Irene A Reid
@ayereenr.bsky.social
Social scientist [semi-retired] exploring the social, cultural & political significance of sport - especially in Scotland. Pro 🏴 independence, trade unionist.
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Labour came in promising to cut energy bills by £300. Now they’re almost £200 higher, and they trumpet a change that won’t even cover the increase since they took office.
Is this really it??
Scotland deserves better than this chaos. A fresh start with independence. 🏴
Is this really it??
Scotland deserves better than this chaos. A fresh start with independence. 🏴
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Labour came in promising to cut energy bills by £300. Now they’re almost £200 higher, and they trumpet a change that won’t even cover the increase since they took office.
Is this really it??
Scotland deserves better than this chaos. A fresh start with independence. 🏴
Is this really it??
Scotland deserves better than this chaos. A fresh start with independence. 🏴
🏴
JOY UNCONFINED!
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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All ballots to be returned by 28th NOVEMBER. That’s just over 10 final days to push, to talk to everyone you can and GET THE VOTE OUT! 🗳️🗳️
Make sure that your HE IA pay ballot is returned by 28 November for your vote to count. Vote YES and come together to say enough. University staff are worth more than 1.4%.
Need a replacement ballot? Our hotline closes on 20 November: call UNISON Direct on 0800 0 857 857
#fundourfuture #fundourpay
Need a replacement ballot? Our hotline closes on 20 November: call UNISON Direct on 0800 0 857 857
#fundourfuture #fundourpay
November 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
All ballots to be returned by 28th NOVEMBER. That’s just over 10 final days to push, to talk to everyone you can and GET THE VOTE OUT! 🗳️🗳️
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Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!
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It was an honour to speak at @scottishcnd.bsky.social yesterday and talk about how increasing military spending is not the answer to the social problems created by austerity.
Instead, let's invest in people, communities and the public services that will actually improve living standards.
Instead, let's invest in people, communities and the public services that will actually improve living standards.
November 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
It was an honour to speak at @scottishcnd.bsky.social yesterday and talk about how increasing military spending is not the answer to the social problems created by austerity.
Instead, let's invest in people, communities and the public services that will actually improve living standards.
Instead, let's invest in people, communities and the public services that will actually improve living standards.
I agree with @brianleishmanmp.bsky.social if only the Budget will tax multimillionaires. But probably wishful thinking.
It's simple. The Budget has to tax the multimillionaires and billionaires and invest in the public services we need.
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I agree with @brianleishmanmp.bsky.social if only the Budget will tax multimillionaires. But probably wishful thinking.
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Comrades in the UCU Solidarity Movement have arrived on BlueSky! 🥊
Complete the ballot paper.
Your union is calling you to vote YES and YES.
Everyone should vote. Democracy requires participation.
UCU is your union and this is your decision.
For what the dispute is about, go to ucu.org.uk/WeAreTheUniv...
#WeAreTheUniversity
@ucu.org.uk
Your union is calling you to vote YES and YES.
Everyone should vote. Democracy requires participation.
UCU is your union and this is your decision.
For what the dispute is about, go to ucu.org.uk/WeAreTheUniv...
#WeAreTheUniversity
@ucu.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Comrades in the UCU Solidarity Movement have arrived on BlueSky! 🥊
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#OtD 22 Oct 1902 Black British boxer and communist, Len Johnson, was born in Manchester. Newspapers said it was "tolerably certain" that he would become UK champion, but he was barred because of the rule that contestants had to have two white parents stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1122...
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#OtD 22 Oct 1902 Black British boxer and communist, Len Johnson, was born in Manchester. Newspapers said it was "tolerably certain" that he would become UK champion, but he was barred because of the rule that contestants had to have two white parents stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1122...
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Most folks would not shell out millions to a woman they deny ever meeting. Just saying.
October 21, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Most folks would not shell out millions to a woman they deny ever meeting. Just saying.
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#OtD 21 Oct 1905 during the Russian Revolution, railway workers began a strike which quickly developed into a general strike in St Petersburg and Moscow. Within five days, nearly all trains in the country had stopped stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9426...
October 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
#OtD 21 Oct 1905 during the Russian Revolution, railway workers began a strike which quickly developed into a general strike in St Petersburg and Moscow. Within five days, nearly all trains in the country had stopped stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9426...
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Thanks to John Glencross and the Football Memories Group for the @alloaathletic.co.uk club tie!
It was worn with pride in the HoC chamber today!
The Wasps are a huge part of the
Clackmannanshire community and good luck to them for the League 1 fixture v East Fife at The Recs this weekend 🧡🖤⚽️
It was worn with pride in the HoC chamber today!
The Wasps are a huge part of the
Clackmannanshire community and good luck to them for the League 1 fixture v East Fife at The Recs this weekend 🧡🖤⚽️
October 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Thanks to John Glencross and the Football Memories Group for the @alloaathletic.co.uk club tie!
It was worn with pride in the HoC chamber today!
The Wasps are a huge part of the
Clackmannanshire community and good luck to them for the League 1 fixture v East Fife at The Recs this weekend 🧡🖤⚽️
It was worn with pride in the HoC chamber today!
