@jurahen.bsky.social
Hebridean Island Hen. Granny. Mad dog Lady. Free Scotland. SNP. Sassenach for Indy. Still European. Save Our NHS. Save the Planet. 🌍🏴🏴🇪🇺
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Norway used its energy wealth to build one of the most prosperous and fair societies in the world.
Scotland can do it too, with the fresh start of independence.
Get involved: snp.org/energy
Scotland can do it too, with the fresh start of independence.
Get involved: snp.org/energy
December 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Norway used its energy wealth to build one of the most prosperous and fair societies in the world.
Scotland can do it too, with the fresh start of independence.
Get involved: snp.org/energy
Scotland can do it too, with the fresh start of independence.
Get involved: snp.org/energy
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@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social - you can only ignore this story for so long.
Robbie Gibb needs to go!
Robbie Gibb needs to go!
The pressure keeps mounting on Farage.
At what point does he become a liability to his party?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At what point does he become a liability to his party?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage urged to ‘come clean’ over alleged election spending breaches in Clacton
Reform campaign accused by ex-councillor of falsely reporting expenses during Farage’s run to become MP last year
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social - you can only ignore this story for so long.
Robbie Gibb needs to go!
Robbie Gibb needs to go!
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Is the circle closing on Farage
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Is the circle closing on Farage
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
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Keir Starmer’s policies on Scottish industry risk repeating the economic devastation caused by Thatcher in the 1980s.
This morning, I’ll set out how independence is fresh start we need - putting Scotland’s wealth in Scotland’s hands.
Tune in live on the SNP channels at 10am.
This morning, I’ll set out how independence is fresh start we need - putting Scotland’s wealth in Scotland’s hands.
Tune in live on the SNP channels at 10am.
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Keir Starmer’s policies on Scottish industry risk repeating the economic devastation caused by Thatcher in the 1980s.
This morning, I’ll set out how independence is fresh start we need - putting Scotland’s wealth in Scotland’s hands.
Tune in live on the SNP channels at 10am.
This morning, I’ll set out how independence is fresh start we need - putting Scotland’s wealth in Scotland’s hands.
Tune in live on the SNP channels at 10am.
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Remaining out of the Single Market is the most stubbornly stupid act of political nonsense that I’ve seen in my lifetime.
We’re scrabbling around for growth and celebrating two penny deals with far-off partners, while the largest trade bloc in the world can be seen from Dover.
We’re scrabbling around for growth and celebrating two penny deals with far-off partners, while the largest trade bloc in the world can be seen from Dover.
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Remaining out of the Single Market is the most stubbornly stupid act of political nonsense that I’ve seen in my lifetime.
We’re scrabbling around for growth and celebrating two penny deals with far-off partners, while the largest trade bloc in the world can be seen from Dover.
We’re scrabbling around for growth and celebrating two penny deals with far-off partners, while the largest trade bloc in the world can be seen from Dover.
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No Rory Stewart. I beg to differ. Farage, rhythms with Garage.
Farage shouldn't be forgiven for school boy racism. He didn't move on to be a kinder, better person and is at the centre of an ever growing race hate island stoking the flames of division.
He knows exactly what he's doing
Farage shouldn't be forgiven for school boy racism. He didn't move on to be a kinder, better person and is at the centre of an ever growing race hate island stoking the flames of division.
He knows exactly what he's doing
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
No Rory Stewart. I beg to differ. Farage, rhythms with Garage.
Farage shouldn't be forgiven for school boy racism. He didn't move on to be a kinder, better person and is at the centre of an ever growing race hate island stoking the flames of division.
He knows exactly what he's doing
Farage shouldn't be forgiven for school boy racism. He didn't move on to be a kinder, better person and is at the centre of an ever growing race hate island stoking the flames of division.
He knows exactly what he's doing
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🇨🇿🇺🇦 We will all lose if Putin wins in Ukraine, — Czech President Petr Pavel
According to him, recent statements about secret negotiations between the US and Russia, in particular about the transfer of Ukrainian territories, are dangerously reminiscent of the Munich Agreement of 1938.
According to him, recent statements about secret negotiations between the US and Russia, in particular about the transfer of Ukrainian territories, are dangerously reminiscent of the Munich Agreement of 1938.
December 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🇨🇿🇺🇦 We will all lose if Putin wins in Ukraine, — Czech President Petr Pavel
According to him, recent statements about secret negotiations between the US and Russia, in particular about the transfer of Ukrainian territories, are dangerously reminiscent of the Munich Agreement of 1938.
According to him, recent statements about secret negotiations between the US and Russia, in particular about the transfer of Ukrainian territories, are dangerously reminiscent of the Munich Agreement of 1938.
