Breaking: Mossmorran plant to move to Scunthorpe as it's the only way Westminster will agree to provide funding to save its 400 jobs.

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The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 5: Reforming the UK’s Savings System Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long. I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and elsewh...

The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 5: Reforming the UK’s Savings System www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... The money to transform the UK exists; it's just locked into a savings system that makes no use of it. That has to change.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy What does profit really mean, and why do we get it wrong?

What does profit really mean, and why do we get it wrong? youtu.be/3OY8YxqUB3I?... Profit can be good if it serves society. But when profit becomes the only goal, trust collapses, workers suffer, and the planet pays the price.

Scottish Lib Dem MP forced to apologise after ‘coloured people’ slur Angus MacDonald's comments made during a Channel 4 News interview about asylum seekers have been branded ‘offensive’, writes Kathryn Samson.

Angus MacDonald, who represents Inverness, has now said in a statement he will undertake diversity and inclusion training, after using the phrase on camera while discussing plans to house 300 male asylum seekers in a local barracks from next month.

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News BBC Scotland prefers not to tell you – Young carers were almost “perfect” targets for the kind of street-grooming model that operated in Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford but only SNP Government i... Professor John Robertson OBA From the Scottish Government today, reported by STV but not by BBC Scotland: Young carers up to age 19 will now receive Young Carer Grant following an expansion of the …

News BBC Scotland doesn’t tell you – Young carers were almost “perfect” targets for the kind of street-grooming model that operated in Rotherham, Rochdale & Telford but only SNP Government in Scotland offers unique payment to help them escape those conditions talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/17/n...

Starmer’s Labour enables fascism When the race baiting far right criminal Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and the hard right Reform UK are praising Labour’s policies, you know that something has gone profoundly wrong in a party which …

My latest blog piece, about Shabana Mahmood pandering to the basest instincts of the far right and why it's doomed to failure

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Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

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Reprehensible policy.
Forfrucksake.

How US-China ‘tech war’ will impact us all It’s less a rivalry between political systems and more a battle over which superpower we will all end up depending on, and tech is centre stage, writes International Editor Lindsey Hilsum in Shenzhen.

🗣️ “It’s less a rivalry between political systems - communism v capitalism, autocracy v democracy - and more about which superpower Europe and the rest of the world will depend on, as we also adopt tech for everyday uses.”

📩 Read Lindsey Hilsum's latest FourGround newsletter from Shenzhen:

You are putting yourself in danger by self centred tweets . You will be in danger from predatory men . Dont do this .

Scotland has the lowest difference in excess mortality between summer and winter despite consistently seeing the coldest winters stewartb O/T Tho’ staying with the challenges of winter, a newly published research paper published by UK Parliament Post has noteworthy statistics on levels of winter mortality&nbsp…

Scotland has the lowest difference in excess mortality between summer and winter despite consistently seeing the coldest winters talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/16/s...

The truth will have its day.

That day is now.

Release all the Epstein files.

The ‘creepy’ use of their own children to make political points is still with us Professor John Robertson OBA In October 2025, a Lib Dem EdinburghCity Councillor, Sanne Dijksta-Downie, used her 6-year-old daughter’s cancer diagnosis and recovery to suggest some sort of crisis i…

The ‘creepy’ use of their own children to make political points is still with us talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/16/t...
You’d hope that having observed that “cost-cutting is everywhere” she would be pushing for more funding from WM - because as Wes Streeting observed “all roads lead to WM - no!

Extinction. Rebellion please! Nothing much changed so now a plea to leaders at COP30!

Extinction. Rebellion please!

#Climate
#COP2025

He's had a healthcare system coming for almost a decade now.
He's an all promises no follow-through gold-sprayed liar at all times.

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It's TIME for #ScottishIndependence

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True. But as the saying has it: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times and it's enemy action.
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Resident doctors begin five day strike as dispute over pay continues Resident doctors in England – who used to be called junior doctors – have begun a five-day strike over pay and job progression.

Resident doctors begin five day strike as dispute over pay continues
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Lisa Nandy: BBC review will examine political appointments to board Culture secretary says she shares concerns that such appointments have damaged trust, amid calls for Robbie Gibb to go

Who would you select to be the new Director General of the BBC?

#BBC

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Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract.

Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.

Whatever happened to the dream that technological progress would free us from having to work and do better and more important stuff like spending time with family, being creative and enjoying ourselves?

Just get your boots off our necks, Westminster In an interview with The National newspaper, the actor Alan Cumming, who currently hosts the US version of the popular show The Traitors and who is outspoken in his support for Scottish independenc…

My latest blog post, inspired by the clarion call of pro Scottish independence actor Alan Cumming.

"Just get your boots off our neck, Westminster"

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• He made comments about grabbing women by their genitalia
• Over 25 women have accused him of sexual misconduct
• He was found civilly liable for sexual assault
• He has made disturbing comments about his very own daughter
• He had ties with Jeffrey Epstein for decades

He. Is. In. Those. Files.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy The magic money sword: Why money works like honours

Most people in the UK still believe in the power of royalty. And we accept that a knighthood is created from nothing with a tap of the King’s sword. Yet many refuse to accept that the government creates money in exactly the same way: by tapping a few keys on a keyboard. youtu.be/Nt-_qzKRI2Y?...

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From a woman .