Peter A Bell

Your Party Scotland votes to officially become pro-independence party Your Party Scotland have voted to officially become a pro-independence party

They might as well join all the others using independence as an electioneering gimmick.

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Beautiful dreamer Addressing workers at Nigg Bay on the Cromarty Firth in July 2013, First Minister Alex Salmond spoke of the six unions that “govern our lives today in Scotland”.

The idea of independence being restored by gentlemanly agreement is naïve to the point of insanity.

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Fact check: Did John Swinney 'mislead Holyrood with an invented quote'? SCOTTISH Labour claim the First Minister misled parliament. Let's look at the evidence ...

Where there is doubt, natural justice demands that the benefit of that doubt be granted to the accused. This being so, John Swinney must be deemed innocent of the charge of misleading Parliament.

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Guaranteed disaster One of the lines being used by those promoting the both-votes-SNP strategy is that we should all resort to this strategy in an effort to secure the overall majority which John Swinney has demanded as ...

In principle, the British could ignore the result completely. They would be under no legal or constitutional obligation to do anything at all.

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Jist sayin'!

Jist sayin'!

Holyrood 2026 key dates Important dates for the 2026 Scottish Parliament election

Holyrood 2026 key dates
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Important context The National today reports that a petition demanding by-elections for defector MPs has passed the “milestone“ of 100,000 signatures. I wonder how many of those signatories are aware of the position a ...

We choose the individual we reckon will best represent the parliamentary constituency according to the dictates of their conscience and not the dictates of the party the candidate is a member of at the time of being elected.

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Cognitive inertia Cognitive inertia is the tendency for a particular orientation in how an individual thinks about an issue, belief, or strategy to resist change.

Insisting on something impossible as a condition for progress means there will be no progress.

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Verity - Trump Seeks Military Options Against Iran Amid Buildup U.S. President Donald Trump is pressing aides for what he terms "decisive" military options against Iran, according to U.S. officials. The discussions are occurring as the U.S. deploys additional m...

Round and round and round we go! Where does it all end? We'll never know!

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A breath of fresh air In the midst of a shitstorm, a breath of fresh air is twice as sweet.

The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.

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“Principled and pragmatic: Canada’s path” Prime Minister Carney addresses the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Thank you, Larry.It’s a pleasure – and a duty – to be with you at this turning point for Canada and for the world.Today, I’ll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story, and th...

"The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy. But from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger, and more just." - Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada
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Where stands Scotland now? It’s now terrifyingly clear that betting our entire national security on being America’s poodle will simply not be a tenable situation for much longer.

For Scotland, this will mean a future as the annexed territory of a vassal state. I had hoped for better.

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The threat against Greenland shows that we need to stop appeasing Trump The world must unite in standing up to imperial bullying and preserving the rules-based order.

"The security situation in Europe and in Greenland is far past the point where it makes sense to walk on eggshells or try to flatter Trump."

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I will demand a second independence referendum if SNP win majority, says John Swinney JOHN Swinney has said he will demand for another Scottish independence referendum to be held if the SNP win a majority at Holyrood later this year

The headline on this story is a lie. An SNP majority would not "trigger" a referendum.

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Second independence referendum should be 'parked', says Scotland Reform leader REFORM UK’s leader in Scotland said an independence referendum should be “parked” for at least a decade

What's Offord on about? The issue of a new referendum IS parked. It has been parked for eleven years. Swinney's proposing to park it for at least another five years. As a British nationalist, Offord should be pleased with the situation.

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The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment We Touch Greenland… Guest Post by Brent Molnar

A wake-up call for Americans?

The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment We Touch Greenland…
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Muscular Unionism may 'make big comeback' if Labour lose 2026 elections, expert warns MUSCULAR Unionism will make a “big comeback” if the SNP win the Scottish Election and Plaid Cymru form the Welsh government, a political expert…

The term "muscular Unionism" is a euphemism. Let's call it what it is: rabid British nationalism!

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Trump’s Greenland Play: Rare Earths, Arctic Choke Points, and NATO’s Reckoning The Arctic century just began, the rare earth war is here, and NATO’s biggest threat isn’t Russia—it’s America. Here’s everything you need to know.

Get an atlas. Look at Greenland. Look at Scotland. Be concerned.

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Iran’s Protests Aren’t Organic — They’re Engineered by a US–Israel Regime‑Change Playbook. You’re not just watching unrest. You’re watching sanctions, social media, and critical minerals used as live‑fire tools to collapse a regime without a single shot.

Iran’s Protests Aren’t Organic — They’re Engineered by a US–Israel Regime‑Change Playbook.
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From risible to inevitable Do you think Professor Richard Murphy is being melodramatic when he says he can “now see no reason” why making support for Scotland’s independence an “illegal political act” will not happen? Perhaps y...

When the greater bully acts with impunity, lesser bullies are given license.

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Using AI to REMOVE Propaganda Grok is a great example of an AI designed to give a politically biassed result. But what if you could use AI to remove political bias?

Using AI to REMOVE Propaganda
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Jist sayin'!

Jist sayin'!

Jist sayin'!

If history has taught us anything, it is that state-sanctioned intimidation, detention, and killing of citizens, if not stopped in its infancy, becomes an instrument of tyrannical oppression.

#resist

King Donald the Mad

Jist sayin'!

Labour MPs blank journalists amid Friends of Israel lunch grilling MPs attending a Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) lunch at a swanky London hotel blanked reporters as they were grilled about their attendance.

I suggest a change of name for this group. Fiends of Iniquity might be apt. They wouldn't even have to change the FoI tag.

I have other names for them.

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Voice in the wilderness I know I’ve said all of this before, and more than once.

The trouble is that all the nominally pro-independence parties are playing the same game. They are all using Scotland's cause as an electioneering device.

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