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Due to IT nightmare, new account Scottish Independence π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ Dumfries and Galloway π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
EXCL: MPs are planning to redact names of 2,000 parliamentary staff from official register that has been in place for decades, reducing transparency around lobbying by passholders - @rowenamason.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Fifa bosses are in a standoff with officials in a Boston town who have said they will not provide a license to host World Cup games β including two of Scotland's β amid a $7.8 million security costs row
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
The smell of pure corruption reeks, you can smell it from here.
05.03.2026 13:17 β π 8 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0Media canβt possibly announce anything good Scotland does.
05.03.2026 18:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0FM John Swinney slashes 103 miles, 4 hour, Wick to Inverness bus fare from Β£31 to only Β£2! Is this big news? Well, not really, it seems
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An AI graphic based on our new page on the SCG website. Feel free to share it widely.
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Good evening
05.03.2026 18:03 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0They know the best place to be π₯°π₯°
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"When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street." - Jimmy Reid
Jimmy Reid.
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We know that Prestwick is publicly owned but the point still stands that flights coming in and out of the airport are controlled by the UK aviation authorities. Stop grandstanding.
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Building a Scottish democracy is the antidote to a world on fire | The Politics of Proximity and Place bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/05/t...
05.03.2026 16:58 β π 12 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0More evidence, if you need it, that Reform are a party of the super-rich. They'll always serve the interests of the wealthy people who own them.
05.03.2026 12:41 β π 51 π 22 π¬ 2 π 0Labourβs tax on the North Sea is hammering Scottish jobs, and it must be urgently scrapped.
05.03.2026 16:22 β π 39 π 31 π¬ 0 π 0It seems to me that British Values these days is just protecting big money.
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FKA Twigs reads a letter about feeling the societal pressure on women to be βniceβ, but being secretly furious about it.
This strong #CupOfJoe goes to all women who know that being nice isnβt what gives you value. Itβs living your truth.
#WomensHistoryMonth
Naw, ENGLAND will send jets. Not in my name. π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
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Author Anna Caig at Orkney Library with her book The Wise Witch of Orkney
Huge thanks to Anna Caig for coming along to Orkney Library last night to talk to Daniel Aubrey about her brand new novel The Wise Witch of Orkney.
It was a lovely evening and a fascinating discussion.
The Wise Witch of Orkney is available now.
@annacaig.bsky.social @spacemandan13.bsky.social
Baillie condemed for new low politicising SNP candidate standing down
BBC Scotland couldn't help themselves and in a desperate attempt to deflect from Joani Ried's husband being lifted, Get Baillie out to demand "Answers" over who knew what when Sally Donaldon stood down π
Sarwar claims the labour is the change Scotland needs.
Really?
Look at Wales, theyβve been in charge there since devolution.
Look at England.
Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett
We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs
Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken
New, by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-paid-an...
This is substandard journalism from the National today
Swinney doesn't have the powers to do this as defence and foreign policy are reserved matters
Why Swinney just doesn't come out and explain this IDK
Ross Greer should be ashamed of himself as he should know this
Quote from the European Parliament's Chair of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality Lina GΓ‘lvez reading 'Anti-gender narratives claim that feminism has gone too far, but the reality is that we haven't even arrived yet'.
Online harassment isnβt just "part of the internet."
Itβs a tool to silence people, especially women.
Ahead of International Women's Day, this is what @femm.europarl.europa.eu Chair @linagalvez.eu had to say today in an event at the European Parliament π
The former Glasgow Corporation Public Baths and Wash House on Tollcross Road in the Parkhead area of Glasgow. Designed by A.B. MacDonald, it was built in 1904.
#glasgow #parkhead #architecture #architecturephotography
Quick to scream about actions of other parties, slow to react about his own.
The man is a coward!
