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The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
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Extending free travel to under-30s would give over half a million more people the same opportunities. It would be a real lifeline for young workers and families across our region.
Let’s keep Scotland moving in the right direction. 💚🚌
greens.scot/news/budget-...
Let’s keep Scotland moving in the right direction. 💚🚌
greens.scot/news/budget-...
BUDGET: Greens call for free bus travel for everyone under 30
BUDGET: Greens call for free bus travel for everyone under 30 - Free bus travel makes a fairer and greener Scotland.
greens.scot
December 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Extending free travel to under-30s would give over half a million more people the same opportunities. It would be a real lifeline for young workers and families across our region.
Let’s keep Scotland moving in the right direction. 💚🚌
greens.scot/news/budget-...
Let’s keep Scotland moving in the right direction. 💚🚌
greens.scot/news/budget-...
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Our free bus pass for under-22s has been transformational — over 250 million journeys so far, including over 321,000 here in the Highlands & Islands. It’s saved young people and families a fortune, opened doors to work and education, and helped us cut climate pollution.
December 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Our free bus pass for under-22s has been transformational — over 250 million journeys so far, including over 321,000 here in the Highlands & Islands. It’s saved young people and families a fortune, opened doors to work and education, and helped us cut climate pollution.
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Something else Labour and the British media prefer not to clarify.
Lots of news coverage this morning about £28 billion investment approved to upgrade the UK's energy network.
BUT: The majority of the spending – £17.8 billion - announced today is to maintain Britain’s gas networks rather than build new transmission lines.
BUT: The majority of the spending – £17.8 billion - announced today is to maintain Britain’s gas networks rather than build new transmission lines.
December 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Something else Labour and the British media prefer not to clarify.
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As of Dec. 15, the U.S. State Department will now be conducting “an online presence review” of H-1B visa applicants and their dependents. As a part of this policy, everyone under review is required to set their social media account settings to “public.”
December 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
As of Dec. 15, the U.S. State Department will now be conducting “an online presence review” of H-1B visa applicants and their dependents. As a part of this policy, everyone under review is required to set their social media account settings to “public.”
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So according the new US Nationl Security Strategy for Europe they want to strengthen right-wing radical parties and Russia in order to dump their poisoned goods on the continent while deforming our values and ideologies of freedom, liberalism and democracy and keeping adversaries out to dominate.
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM
So according the new US Nationl Security Strategy for Europe they want to strengthen right-wing radical parties and Russia in order to dump their poisoned goods on the continent while deforming our values and ideologies of freedom, liberalism and democracy and keeping adversaries out to dominate.
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This is so freaking true‼️
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
This is so freaking true‼️
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STARMER IS THE WORST PRIME MINISTER AT THE WORST TIME.
You have to ask if he’s doing what he’s doing deliberately or he’s just the stupidest man ever to have held the office of prime minister.
Few probably understand that he’s making it practically impossible to rejoin the EU or the Single Market
You have to ask if he’s doing what he’s doing deliberately or he’s just the stupidest man ever to have held the office of prime minister.
Few probably understand that he’s making it practically impossible to rejoin the EU or the Single Market
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
STARMER IS THE WORST PRIME MINISTER AT THE WORST TIME.
You have to ask if he’s doing what he’s doing deliberately or he’s just the stupidest man ever to have held the office of prime minister.
Few probably understand that he’s making it practically impossible to rejoin the EU or the Single Market
You have to ask if he’s doing what he’s doing deliberately or he’s just the stupidest man ever to have held the office of prime minister.
Few probably understand that he’s making it practically impossible to rejoin the EU or the Single Market
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Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
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Iv no words 😡😡
I will never watch it again until they are barred from entry, lets organised a mass switch off apple.news/AM9r47hvDQyG...
Israel allowed to take part in Eurovision 2026 - as several countries withdraw — Sky News
Members of the EBU were asked to vote on whether they were happy with new rules, without going ahead with a vote on participation.
apple.news
December 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Iv no words 😡😡
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December 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Did anyone record the CEO of Ofgem confirm on BBC Breakfast that the cost rises to fund infrastructure were in fact required to allow energy to travel from Scotland 🏴 to England 🏴…essentially confirming what critical thinkers already knew that Scotland 🏴 and its resources are there to subsidise 🇬🇧
December 4, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Did anyone record the CEO of Ofgem confirm on BBC Breakfast that the cost rises to fund infrastructure were in fact required to allow energy to travel from Scotland 🏴 to England 🏴…essentially confirming what critical thinkers already knew that Scotland 🏴 and its resources are there to subsidise 🇬🇧
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If I listen to the BBC morning show on R4 it feels like I've moved to a foreign country. The England it reports on is so far away from the Scotland I see every day.
