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RN Veteran (ex matelot ) with a law degree & view on most things. Hibs & indie to the core. No DM’s please

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What do you expect from someone who thinks Scots seeking independence should be beaten by riot police in the same way the Spanish police deal with Catalonians

06.08.2025 21:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

September to-do list - some more possible than others

Macron: I'll recognise Palestine.

Carney: I'll recognise Palestine if the PA reorganises itself and holds elections.

Starmer: I'll recognise Palestine if... some weird and illogical set of conditions.

#r4today

31.07.2025 05:47 — 👍 162    🔁 41    💬 25    📌 3

But he isn’t is he? If Netanyahu calls a cease fire now Starmer won’t recognise Palestine. What kind of warped thinking is that?

30.07.2025 21:36 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That’s what I thought he’d said, but it made no sense so I assumed I’d misunderstood

30.07.2025 21:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Did Duffy not make that claim right at the beginning?

30.07.2025 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tomorrow's front page 📰

Activists 'harassed' daily by Scottish police during Trump visit

30.07.2025 20:42 — 👍 39    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 0

😂

28.07.2025 19:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CNN put together a supercut of Pam Bondi being for releasing Epstein files before she suddenly turned against it

27.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 19238    🔁 6914    💬 608    📌 372

In Edinburgh we have held a military tattoo every august for the past 70 years on the Castle Esplanade. A couple moved into a flat on the Lawnmarket, next door to the venue, and lodged a suit claiming nuisance in order to get it shut down. (Webster v Lord Advocate) They failed spectacularly.

27.07.2025 20:59 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Is this satire?

27.07.2025 20:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Things are so bad, the planet is calling for Batman.

27.07.2025 05:47 — 👍 14249    🔁 2276    💬 253    📌 94

Would he be known locally by the initials CW?

22.07.2025 19:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When a government designates groups as terrorists when they are clearly not and have never participated in anything remotely resembling terrorism, then the legitimacy of that government has to be seriously questioned. We are reaching an inflection point.

20.07.2025 14:37 — 👍 2924    🔁 618    💬 126    📌 26
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Meiselas: First off—people who are alpha don’t go around calling themselves alpha.

Look, where I grew up, my dad would say: Being a man means standing by your word.

Being a man means you push back against the bully, and you uplift people. You don’t punch down at marginalized communities.

19.07.2025 20:38 — 👍 16759    🔁 3766    💬 372    📌 139

Why would a British government ever acknowledge a process for self-determination in Scotland when these issues exist in UK democracy:

1. Scotland’s Parliament has been dominated by pro-independence members for some time, but the Parliament is routinely ignored and dismissed by Westminster; /-

19.07.2025 13:09 — 👍 84    🔁 44    💬 3    📌 3

Did she not once make a statement along the lines of “if it’s ever reported that I committed suicide, it’s a lie”?

18.07.2025 14:59 — 👍 31    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What you won't hear on the British public national broadcaster...

15.07.2025 21:10 — 👍 32    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 1

The more they tell us to stop talking about Epstein the more we need to talk about Epstein

14.07.2025 19:56 — 👍 28263    🔁 7260    💬 874    📌 348
An image with a black and white background and a Latin American immigrant and a title Schröinger's Immigrant. On the left, it reads, "Lazily collecting all the welfare." On the right, it reads, "But also somehow taking all the jobs."

An image with a black and white background and a Latin American immigrant and a title Schröinger's Immigrant. On the left, it reads, "Lazily collecting all the welfare." On the right, it reads, "But also somehow taking all the jobs."

07.07.2025 05:29 — 👍 31294    🔁 7612    💬 527    📌 288

Kemi Badenoch has got off lightly. Unlike TV viewers she was close enough to see Reeves was in real distress and to see the tears but chose to gleefully and gloatingly draw attention to it. In other contexts that would be called "workplace bullying". #PMQs #r4today

03.07.2025 07:35 — 👍 259    🔁 52    💬 12    📌 6
The image features the American flag in the background, with a prominent bald eagle, which is a national symbol of the United States, superimposed in the foreground. The text at the top reads "LAND OF THE FREE," and the text at the bottom reads "HOME OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST PRISON POPULATION." This juxtaposition of imagery and text seems to convey a critical commentary on the notion of freedom in the United States, highlighting the paradox of having a large prison population.

The image features the American flag in the background, with a prominent bald eagle, which is a national symbol of the United States, superimposed in the foreground. The text at the top reads "LAND OF THE FREE," and the text at the bottom reads "HOME OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST PRISON POPULATION." This juxtaposition of imagery and text seems to convey a critical commentary on the notion of freedom in the United States, highlighting the paradox of having a large prison population.

03.07.2025 13:52 — 👍 20308    🔁 4996    💬 563    📌 211
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Journalist Rachel Shabi, who is Jewish, weighs in at LBC on the fallout of Bob Vylan’s controversial performance. #GazaGenocide

30.06.2025 22:50 — 👍 789    🔁 416    💬 6    📌 30
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I sure as hell have noticed. How about you? 🤨

28.06.2025 13:34 — 👍 32279    🔁 10892    💬 1209    📌 476
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Al Oliver (@61olivera) on Threads

www.threads.com/@61olivera/p...

28.06.2025 19:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is Tucker Carlson blowing shit up... Yeah... I think he is...

21.06.2025 22:38 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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So sick you didn’t turn up for the vote in parliament you grifting facist twat👇👇

18.06.2025 10:55 — 👍 119    🔁 14    💬 8    📌 1
Russia is launching up to 500 Iranian Shahed drones per day at #Ukraine. Not a single UK or US jet was sent to help intercept them.

But when 100 Shahed drones were launched toward #Israel — for the first time in months — Western fighter jets took off within hours.

This isn’t about capability. It’s about will.

Ukraine isn’t asking for favors. We’re asking for consistency. If defending non-NATO airspace is possible — why not ours?

Russia is launching up to 500 Iranian Shahed drones per day at #Ukraine. Not a single UK or US jet was sent to help intercept them. But when 100 Shahed drones were launched toward #Israel — for the first time in months — Western fighter jets took off within hours. This isn’t about capability. It’s about will. Ukraine isn’t asking for favors. We’re asking for consistency. If defending non-NATO airspace is possible — why not ours?

A question being asked by Ukrainians.

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BBC in hands of the Fascists! Time to jail #SiegHeilFarage?

10.06.2025 10:50 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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