My latest blog piece. The shameful anti-SNP hysteria of the British media in Scotland even spins good news into SNPbad as we saw this week with the media response to the news that the pass rate for exams in Scotland has increased for a second year. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/e...

Even good news is spun into SNPbad by the media in Scotland

It’s often said there are two kinds of people in the world, those who say the glass is half full, and those who say it’s half empty. This is in fact inaccurate as there is a third kind,…

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Absolutely 💯 “The best legacy we can leave our children isn't more infrastructure. It's healthier rivers, cleaner lakes, and protected aquifers.”

JUST IN: Trump is scrambling to stop the BBC from digging into the finances of his business empire after a judge ordered him to hand over records in his $10B defamation lawsuit against the network.

So far I've seen 30p Lee and Laila Cunningham just about lose the plot when challenged on their completely ludicrous and unworkable 'policy' of dropping migrants back on to the beaches in France. I am dumbfounded as to how these absolute dimwits have ever held positions of responsibility.

The banks pay £5bn a year less tax than in 2022 because of Rishi Sunak's bank tax cut which has never been reversed.

That Joshua Bonehill-Paine is a suitable Tory candidate but Grant Shapps and Gavin Barwell have been excluded is quite a good indicator of how many seats the Tories will realistically regain at the next election.

In the 1950s we had 700 different chemicals in our food Today we have over 10,000 in our food In Europe, they only have 700 still today. Kelloggs makes the safer Canadian version and the American version. Two different options, same manufacturer. Americans have been sold out sadly.

I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …

Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules

Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups

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53,800 of these bad boys are landing in Clacton. Ain’t they beauts? #VoteBinface

Protecting whales and dolphins means protecting the seas—and, by extension, life on our planet. Save the Ocean: If the ocean dies, humanity dies.

Whale Tail Dives in Frozen World

ALT: Whale Tail Dives in Frozen World

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It’s time to act. And when we do we won’t just avoid the worst effects of climate breakdown - but we will lower bills permanently, help our communities thrive - and give a grounded sense of hope for generations to come.

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Zack Polanski has called for fossil fuel producers to be made to finance firefighting helicopters, following a series of recent fires across the country He also called on PM Burnham to stop new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, including the Jackdaw & Rosebank fields off the Scottish coast

1/ 🧵 Roman Abramovich. Oleg Deripaska. Names you likely remember from @maddow.bsky.social sanctioned for backing Putin's war. A leak of 3.6 million files shows exactly which professionals in Cyprus kept their billions safe from those sanctions anyway. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post

Farage discussed ‘liabilities’ of returning to politics in spring 2024 zurl.co/exK0J

Farage discussed ‘liabilities’ of returning to politics in spring 2024

Mr Farage said he had spoken to then-Reform UK leader Richard Tice about what would happen if he returned to lead the party.

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Reform UK Warwickshire under George Finch’s toxic leadership have haemorrhaged councillors. They have now just 17/57. He wouldn’t survive a vote of no confidence. zurl.co/VDG0P

'Let's see what happens at the ballot box': Warwickshire County Council leader George Finch reflects on Reform-Restore battle and defections

Warwickshire County Council leader George Finch has expressed confidence voters will stick with Reform UK in areas where councillors have defected to Restore Britain.

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A frankly baffling row has broken out over the SNP’s promise to provide free school bags to children 👀 Hamish Morrison brings you today's Real Scottish Politics newsletter ✍️ www.thenational.scot/politi...

This is pure extraction of wealth from one group of people to another We urgently need: Windfall tax on oil giants Windfall tax on banks Both are creaming money off us during a cost of living crisis Even Thatcher had the balls to tax the banks Will you @andyburnham?

'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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Palantir hoovering up European defence and NHS contracts whilst funnelling earnings back to the US to pay negligible corporate tax is a complete failure of digital sovereignty. European states must stop enriching tech firms that drain public coffers. Is it time to ban them? #FBPE

Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report finds

A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.

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Water. It's the future for Scotland. It's absolutely essential that Scotland becomes Independent, so this abundance of resource is not exploited by the UK Government like Whisky, Coal and Oil were.

“Farage has argued that the gift was not connected to his political activity and said last month that he “wasn’t in politics” between 2021 and June 2024.” “Not in politics” in May 2024 👇https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-richard-tice-mps-clacton-bridget-phillipson-b1292151.html

Electric Buses Point of no return - have gone from 12% to 56% of new city bus sales in Europe in just 6yrs Europe's 2035 target of 100% zero emission bus sales could be reached as early as 2028 Bravo Europe 🇪🇺!

Even the Royal Navy can't save Nigel Farage

Even the Royal Navy can't save Nigel Farage

A pact with Restore would be a win-win for Rupert Lowe

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Reform MP Robert Jenrick: “Rod Liddle said the unsayable truth years before anyone else would come close.” Rod Liddle on child abuse images: “We should not be in the business of putting people in prison for simply looking at things."

By distracting away from Nigel’s corruption 😝😝

The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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1/4 #SkyNews #itvnews #C4News #LBC #r4today #bbcbreakfast #bbcqt #PMQs #politicslive #GBNews #scotlandtonight #SNP #independence #bbcsundayshow #BBCLauraK #GMB #RadioScotlandBreakfast

Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?