Canada stands with Ukraine. Their cause — freedom, democracy, and sovereignty — is our cause. We’ll keep working with our Allies to secure peace for the Ukrainian people, and we’ll be there to help them rebuild, recover, and create the foundations for lasting prosperity.

Interesting to hear the redoubtable Fraser Nelson proclaim on @BBCr4today that independence hasn't moved. In fact it's currently 8 points ahead of where it was at the last Referendum and 6 points clear of support for the Union according to the latest poll.

That FIFA peace prize has gone down in my estimation

Same NHS. Two choices. In England, you pay nearly a tenner for medicine. In Scotland, prescriptions are free — thanks to SNP policy. This is what different priorities look like.

Labour came in promising to cut energy bills by £300. Now they’re almost £200 higher, and they trumpet a change that won’t even cover the increase since they took office. Is this really it?? Scotland deserves better than this chaos. A fresh start with independence. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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All ballots to be returned by 28th NOVEMBER. That’s just over 10 final days to push, to talk to everyone you can and GET THE VOTE OUT! 🗳️🗳️

Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!

It was an honour to speak at @scottishcnd.bsky.social yesterday and talk about how increasing military spending is not the answer to the social problems created by austerity. Instead, let's invest in people, communities and the public services that will actually improve living standards.

I agree with @brianleishmanmp.bsky.social if only the Budget will tax multimillionaires. But probably wishful thinking.

www.scottishwater.co.uk/About-Us/New... Well done @scottishwater.bsky.social @scottishswimming.bsky.social #duncanscott & #tonishaw

Comrades in the UCU Solidarity Movement have arrived on BlueSky! 🥊

#OtD 22 Oct 1902 Black British boxer and communist, Len Johnson, was born in Manchester. Newspapers said it was "tolerably certain" that he would become UK champion, but he was barred because of the rule that contestants had to have two white parents stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1122...

Most folks would not shell out millions to a woman they deny ever meeting. Just saying.

#OtD 21 Oct 1905 during the Russian Revolution, railway workers began a strike which quickly developed into a general strike in St Petersburg and Moscow. Within five days, nearly all trains in the country had stopped stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9426...

Thanks to John Glencross and the Football Memories Group for the @alloaathletic.co.uk club tie! It was worn with pride in the HoC chamber today! The Wasps are a huge part of the Clackmannanshire community and good luck to them for the League 1 fixture v East Fife at The Recs this weekend 🧡🖤⚽️

#OtD 9 Oct 1967 Argentinian doctor and revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who had been wounded and captured, was summarily executed in Bolivia by the country's special forces stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...

#OtD 27 Sep 1960 Sylvia Pankhurst, prominent suffragette, left communist, and anti-fascist, died in Ethiopia stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9966...

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🟥 UK Environment Secretary Steve Reed was allowed to state unchallenged on Channel 4 news that publicly-owned Scottish Water is producing worse outcomes than England’s private firms. 🔎 It is not a true statement according to any measure, here is why: www.believeinscotland.org/media_watch_...

Why John Swinney is keeping us out of England's digital NHS database where your data will be sold and where you'd be funding this genocidal maniac: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/06/h...

Principals’ pay is embarrassing and out of kilter with the majority of staff - says UCU www.heraldscotland.com/news/2529146...

We need a mass population movement against the excessive increase in wealth over the last 14 yrs. We have seen a redistribution of income from the POOR / just managing to the wealthy. wealth has grown inexorably while wages of younger people have stagnated & pensions are the lowest in Europe.

Now we know why they're not based in Portsmouth 🤔😉🙉🙈🙊

How Glasgow and Scotland is already ahead of Labour's new 'neighbourhood' integrated health centre announcement today but you won't hear about it: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/12/26/n...

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"Why the sudden £140m gap?" Branch President Sophia Woodman from @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social nails it: poor planning, no oversight, and staff left to pay the price. Read her piece in @thescotsman.bsky.social www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

📣 New Podcast! "31 May 1989: CLR James dies" on @Spreaker #black #history #trinidad

#OtD 24 May 1919 1000s of miners in the @iww in Alberta, Canada, walked out over pay and conditions. Bosses hired veterans to terrorise the workers and beat and torture organisers, while police turned a blind eye. More on the IWW in Canada on our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e52-...

Edinburgh University UCU members back strike action over £140m cuts. The university has refused to rule out compulsory job cuts. This is the largest cuts programme in Scottish HE history. We must resist. #StopTheCuts #SaveHE www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well ... #Labour is U-turning ... or going to look at U-turning for some. What next? But the reality is in Scotland we'd be better #independent of the dishonest & despicable shenanigans of this union. Time for change #independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This ... putting the context around mainstreammedia's framed reporting.

#OtD 21 May 1894 six anarchists were executed by firing squad outside Barcelona's Montjuich Fortress for attempting to assassinate a Spanish general stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9412...

Scotsman on ballot result for strike action at Edinburgh university. Incl UCU quote: "Staff are angry and ready to fight to defend the future of teaching and research at Edinburgh" #StopTheCuts #SaveHE www.scotsman.com/education/ed...

NEW: A Scottish Government minister has insisted the Labour Party's attitude towards Scotland is 'not good enough' as he reeled off a list of meetings the UK Government had cancelled with devolved governments on the UK-EU deal

A lot of managerialists in our Universities might do well to rea this

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Very misleading post and reprehensible disinformation. Please delete this list asap. The SNP are a pro-EU membership party & want the UK to go further than this deal and rejoin @euromovescotland.bsky.social @europeanmovement.co.uk

This is a *very* wild take on John Swinney, especially when an ostensibly party-neutral EMUK group is sharing graphics that say "promoted on behalf of the Labour Party". @europeanmovement.co.uk and @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social, could you take a look? Tagging @euromovescotland.bsky.social too, FWIW.

Did you actually read the article? Our FM is complaining about how his Government was treated by Labour as part of these negotiations. Scottish fishing is the largest part of the industry, it's a devolved power, and there was NO consultation.

<sigh> Dear me. He's not against the deal. He's against the deal being made *without* due discussion with Scotland's government about our fishing waters. This the *third* time this disrespect has happened. Please correct your post. It's simply wrong.

Scotland needs migration - for social care, education, our NHS, our economy, our future. Today I heard directly from businesses and organisations about the importance of designing a migration system that works for Scotland.

#OtD 20 May 1936 the first issue of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) was published, a Spanish anarchist feminist magazine aimed at ending the "triple enslavement of women to ignorance, to capital and to men" shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

In real terms this means 140 000 heart patients in England wait longer than heart patients do in Scotland and, 14 000 in Scotland wait less time than if they lived in England!

Reposted again for context as BBC Scotland fail to tell you this: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/05/19/l...

From where I'm sitting the fishing deal was far and away the big Scottish story of the day. It made item 3 on lunchtime Rep Scotland with a report where much of the rest of the deal was lauded.