Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-df

Well, well, well - I wasn't aware St. Kitts & Nevis had that sort of naval capability! Amazing what things you learn courtesy of the internet😉

Amid Russian claims to have captured the small town of Rodynske near Pokrovsk, Azov fighters installed the Ukrainian flag to show it's far from lost. The whole place is a grey area but soldiers of the "Chervona Kalina" 14th brigade say they still hold the town.

Hello again on Day 1407, but more significantly, New Year's Eve. Tomorrow will be the 13th year in which Ukraine has experienced war since regaining its independence from Moscow 34 years ago. The final thread of 2025 begins here with a plea to ensure we don't reward terrorism.

An independent Scotland will be back in the EU

Zelensky announced Romania and Croatia have joined the PURL initiative, which now includes 24 countries contributing $4.3 billion to purchase U.S. weapons for Ukraine, including Patriot missiles. Launched in 2025, PURL accelerates delivery of high-priority defense assets.

Bit of a shame - just goes to show the need for storage capacity to handle the excess for use when the wind ain't blowing (and presumably cheaper than paying generators to stop generating?).

Good morning and Happy Hogmanay 🎉 Here is The National's final front page of 2025. Thank you to everyone who has supported us this year!

A bit of an extreme necessity and a bit drastic but if that guaranteed Independence I could be persuaded to encourage folk in England to vote for Deform!

What are we waiting for? No Royals. No House of Lords. No more theft of Scotland's resources. ##ScottishIndependence

Nice one GDA.

No coincidence then that the Ukraine President is/has just been in the US in talks with the US President?

He changed this three years ago but it's worth remembering when he next talks of an NHS crisis in Scotland despite it being in far better health than NHS England or Wales

The Holyrood election is likely the most important since devolution. If we want to protect the progress Scotland has made,as well as keeping independence alive, we must do everything we can to stop unionist parties from taking seats in the Scottish Parliament. Vote wisely. Vote for Scotland.

Day 1406 of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. As we approach the end of another year of my daily threads, I was to point out to Trump that his beloved Putin controls under 1% more of Ukraine than he did a year ago, and LESS than in early Nov 2022. Let's go again:

Scotland is short changed full stop, it's time Scots used their massive natural wealth to benefit those living in Scotland instead of feeding the greedy WM coffers to prop up England, it's time Scotland was a normal independent country once again. #ScottishIndependence

Train crash near Peru’s Machu Picchu kills driver, injures dozens https://aje.io/iso7lk

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 The thought of all that literally "festering" waste should scare the daylights out of any half sane person or politician - but it won't. Selfish short+termism isn't the word for it😡 They won't be around to deal with the consequences but their children will.

A toxic White House is trying to export its toxic policies to our country. Under no circumstances should Scotland be subjected to chlorine-washed poultry or hormone-treated beef.

It's the next generation that will be the ones who have to deal with all the decommissioning and decontamination. What matter anyway, the mess will all be in Scotland and if they get what they want they'll be independent by then so it'll be for them to clear it up 😡😡

🚨Scotland’s coastal waters are at risk! Evidence shows that salmon farms are having disastrous effects on our waters and are threatening endangered species. We need a stop to licensing now to protect Scotland's waters. greens.scot/ProtectScotl...

There’s been no great surge in enthusiasm for the SNP, by the way: this is IMO just the public’s natural and reflexive response to the utter repellence of Westminster politics. Not because the alternative is awesome but because they do at least have a meaningful alternative here.

Can't get at the detail 🙄🙄 but good news despite that !

Not just the water and other species, the fish themselves suffer through being confined in a small space, unable to swim like they would do in the wild and needed to be medicated to deal with the conditions their environment inflects on them.

Apparently the definition of AI that doesn't perform or robots that fall over is "clankers" (with a "k" not "g"). Love it 😆

I wish, wish, wish John would explain how his suggestion will work in the HR voting system. So many illustrations and projections produce the opposite.

This is an excellent way to show that SNP 1&2 is not the best for Scotland. Most of Deforms/Tory/Labour seats are list, not regional. Taking regional seats away from the yoons gets Salmond's wished for supermajority. He had the right idea, wrong party. SNP 1 Green 2. @thesnpmedia.bsky.social

And in contrast, this-morning the postie delivered a questionnaire from Deformed on past and present voting intentions etc, and inviting me to support them. I know it's legal electioneering & I'm temped to respond as I really feel but common sense says should just ignore it. Decisions, decisions 🤔

Anyone who's half aware of what continued control from WM would mean in Scotland would be barking to let any of the unionist parties anywhere near influeince in Holyrood. We and they have too much lose. Those who do let them in are dangling on their master's thread.

There will be zero chance of ANY exports of chicken or other poultry being allowed into the EU from UK as the UK is well known for being dodgy with sticking to the rules🤷🏼‍♂️ BSE anyone ! Vote for SNP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Indy a route back to EU with proper food safety standards

Bit more blue in the Borders on this.

This is the first #GE2029 poll of Scotland to include "Your Party", and it has them on 1% and zero seats. 🟢 GRN: 10% (+4) 🟥 YRP: 1% (+1) Via @FindoutnowUK, 11-19 Dec (+/- vs 21 Sep)

The SNP need to be very careful here. As an independence supporter and long term SNP voter, I would not vote against myself or other women and girls. We are SNP members. The party must resist Labour's push against trans rights www.thenational.scot/politics/257...

Don’t put this at risk. In May make sure it’s #BothVotesSNP

I wonder how that's calculated - on an SNP 1+2 basis, or what?

Phew (mops brow) - that is such a relief 🙄 The iron is there probably won't be enough Lab voters to make any deal worth while anyway.

Good splash of yellow there and it looks like a very lonely Lab seat in the Central Belt - but somebody needs to have a word or two with the folk in that big lump of orange in the north and the Norther isles! The two blue patches look like Deform so does that mean all the Tories have gone to them?

Ridiculous that Scotland should be forced to support such a dangerous, polluting source of power. #areyouyesyet #scottishrepublic

Get us tae fuck! #ScottishIndependence

You Yes Yet Scotland #SaorAlba #IndyClan #Salvo #LiberationScotland www.thenational.scot/news/2572822...

That looks a bit healthier😊

When I say "groundbreaking", these have been figures over past three years: Q4 2023: 50.3% Yes vs 49.7% No Q4 2024: 50.7% vs 49.3% Q4 2025: 50.5% vs 49.5% Which means this *even more hypothetical and just for fun than parliamentary projections* map just keeps getting the date and decimals changed

It’ll only happen with independence. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Never mind the cost over the next decade, I've just submitted my meter reading for December and it's going to cost me almost a third as much as last year. But never mind, I'm helping to keep the lights on south of the Border and subsidising another nuclear facility or two so fair's fair😡

I'm not concerned about the people who eat chlorinated chicken (what they choose to do at the expense of any risk to their health is their issue) - it's the intensive production the poor birds will have undergone to the extent that their bodies have to be immersed in clorine to make them fit to eat.

It's not just the dream of Scottish independence which is at stake in the Scottish elections of May 2026, it's the future of decency, public services, and democracy itself. Reform is the creature of the real enemies of humanity, the billionaires. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/i...