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Dec 7: Feast of Nativity of Colum Cille (Columba), founder of Iona, born in Ireland #OTD in 521. He consecrated Áedán mac Gabráin as king of Dál Riata; preached to the Picts, including ‘the tribes of Tay’; and reputedly banished a monster from the River Ness. 📸Bodleian Libraries #medievalsky
December 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Dec 7: Feast of Nativity of Colum Cille (Columba), founder of Iona, born in Ireland #OTD in 521. He consecrated Áedán mac Gabráin as king of Dál Riata; preached to the Picts, including ‘the tribes of Tay’; and reputedly banished a monster from the River Ness. 📸Bodleian Libraries #medievalsky
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It's NOT that 'the younger generation' are woke snowflakes.
They're MUCH more enlightened and in a better place to counter Propaganda. That's all.
Their Grandparents had a lifetime of a 'British Empire' narrative and secret shenanigans, they couldn't easily find out about.
It's Knowledge.
They're MUCH more enlightened and in a better place to counter Propaganda. That's all.
Their Grandparents had a lifetime of a 'British Empire' narrative and secret shenanigans, they couldn't easily find out about.
It's Knowledge.
This is so fucking spot on,
I have spoken to many of the younger generation and they say,
In whispers sometimes,
That they try to avoid contact with their grandparents because of exactly that -
"The mail, the express, the telegraph" - cited as the poison that killed their families.
I have spoken to many of the younger generation and they say,
In whispers sometimes,
That they try to avoid contact with their grandparents because of exactly that -
"The mail, the express, the telegraph" - cited as the poison that killed their families.
Through its knee-jerk attack on a prominent Black woman, I wonder whether the Mail has found a deeper truth.
How many, through reading the Mail, became so toxic their children and grandchildren no longer enjoy seeing them? How many readers are asking themselves 'will this be me?'
How many, through reading the Mail, became so toxic their children and grandchildren no longer enjoy seeing them? How many readers are asking themselves 'will this be me?'
December 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
It's NOT that 'the younger generation' are woke snowflakes.
They're MUCH more enlightened and in a better place to counter Propaganda. That's all.
Their Grandparents had a lifetime of a 'British Empire' narrative and secret shenanigans, they couldn't easily find out about.
It's Knowledge.
They're MUCH more enlightened and in a better place to counter Propaganda. That's all.
Their Grandparents had a lifetime of a 'British Empire' narrative and secret shenanigans, they couldn't easily find out about.
It's Knowledge.
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Well worth watching - and thinking about.
𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 is a truth that successive British governments since Thatcher don't want to discuss. This is because it undermines their entirely 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 choices over Austerity and Inequality. Choices they are NOT forced to accept.
𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 is a truth that successive British governments since Thatcher don't want to discuss. This is because it undermines their entirely 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 choices over Austerity and Inequality. Choices they are NOT forced to accept.
Modern Monetary Theory describes how money works in the real economy.
In this video, I share 12 essential questions to challenge politicians when they deny economic reality — and ensure the power of money is used for people, not for the wealthy few.
youtu.be/S3RGCq5KnTU?...
In this video, I share 12 essential questions to challenge politicians when they deny economic reality — and ensure the power of money is used for people, not for the wealthy few.
youtu.be/S3RGCq5KnTU?...
12 questions that expose the truth about money
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Well worth watching - and thinking about.
𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 is a truth that successive British governments since Thatcher don't want to discuss. This is because it undermines their entirely 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 choices over Austerity and Inequality. Choices they are NOT forced to accept.
𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 is a truth that successive British governments since Thatcher don't want to discuss. This is because it undermines their entirely 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 choices over Austerity and Inequality. Choices they are NOT forced to accept.
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Why do I call Tories scum? In 2023, Sunak admitted they dropped basic scrutiny for the PPE VIP lane. By 2025, his dodgy furlough scheme, bounce-back loans and Eat Out to Help Out had racked up billions more in fraud. Sunak and Johnson ended up costing the British taxpayer an eye-watering fortune.
December 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Why do I call Tories scum? In 2023, Sunak admitted they dropped basic scrutiny for the PPE VIP lane. By 2025, his dodgy furlough scheme, bounce-back loans and Eat Out to Help Out had racked up billions more in fraud. Sunak and Johnson ended up costing the British taxpayer an eye-watering fortune.
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"No citizens anywhere else in the world own so little of their own country. Scotland is a nation which has turned its own people into tenants."
Land is power – Scotland’s people have none
Land isn't just about wealth and justice, it's about power. Scotland is cut off from its own land resources and hence is poorer as a nation
bylines.scot
December 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM
"No citizens anywhere else in the world own so little of their own country. Scotland is a nation which has turned its own people into tenants."
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“I suspect that Shetlanders will be bemused to learn that the Isle of Man is considered to be part of the UK in the eyes of GB Energy, while Shetland is not...”
Shetland omitted from GB Energy map of UK
GB Energy sparks outrage after omitting Shetland – home to major wind farms and oil hubs – from its UK onshore renewables map
bylines.scot
December 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
“I suspect that Shetlanders will be bemused to learn that the Isle of Man is considered to be part of the UK in the eyes of GB Energy, while Shetland is not...”
