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bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/27/p...
Janet Fenton: " . . it is maybe time for Members of the Scottish Parliament to be outside Queen Elizabeth House on 29th of November, at 1.00 pm joining in with writing a placard saying âI support Palestine Actionâ. "
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Police Scotland and Prosecuting Peace
The Scottish establishmentâs response to the legal challenge offered on the proscription of Palestine Action is growing arms and legs. After not following up the Metroplitan policeâs very unâŚ
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/27/police-scotland-and-prosecuting-peace/
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Nukewatch UK
11 days ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3fy...
Nuclear weapon convoy near Polmadie in Glasgow today, heading for the bomb store at Coulport on Loch Long, having set out from Burghfield in England where the warheads are assembled. Info about these dangerous convoys here
www.nukewatch.org.uk/convoys/
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Nuclear warhead convoy, Glasgow, 25/11/25 1158
YouTube video by Jamie Watson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3fyyNR4DCk
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securescotland.substack.com/p/welcoming-refugees
Responding to the UK government's cruel refugee policies.
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Welcoming Refugees
As Theresa Mayâs âhostile environmentâ hardens into Labourâs cruel environment this piece by Glyn Robbins captures perfectly the dread effect of these policies.
https://securescotland.substack.com/p/welcoming-refugees
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Astra Taylor
19 days ago
We need more honest language: Theft Tech (AI) Grift Tech (crypto) Death Tech (automated weapons and military surveillance)
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Nukewatch UK
24 days ago
Report "Smoke and Mirrors" from NIS and Nukewatch UK exposes the muddled and illogical thinking behind the UK decision to buy nuclear-weapon capable aircraft from the US. Essential reading.
nuclearinfo.org/wp-content/u...
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Nukewatch UK
26 days ago
Our expert webinar on the risks and pitfalls of renuclearising the RAF takes place tomorrow. Register here: nuclearinfo-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@nuclearinfoservice.bsky.social
@cnduk.bsky.social
@scottishcnd.bsky.social
@lakenheathalliance.bsky.social
#nuclear
#disarmament
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nuclearinfo-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Not to be missed, this webinar on 11th November about the UK acquiring nuclear-weapon capable jets - another step-up in dangerous escalation.
about 1 month ago
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Nukewatch UK
about 1 month ago
Come along to the webinar we are organising with @Nuclearinfo on 11 November to find out why government plans to renuclearise the RAF are nothing more than political smoke and mirrors.
nuclearinfo-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Grimly accurate - we are in The Age of Mobsters
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about 2 months ago
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Nukewatch UK
about 2 months ago
sgr.org.uk/resources/us-nuclear-weapons-return-uk-ready-raf
Handy from
@responsiblesci.bsky.social
re US nukes in England, noting their role in dangerous escalation. For how their presence was spotted see
nukewatch.org.uk/second-nucle...
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US nuclear weapons return to the UK ready for the RAF
The UK government has announced a new nuclear role for the Royal Air Force using US bombs and aircraft. Dr Philip Webber, SGR, explores the disturbing implications of this surprise announcement. Artic...
https://sgr.org.uk/resources/us-nuclear-weapons-return-uk-ready-raf
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Cheers
@yorkshirecnd.bsky.social
for exposing this. SU Department for the Advancement of Mass Killing.
cnduk.org/the-universi...
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The University of Sheffield's role in Britain's nuclear weapons - CND
Following revelations by the Sheffield Tribune detailing how the University of Sheffield is designing Britainâs next nuclear warhead, Yorkshire CND has been protesting. Sam Legg, Yorkshire CND Events ...
https://cnduk.org/the-university-of-sheffields-role-in-britains-nuclear-weapons/
about 2 months ago
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Yorkshire CND
2 months ago
On Saturday, peace activists went to U.S.A.F. Croughton for Keep Space For Peace Week. Read Dave Webb's speech here:
www.cndsalisbury.org.uk/uploads/data...
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www.navylookout.com/royal-navy-v...
Excessive pressure on the crews plus the obvious and serious risk around having nuclear reactors, missiles and nuclear warheads on board old and decrepit boats
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Royal Navy Vanguard-class submarine comes home after 203-day patrol - Navy Lookout
In what is becoming the new normal, an RN submarine returned to Faslane today after another lengthy patrol lasting more than six months, maintaining the nation's nuclear deterrent. This submarine left...
https://www.navylookout.com/royal-navy-vanguard-class-submarine-comes-home-after-203-day-patrol/
2 months ago
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Nukewatch UK
2 months ago
theferret.scot/navy-told-to...
