Excellent point! The "Benefits Scroungers" are the businesses paying their workers a pittance and having their wage bill subsidized by Universal Credit.

Couldn’t agree more.

SNP buy Prestwick Airport for just £1, make £10 million profit and create 4 500 jobs in only 4 years while its sister airport in Kent goes out of business in only 6 months to become just a lorry park talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/28/s...

As long as 50 UK families are allowed to get away with hoarding as much wealth as the poorer HALF of the population, there is something desperately and criminally wrong with our society Reeves did absolutely NOTHING to address this www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

Once we’re independent I think Scotland will have a real chance of following through on this approach. For sake of my family & friends down south, I hope England pays attention to this too. They’ll have to vote for it though which at the moment is not at all certain.

Yet another example of ScotGov running our country on principles of dignity, fairness and respect.

you wouldn’t even say “quiet piggy” to miss piggy, bc she would rightly kill you on the spot for your insolence

Home insurance is in crisis, and Big Oil's lies are to blame. "We’re never going to bend the curve of ever-rising insurance costs without addressing the core driver of higher prices: the worsening climate disasters that Big Oil knowingly made a reality," explains CCI's @iylas.bsky.social.

Looking forward to this wee series - will take inequality graphs over advent calendars any day!

Robin (Eurasian robin) #birds #photography

The contrast couldn't be clearer: your SNP Scottish Government celebrating refugees while Labour's race to the right has Reform cheering them on.

I hope his insult to that woman journalist is going to haunt him. This is a good start.

4-2! That was cheeky

Goal! Now Scotland 3-2 Denmark, 4mins extra time left. Oh god. Don’t do this to us Scotland.

Half time. Still 1-0 up. Phew. What a goal, eh

Seeing 'but what else can Labour do to beat Reform?' posts appearing. FFS, try being humane a recognising that refugees and immigrants have greatly benefited the UK. Chasing after Reform is killing Labour. No loss to me as I'm not a Lab voter, but some still are.

woke up again thinking about the tado average heat loss per country map w3.tado.com/en-gb/press/...

Bylines has multiple outlets across the UK and is normally very good. A lack of accuracy is not acceptable just because it’s the Yorkshire outlet. It is lazy, parochial and not the standard Bylines aspires to

TRAILER: This week’s podcast where Isobel Lindsay and Bill Ramsay come into the studio to help us unpack the deeper message behind Deputy PM David Lammy's extraordinary claim that the Scottish Government is a "national security threat”. And anyway, what nation was he talking about?

Having worked in the public sector for decades I have never seen a refugee or asylum seeker come over with a ‘bag full of gold rings’ or ‘being sent £800 per month for an Audi!!! ‘. This is anti immigrant propaganda

Good one, @andrew.sharpe.scot

This is utterly inhumane. Traumatised people unable to have any sort of settled life here, and liable to have everything turned upside down overnight as regimes change in unpredictable ways and with unpredictable consequences. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Make no mistake: they want to destroy the BBC (Sun, Daily Mail, GB News, Fox TV, Farage, Putin, Trump ...) #media #antifa

Meanwhile in Brexit Britain. We regret to announce that your train is cancelled, cos leaves on the line … too hot … too cold … too windy …

Someone made a big mistake with that hash up of Trump. Nothing like as much a hash up as Trump does himself of course. From north of the Border, it’s amusing to read the commentariat worrying about alleged BBC bias. They haven’t ever worried about the much more extensive bias re Scotland.

Carol Cadwalladr’s (fearless persuant of Russian corruption in the UK). new on-line newspaper The Nerve, run by people who were sacked or quit when Tories took over The Observer. www.thenerve.news

No major flu deaths surge expected in Scotland after 80% vaccine uptake and in cleaner hospitals talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/07/n...

www.believeinscotland.org/the_road_to_.... Let’s walk the route, let’s get active and take Back Scotland

The UK is a busted flush. Decades of chaos, corruption and decline have proved it beyond doubt. It’s time to abolish Westminster and end the Union. All nations, including the reunification of the Island of Ireland, deserve the chance to choose their own future. #EndTheUnion #SelfDetermination

This should be on billboards across Scotland @snp.org @businessforscot.bsky.social #Scottishindependence

IndyPodcasters pay tribute to the late Elspeth King, one of Scotland’s most influential curators and historians. Exploring the absence of Scottish history in the national curriculum, the power of history in shaping identity, and in understanding who we are. scottishindypod.scot/scottish-his...

Why have there been so many mistaken prisoner releases in England and none in Scotland? Twice as many staff per prisoner and only half the level of attacks on them? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/06/w...

BBC Scotland admit to copy and pasting misleading Conservative Press Release regarding Ferries. Job done - narrative absorbed by the public - 2 weeks later post a correction nobody will look at. Does that piss you off ? It should! Want to do something about it? www.change.org/p/petition-f...

The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies Those companies pay billions to their shareholders And then lay off their workers Think that's unfair? Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…

On tonight at 8pm. @fionamcgregor.bsky.social and I chat with @jacquij.bsky.social

In this week's podcast we chat with our guest Jacqui Jensen about the importance of having women's voices front and centre in the indy campaign - not least because support for independence is now higher among women than men. From 8pm tonight - join us in the comments! ☺️ youtu.be/sg-j3H7KUt8?...

17 General Officers have been removed or have retired in nine months. I'm a former CIA officer – if I saw this in a foreign military, we would call that a purge.

What? Political parties (preferred status) are allowed to have their own waiting list platformed by the state run broadcaster? Move along nothing to see here. 👇

“Moderate political movements of Europe – the centre left and centre right – must work together to urgently find ways to counter the threats to our way of life.” www.thenational.scot/news/2558997...

The Cayman Islands.

Didn’t realise that in Scotland and NI unaccompanied child refugees have access to a guardian. Sensible and compassionate for all sorts of reasons including giving added protection from traffickers. . talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/02/s...

I’ll be heading over to this exhibition on Monday. Looking forward to it.

We had fun putting this one together. Don’t miss Canadian NICE Agent 😆

‘It’s brutal, they feel very attacked’ Ah, the poor little rich boys Suck it up! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Get him telt John. A bit of passion is nice to see.