Well, well! Anyone shocked by this timing? No, me neither!

Tesco makes nearly £4bn profit. Nearly 50% of its workforce are on Universal Credit, receiving about £600m a year. Why isn't Tesco paying?

See if you are a follower of this odious Spiv, just know that the rest of us see you for the gullible, ignorant, thick, racist moron that you are.

Reform UK-led Derbyshire council announce closure of eight residential care homes just days before Christmas. That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Consequences of poverty, austerity and fiscal rules. People in poorest areas of England ‘more likely to need emergency care for lung conditions’ Poor housing, pollution lack of quit smoking support, low investment in the NHS inflict misery and death.

Great idea www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...

In a joint statement, the prime ministers of Greenland and Denmark urged the US to show respect, saying annexation is not an option. Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen and Greenland’s Jens Frederik Nielsen stressed that Greenland belongs to its people, not the United States.

🇬🇧 LABOUR MSP keeps Labour whip, and full support of Anas Sarwar, despite refusal to end her continuing “association” with known Labour Sex Offender Just imagine how ‘The Hootsman’ , and other british media in Scotland, would have reported this had it involved a SNP MSP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scotland’s economy is growing while the UK’s is declining. Latest data shows onshore GDP grew by 0.2% between August and October, and business investment is at a 20-year high. There is more to do and we will keep working towards a stronger economy, with higher living standards.

Absent from various front pages of the “Scottish” media is this reply to Baillie from the presiding officer! “No evidence that any SNP MSP was spied on by staff” talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/20/n...

There have now been 5 tower block fires in Scotland since 2000 and none have gone up like Grenfell – here’s why, for the 5th time talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/19/t...

well worth reading

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.

*NOT* that you'd hear this sort of good news from the corporate media. 4 indyposterboy.scot/knives-out/

German prosecutors bring criminal charges against three Greensill Bank officials for role in the 2021 collapse of the lender. UK would have given them public honours, crony contracts, buried prosecutions; just like the Post Office and Grenfell scandals.

Crime clear-up in Scotland around 12 times better per head than in England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/18/c...

Following the disgraceful Reform UK puff piece on BBC Scotland's Och Aye the News this evening, more proof that the BBC is normalising the far right. BBC Scotland prefers Anglo-British fascism to Scottish independence. www.thenational.scot/news/2570913...

BBC Scotland again bigging up Reform UK's council by-election win in West Lothian. It's the second time BBC Scotland has publicised it. No mention of the winning candidate's questionable past or the scandals besetting the party. BBC Scotland NEVER gives this much publicity to SNP or the Greens.

EXCLUSIVE: The UK Government would have allowed a hunger striker "to die" if supporters had not demanded medical care for her, Zarah Sultana has said at a protest in Scotland 🗣️ 'What they are doing to them is what they would do to the rest of us if they could get away with it'

Good to see a new Government review launched on foreign £ in UK politics. It should go further though. Last year, I launched a Parliamentary petition to ban ALL private £ in uk politics. This would be hugely transformative. It got debated in the Commons & a review was mooted.

Labour are trying to tell us that THEY brought back Erasmus. No it never went away, It was always in effect. We withdraw because England dragged us out of the EU. It is only after arduous conversations that they have managed to convince the EU that we were wrong to leave in the first place.

Ursula von der Leyen has two cards in her hand which could burst the AI bubble. If she plays then right, it would throw Donald Trump’s presidency into chaos. @johnnyryan.bsky.social

Get the date in your diary March 2026 www.believeinscotland.org/march_and_ra...

We are at the stage of British politics where David Lammy and Keir Starmer are seemingly willing to let hunger strikers in prison die. The situation is extremely concerning. They have been in prison, without trial, for over a year. www.instagram.com/p/DSVg7zFiOi...

"We know too well - especially those courageous hunger strikers - that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." Nelson Mandela 1997.

Free the political prisoners 'That we don’t have the courage to do what they did is bad enough-the least we can do is stand up for them. They must all be freed, along with all other prisoners of conscience punished for opposing genocide.' via Occupy London

50p Dougie get his whole interview platformed on BBC Shortbread so they can platform 🇬🇧 🐂 💩 propaganda whereas as the🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 FM gets virtually zero positive coverage!!! Wake up Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 they are gaslighting a nation! 🤬

Do read this. It’s by Brian Eno for @thenerve.news & it’s about this generation’s BandAid. Lullaby is based on a traditional Palestinian melody, all proceeds go to Gaza, it would be amazing for it to be Xmas no 1, but more than that, buying it is a political act 👊

LibDem Calum Miller, "Will the review look back.. Including the 2014 and 2016 Referendums?" Steve Reed, "It will be forward looking, there will be no relitigating of previous elections or referendum" "There have been no findings that any elections to date were affected by foreign interference"

Shocking contrast as nearly twice as many Scots have access to an NHS dentist as those in England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/16/s...

UK unemployment 35% higher, youth unemployment 40% higher than in Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/16/u...

@independencelive.net #talkingupscotland have you seen this?

Well there's a thing Which is richer, Scotland or England? England's economic output is significantly higher than Scotland's, but the Scottish GDP of £200 billion per year is a lot by anyone's standards. England would not be richer without Scotland.

It's time the Labour Govt found a spine and kicked the US out of the UK. There has never been a special relationship, it was always one-sided. Time to realign with the EU.

When you sell out to psychopaths it doesn't normally end so well. Farage will roll in on a promise of jam tomorrow from Trump. Sooner Scotland is out of this disaster UK the sooner we get back onside with our European neighbours.

Mafia Don is so utterly predictable.

Don’t hold your breath. Ain’t going to happen!

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s first elected councillor in Scotland left his job as a police officer after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, The National can reveal

Incredible really, how this Entire (Reform) Party would Fall apart if we had a functioning Media That Reported accurately, & hadn't been acting as Farage's Personal PR & damage control Machine for the last 10 years.

➡️ Resigned Robert Bloom Rowland O’Connor Rob Parsonage Christine Parsonage Karen Knight Anna Thomason-Kenyon Richard Everett Jack Bradley Christopher Marriott Angie Nash Richard Morgan #ReformShitshow

➡️ Defected Amelia Randall Nicola Brown ➡️ Suspended Isabella Kemp ➡️ Resigned Mark Whittington Gaynor Jean-Louis Wayne Titley Donna Edmunds Luke Shingler Desmond Clarke Andrew Kilburn John Bailey Sam Booth David Maclean

May the lawyers win by bleeding them and their sycophantic followers dry of cash!

He did say those words. They just spliced two of his sentences together that had been said separately. BBC and Starmer need to stand up to him. In the meantime we should screen all Americans coming here to the UK - check their social media and if they support Trump, ban them from entry.

Nuclear Power is a horrific Disaster waiting to happen & it can be weaponized against us by Our Enemies. Nuclear Waste is just as dangerous as Nuclear Power. We know because we've had many Nuclear Disasters. Clean Safe Renewable Energy is inexpensive, reliable & can't be weaponized.

swimswam.com/2025-austral... Can wait to watch my boy #DuncanScott and his team from #Stirling and #commies2026 #AngharardEvans

Poll Analysis: Ipsos 27th of November - 3rd of December 2025 Holyrood Seats Projection: SNP ~ 60 Labour ~ 19 Reform UK ~ 17 Green ~ 17 Conservative ~ 11 Lib Dem ~ 5 Independence: Yes ~ 52% No ~ 48%

The life of a Scot who has been arbitrarily detained in India for more than eight years is 'at risk', a group of senior parliamentarians have warned the Foreign Secretary