Angus MacAulay
@angusj.bsky.social
Native Gàidhlig speaker. Gàidhlig gu leòr.
I take photos for fun, mostly birds.
I take photos for fun, mostly birds.
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There may be a vacancy in the newsroom of BBC Scotland for reporting this success story. 😂
It's actually worth pointing out that it is NOT the @snp.org that get this money, It's the Scottish government who gets it & it is revenue generated for the people of Scotland.
#AreYouYesYet #WhyNotScotland
It's actually worth pointing out that it is NOT the @snp.org that get this money, It's the Scottish government who gets it & it is revenue generated for the people of Scotland.
#AreYouYesYet #WhyNotScotland
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
There may be a vacancy in the newsroom of BBC Scotland for reporting this success story. 😂
It's actually worth pointing out that it is NOT the @snp.org that get this money, It's the Scottish government who gets it & it is revenue generated for the people of Scotland.
#AreYouYesYet #WhyNotScotland
It's actually worth pointing out that it is NOT the @snp.org that get this money, It's the Scottish government who gets it & it is revenue generated for the people of Scotland.
#AreYouYesYet #WhyNotScotland
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Arrogance on stilts.
No longer can this be called 'A voluntary union' if English politicians keep denying to recognise a legitimate mandate.
If Westminster cannot say what the mechanism is that we can use to leave, Then it is tantamount to a hostage situation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No longer can this be called 'A voluntary union' if English politicians keep denying to recognise a legitimate mandate.
If Westminster cannot say what the mechanism is that we can use to leave, Then it is tantamount to a hostage situation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No independence referendum if SNP wins majority, Reeves says
The chancellor has refused to support a second vote if the SNP wins a majority of seats in May.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Arrogance on stilts.
No longer can this be called 'A voluntary union' if English politicians keep denying to recognise a legitimate mandate.
If Westminster cannot say what the mechanism is that we can use to leave, Then it is tantamount to a hostage situation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No longer can this be called 'A voluntary union' if English politicians keep denying to recognise a legitimate mandate.
If Westminster cannot say what the mechanism is that we can use to leave, Then it is tantamount to a hostage situation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Very interesting story from Robert Peston on Twitter.
It sounds like Labour very deliberately engineered a series of artificial, unnecessary storms in teacups in advance of the budget.
In a follow-up tweet, he mentioned that the beginnings of an official investigation are under way.
It sounds like Labour very deliberately engineered a series of artificial, unnecessary storms in teacups in advance of the budget.
In a follow-up tweet, he mentioned that the beginnings of an official investigation are under way.
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Very interesting story from Robert Peston on Twitter.
It sounds like Labour very deliberately engineered a series of artificial, unnecessary storms in teacups in advance of the budget.
In a follow-up tweet, he mentioned that the beginnings of an official investigation are under way.
It sounds like Labour very deliberately engineered a series of artificial, unnecessary storms in teacups in advance of the budget.
In a follow-up tweet, he mentioned that the beginnings of an official investigation are under way.
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I know a country 🏴that tried to introduce similar but their larger neighbours 🏴 prevented them… wake up 🏴 time for us to make our own future!
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I know a country 🏴that tried to introduce similar but their larger neighbours 🏴 prevented them… wake up 🏴 time for us to make our own future!
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Child poverty in Scotland has fallen to its lowest level in three decades, with both absolute and relative rates continuing to sit well below the UK average. For 2023–24, those rates were 22% and 17% respectively – 9% lower than the UK’s 31% and 26%
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...
Unlike the rest of the UK, Scottish child poverty rates are falling
Latest figures reveal lowest child poverty levels in decades, posing more difficult questions for Labour ahead of the Autumn Budget.
www.newstatesman.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Child poverty in Scotland has fallen to its lowest level in three decades, with both absolute and relative rates continuing to sit well below the UK average. For 2023–24, those rates were 22% and 17% respectively – 9% lower than the UK’s 31% and 26%
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...
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More watering down of Labour's flagship workers' rights bill. Wonder what else they'll ditch...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Government to ditch day-one unfair dismissal policy from workers’ rights bill
Flagship Labour plan to be replaced with six-month threshold after Peter Kyle vows to not let businesses ‘lose’ under new law
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
More watering down of Labour's flagship workers' rights bill. Wonder what else they'll ditch...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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Scotland’s future is up to people who live in Scotland, not Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer or any other Westminster politician.
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Scotland’s future is up to people who live in Scotland, not Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer or any other Westminster politician.
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According to Starmer, the nation of Scotland is to be forced to stay in the UK whether the Scottish people like it or not, & were forced out of the EU whether they liked it or not.
That is not democracy.
#ScottishIndependence #IndyRef2
That is not democracy.
