy for Rolls-Royce to develop a new engine. RR will keep assets and income streams. RR had operating profit of £3.5bn in 2024-25, will pay £9bn to shareholders over next 3 years. Why are shareholders not funding new engine? UK Govt won't take equity stake, £1.25bn not repayable.

Hold your nose: a £1.25bn subsidy for rich Rolls-Royce’s new engine had to happen

The chancellor’s budget giveaway is, unfortunately, a reflection of how life works in the global aerospace business

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The woman who was having a go at Stephen Flynn on STV news blaming him for her shop being destroyed by Storm Boelo and not acting quickly enough, well lo and behold she is a Tory candidate and activist, the stv news journalist must have known this but failed to mention it, 👇

Why is there so much online hate speech? As ever, follow the money. The Advertising industry is funding the haters. https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/lucy-reade-the-ad-industry-knows-its-funding-online-hate-so-why-wont-it-act/

An independent Scotland must have its own currency from day one to end the 'uncertainty which has held Scotland back long enough', a major new report has argued ⬇️ www.thenational.scot/news/2...

This is excellent by Robin McAlpine on the call for UK citizens - sorry, subjects - to stockpile food & water. http://robinmcalpine.org/our-dads-army-response-to-our-food-insecurity-is-a-national-embarrassment/

🇪🇺 Labour believe 10 years and changing circumstances IS reason enough to reconsider EU membership. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Labour believe 12 years and changing circumstances IS NOT enough to reconsider Scottish independence. Read more about their double standards here: www.believeinscotland.org/burnhams_bre...

Tories want you to trust them with the economy but they can’t even add up numbers in a spreadsheet. Their claims of the cost of Net Zero are wrong by 100%. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/09/tories-overstate-net-zero-cost-500bn-spreadsheet-error

Execution as performative art? That’s how low the USA has sunk. This piece sums up the moral vacuum that Trump’s America has become. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/09/nidal-hasan-execution-pete-hegseth-us-military-tv-democracy

Tories want to impose nuclear power on Scotland by removing powers from the Scottish Govt. How long before Labour decide this is a good idea? https://www.thenational.scot/news/26609008.top-tory-mp-vows-cut-scottish-governments-planning-powers/?ref=rss

There’s an interesting new Indy poll out, but I think some people are missing the point. New blog post. https://rabbrucesspider.blogspot.com/2026/09/missing-point.html

This is a good piece on the hypocrisy of Sir Jim Ratcliffe, a knight of the realm who longs for the days of empire. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/jim-ratcliffe-immigrants-tax-rant-37688767

DARREN LEWIS: 'Ratcliffe rant in elite league of wild hypocrisy'

Hypocrisy doesn’t come more blatant than Man United's majority shareholder Sir Jim Ratcliffe. He grew up in a council house, now lives as a tax exile abroad. Yet he has the nerve to target immigrants....

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Good question 👇 No, excellent question 👇

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Ask yourself if Scotland continues to say no to nuclear (quite rightly so) & they all have to be built in England, will England build multi billion pound undersea cables leading to Scotland? 🤔

Netanyahu said 9/11 was good for Israel…‼️ WHICH COUNTRY BENEFITED THE MOST FROM 9/11 It was not Iraq or Afghanistan. “Netanyahu said…” “Nations, democracies, don’t go to war easily. […] Sometimes they need to be bombed into going to war”

After Jeff Bezos sacked journalists from the Washington Post for not being MAGA enough, they’ve only gone & set up their own news outlet. Check out the Washington Sun at washingtonsun.com

Superb as ever from Wee Ginger Dug on how BBC Scotland is deliberately misleading viewers over Scottish education performance. As always, do not trust the BBC. https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/bbc-scotlands-educational-f-grade/

Strong stuff from George Monbiot in this piece, arguing that Burnham has already sold us out to the oligarchs. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/02/andy-burnham-mistake-political-donations-wealthy-britain

And those Brexit benefits just keep on coming. The sunlit uplands must be close now. https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scotlands-universities-hammered-by-post-brexit-drop-in-eu-students-says-snp

Hi @vicderbyshire.bsky.social if Jason Arday and marathons ever come up, please see the evidence and references below. Better yet, invite @monkemma.bsky.social on and ask why she was able to find this information but most journalists have not

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One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

This is good from Wee Ginger Dug on BBC Scotland’s ongoing campaign to tarnish Scotland’s Reputation in support of a far right agenda. https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/the-bbcs-glasgow-hit-piece-says-more-about-the-bbc-than-glasgow/

This by George Monbiot is both brilliant & terrifying, looking at the UK Govt’s complacency over food shortages. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/13/britain-food-crisis-government-summer-weather-war-stockpiles

It's GERS day in Scotland! 📢 🎙️ Editor Laura Webster and Political Editor Xander Elliards discuss the GERS figures, plus how the BBC has been blasted for misleading Scots on what the figures actually mean, on the latest edition of The National Podcast

BBC accused of MISLEADING Scots over GERS figures

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Let’s remember today that Nigel Farage wants to - leave the ECHR - repeal the Equality Act - Strip back workers rights - Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts - repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes “no fault evictions” He is not on your side youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...

If UK media actually explained Nigel Farage’s policies to the public no one would be supporting him

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A ship not fit for purpose which has been out of service for years. Surely Swinney must resign. Oh, hang on … https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/08/08/destroyer-disaster-as-royal-navy-destroyer-still-not-in-service-after-23-years-takes-three-times-as-long-as-as-scotlands-fiasco-ferries/

In case you missed the BBC’s not so extensive reports. https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/08/05/bias-by-the-omission-of-really-good-news-for-scotland-record-university-places-for-scots-students-and-acceptances-for-most-deprived-young-people-at-new-high-which-also-understates-the-true-numbers/