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Nukewatch UK
2 months ago
These lorries carry the most deadly load on British roads, taking warheads to and from the atomic weapon factories Berkshire and Coulport on Loch Long. see
nukewatch.org.uk
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Rethinking Security
3 months ago
đ˘New event We see growing hostility & racism in our politics and streets, climate breakdown across the globe, and ongoing war & genocide. Competition & militarism are not the answer. Join our discussion on 08 October to share ideas for a counter-narrative.
rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/home/events/
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop
3 months ago
"For anyone committed to social justice, the saga of the Kirkgate benches is an affront to community diversity and integration. It was a violent act of social cleansing, a silent declaration that some peopleâs comfort is more valuable than other peopleâs survival"
www.discontent.wtf/news/holding...
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Holding the Line: Gentrification and the Dispossession of the Kirkgate Benches
https://www.discontent.wtf/news/holding-the-line-gentrification-and-the-dispossession-of-the-kirkgate-benches
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Zeteo
3 months ago
â[Sudan] has been used as a tool to prove that concern for genocide elsewhere is motivated byâŚnefarious actors.â Sudanese journalist and author
@nesrinemalik.bsky.social
responds to Western media using the Sudanese civil war to deflect from Gaza. Watch the full panel:
zeteo.com/p/genocide-i...
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Tommy Mackay
3 months ago
I went to see
@writereralk.bsky.social
at the Edinburgh Book festival and at the end she read out an incredible poem. I asked her afterwards if I could set it to music. She agreed, and this is the result:
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No Thrones, A Pledge | Daily Reckless
words: A.L. Kennedy I hereby pledge allegiance to Utopia That place without an anthem, Its flag a turn of sunlight Rising over any nation, With no precise location on a map. And as I pledge, I kneel t...
https://www.dailyreckless.com/2025/08/31/no-thrones-a-pledge/
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Peggy Stuart
3 months ago
Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art
www.npr.org/2025/08/24/n...
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Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art
A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/24/nx-s1-5511241/smithsonian-white-house-art
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Zoe Gardner
4 months ago
Someone tell me, what is the point of being a Labour MP? What is it for?
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Maggie Chapman MSP (she/her)
4 months ago
What happened to us? Scotland used to be a warm & welcoming place. Increasing hostility against migrants is making us cold. On Saturday, we said no to racism, no to xenophobia, & showed solidarity with the minoritised & the scapegoated in Aberdeenâ
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4 months ago
Large Mural at St John's kirk in Edinburgh's West End
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Mike Small
4 months ago
An hour of not feeling complicit in the genocide
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/08/10/a...
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An hour of not feeling complicit in the genocide
Almost 500 people were arrested in London yesterday for holding placards supporting âPalestine Actionâ which the UK government has declared a âterrorist organisationâ despite it never harming anyonâŚ
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/08/10/an-hour-of-not-feeling-complicit-in-the-genocide/
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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
4 months ago
US nuclear flights landed at Lakenheath last month indicating that US nukes are in Britain for the first time since 2008. CND calls on the UK government to make an urgent statement and allow for a transparent debate and vote in Parliament. Find out more:
https://cnduk.org/lakenheath/
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The National
4 months ago
A protest is planned at Faslane this weekend to make a fresh call for a world free of nuclear weapons
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Peaceful protest planned at Faslane ahead of 80th anniversary of atomic bomb
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25359959.faslane-protest-planned-make-calls-end-nuclear-weapons/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1754064828-2
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AL Kennedy
4 months ago
Here's to him. Glorious writer and funny guy.
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The National
5 months ago
An activist group are set to stage an emergency demonstration in Edinburgh on Friday evening
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Emergency Gaza protest planned for Ian Murrayâs Edinburgh office
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25339376.emergency-gaza-demo-planned-ian-murrays-edinburgh-office/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1753382798-2
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AL Kennedy
5 months ago
Nah, mate. We're just of a stranger island. Stranger every feckin day.
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Mark Thomas
5 months ago
When Rachel Reeves backs trickledown economics and deregulation of financial sector she is all of the below: Using discredited ideology. Ignoring economic evidence. Scared of the City. Desperate. A Tory.
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AL Kennedy
5 months ago
Unless otherwise marked, please know all messages here are certified 'human written '.
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The UK's new trade strategy says it will continue inserting controversial corporate courts into its trade deals. Sign the petition: Call time on corporate courts.
#StopISDS
act.globaljustice.org.uk/petition-cal...
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Petition: Call time on corporate courts
The UK's new trade strategy says it will continue inserting controversial corporate courts into its trade deals. At this very moment, the government is negotiating an investment treaty with India that...
https://act.globaljustice.org.uk/petition-call-time-corporate-courts
5 months ago
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AL Kennedy
5 months ago
I'll believe it when I see it...
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5 months ago
Songster Penny Stone on it re UK's shot at crushing Palestine Actions
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Sometimes You Need a Hammer
YouTube video by penny stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFLmTnQTsps
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Maggie Chapman MSP (she/her)
5 months ago
Very few people know of the atrocities that Gypsy Travellers faced in Scotland only a few decades ago. It was a cultural genocide, & its legacy lives on. Many in the community anxiously await today's announcement to see if ScotGov will finally apologise for their partđââ¸ď¸âđ
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Gaia Vince
6 months ago
Big fan of boring negotiating institutions rather than chaotic despots
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Tel Aviv won't sign up to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty because that would mean being open to inspection by the IAEA. a smelly dodge supported by US, UK (of course) and the increasingly warlike EU.
6 months ago
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Maggie Chapman MSP (she/her)
6 months ago
Last week, I was grateful to discuss how we build a better, more inclusive & peaceful world: in the Scottish Parliament, with
@caatuk.bsky.social
, & at Aberdeen Uni. Taxpayers' money should not fund genocide, survivors of abuse deserve justice, immigration is good, & equality benefits everyone!
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Zoe Gardner
6 months ago
Boiling with rage hearing on the radio that Labour is welcoming in Refugee Week with the announcement that instead of asylum hotels theyâll be expanding the Disastrous Dehumanising & MORE EXPENSIVE âMassâ accommodation sites at places like ex-army bases. There are not enough facepalms.
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Mark Ruskell
6 months ago
I have written to the Scottish Government about the potential job losses at Alexander Dennis factories in Falkirk and Larbert. I urge the Scottish Government to meet with workers and unions to retain jobs and skills in our communities.
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Gaia Vince
6 months ago
Weâre living in the manosphere. This whole spinning planet is a manosphere and itâs not looking good
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Society may have overestimated risk of the âmanosphereâ, UK researchers say
Many who engage are âdiscriminating and value-drivenâ, with a minority consuming âextremely misogynistic contentâ, study for Ofcom suggests
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/13/study-manosphere-ofcom?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Maggie Chapman MSP (she/her)
6 months ago
There is no more room for denial - the UK Government, the Labour Party, is actively participating in genocide.
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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Gaia Vince
6 months ago
A handful of awful old men are destroying the lives of millions. What a stupid world.
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Maggie Chapman MSP (she/her)
6 months ago
The UK Gov sanctions two Israeli ministers...a week after announcing plans to make the UK a military-industrial machine. And Scotland still gives millions to arms companies. Hundreds of us came together & called on both governments to take action for Palestine, & for peace, at last week's rally.
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Mike Small
6 months ago
Vice-Signalling and the Omnicause - on how the far-right voices within our media are unconscious of their own rage and ignorance
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/11/v...
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Vice-Signalling and the Omnicause
Responses to the seizure of the Freedom Flotilla (Sailing Against the Tide) which included twelve volunteers (including Greta Thunberg) were predictable. From around the strange brew that is BritaiâŚ
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/11/vice-signalling-and-the-omnicause/
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Gaia Vince
6 months ago
75% drop in child deaths as well as loads of other benefits. Those campaigning against it should be asked why they want more deaths
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20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds
A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significantâŚ
https://etsc.eu/20mph-limits-in-london-linked-to-sharp-fall-in-road-injuries-and-deaths-new-report-finds/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKytf1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHg2yeZuRolJb0PRkd5NX-D_k3YalMuoUjaoFpvyxdggMuXQqnnMU9ftL3cp5_aem_Np_d4_0y2OKyaXNffip8BQ
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Mike Small
6 months ago
Introducing the BritCard: a fusion of digital surveillance, authoritarianism and British Nationalism rolled into one:
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/06/a...
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Anti-Politics and the BritCard
Yesterdayâs election result in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse represents a nadir of Scottish politics, with the election of a candidate who spent most of the campaign in hiding from the meâŚ
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/06/anti-politics-and-the-britcard/
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6 months ago
" . . the UK governmentâs concept of security is not only not fit for purpose, it is based on making everyone and everything less and less safe." Our response to the UK Defence Review
securescotland.substack.com/p/secure-sco...
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SECURE SCOTLAND RESPONDS TO THE UK'S SDR
Time for a better conversation about what keeps us safe
https://securescotland.substack.com/p/secure-scotland-responds-to-the-uks
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