Alan Ferrier
@alanferrier.bsky.social
I live in Glasgow and my hobbies include arranging my CDs in alphabetical order, discovering new and exotic whiskies, sheep-spotting and flying my kite.
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Alan Ferrier
@alanferrier.bsky.social
· Nov 16
What frightens the British Establishment most is the prospect of an independent, progressive, prosperous Scotland being witnessed by the English electorate.
It was during the 1984-85 miners' strike that I first began to regard the BBC as an arm of the state. I've seen little to change my opinion since.
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It was during the 1984-85 miners' strike that I first began to regard the BBC as an arm of the state. I've seen little to change my opinion since.
Reminder that Tim Davie, who's just resigned as BBC Director-General, stood in an election for the Tories in Hammersmith, was deputy chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative Party and in 2020 spent his first day in the job visiting BBC Scotland in Glasgow.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reminder that Tim Davie, who's just resigned as BBC Director-General, stood in an election for the Tories in Hammersmith, was deputy chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative Party and in 2020 spent his first day in the job visiting BBC Scotland in Glasgow.
A proposal to require property developers to include at least one “swift brick” in every new home to save swifts, house martins, sparrows, and starlings - all of which are in rapid decline - at a mere cost of £35 per building has been rejected by UK Labour.
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Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes - Natural World Fund
Labour Rejects Swift Brick Proposal for New Homes in England A proposal to require the inclusion of at least one “swift brick” in every new home built in England has been rejected by Labour at the com...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A proposal to require property developers to include at least one “swift brick” in every new home to save swifts, house martins, sparrows, and starlings - all of which are in rapid decline - at a mere cost of £35 per building has been rejected by UK Labour.
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“We do not want an independent Scotland because we dislike the English, but because we want separation from that Union of financial, military and monarchic establishments calling itself Great Britain.”
—Alasdair Gray, “Independence: An Argument for Home Rule”, 2014.
—Alasdair Gray, “Independence: An Argument for Home Rule”, 2014.
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“We do not want an independent Scotland because we dislike the English, but because we want separation from that Union of financial, military and monarchic establishments calling itself Great Britain.”
—Alasdair Gray, “Independence: An Argument for Home Rule”, 2014.
—Alasdair Gray, “Independence: An Argument for Home Rule”, 2014.
If you believe in human rights but you don't believe they apply to everyone, then what you actually believe in is privilege.
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On the 75th anniversary of European Convention of Human Rights, Catriona Wheeler, Moderator of the General Assembly, joins with nearly 300 organisations who accuse politicians of using it as a scapegoat that will devastating effects if abandoned. For the full story, see https://ow.ly/gvqt50Xmj73
November 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
If you believe in human rights but you don't believe they apply to everyone, then what you actually believe in is privilege.
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Bloody foreigners, coming over here, saving our lives.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/trai...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/trai...
The hero of Huntingdon: Algerian train worker, 48, who saved multiple lives during horror train stabbing | LBC
CCTV during the attack showed him acting
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November 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Bloody foreigners, coming over here, saving our lives.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/trai...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/trai...
Take a look at this graph. It should be a rocket up our collective arses. It's time we took independence a lot more seriously than we are doing. Per capita, Scotland is as rich as Europe but leaks more wealth than sub-Saharan Africa.
www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
November 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Take a look at this graph. It should be a rocket up our collective arses. It's time we took independence a lot more seriously than we are doing. Per capita, Scotland is as rich as Europe but leaks more wealth than sub-Saharan Africa.
www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
When you hear, "new information has emerged in recent times..." from a former royal press officer you know it actually means, "what the royals have known in full for years and which was so damaging they paid £12m to suppress it, is now coming into the public domain."
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
When you hear, "new information has emerged in recent times..." from a former royal press officer you know it actually means, "what the royals have known in full for years and which was so damaging they paid £12m to suppress it, is now coming into the public domain."
Wee factoid: the name “Mountbatten” was adopted on 14 July 1917, three days before the British royal family changed its name to “Windsor”, by members of the Battenberg family residing in the UK, due to rising anti-German sentiment during World War I. The name is a direct Anglicisation.
October 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Wee factoid: the name “Mountbatten” was adopted on 14 July 1917, three days before the British royal family changed its name to “Windsor”, by members of the Battenberg family residing in the UK, due to rising anti-German sentiment during World War I. The name is a direct Anglicisation.
Since Scotland voted No, energy costs have increased by about £3,000.
October 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Since Scotland voted No, energy costs have increased by about £3,000.
BMA Scotland welcomes £531m deal with Scottish Government - the largest investment in core GP services in Scotland to date - as a ‘significant step in the right direction’ to stabilise and rebuild general practice.
I'm sure Reporting Scotland will be all over this.
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I'm sure Reporting Scotland will be all over this.
