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Pedro Piscatore @muirhousemaverick.bsky.social · 9h

Is it? Mmmm then all constituent parts of UK have the same - thank you

Pedro Piscatore @muirhousemaverick.bsky.social · 1d

Indy for England please
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How Empire and the Union ruined England, by Neil Mackay

A case could be made that the best medicine for what ails England would be an English departure from the Union, argues Writer at Large Neil Mackay

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Pedro Piscatore @muirhousemaverick.bsky.social · 6d

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'It feels like British politics has become some grotesque carnival'

Policies from Farage and Badenoch for mass deportations and ICE-style removal squads are the antithesis of everything Britain stands for, our Writer…

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Pedro Piscatore @muirhousemaverick.bsky.social · 12d

Using the military against the people and this, this ... fascism in the USA.
Trump, Project 2025 and the 'Dismantling' of the 'Administrative State' www.factcheck.org/2025/09/trum...

Trump, Project 2025 and the 'Dismantling' of the 'Administrative State' - FactCheck.org

In a series of stories over the coming days, we will lay out numerous examples of how President Donald Trump has implemented Project 2025 proposals and how at times he diverged from the document. We s...

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Pedro Piscatore @muirhousemaverick.bsky.social · 12d

Weaponising the military and this, this ... fascism in the USA.
Trump, Project 2025 and the 'Dismantling' of the 'Administrative State' www.factcheck.org/2025/09/trum...

Trump, Project 2025 and the 'Dismantling' of the 'Administrative State' - FactCheck.org

In a series of stories over the coming days, we will lay out numerous examples of how President Donald Trump has implemented Project 2025 proposals and how at times he diverged from the document. We s...

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Pedro Piscatore @muirhousemaverick.bsky.social · 20d

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American idiots have declared war on science - we need a firewall to protect us

Claims by the US president that vaccines cause autism and climate change is fake aren’t just dangerous, they’re stupid and unworthy of even…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27d

Just so I'm clear:

TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal

TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft.

TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism.

Free speech, everyone.

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Pedro Piscatore @muirhousemaverick.bsky.social · 26d

AKA the rise of fascism

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Mabel Logan @mabellogan.bsky.social · Sep 11

Englands politicians in Scotland want you to believe your greatest power is the power to vote, to give them the opportunity to have an all expenses paid job. This is not the true power of the Scottish people.

Our power is our sovereign right to choose how we are governed.

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Pedro Piscatore @muirhousemaverick.bsky.social · Sep 11

A voice of reason
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We have lost the ability to denounce what we once denounced

It is worrying how stories of vigilante groups and mob riots in England have become almost normalised because of the Ulsterisation of British…

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Pedro Piscatore @muirhousemaverick.bsky.social · Sep 7

It is what Scotland needs and wants

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is simply Reform propaganda straight from the BBC

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Pedro Piscatore @muirhousemaverick.bsky.social · Sep 7

Read, understand and try to change peoples perceptions www.heraldscotland.com/news/2544663...

Professor Alison Phipps: "We’re in foothills of genocide" as far-right threat grows

Professor Alison Phipps is the nation’s foremost authority on asylum. She tells our Writer at Large demonisation has gone too far and Westminster…

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Simon Brew @simonbrew.bsky.social · Sep 3

The baffling thing about Starmer's Labour Party is it didn't have to be like this. A bulletproof majority, guaranteed power for five years - and they chase Linehan and Farage.

They could have actually done some good.