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Microbiologist. MSc Oil recovery. Researcher. NHS activist. Yes to Scottish Independence Former Chair of Scottish Currency Group Campaign Team and member of Scottish Currency Finance & Banking working group. Author @ Bylines Scotland.
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Starmer spouted word salad. Trump will want our NHS in any bilateral trade deals and include ISDS clauses. If Starmer signs, Labour will be finished. flip.it/t3zVvf

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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

With Westminsters Jeremy Hunt proposing lowering disability benefits,how far is UK away from having this conversation This well researched piece from my colleague Jennie Kermode @ Bylines is frightening. It’s beyond belief that someone can come up with this! yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/world/t...

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#LabourLiar Her main role seems to be lying about our Scottish NHS performance. She can't use real figures as the SNHS performs better than any other part of the UK. Why would anyone vote for Labour?

Left: "Penny Mordaunt: ‘I believe in leaving the EU to my core’" Right: Penny Mordaunt, "We've just got to wake up. If we don't, I'm afraid there will be no deterrent for Russia" When you refuse to acknowledge that Brexit is exactly what Putin wanted, weakening the UK and the EU

The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979.  Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth.  Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

Germany’s likely new chancellor Friedrich Merz: And for me, the absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that we step by step to also truly achieve independence from the USA. I would not have believed that I would have to say something like this on TV...

The heartbreak. Trump claims USAID is bankrupting America—it’s less than 1% of the budget. Meanwhile, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is gutting the largest food aid provider. He could end world hunger & still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Not just greed. We’re watching evil at work.

All Pete Hegseth talks about is being a warrior and instilling a warrior mindset in the military. Personal courage is the cornerstone of the warrior ethos. I wonder how that fits with being such a coward as to fire generals with 35 or more years of service in a press release on a Friday night.

Let’s see if the Germans have the spine to actually do something about it. I certainly hope they do.

🔥 Very much enjoyed making this video. See —> vm.tiktok.com/ZNdJYw5hn/

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LATEST: Sinn Fein to boycott White House St Patrick's Day over Gaza ethnic cleansing plan

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

The government is looking at another benefit crackdown when it should, instead, be looking at corporate fraud and its own failure to pay all the benefits owing to people. Why has it got its focus so wrong? Does it just hate people on benefits? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...

Nigel Farage is friends with fascists who do Nazi Salutes on stage. He is in no fit state to be anywhere near British politics.

NEW: Protesters are outside the Scottish Labour conference and are set to lay out 400 hard hats to symbolise the amount of jobs lost at Grangemouth

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“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” Archimedes "Give me appropriate levels of staffing and an Emergency Department with clinical space, and I shall meet your 4 hour target." Farbod

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 oil enabled Thatchers rise in power. She used it to enhance her political career. Here we are in 2025 and we’re still being suppressed by unionism. #McCroneReport

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“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation” George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt

Was anybody arrested?

Unless we want our kids in uniform pretty soon Europe has to wise the fuck up really fast, cut ties with America and create a common defence force. That means the UK needs to get its stupid arse back into the EU and stop pissing about like Trump's kiss-ass sidekick in the playground. Yes you Starmer

Why is there different rules for millionaire farmers while other protesters get years in prison 🤔 surely nothing to do with them being rich right wing landowners

A worthwhile read. commonweal.scot/the-only-way...

Makes a change from brown envelopes I suppose!

Military historian Sir Antony Beevor on Times Radio on Trump-Putin: "We should always distrust historical parallels, especially those from WW2...but there is a really very frightening echo of the betrayal of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and the idea that one can deal over the heads of a suffering nation"

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Mythbuster around issue of Green Ports. Do they undermine potential EU membership for an independent Scotland? Read the article? bylines.scot/news/economi...

Monkey see, monkey do... #ScottishIndependenceASAP

Let’s get it done!

A 10-year-old has a better plan for stopping plastic pollution than most politicians. Amaya Edwards discovered an Australian scheme that’s keeping rivers and oceans clean. So why hasn’t the UK adopted it?

Plans for a Scottish currency need to be put in place before a vote for Indy! Archived link archive.ph/7HYjg www.thenational.scot/politics/249...

The contracts do NOT include profit-sharing mechanisms. Government is putting in £21.7bn funding for CCUS. Private sector investment is expected to be £8bn over the next 25 years. Do the maths…the people who stand to profit are those that are contributing the least! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

👏👏👏 “After years of preparation, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia will disconnect from their Russian-controlled electricity grid this weekend”

Scotland produces more than enough green energy, but the UK government will spend £22 billion on carbon capture in England (generating jobs in England) to mitigate English gas generated electricity UK electricity bills will go up to pay for this English vanity project www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Imagine what would happen if #MTSA ....Make Turnberry Scottish Again, started trending...

"In a free society, the like of which we currently live in, wonderful things spring from our universities. Young people armed with the means to make a successful contribution to society and an independent life for themselves are the most obvious." #Education #University #Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