Ian Davidson
@iancvdavidson.bsky.social
See pinned post. My posts📢will either "reach" U or they won't,⛔in which case, my failure🙊of communication? Ultimately, it is all just "noise"?🙏
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Ian Davidson
@iancvdavidson.bsky.social
· Sep 30
I am back. Not convinced I have anything meaningful nor original to say but will try. I also need a reason to stay awake as current essential meds making me very sleepy & lazy! I will try to write from the right side of my brain; the left side narrative is dominant & catEGOrises too readily?/1
COSLA "own goal" awarding big pay rises to Scottish Council Chief Execs, same day as my former (SRC) boss, Keith Yates/Mercat Group report, pleads for Councils to get better constitutional deal; SPT boss gets a £35k pay rise!
Bosses of Scotland's smallest councils to get huge pay rises - BBC News
Bosses of Scotland's smallest councils to get huge pay rises - BBC News
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
COSLA "own goal" awarding big pay rises to Scottish Council Chief Execs, same day as my former (SRC) boss, Keith Yates/Mercat Group report, pleads for Councils to get better constitutional deal; SPT boss gets a £35k pay rise!
Bosses of Scotland's smallest councils to get huge pay rises - BBC News
Bosses of Scotland's smallest councils to get huge pay rises - BBC News
www.bbc.com/news/article...
For me, this is "recent living memory" including some subsequent readings in the past few decades. If any UK folks involved, they should be pursued. We cannot allow ourselves to ignore such depravity.
For me, this is "recent living memory" including some subsequent readings in the past few decades. If any UK folks involved, they should be pursued. We cannot allow ourselves to ignore such depravity.
Italy probes claim that tourists paid to go to Bosnia to kill besieged civilians
Italians and others are alleged to have paid large sums to fire at Bosnians risking their lives in besieged Sarajevo.
www.bbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
www.bbc.com/news/article...
For me, this is "recent living memory" including some subsequent readings in the past few decades. If any UK folks involved, they should be pursued. We cannot allow ourselves to ignore such depravity.
For me, this is "recent living memory" including some subsequent readings in the past few decades. If any UK folks involved, they should be pursued. We cannot allow ourselves to ignore such depravity.
As the Holyrood elections are now only 6 months away, time to re-engage with Scotch politics, however moribund & irrelevant it feels to me right now. Re-awaken some sites! Gaza? Ceasefire? Really? Existential despair so focus on the positive stuff, if there is any in politics? 👍
October 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
As the Holyrood elections are now only 6 months away, time to re-engage with Scotch politics, however moribund & irrelevant it feels to me right now. Re-awaken some sites! Gaza? Ceasefire? Really? Existential despair so focus on the positive stuff, if there is any in politics? 👍
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/255240...
What passes for "reality" in politics easily surpasses satire! Whilst Old Test seeks "just vengeance"; any "Buddhist" would regard comments as = a few snowflakes. I recommend following defences: Interdependent Origination; Impermanence; No Self Doctrine.
What passes for "reality" in politics easily surpasses satire! Whilst Old Test seeks "just vengeance"; any "Buddhist" would regard comments as = a few snowflakes. I recommend following defences: Interdependent Origination; Impermanence; No Self Doctrine.
October 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/255240...
What passes for "reality" in politics easily surpasses satire! Whilst Old Test seeks "just vengeance"; any "Buddhist" would regard comments as = a few snowflakes. I recommend following defences: Interdependent Origination; Impermanence; No Self Doctrine.
What passes for "reality" in politics easily surpasses satire! Whilst Old Test seeks "just vengeance"; any "Buddhist" would regard comments as = a few snowflakes. I recommend following defences: Interdependent Origination; Impermanence; No Self Doctrine.
I predict that when TIME collapses & miniscule contribution of humanity 2 infinite Cosmos is evaluated by Ye Gods, the significance of corporate rebrands will not merit a mention!
"We’re excited 2 introduce U2 Enjoy East Ren-the new face of E/ Ren Culture/Leisure. A new name, same shared purpose:"?😂
"We’re excited 2 introduce U2 Enjoy East Ren-the new face of E/ Ren Culture/Leisure. A new name, same shared purpose:"?😂
October 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I predict that when TIME collapses & miniscule contribution of humanity 2 infinite Cosmos is evaluated by Ye Gods, the significance of corporate rebrands will not merit a mention!
