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As far as Douglas Alexander is concerned, Scotland belongs militarily to the American Military Industial Complex and he is no doubt very well bribed by "lobbyists" to keep it that way.

I'd say imagine Presidents Obama or Biden doing this, but we know they never would.

Then ‘gender critical’ transphobic activist-journalists drop headlines like this after years of replacing the word “people” with “ideology”…. Nobody should be surprised that trans people are upset! TERFs barely bother with dog-whistles anymore, when talk of trans-extermination is so blatant! 😖

The way trans are being treated right now is so inhumane. This is the BBC. We are being suffocated. Has there been any news on getting to the Euro Court? @goodlawproject.bsky.social ? ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

“Open the door for the auld year It is the pairtin-time Open the door for the new year And lat the bairn win hame. Bundle your winter’d joy and grief On the back o’ the year that’s dune Open your hert for the new life And lat the bairn come in.” Poem for Hogmanay : William Soutar

Some reasons... 1) Promised change, delivered more of the same. 2) Runs around in circles chasing a right wing vote that will never vote Labour. 3) Threw all the Socialists out of the party. 4) Pair of over-promoted charlatans who speak as though a toffee has stuck their top & bottom sets together.

Change you can't believe in. www.thenational.scot/news/2573103...

Blow your nose, pull up your socks, and shut up. You don’t have to be a grim old stoic, either. Your life could be such fun. Now run along and enjoy yourself. And let’s try to make this a HAPPY new year.” Christopher Isherwood diaries. #hogmanay #newyear #Isherwood #christopherisherwood

To Scots & our friends around the world a very happy #StAndrewsDay

Immigration is a good thing. Why don’t journalists ever challenge the cowardly politicians who pretend otherwise? Why do they follow the racist narrative promoted by Reform & right wing tabloids? Here’s my take. Please watch & tell me whether you agree. youtu.be/6RaCQJ278qU

Immigration is good for us. So why is it so hard for politicians to say so. Here’s my take.

“I am proud to have scrapped the two-child limit,” #Starmer intoned yesterday “and lifted half a million children out of poverty.” Fascinating to hear he’s extremely proud of doing something he last year suspended seven of his MPs for voting for.”

Yet more evidence that #Reform voters don’t care about the #Farage anti Semitism revelations. Grim reading for Labour. Polling: @FindoutnowUK Graphics: @LeftieStats

“The Liz Truss Show review – hapless ravings from a cupboard : I don’t know if you’ve ever spent 40 seconds looking at Liz Truss wordlessly blinking and gulping, but it’s a genuinely disturbing sight. I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.”

The genius that was Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Died on this day in 1928 aged only 60. If he could only have known how revered he was to become in the century to come….

Sad to read the news about Stanley Baxter. He thought no one would love him if they knew he was gay. When he came out in his 90s he discovered a new generation loved him just as much. Here’s a wee piece I wrote for the @alloatiser Rest in peace Stanley. #ParliamoGlasgow #LGBT

I remember in 2015 Labour & LibDem activists posting nonsense about my new office set up. Lavish furniture claimed on expenses… (I’d bought second hand stuff at auction.) Employing my wife was another ludicrous bit of disinformation.

Facebook reminds me: here’s one of our lockdown staff meetings five years ago today. I was so proud of my amazing - and diverse - team. Majority women. Woman office manager. #LGBTQ + disabled + under 25 staff.

New poll points to a Labour collapse in Scotland. The Greens fighting it out with Reform for second place. @theSNP poised to win outright majority. But #Yes supporters need to vote! Polling: @FindoutnowUK Graphics: @LeftieStats

No, I’m not “jubilant”. I’m merely summarising the poll. Quietly optimistic perhaps: “SNP figures are, at least outwardly, jubilant. As former MP John Nicolson posted saying: “Huge SNP lead in latest poll. Labour has collapsed. Tories a distant fourth.” bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/27/h...

