weegingerdug
@weegingerdug.bsky.social
Opinionated gobshite, stroke survivor, older gay man, Scottish independence supporter, columnist with @scotnational.bsky.social huge languages and linguistics geek. Blog at https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com Not interested in your crypto investment.
My latest blog piece. We can defeat fascism and keep the flame of independence alive. In May Scotland's destiny is in our hands.
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In May Scotland’s destiny is in our hands
Speaking to SNP party members in Glasgow as the campaign for the Scottish elections in May starts to ramp up, First Minister John Swinney has said that the Scottish media should be “livid” at the U…
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January 5, 2026 at 6:54 PM
My latest blog piece. We can defeat fascism and keep the flame of independence alive. In May Scotland's destiny is in our hands.
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My latest blog piece, Trump's attack on Venezuela shows that the USA is now the superpower of piracy. Scotland needs to reintegrate with Europe in order to protect itself
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The superpower of piracy
The international rule of law has been on life support for some time. It was battered and bludgeoned by the West’s invasion of Iraq. Israel casually ignored international law as it pursued ge…
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January 3, 2026 at 5:25 PM
My latest blog piece, Trump's attack on Venezuela shows that the USA is now the superpower of piracy. Scotland needs to reintegrate with Europe in order to protect itself
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More spineless cowardice from Keir Starmer as he fails to condemn Trump for trashing international law and unilaterally attacking Venezuela and kidnapping its president. The weakness of post Brexit UK is exposed.
January 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
More spineless cowardice from Keir Starmer as he fails to condemn Trump for trashing international law and unilaterally attacking Venezuela and kidnapping its president. The weakness of post Brexit UK is exposed.
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everything about this government from trans rights, to israel, to immigration, to disability, to donald trump is steeped in moral cowardice.
starmer, streeting, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, @darrenpjones.bsky.social etc -- these ppl are unwilling to stand up to monsters.
starmer, streeting, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, @darrenpjones.bsky.social etc -- these ppl are unwilling to stand up to monsters.
January 3, 2026 at 1:12 PM
everything about this government from trans rights, to israel, to immigration, to disability, to donald trump is steeped in moral cowardice.
starmer, streeting, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, @darrenpjones.bsky.social etc -- these ppl are unwilling to stand up to monsters.
starmer, streeting, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, @darrenpjones.bsky.social etc -- these ppl are unwilling to stand up to monsters.
The position of the US is that it can kidnap the president of a foreign country and try him in a US court for alleged crimes which were not carried out under US jurisdiction but the US president cannot be tried in a US court for alleged crimes which were carried out under US jurisdiction.
January 3, 2026 at 1:22 PM
The position of the US is that it can kidnap the president of a foreign country and try him in a US court for alleged crimes which were not carried out under US jurisdiction but the US president cannot be tried in a US court for alleged crimes which were carried out under US jurisdiction.
My last blog piece of 2025. The fightback against Anglo-British far right nationalism begins in Scotland with the Holyrood election in May 2026. The lastest opinion poll showing 53% support for independence tells us it's a fight we can win.
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Making plans for Nigel in 2026
It’s nice to end what has been at times a trying year with some good news. On a personal level, in 2025 my mum lost her battle with cancer, and my good friend and former neighbour Mary Docher…
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December 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My last blog piece of 2025. The fightback against Anglo-British far right nationalism begins in Scotland with the Holyrood election in May 2026. The lastest opinion poll showing 53% support for independence tells us it's a fight we can win.
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🚨 More new polling, as a little Christmas/Hogmanay treat 🚨
Independence support is six points ahead as we go into 2026. Meanwhile, Yes support spikes when people are asked to consider the question in the context of a Reform government.
www.thenational.scot/news/2573038...
Independence support is six points ahead as we go into 2026. Meanwhile, Yes support spikes when people are asked to consider the question in the context of a Reform government.
www.thenational.scot/news/2573038...
Scotland would vote for independence in new referendum, exclusive poll finds
SCOTS would vote to leave the Union should an independence referendum be held tomorrow, a new poll has found ...
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December 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🚨 More new polling, as a little Christmas/Hogmanay treat 🚨
Independence support is six points ahead as we go into 2026. Meanwhile, Yes support spikes when people are asked to consider the question in the context of a Reform government.
www.thenational.scot/news/2573038...
Independence support is six points ahead as we go into 2026. Meanwhile, Yes support spikes when people are asked to consider the question in the context of a Reform government.
www.thenational.scot/news/2573038...
