Alan
@alaninnz.bsky.social
Glaswegian but now an Aotearoan by choice. I like to read. I like football but really only Celtic and Scotland and the All Whites. Hope to see an independent Scotland in my lifetime. Mostly here to read other’s posts.
#Scotsabroad
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I have had and heard this debate many times. It ends with economists admitting Govts do create taxpayer dollars (sic) by spending, as do banks by lending, but they don't want politicians to get any fancy ideas about using that framing and power for the public good.
November 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I have had and heard this debate many times. It ends with economists admitting Govts do create taxpayer dollars (sic) by spending, as do banks by lending, but they don't want politicians to get any fancy ideas about using that framing and power for the public good.
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“Scotland is holding up the UK with renewables, gas, oil, financial sector and whisky. It’s why Scottish bonds came straight in at the same level as the blessed UK.
But of course, none of this stopped Reeves having a politicised pop at the SNP.”
But of course, none of this stopped Reeves having a politicised pop at the SNP.”
Lesley Riddoch: Rachel Reeves's attack on the SNP shows Labour's fear
Rachel Reeves gave the SNP a bit of a kicking during her Budget speech
www.thenational.scot
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
“Scotland is holding up the UK with renewables, gas, oil, financial sector and whisky. It’s why Scottish bonds came straight in at the same level as the blessed UK.
But of course, none of this stopped Reeves having a politicised pop at the SNP.”
But of course, none of this stopped Reeves having a politicised pop at the SNP.”
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Seymour, Hobson's Pledge et al are really struggling to frame a response to this. 'Te Tiriti' is not a magic word that instantly causes your kids to forget how to add.
‘Expression of kotahitanga’: More than 1000 schools reaffirm commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/expressio...
‘Expression of kotahitanga’: More than 1000 schools reaffirm commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/expressio...
More than 1000 schools pledge to uphold Te Tiriti despite law change
Lawyer Tania Waikato says the response is a 'grassroots backlash' to reforms.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Seymour, Hobson's Pledge et al are really struggling to frame a response to this. 'Te Tiriti' is not a magic word that instantly causes your kids to forget how to add.
‘Expression of kotahitanga’: More than 1000 schools reaffirm commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/expressio...
‘Expression of kotahitanga’: More than 1000 schools reaffirm commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/expressio...
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This 👇
The level of British media attacks is in proportion to the threat their owners perceive against the English Establishment. Sturgeon's public popularity and success is a huge trigger. Do we care?
The level of British media attacks is in proportion to the threat their owners perceive against the English Establishment. Sturgeon's public popularity and success is a huge trigger. Do we care?
The front pages of Scotland’s newspapers are a disgrace today. All of them harping about how Nicola was doing harm during Covid.
If you really want to see how biased the media is today is the day.
If you really want to see how biased the media is today is the day.
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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The level of British media attacks is in proportion to the threat their owners perceive against the English Establishment. Sturgeon's public popularity and success is a huge trigger. Do we care?
The level of British media attacks is in proportion to the threat their owners perceive against the English Establishment. Sturgeon's public popularity and success is a huge trigger. Do we care?
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I think one of the reasons China's nuclear build-out doesn't get mentioned that much by right-wingers, conservatives etc in the west is simply that this sort of betrays the actual reason they talk about nuclear: an expensive, impossible and distant promise while coal and gas get expanded today
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I think one of the reasons China's nuclear build-out doesn't get mentioned that much by right-wingers, conservatives etc in the west is simply that this sort of betrays the actual reason they talk about nuclear: an expensive, impossible and distant promise while coal and gas get expanded today
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For the first time in 28 years, Scotland will be at the World Cup!
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
For the first time in 28 years, Scotland will be at the World Cup!
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#nzpol TOP has rebranded as simply “Opportunity” and has a new leader! Policies include a land tax, a semi-UBI (with tapering off as income goes up so the super rich don’t get it), and a bunch of other great things.
Could this be the party for me? https://youtu.be/l9dZAl7kNPA
Could this be the party for me? https://youtu.be/l9dZAl7kNPA
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
#nzpol TOP has rebranded as simply “Opportunity” and has a new leader! Policies include a land tax, a semi-UBI (with tapering off as income goes up so the super rich don’t get it), and a bunch of other great things.
Could this be the party for me? https://youtu.be/l9dZAl7kNPA
Could this be the party for me? https://youtu.be/l9dZAl7kNPA
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Scotland's Missing Forests 120k views in a week. Wonder if Scotgov gets the message. Barren-looking land, even overgrazed & burnt grouse moors, can support natural woodland & biodiversity. This is the story of two pals who went where politicians fear to tread www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV...
