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Lusitania, Caledonia, art, books, history and culture.

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DISTRACTIONS DON’T WORK.

COVERUPS WON’T WORK.

NOT EVEN WAR.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

11.03.2026 23:03 👍 4271 🔁 2928 💬 0 📌 0
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Who needs Churchill or a bloody beaver on a crisp £5 note?😤
I have been designing some alternatives which I think you’ll agree are infinitely more superior. 👍

12.03.2026 08:13 👍 802 🔁 199 💬 102 📌 16

The USA is no longer a nation led by serious people.

12.03.2026 08:55 👍 23 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
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I rarely get nostalgic for the past, but when I do I think of the line by François Villon “Mais ou sont les nesges d’antan” - But whaur are the snaws o lang syne. Writing about wine today though I came across this from a glorious sunny day in 1982. Oh for such an invitation today!

11.03.2026 16:39 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

These poor photographers were given mission impossible. Can’t imagine a flattering photograph of the creature.

11.03.2026 22:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nobody is winning. In any of this.

11.03.2026 21:55 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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11.03.2026 16:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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(cartoon Dave Granlund)

10.03.2026 15:21 👍 4171 🔁 1530 💬 150 📌 62
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Came across this wee gem recently where the Girls’ Brigade in my home town asked us to contribute recipes for a book to raise funds for the Company. I was in good company with Alex and Malky. That Caldeirada recipe is still a family favourite.

10.03.2026 17:37 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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How stupid he said.

09.03.2026 23:47 👍 5614 🔁 1943 💬 253 📌 122
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This includes a useless war that will plow through our best young men.

For the sake of our sons, release the UNREDACTED Epstein files.

09.03.2026 11:55 👍 1436 🔁 639 💬 63 📌 27
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As the Herald maligns its home city, here are TWELVE reasons why Glasgow is really getting better and is already better than most English cities but it’s being hidden from you by Labour-supporting med... Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Is that from Ian MacWhirter’s daughter? …

As the Herald maligns its home city, here are TWELVE reasons why Glasgow is really getting better and is already better than most English cities but it’s being hidden from you by Labour-supporting media talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/03/10/a...

10.03.2026 13:13 👍 22 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1
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Zorro Ranch rally draws a large, passionate crowd Step-brother of victim Virginia Giuffre and wife come to New Mexico for the demonstration.

www.koat.com/article/crow...

09.03.2026 17:41 👍 3903 🔁 1233 💬 59 📌 41

The DOJ has exposed 21 victims names in its release of the Epstein Files. They sure worked hard to redact the criminals though. Disgusting.

09.03.2026 15:09 👍 2915 🔁 746 💬 78 📌 23

Nigel Farage spent the weekend having dinner with a suspected paedophile, a sex offender, criminal and an adjudicated rapist.

09.03.2026 11:19 👍 818 🔁 303 💬 108 📌 21
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Part of my disgust and disdain for so many people in this country is that that they are so easily duped. All that fuck has to do is call some egregious bill the “SAVE AMERICA” act and the stupids rush to vote against their own interests, while accusing us of not wanting to “save America”.

09.03.2026 12:52 👍 8947 🔁 2136 💬 1072 📌 224

Wars can be started unilaterally as we are witnessing, but it takes both sides to stop them. Could somebody explain that to the US President.

10.03.2026 08:06 👍 32 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
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WE BELIEVE THE VICTIMS 100%

09.03.2026 03:26 👍 3496 🔁 1193 💬 57 📌 36
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Also known as "using insider knowledge for war profiteering."

09.03.2026 23:21 👍 8980 🔁 3731 💬 685 📌 278
Today Would Be A Good Day To Release All 
The Trump~Epstein Files

Today Would Be A Good Day To Release All The Trump~Epstein Files

Today would be a good day to release all the
Trump~Epstein Files

#EpsteinFiles
#TrumpEpsteinFiles
#Pedopresident

09.03.2026 15:31 👍 1706 🔁 585 💬 54 📌 18

US horror tales

10.03.2026 09:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

10.03.2026 08:02 👍 1578 🔁 646 💬 119 📌 91
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Keep it going...

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

09.03.2026 10:14 👍 7576 🔁 2603 💬 113 📌 80

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 👍 7833 🔁 2651 💬 235 📌 144
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So he’s surrendering without accomplishing any of his stated objectives while declaring victory. Exactly what we said would happen.

09.03.2026 21:01 👍 10597 🔁 2894 💬 1447 📌 299
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Delighted to be part of this amazing line up to support the excellent Jenny Gilruth in the forthcoming election. A few tickets left…but tak tent or they’re tint.

09.03.2026 19:26 👍 20 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 2

Some of us don't like to be reminded how sycophantic certain Scots can be. This is the delightful Dr Johnson to Bozzy on Anglo-Scottish relations on his visit to Skye,
"We have taught you...and we'll do the same to all barbarous nations, - to the Cherokees, - and at last to the Orang-Outangs."

09.03.2026 15:25 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

This is Annie with her brother John, who was Provost of Galston when I was wee. Annie’s mum died, so Annie kept house for John and James who worked at the pit. If Annie looked after me in the evening she’d take me to Mass at St Sophias. The kneeling apart, I fair enjoyed it!

09.03.2026 15:51 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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#InternationalWomensDay homage to my neighbour in Galston, Annie Murray. Like many working class women she gave up on her dream of teaching to look after her family. She taught me to read, introduced me to French and gave me an appreciation of the great Irish catholic tradition in Scotland.

08.03.2026 18:35 👍 36 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
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April 24th at hame in the Irvine Valley. Cannae wait tae hear Robyn singin Scots sangs like O Aw the Airts, the Lass o Patie’s Mill and Auld Lang Syne as I celebrate ma Ayrshire childhood in Gawston. Gin ye hae a guid Scots tongue in yer heid, jyne us in Derval. Braw!

08.03.2026 09:29 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0