As Audit Scotland and BBC Scotland find bad news again and again in the run up to the Holyrood elections, things they don't mention No 5 talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/20/f...

The SNP has said fresh revelations on how recent & extensive Peter Mandelson’s friendship was with Jeffrey Epstein raises the Q: ‘Why is PM Starmer so determined to keep this disgraced figure in the Lords?’ Mandelson had contact with the paedophile financier Epstein as late as 2016, new docs show.

Thanksgiving is the time to share your blessings with your family and your closest, most enigmatic friends.

If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.

'No self-respecting worker, trade unionist, or fully-fledged socialist should have anything to do with 21st-century Labour - a brazenly unapologetic capitalist party, obeying the instructions of bankers, landlords and big business.' Richie Venton of the SSP, via The National archive.is/nYIo0

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Welcome to #Scotland where Category A nuclear accidents are being reported at Faslane and folk in Rosyth may be prescribed anti-radiation iodine pills. Imagine if this story was about Plymouth, Portsmouth or London. The shit would be hitting the fan. #BairnsNotBombs

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

And as producers of cheap electricity we are still bring ripped off! Infuriating! We should have the cheapest yet we all sit here and accept it! 😡 www.thenational.scot/news/2561067...

NEW: Unemployment in Scotland fell slightly in the last quarter while the UK rate has risen to its highest level in more than four years, according to the latest figures Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company. Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet. Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced. Let customers vote on exec pay. archive.ph/9rYlp

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Hospital staff, patients and visitors across Scotland have saved over £90 million in parking charges - thanks to 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗡𝗣 👏 www.facebook.com/ChristineGra...

No matter which party is in charge at Westminster, Scotland is always an afterthought. It’s time for independence. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA

The Real Living Wage has delivered a pay boost to 72,000 Scottish workers. I visited Capital City Partnership to mark a record 4,000 Real Living Wage employers in Scotland - proportionately that’s around 5 times more than the rest of the UK.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Ireland is pushing a motion to ban Israel from FIFA and UEFA. It has made JD Vance very mad. It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?

“NHS #England health trusts have more than TWICE as much debt as Scottish health boards and it’s to [loan] sharks!”

These people are fighting for a better world and trying to save our planet. Yet they are criminalised by #LabourScum!

The UK is a busted flush. Decades of chaos, corruption and decline have proved it beyond doubt. It’s time to abolish Westminster and end the Union. All nations, including the reunification of the Island of Ireland, deserve the chance to choose their own future. #EndTheUnion #SelfDetermination

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The 4 Westminster owned 'Scottish' parties would rather defend their leaders’ failures at Westminster than acknowledge the success of Scottish social policies. They’ll defend Westminster’s failures and attack Scotland’s progress. That tells you everything about where their loyalties lie.

“… people will be very concerned if the UK Government is forging even closer relations with an extreme and racist #Trump administration that’s armed genocide in #Gaza, cozied up to Vladimir #Putin and shown total contempt for human rights.” (The Scottish Government has also been kept in the dark.)

Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath? Character isn't something you tell people about. It's something you live.

idk who needs to hear this but the President of the United States of America is APPEALING a judges order forcing him to fully fund SNAP. Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.

they blame Scotland for security Risks. while putting the KGB in The HOL you couldn't make it up 👇 KGB member in the House of Lords" is Evgeny Lebedev, whose father, Alexander Lebedev, was a KGB officer.

Thatcher sold BP to her mates for £7.2bn. It has since made £430bn in profit. There has never been a more bent deal.

The Scottish government provides every family with a newborn with a ‘baby box’ of essentials to help them get started. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is bringing the boxes to NY. Why can’t we have obviously good & nice things like this under a Labour government UK wide?

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Ceasefire violations are 'repeated and deliberate'

No major flu deaths surge expected in Scotland after 80% vaccine uptake and in cleaner hospitals talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/07/n...

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Far from cutting energy bills as they promised, the Labour government is hiking the bills of Scots to pay for nuclear plants in England. In Scotland, we have vast renewable resources - and with the powers of independence, we can use them to lower bills.

Israel blocking wells on Palestinian land with cement. Nothing to see here, just Genocidal Ethnic Cleansers doing what Genocidal Ethnic Cleansers do

£10 million per tank, Eight years late and just in time to be easily wiped out by a teenage drone 'pilot' with a £100k drone but 'ferries, ferries, ferries...' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Baillie has it in for the SNHS Police investigate over 1000 avoidable baby deaths in NHS England, none in Edinburgh and none in Scotland where ‘maternity failings’ pay-outs are half, per head, of those in England but Jackie Baillie calls for a national review in Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com

Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of new wealth, the poorest half has received only 1%. Rich buy political parties, media, means of production, cause corruption, climate crisis, make mockery of democracy. Poor die early. Must redistribute or risk social disorder.

75 years ago, the ECHR was signed after the horrors of the war. Today, Nigel Farage and many Westminster politicians want to tear up the laws that protect our basic human rights. Our rights are not Westminster’s to take away. We will stand firmly against that.