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Has the BBC been captured by a bunch of extreme right wingers? Does anyone believe Aunty is pro Palestine? Who will pay Trump's damages - licence-fee payers? What about record low trust levels in Scotland post #indyref? Plus prisons, David Lammy & Trad Awards. Listen lesleyriddoch.com/podcast

The BBC is no longer trusted in Scotland and hasn’t been for at least a decade.

Anybody in this country (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿) who still bleats about the BBC being a paragon of public service broadcasting is either delusional or must have been unconscious for the last ten years.

YouTube video by London Calling documentary LONDON CALLING: BBC bias during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum

BBC director resigns over corporation skewing news, you say? Bitter laughs from Scotland.
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Book cover George MacDonald Fraser QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE A recollection of the War in Burma, with a new Epilogue 50 years on “One of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War” —John Keegan The cover image shows a black-and-white head-and-shoulders photograph of a British soldier from the Burma campaign, carrying a piece of equipment over one shoulder. The soldier is wearing a soft, broad-brimmed hat, with the side of the brim closest to us folded upwards. He gazes off to the left, looking intently, holding a lit cigarette between his lips.

“By rights each official work [of military history] should have a companion volume in which the lowliest actor gives his version… it would at least give posterity a sense of perspective”

—George MacDonald Fraser, in QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE – his memoir of the WW2 Burma campaign
#BookWormSat
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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...

'The SNP Isn't a Threat to the Security of Any Nation I Want to Be Part Of' Labour's attempts to brand the Scottish National Party a threat to the UK’s national security is a drastic escalation of Labour’s anti-independence rhetoric, argues Adam Ramsay

🔴‘The SNP Isn’t a Threat to the Security of Any Nation I Want to Be Part Of’

Labour’s attempts to brand the Scottish National Party a threat to the UK’s national security is a drastic escalation of Labour’s anti-independence rhetoric, argues @adamramsay.bsky.social

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this explains the BBC obsession with ferries then I suppose. With a few more arriving we might even get an HS2 extension to Scotland at some point

Stop. Policing. Poppies. That's. Not. What. Remembrance. Is. About.

The SNP’s independence agenda challenges the political unity of the UK, but not its security or sovereignty in the sense used by intelligence or defense agencies.

Seeking independence via public vote is a legitimate democratic exercise, not subversion.

The SNP fits none of those categories.

Scotland’s land should benefit the people of Scotland.

The Scottish Parliament has just overwhelmingly passed our historic Land Reform Bill - putting more power in the hands of the people, not large landowners.

Campaigners hail new hutting law which will 'connect Scots with nature'

A new hutting law backed by the Scottish Government will help people reconnect with nature and unlock access to public land, campaigners have said

Quite shocking admission from the BBC in Scotland. Use your own made-up stats, and they won't challenge you. In fact they'll amplify your made-up stats - if you're from the right* party.

*By "right party" I mean not a Scottish party like 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐍𝐏.

Plaid and SNP team up to launch attack on Farage's 'hateful politics' Emily Price Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party have launched an attack on Nigel Farage’s “hateful, extreme politics” following the announcement of a new alliance between the two parties. Plai...

Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party have launched an attack on Nigel Farage's ‘hateful, extreme politics’ following the announcement of a new alliance between the two parties ✍️Emily Price

Nicola Willis calling your policy "a terrible idea" is the biggest vote of confidence you could ask for tbh.

Fellow Tims, you don’t get a “resignation with immediate effect” email with the names of the replacement in the same email fae yir work.

You don’t nail down Martin O’Neill by sending him a WhatsApp saying, “Brendan’s walked 2 minutes ago, Ur Ye In?”

BBC under fire as Plaid Cymru missing from Laura Kuenssberg show despite election win

NEW: The BBC is facing criticism over not including Plaid Cymru on its flagship Sunday politics programme, despite the party securing a seismic election win

Why didnt stunning Caerphilly victory clinch prime 8.10am slot for Plaid_Cymru on BBCr4today prog this am? Instead it's all about Labour & Reform losing. Wakey wakey chaps. This is why Welsh folk feel so ignored. Special free podcast with Yescymru folk I met last weekend.
lesleyriddoch.com/podcast

Caerphilly Exposes Reform’s Achilles Heel Caerphilly is the Welsh Govan and it exposes the cracks in Broken Britain. What passes for the British media have been playing catch-up this week. The Caerphilly byelection win is historic and expo…

This morning Plaid Cymru won in Wales. Tomorrow, Catherine Connolly will win in Ireland. Next Spring the SNP will win at Holyrood.
What's Welsh for schadenfreude?https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/24/__trashed-37/

An impressive Plaid victory in Caerphilly. A 27% swing from Lab to Plaid. Welsh Labour's dominance crumbling. The limits of Farage & Reform's appeal underlined. Maybe the Westminster commentariat can now stop talking abt the unstoppable momentum behind Farage. Reform are beatable.

They’re punting BBC Verify on Prime Video with the strap line “Trust is earned”.

Now that’s insulting our intelligence.

I have to say that is the first time I have ever felt a bit sorry for any of those three. What they have to put up with...

The SNP introduced free tuition and we will always ensure Scottish students do not pay tuition fees.

Meanwhile in England, students pay over £9,500 a year and Labour will put fees up every year.

Education must always be based on the ability to learn, not the ability to pay.

It astonishes me (not really) some people are just waking up now to what the BBC really is, many of us understood thier role as a propaganda outlet as far back as the 80`s when they were caught reversing the Orgreave footage. www.bigissuenorth.com/news/2014/06...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Vote Green. Vote SNP. Vote Plaid.

These are the only parties who would work for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

All the others put 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 first.

Another myth that won't die... that unemployment was too low in 2022 and 2023 and this was key driver of higher wages and inflation. In actual fact, real wage growth was negative throughout that period. What actually happened? [🧵 1/n]

A Welsh NHS strike threat reported on BBC Wales contained no politics at all 👇 yet a negative story about Grampian NHS has been constantly politicised by the BBC in Scotland with attacks on the SNP.

Why is the BBC using a different editorial policy for Scotland?

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The UK Government said all of them couldn't afford to be independent, that they were too poor, and in too much debt.

It was lies then, and it's lies now.

#ScottishIndependence

EXCLUSIVE: The Scottish Government must use the powers it has to tax wealth in the country by overhauling the 'ludicrous' Council Tax system and implementing a private jet levy, campaigners and experts have suggested

#nzpol

Introductory Accountancy ACCY101:

(A) Debts that are owed *to* us are *assets*.

(B) Debts that are owed *by* us are *liabilities*.

If you are selling (A), then you are selling our assets.

If you are selling (B), then yay😀 ... and good luck (yes, we'll need goof luck then!)

Worth noting that we only see decent job growth for young kiwis when the economy is running hot - that's when employers give less experienced people a chance.
RBNZ respond to hotness by hiking interest rates to slow the economy down. Youth unemployment is a feature of our economic model, not a bug.