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Publisher/journalist - rural life, history, farming, walking, France, Europe, Scottish Indy supporter, #ScotsAbroad Banff Int. Mountain Literature winner + 8 Lakeland Book awards. 60% Scottish, 10% Norse & 30% Cumbrian Celt #FBPE
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❌ Closure of Grangemouth ❌ Huge Electricity Pylons through beautiful lands ❌ Windturbines against local community wishes ❌ Closure of ALL Scotland’s heavy industries ❌ Cutting Scotland’s representation at Westminster ❌ Constricting Scotland’s infrastructure budget Are #YouYesYet?

This is pretty spot on by @labourlewis.bsky.social. As @zoejardiniere.bsky.social pointed out on LBC earlier, there is something very Trumpian, and just generally sickening, about effectively live streaming people in distress for the entertainment of racists. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Gave a talk today on the UK/EU relationship in The Hague, pointing out the political squeeze that @keirstarmer.bsky.social is in, but that this may also be the best opportunity in some time to develop closer relations post-#Brexit Important to start having this discussion across the EU!

One of the many offensive things in politics - and it's under both Tories/Labour - is MPs sacked as ministers for offensive conduct but remain MPs. Labour are still happy for this man to represent them but not people challenging poverty. Speaks volumes. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Starmer, Sarwar @ScottishLabour - is anyone listening to this heinous and dangerous waste of money? www.thenational.scot/news/2492278...

It should be what is best for the country shouldn't it? eastangliabylines.co.uk/democracy/is...

Just like the Iraq war, political leaders have completely lied to you again about everything. They are spending your money on genocide and to create Greater Israel to enrich Zionist billionaires

I have no problem with an indy Scotland having it's own currency.

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Israel Just Killed a Pregnant Palestinian Woman – And Western Media Doesn’t Care zeteo.com/p/pregnant-p...

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Now Israeli police are raiding bookshops in Jerusalem & arresting Palestinian bookshop owners. This has happened before & it always ends badly. Guardian reports "Raid on Educational Bookshop branches described by rights groups as part of harassment campaign against Palestinian intellectuals"

www.thenational.scot/news/2491980... Another badge of shame for Labour.

EVERYONE should see this!!! ( it needs to be shared beyond this platform)

Hello moving back to Scotland later this week & would be happy to help with research - worked at Lancs. Uni. as a researcher & have been journalist & editor most of my life. Will try to find your email address!

Letter to my captors by Nicolas Hénin: 'My ultimate revenge is for the court to grant you all the rights you denied me’ writes former journalist & hostage of Islamic State organisation. 'Your cruelty is comparable only to that of Bashar al-Assad's henchmen’ from Le Monde this evening.

Absolutely correct @adamkinzinger.bsky.social. I keep waiting for elected Democrats to realize that they need to completely change their approach. This would be a great way to start and today would be a great time to do so.

#YouYesNow #IndyClan? It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This is a MUST read This is what is happening in the US right now and how MAGA will take over. PLEASE READ and share Sorry for anyone who has already read this, this repost is the last one.

Brexit is an 'unmitigated disaster' without 'one single benefit' and another EU referendum is 'necessary' - The Mirror apple.news/AynQGN3wjT_W...

Please repost if you think there should be a worldwide ban on harmful pesticides. 😡 ‼ Please sign, share & support (810 donators to 850+) to Save The Pollinators 👉 change.org/SaveTheBee 🆘

What was it about a £4m donation from a hedge fund in the Cayman Islands that stopped the Labour Party proceeding with a ban on foreign donations? I've written to the Electoral Commission to find out why. www.thenational.scot/news/2491046...

Connolly: "There's a difference between cutting waste fraud and abuse, and dismantling whole agencies. No one gave Trump, no one gave Elon Musk that authority. It is unconstitutional. It is unlawful. It is a violation of Article 1. And we're gonna fight it."

The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

Like many on here, I believe I'm not alone when I say that right now I am politically homeless. But by God I will lend my vote to the SNP, Until we gain our freedom. That will be the day in which politics & how they are done will be reset in Scotland. Then you can choose who you believe in.

EVERY SINGLE CITY, IN EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY, NEEDS TO DO THIS WHEN WE TAKE AWAY THEIR WEALTH WE ALSO TAKE AWAY THEIR POWER #PeoplePower #StrengthInNumbers #BoycottBezos #BoycottMusk #BoycottZuckerberg

Not surprised you thought that. Seems that under Starmer Labour is no different to Tory or Deform … I should have written Reform but Deform feels like a better description

Here is the mood from Germany this Saturday. They are not going back to facism. #nomorefacism #fuckelonmusk #fucktrump

I’m sure “DOGE” will be all over this.. truthout.org/articles/tes...

Wealth inequality is worse than pre-revolutionary France. You will see increasingly bizarre things such as this that try to distract & divide the population so they don't unite over shared class. Every social & cultural issue of the past 150 years will come back.

The world in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of Germans oppose neo-fascism. The top aide to the president of the United States supports it. apnews.com/article/germ...

+ rowling & the king do not need any extra income

It still blows my mind to this day that Britain could be so unfathomably stupid, the brain drain this has had on Britain due to visa issues is seismic too. A genuine embarrassment & believe me, As a regular traveler to Spain Britain is nothing short of a laughing stock the world over because of it.

Leaches off US society (tax payers), now working to destroy US govt & democracy

"My father took a Nazi bullet – Badenoch would have thrown him out. The idea, proposed by the Tory leader, that people should wait 15 years before being eligible for a passport, is nothing more than crude xenophobia” excellent article in the New European by Denis Macshane

Orange service for clients is hopeless! The chatbot makes me to throw the phone out of the window - endlessly cheerful but totally feckless. More human beings and less machines please