Robert Jackson ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡พ

Robert Jackson ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡พ

@rjplus.bsky.social

Strong Scottish Independence supporter - anti Westminster - love English people generally though: Avid reader @netgalley, love Chess, Aberdeen FC, Travel, Kuala Lumpur ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ - very happily married #ScotsAbroad @scotsabroadforindy.bsky.social

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Scotland should be so proud of them both๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿ€๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‰

flossyflook.bsky.social@flossyflook.bsky.social

Today, Israel has detained an SNP MP (Lara Bird), and a Scottish Greens MSP (Kate Nevens) who were trying to enter Palestine. Lara and Kate were held and interrogated for roughly eight hours at the border after attempting to enter the West Bank through Jordan...............

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Jenrick has set out how Reform would maximise our โ€œBrexit freedomsโ€. And this is their list. This is the very best they can come up with. โ€œRe-legalise imperial unitsโ€ Itโ€™s truly pathetic that this is the pinnacle of their Brexit fever dream. And that anyone would still back this ruinous idiocyโ€ฆ

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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.

Talking-up Scotland@talking-upscotland.bsky.social

A rare hit!

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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...

open.substack.comEurope is the future nowRejoiners can claim the narrative of adventure that the Brexiters once cherished

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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.

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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

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โ€œTHE PUBLIC ARE THE BOSSESโ€ according to Burnhamโ€ฆ.unless itโ€™s the Scottish public ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Uber-unionist Andy Burnham is all for the public deciding on whether or not the uk rejoins the EU, yet Scottish independence is โ€œOFF LIMITSโ€, no matter that a majority in Scotland support independence ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ˜Ž

Robert Jackson ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡พ reposted

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

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'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

bellacaledonia.org.ukNet Zero isnโ€™t Zero; it isnโ€™t even a PlanBritainโ€™s โ€˜Net Zeroโ€™ ambition is based on a false premise. Net Zero isnโ€™t zero. Worse, Net Zero doesnโ€™t even require Britain to cut its real emissions at all; Britain can produce Net Zero by the siโ€ฆ

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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.

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2 down, 3 to go ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ Serbia โ€” Vucic lost ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil โ€” Bolsonaro lost ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israel โ€” 27 Oct ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ Bulgaria โ€” 1 Nov ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USA โ€” 3 Nov

Russ Jones@russincheshire.bsky.social

Five tests for nationalism in the next 10 days. Could be genuinely transformative. ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ Serbia โ€” Vucic lost (yay!) ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil โ€” Lula leads early count ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israel โ€” 27 Oct ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ Bulgaria โ€” 1 Nov ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USA โ€” 3 Nov One down, one looks promising, three to go.

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Lula holds Brazil, Vuฤiฤ‡ defeated in Serbia. A bad day for the fascists. A good day for democracy. So it goes

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Brazil and Serbia, defying rise the tide of autocracy. This is how we do it, everywhere. ๐ŸŒˆ

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EXCLUSIVE: Disgraced former Tory peer Michelle Mone charged a local authority ยฃ8000 for a speaking engagement which included a stop at a hairdresser ๐Ÿ‘‡ Read more here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

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

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I canโ€™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, itโ€™s gobbled up. But work like this which questions the very nature of our democracy - and is about life and death? Itโ€™s so often met with silence

Neil Mackay@neilmackay.bsky.social

Torture, terror and extrajudicial executions: the Dirty War in Northern Ireland and my search for truth For decades Iโ€™ve investigated collusion between British military intelligence and terrorists One question has always remained: given the crimes committed how can Britain call itself a democracy?

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

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social

Neal Lawson: "I couldn't live on the meagre benefits people are getting. To suggest that we have to cut those.. actually that's where the engine of growth is, that's the people who spend.. how do you get people out spending.. not by cutting benefits of people at the bottom"

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I've heard of this gulf... ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿพ

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Robert Jackson ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡พ reposted

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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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...

weegingerdug.wordpress.comBBC Scotlandโ€™s useful idiotsPolice Scotland has announced that it will make no further investigations into the finances of Yes Scotland, having found no evidence of criminality. Headed by Blair Jenkins, Yes Scotland was the oโ€ฆ

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Our condolences to all those at BBC Scotland on receiving this sad news. Hours of prerecorded analysis, interviews, and editorials with scheduled Debate Night, Phone Ins binned. Awe Diddums

The National@scotnational.bsky.social

๐Ÿšจ Police Scotland have found no criminality relating to the finances of Yes Scotland. It comes after a newspaper report claimed there was ยฃ1.5m 'missing' from the pro-independence group's accounts ๐Ÿ‘‰ www.thenational.scot/news/2...

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My latest blog piece, the ยฃ1 trillion cost of the Union to Scotland is revealed as Westminster embarks on a second theft of Scotland's natural wealth. Only independence can ensure Scotlandโ€™s vast energy wealth is used to benefit the people of Scotland. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/23/t...

weegingerdug.wordpress.comThe ยฃ1 trillion cost of the Union to ScotlandChancellor of the Exchequer John Healey has admitted that if the UK had in set up a sovereign wealth fund on the basis of income generated from North Sea oil and gas as Norway did in the 1980s, it โ€ฆ