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Scottish oldie, interested in world affairs, particularly Scottish independence and some silly things too!

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B BC NEWS SCOTLAND BBC Scotland News @BBCScotlandNews 00日. NEWS X.com I've lost friends since joining Reform, says Lord Offord

Fewer people sit next to me on the bus since I started shitting my pants

12.03.2026 15:16 👍 2153 🔁 398 💬 108 📌 31

The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017 to 2025.

The top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.

Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

10.03.2026 23:00 👍 5258 🔁 2112 💬 182 📌 95
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This is clearly fine with the GOP.

11.03.2026 00:47 👍 12903 🔁 5489 💬 539 📌 238

Badenoch said if she was prime minister HMS Dragon would have left a week ago. Presumably with its doors hanging off and with no weapons onboard.

11.03.2026 12:13 👍 1799 🔁 359 💬 90 📌 41
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A lone battle: Why is Pedro Sánchez the only European leader to take on Trump? As the Spanish PM decries the war in Iran, other politicians are unable – or unwilling – to speak against the US president
06.03.2026 07:47 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0

A 1935 Sinclair Lewis political novel has a title almost identical to this.

09.02.2026 13:11 👍 225 🔁 87 💬 11 📌 3

When he was a Tory politician (you remember, just after he was binned as a Labour one) female colleagues were free to express their disgust at his blatant misogyny. “Lee is an odious sexist,” was Anna Soubry’s irrefutable conclusion. I wonder what his current colleagues will have to say…

09.02.2026 17:23 👍 945 🔁 219 💬 69 📌 5
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Farage accused of having no answer to UK's problems by his own candidate In posts from just last year, Matt Goodwin, the Reform UK candidate, claimed if Mr Farage became Prime Minister support for him would 'collapse quickly' due to him being 'fairly divisiv...

EXC: Nigel Farage has been accused of having no solution to Britain's problems by his own candidate. Matt Goodwin repeatedly attacked the Farage in historic posts, as well as the Reform party as a whole
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

09.02.2026 17:23 👍 379 🔁 156 💬 12 📌 6
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Uproar as Reform policy chief threatens to defund Welsh university Martin Shipton Reform UK’s head of policy Zia Yusuf launched a culture war in Wales by threatening to withhold funding from Bangor University after its student debating society refused to host two lea...

Hello. Former Index On Censorship staffer here. To be very clear, having your request to speak at a society of which you are not a member does not count, in any sense whatsoever, as censorship. nation.cymru/news/uproar-...

10.02.2026 17:45 👍 649 🔁 209 💬 34 📌 15

Uncharacteristically mild wording from Ian but unerringly accurate as always.

11.02.2026 07:48 👍 1338 🔁 206 💬 43 📌 4

One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…

11.02.2026 08:34 👍 2806 🔁 748 💬 230 📌 25

Huh - we've found the first situation in which I would vote Green if tactically necessary.

27.01.2026 14:07 👍 492 🔁 55 💬 15 📌 1
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While the U.S. has always been an important partner, Europe "has to build our own capacity" in the fields of tech and defense, European Commissioner @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social told us at our #EUdigitalRace event.

Watch the full interview here: www.politico.eu/event/back-i...

27.01.2026 16:30 👍 34 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0

This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years.

These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.

26.01.2026 23:04 👍 26681 🔁 8849 💬 1063 📌 452

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

27.01.2026 00:17 👍 32733 🔁 9447 💬 1579 📌 577
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

27.01.2026 00:30 👍 24620 🔁 11089 💬 691 📌 576

Many people will complain about the cost of Housing, Energy, Food...

But then refuse to blame the people responsible, the billionaires who own it.

Are they stupid or are they purposefully deflecting?

27.01.2026 15:56 👍 83 🔁 23 💬 9 📌 0

I’ve never been prouder to be a Minnesotan.

27.01.2026 00:36 👍 47193 🔁 4483 💬 1609 📌 287
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ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

26.01.2026 22:14 👍 54650 🔁 13948 💬 816 📌 492

What, the misogynistic, entitled r wing pompous prick Matt Goodwin, the one who always talks over everyone else? That Matt Goodwin?
What a surprise

27.01.2026 14:29 👍 171 🔁 17 💬 6 📌 0

Matt Goodwin was my university tutor. I’ll have a few things to say about him over the coming weeks.

27.01.2026 14:15 👍 1378 🔁 238 💬 122 📌 33

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE

26.01.2026 16:17 👍 32014 🔁 7596 💬 484 📌 368
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27.01.2026 07:42 👍 10172 🔁 3010 💬 209 📌 144
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Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

27.01.2026 05:36 👍 18991 🔁 6271 💬 928 📌 1171

oh no not gavin williamson, the most beloved tory mp since er suella braverman, seriously is Kemi paying Farage for this service

27.01.2026 15:25 👍 374 🔁 73 💬 40 📌 1

Don’t want to be a downer or anything, but the Doomsday Clock has moved four seconds closer to midnight.

Alexandra Bell, President and CEO of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists which maintains the clock, said it was due to a “global failure in leadership” and an “Orwellian approach to governance.”

27.01.2026 16:05 👍 521 🔁 183 💬 38 📌 20
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I know I keep writing about this,but the level of delusion is staggering. How do so many people think Reform will 'save the country' when it’s led by defected Tories from the worst cabinet in UK history?It’s not change, just same failures,new logo,and people cheering like it’s a revival,not a rerun.

26.01.2026 23:25 👍 2128 🔁 758 💬 202 📌 67
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Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Contact Congress today!

Let's get so loud about this that Congress has no choice but to impeach Kristi Noem:

26.01.2026 21:26 👍 12396 🔁 3361 💬 556 📌 163

SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN!

Do not fund the government until a full investigation is performed for Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The agents responsible for their execution must be removed from duty and put on trial.

The American people demand accountability and an end to ICE & DHS brutality!!!

27.01.2026 14:50 👍 11297 🔁 2679 💬 436 📌 149
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Greg Bovino Loses His Job The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.

Bovino was forced out of Minnesota because the American people stood firm. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in below-freezing temps to peacefully defend their neighbors & freedoms.

We’ll keep fighting. No more deaths at the hands of rogue DHS agents.

27.01.2026 14:42 👍 25355 🔁 5002 💬 2277 📌 519