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Officially retired Scottish environmentalist, regulator, EU and rights advocate. b.315.98 Mentally recalling paths from Stirling to Aberdeen, Antarctica, Norway, Oxford, Alaska, Switzerland, Brussels, Glasgow, Shotts, Adelaide and back!
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Did anybody with a shred of empathy ever “look forward” to going to a funeral? Just asking for the human race!

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The BBC's Evan Davis says that the Corporation has a policy of preventing presenters from correcting misinformation about heat pumps. This is the UK national broadcaster practising fossil fuel industry disinformation. @janrosenow.bsky.social

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Tories: filling potholes!

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In one of today's Russian papers a Kremlin hawk, known for his anti-Western rhetoric, calls for cooperation with America. What we learn from Nikolai Patrushev’s interview to Kommersant. #ReadingRussia

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Do we remember the Tories ensuring steel manufacture remained in Scotland, Ms Badenoch? Nope, me neither.

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Mary Mackenzie and David Taylor on Colonel David Edward Brewster Macpherson's eviction of the last tenant farmers from Glen Banchor in Badenoch in 1876: #BookSky 💙📚 #HighlandClearances #Badenoch

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It seems that we are being told here that Labour's 'key voters' see keeping children in poverty as 'a matter of fairness'. 🤔 * Morgan McSweeney remains a master strategist. 🧦

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No Surrender'? They surrender every week when they sing 'God Save the King' and 'Rule Britannia'. #ScottishIndependenceASAP

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2025: "Brexit costs and red tape denying NHS cancer patients life-saving drugs" 2018: Brexiter Gisela Stuart, "It is important to knock on the head this notion that we didn't know what we were doing.. I know exactly what I was doing" She's now sat -unelected - in the House of Lords

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Abrego Garcia has never even been charged with a crime. Donald Trump, in contrast, has been convicted, by a jury, of 34 felonies.

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BREAKING: The Dow sinks 1,000 points as worries about President Trump’s trade war and his criticism of the Federal Reserve cause investors to pull further from the U.S.

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Why UK trade unions and international socialist organisations must sever ties with the UK Labour Party | Cleisthenes' Disciple northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/lab...

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Just so you know it was the impact of British Tariffs that started the US Revolution.

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Dollar would be biggest casualty if Trump fires Fed Chair: McGeever reut.rs/42HSmjm

submitted 19 hours ago • 12 comments

Easter Monday at Doune…

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Legislators for Hire. 236 UK MPs declared some outside earnings. Is £93,904+exp not enough? Some spend a day a week on second jobs. Nigel Farage the worst culprit. MPs hired to serve their paymasters - access to policymakers, govt contracts. End political corruption. No second jobs for MPs.

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Superb wee thread about an iconic and beautiful bird with a cry that calls me home. #Curlew #Birds #Ornithology Social media at its best.

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There is no future for Scotland with Labour. They do not represent our values. The future is Scottish Independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Trump rigged the SCOTUS with his 1st term appointments. He got them to place him above the law. They upheld the law against him in the case of illegal deportees (criminally kidnapped & transported to a foreign prison) and he showed contempt. He is now a monarch with imperial ambitions. As ye sow..

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Happy #WorldCurlewDay! Today we’re celebrating some good news for Curlews in Orkney, thanks to the work of the #OrkneyNativeWildlifeProject. After suffering large declines, Curlew numbers increased by 21%, between 2019 (the year the project began) and 2024. 📸: Ian Francis

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If you know, you know

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I'm not saying that Vance has angered God, but if he offers to pray for you, it might be best to politely decline

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A reminder of where the UK currently sits in the context of European groupings...

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If a typical picture is worth a thousand words, this reaction by the leader of Italy to sitting next to an obvious madman is worth several trillion

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Also, I felt better about my childrens’ future when the Oval Office didn’t look like Liberace’s powder room.

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Pope Francis has died, Vatican says in video statement reut.rs/3GhDmRE

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⚡️ Pope Francis has died, Vatican says. Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, at the age of 88, in his residence in Vatican City, the Vatican news service reported.

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Scottish Labour leader rejects European Single Market and Customs Union. Rules out wealth tax @cluthaman.bsky.social

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*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

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Terrifying thread - especially when you consider that Palantir has a major role in NHS data

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So why is the UK still sharing intelligence with these clowns?

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Not tackling climate change could leave Scotland between £30 billion and £140 billion poorer by 2035, and “bankrupt the Scottish economy”. The report, titled Into The Red, is set to be published next week by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2509639...

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Israel killed 15 unarmed emergency workers, buried them with their crushed-up vehicles in a mass grave, then lied repeatedly about the circumstances. After this was exposed, it has now dismissed 1 (one) deputy commander. www.ft.com/content/3e4f...

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The great energy rip-off www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04... Energy prices in the UK are massively overstated as a result of UK government policy that guarantees we're ripped off and City traders profit massively. And, so far, Labour is showing no signs of doing anything about this.

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Turns out the chap who boasted about ending the Ukrainian conflict on day one suddenly has more important things on what passes for his mind.

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Cormorant in breeding plumage, Richmond Park Glasgow #birds

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