Claims that the US subsidises European defence ignore how NATO underwrites American power, trade and global influence | East Anglia Bylines
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Claims that the US subsidises European defence ignore how NATO underwrites American power, trade and global influence | East Anglia Bylines
While Labour copies Farage’s policies, our NHS and care homes are finding it harder to recruit the staff they need.
We have a solution.👇
🏴 Scotland’s future must be up to the people of Scotland.
I will be saying more on this tomorrow at 9am.
Labour are increasing your energy bills, after promising to cut them - to pay for a nuclear plant in England.
If Keir Starmer wants a positive relationship with the Scottish Government, he needs to get his Environment Secretary to retract his totally inaccurate comments about Scotland’s water.
Our rivers are cleaner, our bills are lower - and public ownership delivers for people, not profit. 👇
'Sometimes short is sweet....
'They Told Us To Fu*k Off, So We Did'
Do they not understand 'cause and effect'?'
via Anthony Corella
While Labour breaks their promises and lets you down, the SNP is on your side.
🏴 Restoring the winter fuel payment
🏴 Scrapping the cruel two-child cap
🏴 Ending peak rail fares
#VoteSNP today, stop Farage and elect @katyloudonsnp.bsky.social who will put your priorities first.
Man of the people… not! 😂
While Labour try to make up their minds on what to do about Winter Fuel Payments (which they abolished) and the two-child limit (which they have kept), the SNP is restoring Winter Fuel Payments and is abolishing the two-child limit.
That’s the difference your SNP Government makes. 🏴
Shameful
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Scotland is the only part of the UK where child poverty is falling, thanks to the different choices we made.
Labour has chosen the path of austerity cuts.
What is the point of a Labour government that will push 50,000 more children into poverty, according to its own figures?
America is in trouble, and we must meet this moment with courage. The time of wishful thinking is over. Now we act.
youtu.be/cXR5HLodsT8
Ah well, Saturday study sesh/essay writing it is after all 😩
Can't access end of term assessments along with thousands of other students. Deadlines looming. Eek! @uoe-sps.bsky.social #EdinburghUni
Been down all morning 🤔 right in the midst of end of term assessments too 😳#EdinburghUni @uoe-sps.bsky.social
Gaelic Immersion Days in Edinburgh
Improve your Gaelic skills with us in 2025! We will be holding two Gaelic immersion days in April and June.
For more information and to book:
ionaddhuneideann.org/events/gaeli...
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A recent New York Times report found people had died as a direct result of Musk cutting US aid to foreign countries.
As much as they try, Labour will never out right the right and it will be their downfall.
New post just out
Ten books to help understand the world we're now in.
Five recommendations on the US/Trump/Musk and five on Europe and the rest of the world.
(This one is free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Tells you everything you need to know about labour and who's side they're on. Spoiler alert: It's not yours. The proposal seeks to address an estimated $492 billion annual loss from cross-border “tax abuse” by multinational companies and wealthy individuals.
I’d like to announce my forthcoming US history book, covering a decisive but tumultuous era in that country’s history, titled “The trade policies of the United States: 10:30 am to 1:30 pm on Friday, March 7, 2025” It will be 400 pages.
🇺🇳 The United Nations has called on Labour to scrap the two-child cap.
🏴 We’re doing it in Scotland.
Anas Sarwar told us “Read my lips: no austerity under Labour.”
Now, Rachel Reeves is planning to slash billions from welfare and public service budgets.
Labour’s promises mean nothing. Scotland shouldn’t have to suffer for Westminster’s choices.
🧵 When I said my government would leave no stone unturned to find the solutions to secure Grangemouth’s future, I meant it.
I’ve just set out some measures to Parliament seeking to protect workers and secure Grangemouth’s future. Here’s a thread 👇 1/8
This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Labour's plan to invest money in "all corners of our country"...is almost entirely for South-East England
Labour have announced they are investing taxpayer money to drive growth "across the UK".
Guess where almost all of it is going.
Labour stood up for WASPI women - right until they got into government. Now they’re nowhere to be seen.
The SNP have supported these women throughout, and that’s why we’ve put a Bill before Westminster calling for them to be compensated for this historic injustice.
