Chris
@cjnmcg.bsky.social
I'm hoping for Scottish independence in the near future.
Married, kids , dog, and cats.
Married, kids , dog, and cats.
Pinned
Chris
@cjnmcg.bsky.social
· Jun 30
"The fact that these firms continue to ignore basic environmental protections while raking in taxpayer money is completely unacceptable"
theferret.scot/mega-...
theferret.scot/mega-...
Revealed: The mega farms polluting the environment with excrement
Mega farms in Scotland have repeatedly leaked excrement and failed to monitor contamination, putting humans, wildlife and the environment at risk.
theferret.scot
More and more I'm leaning towards voting @scottishgreens.org in 2026.
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Edi director's comments suggest that GB News could see "should Britain expel the Muslims" as one topic for fair and balanced debate
This news channel did broadcast White saying all the Muslims should be told to leave. I guess they probably wouldn't host identical sentiments about Jews/Hindus/Sikhs
This news channel did broadcast White saying all the Muslims should be told to leave. I guess they probably wouldn't host identical sentiments about Jews/Hindus/Sikhs
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Edi director's comments suggest that GB News could see "should Britain expel the Muslims" as one topic for fair and balanced debate
This news channel did broadcast White saying all the Muslims should be told to leave. I guess they probably wouldn't host identical sentiments about Jews/Hindus/Sikhs
This news channel did broadcast White saying all the Muslims should be told to leave. I guess they probably wouldn't host identical sentiments about Jews/Hindus/Sikhs
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Srsly wtaf is wrong with people like her. Like, what made her this shrivelled husk of a person?
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Srsly wtaf is wrong with people like her. Like, what made her this shrivelled husk of a person?
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Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
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Just think of the really lovely proper single-malt from Scotland you could buy for £100. Don't be taken in by a con artist. (Shades of Trump.)
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Just think of the really lovely proper single-malt from Scotland you could buy for £100. Don't be taken in by a con artist. (Shades of Trump.)
They are taking the piss now.
The King has released a £100 English single-malt whisky ahead of Christmas 👀
King Charles unveils £100 English whisky crafted 'from his own barley'
www.thenational.scot
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
They are taking the piss now.
Uk establishment running scared.
Two pro-Scottish independence presenters arrested under terrorism laws
www.thenational.scot/news/2565358...
Two pro-Scottish independence presenters arrested under terrorism laws
www.thenational.scot/news/2565358...
Two pro-Scottish independence presenters arrested under terrorism laws
TWO prominent pro-independence presenters have been arrested and charged with terrorism offences ...
www.thenational.scot
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Uk establishment running scared.
Two pro-Scottish independence presenters arrested under terrorism laws
www.thenational.scot/news/2565358...
Two pro-Scottish independence presenters arrested under terrorism laws
www.thenational.scot/news/2565358...
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There is NO evidence that NHS Scotland directed pregnant women to controversial Free Birth Society via a charity nor is there credible evidence that a single Scot was influenced by them talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/25/t...
There is NO evidence that NHS Scotland directed pregnant women to controversial Free Birth Society via a charity nor is there credible evidence that a single Scot was influenced by them
Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian today, the above and: The NHS has been directing pregnant women to a website that connected them to the Free Birth Society, an organisation that has bee…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
There is NO evidence that NHS Scotland directed pregnant women to controversial Free Birth Society via a charity nor is there credible evidence that a single Scot was influenced by them talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/25/t...
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Please sign this petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics.
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Please sign this petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics.
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Are UK politics going to be influenced by US-style right-wing Christianity? A politics of identity which at its core is anti-Christian. It is "a reminder that anti-trans, anti-queer and Islamophobic positions do not spring from nowhere." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
Is British politics immune to US-style rightwing Christianity? We’re about to find out | Lamorna Ash
Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson are increasingly espousing Christian ‘values’, and a wealthy US legal group is becoming influential – this could have dire consequences, says author Lamorna Ash
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Are UK politics going to be influenced by US-style right-wing Christianity? A politics of identity which at its core is anti-Christian. It is "a reminder that anti-trans, anti-queer and Islamophobic positions do not spring from nowhere." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
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The UK has more than enough money to fund our public services and rebuild our infrastructure. But it's hoarded by a tiny minority.
