Maureen Pickering
@maureenpickering.bsky.social
Retired Depute HT, Scottish granny. Wants Scottish Independence for a fairer, more equal society where Scotland’s vast resources are used for the benefit of the people of 🏴, not Westminster. I am a Sovereign Scot and will bow to no monarch. No DMs
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What's that, David? I can't hear you! Is your microphone working?
Former Ukip leader denies taking Russian bribes
BBC report connects David Coburn, who joined the Brexit Party after Ukip, to the Nathan Gill bribery case
BBC report connects David Coburn, who joined the Brexit Party after Ukip, to the Nathan Gill bribery case
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
What's that, David? I can't hear you! Is your microphone working?
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"there was plenty to welcome ... From lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty, to raising taxes on the harmful gambling industry, while putting more funding into the NHS, this was the most progressive Budget from a UK Government for a long time."
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The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
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November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"there was plenty to welcome ... From lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty, to raising taxes on the harmful gambling industry, while putting more funding into the NHS, this was the most progressive Budget from a UK Government for a long time."
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I love Stephen👇
No side to him; Scottish to the core 🏴
No side to him; Scottish to the core 🏴
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I love Stephen👇
No side to him; Scottish to the core 🏴
No side to him; Scottish to the core 🏴
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If we were independent, we wouldn’t be getting tapped for £200 million to help them build it.
People in 🏴 just don’t seem to realise the power of independence is infinite
We decide 👇
People in 🏴 just don’t seem to realise the power of independence is infinite
We decide 👇
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If we were independent, we wouldn’t be getting tapped for £200 million to help them build it.
People in 🏴 just don’t seem to realise the power of independence is infinite
We decide 👇
People in 🏴 just don’t seem to realise the power of independence is infinite
We decide 👇
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Adding insult to injury these power stations are owned by France.
We’re paying a French nationalised company to build these! Not only that power is much cheaper in France.
UK are mugs! Don’t spout sovereignty to me 🤬🤬
Scotland has the Energy but none of the power.
#VoteForScotland
We’re paying a French nationalised company to build these! Not only that power is much cheaper in France.
UK are mugs! Don’t spout sovereignty to me 🤬🤬
Scotland has the Energy but none of the power.
#VoteForScotland
November 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Adding insult to injury these power stations are owned by France.
We’re paying a French nationalised company to build these! Not only that power is much cheaper in France.
UK are mugs! Don’t spout sovereignty to me 🤬🤬
Scotland has the Energy but none of the power.
#VoteForScotland
We’re paying a French nationalised company to build these! Not only that power is much cheaper in France.
UK are mugs! Don’t spout sovereignty to me 🤬🤬
Scotland has the Energy but none of the power.
#VoteForScotland
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😂 and he’s a LIST MSP. He couldn’t even get elected.
They have no shame.
They have no shame.
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
😂 and he’s a LIST MSP. He couldn’t even get elected.
They have no shame.
They have no shame.
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Of ffs 🤦 Labour’s big pitch is for Anas
what a very sad bunch of people 🤦🤷🤣
we've already seen what a big bus of promises looked like and give us, a pile load of problems, and we've all felt the Zionist Labour Party's bull shit of promises.
what a very sad bunch of people 🤦🤷🤣
we've already seen what a big bus of promises looked like and give us, a pile load of problems, and we've all felt the Zionist Labour Party's bull shit of promises.
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Of ffs 🤦 Labour’s big pitch is for Anas
what a very sad bunch of people 🤦🤷🤣
we've already seen what a big bus of promises looked like and give us, a pile load of problems, and we've all felt the Zionist Labour Party's bull shit of promises.
what a very sad bunch of people 🤦🤷🤣
we've already seen what a big bus of promises looked like and give us, a pile load of problems, and we've all felt the Zionist Labour Party's bull shit of promises.
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Absolutely love this grotesque on the former Coats Memorial Church in Paisley.
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#glasgow #paisley #architecture #grotesque #sculpture #gargoyle #gothicarchitecture #scottisharchitecture #architecturephotography
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#glasgow #paisley #architecture #grotesque #sculpture #gargoyle #gothicarchitecture #scottisharchitecture #architecturephotography
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Absolutely love this grotesque on the former Coats Memorial Church in Paisley.
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#glasgow #paisley #architecture #grotesque #sculpture #gargoyle #gothicarchitecture #scottisharchitecture #architecturephotography
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#glasgow #paisley #architecture #grotesque #sculpture #gargoyle #gothicarchitecture #scottisharchitecture #architecturephotography
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this should definitely save the NHS x www.normalisland.co.uk/p/labour-par...
