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Alistair McLean
Alistair McLean
@sandy-beach.bsky.social
Stay in a wee cottage on the Scottish coast hoping one day independence will create a progressive, inclusive society for all. We're aw Jock Tamson's bairns. Glasgow Warriors.
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NEW: The Conservatives have banned The National from attending a Scottish press event with Kemi Badenoch – just weeks after condemning Reform UK for their attacks on the media 👇 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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No One Gives A Fuck About October 7 No one cares. They used to, but then Israel spent three years showing the world why October 7 happened in the first place. After witnessing the cruelty and savagery of the state of Israel, people get it now. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/no-one-giv...
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Kemi Badenoch’s 'The Right Way' is the wrong way. By looking at what Badenoch does not say in her new description of what it is to be a Conservative, I show that this is a charter for abuse that is riddled with arrogant inconsistencies. youtu.be/AB7Nid-tTFA?...
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There's the public image: Nigel Farage, man of the people, down the pub, railing against elites, pint in one hand, fag in the other. Then there’s reality: Nigel Farage, multi-millionaire pal of global elites, sucking up to a guy he thinks is a US tycoon, champagne in one hand, oysters in the other.
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The legwork, and the sting, which seems to have caught out James Orr, Nigel Farage and Reform-UK was carried out by Verbatim Investigations who have dropped their own take on the story.
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SNP talk of a deal with Reform to put Nigel Farage in Number 10 in return for another independence referendum should disgust every single Yes voter in Scotland. Independence can be achieved without selling our soul to the Devil or trashing our own morality. My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Tragically, Jason Arday has died after a vicious press campaign over the last few weeks. The Government must urgently launch an inquiry into the culture of the press, and any role it had in his death. Add your name now: hackedoff.org/campaign-actions/demand-an-inquiry-into-the-culture-of-the-press
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Newsnight, billed as the most intelligent news programme on the BBC, has so far spent the entire show talking about Harry and Meghan returning to Britain. It’s all done with the breathless hyperbole of a 1930s Pathe news reel. What a ridiculous country. It’s embarrassing to live here 90% of the time
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"We must rage against its cruelty, against the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment, against the idea that because each blow can be defended in isolation no one bears responsibility for the beating" Poignant reflections by my colleague @iainoverton.bsky.social on Jason Arday's death:
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
11 days ago Jason Arday resigned, saying he was at his limits. The press wrote 188 more articles. 9 days later Jason Arday was found dead. Enough is enough: Demand an urgent inquiry into the role the media had on his death: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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The Daily Mail's best paid columnist is Boris Johnson. A man more deserving of scrutiny across the last two decades than practically anyone else in public life.
The right-wing media hounding of Jason Arday: 188 articles in the space of a few days. 158 articles in The Daily Mail, Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express & Spectator. Maybe like cigarettes the r/w media should carry a health warning: these papers can kill.
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GERS tells us NOTHING about an independent Scotland. Its only aim is political propaganda to tell Scotland it is too wee, too poor & too stupid to be independent. GERS is flawed, incomplete & misleading. But why don’t the SNP & @JohnSwinney SCRAP GERS? 🤔 youtu.be/6oDJrEOuaZE?... via @YouTube
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Arron Banks is smack bang in middle of latest Farage scandal, threatening & surveillance journalists & the absence of reporting on his previous form in this area is…well, what? Answers on a postcard, please. It’s not me who’s being gaslit here. It’s anyone with eyes.
THE GUARDIAN: Arron Banks reportedly commissioned investigators to scrutinise a Sunday Times journalist after scrutiny of Reform UK and Nigel Farage’s finances - an unsettling response to reporting on wealthy donors and political power. - by Geraldine McKelvie
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Joseph Fourier described the greenhouse effect in 1824. That's 202 years of denial. And suddenly, the Telegraph has decided science is right after all. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...
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Wildfires sweep Scotland, even the very centre of Edinburgh, yet political debate is dominated by calls for more oil and gas from the North Sea. It’s insanity - because more drilling won’t lower prices. That claim is a lie. We’re like Nero fiddling while Rome burns In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. Scotland elected its biggest pro-Indy majority ever, bigger than the one which triggered the first referendum, but Burnham won't allow it to be discussed. Democracy UK-style.
The colonial mindset in action. He'll deign to visit us, but will only agree to talk about the things he chooses. "King of the north" indeed. www.thenational.scot/news/2640190...
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Sex Matters is a charity that loves to hate trans people. And your tax money is paying for it. The stuff they spin isn’t just false, it’s dangerous. So we reported them to the Charity Commission with a dossier of evidence on their staff & trustees. ✊Help us fight back: https://goodlaw.social/anrx
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Great to see this, and thank you for sharing. Important journalism
We normally don't share our front page quite so early—as we've only gone to press today—but the subject matter is very important. Read all about how the Irish community has come together to take a strong stance against racism in both Ireland and Scotland. @neilmackay.bsky.social
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