The Wasps are a huge part of the
Clackmannanshire community and good luck to them for the League 1 fixture v East Fife at The Recs this weekend 🧡🖤⚽️
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#OtD 9 Oct 1967 Argentinian doctor and revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who had been wounded and captured, was summarily executed in Bolivia by the country's special forces stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...
October 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#OtD 9 Oct 1967 Argentinian doctor and revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who had been wounded and captured, was summarily executed in Bolivia by the country's special forces stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...
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#OtD 27 Sep 1960 Sylvia Pankhurst, prominent suffragette, left communist, and anti-fascist, died in Ethiopia stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9966...
September 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
#OtD 27 Sep 1960 Sylvia Pankhurst, prominent suffragette, left communist, and anti-fascist, died in Ethiopia stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9966...
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🟥 UK Environment Secretary Steve Reed was allowed to state unchallenged on Channel 4 news that publicly-owned Scottish Water is producing worse outcomes than England’s private firms.
🔎 It is not a true statement according to any measure, here is why: www.believeinscotland.org/media_watch_...
🔎 It is not a true statement according to any measure, here is why: www.believeinscotland.org/media_watch_...
July 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
🟥 UK Environment Secretary Steve Reed was allowed to state unchallenged on Channel 4 news that publicly-owned Scottish Water is producing worse outcomes than England’s private firms.
🔎 It is not a true statement according to any measure, here is why: www.believeinscotland.org/media_watch_...
🔎 It is not a true statement according to any measure, here is why: www.believeinscotland.org/media_watch_...
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Why John Swinney is keeping us out of England's digital NHS database where your data will be sold and where you'd be funding this genocidal maniac:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/06/h...
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How the SNP Government kept your health data out the hands of an NHS England contractor who openly boasts about killing people in Gaza for profit
By Professor John Robertson OBA From the Skwawkbox, today, the above video (link below) and this: Alex Karp, the chief executive of software company Palantir – which supplies military sof…
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July 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Why John Swinney is keeping us out of England's digital NHS database where your data will be sold and where you'd be funding this genocidal maniac:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/06/h...
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/02/06/h...
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Principals’ pay is embarrassing and out of kilter with the majority of staff - says UCU
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2529146...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2529146...
‘Eye-watering’ university principal salaries may mask deeper problems
Unions warn "eye-watering" principal pay distracts from the sector's real problems, and principals suggest they are open to having a…
www.heraldscotland.com
July 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Principals’ pay is embarrassing and out of kilter with the majority of staff - says UCU
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2529146...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2529146...
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We need a mass population movement against the excessive increase in wealth over the last 14 yrs. We have seen a redistribution of income from the POOR / just managing to the wealthy. wealth has grown inexorably while wages of younger people have stagnated & pensions are the lowest in Europe.
July 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
We need a mass population movement against the excessive increase in wealth over the last 14 yrs. We have seen a redistribution of income from the POOR / just managing to the wealthy. wealth has grown inexorably while wages of younger people have stagnated & pensions are the lowest in Europe.
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Now we know why they're not based in Portsmouth 🤔😉🙉🙈🙊
As the Ferret wins release of 'radioactive secrets', what we already knew about the risks of living near Trident subs:
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Don’t go in the water – Cancer and stroke inducing radioactive air and water emissions from Trident subs more than double in the Clyde as BBC staff look on quietly
The radioactive discharge at Coulport and BBC Scotland HQ, in Glasgow, up the Clyde By Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to cuckooshoe for alerting me to this: From CND on 6th November 2024, miss…
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July 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Now we know why they're not based in Portsmouth 🤔😉🙉🙈🙊
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How Glasgow and Scotland is already ahead of Labour's new 'neighbourhood' integrated health centre announcement today but you won't hear about it:
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New £34m SNP Gov-funded multi-disciplinary GP and health centre opening in Glasgow, ignored by BBC Scotland and credited by STV to Conservative pressure on SNP council yet they have only 2 out of 85 c...
Image LDRS From STV yesterday: A huge GP surgery and health centre, which will combine services located at nine different sites, is due to open within weeks in Glasgow’s East End. There will be thr…
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July 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
How Glasgow and Scotland is already ahead of Labour's new 'neighbourhood' integrated health centre announcement today but you won't hear about it:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/12/26/n...
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/12/26/n...
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🏴 The Scottish Parliament’s child poverty measures have seen a “parting of the ways” with England & Wales.
🏴 Bevan Foundation is calling for Wales to emulate what Scotland is doing as a powerful and effective way to lift children out of poverty: bit.ly/44MnHTW
🏴 Bevan Foundation is calling for Wales to emulate what Scotland is doing as a powerful and effective way to lift children out of poverty: bit.ly/44MnHTW
July 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🏴 The Scottish Parliament’s child poverty measures have seen a “parting of the ways” with England & Wales.
🏴 Bevan Foundation is calling for Wales to emulate what Scotland is doing as a powerful and effective way to lift children out of poverty: bit.ly/44MnHTW
🏴 Bevan Foundation is calling for Wales to emulate what Scotland is doing as a powerful and effective way to lift children out of poverty: bit.ly/44MnHTW
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