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Research – school achievement higher and attainment gaps far smaller in Scotland than in rest of UK By Professor John Robertson OBA: From UK Poverty 2025 The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, today: There are diffe…

@teachersforindy.bsky.social I am sick of the media using ill informed opinions on statistics to bash the SNP government, teachers and pupils just because they don’t like the idea of Scottish Independence!

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/01/29/r...

A reminder for these times.

When America has your back — the weekly illustration from The Economist

This is true. @bsky.app is the app of the people.

We may not all agree. We may not even all like each other. But we can engage and disagree and agree with our hate

That makes the platform the future of social media

#Severance is now the most-watched series in Apple TV+ history 📺

(via Deadline)

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

Westminster wont like this picture 👇🏻
Remember Scotland your too wee #IndyClan say we are never too wee, or too poor you’ve just been getting away with it for years 🖕🏻
tick tock ⏰ 🇬🇧✂️ #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A reminder of what we stand to lose if we elect unionist parties.

Westminster hid the McCrone report
Westminster closed Scotland’s stock exchange
Westminster enabled Brexit
Westminster forced austerity on Scotland
Westminster is stealing our oil & renewable energy
Westminster is vetoing a vote on our independence
Westminster clearly doesn’t work for Scotland

The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over

BREAKING: Scotland's Parliament has unanimously voted for compensation for Waspi women.

Even Scottish Labour backed the motion opposing their UK party's refusal to pay out

Again, the World Health Organization is the single most important global entity in preventing, tracking and controlling outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics and is especially important as climate change and deforestation allow pathogens to mutate, become more infectious and spread to new regions

100% true

Ultimately Trump won't fulfill a single one of his promises, because he doesn't have to. He won the vote and got a 4 year dictatorship.

Political Parties should have to follow legally binding manifesto's, and if they don't an election should be called.

That would be democracy.

huh...

Just so we’re clear:
1. Audiobooks count
2. Reading is political
3. The orange man is a piece of 💩

Thanks for stopping by 💃

Very welcome news that unemployment in Scotland has fallen to 3.8% and is lower than the rest of the UK.

Scotland’s economy has grown faster than the rest of the UK, but we need to do more to deliver growth and progress - I will be setting out views in a speech tomorrow.

The inverted flag isn’t disrespect — it’s a distress signal from naval traditions, used to show grave danger to life or property.

With a lawless man set to take power after attempting to overthrow the government, America is in extreme danger.

That’s why I’m posting it today.

That Biden should have to issue preemptive pardons for men and women who defended the Constitution is a sad comment on Trump's vengeful nature.

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

Princess Kate slips away with Prince William for secret scenic holiday The Princess of Wales, 43, confirmed this week that her cancer was now in remission and she was looking forward to the year ahead.

They need a holiday...

Are you STILL a silly, old fashioned Royalist?

Wake up. Paris gets more Tourists than London. Don't believe the PR bullshit.

It's 2025.

www.express.co.uk/news/royal/2...

Thanks to Bryan Adams for this one