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Social justice warrior, Scottish Independence, I want my EU citizenship back. She/her tree hugger, in the words of the great Mr Weller once a mod always a mod. No DM's please Anti-racist Anti-fascist Trans Ally free palestine Woke As Fuck

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AI being owned and promoted by actual fascists 😐

24.02.2026 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reform are the party of the rich, not of the working man & woman.

Farage is and always will be a grifter, always willing to fill his own coffers.

24.02.2026 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry As the drama shows, private firms no longer able to pollute the coast of England of Wales just switched to rivers instead

Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry

As the drama shows, private firms no longer able to pollute the coast of England of Wales just switched to rivers instead
#DirtyBusiness
#Sewage

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

23.02.2026 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Thousands of babies and mothers avoidably dead in NHS England’s maternity trusts, twelve trusts under investigation and two trusts face police investigations into potential corporate manslaughter and ... Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON From BBC West Yorkshire and across BBC TV News…

Thousands of babies and mothers avoidably dead in NHS England’s maternity trusts, 12 trusts under investigation and 2 trusts face police investigations into potential corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/23/t...

23.02.2026 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Revealed: Reform candidate Matt Goodwin’s academic network tied to rebranded Nazi eugenics front Reform UK's Gorton and Denton candidate Matt Goodwin holds a visiting professorship at a university centre allied with at least five β€˜race science’-linked organisations including the front publication of a rebranded Nazi eugenics foundation - a network whose central figures he has defended and promoted

Reform UK's Gorton and Denton candidate Matt Goodwin holds a visiting professorship at a university centre allied with at least five β€˜race science’-linked organisations including the front publication of a rebranded Nazi eugenics foundation - a network whose central figures he has defended and promo

23.02.2026 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6
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Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

24.02.2026 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1671    πŸ” 593    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 125
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Maternity negligence in NHS Scotland falls dramatically in last three years to only one seventh, per head, of that in NHS England but the Herald desperately tries to suggest a crisis here Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON The Herald front page today is frankly disgust…

Maternity negligence in NHS Scotland falls dramatically in last three years to only one seventh, per head, of that in NHS England but the Herald desperately tries to suggest a crisis here talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/23/m...

23.02.2026 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here is a link to an Israeli human rights site that tells the truth about the horrors being inflicted on the Palestinian people.

www.btselem.org

23.02.2026 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There's nothing Christian about Reform's nonsense heritage proposals.

Jesus preached that hoarding wealth is sinful. He stated that we must welcome the stranger and love our neighbour, no matter where they come from.

Reform loathe these real Christian values.

23.02.2026 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Reform UK is pledging to 'scrap stupid net-zero' policies, force grid upgrades underground, ban battery energy storage systems, and raise a generation tax on renewable energy projects

Our special report looks at the big picture as part of our McCrone series this week πŸ‘‡

23.02.2026 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

You know when you hear about The Greens wanting to "legalise all drugs", please know that it is far from such simplicity. These dishonest commentators merely reveal their utter ignorance, of both the topic & The Greens policy on drugs:
Source: Green Party share.google/AUpQdEmfEVTn...

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23.02.2026 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reform proposals of Yusuf/Farage threaten to deport many/most non-Europeans who aren't citizens [unless they earn Β£50k+] but not European foreign nationals who came at same time. Reform threatens to deport tens of 1000s of Christians to Nigeria, Philipinnes, India, Ghana (but not Poland. Romania)

23.02.2026 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

It seems obvious that it is not the share of Christians in Britain - but the visibility of Muslims in Britain - that is primary driver for this form of political argument on populist right (often voiced by non-Christians:cf Farage/Yusuf)

There are many other more constructive Christian perspectives

23.02.2026 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Meanwhile, in #Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

β€œIn 2023, the Scottish Government rejected pressure from the Secretary of State for Scotland to follow NHS England’s lead and rejected Palantir, adopting instead as partners, AstraZeneca UK and Lenus Health.”

23.02.2026 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This should be a warning to everyone. Their contempt for the law when they come to deport your neighbour will be no different to their contempt for the law when they decide to scrap your rights and freedoms too.

23.02.2026 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
Billionaire Peter Thiel says that America is similar to the Weimar Republic
"Liberalism has exhausted itself... Democracy, whatever it may be, has exhausted itself...
Therefore, we need to start talking far beyond the Overton window."

Billionaire Peter Thiel says that America is similar to the Weimar Republic "Liberalism has exhausted itself... Democracy, whatever it may be, has exhausted itself... Therefore, we need to start talking far beyond the Overton window."

Talking openly about this in public too, so I think it’s time to ask ourselves what we collectively want to do in response to a billionaire class that is not embarrassed about declaring themselves kings.

23.02.2026 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1949    πŸ” 613    πŸ’¬ 109    πŸ“Œ 122
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We’re covering the cost of swimming lessons for every primary school pupil - so every child has the same opportunity to be more confident in the water.

Make it #BothVotesSNP on Thursday 7th May 2026 for a Scottish Government that is on your side.

23.02.2026 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

The fact that the BBC censored out Free Palestine during a winners speech by black filmmakers but kept in the racial slur used against fellow black creatives really irks me.

23.02.2026 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Palantir sues magazine that revealed Switzerland rejected its approaches Peter Thiel-chaired data intelligence group alleges that Republik did not give it sufficient right to reply

"The report, reviewed by the FT, decided against using Palantir technology for Swiss military data since there was a risk that US authorities could gain access to the sensitive files."

Yet here Labour continues to shove public money down its throat.

23.02.2026 06:01 β€” πŸ‘ 844    πŸ” 420    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 23
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If this was β€œbrutally honest” it would say that the worst people in the Labour Party got together with the lobby journalists offscreen, and they secretly decided they would force this project down the public’s throats, no matter what. It doesn’t say that.

22.02.2026 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 203    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1
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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Discord was going to use age verification that literally pipes your information straight to the fascist US government, until hackers exposed it.

β€œThe state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

www.therage.co/persona-age-...

21.02.2026 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1710    πŸ” 834    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 62
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Some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses, facts. #pinks

22.02.2026 05:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And it is all over the BBC. Labour’s beating heart can’t even be praised for its good work.

22.02.2026 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How tech turned against women As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

21.02.2026 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 952    πŸ” 520    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 67
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Vote for what Scotland wants Press Release: β€œVote for what Scotland wants” says Scots European Movement general election social media campaign

β€œVoters and the media should check where the parties stand on Brexit. The economic damage is undeniable and is delivering a country in the doldrums, with young people in particular losing out.”

22.02.2026 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He should be in jail 🀬

21.02.2026 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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β€œThe purpose behind the release of herbicide on the villages remains unclear.”

β€œThe purpose behind the release of herbicide on the villages remains unclear.”

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it.

The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

22.02.2026 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4034    πŸ” 1992    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 89
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Farage’s fundamentalists are coming for abortion The Reform party now contains a group of prominent christian conservatives who have learned from the US that the way to ban abortion is through the slow erosion of rights

The US shows that abortion rights can be curtailed without sudden shifts in public sentiment. A small organised political movement can restrict rights without ever winning a majority.

Enter Reform UK

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22.02.2026 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 91    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

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