Anne
@grannyann1e.bsky.social
Proud Scottish Gran, retired teacher, avid reader. Scottish independence supporter. Interested in and depressed by politics in equal measures! No DM’s
Astonishing to say the least!
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Astonishing to say the least!
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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. 🏴
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This is the remarkable video on which six US senators/representatives with service backgrounds emphasise that those serving should not follow unlawful orders.
What they are doing is stating what the oaths provide.
This should not be remarkable, but it is.
www.youtube.com/shorts/Fk9Gh...
What they are doing is stating what the oaths provide.
This should not be remarkable, but it is.
www.youtube.com/shorts/Fk9Gh...
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community...
YouTube video by Sen. Elissa Slotkin
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is the remarkable video on which six US senators/representatives with service backgrounds emphasise that those serving should not follow unlawful orders.
What they are doing is stating what the oaths provide.
This should not be remarkable, but it is.
www.youtube.com/shorts/Fk9Gh...
What they are doing is stating what the oaths provide.
This should not be remarkable, but it is.
www.youtube.com/shorts/Fk9Gh...
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Not sure Rachel Reeves goading the SNP about flinging some pocket money Scotland’s way looks as good as she thinks it does.
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Not sure Rachel Reeves goading the SNP about flinging some pocket money Scotland’s way looks as good as she thinks it does.
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#RachelReeves Oooh that was a zinger Rachel, admitting in parliament that you are circumventing the devolved government of Scotland. Backroom deals with Sarwar are not the flex you think it is.
Nearly as bad a look as attacking a person unable to respond.
Nearly as bad a look as attacking a person unable to respond.
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
#RachelReeves Oooh that was a zinger Rachel, admitting in parliament that you are circumventing the devolved government of Scotland. Backroom deals with Sarwar are not the flex you think it is.
Nearly as bad a look as attacking a person unable to respond.
Nearly as bad a look as attacking a person unable to respond.
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‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
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I guess the brave BBC will be sandblasting Orwell's "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" off the front of Broadcasting House?
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I guess the brave BBC will be sandblasting Orwell's "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" off the front of Broadcasting House?
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🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
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Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
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A - freaking - men
this should have torpedoed his presidency in and of itself
this should have torpedoed his presidency in and of itself
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A - freaking - men
this should have torpedoed his presidency in and of itself
this should have torpedoed his presidency in and of itself
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23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today: 38d.gs/bojo_all_df
Sign the petition: Strip Boris Johnson of his annual former PM allowance
23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today:
38d.gs
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today: 38d.gs/bojo_all_df
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Are those "MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS" in the room with you right now, Piggy?
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Are those "MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS" in the room with you right now, Piggy?
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Please people, this is horrendous. Palantir (Peter Theil) and Blair’s son? Write to your MP, block their phone lines and em and this is not allowed to proceed.
A partnership for the NHS, run by Tony Blair’s son alongside Palantir. What could possibly go wrong?! 🚨🚨🚨
Here’s the link to read my latest piece…
jujuliagrace.substack.com
Here’s the link to read my latest piece…
jujuliagrace.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Please people, this is horrendous. Palantir (Peter Theil) and Blair’s son? Write to your MP, block their phone lines and em and this is not allowed to proceed.
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What a fucking wanker!....😡🤮😡🤮😡🤮
Boris Johnson took 4 days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Thousands died.
Spent time walking his dog, riding motorcycle, hosting lunches/dinners.
He once said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’, ‘we should let the old people get it’.
Will he be held to account,?
Thousands died.
Spent time walking his dog, riding motorcycle, hosting lunches/dinners.
He once said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’, ‘we should let the old people get it’.
Will he be held to account,?
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What a fucking wanker!....😡🤮😡🤮😡🤮
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The Royal Navy threatened legal action as part of a fierce, high-level, behind-the-scenes battle to block publication of information about radioactive pollution at the Coulport nuclear bomb base on the Clyde.
www.thenational.scot/news/2564296...
www.thenational.scot/news/2564296...
Navy’s legal threats in bid to keep nuclear pollution secret exposed
The Royal Navy threatened legal action as part of a fierce, high-level, behind-the-scenes battle to block publication of information about…
www.thenational.scot
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The Royal Navy threatened legal action as part of a fierce, high-level, behind-the-scenes battle to block publication of information about radioactive pollution at the Coulport nuclear bomb base on the Clyde.
www.thenational.scot/news/2564296...
www.thenational.scot/news/2564296...
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Mark Kelly: "The message he sent a couple days ago was he declared that loyalty to the Constitution is now punishable by death. Those are serious words coming from the president. He's trying to intimidate us. But I'm not going to be intimidated."
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Mark Kelly: "The message he sent a couple days ago was he declared that loyalty to the Constitution is now punishable by death. Those are serious words coming from the president. He's trying to intimidate us. But I'm not going to be intimidated."
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If and when Trump or Hegseth gives the order to fire upon U.S. citizens, the military must remember their oaths are to our Constitution, not to these madmen.
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
If and when Trump or Hegseth gives the order to fire upon U.S. citizens, the military must remember their oaths are to our Constitution, not to these madmen.
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“Donald Trump doesn’t believe people should obey the law — he believes people should obey him. He doesn’t care about the law. He doesn’t care about the Constitution. And what he said yesterday is this: if you stand in the way of his corruption, death is your destiny.” — Sen. Chris Murphy
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“Donald Trump doesn’t believe people should obey the law — he believes people should obey him. He doesn’t care about the law. He doesn’t care about the Constitution. And what he said yesterday is this: if you stand in the way of his corruption, death is your destiny.” — Sen. Chris Murphy
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
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School repairs left unfinished as firm behind PFI contract goes into liquidation.
Massive profiteering from PFI. After 25-30 years assets need to be in good condition before transfer to the public body. Then the company goes bust.
Govt doing more PFI deals.
Massive profiteering from PFI. After 25-30 years assets need to be in good condition before transfer to the public body. Then the company goes bust.
Govt doing more PFI deals.
Repairs left unfinished as firm behind huge schools PFI contract goes into liquidation
The news heightens concerns that 88 schools in Stoke-on-Trent could be left with unfinished work.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
School repairs left unfinished as firm behind PFI contract goes into liquidation.
Massive profiteering from PFI. After 25-30 years assets need to be in good condition before transfer to the public body. Then the company goes bust.
Govt doing more PFI deals.
Massive profiteering from PFI. After 25-30 years assets need to be in good condition before transfer to the public body. Then the company goes bust.
Govt doing more PFI deals.
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A former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged.
A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.
And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.
A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.
And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged.
A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.
And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.
A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.
And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.