"We’re excited 2 introduce U2 Enjoy East Ren-the new face of E/ Ren Culture/Leisure. A new name, same shared purpose:"?😂
"We’re excited 2 introduce U2 Enjoy East Ren-the new face of E/ Ren Culture/Leisure. A new name, same shared purpose:"?😂
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
K's lazy myopic "journalism", with zero effort⛔2 reach a wider range of interests & fact checking, is part of the problem? 2 years on, I condemn 7/10 attacks. Ditto Israeli State killing of at least 65000 souls & special pleading of Israeli interests in UK.
K's lazy myopic "journalism", with zero effort⛔2 reach a wider range of interests & fact checking, is part of the problem? 2 years on, I condemn 7/10 attacks. Ditto Israeli State killing of at least 65000 souls & special pleading of Israeli interests in UK.
Anti-Semitism rules UK - 2 years on from horror of Hamas attack, says Kevin Mckenna
Two years after the Hamas attacks on October 7, Scotland’s Jewish community will say a Kaddish and ask why they now live in fear in the country…
www.heraldscotland.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
K's lazy myopic "journalism", with zero effort⛔2 reach a wider range of interests & fact checking, is part of the problem? 2 years on, I condemn 7/10 attacks. Ditto Israeli State killing of at least 65000 souls & special pleading of Israeli interests in UK.
K's lazy myopic "journalism", with zero effort⛔2 reach a wider range of interests & fact checking, is part of the problem? 2 years on, I condemn 7/10 attacks. Ditto Israeli State killing of at least 65000 souls & special pleading of Israeli interests in UK.
It does need to be said; almost every official message: explicit, implicit, subliminal, suggests that economic value (narrowly defined + measured) is the only value that matters? A form of brain-washing: Gross Depressing Paradigm?🙏
It shouldn't need to be said, but your value as a fellow human being is not whether you are financially productive or whether you avoid claiming benefits. Image created by @ritb.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It does need to be said; almost every official message: explicit, implicit, subliminal, suggests that economic value (narrowly defined + measured) is the only value that matters? A form of brain-washing: Gross Depressing Paradigm?🙏
GT sums up what I am now trying: alter influence of left brain narrative* 2 allow right brain consciousness more space. Many obstacles but both from personal + global view, I see no other options? The "matrix" is inside, outside, everywhere; it crushes "flow" ruthlessly?
(*labels, metaphors only).🙏
(*labels, metaphors only).🙏
The knee-jerk reaction of humans has always been to disregard unusual events rather than bring them to their awareness, process them, analyze and interrogate them.
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
September 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
GT sums up what I am now trying: alter influence of left brain narrative* 2 allow right brain consciousness more space. Many obstacles but both from personal + global view, I see no other options? The "matrix" is inside, outside, everywhere; it crushes "flow" ruthlessly?
(*labels, metaphors only).🙏
(*labels, metaphors only).🙏
I am back. Not convinced I have anything meaningful nor original to say but will try. I also need a reason to stay awake as current essential meds making me very sleepy & lazy! I will try to write from the right side of my brain; the left side narrative is dominant & catEGOrises too readily?/1
September 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I am back. Not convinced I have anything meaningful nor original to say but will try. I also need a reason to stay awake as current essential meds making me very sleepy & lazy! I will try to write from the right side of my brain; the left side narrative is dominant & catEGOrises too readily?/1
Warning: A long thread. My plea to local politicians & media. The easy times are over; earn your wage, earn our respect: 📢/1
August 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Warning: A long thread. My plea to local politicians & media. The easy times are over; earn your wage, earn our respect: 📢/1
Reposted by Ian Davidson
EXCLUSIVE: Police Scotland is facing allegations of having breached people’s human rights in a bid to 'subdue' pro-Palestine protests
One activist said her home had been visited after midnight by three plain-clothes officers – despite the fact she has never been arrested or charged with anything
One activist said her home had been visited after midnight by three plain-clothes officers – despite the fact she has never been arrested or charged with anything
Police Scotland 'breaching human rights to subdue Palestine protests', activists say
www.thenational.scot
August 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
EXCLUSIVE: Police Scotland is facing allegations of having breached people’s human rights in a bid to 'subdue' pro-Palestine protests
One activist said her home had been visited after midnight by three plain-clothes officers – despite the fact she has never been arrested or charged with anything
One activist said her home had been visited after midnight by three plain-clothes officers – despite the fact she has never been arrested or charged with anything
Reposted by Ian Davidson
Dear @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
This Gaza woman did not 'die of malnutrition'
She was starved to death by Israeli Defence Forces
Who are the real terrorists
Not Palestine Action
#SocialistSunday
"Gazan woman flown to Italy dies of malnutrition"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This Gaza woman did not 'die of malnutrition'
She was starved to death by Israeli Defence Forces
Who are the real terrorists
Not Palestine Action
#SocialistSunday
"Gazan woman flown to Italy dies of malnutrition"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Malnourished Gazan woman flown to Italy dies in hospital
The woman was one of 180 Gazans evacuated by Italy in response to the humanitarian crisis
www.bbc.co.uk
August 17, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Dear @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
This Gaza woman did not 'die of malnutrition'
She was starved to death by Israeli Defence Forces
Who are the real terrorists
Not Palestine Action
#SocialistSunday
"Gazan woman flown to Italy dies of malnutrition"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This Gaza woman did not 'die of malnutrition'
She was starved to death by Israeli Defence Forces
Who are the real terrorists
Not Palestine Action
#SocialistSunday
"Gazan woman flown to Italy dies of malnutrition"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Ian Davidson
Ethnic cleansing is a war crime
Using food as an instrument of war is a war crime
Shooting starving people is a war crime
Using children as target practice is a war crime
Assassinating journalists is a war crime
Israel is a apartheid State
and IDF are its instruments of terror
#SocialistSunday
Using food as an instrument of war is a war crime
Shooting starving people is a war crime
Using children as target practice is a war crime
Assassinating journalists is a war crime
Israel is a apartheid State
and IDF are its instruments of terror
#SocialistSunday
Israeli forces intensify attacks on Gaza City after the military announces it will advance plans to take over the city and forcibly displace more than a million Palestinians to concentration zones in the south of the Strip.
🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/toj6zm
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August 17, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Ethnic cleansing is a war crime
Using food as an instrument of war is a war crime
Shooting starving people is a war crime
Using children as target practice is a war crime
Assassinating journalists is a war crime
Israel is a apartheid State
and IDF are its instruments of terror
#SocialistSunday
Using food as an instrument of war is a war crime
Shooting starving people is a war crime
Using children as target practice is a war crime
Assassinating journalists is a war crime
Israel is a apartheid State
and IDF are its instruments of terror
#SocialistSunday
Reposted by Ian Davidson
Since Israel imposed its blockade of Gaza in March it has starved 251 Palestinians to death. That includes 108 children.
August 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Since Israel imposed its blockade of Gaza in March it has starved 251 Palestinians to death. That includes 108 children.
Reposted by Ian Davidson
"In the last 19 months, more than 15,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Each one a red line crossed. Raise your voice."
via Oxfam
#SocialistSunday
via Oxfam
#SocialistSunday
August 17, 2025 at 5:29 AM
"In the last 19 months, more than 15,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Each one a red line crossed. Raise your voice."
via Oxfam
#SocialistSunday
via Oxfam
#SocialistSunday
Reposted by Ian Davidson
A woman was arrested in Glasgow today for wearing a T-shirt that said "Palestine - time for action" under terrorism legislation. Meanwhile this guy was allowed to stand outside an Asylum Seekers hostel today in Falkirk.
Who's terrorising who? 🤔🤔🤔
Source @yesscotlandsfuture.bsky.social
Who's terrorising who? 🤔🤔🤔
Source @yesscotlandsfuture.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A woman was arrested in Glasgow today for wearing a T-shirt that said "Palestine - time for action" under terrorism legislation. Meanwhile this guy was allowed to stand outside an Asylum Seekers hostel today in Falkirk.
Who's terrorising who? 🤔🤔🤔
Source @yesscotlandsfuture.bsky.social
Who's terrorising who? 🤔🤔🤔
Source @yesscotlandsfuture.bsky.social
Reposted by Ian Davidson
"Perspective is everything. Understanding is possible if you question the motives.
An added nuance, of the 195 countries, 193 are in the United Nations, two are not, the Vatican city and Palestine."
via Anthony Corella
#SocialistSunday
An added nuance, of the 195 countries, 193 are in the United Nations, two are not, the Vatican city and Palestine."
via Anthony Corella
#SocialistSunday
August 17, 2025 at 5:40 AM
"Perspective is everything. Understanding is possible if you question the motives.
An added nuance, of the 195 countries, 193 are in the United Nations, two are not, the Vatican city and Palestine."
via Anthony Corella
#SocialistSunday
An added nuance, of the 195 countries, 193 are in the United Nations, two are not, the Vatican city and Palestine."
via Anthony Corella
#SocialistSunday
Reposted by Ian Davidson
We are working with medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders, also known as MSF) to speed up the process of bringing children with trauma injuries or serious existing conditions to the UK.
We have an obligation to do what we can to help.
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We have an obligation to do what we can to help.
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August 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We are working with medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders, also known as MSF) to speed up the process of bringing children with trauma injuries or serious existing conditions to the UK.
We have an obligation to do what we can to help.
2/2
We have an obligation to do what we can to help.
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