@mcintyfam.bsky.social
Educator, parent, Scottish, European, environmentalist. Scotland is a country, not a county. Love books and witty craic. Saor Alba. "Do not obey in advance."
That dog is not mine - sadly.
That dog is not mine - sadly.
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'Reform UK posted a video of Nigel Farage warning of the 'cultural smashing' of Glasgow, claiming one in three children 'do not speak English as their first language'
Farage's own kids speak two languages, but that OK for them I suppose.
'British and German nationalities'
Farage's own kids speak two languages, but that OK for them I suppose.
'British and German nationalities'
December 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
'Reform UK posted a video of Nigel Farage warning of the 'cultural smashing' of Glasgow, claiming one in three children 'do not speak English as their first language'
Farage's own kids speak two languages, but that OK for them I suppose.
'British and German nationalities'
Farage's own kids speak two languages, but that OK for them I suppose.
'British and German nationalities'
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British politicians are bloody delusional it's been clear since #Trump was elected UK & EU were on are own. Jacob Rees-Mogg is just a modern day Lord Haw-Haw. He hates EU so much he's willing to side with an US administration that's hostile to democracy in Europe.
#Newsnight
#Newsnight
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
British politicians are bloody delusional it's been clear since #Trump was elected UK & EU were on are own. Jacob Rees-Mogg is just a modern day Lord Haw-Haw. He hates EU so much he's willing to side with an US administration that's hostile to democracy in Europe.
#Newsnight
#Newsnight
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New Scottish Government statistics published today show that over the last year, the number of pupils in Scotland’s schools reaching expected levels of literacy and numeracy is at the highest level on record and the poverty-related attainment gap is at a record low.
www.gov.scot/publications...
www.gov.scot/publications...
Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Levels 2024-25
Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) levels: 2024-25 provides information on national performance in literacy and numeracy, based on all pupils in publicly funded Primary 1, Primary 4, Prima...
www.gov.scot
December 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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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.
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Today’s figures show real progress in our schools:
✅ Record literacy and numeracy
✅ Higher attendance
✅ More teachers, with smaller class sizes
Huge credit to pupils and staff. We will keep driving improvement for every young person in Scotland.
✅ Record literacy and numeracy
✅ Higher attendance
✅ More teachers, with smaller class sizes
Huge credit to pupils and staff. We will keep driving improvement for every young person in Scotland.
December 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Today’s figures show real progress in our schools:
✅ Record literacy and numeracy
✅ Higher attendance
✅ More teachers, with smaller class sizes
Huge credit to pupils and staff. We will keep driving improvement for every young person in Scotland.
✅ Record literacy and numeracy
✅ Higher attendance
✅ More teachers, with smaller class sizes
Huge credit to pupils and staff. We will keep driving improvement for every young person in Scotland.
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Minimum wage should not go higher, suggests UK multi-millionaire Tory leader Badenoch on a salary of £93,904+expenses.
Silence on equitable distribution of wealth, progressive taxation or universal basic income/services.
Can't build economy on poverty.
Silence on equitable distribution of wealth, progressive taxation or universal basic income/services.
Can't build economy on poverty.
Minimum wage should not go any higher, suggests Badenoch
Badenoch claimed Labour had tipped the balance too far against workers and in favour of welfare.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Minimum wage should not go higher, suggests UK multi-millionaire Tory leader Badenoch on a salary of £93,904+expenses.
Silence on equitable distribution of wealth, progressive taxation or universal basic income/services.
Can't build economy on poverty.
Silence on equitable distribution of wealth, progressive taxation or universal basic income/services.
Can't build economy on poverty.
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BREAKING: A federal judge said the Justice Department can publicly release investigative materials from a sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime confidant of Jeffrey Epstein.
Justice Department can unseal Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case records, judge says
A federal judge says the Justice Department can publicly release investigative materials from a sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime confidant of Jeffrey Epstein.
apnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge said the Justice Department can publicly release investigative materials from a sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime confidant of Jeffrey Epstein.
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It's been almost three weeks now and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
December 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's been almost three weeks now and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
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This is an example of the BBC ignoring the daily/around 16 emails and press releases given by the SNP Scottish government, choosing instead to highlight or emphasise stories that are potentially damaging to the SNP and allowing opposition parties to wade in with their attacks. No good news allowed.