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General practice to receive more than £500m
Announcement 'reflects the level of funding needed to stabilise and rebuild general practice across Scotland'
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October 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
BMA Scotland welcomes £531m deal with Scottish Government - the largest investment in core GP services in Scotland to date - as a ‘significant step in the right direction’ to stabilise and rebuild general practice.
I'm sure Reporting Scotland will be all over this.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
I'm sure Reporting Scotland will be all over this.
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
A wee nugget here regarding Dounreay which may have slipped under the radar: "The full decontamination of the site is expected to take *more than 300 years*"
12 generations. I wonder if they'll have "allowed" us another independence referendum by then.
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12 generations. I wonder if they'll have "allowed" us another independence referendum by then.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dounreay waste particle 'most radioactive' find for three years
The fragment has been categorised as
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October 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
A wee nugget here regarding Dounreay which may have slipped under the radar: "The full decontamination of the site is expected to take *more than 300 years*"
12 generations. I wonder if they'll have "allowed" us another independence referendum by then.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
12 generations. I wonder if they'll have "allowed" us another independence referendum by then.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
One of the most blatant lies I can remember from BBC Scotland (and that's saying something.) Basically a copy/paste of a Scottish Tory press release. The actual figure involved was £23,000 over 3 years. The BBC has added wages that would be paid whether the staff involved were in Turkey or not.
October 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
One of the most blatant lies I can remember from BBC Scotland (and that's saying something.) Basically a copy/paste of a Scottish Tory press release. The actual figure involved was £23,000 over 3 years. The BBC has added wages that would be paid whether the staff involved were in Turkey or not.
Royal protection officers routinely give codenames to those they’re looking after. The late Queen was known as ‘Purple One’, for example, while Prince Philip was referred to as ‘The Greek’.
Prince Andrew's codename was ‘The Cunt’.
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Prince Andrew's codename was ‘The Cunt’.
www.express.co.uk/news/royal/2...
Royal insider's blistering three-word rant about Prince Andrew speaks volumes
A former royal aide has allegedly described Prince Andrew's attitude towards staff in a royal book.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Royal protection officers routinely give codenames to those they’re looking after. The late Queen was known as ‘Purple One’, for example, while Prince Philip was referred to as ‘The Greek’.
Prince Andrew's codename was ‘The Cunt’.
www.express.co.uk/news/royal/2...
Prince Andrew's codename was ‘The Cunt’.
www.express.co.uk/news/royal/2...
I seem to remember that the Yanks made a huge fuss about this when the Brits did it in 1814.
October 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I seem to remember that the Yanks made a huge fuss about this when the Brits did it in 1814.
Only a couple of decades ago, similar lines were spewed out by representatives of the National Front and British National Party for which they were, rightly, castigated from all sides. Now it's become normalised. How far the UK has fallen.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Only a couple of decades ago, similar lines were spewed out by representatives of the National Front and British National Party for which they were, rightly, castigated from all sides. Now it's become normalised. How far the UK has fallen.
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Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm.
Real life:
Real life:
October 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm.
Real life:
Real life:
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
October 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
Well, it's been more than three years now. I guess that debate on the future of the monarchy we were told would have to wait until the queen died isn't happening.
October 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Well, it's been more than three years now. I guess that debate on the future of the monarchy we were told would have to wait until the queen died isn't happening.
Fixed that for you, @AP
October 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Fixed that for you, @AP
The Nonce and Future King.
October 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The Nonce and Future King.
Oh, the grand old Duke of York,
He had 12 million quid.
He gave it to someone he’d never met,
For something he never did.
He had 12 million quid.
He gave it to someone he’d never met,
For something he never did.
October 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Oh, the grand old Duke of York,
He had 12 million quid.
He gave it to someone he’d never met,
For something he never did.
He had 12 million quid.
He gave it to someone he’d never met,
For something he never did.
The Royal Family has - for two decades, at every stage of these shabby, squalid, dishonourable proceedings - protected, covered up, and ultimately paid for Andrew Windsor's behaviour. His disgrace is their disgrace.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
Prince Andrew gives up royal titles including Duke of York after 'discussion with King'
In a statement, the prince says:
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October 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The Royal Family has - for two decades, at every stage of these shabby, squalid, dishonourable proceedings - protected, covered up, and ultimately paid for Andrew Windsor's behaviour. His disgrace is their disgrace.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
Apparently they were promised an away ticket allocation for the match in Birmingham 5,000 years ago.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Minister to meet officials over 'unacceptable' decision to block Tel Aviv fans
Followers of the Israeli club will not be allowed to attend the Europa League game after a decision by Birmingham safety advisory group.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Apparently they were promised an away ticket allocation for the match in Birmingham 5,000 years ago.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“They’re arrogant. They think they can get away with it and they think they have an entitlement, and they carry on regardless. They sail on.” Andrew is not the biggest problem. The monarch, his family and allies and the system are.
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October 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
“They’re arrogant. They think they can get away with it and they think they have an entitlement, and they carry on regardless. They sail on.” Andrew is not the biggest problem. The monarch, his family and allies and the system are.
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