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EXC: Scottish independence campaigners have said they are taking their case to the United Nations in a bid to 'free Scotland from its colonial chains' Radical independence campaigners Salvo and its sister organisation Liberation Scotland have presented a petition to the UN

"Anas Sarwar weighed in on the case this week, claiming that health boards were failing to protect same sex spaces in line with the Equality Act, even though trans people have been using such spaces for 15 years without falling foul of the law."

🚨 SCOOP: Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill accepted £10,000 from firm that has helped wealthy Russians obtain 'golden visas' since the war in Ukraine Calls for Labour to investigate donation to Business sec Johnathan Reynolds' PPS New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-mp-...

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

The SNP Scottish Government is delivering superfast broadband for 11,000 homes and business in the Borders and East Lothian. It’s the first of many contracts that will bring faster internet to thousands of premises across Scotland.

They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

Right-wing coups sweeping through the West are diminishing possibilities of emancipatory change. Books, scientific journals are being censored to reshape people’s subjectivities, produce docile population The world needs critical thinkers, not foot-soldiers for corporations and the ultra rich.

He'll promise everything the SNP have, or plan to introduce - but that's as far as he'll go as he will have to unpromise when his boss says so.

More good news. And let’s not forget broadband provision is a responsibility of the UKG. But ScotGov had to step in years ago to provide it themselves because UKG wouldn’t. More mitigation for UKG betrayals & reneging on their responsibilities.

Forget the proposal to turn Gaza into a resort. The real story is the plight of the people of Gaza as the ceasefire takes effect. Retired surgeon, Philippa Whitford lived and worked in Gaza and has her own perspective on the conflict & the prospect of a peaceful solution. youtu.be/oNEdslwVxeY?...

We’re tackling NHS waiting times, investing to protect Grangemouth and ensuring our teachers and nurses are the best paid in the UK. Week in, week out - I’m focused on your SNP government delivering progress for Scotland.

Grangemouth is a private company we can't intervene. Thames water is a private company have three billion pounds... Wake up Scotland 👇🏻

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We have exceeded our pledge to deliver 64,000 NHS surgeries and procedures by the end of March 2025. By the end of January, with two months to go, we’ve already delivered over 75,500. And with the record NHS funding in our Budget, @thesnp.bsky.social will keep reducing waiting times.

HSBC net zero goal delayed 20 years, as CEO offered 600% bonus. Bankers already live on another planet and are willing to let the earth burn to fuel their lust for profits. Shareholders don't care, customers have no representation on boards, regulators and govts let them wreak havoc.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

HSBC made $32.3bn profit before tax in 2024. $26.9bn given to shareholders in buybacks & dividends. Jobs/branches slashed Banks fleece customers, engage in illicit financial flows; no curbs on profiteering, exec pay, dividends. Their profit is our poverty. Govt deregulated.

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PLEASE SHARE WIDELY to counter the lies - BBC Scotland's James Cook wallows in one town's drug deaths but does not tell you what is really happening there - the trend is down, the treatment is there and the new powerful drugs are pushed by English gangs talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/20/b...

Companies behind Great Britain’s gas pipes and power lines pocketed £3.9bn "excess profits” over the past four years after Ofgem misjudged their costs. Will we get a refund - no chance. Ofgem doesn't protect people. Need customer elected directors on the boards of all utilities.

Well, now you know Dunfermline where your £5M went.

Two years ago, Labour opposed the Internal Market Act - which is nothing short of an undemocratic power grab from Westminster. Today, Labour have just voted together with the Tories against protecting the powers of our Parliament. Only the SNP will stand up for Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scottish Labour are standing up for Starmer, not for Scotland.

#IndyClan paying less than our neighbours, for the best water in the world 💦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

As the voices of climate denial get louder, I’ll always take climate action seriously - and do it in a way that creates new jobs, lowers our bills and unlocks huge economic opportunities for Scotland. Here’s a wee summary of my speech at Glasgow Botanics today 👇 youtube.com/shorts/qqK9b...

#IndyClan ⚔️ I don’t care what your views are on Trans, what I am doing is highlighting all this mis-information by Unionists, MSM & Rags. They’re trying to target SNP keeping this issue in the headlines. I will make it crystal clear it is a reserved matter under WM under the Equality Act 2010

That’s how you write a headline, people.

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

Who'd choose to be part of the UK when everyone in Scotland could benefit from being independent and back in the centre of Europe? The only thing stopping us are the Unionist parties in Westminster. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 #ScottishIndependence www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Thames Water have been allowed to take a £3bn loan with an interest rate of 9.75%. This loan will be paid for by you straight to a tax haven. Why the hell is this allowed?

The SNP is fighting to save the jobs at Grangemouth and secure its future as an industrial hub. That’s why, despite our finite resources, I’ve announced a new £25m investment. Labour must now step up and deliver what they promised at the election.

Selling their poxie 1 bed flat in the south of England for 500000 and buying a house in Arran to live like lairds and lord it over the locals

HMRC ditches crackdown on private equity tax. Who will bear the cost of appeasing private equity? Govts listen to donors, finance industry, developers and the rich. The rest get two child benefit cap, winter fuel payment, frozen personal allowance, cuts in public services. archive.ph/BjU9b

NEW: Egypt is drawing up plans to rebuild Gaza without the need to force Palestinians out of their homes

As BBC Scotland milk the prisoner early release bill and lie that it was passed by the Scottish Government when it was the Parliament, the facts they don't want the anxious voter to know: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/14/t...

MAGA acts like finding fraud in government is some new thing DOGE invented. They aren’t good at it, but experts who were let go were.