More Labour Government sycophancy towards the Royal Family reports The @the-independent.com

They are following a damaging policy. Thanks goodness ScotGov has a better approach.

The UK Labour Government says it’s a “matter for the Palace”. The SNP disagrees: “the SNP has lodged a motion” at Westminster to “remove Prince Andrew’s title as Duke of York.”

Every time you hear right wing politicians & the tabloids screaming about asylum seekers remember ….

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Illegally federalizing the California National Guard, Trump is violating state sovereignty & constitutional limits by using the military to try to illegally silence political opposition, in violation of the Constitution. Let's non-violently fight back!

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Courts are ruling against ICE for illegal actions such as warrantless entry, racial profiling, & detaining U.S. citizens without cause. Abuse of power isn’t just wrong—it’s unconstitutional. Hold ICE accountable. #AbuseOfPower #MeltICE

A leid hauds gaun i the nineteent hunner acause o a pickle ‘five-echters’ an a wheen ither fowk. A language keeps going in the nineteenth century because of a small number of ‘ordinary people’ and a few others. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #Cornish #Kernewek www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Thought he’d decided to fight Farage? Instead yet more grotesque pandering to the racist right: “Labour Condemned As A 'Moral Void' As Starmer Vows To Remove Asylum 'Golden Ticket.” www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-mora...

Well worth a watch. Owen Jones at the Labour Party Conference. Interviewees don’t all sound entirely sober. Some bizarre performances. #GazaGenocide denial. And many robotically claiming all fine for Labour at home - just messaging which is the problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLAp...

Remember when #KemiBadenoch claimed school kids were identifying as cats & called in ⁦‪Ofsted‬⁩? “less a party leader & more a provocative statement generator. She embodies the legacy of a flight from seriousness, taking refuge in attack and rupture.”

148 clinical trials have been impacted, with 138k patients due to be enrolled or already enrolled. Once research stops, some won't pick up where they left off. Even when terminated funding was reinstated, things do not go back to normal. There is so much waste happening. 🧪 archive.today/Rii7f

My memoir - Frankly - will be published by @panmacmillan.bsky.social on 14 August. You can pre-order a signed copy here linktr.ee/FranklybyNic...

And so it begins. Fingers crossed they all stay safe 🤞🤞🤞 www.thenational.scot/news/2550754...

Hellish, it's the same where I live, council used to take them down now they don't bother. When a flag becomes a protest that's when the violence isn't far behind it. Flags are only permitted on Flag Poles or Ships, not lamp posts, not that anyone cares these days. Flags stand for pride, not hate!

@johnswinney.bsky.social this should be ringing huge alarm bells all across Scotland. An even more far right party is now being pushed by Musk, which will end up with even more power than Reform, since Twitter will promote it widely. 2026 needs to be a defacto referendum at the 26 election.

Well done Radio 4.

Facebook reminds me I was interviewing the BBC Chair #OnThisDay nine years ago. I revealed she’d been (re)appointed without due process by the Tory PM. She resigned shortly afterwards. PM then made her a Tory peer. Have a watch! m.youtube.com/watch?v=TNGG...

When I reported the homophobic bullying of my partner on the tube yesterday I was deluged by online abuse from ‘Unite the Kingdom’ thugs. Very depressing. And then a nice English stranger sends me this….

“The joy of this campaign is that I sense a surge of self-belief. The No campaign has been so angry, so negative, so utterly transparent in its orchestrated chorus of doom that I detect a collective roar of disbelieving laughter at its sheer absurdity.” www.nationalcollective.com/2014/09/15/j...

They should have been boycotting it all this time, that Nazi Apologist Elon Musk won't be happy until the world is on fire. Musk isn't a genius, he's a psychopath with enough money to get away with murder, and keep smiling all the way.

Trump expressly wants his executive orders to be understood as monarchical edicts unbound by parliamentary limits. He regularly runs his performance on issues through this strong-versus-weak frame. But reality is shattering the illusion. trib.al/fwN0usu