Jeane Freeman

Any chance we could stop indulging in the not necessary and focus our energy on issues that matter to people in Scotland?

When did we become a country that refuses to hear, or read, or discuss different views? Was that not the essence of the Enlightenment from which we and very many others worldwide gained so much?

The immigration white paper misjudges the public’s priorities - UK in a changing Europe Heather Rolfe analyses public opinion on the UK government's white paper on immigration. She argues that while much of the public is in favour of reducing migration, the content and language of the wh...

"The white paper’s boldest proposal is to cut the social care visa. Yet the social care visa has strong public support: with only just over 1 in 5 people supporting reductions to this route."

@heather-rolfe.bsky.social on public opinion on the immigration white paper

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👇. Absolutely

What more do we need to know Scotland needs to be able to determine our own immigration policy?

“..an island of strangers” - Starmer. What utter shameful nonsense. Playing the right wing dog whistle has to be a new low from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social.

So this morning a political podcast was rec and I’m sure it’ll be worth listening to. But it struck me - the majority of pol podcasts are all male and all are Westminster centric. Scot cast and Welsh cast exempt. What an internal gazing thing they are when we have 4 nations.

Angels Raynor on BBC news justifying Ministers taking freebies as ok cos it’s ’in the rules’. Utterly tone deaf just like the Tories were.

A day of infamy in Washington The old world perishes and with it dies the American Idea.

A day of infamy in Washington
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NEW: The Trump administration asks a federal judge for emergency permission to suspend funding to the FEMA shelter program that Elon Musk posted lies about storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt:

"Newsflash to these liberal judges who are supporting their obstructionist efforts: 77m Americans voted to elect this President. Each injunction is an abuse of the rule of law.

Newsflash: The US Constitution deliberately separates power to stop tyrants like Trump.

One family of 6 from Gaza make it through the tortuous UK system designed to prevent entry alongside the boastful filming and promotion of hounding folk onto planes - I expect the Tories to play to xenophobia but Labour? Shameful ditching of values many, many fought for and died for.

These are dangerous times. The casual bargaining over another country’s sovereignty be it Gaza, Ukraine or Greenland, apparently unchallenged by senior politicians or the media is deeply troubling. We can’t normalise this. We just can’t.

#HolocaustMemorialDay

Returning from a quick supermarket shop can I just thank all the shop workers for your patience in not reminding us you’re only closed for 1 day?! 🙏

Oh dear, turns out BlueSky can be as nasty and toxic as the other one….

Beautiful Argyll sky as we make our way home….

WASPI women betrayed, 2child cap retained and now the few pensioners who are still eligible for winter fuel payment face delays. What is Labour’s problem with older people and women? Oh, and keeping promises captured forever in those pesky photo opps….

Alongside broken promises on the 2 child cap, Labour turns its back on WASPI women now the photo ops aren’t needed. In both sets of broken promises, women suffer. They should be utterly ashamed.

That would have been brilliant! Good on you! 👏👏

Even on a cold December day, our bush gives us some glorious colour

Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human Farage and Trump are winning because they understand the politics of emotion, while Labour is lost in numbers and statistics Keir Starmer’s people don’t like the word “relaunch”, but that’s what it is. On Thursday, the prime minister will give a…

Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human

Prominent people in the U.K. still shilling for Trump: are they still high on the fumes inhaled when they kissed his ring or do they actually approve/not care of the sex offending, coup attempt & criminality? Or both, I suppose. I’m so naive/stupid I honestly thought they’d all abandon him on Jan 6…

‘How much for the Coronation?! The Royals aren’t parasites, they’re vampires’

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Jeremy Clarkson, who owes his fame & fortune in large part to the BBC, sneers at the brilliant @vicderbyshire.bsky.social for being ‘classic BBC’ when she uses *his own words* to describe his position.

And here are our girls, Scout and Rosa…

Yes! At last. #scotnationalteam ⚽️

Just blocked for the first time on this site. Sorry, but pretty sure most people came here to get away from the tedious , factually bereft assertions & accusations of obsessives. Fare forward , to quote Walt Whitman

At last, a clear autumn sky and a sunset!!