Fab play by Fraser Scott on the Scottish tongue and the Scottish Cringe, right up your sleeve @billykayscot.bsky.social and @joaokay.bsky.social! Touring in October if you can catch it.

Thousands of Ukrainian children have been forcibly deported by Russia. Behind every story is a family torn apart. This cannot be tolerated. Today, the EU joined the International Coalition for the Return of Abducted Children. We will not rest until these children are back home.

Delighted that our Housing Bill was just passed by the Scottish Parliament. It will deliver a fairer deal for tenants - more affordable rents, safer homes, stronger protections. It will help prevent homelessness, and ultimately, change lives. And it will bring new investment in housing.

Scotland is for all. No exceptions…all welcome* * You have the right to be a bigot…but you’re wrong.

Getting ready to get this important message through Inverclyde doors. #believeinscotland

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I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Hugged a self-described racist jailed for inciting racial hatred at his party conference. Threatened to ‘don khaki’ in the event of Brexit being frustrated. Disseminated the racist lies of an alleged rapist & stayed silent as racists responded by setting fire to buildings full of foreigners.

Nigel Farage, 3rd September to U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee ● "Free speech is under assault in Britain." ● Free speech laws are "a sledgehammer that misses the nut" because they censor opinion. ●"At what point did we become North Korea?" He asked. 27 days later:

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

Meanwhile, here’s what Farage told Congress about incitement to murder: “What Lucy Connolly said..which was only visible for 3.5 hours, may have been expressed inelegantly, but it was a sentiment that was being felt by a lot of people at that moment, and it should not have been criminalised.”

Involved with a Scotland Yes group that's found my indyposterboy poster designs useful? Help to fund & spread the word about this new banner campaign fundraiser using one of my designs. It'd be great to see these up all across Scotland in the run-up to #GE2026 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/funding-fo...

Labour's plan to beat Reform is to just implement the most harmful, cruel and performative immigration policies themselves. All the societal and economic pain for zero political gain. We defeat the politics of hate through solidarity, not by racing them to the bottom.

This Friday night in Inverness - come for the songs and stay for the stories…all in beautiful, unforgettable Scots. Robyn’s singing is just superb. Here’s a taste. youtu.be/U4xgeIQv1WQ?...

Welcome President Trump’s commitment to end the war in Gaza. Encourage all parties to now seize this opportunity. The EU stands ready to contribute.

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

They are demanding more of lawful immigrants in the way of volunteering than they demand from the rest of us or indeed from themselves.

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country? Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide. It undermines police and the law.

This great photo from InverYESs shows why our Crowdfunder is making a difference folks. Three banners in the photo were donated to InverYESs from our first Crowdfunder which was made possible through match funding from Scottish Independence Foundation, sif.scot

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This is very welcome and very significant news. Congratulations Moldova! 🇲🇩 🇪🇺 www.politico.eu/article/poll...

Why does Labour view immigration as a race to the bottom with Reform Ltd? We need immigrants, and they make a positive contribution to society. That's all they need to say. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is short and great by @carolinelucas.bsky.social even tho it quotes me.. Why We Need to Talk About Englishness subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/78/w...

25 years ago I attended the signing of the twinning agreement between the beautiful towns of Pitlochry, in my constituency, and Confolens in France. Yesterday I met the successors of those who put the agreement in place. Lovely to nurture relationships with our fellow Europeans. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷

Considering that more than 70% of Scots want to rejoin the EU, why are SNP voters not mentioned in this poll? 🤔

Palantir is run by Louis Mosley. Grandson of the notorious English fascist, Oswald Mosley.

Why have the media stopped asking Reform UK Ltd. who funds them?

Danny Kruger and his friends are the ones who’ll be telling us how to live if we let them anywhere near power.

‘Time for Scotland to fight like hell’ If Yes parties win a majority at the next Scottish election that should be used as a mandate for independence. If London says No to a referendum then Scotland should vote regardless My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Very much enjoying this live musical journey! But, BBC, please ensure presenters pronounce Scottish place names correctly! Google it, or just ask a real Scottish person! e.g. Inverness has the stress on the LAST syllable, like many other Scottish place names. Check Elie too. #BBCradio3 #TrainTracks

Gavin Newsom: “Masked men. Jumping out of unmarked vehicles. People disappearing. No due process. No oversight. No accountability. People say I’m being hyperbolic. Bullshit. This is happening in America today.”

Worth remembering this when you hear Reform talking about swans, autism and ‘science never being settled’.

Farage built Brexit, and Brexit broke Britain. Nigel Farage is the cause of the mess we’re in - not the solution.

I’m all for any politician who exposes Farage for what he is. But lumping two parties who speak up for immigrants with a far-right party which wants to expel them is not only stupid, it’s offensive. What’s more, it’s deliberate. For God’s sake grow up.

Politics is about choices - and I will always choose to lift children out of poverty. This is our national mission for Scotland.

Child poverty in Scotland is lower than 30 years ago and falling, unlike the rest of the UK. But there is much more to do - by working together, we must deliver more joined-up services for families, when and where they need it. This is what Whole Family Support is all about.

The only way to respond to a prick like Trump is to shit-talk him back. Well done Sadiq Khan

Let’s ignore the usual incomplete source for understanding Scotland’s public finances (GERS) and start again from the basic data. Then how well does Scotland look for independence? The answer's very healthy! buff.ly/ZDSgMT4

Trump's grandfather migrated to the USA from Germany. His mother emigrated to the USA from Scotland. Perhaps in a sign of the apple not falling far from the tree, Friedrich Trump made some of his fortune by running brothels in the Klondike Trump also dodged his mandatory Bavarian military service.

Norway, Finland, Estonia, Ireland... all nations similar to Scotland, gained independence from their neighbours and would not go back. I want #ScottishIndependence and a return to the EU because I am an internationalist. #IndependenceIsNormal

Over the last 24 hours Reform, with just a single policy announcement, have put fear where previously there was none into the hearts of millions of UK residents. No 10 and the Chancellor have said nothing about the ethics of this. I have no words left for them.

I see the British media is full-on normalising far right extremism now. Flag wavers screaming "save our kids" & calling for mass deportations are not "anti-immigration protestors", they're racists. Charlie Kirk was not a "conservative activist" he was a white supremacist.

What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide.

Charlie Kirk was not a good man. He was a racist. A bigot across the spectrum of bigotry. A misogynist. Callous when he spoke about school shootings. He peddled hate. His version of Christianity is not the version any church I have known would recognise. No. #CharlieKirk was not a good man.

Only independence can reduce our energy bills by giving Scotland control over all the renewable energy that it produces www.thenational.scot/news/2548258...

Well done Manchester! Everybody is welcome Refugees are welcome here www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is a global problem.

Shout it louder so those at the back can hear. England, Scotland, Wales take note. #ReformUK are the Mosleyites of today. My father, uncles, and grandfather did not fight fascism in WWll for Tice and Farage to open the door to fascism on our doorsteps. #NaeNazis

An SNP MP has appealed to the Home Office to allow Gazan students to bring young children with them to the UK