Labour Party bans asylum seekers from taking taxis to hospitals
If an aslylum seeker visits a hospital, the biggest concern is that their journey is as uncomfortable as possible.
www.normalisland.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
this should definitely save the NHS x www.normalisland.co.uk/p/labour-par...
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RIP the Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Tony, and Olivier award winning Screenwriter and Playwright TOM STOPPARD.
He was 88.
He was 88.
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
RIP the Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Tony, and Olivier award winning Screenwriter and Playwright TOM STOPPARD.
He was 88.
He was 88.
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There's not much to argue against in this really good, but chilling, thread.
My only thought is: all of these 'neo-royals' are beyond 75 years old. What happens to their new global empire(s) when the first one of them dies?
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My only thought is: all of these 'neo-royals' are beyond 75 years old. What happens to their new global empire(s) when the first one of them dies?
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1/Senior US official caught coaching Russia on how to massage Trump on Ukraine deal. Why? Because we are entering a new international order based not in state interests but clique interests. Welcome to neo-royalism.
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Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukra...
www.bloomberg.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
There's not much to argue against in this really good, but chilling, thread.
My only thought is: all of these 'neo-royals' are beyond 75 years old. What happens to their new global empire(s) when the first one of them dies?
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My only thought is: all of these 'neo-royals' are beyond 75 years old. What happens to their new global empire(s) when the first one of them dies?
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Oh another part of the cabal is on the sidelines waiting to step in and continue the clique interests.
November 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Oh another part of the cabal is on the sidelines waiting to step in and continue the clique interests.
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The third in a series of pieces in which Emlyn Phillips reflects on lessons from Timor-Leste for supporters of an independent Cymru | Emlyn Phillips
Learning the lessons from a new state
The third in a series of pieces in which Emlyn Phillips reflects on lessons from Timor-Leste for supporters of an independent Cymru
bylines.cymru
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The third in a series of pieces in which Emlyn Phillips reflects on lessons from Timor-Leste for supporters of an independent Cymru | Emlyn Phillips
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a big deal on the geopolitics around Ukraine — we’ve found a Chinese drone supplier taking a stake in a Russian military supply company: www.ft.com/content/e907...
Chinese parts supplier takes stake in leading Russian drone maker
[FREE TO READ] Tie-up marks new level of co-operation between Moscow and Beijing’s military industrial complexes
www.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
a big deal on the geopolitics around Ukraine — we’ve found a Chinese drone supplier taking a stake in a Russian military supply company: www.ft.com/content/e907...
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Jeremy Corbyn’s intense paranoia and inability for self-reflection seems destined to destroy anything he’s attached to as a leader. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Your Party conference thrown into chaos as Zarah Sultana boycotts first day
Sultana skips Saturday’s proceeding in solidarity with delegates expelled over links to other parties
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Jeremy Corbyn’s intense paranoia and inability for self-reflection seems destined to destroy anything he’s attached to as a leader. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Is General Practice For sale?
And are Wes Streeting & Stephen Kinnock going to do anything to stop it?
Big companies have bought stakes in UK General Practice, paying for influence, changing policies from top down
Is it any surprise that the GP practices have been starved of income?
And are Wes Streeting & Stephen Kinnock going to do anything to stop it?
Big companies have bought stakes in UK General Practice, paying for influence, changing policies from top down
Is it any surprise that the GP practices have been starved of income?
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Is General Practice For sale?
And are Wes Streeting & Stephen Kinnock going to do anything to stop it?
Big companies have bought stakes in UK General Practice, paying for influence, changing policies from top down
Is it any surprise that the GP practices have been starved of income?
And are Wes Streeting & Stephen Kinnock going to do anything to stop it?
Big companies have bought stakes in UK General Practice, paying for influence, changing policies from top down
Is it any surprise that the GP practices have been starved of income?
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"Independence, the assertion of full Scottish national sovereignty, has always seemed to me like an opportunity to disengage from destructive futures, as much as contribute to constructive ones" open.substack.com/pub/patkane/...
PK in The National: Boldness is needed to take on toxicity of nuclear power
If we need investigative reporting to unearth leaks in the notoriously defensive nuclear energy sector, imagine the digging required to get the same from our nuclear warfare facilities
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November 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"Independence, the assertion of full Scottish national sovereignty, has always seemed to me like an opportunity to disengage from destructive futures, as much as contribute to constructive ones" open.substack.com/pub/patkane/...
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RIP. I think this is a guy who tried, in general, to encourage people to be more thoughtful and aware.
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
RIP. I think this is a guy who tried, in general, to encourage people to be more thoughtful and aware.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...