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Occasional gardener up in the North Highlands. Independence for Scotland. Politics on the left. Love Celtic FC.

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Turns out the famous Glasgow Rangers isn't as famous as the New York Rangers or the Texas Rangers.

11.03.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ever-increasing authoritarianism seems to be the only thing that Starmer never U-turns on.

11.03.2026 08:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fascism is always about looking backwards - it never has anything progressive to offer, that's why nostalgia for an imagined past is so important to it.

11.03.2026 07:52 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

One small mercy is that their Board of Piss real-estate fantasies in Gaza are done, now they've fucked over the Gulf states.

10.03.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This draft-dodging; cowardly piece-of shit bragging about murdering people for no reason. And all because half of the US population thought The Apprentice reality tv show was actual reality.

10.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The last US/Israel attack on Iran stopped at 12 days because they ran out of defensive missiles. We're at that same milestone now and it seems the same is true so Trump wants to wrap it up and claim victory. I doubt Iran will be stopping until they've inflicted a heavy price on their attackers.

10.03.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Warning from Chief Superintendent should have been heeded Words of Chief Superintendent should have been acted upon a long time ago...

Latest warning from Chief Superintendent should have been heeded previously...
thecelticstar.com/latest-warni...

10.03.2026 09:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The govt have been told it will have little effect on backlogs and there's more effective steps they can take. It's just more authoritarianism; more surveillance; more wars. Where govts go when faced with collapse (in this case, late-stage capitalism).

10.03.2026 09:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

10.03.2026 07:26 πŸ‘ 7811 πŸ” 2643 πŸ’¬ 234 πŸ“Œ 144
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The Broligarchy's First World War? AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict

NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

10.03.2026 08:09 πŸ‘ 805 πŸ” 370 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 31

Our political class are as pathetic as they are cowardly.

10.03.2026 08:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Don't Forget Gaza and the Palestinians Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank. Don't look away.

❝ Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank. Don't look away ❞ β€” DIANA BUTTU

10.03.2026 05:33 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

'Ending the war' isn't in his power. Iran rightly see this illegal attack on them as existential - their aim is to drive the US out of the Gulf and to inflict enough pain on both Israel & the US so their constant attacks and threats on them stop. This may be the US' Suez moment.

10.03.2026 07:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Capitalists always turn to war to prevent a working-class revolution.

10.03.2026 07:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The board of piss were going to be funded by the Gulf states - no chance of that happening now after President Paedo's latest escapades.

09.03.2026 15:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The chart shows that childless Britons losing employment will see less of their vanished wages replaced by benefits than those in any other comparable country, aside from Australia and the US. Even for a lone British parent with two children, the so-called β€˜replacement rate’ is 16 percentage points lower than the OECD average, representing the fourth-lowest level of relative support for 
such a family across the entire rich-country club.

The chart shows that childless Britons losing employment will see less of their vanished wages replaced by benefits than those in any other comparable country, aside from Australia and the US. Even for a lone British parent with two children, the so-called β€˜replacement rate’ is 16 percentage points lower than the OECD average, representing the fourth-lowest level of relative support for such a family across the entire rich-country club.

The safety net for Britons is far lower than most of their counterparts.

Many other benefits systems around the world hardwire in a specific link between typical wages and general benefit rates, or what an individual's previous earnings and the payments they are entitled to.

More➑️ buff.ly/a300OG4

09.03.2026 11:15 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All this madness is doing is speeding up the decline of capitalism and US hegemony. They're accelerating exactly what they're trying to prevent. Every cloud i suppose.

09.03.2026 11:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Even on a religious level, these fundamentalists are mad. The idea that you can speed up 'end times' doesn't make sense. Do they think their God is going to work to their timetable? The bible makes clear that no one will know when the second coming will be.

09.03.2026 11:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Because labour are more concerned about the collapse of capitalism - as that happens authoritarianism increases.

09.03.2026 08:33 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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08.03.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

The world order is changing - this is likely to be the US's Suez moment (provided we can avoid nuclear armageddon). The sooner our politicians realise this the better. Nothing is going to be the same after this.

08.03.2026 12:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure Jesus would be entirely comfortable working to the timeline imposed on him by far-right loony tunes.

08.03.2026 12:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Blair's God complex makes it impossible to sit anything out. He can't understand why no one else wants to listen to his 'genius'.

08.03.2026 12:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Russian involvement might be the only thing that will prevent Israel using nukes.

08.03.2026 10:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Israel wants to blow up the whole of West Asia and Trump is stupid enough to do it for them. He could walk away now and claim some kind of (false) victory; putting boots on the ground means a protracted war that will be the US's Suez moment. Again the only beneficiaries would be Israel.

08.03.2026 10:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The party of the Epstein Class and the Sticky Carpet class.

08.03.2026 10:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The western media love this 'lashing out' narrative. The US & Israel bombing schools; hospitals; desalination plants and oil refineries is of course not lashing out.

08.03.2026 10:35 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

08.03.2026 02:19 πŸ‘ 25304 πŸ” 8109 πŸ’¬ 781 πŸ“Œ 329

Blair has a God complex. He feels the world needs to hear from the towering intellect he think he possesses, but the rest of us has never spotted up until now. Delusional.

08.03.2026 10:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0