Ross Colquhoun
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💻 Dad + Head of Digital @theSNP @YesScot on 8 winning national elections 🎸 Co-founder of National Collective 🎨 Edinburgh College of Art grad 📱 The revolution will be digitised.
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🏴 Scotland’s future in our hands, or his?
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Well, that aged like a fine milk.
January 21, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Well, that aged like a fine milk.
The greatest irony of our time is that we have an abundance of resources/energy to sustain our planet, yet our economic system - reinforced by imperialism and some political leaders, makes abundance feel scarce and impossible. That is what’s driving the climate/ecological crisis.
January 17, 2026 at 10:00 PM
The greatest irony of our time is that we have an abundance of resources/energy to sustain our planet, yet our economic system - reinforced by imperialism and some political leaders, makes abundance feel scarce and impossible. That is what’s driving the climate/ecological crisis.
Anas Sarwar and Labour have been caught making up a quote and attributing it to a person who did not give their permission on one of their campaign leaflets. Extraordinary to not get the basics right. hellorayo.co.uk/clyde/local/...
Scottish Labour apologises after leaflet included 'made-up' quote
Anas Sarwar has apologised after Scottish Labour issued election leaflets...
hellorayo.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Anas Sarwar and Labour have been caught making up a quote and attributing it to a person who did not give their permission on one of their campaign leaflets. Extraordinary to not get the basics right. hellorayo.co.uk/clyde/local/...
And to show how international relations can shift over time - my Great Uncle Noel Frederick Ross served as a gunner on HMS Victorious during the Arctic Convoys of WW2, braving treacherous conditions to supply arms and supplies to the Soviets in the fight against the Nazis.
September 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
And to show how international relations can shift over time - my Great Uncle Noel Frederick Ross served as a gunner on HMS Victorious during the Arctic Convoys of WW2, braving treacherous conditions to supply arms and supplies to the Soviets in the fight against the Nazis.
He was based in the camp under Russian attack at Balaclava in Crimea in 1854. The “Thin Red Line” held - wearing the very uniforms he made. The action was immortalised in Robert Gibb’s painting located in Edinburgh Castle.
September 28, 2025 at 5:54 AM
He was based in the camp under Russian attack at Balaclava in Crimea in 1854. The “Thin Red Line” held - wearing the very uniforms he made. The action was immortalised in Robert Gibb’s painting located in Edinburgh Castle.
I get my first name from my Grandpa’s surname. His family came from Highlands & North East. This is my 4x Great Grandpa, William Ross, Sergeant Master Tailor of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders. He made the uniform he’s wearing - and those of regiment. Served in Corfu, Gibraltar, India, & Crimea.
September 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I get my first name from my Grandpa’s surname. His family came from Highlands & North East. This is my 4x Great Grandpa, William Ross, Sergeant Master Tailor of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders. He made the uniform he’s wearing - and those of regiment. Served in Corfu, Gibraltar, India, & Crimea.
It’s a political death spiral that only benefits Farage and his wealthy pals.
August 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It’s a political death spiral that only benefits Farage and his wealthy pals.
Increasing UK inequality created a fertile ground for anti-migrant sentiment and Brexit due to perceived scarcity > Nigel Farage and Reform back Brexit which further increases inequality in UK > Whilst Tories and Labour echo them on Brexit and stoking up anti-migrant sentiment.
August 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Increasing UK inequality created a fertile ground for anti-migrant sentiment and Brexit due to perceived scarcity > Nigel Farage and Reform back Brexit which further increases inequality in UK > Whilst Tories and Labour echo them on Brexit and stoking up anti-migrant sentiment.
Vive la France.
France will recognize an independent state of Palestine in September at the U.N. General Assembly, President Emmanuel Macron said.
“The urgent need today is to end the war in Gaza and to rescue the civilian population,” Macron wrote on X. wapo.st/45jiof3
“The urgent need today is to end the war in Gaza and to rescue the civilian population,” Macron wrote on X. wapo.st/45jiof3
July 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Vive la France.
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🏴 The SNP will always keep Scotland’s water in Scotland’s hands.
The current fiasco in England shows that public ownership works.
Scottish Water delivers a better service, reinvestment not profit, and 20% lower bills than England. 🚰
The current fiasco in England shows that public ownership works.
Scottish Water delivers a better service, reinvestment not profit, and 20% lower bills than England. 🚰
July 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🏴 The SNP will always keep Scotland’s water in Scotland’s hands.
The current fiasco in England shows that public ownership works.
Scottish Water delivers a better service, reinvestment not profit, and 20% lower bills than England. 🚰
The current fiasco in England shows that public ownership works.