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December 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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'Rutger Bregman begins by insisting that honest analysis requires starting with the misery. Ours is an age of moral collapse amongst elites — one where power is accumulated not through competence, courage, or service, but through shamelessness.'
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social
The Survival of the Shameless
I listened to the first of the BBC Reith lectures for this year last night.
The lecture was given by Dutch historian Rutger Bergman.
The lecture I listened to was well worth my time. So too, to my surprise, was much of the Q&A. Maybe that was because I noted that many...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
'Rutger Bregman begins by insisting that honest analysis requires starting with the misery. Ours is an age of moral collapse amongst elites — one where power is accumulated not through competence, courage, or service, but through shamelessness.'
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social
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A fairly long - but brilliant - read on the population (or rather depopulation) issues surrounding humanity.
5. Intervention today (or in any recent decades), if it has any effect at all, will instead hasten the depopulation dive on the other side of the peak: a trend that is just as inevitable, whose impacts are brilliantly summarised here by David Runciman: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A fairly long - but brilliant - read on the population (or rather depopulation) issues surrounding humanity.
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English “Labour” ministers slagging off the SNP in the rancid English Torygraph.
They’re desperate to build nuclear power stations far away from London - to power London.
They can get stuffed.
#EndLondonRule
#IndependenceIsNormal
They’re desperate to build nuclear power stations far away from London - to power London.
They can get stuffed.
#EndLondonRule
#IndependenceIsNormal
If nuclear is soooo great then they'll have no problem building them in England, you do you bo & we'll go with our green energy.
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
English “Labour” ministers slagging off the SNP in the rancid English Torygraph.
They’re desperate to build nuclear power stations far away from London - to power London.
They can get stuffed.
#EndLondonRule
#IndependenceIsNormal
They’re desperate to build nuclear power stations far away from London - to power London.
They can get stuffed.
#EndLondonRule
#IndependenceIsNormal
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December 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer’s allowance scandal.
Ridiculous.
People punished for providing unpaid care. Complex rules and cliff-edge limits result in benefits withdrawn for going over by pennies.
Thousands prosecuted. Meanwhile, no one charged for the Post Office scandal.
Ridiculous.
People punished for providing unpaid care. Complex rules and cliff-edge limits result in benefits withdrawn for going over by pennies.
Thousands prosecuted. Meanwhile, no one charged for the Post Office scandal.
Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer’s allowance scandal
Neil Couling said failings by individual claimants ‘at the heart’ of crisis, despite a report finding DWP shortcomings ‘unacceptable’
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer’s allowance scandal.
Ridiculous.
People punished for providing unpaid care. Complex rules and cliff-edge limits result in benefits withdrawn for going over by pennies.
Thousands prosecuted. Meanwhile, no one charged for the Post Office scandal.
Ridiculous.
People punished for providing unpaid care. Complex rules and cliff-edge limits result in benefits withdrawn for going over by pennies.
Thousands prosecuted. Meanwhile, no one charged for the Post Office scandal.
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Get caught doing something wrong, just take a wee break and in a couple of months come on back and everyone will have forgotten about it, typical politician.
Labour, untrustworthy and as corrupt as their blue Tory cousins.
Labour, untrustworthy and as corrupt as their blue Tory cousins.
Keir Starmer says the 'hugely talented' Angela Rayner will return to his Cabinet
Former deputy Angela Rayner will return to Cabinet, says Keir Starmer
www.thenational.scot
December 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Get caught doing something wrong, just take a wee break and in a couple of months come on back and everyone will have forgotten about it, typical politician.
Labour, untrustworthy and as corrupt as their blue Tory cousins.
Labour, untrustworthy and as corrupt as their blue Tory cousins.
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#Scotland’s environmental watchdog has taken regulatory action over a liquid #nuclear radioactive leak at Dounreay which was discovered last summer.
www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/dounrea...
www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/dounrea...
Dounreay ‘taking action’ after unauthorised radioactive drainage leak
Scotland’s environmental watchdog has taken regulatory action over a liquid radioactive leak at Dounreay which was discovered last summer.
www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
#Scotland’s environmental watchdog has taken regulatory action over a liquid #nuclear radioactive leak at Dounreay which was discovered last summer.
www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/dounrea...
www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/dounrea...
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Frightening how this has escalated so quickly in Scotland, these far right groups are obviously well organised and funded, fascism is alive and well in Scotland regardless of those who say it's not.
#SmashFascism
#SmashFascism
“It was the most horrific thing I’ve ever seen in my life – ever”
www.theferret.scot/f...
www.theferret.scot/f...
Far-right agitators stand accused of stirring up trouble at asylum hotel protests. But anti-racists are standing firm
Following a sharp rise in far right activity, we’ve spent the last three months attending protests, speaking to activists under threat, and tracking anti-asylum seeker demonstrations across Scotland.
www.theferret.scot
December 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Frightening how this has escalated so quickly in Scotland, these far right groups are obviously well organised and funded, fascism is alive and well in Scotland regardless of those who say it's not.
#SmashFascism
#SmashFascism