John Swinney opens Scotland’s largest health hub in Glasgow’s Parkhead
https://www.europesays.com/uk/621616/
Scotland’s First Minister unveiled the new Parkhead Hub during a visit on Monday, December 8, 2025, in the…#uk #news #uknews
https://www.europesays.com/uk/621616/
Scotland’s First Minister unveiled the new Parkhead Hub during a visit on Monday, December 8, 2025, in the…#uk #news #uknews
John Swinney opens Scotland's largest health hub in Glasgow's Parkhead - United Kingdom
Scotland’s First Minister unveiled the new Parkhead Hub during a visit on Monday, December 8, 2025, in the heart of the East End. The £67 million centre
www.europesays.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is an example of the BBC ignoring the daily/around 16 emails and press releases given by the SNP Scottish government, choosing instead to highlight or emphasise stories that are potentially damaging to the SNP and allowing opposition parties to wade in with their attacks. No good news allowed.
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NEW: Israel has been accused of 'blatant disregard' for international law after storming a UN building, tearing down the body’s flag, and replacing it with an Israeli one
Israel 'breaches international law' as troops storm UN building and tear down flag
www.thenational.scot
December 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
NEW: Israel has been accused of 'blatant disregard' for international law after storming a UN building, tearing down the body’s flag, and replacing it with an Israeli one
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Reform UK councillor slapped with a £40,000 fine for hiring an illegal worker. 🤔
So much for "taking back control", apparently the rule is: deport them… but only after we’ve squeezed some cheap labour out of them.
A masterclass in hypocrisy!
So much for "taking back control", apparently the rule is: deport them… but only after we’ve squeezed some cheap labour out of them.
A masterclass in hypocrisy!
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Reform UK councillor slapped with a £40,000 fine for hiring an illegal worker. 🤔
So much for "taking back control", apparently the rule is: deport them… but only after we’ve squeezed some cheap labour out of them.
A masterclass in hypocrisy!
So much for "taking back control", apparently the rule is: deport them… but only after we’ve squeezed some cheap labour out of them.
A masterclass in hypocrisy!
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There’s no peace in Gaza.
There’s no peace in Ukraine.
There’s no peace by Trump.
There’s only suffering for the Felon’s own people and for the world.
Because he lies, lies, and lies.
There’s no peace in Ukraine.
There’s no peace by Trump.
There’s only suffering for the Felon’s own people and for the world.
Because he lies, lies, and lies.
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
There’s no peace in Gaza.
There’s no peace in Ukraine.
There’s no peace by Trump.
There’s only suffering for the Felon’s own people and for the world.
Because he lies, lies, and lies.
There’s no peace in Ukraine.
There’s no peace by Trump.
There’s only suffering for the Felon’s own people and for the world.
Because he lies, lies, and lies.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Labour are attacking Greens. Fine. I have yet to see any party that has entirely affordable aspirations.
But at least the Greens HAVE aspirations.
Labour have seemingly decided the status quo cannot be touched, even when it doesn't work for 90% of people, or the viability of life on the planet.
But at least the Greens HAVE aspirations.
Labour have seemingly decided the status quo cannot be touched, even when it doesn't work for 90% of people, or the viability of life on the planet.
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Labour are attacking Greens. Fine. I have yet to see any party that has entirely affordable aspirations.
But at least the Greens HAVE aspirations.
Labour have seemingly decided the status quo cannot be touched, even when it doesn't work for 90% of people, or the viability of life on the planet.
But at least the Greens HAVE aspirations.
Labour have seemingly decided the status quo cannot be touched, even when it doesn't work for 90% of people, or the viability of life on the planet.
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The Epstein Files STILL have not been released.
If he wasn’t in them.
He’d have released them.
If he wasn’t in them.
He’d have released them.
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The Epstein Files STILL have not been released.
If he wasn’t in them.
He’d have released them.
If he wasn’t in them.
He’d have released them.
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Homes in Scotland selling ten days faster than rest of UK.
Independent Scotland will be one of the Richest Countries in Europe.
Independent Scotland will be one of the Richest Countries in Europe.
December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Homes in Scotland selling ten days faster than rest of UK.
Independent Scotland will be one of the Richest Countries in Europe.