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Scotland's Missing Forests 120k views in a week. Wonder if Scotgov gets the message. Barren-looking land, even overgrazed & burnt grouse moors, can support natural woodland & biodiversity. This is the story of two pals who went where politicians fear to tread www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV...
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True. But as the saying has it: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times and it's enemy action.
youtu.be/TXQYuLUAbyw
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November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
True. But as the saying has it: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times and it's enemy action.
youtu.be/TXQYuLUAbyw
youtu.be/TXQYuLUAbyw
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Has the BBC been captured by a bunch of extreme right wingers? Does anyone believe Aunty is pro Palestine? Who will pay Trump's damages - licence-fee payers? What about record low trust levels in Scotland post #indyref? Plus prisons, David Lammy & Trad Awards. Listen lesleyriddoch.com/podcast
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Has the BBC been captured by a bunch of extreme right wingers? Does anyone believe Aunty is pro Palestine? Who will pay Trump's damages - licence-fee payers? What about record low trust levels in Scotland post #indyref? Plus prisons, David Lammy & Trad Awards. Listen lesleyriddoch.com/podcast
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The BBC is no longer trusted in Scotland and hasn’t been for at least a decade.
Anybody in this country (🏴) who still bleats about the BBC being a paragon of public service broadcasting is either delusional or must have been unconscious for the last ten years.
Anybody in this country (🏴) who still bleats about the BBC being a paragon of public service broadcasting is either delusional or must have been unconscious for the last ten years.
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The BBC is no longer trusted in Scotland and hasn’t been for at least a decade.
Anybody in this country (🏴) who still bleats about the BBC being a paragon of public service broadcasting is either delusional or must have been unconscious for the last ten years.
Anybody in this country (🏴) who still bleats about the BBC being a paragon of public service broadcasting is either delusional or must have been unconscious for the last ten years.
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BBC director resigns over corporation skewing news, you say? Bitter laughs from Scotland.
youtu.be/TXQYuLUAbyw
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LONDON CALLING: BBC bias during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum
YouTube video by London Calling documentary
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November 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
BBC director resigns over corporation skewing news, you say? Bitter laughs from Scotland.
youtu.be/TXQYuLUAbyw
youtu.be/TXQYuLUAbyw
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“By rights each official work [of military history] should have a companion volume in which the lowliest actor gives his version… it would at least give posterity a sense of perspective”
—George MacDonald Fraser, in QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE – his memoir of the WW2 Burma campaign
#BookWormSat
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—George MacDonald Fraser, in QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE – his memoir of the WW2 Burma campaign
#BookWormSat
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November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“By rights each official work [of military history] should have a companion volume in which the lowliest actor gives his version… it would at least give posterity a sense of perspective”
—George MacDonald Fraser, in QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE – his memoir of the WW2 Burma campaign
#BookWormSat
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—George MacDonald Fraser, in QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE – his memoir of the WW2 Burma campaign
#BookWormSat
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30 years ago this hopeless, overgrazed hillside was turned into a thriving woodland. Care & fencing restored desolate Glen Garry despite a sub-Arctic climate & proved forests are possible anywhere. So why is much of Scotland a barren wasteland? New film www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV...
November 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
30 years ago this hopeless, overgrazed hillside was turned into a thriving woodland. Care & fencing restored desolate Glen Garry despite a sub-Arctic climate & proved forests are possible anywhere. So why is much of Scotland a barren wasteland? New film www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV...
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🔴‘The SNP Isn’t a Threat to the Security of Any Nation I Want to Be Part Of’
Labour’s attempts to brand the Scottish National Party a threat to the UK’s national security is a drastic escalation of Labour’s anti-independence rhetoric, argues @adamramsay.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
Labour’s attempts to brand the Scottish National Party a threat to the UK’s national security is a drastic escalation of Labour’s anti-independence rhetoric, argues @adamramsay.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
'The SNP Isn't a Threat to the Security of Any Nation I Want to Be Part Of'
Labour's attempts to brand the Scottish National Party a threat to the UK’s national security is a drastic escalation of Labour’s anti-independence rhetoric, argues Adam Ramsay
bylinetimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🔴‘The SNP Isn’t a Threat to the Security of Any Nation I Want to Be Part Of’
Labour’s attempts to brand the Scottish National Party a threat to the UK’s national security is a drastic escalation of Labour’s anti-independence rhetoric, argues @adamramsay.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
Labour’s attempts to brand the Scottish National Party a threat to the UK’s national security is a drastic escalation of Labour’s anti-independence rhetoric, argues @adamramsay.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
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Stop. Policing. Poppies. That's. Not. What. Remembrance. Is. About.