It's not just the dream of Scottish independence which is at stake in the Scottish elections of May 2026, it's the future of decency, public services, and democracy itself. Reform is the creature of the real enemies of humanity, the billionaires.
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It’s not just independence that’s at stake in May’s Scottish election
Another opinion poll has suggested that the pro-independence parties are on track to win a convincing majority in Holyrood in May’s Scottish parliament election. The poll, by Find Out Now for…
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December 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It's not just the dream of Scottish independence which is at stake in the Scottish elections of May 2026, it's the future of decency, public services, and democracy itself. Reform is the creature of the real enemies of humanity, the billionaires.
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There has never been a Scottish politician as useless and nakedly careerist as Michael Shanks, the ashtray of Scottish politics. You'd think a former modern studies teacher would understand what happened to Labour in Scotland in 2015, but apparently not.
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'Useless' Michael Shanks has visited Aberdeen just ONCE for GB Energy
Michael Shanks has made just one trip to Aberdeen relating to GB Energy, The National can reveal
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December 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
There has never been a Scottish politician as useless and nakedly careerist as Michael Shanks, the ashtray of Scottish politics. You'd think a former modern studies teacher would understand what happened to Labour in Scotland in 2015, but apparently not.
www.thenational.scot/news/2572183...
www.thenational.scot/news/2572183...
A couple of predictions for 2026. By this time next year and for very different reasons, we will have seen the back of both Starmer and Trump.
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Hope will start to dawn in 2026
Making predictions in politics is a mug’s game, particularly if those predictions concern a year ahead. It has famously been said that a week is a long time in politics, so a year is the equi…
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December 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A couple of predictions for 2026. By this time next year and for very different reasons, we will have seen the back of both Starmer and Trump.
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According to Google translate, Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) for "Quiet,piggy." is
Nipaalluni, puulukit
That's all that needs to be said.
Nipaalluni, puulukit
That's all that needs to be said.
December 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
According to Google translate, Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) for "Quiet,piggy." is
Nipaalluni, puulukit
That's all that needs to be said.
Nipaalluni, puulukit
That's all that needs to be said.
I don't actually mind Trump falling asleep in public. It's him waking back up that I have a problem with.
December 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I don't actually mind Trump falling asleep in public. It's him waking back up that I have a problem with.
BBC Scotland, poised to be cheerleaders for Farage as we approach the Scottish elections.
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BBC Scotland, cheerleaders for Farage
On Wednesday evening BBC Scotland’s flagship evening news programme Och Aye the News, AKA Reporting Scotlandshire carried its second puff piece about Reform UK’s recent narrow council b…
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December 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
BBC Scotland, poised to be cheerleaders for Farage as we approach the Scottish elections.
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Following the disgraceful Reform UK puff piece on BBC Scotland's Och Aye the News this evening, more proof that the BBC is normalising the far right. BBC Scotland prefers Anglo-British fascism to Scottish independence.
www.thenational.scot/news/2570913...
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BBC executives rule that Tommy Robinson is 'far right' – but Reform UK are not
BBC executives have ruled that the broadcaster can accurately label Stephen Yaxley-Lennon “far right”
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December 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Following the disgraceful Reform UK puff piece on BBC Scotland's Och Aye the News this evening, more proof that the BBC is normalising the far right. BBC Scotland prefers Anglo-British fascism to Scottish independence.
www.thenational.scot/news/2570913...
www.thenational.scot/news/2570913...
BBC Scotland again bigging up Reform UK's council by-election win in West Lothian. It's the second time BBC Scotland has publicised it. No mention of the winning candidate's questionable past or the scandals besetting the party.
BBC Scotland NEVER gives this much publicity to SNP or the Greens.
BBC Scotland NEVER gives this much publicity to SNP or the Greens.
December 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
BBC Scotland again bigging up Reform UK's council by-election win in West Lothian. It's the second time BBC Scotland has publicised it. No mention of the winning candidate's questionable past or the scandals besetting the party.
BBC Scotland NEVER gives this much publicity to SNP or the Greens.
BBC Scotland NEVER gives this much publicity to SNP or the Greens.
What's in a name? The SNP and nationalism. How the anti-independence parties conflate independentism and nationalism for political advantage
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What’s in a name? The SNP and nationalism
There’s nationalism and there’s nationalism. On the Rest is Politics podcast hosted by Tony Blair’s erstwhile Director of Communications Alastair Campbell, First Minister John Swi…
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December 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
What's in a name? The SNP and nationalism. How the anti-independence parties conflate independentism and nationalism for political advantage
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BBC Reporting Scotland felt it was important to carry a puff piece for Reform UK after it won a council by-election in West Lothian on a mere 22% turnout - which BBC Scotland didn't think was so important to mention. I don't recall them ever giving any other council by-election such coverage.
