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‘I grew up in a household torn apart by abuse… the way Reform leadership has treated me took me right back to that nightmare’: MSP Amanda Bland says toxic treatment forced her to quit party www.sundaypost.com/fp/msp-amand...

My latest blog piece, those who claim to support independence and resort to lawfare to destroy the SNP because they are unable to do so at the ballot box are not "reinvigorating" or "renewing" the indy movement. They're simply the BBC's useful idiots. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/24/b...

Put your hand up if you are in favour of a nuclear-free independent Scotland ✋ #NuclearFreeScotland

Muslims and immigrants, despite all the lies we're told about them, have never presented a systemic threat to Western security, let alone to "Western civilisation". Instead, the threats come from our governments, especially in the US, and their grim alliances with capital and overseas dictators.

So many in my profession have this man’s blood on their hands. The ingrained racism of the British media killed Jason Arday

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After the death of BBC Scotland, there’s only one possible course of action: the SNP must demand that broadcasting powers be devolved from Westminster to Holyrood. This country has been deliberately failed by London. So we need to take broadcasting into our own hands In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

and he's started already. 2020 deja vu. Before you know it he'll be having a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping again🤣

US nuclear revival faces scrutiny after incidents at flagship plant: worker falls into reactor cavity, tilted fuel rods, failed exams and staff hesitant to speak up on safety as.ft.com/r/7039148c-8... @financialtimes.com

Remember all the wailing about Turning Point simply being a bunch of young activists … well …

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

Burnham since becoming PM; -More climate destroying fossil fuels -cutting the lowest pension in W Europe -Trans hospital exclusion -more weapons exports to Israel -Transphobic Section 28 -more pensioners arrested -book/badge ban -trans toilet ban -joined Trump’s Iran war -no rent cap What else…?

The Govt claiming we must drill more fossil fuels so we can use the tax revenues to fund the green transition is about as logical as a doctor telling you to smoke 2 packs a day to raise the money for your lung transplant You don’t put out a fire by pouring on more fuel 🔥#Jackdaw

On Question Time last night, I talked about the extractive economic model that has left Wales - and many other nations - impoverished *because they were so rich in resources*. You can see the problem simply by looking at the map: the infrastructure looks like a drainage system.

NEW: The Scottish Greens have quit Twitter/X, accusing the platform of spreading 'misinformation and hate' www.thenational.scot/news/2...

In Texas, Rodney Ellis forged 750,000 ballots to steal the election from Trump. Or so say the MAGA-nauts. Now Trump's war on mail-in ballots has turned freakishly violent. We explain how Trump's gang has begun a campaign of gun-toting intimidation in the war on mail-in votes. #SaveYourVote

FT exclusive: The US has proposed that European countries unfreeze some Russian sovereign assets immobilised after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and transfer them to a vehicle overseen by Washington in an attempt to revive peace talks www.ft.com/content/5435...

“The party said it will deliver an independence survey to nearly 1.5 million people and that Choose Scotland would be its biggest ever online ad campaign outside of an election.” 👉 nation.cymru/news/snp-to-...

Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You don't fix one security crisis by creating another. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

At times like this, the mask really comes off the British media. There is no pretence - at all - about their impartiality or objectivity towards the Green Party. It is a blatant naked partisan cross-media assault against the Greens.

Natalie Bennett, Green member of the House of Lords, pledges to use her position to keep speaking up for Scotland's right to self-determination

I'm coming to conclusion that many companies ramp up bills excessively so say by 15-20%. (I even had one at 67%!!) & only when I complain do they offer discounts back to where the price was. Infuriating! They seem to all be at it just to see how much profit they can make off the back of us all.

and they will still keep the daily propaganda coming- www.thenational.scot/news/2661065...

What if AI cut labour’s share of national income by ten percentage points? Our analysis finds that a majority of governments that rely on taxing workers would be crippled

Andy Burnham's "National Care Service" turns out to be Free Personal Care in England. Inspired by a policy already delivered in Scotland by the SNP.

Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics. Like Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, hired to open govt networks to companies and corporate capture of the state. They sell political capital built with public money. What do we get in return?

Worth a watch (21min) video doc on social media AI rage bait slop. If you do anything at least watch first few min. It's mind blowing, & all because rage bait engagement creates most engagement and profits head to the creator of this, & it's not who you might think. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCvP...

"Tonight on Reporting Scotland, we dedicate the entire programme to the fact that Scotland is still Europe's Drug Death Capital. Whilst Drug Policy in Scotland is reserved to a government in England, & all the drugs are brought in by gangs in England, we ask "What are the SNP doing about it?""

I am so damn close to cancelling my licence fee. So damn close. As a journalist of 35 years standing, I never in my wildest dreams thought I’d feel like this. The BBC has come to disgust me. It’s damaging our country and I can’t assist it in the damage it’s doing with my money.

Oh, we're still on the "significantly reformed EU" nonsense are we? Like the UK has the power to dictate terms as a returning hero or some such? Same EU as per the last 40 years at least. Be part of it or not. Full stop. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The vicious and corrupt cycle of monopolization: 1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market. 2) Use their monopoly power to price gouge consumers and shaft workers. 3) Use profits to make political donations. 4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement. 5) Repeat.

6 weeks from the election & suddenly Republicans pretend to care more about their constituents than cultish obedience to Trump. But 5 minutes after the election they’ll be right back selling you out so they can get a signed hat in the Oval Office or a dinner invite to Mar-a-Lago.

Pretty shameless and pitiful that Republicans who have backed the Iran War every step of the way, never spoke out or criticized it, and voted against every war powers resolution, are suddenly coming out against it 6 weeks before their election while trailing in the polls.

Article from Dec 2025, but an absolute must read. The connections explain everything that is currently going on today, including the rise of fascism everywhere.

The Guardian joins the campaign to abolish the state pension triple-lock. Portrays it as a old v young, social security v defence spending issue. Silence on corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich, maldistribution of wealth, low govt spend on state pension, how future retirees will survive.

One of the most honest articles I've seen appear in The Guardian, (if not all the British MSM) on Scottish independence since @georgemonbiot.bsky.social wrote his excellent piece in 2014 ahead of the vote. Although I disagree with the bit about data centres. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"British loyalist though I may be, if I were a Scot I would have no hesitation. This is a real nation, and has been throughout history. Scotland has a personality and a culture recognised worldwide. Its capital, Edinburgh, is among Europe’s finest cities. ... That is why Burnham should welcome indy

Intending to write another column about the treatment of #ME/CFS patients this week, pegged to new research findings on the biological basis. My question for sufferers: Are any of you still being offered inappropriate (psych/GET etc) "treatments"? Please email george at monbiot dot info. Thanks.

Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government. No other word to describe this other than corruption. How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip?

It's always pensions and benefits and things for you that are unaffordable Never billionaires, never war, never MP's expenses. Let me tell you the richest 1% in the UK gain more wealth every year than the entire cost of the NHS and Pensions for everybody That's what is unaffordable

Wildly irresponsible to even consider this. Absolute climate vandalism, to benefit the tech giants.

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You might ask yourself “whose side are they on?”. You might not like the answer, but it becomes hard to deny. So why? Why, when we know that appeasing the far right empowers and builds it, do they keep doing it, alienating their base and helping to deliver the country to Reform or Restore?

So the favourite obsession of the far right, being weaponised by US billionaires to push us towards their technofascist dystopia, is repeatedly legitimised by a Labour government. Other concerns, including the longstanding concerns of the left, are vilified and delegitimised.