Garry Nicoll
@garryn.bsky.social
🏴Here for news and discussion about politics or pets or anything really, I enjoy hearing different opinions and learning about any subject.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
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This is what I mean. It's grotesque to describe some idiotic policy - cruel and racist though it is - as "eerily similar" to a World War and the extermination of millions. It utterly degrades any framework of logic within which we can discuss things, to the direct benefit of those who exploit fear.
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This is what I mean. It's grotesque to describe some idiotic policy - cruel and racist though it is - as "eerily similar" to a World War and the extermination of millions. It utterly degrades any framework of logic within which we can discuss things, to the direct benefit of those who exploit fear.
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I'm not sure many people say the current government is new labour.
People who aren't paying attention say it is right wing.
It's neither. It's just not very good.
People who aren't paying attention say it is right wing.
It's neither. It's just not very good.
November 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I'm not sure many people say the current government is new labour.
People who aren't paying attention say it is right wing.
It's neither. It's just not very good.
People who aren't paying attention say it is right wing.
It's neither. It's just not very good.
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If anyone has any sense of the history of why the Act of Union happened they should be very, very unfuckingcomfortable with this turn of events.
I get the politics of issuing Scottish bonds, but not convinced by the economics
Issuing ‘kilts’ will not unlock any new funding, but it may well make borrowing more expensive
In other words: it could mean less investment, not more 🧵 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2561868...
Issuing ‘kilts’ will not unlock any new funding, but it may well make borrowing more expensive
In other words: it could mean less investment, not more 🧵 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2561868...
Scotland ‘on track’ to issue first bonds in 2026-27, says Swinney
The Scottish Government is “on track” to issue its first ever bonds next financial year, with John Swinney saying the move will fund “key…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If anyone has any sense of the history of why the Act of Union happened they should be very, very unfuckingcomfortable with this turn of events.
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Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
www.newstatesman.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
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Buried news of the day IMO
"Government vows to phase out animal tests as alternative methods come on stream with new strategy welcomed as ‘ambitious’ and ‘timely’ by animal welfare & life sciences organisations."
Plus new £75 million funding to bring forward new testing methods for health products
"Government vows to phase out animal tests as alternative methods come on stream with new strategy welcomed as ‘ambitious’ and ‘timely’ by animal welfare & life sciences organisations."
Plus new £75 million funding to bring forward new testing methods for health products
Animal testing to be phased out faster as UK unveils roadmap for alternative methods
New plan backs researchers to seize on new and developing opportunities to phase out animal tests with specific commitments for the coming years.
www.gov.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Buried news of the day IMO
"Government vows to phase out animal tests as alternative methods come on stream with new strategy welcomed as ‘ambitious’ and ‘timely’ by animal welfare & life sciences organisations."
Plus new £75 million funding to bring forward new testing methods for health products
"Government vows to phase out animal tests as alternative methods come on stream with new strategy welcomed as ‘ambitious’ and ‘timely’ by animal welfare & life sciences organisations."
Plus new £75 million funding to bring forward new testing methods for health products
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You probably think taking quotes of social media is the same as reading a speech in its entirety
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
You probably think taking quotes of social media is the same as reading a speech in its entirety
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Important to be clear here that the proposed homes wouldn't mean demolishing the 18th century garden - it's just that they might possibly be visible from it. What appallingly selfish behaviour.
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Important to be clear here that the proposed homes wouldn't mean demolishing the 18th century garden - it's just that they might possibly be visible from it. What appallingly selfish behaviour.
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Your daily reminder….. what a concept!
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Your daily reminder….. what a concept!
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Polanski is being disingenuous. The white poppy is sold by the Peace Pledge Union, a strictly pacifist group. Pacifism is opposed to the existence of armed forces, and thus Green Party defence policy.
Trevor Philips, "What is the implication of the white poppy?"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
Zack Polanski, "The white poppy began after WWI, mainly from women's groups, who talked about peace and antifascism"
"So on the same day we remember the fallen, it's also about looking to the future and saying, we want a world of peace"
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Polanski is being disingenuous. The white poppy is sold by the Peace Pledge Union, a strictly pacifist group. Pacifism is opposed to the existence of armed forces, and thus Green Party defence policy.
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Andrew Lownie wrote an explosive book about Prince Andrew
Then came the backlash.
Legal threats. Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him
Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers.
This is how ‘the Firm’ works youtu.be/OJHaVsDVv-c?...
Then came the backlash.
Legal threats. Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him
Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers.
This is how ‘the Firm’ works youtu.be/OJHaVsDVv-c?...
November 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Andrew Lownie wrote an explosive book about Prince Andrew
Then came the backlash.
Legal threats. Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him
Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers.
This is how ‘the Firm’ works youtu.be/OJHaVsDVv-c?...
Then came the backlash.
Legal threats. Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him
Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers.
