In his continuing series … The (enter the name of your favourite historical influencer) Question, Professor Richard Murphy asks what kind of economy does Jesus of Nazareth command us to create. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

This is good news www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wonderful news. #Hero

Credit : Cath Jones Scottish Currency Group “Listen to this speech…our own currency is what drives connecting what we CAN do to how we mobilise our resources to do it. "All without borrowing a single penny from outside Scotland" www.facebook.com/reel/1511874...

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Fair question.

When I received my first Stage IV cancer diagnosis, my understanding of the miracle of life hit home. My second diagnosis of Stage IV incurable widened that awareness into something far deeper and more sacred. And now, with recent events, I find myself living on a level of understanding I never...

Conference shows Scotland’s appetite for real land reform bylines.scot/news/scotlan...

Great impersonation. www.facebook.com/share/v/1FjM...

Batteries are coming to Europe. Earlier this year Europe’s largest battery storage site went live at Blackhillock, Scotland. The facility has a capacity of 300MW/600MWh. Much larger batteries are under development: A huge 1 GW / 4 GWh system is being constructed in Jänschwalde, Germany.

This was predicted in 2004. ‘Common Sense’ people shook their heads and said ‘It’ll never happen’ and ‘Anyway, they only work on the hottest days of high summer’.

The news we all wanted to hear!

CHUK collects bagasse, the fibrous residue remaining after juice extraction from sugarcane, which is typically a waste product in sugar production. chukusa.com/products/ #environment #sustainability #climate #science #technology #business

meanwhile in Canada

Tonight was a very bad night.

Beaker reminding us why it’s called Ode To Joy. In an aside, in 2009, musicologists studying music worldwide reported that Ode To Joy was, uniquely, recognised by the inhabitants of every country and territory on Earth. Well done, Ludwig.

An interesting snapshot but, as we are learning every week, politics today is more volatile than at any point in our lifetimes.

I was born in 1954 when the world’s population was 2.4 billion. Today it is 8 billion. Due to the world’s aging population and falling birth rates it is anticipated that by 2154 it will be 2.4 billion once again. Countries are shrinking which is why the wise ones encourage young immigrants.

We have known about this and other radioactive accidents and discharges for a while because we are on the receiving end of them. Finally, the rUK is also acknowledging the incompetence.

It’s the little things, the lack of little nuisances, that make for a better day.

Seems only right to me.

And the verdict of justice moves inexorably closer and closer.

My latest blog piece, about the recent attempts by the Labour party to paint the SNP and the Scottish Government as a threat to national security due to their opposition to nukes on the Clyde. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/l...

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Lovely. 👏👏👏

Trump about to speak to the camera. Staffer requires medical attention. Trump becomes comatose until the nuisance interruption has passed and they can get back to the important work of rambling into the microphone.

From July. A reminder that, as shown by multiple endorsements from current EU political figures, popular support for Scotland’s membership is very high and gives the lie to the unionist claim that we would be barred from entry … because the rUK would wield a veto. A bizarre assertion.

The Scottish Government has published its long-awaited Climate Change Draft Plan – setting out 150 different actions to tackle carbon emissions. We have outlined the key points👇

Which one is more English?

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Via Euronews: Germany secures wages of 12,000 local US Army employees amid budget crisis in Washington www.euronews.com/2025/10/23/g...

I so admire the clarity with which he cuts through the nonsense and lays out the reality of nationalism in its most benign form. Personally I have rejected a nationalist label all my life because of its historical misuse. But I do care. A great deal. So maybe it is time to reevaluate my view.

I’m a Baha’i. In the 90s, the Iranian government setting aside funding to bring about a “final solution to the Baha’i ‘problem’ at home and abroad”. Baha’is are still imprisoned, tortured and die every year in Iran. Why? Because Iran has a fascist government working to gaslight its people.

I'm definitely trying to disrupt the status quo in the UK.

I suppose they thought they would be safe because the taxpayers were paying the bill and not Trump personally. How little they understood him.

We are looking with lawyers at the propensity of AI to produce dishonest and defamatory statements.

I've just been called a "rape enabler" by the X AI tool Grok. This is a shocking allegation which has totally taken me aback & beyond anything I've ever encountered in normal political discourse. These AI tools are supposed to be there to serve us honestly with facts. Disturbing.

Oddly, the Health Spokeswoman for the Labour Party in the Scottish Parliament just went on the BBC to tell us - again - how bad NHS Scotland is compared to the other three. In 2024/25 there is not a single sector where NHS Scotland is not at the top. You would think she’d be more upbeat.

“Tacky” hardly does the over window scroll justice. And as for the sign!

Bylines Scotland Radio -An exclusive interview with Guy Verhofstadt.

Radio 4 discussing the mistaken release of a dangerous criminal who is now on the run. The host asked repeatedly, “was he an asylum seeker”? No-one challenged her. Next it will be, “was he Black or Irish or Jewish or Gay”? Unapologetic racism from the BBC. What is important is he is dangerous.

Shetland has the lowest recorded crime rate in all of Scotland. Most years it has exactly 0 murders. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Samir Zitouni: a British hero

Is anyone surprised? For years the BBC’s coverage of the EU has been too negative. Between 2001 and 2016, the BBC’s coverage of the EU veered between disinterest and EU-bashing. Reports about the EU were so negative that Brussels came off worse than Putin. #Brexit www.politico.eu/blogs/on-med...

It's going to be a difficult few days for racists. No sooner do we discover the attacker was a British man called Anthony Williams, we then discover the rail worker hero who almost gave his life to save others is called Samir Zitouni. We can't wait to hear the hot takes on whether he is British...

New Yorkers really know how to craft an online campaign pitch. Simple, powerful and clear. Our own Scottish campaigners could learn from this.

1 week ago I was on a ventilator & hooked up to various gubbins & now catheter is out, & I have one less chest drain. Lung not fully inflated yet & big decisions have to be made about my feeding as it is currently going through my nose & possibly permanently so. Hate being on the ward.