The 50 richest families now hold more wealth than 50% of the population combined.
A tax on the wealth of the top 1% would raise over £70 billion.
The 50 richest families now hold more wealth than 50% of the population combined.
A tax on the wealth of the top 1% would raise over £70 billion.
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The UK has more than enough money to fund our public services and rebuild our infrastructure. But it's hoarded by a tiny minority.
The 50 richest families now hold more wealth than 50% of the population combined.
A tax on the wealth of the top 1% would raise over £70 billion.
The 50 richest families now hold more wealth than 50% of the population combined.
A tax on the wealth of the top 1% would raise over £70 billion.
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We have to trust our neighbours and not peddle the myth that people are intrinsically stupid or easy to hoodwink. Otherwise that just plays into the populist right & authoritarians & is ultimately an argument against democracy.
I'm remarkably relaxed about this. No I don't want my neighbours – Mail and Telegraph-reading berks – judging me. I'd rather have legal experts who've learned how to think.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
David Lammy considers scrapping jury trials for all but the most serious cases
Senior lawyers criticise justice secretary’s radical plan, saying it could ‘destroy justice as we know it’
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
We have to trust our neighbours and not peddle the myth that people are intrinsically stupid or easy to hoodwink. Otherwise that just plays into the populist right & authoritarians & is ultimately an argument against democracy.
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This is how it’s done, U.S. negotiators. Learn from other strong leaders how to deal with criminal aggressors.
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is how it’s done, U.S. negotiators. Learn from other strong leaders how to deal with criminal aggressors.
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ICE detained Katie, a British woman in the final stages of her green card process, while she was holding her 6 month old son.
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
British woman arrested by ICE agents in California while holding newborn son
Katie was in the final stages of securing her green card when she was detained.
metro.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
ICE detained Katie, a British woman in the final stages of her green card process, while she was holding her 6 month old son.
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
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Tyson is one of just a few companies that controls the entire meat market.
Just last month, it paid $85M to settle charges it illegally conspired with other meatpackers to raise pork prices.
Corporate monopolies are great for executives and a raw deal for everyone else.
Just last month, it paid $85M to settle charges it illegally conspired with other meatpackers to raise pork prices.
Corporate monopolies are great for executives and a raw deal for everyone else.
Tyson CEO Donnie King made $22.7 million last year.
The week before Thanksgiving, he told 3,200 workers in Lexington, Nebraska that they're losing their jobs.
The week before Thanksgiving, he told 3,200 workers in Lexington, Nebraska that they're losing their jobs.
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Tyson is one of just a few companies that controls the entire meat market.
Just last month, it paid $85M to settle charges it illegally conspired with other meatpackers to raise pork prices.
Corporate monopolies are great for executives and a raw deal for everyone else.
Just last month, it paid $85M to settle charges it illegally conspired with other meatpackers to raise pork prices.
Corporate monopolies are great for executives and a raw deal for everyone else.
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The UK is going to spend £71,000,000,000 on nuclear jets that will essentially be under US command. Madness
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The UK is going to spend £71,000,000,000 on nuclear jets that will essentially be under US command. Madness
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
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The HBC, ending as it began: putting profit before this land and its people. What a history lesson for all of us.
The royal charter that created Hudson’s Bay in 1670 is on its way to the auction block with two of Canada's richest families —the Westons and Thomsons — starting the bidding at $18 million.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/cou...
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/cou...
Court approves Hudson's Bay plan to auction its royal charter; $18M bid expected
TORONTO - The royal charter that created Hudson’s Bay in 1670 is on its way to the auction block.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The HBC, ending as it began: putting profit before this land and its people. What a history lesson for all of us.
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And the male loneliness epidemic takes a historic step towards, more loneliness and less friends.
Guys - and I say this as a woman who has had mostly male friends my entire life - please stop following these dbags.
Guys - and I say this as a woman who has had mostly male friends my entire life - please stop following these dbags.