#ScottishIndependence #IndyRef2
Which Scotland has NO say on.
Speak to the dictatorship party’s in wm.
Speak to the dictatorship party’s in wm.
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
According to Starmer, the nation of Scotland is to be forced to stay in the UK whether the Scottish people like it or not, & were forced out of the EU whether they liked it or not.
That is not democracy.
#ScottishIndependence #IndyRef2
That is not democracy.
#ScottishIndependence #IndyRef2
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And Lyndsay Hoyle too - Speaker of tge House of Commons.
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
And Lyndsay Hoyle too - Speaker of tge House of Commons.
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Look at how your party voted on the 2 child cap. You sacked anyone who didn’t vote to starve children and have now been shamed into a u turn
www.thenational.scot/news/2447199...
www.thenational.scot/news/2447199...
Here's how the 37 Scottish Labour MPs voted on two-child benefit cap
LABOUR have voted to keep the two-child benefit cap as the party reverses its opposition to the policy despite growing pressure for them to scrap it…
www.thenational.scot
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Look at how your party voted on the 2 child cap. You sacked anyone who didn’t vote to starve children and have now been shamed into a u turn
www.thenational.scot/news/2447199...
www.thenational.scot/news/2447199...
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Were you aware that @indytruckdavy.bsky.social & David Millican were both arrested at home this morning under the 2000 terrorism act for saying back in July that they supported Palestine Action?
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Were you aware that @indytruckdavy.bsky.social & David Millican were both arrested at home this morning under the 2000 terrorism act for saying back in July that they supported Palestine Action?
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Announced while everyone's reacting to the budget, Labour are backtracking from their already weak position on new fossil fuel extraction.
Wildly irresponsible in the face of the climate emergency.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wildly irresponsible in the face of the climate emergency.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More North Sea exploration to be allowed in new Labour plan - BBC News
The chancellor will unveil the North Sea Strategy in her Budget speech, the BBC understands.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Announced while everyone's reacting to the budget, Labour are backtracking from their already weak position on new fossil fuel extraction.
Wildly irresponsible in the face of the climate emergency.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wildly irresponsible in the face of the climate emergency.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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As part of your SNP Scottish Government’s commitment to eradicate child poverty, the Scottish Child Payment is now supporting 322,230 children across the country,
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
As part of your SNP Scottish Government’s commitment to eradicate child poverty, the Scottish Child Payment is now supporting 322,230 children across the country,
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Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) was used in UK construction from the mid-1950s until the early 1990s, meaning its use spanned both Conservative and Labour governments not SNP
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) was used in UK construction from the mid-1950s until the early 1990s, meaning its use spanned both Conservative and Labour governments not SNP
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Not before time…
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Not before time…
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The industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie was born on this day in 1835. Carnegie funded 3000 libraries around the world. We'd all have been a lot stupider without him.
Here's what I wrote about him in 'Cool Scots'. gregmoodie.com/product/cool...
Here's what I wrote about him in 'Cool Scots'. gregmoodie.com/product/cool...
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie was born on this day in 1835. Carnegie funded 3000 libraries around the world. We'd all have been a lot stupider without him.
Here's what I wrote about him in 'Cool Scots'. gregmoodie.com/product/cool...
Here's what I wrote about him in 'Cool Scots'. gregmoodie.com/product/cool...
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Yolande Knell reports on the dire food situation in Gaza without mentioning Israel once.
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Yolande Knell reports on the dire food situation in Gaza without mentioning Israel once.
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It’s not the substance that counts for the Record, it’s the accusation.
Disgracefully, the pandemic was treated as a political story rather than a health issue by all the papers and the broadcast media, with the BBC leading the charge.
The aim, as ever, talk up Westminster, talk down Holyrood.
Disgracefully, the pandemic was treated as a political story rather than a health issue by all the papers and the broadcast media, with the BBC leading the charge.
The aim, as ever, talk up Westminster, talk down Holyrood.
Nicola Sturgeon has insisted "at no point did I behave politically" during her time leading Scotland through the coronavirus pandemic.
Nicola Sturgeon denies she 'behaved politically' during covid response
The former first minister said it was "very difficult" working with Boris Johnson during the peak covid years in 2020 and 2021.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
It’s not the substance that counts for the Record, it’s the accusation.
Disgracefully, the pandemic was treated as a political story rather than a health issue by all the papers and the broadcast media, with the BBC leading the charge.
The aim, as ever, talk up Westminster, talk down Holyrood.
Disgracefully, the pandemic was treated as a political story rather than a health issue by all the papers and the broadcast media, with the BBC leading the charge.
The aim, as ever, talk up Westminster, talk down Holyrood.