Scotland is literally a powerhouse, producing nearly half the UK's renewable energy and sending £billions of our power to the south of England. Yet we pay the highest energy bills in Europe. It could have been different. It still could be. #IndependenceIsNormal

All glories to @brickingglasgow.bsky.social who built these magic things.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2... ALL HANDS: Global Sumud Flotilla are livestreaming as they enter the "interception zone"

The latest Norstat poll for the Times shows a sustained lead for Yes in #Indyref2 voting intention. Even with the published 2014 vote weighting Yes has a 6 point lead. But if we reweight based on current (rather than fantasy) demographics, Yes has a 13 point lead.

First Past the Post is insane. Reform UK would achieve a decent majority across the UK with a vote share almost identical to that of the SNP in 2024, when they lost all but a handful of seats.

🚨 BREAKING | Starmer would LOSE leadership election if Andy Burnham challenged him for the leadership. 🔴 Andy Burnham – 68% 🔴 Keir Starmer – 32% (Source: @YouGov)

Absolutely completely and utterly astonishing to see Welsh Labour taking the Scottish Labour approach to their nationalist opponents. Have you seen your polling, my guys?! Even if you beat Plaid, you will *need* them to form a government. They aren't optional! You can't talk about them this way!

So, Labour will happily bail out private companies and save jobs, but only if they are in England. Even when they have *promised* to save those Scottish jobs. Is that about right? youtube.com/shorts/oeumX...

There is a clear trajectory showing majority support for Scottish independence. Even polls that artificially skew their survey samples towards No, now show a Yes majority. We must now start planning for #Indyref2 with or without Westminster consent.

🇬🇧This is a “British Labour in Scotland” candidate for HR2026 “SHUT UP SCOTLAND ! YOU HAD YOUR DEMOCRACY, NOW GET BACK IN YOUR BOX”

A new Norstat poll commissioned by the Murdoch Times shows a continuing majority in favour of Scottish Independence. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Yes- 53% 🇬🇧 No - 47% #Indyref2 #Yes

In the midst of this enormous ­humanitarian crisis, some say it’s both ­obscene and shameful that powerful elites are already focusing on divvying up the potential geo-political and ­economic spoils of what is now widely recognised as an act of genocide, writes David Pratt ✍️

Only half of Labour voters support the digital ID card proposal, while six in ten Reform UK voters strongly oppose it. Setting aside the practical, financial, social inclusion, civil liberty and cyber-security concerns, like many of Starmer's policies, it makes zero sense politically.

Know your enemy

If there’s a majority of pro-independence parties at the next election, the SNP should call a referendum and dare London to stop them It’s time for Scotland to fight like hell against the threat of a Reform government in London In @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

This is very worrying. How will I get to see live England games?

Only half of Labour voters support the digital ID card proposal, while six in ten Reform UK voters strongly oppose it. Setting aside the practical, financial, social inclusion, civil liberty and cyber-security concerns, like many of Starmer's policies, it makes zero sense politically.

The latest Scotland in Union Survation poll shows the dramatic demographic changes since 2014. There are now more new voters than No voters in the population meaning that unionists rely on up-weighting the No vote to show support for the union. 29% turns into 38% All unionists won in 2014 was time.

Exactly this. I can see opposition to Brit-cards being a rallying point for supporters of Scottish self-determination. We can get rid of Starmer and also this controlling and dysfunctional union.

This is possibly one of the largest weighting uplifts for No voters I've ever seen in a poll. The unweighted 581 becomes 844; a bump up of 45% on the original figure. This is why 2014 weighting is surely no longer defensible.

If you voted for him, you've done this.

Sky News spaffing their 'Farage will be next PM' juice this early, with four years until the next GE. Premature E-UnionJack-ulation

With a Yes majority, the SNP should call an independence referendum and dare Westminster to stop them The alternative is to wait for a Reform government in England to come for Scottish devolution My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

To think such a mess of appeasing & normalising Farage & populism comes not just from Starmer & McSweeney but an entire Downing Street operation. They are useless, craven, cowardly, politically illiterate, Farage enablers who are sleepwalking Labour to disaster. They should all be cleared out.

OOPS! Not sure Scotland in Union will be happy that Survation have accidentally revealed the real #Indyref2 voting intention figures that totally contradict their bollocksy leave/ remain question.

The latest Scotland in Union Survation poll shows the dramatic demographic changes since 2014. There are now more new voters than No voters in the population meaning that unionists rely on up-weighting the No vote to show support for the union. 29% turns into 38% All unionists won in 2014 was time.

Think the Tony Blair Institute looks sinister? You've not seen anything yet. Crucial investigation by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

This looks like an ideal opportunity for pro-independence civil disobedience. The British state has never given up anything without a struggle.

BILLY BRAGG ‘far from fearing the breakup of the UK, the English are looking at the benefits that devolution has brought the Scots and asking why they are not able to enjoy the same.’ #Indyref2 #Yes

Protect the Sumud and all the other Flotillas trying to break the siege

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s inevitable that Reform will eventually come for naturalised citizens soon. They’re in full brutality mode now, fed and watered by Starmer’s govt & the BBC, Sky and the London press Scotland: we need to vote our way out of this rotten Union before the next UK election or we’ll live to regret it

£5,000,000,000 in fraudulent UK 'loans' were written-off, as a result of the 2020/1 pandemic. For some, Covid was an actual 'Licence to Print Money'. Many in the UK fraudulently became £multi millionaires as a result of this catastrophy. Erroneously. Illegally. None of them will go to Prison.

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

Gordon Brown 2014: “Stay in the UK to create a more socially just country.” Gordon Brown 2025: “Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain.”

Go Fash, lose cash

This article significantly undersells the extent to which the racists were outnumbered and outsung and, ultimately, the total victory of the anti-fascists.

Labour promised thousands of GB Energy jobs for Aberdeen, that was then reduced to 1,000, but so far only 13 jobs have come to Europe’s Energy Capital. Labour have betrayed Aberdeen once again. www.thenational.scot/news/2548045...

Goodbye, Disney+!

The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’ Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros. The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

WTF England & Wales? So you see fascism mainstreamed by the BBC and you think somehow it will be good for you? Wake the fuck up!

Question Time used to be a flagship current affairs show; a must watch in our household in the 80s & 90s. But it’s turned into a circus, with token left-wing guests serving as bait for right/ far right politicians alongside a cavalcade of R-wing ‘commentators’, industry figures & Tufton St staffers.

Starmer at that press conference, giving every impression of a nervous chipmunk sitting next to an alligator that's just swallowed a hand grenade.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

Peter Mandelson can sit as a Labour Lord while my colleagues have lost the whip for opposing disability benefits cuts and the two-child benefit cap. Such draconian, politically-motivated suspensions undermine democracy and make a mockery of our party. They should have the whip restored immediately.

The FBI have released the transcript of Tyler Robinsons text messages with his roommate

21st century Britain where it's illegal to project an image on a wall but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths