Since Blair conned his way to be leader Labour has never considered Scotland as anything but a colony ripe for rape and pillage. Sarwar, Bailiff and the rest of England's agents in Scotland are clearly trojan horse quislings never to be trusted. Unless, of course, you're English.

"... government's white paper on water has failed to bring water back into public ownership Regulations have failed, and shareholders have extracted enormous profits while water bills have rocketed We need real change, not half measures Public ownership is the only solution" via Fire Brigades Union

Mahmood's AI powered panopticon is pure Palentir marketing hype but if they go for it we'll enjoy a dystopian future.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 100 years ago today, Scottish inventor, electrical engineer and innovator John Logie Baird, demonstrated the world's first mechanical television 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (For some reason this iconic Scottish event has been completely ‘overlooked’ by the bbc State Broadcaster, The Hootsmon & The Harold 🇬🇧)

When a centrist like Andy Burnham is deemed to be too much of a left wing threat to the modern Labour party, it tells us just how right wing Starmer's Labour party has become. The founders of the Labour party would be rejected by Starmer. The Labour party has sold its soul to corporate donors.

Happy Birthday Rabbie Fae ah your honest men and Bonnie Lassies #syr #prestwick #independence #endtheunion #snp

BREAKING: The Scottish Greens have rekindled ties with Zack Polanski’s Green Party of England and Wales after a previous split on transgender rights Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

open.substack.com/pub/normalis... Wonderful Laura. We badly need you just now.

substack.com/@futuredude/... Yes. Capitalism is a means of extraction from the poorer sector of society and hoarding by the wealthier and unscrupulous sector. But those who hoard will never be satisfied with what they've got so they will continue to rob the vulnerable.

🇬🇧 Streeting handed his erse on a plate 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😎

🟥 London's unfair energy tax on Scotland hammers Scottish households. 🔎 Here is what you need to know: www.believeinscotland.org/scots_charge...

Excellent. Thanks, Prem.

open.substack.com/pub/gracebla... A wonderful summary by Grace of the evil of neo-liberalism. "Evil" is correct. For a more comprehensive study of her critique read her book "Vulture Capitalism". The comments on this essay are also interesting and should be read in full.

substack.com/@graceblakel... Well said Grace. Another Trump bogey man is Cuba. The cuban population is infinitely better off than it was under the USA puppet Batista regime. And yet the global humanitarian contribution of Cuba is ignored or vilified by the West. So sad.

Mark Carney, "Canada can’t solve all the world’s problems" "But we can show that another way is possible" "That the arc of history isn’t destined to be warped towards authoritarianism and exclusion" "It can still bend towards progress and justice"

Farage is a disgraceful fraud. Are you still fooled by the svengali-type ersatz Trump?

open.substack.com/pub/jonathan... A comprehensive and compelling summary of the extermination of Palestinians in Zionist Israel. Trump's Board of Peace is reminiscent of Orwell's Ministry of Truth or Trump's Truth Social. It has nothing to do with peace: it's Newspeak for extermination.

Has the EBC ever acknowledged the glaring, obvious truth about what is happening in Gaza? To remind it: the Zionist Israeli Government backed by the USA and UK is carrying out a mass extermination programme against the indigenous Palestinian population. It's premeditated, systematic killing.

Largs to Millport ferry, four times every hour, with capacity for 6 million passengers and three quarters of a million cars only used one eighth and one third of that capacity in 2024 – who pays for such generosity? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/23/l...

Appalling. The behaviour of a country that doesn't care about it's young people or the education of its population. Luckily, in Scotland, our Government respects both.

Source: Portsmouth News search.app/qYMoV Aye, but the Arran ferry ran out of Mac'n'Cheese...

Vote for any unionist party in Scotland and loose these life changing benefits instigated by the SNP government 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Wel done to Zoe Hisbent for retaining the seat for the SNP.

substack.com/@johnmcphie3... We need to be back in the EU and sharpish. Starmer should put all other projects on hold and urgently negotiate terms for rejoining. Only then can we have any influence on world events and enjoy collective security. Only fools fail to recognise our current vulnerability.

open.substack.com/pub/richardj... More good advice from Richard. The surprise is that anyone needs to say it but it's vital that they do. The problem isn't that the oligarchs are rich per se. It's that they can NEVER be satisfied. And they compete to be the most evil and deeply unpleasant.

