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The majority of people today, Scots and English, presume that England has always been a fount of civilisation, conferring cultural blessings on her rude northern neighbour. This was patently not the case, writes Billy Kay ✍️ 👉 www.thenational.scot/politi...

Sainsbury's usually hires about 17,000 extra workers at Christmas. Instead they will have 10,000 people on 'Work Experience' paid for by YOU. The result a massive, up to 10,000, DECREASE in the amount of actually jobs available. Oh and it costs about £30m to YOU, and nothing to Sainsbury's.

The Tory party, as it is right now, is soooo done… Cleverly is one of their brightest. And he’s really quite dim. (Private Eye)

Crash of Pogacar caused by a stone. Source www.instagram.com/lucascycling...

Yes, good way of putting it. Most politicians (in fairness , most voters too) want the benefits of EU membership without the responsibilities. If you try that approach with for example parenting or home ownership, you can see that the formula is never going to work. In fact it guarantees disaster.

Steve Mortlock@stevemortlock.bsky.social · 14h ago

I think most of our political leaders and super rich still want the business with out the commitment

Now THIS reporting on the concentration of royal power in Liechtenstein is why I pay my FT subs. What they don’t mention is this means more power for the millennial prince who also has the Jacobite claim on the British throne. WHEN WILL THE FOREIGN OFFICE WAKE UP. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Liechtenstein prince tightens grip in succession shake-up

Prince Alois expands his authority while loosening checks within Europe’s wealthiest ruling family

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Scotland’s Oscar Onley up to 6th overall and in the White youth leader’s jersey! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💐🇪🇸🇪🇺 #Vuelta

La Vuelta@lavuelta.bsky.social · yesterday

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Oh ffs another English caller on @lbc.co.uk calling for people to be rounded up and dumped on Shetland to 'get their them (English Criminals or immigrants, it was unclear but l think it was both) out of our country" SCOTLAND ISN'T YOUR DUMPING GROUND FOR FAILED WESTMINSTER POLCIES

Moomin & Snufkin by Tove Jansson

How very sad to see that the British have chosen yet other prime minister of this calibre.

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 2d ago

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham was "not correct" to say that a border poll on Irish unity is "off-the-table", the leader of the SDLP has said.

I’m struggling to think of any fresh ideas Neil Kinnock had in the late 1980s? He was busy bashing the trade unions, embracing America’s weapons of mass destruction and fully endorsing raw capitalism. While certainly novel for a Labour leader, these were hardly ”fresh” ideas. Just imitation.

The Spectre Haunting Europe@frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 2d ago

These people haven't had a fresh idea since Bros were charting.

Labour saying the quiet bit out loud: ”A continuity government with a new leader” 🫣 Continuity from Theresa May.

Podcasting is Praxis@praxiscast.bsky.social · 2d ago

Oh good, because that's exactly what everyone wanted. It's what helped Labour become the electoral powerhouse it is today.

Thank you for supporting 🇨🇦 💕 Let’s continue with a global boycott of USA products. #BoycottUSA

Speaking in Belfast, Mr Burnham said he was “here to listen”, but added that the “rifts” arising from referendums “take a long time to heal”, referring to Brexit and the Scottish independence referendum www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

Border poll row: Andy Burnham ‘puts his foot down’ as Sinn Féin warns he cannot ‘bury his head in the sand’

UK prime minister at loggerheads with Mary Lou McDonald on his first official visit to Northern Ireland

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I see Burnham has already made the same 'don't question Brexit' mistake that has finished every PM since 2016.

This is an automatic wealth transfer. A massive rug pull with a veneer of respectability. #theft #investsky

Index Funds Will Buy More SpaceX Stock Just As Insiders Are Selling

Why SpaceX will claim more share in index funds no matter where its stock price goes.

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I shared this info with my 91 yr old Brexit-voting Mum. She was silent. Later expressed her sadness at 'state of our country' and grt g/children's futures. Then declared herself relieved at being at end of her life. Close to geronticide.

Today I did some shopping for groceries. Among the items I purchased was lettuce, honey, chicken, milk, cereal, bread & butter from 🇨🇦, apples from 🇳🇿, oranges from 🇿🇦, jam from 🇫🇷 and noodles from 🇮🇹. I put at least $60 worth of product back on the shelf because it was from the 🇺🇸. #boycottusa

Michelle O’Neill brands Andy Burnham’s border poll comments ‘anti-democratic’ “The future of Ireland is for the people of this island to decide, and for the people of this island alone,” she said. “It is not the right of any British Prime Minister to deny our people’s right to self-determination.

Michelle O’Neill brands Andy Burnham’s border poll comments ‘anti-democratic’ during first visit to Northern Ireland as Prime Minister

Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill has described Andy Burnham’s comments ruling out a border poll as “anti-democratic”.

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I don't think it's the voters, mate. Outside of a bunch of knuckle-dragging larpers in the west of Scotland, opinion on this island ranges from "bon voyage and all the best" to "northern what-now?" The British government just doesn't want to lose territory and therefore face. The ego can't take it.

"referendum on Brexit, we had Scottish independence just before it." What has that to do with the Good Friday Agreement? The Scots were conned- told that leaving UK would be leaving EU when the opposite was the case.

In his desperation of not being the PM that sees the breakup of the UK he will in fact be the captain of the ship that causes exactly that.

Even by UK Labour standards, it's really something to make boosting the north of England your entire personality while also being basically pro the colonisation of the north of Ireland.

Applications for the Living Wage Scotland Awards close tomorrow at midnight so there’s still time! Finalists will join us in November at the fabulous Riverside Museum in Glasgow 🎉 Apply today: buff.ly/luiKr24 #LivingWage #FairWork #GoodJobs

My Mother told me a story yesterday, I'd never heard before. As a teenager, while Germany lay in ruins. Mom got a chance to go to England and learn nursing. But she didn't have a coat. Her mother sewed her one coat out of 2 coats and a dress.

‘My job as PM is to be a bigger disappointment than the last one’.

Scotland would vote for independence in a fresh referendum – and the vast majority of the country backs more powers for Holyrood, new polling has found 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Spending my career in construction I saw generations of post-war Polish concrete specialists, post-Windrush Jamaican shuttering teams, Sikh foremen, Portuguese window fixers...etc, etc, working alongside the hundreds of people we trained. Now no "migrants" & no training, in a gig industry

”You reap what you sow and nobody sowed anything.” 👆that should replace ”Dieu et mon droit” as the motto of England. #Brexit #MentalBreakdown #ForwardThinking #EnglishSociety #DeclineAndFall

Maz Moore@mazzymoore.bsky.social · 4d ago

10 years! 10 fricking years they've had to train our youngsters in these highly skilled jobs. Instead they expected them to PAY for their own training! As if the thousands of youngsters now needed could even begin to afford to PAY. You reap what you sow and nobody sowed anything.