For all the hard working, over burdened ♀ out there at Xmas.... By UK cartoonist Jacky Fleming 🩷

NEWS4SCOTLAND with Lewis McKinlay, uncensored Scottish News. Join us from 7pm on Friday, December 19th exclusively on The Scotland Channel.

Really great post over on Mastodon . .

NEW. Will your energy provider pass on the Budget 1 April £150/yr price cut to ALL tariffs including fixes?... Here's our firm by firm round-up www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/12... including my full explanation of what's happening.

Just a wee shout-out for the newly-launched @broadcastscot.bsky.social crowd-funder. They've had a tricky 2025, but are planning to move forward in a big way in 2026. If you can possibly help to support them with the studio move, it'll be a huge help.

'The scandal isn't the Question Time error. It's the BBC's response.' Xander Elliards, via The National archive.is/TmFQb

Here's your first look at tomorrow's front page 📰 'A ceasefire in name only': We publish a timeline of the ongoing violence in Gaza since a 'ceasefire' was agreed – as Benjamin Netanyahu's brutal, apartheid regime's genocide continues to claim lives

The biggest impact on my life from cycling isn’t health, fitness or saving the planet. It’s the ability to time travel. ⏲️ 🪄 🚲 ⚡ 🌀 Go here to donate to @thebikestation.bsky.social's #EverydayHeroes campaign: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/everyday-h... Or read on to find out more... 🧵

Am writing something on the government’s Article 3 and Article 8 proposals re asylum seekers. Any interesting links or expert insight welcome. Have read @zoejardiniere.bsky.social and @profmarkelliott.bsky.social‘s fine pieces.

The "Europe - Countries Quiz", where you have to match country names with regions on a map, has been played 27011 times in the last 30 days. Mainly a German 🇩🇪 audience. Map shows the quiz results. 🟢 best knowledge. 🔴 worst. My take on the #30daymapchallenge Quiz: geographyquiz.app/quiz/europe-...

where are Scotland's missing trees? In turn inspiring and heart breaking - but we should know about this, and support any trying to aid nature to grow back #Scotland #Nature #Trees #Land

2m UK pensioners live in poverty, 110,000 a year die in fuel poverty. Neoliberals pushing to cut/freeze state pension. Evidence: UK state pension is the worst among G7 nations, last on replacement rates, joint-last on state pension spending. Britons receive pension for fewer years than most.

Make a song Scottish Fly me to Dunoon Chanson Dalmuir That's A Moray Coming In the Ayr Tonight Twenty four Hours from Tolsta Naver Gonna Give You Up Born on the Forth of July

OCTOBER UPDATE Who Owns Scotland now published with total of 4850 landholdings (76.55% rural Scotland). The project is financed solely by subscription income which is not rising as fast as expansion expenditure so may have to slow the project down. Subscriptions start at £5 whoownsscotland.org.uk

🚨 Just one day left to triple your impact! For one last day, your donation will be TRIPLED thanks to match funding from Aviva Community Fund and @@https://bsky.pulse.ly/spqzyjcrod Better World Community Fund. ⏰ Donate before 4pm on Sun 26 Oct to triple your gift: https://bit.pulse.ly/y0grixioql

Hello Bluesky! We’re new here, so here’s a little introductory film that shows what we’re about – #MakingRewildingHappen for nature, climate and people. We’re excited to be here and connect. As the newcomer at this party, we’ll be hovering by the refreshments, hoping someone will come say hi.

Destruction of the White House East Wing began today. Here it is in better times with better residents.

In 2021 Afghan women started an online campaign to protest the Taliban's female dress code by posting photos of what traditional Afghan clothes look like #AfghanWomen #WomensArt

Temu’s EU operations doubled pre-tax profits to $120m (£90m), employed just 8 people, $18m corporation tax, It is smoke and mirrors of profit shifting, offshore tax havens. UK High street can't compete. Govt must review customs duty exemptions, require multinationals to show where they pay taxes.

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season. TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible. christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

As Fujitsu continues to rake in the £££££ from the government. Who says crime doesn't pay?

🟥 MEDIA WATCH: BBC Scotland called out on Anti-Scotrail spin. 🔎 Every Scottish station, and Scotland as a whole, did better than the UK average. 🔗 More: www.believeinscotland.org/media_watch_...

