Happy Burns' Night, everyone ❤️
I've seen the far-right trying to co-opt Burns (some even calling him a 'proud Brit' 😂), so I'm sharing again my favourite thing about Burns. I wrote this a few years ago now, but it's even more relevant now.
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Tim Walz, “Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank"
"Somebody’s going to write that story about Minnesota"
🟥 London's unfair energy tax on Scotland hammers Scottish households.
🔎 Here is what you need to know: www.believeinscotland.org/scots_charge...
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NEW: John Swinney has welcomed Donald Trump's U-turn on imposing tariffs on countries who opposed his ambitions to annex Greenland
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Reform UK is about to buy its way into the Scottish Parliament thanks to the cash it’s given by a small number of extremely rich donors,
www.thenational.scot/politics/257...
Disgruntled Labour and Conservatives as well as the undecided are all needed to get independence for Scotland.
Aye right, it’s been over a century of that crap from Labour
#VoteSNP
By re-introducing a nuclear capability for the RAF, Keir Starmer is breaching the UK’s international treaty obligations that previous governments signed up to in 1968, writes Bill Kidd MSP ✍️
🔗 www.thenational.scot/politi...
This is where following along after the far right ends up.We need to reject them and anyone who is pandering to their views for votes, but above all get out and vote at the next election. A better Scotland is possible we just need to vote for it.
Meanwhile, an actually decent, not to mention popular politician 👇
Human rights were built for hard times, not rewrites when it suits the Government.
Pushing to water down the European Convention on Human Rights on International Human Rights Day is a moral retreat, not a solution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Graphic with an illustration of a woman wearing a baby in a wrap surrounded by voting leaflets and floating text messages that read Can't handle the culture and How can you juggle everything? The caption is a quote that reads "Nobody asks the man how he can manage politics while having kids."
Graphic with an illustration of a pair of hands holding cards showing candidates, with a tick showing that the male candidate is preferred and floating text messages that read Young lady and Too soft. The caption is a quote that reads "If you feel like you don't see a person like you: be the first."
We're sharing a look at our recent research on women’s experiences in politics & how parties in Scotland are using positive action measures.
If we want to see gender equal representation become a reality at future elections, work must begin now.
Read more here: www.engender.org.uk/news/blog/we...
Today is #HumanRightsDay.
What better day to remind everyone that either we all have human rights, or none of us really do.
New CBI report shows business investment in Scotland is at a 20-year high.
Despite damaging Westminster decisions like Brexit or Labour's tax on jobs, our economy has many strengths.
Imagine how much more we could do with the full powers of independence.
Whatever practical difficulties the SNP may face in using the 2026 election to bring independence about, the prospects of the UK remaining united in the slightly longer-term are looking bleaker by the day, writes James Kelly ✍️
Good news for Independence, Westminster is not working for Scotland and it does not matter which party is in inpower there!
🚨New Scotland Poll: SNP has opened a 17 point lead at 35% for Scottish Parliament. Labour collapses to 16% in third place behind Reform UK at 18%. 52% likely to vote in independence referendum saying they would vote YES. Details via Ipsos Scotland👇
www.ipsos.com/en-uk/snp-re...
Its beyond unfair and impossible to live in a society that just wants you gone
I know it is
Most of us struggle with this because a majority of us are marginalised in some way, and we feel the brunt of social inequality
BREAKING NEWS
Over a third of Welsh Labour Senedd Members have written to Keir Starmer to stop undermining devolution.
They say:
"If this was being done by a Tory Government, we would be calling for a judicial review. This must never happen again."
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Important thread
Westminster plans to cut Universal Credit for under-22s by almost half, as if young people have cheaper lives.
Rent isn’t cheaper at 19.
Food isn’t cheaper at 20.
Disability doesn’t cost less before 22.
If we want a welfare system based on dignity and equality, we need the power to create it.
SNP has planted nearly 20 times as many new trees as Labour Wales and more than 3 times as many as still-Conservative England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/01/s...
EXCLUSIVE: Scotland's national stadium should not be named after a company 'profiting from genocide', campaigners and local politicians have said
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Scotland deserves better than this pantomime, with independence we can build it.
Now in its third year the vigils in Orkney continue to meet on the Kirk Green, Kirkwall, calling for a permanent ceasefire in #Gaza
Filmed by Mike Robertson for The Orkney News
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It’s not where we come from that counts, it’s about where we’re going.
Great to meet Afghan Scots children at Maryhill Burgh Halls and hear a lovely rendition of Robert Burns.
The Scottish Languages Act coming into force is more than symbolic, it’s Scotland choosing to value its own voices.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#Gaelic #Scots #WFI
The UK Government has U-turned on yet another policy, but Scottish Labour haven't got anything to say about it
The row back on workers' rights has apparently gone unnoticed by Anas Sarwar
www.thenational.scot/news/2565920...
🟥 If Scotland were an independent country, we would have our own Treasury. We could make our own decisions, instead of waiting for an afterthought from a neighbouring country.
🟪 Here are 3 ways the UK budget is just another FAIL for Scottish business: www.businessforscotland.com/the_uk_budge...