This is how ‘the Firm’ works youtu.be/OJHaVsDVv-c?...
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Going down a rabbit hole of mistaken prison releases. They've definitely got up recently, but between 40 and 115 offenders were incorrectly released *every year* from 2011 to 2024 (so over 800 while the Tories were in government).
It just doesn't normally make the news
news.sky.com/story/how-ma...
It just doesn't normally make the news
news.sky.com/story/how-ma...
How many prisoners are released by mistake?
Politicians and the public have reacted with fury after it emerged a second and third prisoner had been released in error from HMP Wandsworth - but it's not as rare as some might think.
news.sky.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Going down a rabbit hole of mistaken prison releases. They've definitely got up recently, but between 40 and 115 offenders were incorrectly released *every year* from 2011 to 2024 (so over 800 while the Tories were in government).
It just doesn't normally make the news
news.sky.com/story/how-ma...
It just doesn't normally make the news
news.sky.com/story/how-ma...
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EU rejoin is a *current* Lib Dem policy and one that we ran on in 2024. Simply announcing it isn't an option for the UK. We don't get to tell the EU that we're rejoining without years of prior steps. It will need a careful pathway, such as the one set out below, to make it a reality.
October 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
EU rejoin is a *current* Lib Dem policy and one that we ran on in 2024. Simply announcing it isn't an option for the UK. We don't get to tell the EU that we're rejoining without years of prior steps. It will need a careful pathway, such as the one set out below, to make it a reality.
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What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Amid all the horror of the attack on Saturday we see the very, very best of human beings. The passengers who helped each other, the heroic train worker who put himself in harms way and undoubtedly saved lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
'Heroic' train worker 'critical but stable' after knife attack, says transport secretary
After seeing CCTV, the police say the worker's actions
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Amid all the horror of the attack on Saturday we see the very, very best of human beings. The passengers who helped each other, the heroic train worker who put himself in harms way and undoubtedly saved lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
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"In the build up to the 2026 election we need to see all parties commit to full transparency about the scale of pollution in Scotland"
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November 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"In the build up to the 2026 election we need to see all parties commit to full transparency about the scale of pollution in Scotland"
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Nigel Farage says this summer’s Raise the Colours movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. Our reporters in five cities had a look and that’s not what we found.
November 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Nigel Farage says this summer’s Raise the Colours movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. Our reporters in five cities had a look and that’s not what we found.
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Isn’t it time for him to face justice?
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Isn’t it time for him to face justice?
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Having posts prioritised by algorithm is what they do on twitter and Facebook and is one of the reasons we left. If you foist it on us here, it will not be popular.
October 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Having posts prioritised by algorithm is what they do on twitter and Facebook and is one of the reasons we left. If you foist it on us here, it will not be popular.
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Amid all the fuss, remember that for much of the 1960s and 1970s, "the Spare" Andrew Windsor was just one unfortunate incident away from being the next king.
Hopefully, this appalling saga will lead to a proper national debate on our hereditary monarchy.
Long, long overdue.
Hopefully, this appalling saga will lead to a proper national debate on our hereditary monarchy.
Long, long overdue.
October 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Amid all the fuss, remember that for much of the 1960s and 1970s, "the Spare" Andrew Windsor was just one unfortunate incident away from being the next king.
Hopefully, this appalling saga will lead to a proper national debate on our hereditary monarchy.
Long, long overdue.
Hopefully, this appalling saga will lead to a proper national debate on our hereditary monarchy.
Long, long overdue.
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On #WorldDayForAnimalsInLaboratories, please take action with rescued laboratory dog Betsy and @mrrickygervais.bsky.social.
Ask your MP to sign Parliament #EDM187, for a science hearing to stop the false claims about human medicine which fund cruel animal tests: forlifeonearth.eaction.online
#Dogs
Ask your MP to sign Parliament #EDM187, for a science hearing to stop the false claims about human medicine which fund cruel animal tests: forlifeonearth.eaction.online
#Dogs
April 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
On #WorldDayForAnimalsInLaboratories, please take action with rescued laboratory dog Betsy and @mrrickygervais.bsky.social.
Ask your MP to sign Parliament #EDM187, for a science hearing to stop the false claims about human medicine which fund cruel animal tests: forlifeonearth.eaction.online
#Dogs
Ask your MP to sign Parliament #EDM187, for a science hearing to stop the false claims about human medicine which fund cruel animal tests: forlifeonearth.eaction.online
#Dogs
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'it ended up a really good deal for developers and less of a good deal for the taxpayer, and more broadly, for the Scottish economy, Scottish businesses, Scottish workers'
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
@vickyallan.bsky.social
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October 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
'it ended up a really good deal for developers and less of a good deal for the taxpayer, and more broadly, for the Scottish economy, Scottish businesses, Scottish workers'
www.heraldscotland.com/news...
@vickyallan.bsky.social
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@vickyallan.bsky.social
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