December 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
BBC Reporting Scotland felt it was important to carry a puff piece for Reform UK after it won a council by-election in West Lothian on a mere 22% turnout - which BBC Scotland didn't think was so important to mention. I don't recall them ever giving any other council by-election such coverage.
How to kill off America's tourism industry, which is already reeling under huge drops in the numbers of foreign visitors. There's no way I'd go to America. I'm sure I'm not the only one put off.
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Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan
Proposed plan would apply to tourists of all countries, including those not required to get a visa to visit the US
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December 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
How to kill off America's tourism industry, which is already reeling under huge drops in the numbers of foreign visitors. There's no way I'd go to America. I'm sure I'm not the only one put off.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Starmer's dangerous stupidity in pandering to the far right means he may prove to become the unwitting midwife of Scottish independence.
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The dangerous stupidity of Keir Starmer
You can say many things about the opportunistic moral vacuum that is Keir Starmer, but he’s not stupid, he just behaves as though he was. The one time human rights lawyer Starmer’s late…
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December 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Starmer's dangerous stupidity in pandering to the far right means he may prove to become the unwitting midwife of Scottish independence.
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If youmust give trains a flag themed livery, it can be done tastefully. The new Great British Railways livery is not it. Why does everything have to be 'Great' British? It smacks of desperation. The livery looks like a GB News studio on wheels. The ScotRail livery is how to do it successfully.
December 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If youmust give trains a flag themed livery, it can be done tastefully. The new Great British Railways livery is not it. Why does everything have to be 'Great' British? It smacks of desperation. The livery looks like a GB News studio on wheels. The ScotRail livery is how to do it successfully.
My latest blog piece, Westminster and Scotland's energy - Fool me once... Scotland must not allow Westminster to squander its vast renewable energy resources the way Scotland's oil and gas were squandered by Westminster.
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Westminster and Scotland’s energy, fool me once…
Scotland is, by far and away, the most energy rich country of the islands of Britain and Ireland. Moreover it has more in the way of energy resources than just about any other country in Europe, wi…
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December 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My latest blog piece, Westminster and Scotland's energy - Fool me once... Scotland must not allow Westminster to squander its vast renewable energy resources the way Scotland's oil and gas were squandered by Westminster.
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I hope the Scottish media presses Malcolm Offord on the hypocrisy of a man who set up the Vote No Borders campaign announcing he'll be standing for a party which wants to close borders to everyone who's not white and rich.
But I won't be holding my breath
But I won't be holding my breath
December 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I hope the Scottish media presses Malcolm Offord on the hypocrisy of a man who set up the Vote No Borders campaign announcing he'll be standing for a party which wants to close borders to everyone who's not white and rich.
But I won't be holding my breath
But I won't be holding my breath
Offord's astroturfing Vote No Borders campaign was one of the BBC's blatant attempts to influence the outcome of the 2014 indyref. It was given a full 10 minutes on the 6 o clock news & falsely presented as a grassroots campaign while the BBC ignored genuine grassroots initiatives on the Yes side.
December 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Offord's astroturfing Vote No Borders campaign was one of the BBC's blatant attempts to influence the outcome of the 2014 indyref. It was given a full 10 minutes on the 6 o clock news & falsely presented as a grassroots campaign while the BBC ignored genuine grassroots initiatives on the Yes side.
I don't understand why the British media allows a far right party funded by the super rich and stuffed full of former Tories to continue to present itself as "anti-elite". It's such a blatant and risible lie yet Farage is never called out on it.
December 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I don't understand why the British media allows a far right party funded by the super rich and stuffed full of former Tories to continue to present itself as "anti-elite". It's such a blatant and risible lie yet Farage is never called out on it.
Millionaire Tory peer defects to "anti-elite" party Reform UK. Offord was behind the Vote No Borders astroturfing campaign during the 2014 indyref which was mysteriously given massive publicity by the "impartial" BBC.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2567804...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2567804...
Millionaire Tory donor Malcolm Offord defects to Reform
The millionaire peer was announced by Nigel Farage as the party’s latest high-profile member during a rally in Falkirk.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Millionaire Tory peer defects to "anti-elite" party Reform UK. Offord was behind the Vote No Borders astroturfing campaign during the 2014 indyref which was mysteriously given massive publicity by the "impartial" BBC.
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2567804...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2567804...