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
And the male loneliness epidemic takes a historic step towards, more loneliness and less friends.
Guys - and I say this as a woman who has had mostly male friends my entire life - please stop following these dbags.
Guys - and I say this as a woman who has had mostly male friends my entire life - please stop following these dbags.
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That man is a better athlete than Lebron James too. Or at least that’s what Grok told me before I had it do a vulgar roast of my wife. Now I’m divorced but it was hilarious. Can’t wait for the pixilated phone that tells me what I want to hear.
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
That man is a better athlete than Lebron James too. Or at least that’s what Grok told me before I had it do a vulgar roast of my wife. Now I’m divorced but it was hilarious. Can’t wait for the pixilated phone that tells me what I want to hear.
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
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“UK is costliest country to…”
- build nuclear power
- build fast rail
- build a house
- buy a house
- rent a house
- travel by train
- buy a beer
- power your home
- pay for childcare
- insure a car
- stay in a hotel
- go to the dentist
- buy bog roll
At least some museums are free….
- build nuclear power
- build fast rail
- build a house
- buy a house
- rent a house
- travel by train
- buy a beer
- power your home
- pay for childcare
- insure a car
- stay in a hotel
- go to the dentist
- buy bog roll
At least some museums are free….
UK is costliest country to build new nuclear power, government review warns on.ft.com/48gamUG
UK is costliest country to build new nuclear power, government review warns
Task force calls for super regulator to seize control of sprawling bureaucracy
on.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
“UK is costliest country to…”
- build nuclear power
- build fast rail
- build a house
- buy a house
- rent a house
- travel by train
- buy a beer
- power your home
- pay for childcare
- insure a car
- stay in a hotel
- go to the dentist
- buy bog roll
At least some museums are free….
- build nuclear power
- build fast rail
- build a house
- buy a house
- rent a house
- travel by train
- buy a beer
- power your home
- pay for childcare
- insure a car
- stay in a hotel
- go to the dentist
- buy bog roll
At least some museums are free….
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Her parents bought the house in the 1960s for £21K and now it's worth £1.2 million
It is insane that some people think you should just be able to keep all of that - if you've made a big profit, it is fair you should get taxed on that
It is insane that some people think you should just be able to keep all of that - if you've made a big profit, it is fair you should get taxed on that
I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?
We were hit with a £148k inheritance tax bill when mum died at 97 - it's disgusting
Jill Lemon has labelled inheritance tax as 'cruel', 'horrible' and 'unfair'
inews.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Her parents bought the house in the 1960s for £21K and now it's worth £1.2 million
It is insane that some people think you should just be able to keep all of that - if you've made a big profit, it is fair you should get taxed on that
It is insane that some people think you should just be able to keep all of that - if you've made a big profit, it is fair you should get taxed on that
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Fifth, the clinical advice actually given was that the measures concerned an "extremely vulnerable group, liable to self-harm" and "it would cause a larger patient safety issue to force them to stop treatment... than it would to allow them to continue."
April 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Fifth, the clinical advice actually given was that the measures concerned an "extremely vulnerable group, liable to self-harm" and "it would cause a larger patient safety issue to force them to stop treatment... than it would to allow them to continue."
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Were they "clinical experts and leaders"? Let’s look at who gave the advice.
Well, helpfully, Kemi Badenoch has said two things. First, that Ministers specifically chose to place transphobic ideologues in “the positions that mattered most in… Health” - and she seems to include Hilary Cass.
Well, helpfully, Kemi Badenoch has said two things. First, that Ministers specifically chose to place transphobic ideologues in “the positions that mattered most in… Health” - and she seems to include Hilary Cass.
April 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Were they "clinical experts and leaders"? Let’s look at who gave the advice.
Well, helpfully, Kemi Badenoch has said two things. First, that Ministers specifically chose to place transphobic ideologues in “the positions that mattered most in… Health” - and she seems to include Hilary Cass.
Well, helpfully, Kemi Badenoch has said two things. First, that Ministers specifically chose to place transphobic ideologues in “the positions that mattered most in… Health” - and she seems to include Hilary Cass.