Dughlas
@dughlas1.bsky.social
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Comics, Dr Who, Dark Shadows, interior design, Galloway beaches, Glasgow & Lanarkshire, neurodivergence, independence for Scotland. Formerly @LeDocteurNeuf
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Zack Polanski shut down a BBC host after she attempted to rip apart proposed plans for a wealth tax 👇
Greens leader Zack Polanski shuts down BBC host over wealth tax comparisons
www.thenational.scot
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bittersweet seeing parts of the lethargic british press sluggishly get around to wondering if US far-right religious think tanks are working to influence british politics. they are, yes! it is not secret! do your jobs better!
FB photos of the infamous Stonehouse Park chute. It was dismantled while I was around two or three, but I know my cousin went on it as a child.
The first Capaldi Doctor Who season, while morbid in tone (and, I think, misjudged) vacillated between scepticism about the military and romanticism of the same.
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That's the problem with Scotland being a colony. The #EnglishImperialists rape us of our assets and then charge just us, much more to buy them back. The Empire in action.

IT IS TIME!
#ScottishIndependenceNOW #ScottishUDI #FreeScotland #EnglishImperialistsOUT
scotish renewable energy are paying huge fees to connect to the National Grid while the English projects are paid to connect to the very same grid National Grid figures reveal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 pay £465million cost for national grid access while 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 are being handed a connection subsidy of £30million a year. 👇
Aliens, which I hadn't watched since its release, in this edition crawled on to 2.5 hours. Much of that was given over to the luckless and unappealing space marines. I liked the implication that the military can't save the day- only the surrogate mother and the android can.
The swans have abandoned the pond this morning.
Some voters base their entire identity around a political party, yet MPs change parties all the time.
Just what is going on with the unions?? How the HELL are they still supporting #Labour who:

no longer support the workers
support big businesses & the wealthy
are now a #RightWing party

They need to wake up, stop supporting them & support actual parties on the #Left, IE #Greens & #YourParty.
Sadly unions have shown they often talk the talk but when it comes to the crunch they always back Labour no matter how right wing the Labour Government has become. Most unions are nothing more than insurance sales agents. They’ve lost their way sadly
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@lbc.co.uk Mathew, with reference to "the royals", the people of Scotland are sovereign and therefore not subjects. The people of England, are subjects.
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I don't think this lot get enough credit for their achievements

So congratulations to Labour's top team, from a huge commons majority handed to them on a plate, to a nasty, right wing, authoritarian, soulless rump of a party, in thrall to corporate lobbyists, almost universally despised

Well done!
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Vote Reform and get a shit-show. To no one's surprise, hard right idiots motivated by a hatred of immigration are incompetents in government, consumed by in-fighting, egoism and back-biting. Let's hope the wheels come off Farage's latest vehicle before 2029.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Suck it up’: leaked video exposes bitter infighting at Reform UK’s flagship Kent council
Exclusive: Footage reveals Kent leader berating councillors amid rows over budgets and bullying claims
www.theguardian.com
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Nothing as yet on the BBC News site about the US 'No Kings' rallies today. Hundreds of thousands of people peacefully protesting & not a word from our national broadcaster. ITV is carrying the story. BBC not fit for purpose when it's deliberately covering up momentous events such as these.
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Abject hypocrisy but the WM politicians are all owned by their donors
Ugh. Too much Tolkien. England has got a feedback loop with the US of medieval, magical nonsense. A peasant stew of royalty, religion and the state, seasoned with crackpot ideas of manifest destiny.
When someone talks about a "sacred duty" I would like to know which god makes it sacred.

To the best of my knowledge there is no deity who instructs us that promises are binding only when given to British nationals, but maybe the scholars of religion could enlighten me on this.
Lam has heard the charge that retrospective breaches of past promises to deport those who played by the rules are unfair.

She accepts it is unfair & has "great personal sympathy" for those she will unfairly deport.

She says she believes that fairness should apply to British citizens "alone"
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Christ alive. If we, as a nation, can’t do better than this nasty, stale-breathed, stale-minded, racist misogynist prick, then what the hell are we doing? Leading in the polls??
FFS. Sort yourself out, UK.
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It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
Nostalgia is a key element of English culture. The past is always better than the present. You even find it in Shakespeare.
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There’s this bizarre thing in England where right wing people pretend to have lived thru things they did not. The boomers all pretended to have lived thru the blitz, and now we got Xers like that guy pretending he grew up in the 50s before football hooligan culture. It’s genuinely bizarre
Looks like he's standing on a box.
Tommy Robinson, Maccabi Tel Aviv's newest hooligan.
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Andrew is still eighth in line to the throne. Andrew is still a Prince. Andrew still gets to live in a royal lodge. Andrew has still not been questioned by the Met Police.

Removing some pointless titles simply isn't enough. #AbolishTheMonarchy
Aw, Christ, here's Schrodinger's Separatist again.
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Fucking amazing Poem
“A man’s a man for a’ that” – how does he know?
Traipsing with his plough, the rural hero,
Swaggering down the lea-rigs, talking to mice…

—“James Macfarlan”, by Edwin Morgan
in VIRTUAL & OTHER REALITIES, @carcanet.bsky.social 1997
#Scotstober #poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754347...