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ruthwishart.bsky.social
Loves animals, politics, sport and all the arts. Glaswegian urban cowboy turned rural Argyll birder.
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So will the long promised trade deal involve overt hostility to China, agricultural concessions, and threats to the NHS from Big Pharma?

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

You can see why the Supreme Court was anxious not to characterise their judgement as a victory for either side. Just the same, it's surely historic recognition that women are born women and men, men. Plus the Equalities Act gives explicit protection to trans people.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

5/6 Wordle 😳

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

Great poll on Indy.- 11 points ahead of NO!

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

A trade deal which suits both the UK and the US? Wonder who would need to make the most concessions.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

3/6 Wordle 🙂

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

You want to go into space. Just ante up £140k or arrange to marry a billionaire. Rich men's toys!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

3/6 Wordle 🙂

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

5/6 Wordle. 😳

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Scoop: Fox News has been all in on Trump’s trade tariffs, hailing them as bold, America-first measures to resurrect domestic manufacturing. But as it turns out, the network is itself manufacturing its merchandise abroad. Details in Status: www.status.news/p/fox-news-s...

submitted 5 days ago • 70 comments

They are obviously slow learners

submitted 5 days ago • 3649 comments

The upper house bloating continues apace.....

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Michel Gove has been given a peerage in Rishi Sunak's resignation honours list They were also awards for former Tory Cabinet ministers Mark Harper & Simon Hart, who'll join the House of Lords Senior Conservatives James Cleverley, Jeremy Hunt, Andrew Mitchell and Mel Stride all received knighthoods

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Labour are planning to nationalise British Steel - to save the Scunthorpe plant from closing down. Why didn't Labour do the same when Scotland's last oil refinery announced it was closing down? Scottish jobs are an afterthought for Labour.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

The four law firms that it was announced are now Trump collaborators -- Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Simpson Thacher, and A&O Shearman Sterling -- ALSO agreed today to "Disavow DEI" as part of a settlement with EEOC. Why would any new associate join such a place? Why would any partner stay?

submitted 5 days ago • 631 comments

Trump has just replaced President Obama’s official presidential portrait in the White House with a painting of himself.

submitted 5 days ago • 1732 comments

That'll be the ones he "persuaded" to work for free......

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

No surprise that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Trump's very right wing fan girl, has allegedly bought stocks at tariff induced knock down prices

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Don’t worry—getting social security checks will work just as well as X support

submitted 5 days ago • 381 comments

Donald Trump has made himself—and by extension, us—the laughing stock of the world.

submitted 4 days ago • 361 comments

It’s hard to think of anything he’s done in his second term that’s *not* impeachable.

submitted 4 days ago • 232 comments

How very Trumpian. You tear up an Iranian deal which was the product of two years intense diplomacy then try to sort out a new one in a couple of days with a real estate mogul.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

5/6 Wordle. 😧

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

NEW: The Scottish Greens have sounded the alarm over the increasing amount of wildfires Scotland has experienced in the past few weeks 🗣️ 'We need to take climate change very seriously'

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

5/6 Wordle. Going backwards! 🫢

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

We seem to be running our own version of DOGE, hopefully with rather less catastrophic consequences. The cuts to overseas aid would argue otherwise.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Lord Gove. Just what the world needs!

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

So yesterday Trump rowed back on the much hyped tariffs. And tomorrow? Nobody knows, especially the top banana. (AKA the chief fruitcake.)

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Many Donald Trump supporters “claimed that this was the plan all along, suggesting that dropping the tariffs against the rest of the world would only further isolate Beijing,” but Trump himself gave away the game, @jonlemire.bsky.social and @russellberman.bsky.social write:

submitted 6 days ago • 98 comments

Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy’s firm was put in Covid ‘VIP lane’ open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

4/6 Wordle. 🫤

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Can the table cope with any more options piled on?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

4/6 Wordle. 😐

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

4/6 Wordle So nearly a 2! 😳

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Does anyone still doubt he's utterly crazy?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Conservative MSP Maurice Golden will not contest the election next year www.holyrood.com/news/view,to...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Hardly the worst crime to lay at Israel's door.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

eedjit!

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Be certain sure that if the UK gets some kind of trade deal, it will mainly benefit the USA. It's how Trump works - he wins, everyone else loses.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

submitted 9 days ago • 156 comments

You don't say!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

If Starmer comes back from the US waving a wee bit of paper be sure to check the small print.....

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Bit like young women of every generation!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

So Trump is meeting Netanyahu. Two liars. Two criminals.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Just watched the Scots rink lift the Men's World Curling trophy. Well done all of you!

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments