Father, Aviator and Artist. You might not do politics but politics does you, so educate yourself on it.
Edinburgh, Scotland
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The fact the Scottish Gov protected Scots health data and our NHS from being sold off to US tech giant Palantir really doesn’t get enough credit. Do feel for patients and the NHS in England.
We dodged a bullet on that one thanks to the SNP!
Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by US analytics software company Palantir.
A coalition of human rights, health and patient organisations, and unions sent out the plea to NHS trusts by email
bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s481…
What’s new?
What also won’t be surprising is that any of Scotlands MSM were to actually highlight this either..
BREAKING: The Prime Minister has been accused of ‘fibbing’ at PMQs after making a claim about investment into Scotland that doesn’t exist
The SNP are demanding Andy Burnham correct the record
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BREAKING: The Prime Minister has been accused of ‘fibbing’ at PMQs after making a claim about investment into Scotland that doesn’t exist
The SNP are demanding Andy Burnham correct the record
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Here are the 11 Democrats who couldn’t be bothered to show up to impeach war criminal Pete Hegseth:
Nancy Pelosi (CA-11)
Haley Stevens (MI-11)
Julia Brownley (CA-26)
Lou Correa (CA-46)
Laura Gillen (NY-4)
Steven Horsford (NV-4)
Jonathan Jackson (IL-1)
Brittany Pettersen (CO-7)
Melanie Stansbury (NM-1)
Marilyn Strickland (WA-10)
Frederica Wilson (FL-24)
If these 11 Democrats had showed up, Hegseth would’ve been impeached 215-211.
There are no excuses left to make. The Democrats couldn’t even show up to hold a war criminal accountable who bombed an elementary school and mass murdered children.
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NEW: Our investigation finds dozens of members of the House of Lords have financial interests in major tech firms involved in the AI boom - including companies developing and supplying data centres
Exclusive by @James_L_Walker
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For last 24 hours I’ve seen footage of horrific scenes from Gaza, just absolute human misery. Yet..it’s not there on any news outlet’s home pages, not discussed on our witless political shows. We’re just going to ignore it? Is that the plan?
Labour nearly bankrupted Glasgow. To think they can have any say in how the city is run is shameless after such disregard when they ran the city.
Labour are shameless.
The people do make Glasgow.. which is why they voted you out, to protect their city!
‘People make Glasgow’ - and they should be given more power.
Looking forward to speaking at the @scotcoopparty conference about how Glasgow, and all our regions, will benefit from further power being pushed out from Holyrood.
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This is one of the deceptive, underhanded propaganda tools used very frequently by BBC Scotland. They tell a deliberate lie, get it out there for people to see, then publish a correction in a hidden corner of their website that no one will see.
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We think we can say without fear of contradiction that Scottish voters didn't vote Labour in 2024 to send House Jocks to London to read out planted questions attacking the SNP and traducing Scotland. Labour's cowardly colonials are a modern day political scandal.
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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE ‘VIP lane’ for 'politically connected'
30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more 🧵
democracyforsale.substack.co…
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NEW: Scottish Labour MPs should 'hang their heads in shame', the SNP have said, after it emerged just £12m of the £200m promised for the Acorn carbon capture project has been handed over as grant funding 🥀
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The BBC's assault on Glasgow should concern everyone in Scotland. The city is collateral damage just as everything in Scotland is when it comes to politics and the BritNats. The constant caricaturing of Scotland as inferior, a mess and in permanent crisis needs to be called out.
This is just insulting nonsense.
Should Scotland slow down in areas while England and Wales catch up? How can devolved nations ‘keep up’ if England has a controlling veto over all decisions and funds major projects in England while cancelling those elsewhere?
Four nations must ‘move at same pace together’, Burnham says on devolution
itv.com/news/2026-10-30/four…
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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce accused ministers of breaking a promise to back the project and said 15,000 North Sea jobs were at risk 👇
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Labour's plan to remove tariffs from 100 food items could save households up to 40p a week. In January Michael Marra ridiculed the SNP's tax change because it only gave people an extra 70p a week.
He said: 'You couldn’t buy a Mars bar for that".
archive.is/2llN1
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When Labour came to power, the price cap was £1,414 and they promised to cut bills by £300.
Now, new EDF forecasts show the price cap hitting £2,389 in April – £1,275 higher than promised.
Only with independence, can we cut bills and build a better fairer future for Scotland.
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Lets get this straight. BBC insults Glasgow+Scotland after Glasgow saves the Commonwealth Games by limiting BBC UK coverage, then 2wks later as extensive BBC coverage of Euro Athletics in Birmingham England ends, the BBC runs a smear campaign attacking Glasgow. Call it what it is
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A former Tory election candidate has been suspended from the party after he was seemingly filmed discussing the cost of hiring contract killers and offering to “broker” the services of a far-right activist with alleged paramilitary links.
By @BenQuinn75
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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🚨🇬🇧 Turning Point UK's CEO was filmed offering an undercover reporter a menu of beatings, stabbings and killings through a Glasgow contact who says he arms the UVF
Al Jazeera’s undercover operation started in 2021 when a reporter joined the British offshoot of the American student group.
Its CEO Jack Ross, a Conservative candidate in 2023, introduced the reporter to Allan Nesbitt, a convicted criminal and self-described UVF member, agreed on camera to pay him to stage a fake pro-Zimbabwe rally, and priced out what Nesbitt’s friends could do to a person, from cutting faces to MURDER.
The UVF is the Ulster Volunteer Force, a Protestant loyalist paramilitary from Northern Ireland’s Troubles that killed over 500 people between 1966 and 1999, including 33 in one day in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, and is still banned as a terror group.
Since the peace deal it has run mostly as a drug gang that kept the name and the guns.
Nesbitt reportedly met the reporter in a London hotel, offered to have a fictional business rival “finished,” claimed he’d personally stabbed a man to death, showed a shotgun and pistol on a video call and said the fee would buy weapons smuggled from Scotland into Northern Ireland.
Ross says it was a joke. The joke came with a price list, a weapons demo and a smuggling route, and the police now have a name and a video... and wasn't particularly funny.
Somebody in Turning Point UK’s donor base should be asking when the fundraising dinners turned into this.
Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Daniel