Karen MacLean
@dee2dee.bsky.social
Scottish Independence supporter
SNP member
Dog and Cat lover
Sometime writer
From the Highlands
SNP member
Dog and Cat lover
Sometime writer
From the Highlands
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Under Irish Skies – Irish art in the centre of Edinburgh
A new exhibition of Irish art will be staged next week from 4 to 9 December at Dundas Street Gallery. Under Irish Skies will include work from four artists - Nadette Charlet, Helena Korpela, Cora O'Brien, and Sarah Walker - and will…
A new exhibition of Irish art will be staged next week from 4 to 9 December at Dundas Street Gallery. Under Irish Skies will include work from four artists - Nadette Charlet, Helena Korpela, Cora O'Brien, and Sarah Walker - and will…
Under Irish Skies – Irish art in the centre of Edinburgh
A new exhibition of Irish art will be staged next week from 4 to 9 December at Dundas Street Gallery. Under Irish Skies will include work from four artists - Nadette Charlet, Helena Korpela, Cora O'Brien, and Sarah Walker - and will celebrate contemporary Irish art, capturing landscapes and stories. The art is curated by art lover, Joni O’Sullivan, a West Cork native born and brought up on Bere Island.
theedinburghreporter.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Under Irish Skies – Irish art in the centre of Edinburgh
A new exhibition of Irish art will be staged next week from 4 to 9 December at Dundas Street Gallery. Under Irish Skies will include work from four artists - Nadette Charlet, Helena Korpela, Cora O'Brien, and Sarah Walker - and will…
A new exhibition of Irish art will be staged next week from 4 to 9 December at Dundas Street Gallery. Under Irish Skies will include work from four artists - Nadette Charlet, Helena Korpela, Cora O'Brien, and Sarah Walker - and will…
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🏴 St Andrew's Day Sale!
🟪 To celebrate St Andrew's day, there is 20% off items in our shop, including our 'Early Days of a Better Nation' Calendar for 2026: www.believeinscotland.org/shop
⌛ Ends in a few days!
🟪 To celebrate St Andrew's day, there is 20% off items in our shop, including our 'Early Days of a Better Nation' Calendar for 2026: www.believeinscotland.org/shop
⌛ Ends in a few days!
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🏴 St Andrew's Day Sale!
🟪 To celebrate St Andrew's day, there is 20% off items in our shop, including our 'Early Days of a Better Nation' Calendar for 2026: www.believeinscotland.org/shop
⌛ Ends in a few days!
🟪 To celebrate St Andrew's day, there is 20% off items in our shop, including our 'Early Days of a Better Nation' Calendar for 2026: www.believeinscotland.org/shop
⌛ Ends in a few days!
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Reposted by Karen MacLean
As 'British' Jewish leaders intervene over Scotland-Palestine flags, they should check this reassuring information on Scotland:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/09/08/c...
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/09/08/c...
Contrary to media hysteria, there was not one anti-semitic violent attack recorded in Scotland in 2024
Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: or by direct bank transfer method – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 By Professor John Rober…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
As 'British' Jewish leaders intervene over Scotland-Palestine flags, they should check this reassuring information on Scotland:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/09/08/c...
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/09/08/c...
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Important information for 'British' Jewish leaders before they think of intervening here over flags:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/10/j...
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/10/j...
Jewish Scot confirms research suggesting there is less anti-Semitism here to spoil BBC Reporting Scotland agenda that we’re just as bad as elsewhere in the UK
also hopeful it is safer as Jewish people to live in Glasgow, in Scotland than there is not as much anti-Semitism, ant-Zionism, there is not these much going ahead, there is not so much hatred. Pro…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Important information for 'British' Jewish leaders before they think of intervening here over flags:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/10/j...
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/10/j...
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Reposted by Karen MacLean
The sacrifice of the 51st Highland Division
'From the Maginot Line we came late to Saint Valery
The panzers dashing to the coast were soon upon us
We paid a bloody price on Winston Churchill’s say
Marched ten thousand strong to years behind the wire' (Robertson 2025) suno.com/s/NNGdtEiMzM...
'From the Maginot Line we came late to Saint Valery
The panzers dashing to the coast were soon upon us
We paid a bloody price on Winston Churchill’s say
Marched ten thousand strong to years behind the wire' (Robertson 2025) suno.com/s/NNGdtEiMzM...
It was the winter of nineteen thirty-nin
Listen and make your own on Suno.
suno.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The sacrifice of the 51st Highland Division
'From the Maginot Line we came late to Saint Valery
The panzers dashing to the coast were soon upon us
We paid a bloody price on Winston Churchill’s say
Marched ten thousand strong to years behind the wire' (Robertson 2025) suno.com/s/NNGdtEiMzM...
'From the Maginot Line we came late to Saint Valery
The panzers dashing to the coast were soon upon us
We paid a bloody price on Winston Churchill’s say
Marched ten thousand strong to years behind the wire' (Robertson 2025) suno.com/s/NNGdtEiMzM...
