Morag for Yes & EU

JPTi do not mince their words:
www.jpti.ch/post/liberat...
What's going on, Salvo and @liberationscotland.bsky.social ?
Not a good look for Scotland at the UN.

Conference shows Scotland’s appetite for real land reform Press release: The REVIVE Conference saw around 400 people attend, a similar number as those who own half of Scotland's private rural land

"REVIVE believes the next parliament should create 10,000 new crofts and common spaces across Scotland and increase the Scottish Land Fund to £25m to enable more community buyouts, alongside a community wealth fund should be established to seed locally-owned revenue generating projects."

Verhofstadt’s remark “a wake-up call” says First Minister John Swinney “Europe’s political moderates must urgently counter threats to stability and prosperity,” says leading European politician Guy Verhofstadt in Edinburgh

Verhofstadt’s remark “a wake-up call” says First Minister John Swinney

Neoliberalism – lurching onwards Part one showed how neoliberalism worsened inequality and failed to raise economic growth – here, the author shows how it succeeded in its true aim

"Neoliberalism was a technique of power. It did its job as a mechanism for profit, securing low-cost access to resources and cheap labour. It was never really about growth, efficiency or enlarging the pie for everyone."

Makar launches an affordable timber home for a greener Scotland - Bylines Scotland Press release: The answer to Scotland’s housing emergency is in homegrown homes

Previously on Bylines Scotland...

#SocialHousing

Josh Fyvie, Stirling District Councillor, talks to Martin Roche 18-year-old Josh Fyvie, recently elected Councillor to Stirling District Council, talked to Martin Roche on the 7 November

18-year-old Josh Fyvie, recently elected Councillor to Stirling District Council, talked to Martin Roche on the 7 November | Bylines Scotland

The plot to kill the BBC - Bylines Scotland Once the nation’s most trusted source of news and political analysis, the BBC is in a fight for its life and its enemies are inside its walls

Talking about BBC...it's worthwhile to have a look on what we previously published.

@cluthaman.bsky.social

Byline Podcast: Trump And The Battle For The Beeb Adrian Goldberg explores what some observers are describing as an 'existential crisis' for the BBC, following its apology for editing a speech by Donald Trump on Jan 6, 2021. Trump is threatening t...

NEW EPISODE: 'Trump and the Battle for the Beeb'.

How a journalistic error has been weaponised by enemies of the BBC.

@goldbergradio.bsky.social hears from @baghdaddi.bsky.social @adambienkov.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Remembrance: 75 years of the ECHR The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) celebrates its 75th birthday this month – like all elders, it has a lifetime of wisdom to share

Remembrance: 75 years of the ECHR

The European Convention on Human Rights celebrates its 75th birthday this month – like all elders, it has a lifetime of wisdom to share

By Dr Pam Jarvis

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
@drpam.bsky.social

STV News article: Greens to force vote at Holyrood on Rosebank oil development

Scotland doesn't need more fossil fuels!

Workers and communities need politicians and companies to be honest and invest in stable, sustainable jobs for the future - not dying industries. #StopRosebank

Gibb position on BBC board ‘untenable’, says Swinney The comments come amid a bias row at the broadcaster which has seen two of its top bosses resign.

Well said, @johnswinney.bsky.social
But it's not just about #RobbieGibb!
Several #BBC Board members are in effect political appointments by ministers.
Party political influence over publicly-funded public service broadcasting has no place in a democracy.

www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/nationa...

The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov

When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.

Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...

The IEA is not a charity. it is a right wing malevolent think tank abusing charity laws.

I hope Frosty the Idiot is as successful in running it as with brexit and hence we never hear of the IEA again.

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

This is the most abysmal, pathetic thing. The BBC head resigning because the corporation is not supine *enough* to the far-right.

Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few

The rule of law has delivered:

Profiteering
Poverty
Poor housing
Low wages/pensions
Queues for hospital appointments
Premature death to many
Sewage in rivers
Cuts in spending on essential services
Closure of libraries, community centres.

Whose law, who rules? Govts appease corporations/rich.

46% error rate.

So it was only accurate 54% of the time.

This is DWP, AI benefit checking.

Not fit for purpose.

Boris Johnson trying to undermine BBC leadership, insiders fear after leak Director general under pressure after release of memo criticising reporting on Trump, trans rights and Gaza

The government has STILL not cleared out the highly partisan decision-makers imposed on the BBC by the Tories. Starmer and co are so amazingly spineless and feeble.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Georgia is dousing the last embers of democracy An oligarchic party outlaws the opposition and turns towards Russia

An oligarchic party outlaws the opposition and turns towards Russia

Some BBC figures point to an effort to shift the corporation politically, dating back to Boris Johnson’s time in government. The Guardian has been told Prescott’s appointment as an external adviser had been pushed by the BBC board member Robbie Gibb, Theresa May’s former communications chief who helped set up the rightwing broadcaster GB News.

25 paragraphs before the Guardian gets to the truth, which even then it can't bring itself to have a position on (www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...).

Independence can 'restore Scots standard of living' as rankings show UK plummet

EXCLUSIVE: Independence can 'restore Scots quality of life and living standards' an SNP MP has said, noting the UK’s dramatic drop in global rankings since the 2014 referendum from 15th to 22nd

🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests Day 347!
#TerrorInGeorgia

It was so very Trumpian to throw a Great Gatsby-themed bash at the White House on the very week he cut back on food stamps for the hungry and needy, writes Ruth Wishart ✍️

Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...

EU plans hub to tackle disinformation threat from Russia and others Move follows ‘escalating hybrid attacks’ by Russia and other foreign powers spreading fake articles across social media

Much needed - EU plans hub to tackle disinformation threat from Russia and others

Move follows ‘escalating hybrid attacks’ by Russia and other foreign powers spreading fake articles across social media

#TrumpIsACunt
I wish this Hashtag would go Viral 🤷🏽‍♀️

Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them.

There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.

30 years ago this hopeless, overgrazed hillside was turned into a thriving woodland. Care & fencing restored desolate Glen Garry despite a sub-Arctic climate & proved forests are possible anywhere. So why is much of Scotland a barren wasteland? New film www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV...

Pleased to help out by joining the advisory board @registry.scot - we are already setting the pace at @sahavoice.bsky.social & @scga.bsky.social with .scot. More than worth considering to preserve & promote the brand @keepscotlandbrand.bsky.social

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."