The BBC in Scotland is no better, as it struggles to ape the same editorial lines.
Time for our own national public broadcaster.
The BBC in Scotland is no better, as it struggles to ape the same editorial lines.
Time for our own national public broadcaster.
December 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
If I listen to the BBC morning show on R4 it feels like I've moved to a foreign country. The England it reports on is so far away from the Scotland I see every day.
The BBC in Scotland is no better, as it struggles to ape the same editorial lines.
Time for our own national public broadcaster.
The BBC in Scotland is no better, as it struggles to ape the same editorial lines.
Time for our own national public broadcaster.
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Didn't realise the Sycamore Gap tree fellers were each sentenced to over 4 years for cutting down a tree.
Lucy Connolly got only 31 months after calling for people to be burned alive in their beds.
I'm sure there's a campaign in there somewhere if anyone could be arsed to find it...
Morning.
Lucy Connolly got only 31 months after calling for people to be burned alive in their beds.
I'm sure there's a campaign in there somewhere if anyone could be arsed to find it...
Morning.
December 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Didn't realise the Sycamore Gap tree fellers were each sentenced to over 4 years for cutting down a tree.
Lucy Connolly got only 31 months after calling for people to be burned alive in their beds.
I'm sure there's a campaign in there somewhere if anyone could be arsed to find it...
Morning.
Lucy Connolly got only 31 months after calling for people to be burned alive in their beds.
I'm sure there's a campaign in there somewhere if anyone could be arsed to find it...
Morning.
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The UK can't let go of the US like a drug addict can't let go of crack cocaine or heroine. The UK is fatally addicted. It will end up in a coma and on life support one day.
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The UK can't let go of the US like a drug addict can't let go of crack cocaine or heroine. The UK is fatally addicted. It will end up in a coma and on life support one day.
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A prime example of how the far right can never be appeased. Give them whatever they demand and they’ll bank it, then use it as a new base camp to strike out for more and worse.
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A prime example of how the far right can never be appeased. Give them whatever they demand and they’ll bank it, then use it as a new base camp to strike out for more and worse.
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As the lights continue to dim on our Democracy, I just want to go on record that I have always believed that everyone deserves quality universal health coverage whatever it’s called. No one should ever have to worry about going to the doctor and putting food on the table. No one. It’s a human right.
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
As the lights continue to dim on our Democracy, I just want to go on record that I have always believed that everyone deserves quality universal health coverage whatever it’s called. No one should ever have to worry about going to the doctor and putting food on the table. No one. It’s a human right.
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Libraries
Other countries
LGBTQ-friendly anything
Volunteer organizations
Mosques
Restaurants w/o fries
Other countries
LGBTQ-friendly anything
Volunteer organizations
Mosques
Restaurants w/o fries
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Libraries
Other countries
LGBTQ-friendly anything
Volunteer organizations
Mosques
Restaurants w/o fries
Other countries
LGBTQ-friendly anything
Volunteer organizations
Mosques
Restaurants w/o fries
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Good!
Let's stop this agent of self harm, big money, inequality and exploitation... He's like a cancer, attacking from within.
We don't need him
Farage says deal with Tories ‘as they are’ would cost Reform UK votes, as he denies election pact – UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Let's stop this agent of self harm, big money, inequality and exploitation... He's like a cancer, attacking from within.
We don't need him
Farage says deal with Tories ‘as they are’ would cost Reform UK votes, as he denies election pact – UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Farage says deal with Tories ‘as they are’ would cost Reform UK votes, as he denies election pact – UK politics live
Reform UK leader says report of an election deal with Conservatives is ‘false’, but suggests only under their current leadership
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Good!
Let's stop this agent of self harm, big money, inequality and exploitation... He's like a cancer, attacking from within.
We don't need him
Farage says deal with Tories ‘as they are’ would cost Reform UK votes, as he denies election pact – UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Let's stop this agent of self harm, big money, inequality and exploitation... He's like a cancer, attacking from within.
We don't need him
Farage says deal with Tories ‘as they are’ would cost Reform UK votes, as he denies election pact – UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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A decade ago, Scotland told Nigel Farage to fuck off. It's time to do it again.
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A decade ago, Scotland told Nigel Farage to fuck off. It's time to do it again.
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Farage: I won’t do a deal with the Tories because they were dishonest and incompetent.
Also Farage: We’re recruiting as many Tory MPs as we can.
Also Farage: We’re recruiting as many Tory MPs as we can.
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Farage: I won’t do a deal with the Tories because they were dishonest and incompetent.
Also Farage: We’re recruiting as many Tory MPs as we can.
Also Farage: We’re recruiting as many Tory MPs as we can.