Once again Scotland showing the way.

Germany has rejected President Trump’s invitation to participate in the newly announced Board of Peace initiative, highlighting a growing divergence with Washington over approaches to global diplomacy and conflict mediation. 👇

Trump needs to Google “China wind farms.” He says he can’t find any there. They lead the world. “China has the most installed wind capacity globally, installing more wind and solar capacity than the rest of the world combined in recent years

Well done Peter. We need more like this. A year from now you might not be able to publish material like this without being remanded in prison without charge. Under the Starmer regime we're certainly headed in that direction.

As global attention is directed elsewhere and Gaza slips from the headlines, journalists remain on the front lines At least 11 Palestinians, including three journalists, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health

FIFA on alert after 17,000 fans cancel World Cup tickets in one night

open.substack.com/pub/democrac... A thought provoking piece from Peter. Are we already too late? Davos has been a nest of vipers for many years. It's the annual meeting of the oligarchs. They don't have your interests at heart. Just theirs. And they compete to be the most evil, the most greedy.

England steals from Scotland to finance the former's waste on vanity projects. The imperial spend. The English Political Parties lodge their Trojan Horse parasites in Scotland to enable that theft. Wake up Scotland and smell the robbery.

open.substack.com/pub/councile... Please find the time to read this. I admire the courage of those few individuals who are prepared to expose the evil of the privileged, powerful and secretive elements who peddle lies to protect their theft and greed. Camels and eyes of needles 🪡 spring to mind.

substack.com/@jonathancoo... The bestest friends. We should be scared, very scared. Incidentally, has Starmer been asked to join Trump's Board of Evil? He's got all the right qualifications.

Yes, and we should refuse to acknowledge or abide by any patents taken out by the USA on pharmaceutical, agricultural or educational products and manufacture our own generic products. Threaten to do this if Trump persists with his insane tariffs.

The principle reason for the rotten, deadly mess we’re in today is this: over the decades the rich bought up political parties with donations turning government into a corporate plaything which works against the interests of the people From that all miseries flowed In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Trump is a petulant child with dangerous toys that should be confiscated from him. Pusillanimous Starmer will continue to stroke Trump's massive ego and, in doing so, add support to the child's tantrums. Starmer, stop putting us all into increasing danger. Trump is unhinged and you know it.

Yup

Wonderful news. Scotland again showing the way. It's no surprise that our young ones are better behaved, more mature when they reach adulthood and more proud of their roots. This is no accident; the credit is with our teachers and parents. Well done.

Whenever Starmer speaks to the "nation", presumably to settle nerves, he appears as a pusillanimous twit, complicit in doublespeak, and frightens the living daylights out of us. Acknowledge the genocide, stand up to Trump and negotiate our way back into Europe where we can stand firm.

If you like Reform UK are you aware that they're just now failed Tories, with added racism? It's 2026. Is it possible to be this unenlightened? They used to be called The BREXIT Party... No wonder Hitler found it easy. Apparently, MILLIONS of people are this silly.

“Governments worldwide are making the wrong choice; choosing to defend wealth, not freedom. Choosing the rule of the rich. Choosing to repress their people’s anger at how life is becoming unaffordable and unbearable, rather than redistributing wealth from the richest to the rest” Oxfam

Oh.

So, quite rightly, Greenland MUST decide it's own future but Scotland is denied that choice. Why is that Starmer, Sarwar, Baillie? We can smell the hypocrisy. Scotland is potentially a rich country. England squanders the UK income on vanity projects we can't afford. Independence, whatever it takes.

The propaganda machine is now cranking up. The lies and twisted misinformation will get worse, boosted by money from nefarious foreign sources including Zionist Israel. Be on your guard; the Yoons are scared and unprincipled.