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There's another way of putting this: "Markets prefer fascists" www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

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NEW: More than 20,000 people have signed a petition calling for a public inquiry into the UK Government's complicity in the Gaza genocide www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Will cheaper gherkins distract the public in tomorrow’s budget from epic energy price rises? The left wins in Serbia & Brazil, but what good outcome can there be in Israel? Is Burnham serious about freedom of movement & will Rosebank get vetoed. Listen - LesleyRiddoch.com/podcast

The ultimate Benefit Cheats. Get really angry, Scotland!

Three-quarters of the responses to the 2023 UK govt consultation on the tobacco and vapes bill were machine-generated. 90,835 of the 118,756 responses were by bots. Corporations have a new tool for subverting polices and public opinion; to increase profits, spread addiction, health hazards.

By any reasonable interpretation the quasi-military activities of far right groups in Scotland breach the 1936 Public Order Act which was introduced to curtail Oswald Moseley's Blackshirts. If no action is taken, these groups will only be emboldened. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/27/t...

Fair excited tae be performing THIS Wednesday at Edinburgh Folk Club. If yer intae Scots songs, ballads and folk music, cam alang! 📍Edinburgh Folk Club, 14 Royal Terrace 🗓️ Wed 28 Oct ⏰ Doors 19:30 Show 20:00 💰 £15 £12 Conc. £10 Members. 🎟️ Tickets → www.efc1973.com #ScotsLanguage #ScottishMusic

Seems we might get a second bite at the Brexit cherry. If we need a referendum on Europe, then surely one on Scottish membership of the UK is also essential.

Thank you to the hundreds of devoted supporters who were there to cheer me on at the press conference today.

Journalists are questioning the BBC's decision to broadcast 40 minutes of 'propaganda' from Reform UK without interruption or challenge ⬇️ www.thenational.scot/news/2...

I am now safe after being detained and interrogated by Israeli forces and denied entry to Palestine alongside other activists and elected representatives. I will share a fuller statement tomorrow. The @scottishgreens.org stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

Scotland should be so proud of them both👏 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍀🇮🇪🇵🇸🍉

Jenrick has set out how Reform would maximise our “Brexit freedoms”. And this is their list. This is the very best they can come up with. “Re-legalise imperial units” It’s truly pathetic that this is the pinnacle of their Brexit fever dream. And that anyone would still back this ruinous idiocy…

No one says the media shouldn't hold the SNP & ScotGov to account, but when only 1 newspaper out of 38 dailies & weeklies in Scotland supports indy, which has majority support in most polls, & pro-indy parties have won majorities in Holyrood since 2011, there's a huge problem of media imbalance.

Nigel Farage, Daniel Hannan, Aaron Banks: the remaining Brexiters look so stale and dated and old. Listening to them is like eating mouldy bread from the back of the cupboard open.substack.com/pub/arguably...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

Scotland’s North Sea energy: a burden when we talk about independence, but a valuable asset when Westminster needs the money? Sounds familiar 🤔 https://www.snp.org/what-does-scotlands-energy-and-andy-murray-have-in-common/

“THE PUBLIC ARE THE BOSSES” according to Burnham….unless it’s the Scottish public 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Uber-unionist Andy Burnham is all for the public deciding on whether or not the uk rejoins the EU, yet Scottish independence is “OFF LIMITS”, no matter that a majority in Scotland support independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then "performative pietism" is surely the panic room inside.

'There is no plan. The National Grid is already failing to take advantage of renewables. The Grid was designed for the coal age, and has been so badly developed and maintained for our changing modern world, it is now dysfunctional.' John Warren, via Bella Caledonia

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

2 down, 3 to go 🇷🇸 Serbia — Vucic lost 🇧🇷 Brazil — Bolsonaro lost 🇮🇱 Israel — 27 Oct 🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 1 Nov 🇺🇸 USA — 3 Nov

Lula holds Brazil, Vučić defeated in Serbia. A bad day for the fascists. A good day for democracy. So it goes

Brazil and Serbia, defying rise the tide of autocracy. This is how we do it, everywhere. 🌈

EXCLUSIVE: Disgraced former Tory peer Michelle Mone charged a local authority £8000 for a speaking engagement which included a stop at a hairdresser 👇 Read more here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

More sinner than saint (like most of Burnham's Friends of Israel packed Cabinet) meme via James Branch

I can’t tell you how much it distresses me that journalism like this gets so little attention in this county. If I write about some culture war nonsense, it’s gobbled up. But work like this which questions the very nature of our democracy - and is about life and death? It’s so often met with silence

#TaxTheRich #EatTheRich

Millionaires don't spend. They simply amass wealth. It's the less well off that power the economy by spending.

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Where's Manky Jaiket the day?

Protect this Young WOMAN at all Cost!!

I've heard of this gulf... 👇🏾

@carlchri.bsky.social go.bsky.app/GRKemBf Thanks Carl my wonderful friend for including me with these terrific friends! 🥰

What I would say is, If you live in Scotland & you can now see the hypocrisy & are not at least raising your eyebrows...... THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? #AreYouYesYet #DissolveTheUnequalUKUnion #WestminsterTheives #RedTory #BlueTory

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