Rhona MacKenzie

As of May 2026, the UK is allowing continued imports of jet fuel & diesel refined in India, even if derived from Russian crude oil. 👇 👇 Grangemouth oil refinery produced jet fuel, supplying several local airports including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Newcastle.

Ming Yang wanted this factory in Scotland, but Westminster blocked the £1.5bn investment. Now the jobs are going to Spain. Scotland has watched opportunity after opportunity go elsewhere because of Westminster. It’s time we go our own way. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Research – NHS spending on private sector in Scotland only half that proportionally, in England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/04/13/r...

At every level, including the key entry level, nurses in Scotland are paid significantly more than their equivalents in England or Wales talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/04/13/a...

Pro-war, pro-privatisation. Don't trust these people.. www.ft.com/content/be4b...

There's vaulting, and then there's vaulting. The ante-chapel to the Order of the Thistle Chapel in the High Kirk of St Giles, Edinburgh. Commissioned by Edward VII in 1906, it was the work of Robert Lorimer, 1909-10. Unsurprisingly, he received a knighthood for it. 1/3

Lord Gove on #TheWrapSKY pontificating about the “ Dark Lord” - he who facilitated the VIP lanes for PPE!.. Hypocrite!

Ferries don’t mention the Ferries particularly when the SNP led government delivers for Calmac and our island communities. Calmac’s newest addition…MV Isle of Islay arriving safely in Greenock this morning at 9.55am #snp #bothvotessnp #believeinscotland #ferries

Pesticides kill our pollinators

Just this week, we have delivered: ✅ Frozen rail fares ✅ World-first community wealth building law ✅ First GP walk-in centre, with more announced soon While Westminster is in chaos, the SNP will always be on Scotland’s side.

Today in Tain, the First Minister John Swinney joined Maree Todd MSP at the developing Gro For You Campus. A community-led project delivering 240 apprenticeships a year and 24 local jobs - tackling rural depopulation and helping young people build their future in the Highlands.

👇👇👇 Good news.

Ok UK media - oh so scandalised by Mandelson - when are you going to be scandalised by US interference in our democracy? Epstein, Farage, Bannon, Vance, Thiel, Musk, Trump, Brexit, Heritage Foundation, the funding of far right populism to collapse our govts….?? After you’ve helped their collapse?

I must say, even as a Tory, that Reform can never be accused of hypocrisy. For instance Nigel Farage saying Mr Starmer’s association with Mr Mandelson was a “Grave error of judgement” & he should resign. Mr Farage’s ‘associations’ could NEVER be called grave errors of judgement.🤔

This is real, and it’s located near Tesla’s flagship London store in Tottenham.

Left: Zia Yusuf, "Mandelson deserves to be in jail. The buck stops with the executive, Keir Starmer is a disgrace to his office and should resign" Right: Nathan Gill is in jail for accepting Russian bribes. Using Zia Yusuf's logic, isn't Nigel Farage also a disgrace, and should also resign?

Washington Post

After ICE killed Renée Good and Alex Pretti, the Trump administration tried to tell us we didn’t see what we saw with our own eyes. Shane Snow’s essay breaks down how governments manipulate media to rewrite reality—and how to spot it before it can take root.

It's hard to believe that any MAGA voters would turn on Trump. In voting for him, they've literally accepted Trump's claim that anything bad he has done, or continues to do, is "fake news".

Hospital infections under the last Labour Scottish Executive. Below is a reminder of how bad hospital infections were before the SNP took control. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18395296/

Saddo that I am, I'm just watching the start of the Commons debate on Epstien etc. Am I SO glad our SNP government did not agree to release our NHS etc data to Palantir - it's just been said that Peter Mandelson had a large interest in that company. Scotland had a close shave.

Where are all the blue tents, police arrests and detentions following numerous very serious crimes committed by Westminster politicians. No police visibility in serious fraud, corruption and sex crimes. Totally convinces me the ongoing SNP saga was contrived with maximum media live coverage

Total crime down by third and violent crime down by a quarter since 2007 but still as many police officers after 19 years of SNP rule talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/04/t...