Scottish Water delivers a better service, reinvestment not profit, and 20% lower bills than England. 🚰
🏴💦 That’s that settled then.
July 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🏴💦 That’s that settled then.
The UK has its own history of empire, colonialism, slavery and ethnic cleansing.
There’s arguably more value in more people learning about that - so British exceptionalism doesn’t rule the waves and moral complacency doesn’t take hold.
There’s arguably more value in more people learning about that - so British exceptionalism doesn’t rule the waves and moral complacency doesn’t take hold.
July 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The UK has its own history of empire, colonialism, slavery and ethnic cleansing.
There’s arguably more value in more people learning about that - so British exceptionalism doesn’t rule the waves and moral complacency doesn’t take hold.
There’s arguably more value in more people learning about that - so British exceptionalism doesn’t rule the waves and moral complacency doesn’t take hold.
The UK has its own history of empire, colonialism, slavery and ethnic cleansing.
There’s arguably more value more people learning about that - so British exceptionalism doesn’t rule the waves and moral complacency doesn’t take hold.
There’s arguably more value more people learning about that - so British exceptionalism doesn’t rule the waves and moral complacency doesn’t take hold.
July 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The UK has its own history of empire, colonialism, slavery and ethnic cleansing.
There’s arguably more value more people learning about that - so British exceptionalism doesn’t rule the waves and moral complacency doesn’t take hold.
There’s arguably more value more people learning about that - so British exceptionalism doesn’t rule the waves and moral complacency doesn’t take hold.
Keir Starmer and other world leaders have stood by - or in his case, enabled - the deliberate starvation of Palestinians by Israel. It’s a shameful stain on history few of us will ever forget. It’s time to stop this now.
July 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Keir Starmer and other world leaders have stood by - or in his case, enabled - the deliberate starvation of Palestinians by Israel. It’s a shameful stain on history few of us will ever forget. It’s time to stop this now.
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Let this sink in. ‘Scottish’ Labour are seeking advice from Blair who took the UK into an illegal war against Iraq, that killed 1 million people & who is now advising on the annexation of Gaza to create a Riviera style beach resort (FT). How utterly low can Labour sink?
Scottish Labour are seeking advice from the Tony Blair Institute for the Scottish Election, whose staff have been taking part in a project investigating turning Gaza into a Riveria. The final plan proposes “paying half a million Palestinians to leave the area”.
July 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Let this sink in. ‘Scottish’ Labour are seeking advice from Blair who took the UK into an illegal war against Iraq, that killed 1 million people & who is now advising on the annexation of Gaza to create a Riviera style beach resort (FT). How utterly low can Labour sink?
The sources are the FT and Holyrood Magazine.
July 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The sources are the FT and Holyrood Magazine.
What greater indictment of our age than this: those who cry out for Gaza are silenced, while those who starve and kill its people walk free. A world that fears the oppressed more than the oppressor’s weapons is not just broken - it is complicit.
At least 17 people, mostly children, were killed by an Israeli strike while waiting for food supplements in Gaza, health officials say.
IDF strike kills Gazan children awaiting food supplements, health officials say
At least 17 people, mostly children, were killed in the strike near a Project HOPE clinic in Gaza, officials said. Malnutrition rates are rising in the Strip.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
What greater indictment of our age than this: those who cry out for Gaza are silenced, while those who starve and kill its people walk free. A world that fears the oppressed more than the oppressor’s weapons is not just broken - it is complicit.
Scottish Labour are seeking advice from the Tony Blair Institute for the Scottish Election, whose staff have been taking part in a project investigating turning Gaza into a Riveria. The final plan proposes “paying half a million Palestinians to leave the area”.
July 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Scottish Labour are seeking advice from the Tony Blair Institute for the Scottish Election, whose staff have been taking part in a project investigating turning Gaza into a Riveria. The final plan proposes “paying half a million Palestinians to leave the area”.
Across borders and here in the UK, some powerful people - like wolves in sheep’s clothing - protect their wealth and divide societies by blaming the poor, migrants, and minorities for the very inequality they sustain. Humanity still has a long way to go.
June 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Across borders and here in the UK, some powerful people - like wolves in sheep’s clothing - protect their wealth and divide societies by blaming the poor, migrants, and minorities for the very inequality they sustain. Humanity still has a long way to go.
It’s 2025 and too much of geopolitics has de-evolved into modern cave men throwing rocks to protect power. All while many of the real existential threats to our planet and human survival go unanswered.
June 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
It’s 2025 and too much of geopolitics has de-evolved into modern cave men throwing rocks to protect power. All while many of the real existential threats to our planet and human survival go unanswered.
🏴 Scotland’s future in our hands, or his?
June 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🏴 Scotland’s future in our hands, or his?