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Stop. Policing. Poppies. That's. Not. What. Remembrance. Is. About.
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The SNP’s independence agenda challenges the political unity of the UK, but not its security or sovereignty in the sense used by intelligence or defense agencies.
Seeking independence via public vote is a legitimate democratic exercise, not subversion.
The SNP fits none of those categories.
Seeking independence via public vote is a legitimate democratic exercise, not subversion.
The SNP fits none of those categories.
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The SNP’s independence agenda challenges the political unity of the UK, but not its security or sovereignty in the sense used by intelligence or defense agencies.
Seeking independence via public vote is a legitimate democratic exercise, not subversion.
The SNP fits none of those categories.
Seeking independence via public vote is a legitimate democratic exercise, not subversion.
The SNP fits none of those categories.
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Scotland’s land should benefit the people of Scotland.
The Scottish Parliament has just overwhelmingly passed our historic Land Reform Bill - putting more power in the hands of the people, not large landowners.
The Scottish Parliament has just overwhelmingly passed our historic Land Reform Bill - putting more power in the hands of the people, not large landowners.
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Scotland’s land should benefit the people of Scotland.
The Scottish Parliament has just overwhelmingly passed our historic Land Reform Bill - putting more power in the hands of the people, not large landowners.
The Scottish Parliament has just overwhelmingly passed our historic Land Reform Bill - putting more power in the hands of the people, not large landowners.
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A new hutting law backed by the Scottish Government will help people reconnect with nature and unlock access to public land, campaigners have said
Campaigners hail new hutting law which will 'connect Scots with nature'
www.thenational.scot
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
A new hutting law backed by the Scottish Government will help people reconnect with nature and unlock access to public land, campaigners have said
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Quite shocking admission from the BBC in Scotland. Use your own made-up stats, and they won't challenge you. In fact they'll amplify your made-up stats - if you're from the right* party.
*By "right party" I mean not a Scottish party like 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐍𝐏.
*By "right party" I mean not a Scottish party like 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐍𝐏.
What? Political parties (preferred status) are allowed to have their own waiting list platformed by the state run broadcaster? Move along nothing to see here. 👇
November 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Quite shocking admission from the BBC in Scotland. Use your own made-up stats, and they won't challenge you. In fact they'll amplify your made-up stats - if you're from the right* party.
*By "right party" I mean not a Scottish party like 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐍𝐏.
*By "right party" I mean not a Scottish party like 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐍𝐏.
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Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party have launched an attack on Nigel Farage's ‘hateful, extreme politics’ following the announcement of a new alliance between the two parties ✍️Emily Price
Plaid and SNP team up to launch attack on Farage's 'hateful politics'
Emily Price Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party have launched an attack on Nigel Farage’s “hateful, extreme politics” following the announcement of a new alliance between the two parties. Plai...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party have launched an attack on Nigel Farage's ‘hateful, extreme politics’ following the announcement of a new alliance between the two parties ✍️Emily Price
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Nicola Willis calling your policy "a terrible idea" is the biggest vote of confidence you could ask for tbh.
October 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Nicola Willis calling your policy "a terrible idea" is the biggest vote of confidence you could ask for tbh.
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Fellow Tims, you don’t get a “resignation with immediate effect” email with the names of the replacement in the same email fae yir work.
You don’t nail down Martin O’Neill by sending him a WhatsApp saying, “Brendan’s walked 2 minutes ago, Ur Ye In?”
You don’t nail down Martin O’Neill by sending him a WhatsApp saying, “Brendan’s walked 2 minutes ago, Ur Ye In?”
October 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Fellow Tims, you don’t get a “resignation with immediate effect” email with the names of the replacement in the same email fae yir work.
You don’t nail down Martin O’Neill by sending him a WhatsApp saying, “Brendan’s walked 2 minutes ago, Ur Ye In?”
You don’t nail down Martin O’Neill by sending him a WhatsApp saying, “Brendan’s walked 2 minutes ago, Ur Ye In?”
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NEW: The BBC is facing criticism over not including Plaid Cymru on its flagship Sunday politics programme, despite the party securing a seismic election win
BBC under fire as Plaid Cymru missing from Laura Kuenssberg show despite election win
www.thenational.scot
October 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
NEW: The BBC is facing criticism over not including Plaid Cymru on its flagship Sunday politics programme, despite the party securing a seismic election win