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Feed: "Wee Ginger Dug"
By: weegingerdug on Friday, November 21, 2025
By: weegingerdug on Friday, November 21, 2025
The Scottish media’s covid double standards
Did Nicola Sturgeon get everything right during the Covid pandemic when she headed a devolved government limited powers at its disposal and she was faced with an anti-independence Scottish media th…
weegingerdug.wordpress.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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By: weegingerdug on Friday, November 21, 2025
By: weegingerdug on Friday, November 21, 2025
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By: weegingerdug on Tuesday, November 25, 2025
By: weegingerdug on Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Hope of a better Scotland can defeat the far right
Racists complain that migrants don’t want to learn English and integrate, but when migrants do want to learn English and integrate, racists mount a protest outside the school where English la…
weegingerdug.wordpress.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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By: weegingerdug on Tuesday, November 25, 2025
By: weegingerdug on Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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By: weegingerdug on Thursday, November 27, 2025
By: weegingerdug on Thursday, November 27, 2025
The lie that protects the rich from tax rises
Better late than never, Rachel Reeves finally followed the lead of the SNP Government in Holyrood and announced that the heinous two child cap on benefits will finally be abolished from May next ye…
weegingerdug.wordpress.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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By: weegingerdug on Thursday, November 27, 2025
By: weegingerdug on Thursday, November 27, 2025
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Crime in Scotland falls 37% from 2007 to barely half the level in England and Wales talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/29/c...
Crime in Scotland falls 37% from 2007 to barely half the level in England and Wales
Number of victims of homicide in Scotland, 2015-16 to 2024-25 Professor John Robertson OBA From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: November 2025 published on 27 November …
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Crime in Scotland falls 37% from 2007 to barely half the level in England and Wales talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/29/c...
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What he said: 💯 🎯
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What he said: 💯 🎯
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Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
Reposted by Karen MacLean
Reposted by Karen MacLean
Scots taxpayers to pay £200 million for new nuclear power stations in England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/29/s...
Scots taxpayers to pay £200 million for new nuclear power stations in England
Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Dorothy for alerting me to this. In the Guardian today, the above and: UK energy bill payers will hand over £2bn a year in subsidies to EDF, the French compan…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Scots taxpayers to pay £200 million for new nuclear power stations in England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/29/s...
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Reposted by Karen MacLean
Reposted by Karen MacLean
We are living at a time when university leadership amplifies anti-intellectual tropes and technologies
These are very troubling times
These are very troubling times
November 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We are living at a time when university leadership amplifies anti-intellectual tropes and technologies
These are very troubling times
These are very troubling times
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St Andrew's Day. And Day 2 of the Cove and Kilcreggan Book Festival. First up, Sally Magnusson. Tix and full line up from coveburghhall.org.uk
November 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
St Andrew's Day. And Day 2 of the Cove and Kilcreggan Book Festival. First up, Sally Magnusson. Tix and full line up from coveburghhall.org.uk
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🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role.
Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
November 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role.
Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
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Scottish energy bills to rise to pay for English nuclear plant
Scottish energy bills are predicted to rise to help finance nuclear projects in England. Critics argue the UK government should instead invest in Scotland's renewable resources and Grangemouth 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2533290...
Scottish energy bills are predicted to rise to help finance nuclear projects in England. Critics argue the UK government should instead invest in Scotland's renewable resources and Grangemouth 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2533290...
Anger as Scottish energy bills to rise to pay for English nuclear plant
THE costs of England's Sizewell-C nuclear plant are set to spiral – leaving Scots with higher energy bills ...
www.thenational.scot
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Scottish energy bills to rise to pay for English nuclear plant
Scottish energy bills are predicted to rise to help finance nuclear projects in England. Critics argue the UK government should instead invest in Scotland's renewable resources and Grangemouth 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2533290...
Scottish energy bills are predicted to rise to help finance nuclear projects in England. Critics argue the UK government should instead invest in Scotland's renewable resources and Grangemouth 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2533290...
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Saturday’s @theguardian.com front page: Wealthy must pay to fix our creaky services, says Reeves www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Saturday’s @theguardian.com front page: Wealthy must pay to fix our creaky services, says Reeves www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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Can’t remember budget ‘case studies’ ever being quite so funny. Especially in newspapers that recently anointed Liz Truss a fiscal genius.
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Can’t remember budget ‘case studies’ ever being quite so funny. Especially in newspapers that recently anointed Liz Truss a fiscal genius.
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Anas Sarwar has been urged to visit the North East to see the 'damage' the UK Government’s windfall tax is having on Scotland’s energy industry 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2565982...
www.thenational.scot/news/2565982...
Anas Sarwar invited to North East to see 'damage Labour doing to Scottish industry'
ANAS Sarwar has been urged to visit the North East to see the “damage” the UK Government’s windfall tax is having on Scotland’s energy…
www.thenational.scot
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Anas Sarwar has been urged to visit the North East to see the 'damage' the UK Government’s windfall tax is having on Scotland’s energy industry 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2565982...
www.thenational.scot/news/2565982...