Independent Scotland will be one of the Richest Countries in Europe.
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The Updated Epstein List: Who Is Named in All of the Files? - New York Magazine
#Epstein helped the rich to avoid taxes.
And added pretty girls.
He’s exactly the asshole that he was thought to be.
Like the French husband who invited men to abuse his wife.
apple.news/A7_GkFWKnQSq...
#Epstein helped the rich to avoid taxes.
And added pretty girls.
He’s exactly the asshole that he was thought to be.
Like the French husband who invited men to abuse his wife.
apple.news/A7_GkFWKnQSq...
The Updated Epstein List: Who Is Named in All of the Files? — New York Magazine
The list of prominent people associated with Epstein keeps growing and growing.
apple.news
December 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The Updated Epstein List: Who Is Named in All of the Files? - New York Magazine
#Epstein helped the rich to avoid taxes.
And added pretty girls.
He’s exactly the asshole that he was thought to be.
Like the French husband who invited men to abuse his wife.
apple.news/A7_GkFWKnQSq...
#Epstein helped the rich to avoid taxes.
And added pretty girls.
He’s exactly the asshole that he was thought to be.
Like the French husband who invited men to abuse his wife.
apple.news/A7_GkFWKnQSq...
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So, Farage who’d previously failed 7 times to be an MP, decided that in Clacton he’d rely on his old Brexit friends - cheating (and racism) - to get him his win.
With millions now pouring into Reform, it’s beyond time to properly investigate this grubby little man
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
With millions now pouring into Reform, it’s beyond time to properly investigate this grubby little man
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform campaign for Farage’s Clacton seat was a ‘juggernaut’, say candidates
Defeated Tory and Labour rivals describe force of Reform ‘machine’ as police assess claims of overspending
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
So, Farage who’d previously failed 7 times to be an MP, decided that in Clacton he’d rely on his old Brexit friends - cheating (and racism) - to get him his win.
With millions now pouring into Reform, it’s beyond time to properly investigate this grubby little man
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
With millions now pouring into Reform, it’s beyond time to properly investigate this grubby little man
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I heard Trump say that Ukrainians "love" his peace plan...how the hell would he know??? That man makes me sick! He gives Putin a pass on everything!
December 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I heard Trump say that Ukrainians "love" his peace plan...how the hell would he know??? That man makes me sick! He gives Putin a pass on everything!
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"This is Andrew Harrison, who I'm sure Farage will deny ever meeting/knowing. Andrew is a Reform councillor in Seaham. He owns a catering business that has just been closed down... For employing ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS"
via Sean Edward Dungworth
via Sean Edward Dungworth
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
"This is Andrew Harrison, who I'm sure Farage will deny ever meeting/knowing. Andrew is a Reform councillor in Seaham. He owns a catering business that has just been closed down... For employing ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS"
via Sean Edward Dungworth
via Sean Edward Dungworth
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Never stop talking about Palestine!!
Do not mistake silence for neutrality.
Silence now means siding with destruction.
If you are watching and saying nothing, you are giving permission.
You are telling the world that some wars are acceptable.
Never forgive, Never forget!!!!
Do not mistake silence for neutrality.
Silence now means siding with destruction.
If you are watching and saying nothing, you are giving permission.
You are telling the world that some wars are acceptable.
Never forgive, Never forget!!!!
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Never stop talking about Palestine!!
Do not mistake silence for neutrality.
Silence now means siding with destruction.
If you are watching and saying nothing, you are giving permission.
You are telling the world that some wars are acceptable.
Never forgive, Never forget!!!!
Do not mistake silence for neutrality.
Silence now means siding with destruction.
If you are watching and saying nothing, you are giving permission.
You are telling the world that some wars are acceptable.
Never forgive, Never forget!!!!
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Norway used its energy wealth to build one of the most prosperous and fair societies in the world.
Scotland can do it too, with the fresh start of independence.
Get involved: snp.org/energy
Scotland can do it too, with the fresh start of independence.
Get involved: snp.org/energy
December 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Norway used its energy wealth to build one of the most prosperous and fair societies in the world.
Scotland can do it too, with the fresh start of independence.
Get involved: snp.org/energy
Scotland can do it too, with the fresh start of independence.
Get involved: snp.org/energy