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Centuries of overgrazing & muirburn for grouse moors mean Highland Scotland looks treeless & desolate. But it doesn't have to be this way. New film Scotland's Missing Forests went online y'day. Chuffed to see almost 10k views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

The more people who vote SNP first and Scottish Greens second, the more pro-independence seats will be won and the fewer Unionist seats will be secured. 👍

Banks do not lend out deposits An informed public, understanding the UK money system, would be less duped by false framing

Dispelling a myth.
bylines.scot/opinion/bank...

Kicks in at 120k..

Not just England.. see Thales and Leonardos..Edinburgh and govan.

If you want to end homelessness, give people a home — Common Weal A new study from the Social Market Foundation presents the results of several Housing First pilot schemes, including one in Scotland, and finds that providing free housing to people suffering homelessness results in better outcomes than current services and is cheaper than not doing it.

'Outcomes for those passing through Housing First programmes have almost without exception delivered better outcomes for participants than the services available to them before they entered the programme.'
@thecommongreen.scot, via Common Weal

We have to ask ourselves how we respond to a real powerful racist threat now.

Do we hope it will go away? Do we allow a deal to be signed behind closed doors to sell off our country to racist-in-chief Donald Trump?

I say we show our strength & solidarity #r4today

Hypocritical Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk's Horrific Murder to Cynically Smear the Left Have they forgotten all the Trump supporters who have killed, attacked, and threatened both prominent Democrats and opponents of this president in recent years? I haven't – and I have a list of them.

zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

Scotland’s drug deaths fall again to 25% below peak in 2020 and lowest since 2016 to reveal last year’s increase was the blip and to reveal the agenda of James Cook Drug misuse deaths decreased in 2024Number of drug misuse deaths and 5-year rolling average, 1996 to 2024 ‘Milk blood to keep from running out’ – James Cook pushes Scotland’…

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/09/02/s...

The Scottish Four Seasons - Isla Ratcliff's 2nd Album A Scottish trad arrangement of Vivaldi's 300-year-old 'The Four Seasons', highlighting its dance tunes and Scotland's climate concerns

Just 7 days to go - this project will only be funded if it reaches its goal on 4 Sep. Rewards include the album and other musical offers including a personal recital! Please share. www.kickstarter.com/projects/isl...

Yes.

A beautiful piece of music..

How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine In February 2016, Donald Trump scandalized Republican Party elites at a CNN town hall event in Columbus, Ohio, when he dared to call George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq “a big fat mistake” and “the wors...

Then there’s this..

www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

An unhealthy alliance One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy

✍️ An unhealthy alliance

One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy

By John Hall

@johnfromyorkshire.bsky.social

Netanyahu, "Israel is accused of starving children"

United Nation, "It is a famine that asks, what did you do?"

Middle East Eye, "Cameron threatened the ICC that if the ICC issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, the UK would defund and withdraw from the ICC"

UK helped set up the ICC in 1998

Screenshot of comment by Believe in Scotland in which Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp insists that clamping down on radical ideas is the OPPOSITE of the way to stimulate support for Yes.

It’s time to misbehave. What are *your* three wishes for independent Scotland?
1) Wealth/property tax instead of salary tax
2) Land reform/regeneration
3) Peacekeeping instead of warmaking
Pass it on. #ThreeIndyWishes

Alan Kurdi, dead on a beach

It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.

Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp: ‘Independence first, everything later’ is doomed to fail FOR years, a large section of the independence movement has clung to a simplistic mantra: “Independence first, everything else later"

I saw this article on the The National app and thought you’d be interested.

Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp: ‘Independence first, everything later’ is doomed to fail
www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

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Photo credit James Stevens

defacto26.scot/news/overvie...

Update to my previous article "Overview Of a Unified Communications Strategy for Scottish Independence"

Now available in long form from our brand new website defacto26.scot

Build the foundations to provide a springboard for the Indy Scottish economy. Invest in domestic industries, energy, public housing, land reform, food production. Plan the necessary institutions for a state including central bank, payments systems and regulatory institutions. Get ready for Indy!

Apparently the "time is not right" to recognise the state of Palestine. Perhaps not enough babies and children have died.

If Keir Starmer wants a positive relationship with the Scottish Government, he needs to get his Environment Secretary to retract his totally inaccurate comments about Scotland’s water.

Our rivers are cleaner, our bills are lower - and public ownership delivers for people, not profit. 👇

We agree. Many of our members have been working for #ScottishIndependence for many, many years.

Show us a route which will deliver independence regardless of what Westminster says, and Scotland will turn out.

Give us more of the same, folk will stay at home.

Inspire us, and we will be there.

Building wrap of Jabaliya camp in Gaza opposite Labour Party HQ reads "Protesting this isn't terrorism"

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London.

We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

"So Scotland ceased as a state, England continued. And yet Scotland is to be regarded as a partner in this state. If this sounds contradictory, it is because it is."

Activists 'to defy Labour with illegal pro-Palestine T-shirts' at Edinburgh protest PROTESTERS are set to defy the Labour Government’s proscription of the group Palestine Action at a demonstration in Edinburgh, The National…

It's really difficult to believe how authoritarian the Westminster Government has become and it's now imposing their authoritarian views on Scots 🤦‍♀️
Wearing a T-shirt that opposes a GENOCIDE is illegal?!!!
It really is time to get away from this madness!
www.thenational.scot/news/2531662...

At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating
"I support
Palestine.
Action
must be taken."
My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people

Moving the Population in Gaza is a Manifest War Crime We wrote this essay to fulfill our human, conscientious, and civic duty, as Israelis – and as Zionists – who have expertise in areas related to the IDF’s order.

"Evacuating the entire population? Call it ethnic cleansing, call it transfer, call it deportation, it’s a war crime.”

Originally published in @haaretzcom.bsky.social

www.justsecurity.org/116459/israe...

Two years of hell and there are those who think it’s not genocide Alongside the bombs and shooting, starvation and disease are rife in Gaza, with most buildings now destroyed and temperatures soaring

Two years of hell and there are those who think it’s not genocide.

#Gaza

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