⛏️ Twenty-three miners were rescued Wednesday after being trapped 43 hours in #Colombia’s La Reliquia gold mine. 🇨🇴 The main entrance collapsed Monday due to a “geomechanical failure.” Families greeted the survivors with tears and applause

BLOG - Land Reform and the Gentrification of Braemar andywightman.scot/2025/09/land...

Last week, I joined colleagues in a @forestpolicygroup.bsky.social webinar entitled "Who Owns Scotland's Forests and does it matter?" I presented research on the question of who owns our forests. The webinar is now published for all to enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWiN...

Rewilding in action! 📸 NTS

Glad to see this. religionnews.com/2025/09/16/e... ⚓️

I've been deeply concerned about some of the misinformation around asylum seekers in Perth. The graphics below address some of the myths that are presented when issues are raised. We must have the debate rooted in facts and basic decency.

UK Govt must change course. Increase purchasing power of the bottom 50%. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. WRONG At the very least abolish VAT on domestic fuel, reduce std rate of VAT, lift personal allowance by £1,000. Shift the cost to the rich.

Is a maximum pay cap the answer to inequality in the UK? youtu.be/GKevsgaMxAQ?... CEO pay in the UK is out of control. The median FTSE 100 boss now takes home £4.5 million a year – while millions struggle to live on the minimum wage. If we can set a minimum wage, why not a maximum pay cap?

Finishing my preparation for this event next week. Do join us. bsky.app/profile/fore...

Starmer has to be next www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

Straight Talk interviews Professor John Robertson who carried out research into mainstream media bias in Scotland in the run up to the 2014 independence referendum and how the BBC tried to have him sacked by his university for publishing the research. WATCH NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFEn...

The Pylon, the Turbine and the Black Black Blade open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

This is an astronomical amount of money for a Highland estate. We need greater oversight of who is buying land in Scotland and how they will be contributing to communities, rather than just boosting profits for distant shareholders www.scotsman.com/news/environ...

Scotland has so much to be proud of. But there’s something missing – something extraordinary... More info www.scotlandbigpicture.com/lynx-to-scotland 🎶 by Beluga Lagoon, 🎬 SCOTLAND:The Big Picture

‪ It is accepted the UK has general disatisfaction with Main Stream Media #MSM news with its bias. This short documentary shows why #Scotland has particular reasons to look elsewhere for news and commentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eAs...

📣 Our new campaign launches on 30th August: www.believeinscotland.org/believe_in_s... 🔎 Scotland’s soaring energy prices aren’t inevitable - they’re the result of Westminster’s failed energy system.

calling the World to prayer

watching an episode of Ant & Dec's Limitless Win - SO upset that even without saying the 'Pointless' rule 'by a country we mean a sovereign state its own right' no sign of #Scotland in the list. C'mon people & #Scottishgovernment I feel shame looking at the tiny places who are their own rulers.

@irishrainforest.bsky.social Did I see you post something about Aspen this year? Here is today's release from Scotland : the Big Picture you might enjoy www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnl2...

The BBC, biased? Oh yes…and most especially in Scotland www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07... Is the BBC biased? You bet your bottom dollar it is, as my experience on BBC Radio Scotland this morning showed.

Selling England by the pound www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07... Why is England (and I do mean England, in particular) in such decline? That's because the City put up a 'For Sale' sign over it in the 1980s, and the logic still is that everything must go.

'What won’t solve the housing emergency in Scotland is shovelling more money into the maws of private developers under the guise of “affordable housing” that is barely either.' @thecommongreen.scot, via Common Weal www.commonweal.scot/...

This week’s column. observer.co.uk/style/food/a...

One other 7/7 thread today. Because I think how the bus network got running again is a real testament to some serious heroes that day: The bus drivers and staff who got that network running again and got London home that night. And TfL/the Mayor disobeyed the Security Services to make it happen /1

Welfare bill climbdown will have ‘a cost’ at budget, says UK minister. Another tactic for driving down people's aspirations. UK can bail out banks, subsidise corporations, fund wars but somehow thecan't tackle poverty. Last yr HMRC didn't collect £46.8bn of taxes; over £500bn since 2020.

This charity site is an excellent way to give money to specific people with specific needs; from victims of domestic abuse looking to set up a new home, to people struggling to find work. Check it out and give directly to someone in need if you can: 🥰 www.acts435.org.uk/give/