Maternity unit inspection report requires no formal inquiry or police investigation, SIXTEEN trusts in England do, so BBC Scotland twist the inspection report to suggest ongoing worries though these were dealt with by Scottish Government TEN years ago

Did you know. In the last 5 years of the Labour/Lib Dem government in Scotland - from 2002 to 2007 - 371 homes for affordable rent were built. In the last 5 years of the SNP Government, 2019 to 2024, 18,215 were built. Almost 50 times as many.

Nigel Farage is going to "save pubs" by cutting 5p off the price of a pint of beer... The £3 billion cost will be funded by reinstating the two-child benefit limit. This might be the worst policy anyone has ever come up with. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

This is Nigel Farage with Nick Candy, the treasurer of Reform UK 👇 Candy appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade, The National has uncovered. The Scottish Greens are putting pressure on Reform to explain the links.

Democracy dies in darkness… when Jeff Bezos lays off 1/3rd of all @washingtonpost.com employees.

Scottish GP’s rep lies about research based on only 222 out of nearly 5 thousand GPs claiming to be ‘burned out’ and to aid BBC Scotland’s fake news campaign to save their Anas talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/03/s...

Long NHS waits in Scotland are coming down - today’s statistics show they have fallen for 7 months in a row. At the same time, we are performing more operations. There is still more to do, but this is real progress for patients and a huge credit to our NHS staff. 👏

Dan Neidle, "The most appalling e-mail exchange in 2009" "There's a discussion between Mandelson and Epstein on how to lobby the government" "That is a senior British cabinet minister (Mandelson) advising a foreign bank, that they should threaten the Chancellor" @danneidle.bsky.social

Kenneth Gibson MSP RISK OF CANCER DEATH IN SCOTLAND AT LOWEST RATE EVER Figures from Public Health Scotland show the risk of dying from cancer in Scotland is at its lowest rate ever. The largest decreases were noted in lung 23.5%, oesophageal 14.3% and bladder cancers 13.7%.

The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution. - Thomas Jefferson

I guess he just got lucky.

Short video – Three quarters of a million children in poverty, in England or Wales would not be in poverty if they lived under a government following SNP policies like the Child Payment

This is yet more evidence that the BBC in Scotland is far from impartial. By giving Sarwar a platform- without any scrutiny of what he is proposing- is openly campaigning for Labour. 👇👇👇

Alcohol-related hospital admissions in Scotland peaked in 2007/2008 at 43 038 after decades of Labour power in Scotland. After the first SNP government in 2007/2008 they began to fall then after 2018 when the SNP minimum unit-pricing policy was implemented they began to fall more steeply, to 27 126.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 100 years ago today, Scottish inventor, electrical engineer and innovator John Logie Baird, demonstrated the world's first mechanical television 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (For some reason this iconic Scottish event has been completely ‘overlooked’ by the bbc State Broadcaster, The Hootsmon & The Harold 🇬🇧)

The Tories wrecked the UK economy and gave us Brexit. Some how these Tories who are jumping ship to Reform have found the ability to improve the economy despite being unable to do so when they were in power! Scotland needs independence before the recycled Tories gain power in England

Braverman is one of the most repulsive politicians out there. Vicious, fascistic, useless, without principle, loyalty or *any* actual genuine success to her name. Just cheating, lying, letting people down and delivering failure. No wonder she feels she’s “come home” to Reform. It’s a perfect fit.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

Latest figures out today show Scotland’s unemployment rate fell to 3.7%, and is below the UK rate of 5.1%. If Scotland can do this with limited economic powers, imagine what more we could do if we had the full powers of independence.

Raid in progress in south Minneapolis 5 SUVs descended out of nowhere

We found three cars full of masked ICE agents in a residential car park. Our guide asked them if they had a warrant, they refused to answer. I asked them several questions about what they were doing. They then made obscene gestures at us. Shortly afterwards, a drone appeared circling our car.

Deeply weird and menacing scenes in Minneapolis. ICE agents sat in masks and balaclavas in unmarked, often blacked out cars, watching local residents. They themselves being observed by a network of locals, trying to deter them from mounting raids. Profoundly abnormal.