Just added ‘Paper Boat’ a career retrospective/collection of Margaret Atwood poems to my personal book wish list.

Greens - Lower bills through nationalising our public services, wealth tax on assets and huge increase in investment in our public services. Labour - ID Cards, random statements about flags and Austerity 2.0. But apparently the Green Party are the "vibes era?" Make it make sense!

Labour priorities, while they chase Reform agenda & pander to private medicine lobbyists….

I knew this book would depress me but my god it is soooo depressing. I dont understand what people think happens to their trash. In the bin out of mind I guess. But actually all that plastic is now in your food, water, beaches, brain. All so Shein can thrive.

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

More good news for Scotland We can manage just fine www.thenational.scot/news/2559012...

The British government seems determined to listen to housing developers instead of focusing on building for need. Affordable council housing is a must. Build for need not greed. As for abolishing stamp duty it just drives up prices at huge cost to government. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

2Alkheir Ismail... said he was among a group of 300 people who were stopped by RSF fighters as they tried to escape el-Fasher on Sunday. The fighters only spared him because one of the captors recognised him from his school days, he added." www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11... #Sudan #SudanNews

Some people waited in line up for 14 hours to receive a food box from a church giveaway. 500 people volunteered to help and they still ran out of food. Remember for every one person a food bank feeds, SNAP feeds 9. By turning off food assistance the regime is starving Americans.

There’s no evidence of a Christian genocide in Nigeria & Trump’s narrative is a dangerous far-right one. Violence in Nigeria has complex roots, including economic exploitation (especially oil), communal clashes, & insurgent activity, with victims determined more often by location than religion.

“They were careless people... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Over 3 million Texans rely on SNAP to meet their food budgets each month. Lines and lines of cars were out yesterday in Houston starting before dawn, all there to get groceries. Modern bread lines.

Trump, Hegseth, and senior military commanders murdered 3 more people last night and the homicides near 100 people, and they expect you to take their word for it that they were transporting drugs and accept it. They murder whoever they want whenever they want.

Imagine if the people who run England got to run Holyrood too. Support Scottish parties like 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗡𝗣 and Scottish Greens, and our Government will continue to deliver on Scotland's priorities. Better still, join one... www.snp.org/join/member/

Tony Benn on the monarchy " … “I don't think people realise how the establishment became established. They simply stole land & property from the poor, surrounded themselves with weak minded sycophants for protection, gave themselves titles & have been wielding power ever since!” #downwiththecrown

But now she has 175 million dollars worth of private jets so problem solved.

"'It’s killing the business,' the manager said. The manager noted that Home Depot is emphasizing “free delivery for contractors so they don’t have to risk themselves”—a sign of how the company has had to adjust."

Some other info and it’s worth people in England looking at devolved government with fixed budgets and asking why they can improve life for their residents but Westminster won’t in England

I knew Gill and Farage and the rest of the UKIP crew in the European Parliament They were crooks and shysters to a man They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

And the brain-dead are voting for the same ones the voted labour in to get shot off 🤷🤦

The current ‘reset’ with the EU is pathetic! “By the government’s own estimate the reset of EU-UK trade will deliver just 0.3 per cent uplift to UK GDP by 2030 — less than one-tenth of the 4 per cent long-run hit to GDP that Brexit will cause, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility” FT

EUGENE DANIELS: “You said diversity can be a weakness. What did you mean?” CUOMO: “Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan.” EUGENE: “I’m Eugene.” 🤦🏻‍♂️ (Jonathan is the other Black host. SNL’s writers have nothing on Cuomo!)

Terrible news from Huntingdon, where a train had to stop because a horrific attack was in progress. My heart goes out to all affected. Donate blood if you can, it is the best way to remember that we all bleed.

Want to see a microcosm of America? Immigrants won the World Series for the Dodgers and immigrants will be unwelcome and hunted at the victory parade.

Britain is England

inview.org.uk/news/183965-... It’s our land, and our waters, but @uklabour.bsky.social our colonial masters act with impunity. They’re withholding the details, which means whatever happened imo is serious enough to require a cover up by the MOD #Scottishindependence would remove this toxic menace

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

I was unfortunate enough to see some of BBC Scotland's coverage while convalescing this week. It really is shameful, my pensioner relatives still rely on the BBC for news whether we like it or not. It's gross misinformation and puts fear into folk

Reform UK supporting Matt Goodwin says because we are broke taxes have to go up Brexit costs us £40 billion a year in lost tax income from trade with the EU, this is why we are broke If you vote for Reform you're voting for the same people who made us broke, to fix us being broke 🤷‍♂️ #BBCQT

Remember this? Labour doesn't. Last time Alexander was Scottish Secretary he was mired in the controversy: forced to repay £12,600 of "expenses" earned by renting out his taxpayer-funded second home.

Imagine living in England, where all the parties who've ever claimed power are against rejoining. Imagine living in Scotland. Where ALL our parties want to rejoin. But have no power to do it Imagine independence.

Complete insanity. Right in front of her daughter. This thug has no ID or anything. What are we doing?

@Scottish” Labour never do and never will stand up for Scotland www.thenational.scot/news/2558835...

*Laughs in hillbilly*

There are difficult questions for our country's ruling institutions still to answer about covering for abusers. The CoE just sacked its boss over this exact same issue. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

Water companies already have 12,000 criminal convictions. If that doesn’t meet the bar for “not fit to operate”, what does?

Cruelty is the point in Gaza too. Governments learn from each other.

Harold Wilson became PM in 1964 & within 3 yrs the following legislation was enacted: Capital punishment ended Birching offenders ended Homosexuality decriminalised Divorce made easier Abortion made legal Starmer 2024 Stop winter heating allowances for OAPs Reduce benefits for sick & disabled

His Party is solely England and Wales based. They have no organisation on Scotland. Does the National not know that?

Scottish Water has completed its 'biggest ever' water infrastructure investment, which it says will benefit almost one million people across the west of Scotland

This is the Royal equivalent of the amputation of a gangrenous limb to stop the rest of The Firm getting infected. An act of self-preservation. If it was integrity, then they'd have booted Andrew out years ago. They didn't. www.ft.com/content/a7d6...

Nope, it goes deeper than Andrew. The Duchy of Cornwall is an enterprise that plays fast & loose with whether it’s a private or public body to suit its own pocket & ambitions. The dishing out of titles is a nonsense, & Charles is a lame duck King, much like Edward VII, in a flailing & floundering UK

Apart from anything else, the "Lincoln bathroom" wasn't Lincoln's bathroom. It was Lincoln's office and cabinet room. It wasn't renovated in the 1940s, it was installed in the 1940s.

this is insane. www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

it's almost like they're ideas and plans aren't popular with the American people or something. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...