Marlene Halliday
@weegiefifer.bsky.social
Rather elderly person who has just discovered spin classes! 🚴♀️ Born 311ppm. It’s now 426ppm Presenter at Scottish Independence Podcasts @ScottishIndyPod.bsky.social My neglected website: https://weegiefifer.scot
Folks from the Women's March have been arrested at the Capitol for protesting ICE. Shout out to the women who are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line to get their message out: ABOLISH ICE.
I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
monbiot.com
My son was wearing a "Vote Reform" t-shirt and an "I love Nigel" baseball hat. He's been spat at, abused, slapped around the head and told he's a brainless twat. God knows what's going to happen to him once he gets out of the house...
Did you know about the chaos and civil war raging inside Labour in Scotland, following Anas Sarwar's untimely departure and peerage? That's because the BBC and other media have designed to ignore it 🤷 Here's one of the potential candidates for next leader...
Suspended after allegations of drunken cavorting with officers at a nuclear submarine base following news her husband had been arrested over allegations of spying, and now reinstated by Labour without having faced one single question from the BBC in Scotland. [MSM Monitor]
Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”
✅ Touring Clacton ✅ Visiting local businesses ✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns ✅ Hi-vis vest Make your Vote Count! #VoteBinface #Clacton
A perfect pictorial metaphor for climate breakdown and its devastating ramifications www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Giant iceberg turns over near Greenland's coast
Video captured by a passerby showed the moment the iceberg collapsed creating a big wave.
bbc.co.uk
This is who they say are protecting women and children 🤮 www.theferret.scot/scotlands-ni...
Scotland’s night patrol groups say they are protecting women and children. Critics claim they are ‘vigilantes’
Our investigation indentified more than a dozen groups across Scotland claiming to provide 'street patrols'.
theferret.scot
So, Andy Burham is getting tough on young people claiming Welfare. Never heard him turn around and slam Billionaire welfare Queens like the one that got £1 Billion to spend on his 'Wembly of The North' dream that put hundreds of working class men oot of a job at Grangemouth Scotland....
While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen
The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones
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It’s a rip-off price, the vendor is toxic, and it seems the software doesnt deliver: www.ft.com/content/cbd1... Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says
Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says
Think-tank’s findings likely to add to calls for audit of NHS England claims around Federated Data Platform
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When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
So we know that Rhun ap Iorwerth FM of Wales was there. Did anyone spot Michell O’Neill, FM of NI? If she was then the two of them and Mr Swinney could call an emergency meeting of the UK Council of Nations tomorrow and insist that Burnham talks about devolution and democracy. 😈
Andrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺@andrew.sharpe.scot · 2w agoWhy do these international sporting events always have to be more and more expensive to the point of being unaffordable? Scotland showing the world how a less brash and more thoughtful approach can return the focus to the athletes, not the spectacle.
Watching Commonwealth Games opening. Well Nessie was very impressive! I thought the pipes played Flower of Scotland a bit quick though. My theory being that it made it harder for folk to sing along and hence for Charlie and Andy to hear the bit about us being a proud nation again.
Might UK seek to rejoin EU under the pressure of Scotland, NI, maybe Wales, leaving? Fascinating conversation between @thomaswaitz.bsky.social , Austrian Green MEP, and @drphilippa.bsky.social, former MP for SNP. Filmed in EU Parliament on 10th Anniversary of Brexit. youtube.com/shorts/oWhEC...
UK Might Rejoin EU?
YouTube video by Scottish Independence Podcasts: IndyPod Extra
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🇬🇧 Every time unionist leaders at Holyrood get absolutely pumped in elections by the SNP, their London Masters make them freeloading Lordy Barons 🇬🇧 🏴 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺
Burnham only to cap local routes but Swinney’s 103 miles, 4 hour, Wick to Inverness bus fare cut from £31 to only £2 still stands talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/07/22/b...
Burnham only to cap local routes but Swinney’s 103 miles, 4 hour, Wick to Inverness bus fare cut from £31 to only £2 still stands
Today, with little explanation of what ‘most’ means, UK media are reporting like this:Most single bus fares in England will be capped at £2 from January and throughout 2027, Prime Minis…
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