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@bellacaledonia
BELLA CALEDONIA
2 years
Remember that time Meghan Markle dragged down the reputation of the Royal Family by *checks notes* guest editing Vogue 🇬🇧🥴
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3 years
Brexit Update - this is a map of rivers where raw sewage is being dumped. Take. Back. Control.
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4 years
Turns out BBCQT woman was Sherri Bothwell -a former NATIONAL FRONT candidate in Leyton. There's no way they didn't know who she was.
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3 years
Murdo Fraser, Jackie Baillie, Margaret Mitchell and their supporters will be bitterly disappointed, they completely failed. Let's remember: That's. All. They've. Got. That's it, their only strategy was destroy Sturgeon. That's failed. There is no Plan B.
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4 years
BREAKING: Man who does nothing for a living will now officially do nothing for a living, but now in private
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3 years
Surely the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are THE definition of non essential workers?
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2 years
LOL
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8 years
Edinburgh graffiti:
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3 years
As the Trump nears his final time in office. Here's some of my personal favourite moments ... #ByeByeTrump
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5 years
Here's English translations of place-names rather than the Anglicised versions of Gaelic place-names ...
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4 years
Wow. Spain just introduced UBI:
@TheMendozaWoman
Kerry-Anne Mendoza 🏳️‍🌈🍉
4 years
Massive news from Spain. Universal Basic Income is happening, and more importantly, the government’s broader ambition is that basic income becomes an instrument “that stays forever, that becomes a structural instrument, a permanent instrument,” HUGE
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3 years
Here's @bbclaurak 's knifedge election ...
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3 years
A massive victory in Scotland today for the power of peaceful protest and resistance, and a massive defeat and humiliation for the British Home Office and institutionalised racism #KenmureStreet
@ReidEileen1
Eileen ReidBoulter
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Finally, they walk with Aamer and the Pollokshields community to the mosque. An extraordinary, peaceful, successful protest. #kenmurestreet #pollokshelds ❤️✊🏾✊
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2 years
I'm old enough to remember when the @ScotTories were demanding the Scottish Government follow the budget and all the Scottish media were clapping along like 🦭
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5 years
Boris Johnson's line that the SNP would take Scotland back into the EU isn't the zinger he thinks it is for a country that voted 62% to remain 😂🤔
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9 months
In 9 short years, North Sea Oil has gone from being a diminishing resource to an asset so powerful it could transform the whole of Britain. Scotland is simultaneously too poor to be independent but rich enough to “power up Britain.” That’s quite a paradox:
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6 years
Congratulations to Prince Charles in taking over the Commonwealth in what must have been a very competitive field and a testing interview process
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1 year
Really kicking off in Edinburgh 😂
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5 years
Eating my Coco Pops while reading Toby Young's Phrenological Homo Erotic Tribute to Boris
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2 years
They're booing in Edinburgh
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Phantom Power
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Declaration of God Save the King met with boos in Edinburgh #Scotland
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3 years
Love this. Shetland is in the Hebrides according to a newspaper called the @TheScotsman - and they put it on the front page of their magazine.
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2 months
It's clear that Labour blackmailed Lyndsay Hoyle into violating Westminster protocol so they could protect Israel from the charge of collective punishment. The Speaker allowed himself to create precedent in naked party political interest and should resign📢[share if you agree]
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3 years
Nicola Sturgeon announcing a four-day week would never have happened before the pandemic. The opportunity for fundamental change as part of the recovery are huge
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3 years
Tories trying to put people off voting Green spectacularly 😂
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4 years
I'm not sure why @BBCNews keeps saying Dominic Cummings was "interrogated" by the media. He wasn't he was asked a handful of totally bland questions by trusted lobby journalists
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5 years
Great to hear a statement from Brigadier Nick Perry, Commander 16 Air Assault Brigade, about the importance of political neutrality for the British Army
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3 years
Imagine inventing the television but not being in charge of broadcasting during an election, or at all 🤔
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3 years
Why #GeorgeSquare ? Why not Ibrox? Because this was a show of force, not just a 'celebration'. No other location would do. This was a display of power, endorsed by the club, ignored by the media and colluded-in by the police:
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2 months
Mark Francois is speaking rather than Dianne Abbott, that's all you need to know #PMQs
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7 years
Glasgows Sacred Geometry revealed
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1 year
Your occasional reminder that The Specator and all who write for it are a disgrace
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7 years
From the #WomensMarch Berlin right now.
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3 years
Apart from being a wonderfully stupid idea, aren't they supposed to be, you know, non-political?
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3 years
Sarah Smith's effort to shoehorn Alba into the conversation fails badly as engineer says he'll vote SNP1 Green2 #BBCLeadersDebate
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2 years
Hilariously HS2 was once used as a model for how being in Union was of great benefit to Scotland. Now it's not even going to reach Leeds:
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6 months
If you can set-aside your club rivalries for a moment (as you should in the circumstances) Celtic fans display represents a useful rejection of corporate control of football and an impressive moment of solidarity in a censored society
@AlanRMacLeod
Alan MacLeod
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"You'll never walk alone" 🇵🇸 Celtic fans with a massive display of Palestinian solidarity at their Champions League game tonight.
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5 years
Remember when Scottish independence was going to bring us constitutional chaos, "separatism" and economic uncertainty? 😂😳
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4 years
"Extinction Rebellion protests threaten our way of life."
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4 years
Essentially Nicola Sturgeon is being punished for competence. It looks very much like the state broadcaster has caved-in to political pressure because the ‘threat of a good example’ was unacceptable for a political establishment already on the ropes ...
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3 years
Murdo Fraser: "I have a great many letters from constituents about the SNP’s proposed licensing scheme for short-term lets." Put that through the translator: "My property-owning chums have been leaning on me as their cash-cow is under threat" Fixed that for you @murdo_fraser
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5 years
Ever wonder why BBC Radio is so right wing?
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4 years
Hogmanay Maths. The Council pays Underbelly £800+K a year to run the winter festivals. Underbelly makes an estimated £45m from the event. Creative Scotland and other bodies give Underbelly £180k +. The End.
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7 years
David Mundell's majority is 798. Tory-Free Scotland available within months.
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2 years
Jubilee Frenzy in Scotland ... 😂
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4 years
Oh god I agree with Alex Massie and Piers Morgan in one day. I need a lie down or a stiff drink.
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3 years
Good to hear @patrickharvie expose @Douglas4Moray on his disgraceful attacks on the Scottish travelers community #STVLeadersDebate
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4 years
BBC World Service just announced they’d be playing the national anthem on all channels at 7pm tonight “and people could give vent to their feelings”. Not sure they’ve thought that one through ...
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4 years
If iScotland garnered taxes and other revenues at the same level as the rest of Europe, we'd yield the Scottish Government an income of £93.9 billion, not £65.9 billion (a budget surplus of £12.6 billion, not a deficit of £15.1 billion)
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“Scotland is a poor country, one of the poorest regions of Europe. Yet it should be as rich as Ireland or Denmark. The reason is that for the past century the Scottish economy has been allowed to lapse by being run from England in England’s interest”.
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3 years
This is going out to 3 m people across America and 🌎
@amanpour
Christiane Amanpour
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Leader of the Scottish National Party @NicolaSturgeon  says the UK's exit from the EU, against the wishes of the Scottish people, leaves the country with a key question on independence: "Do we now decide to take our future into our own hands so Scotland can chart its own path?"
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BELLA CALEDONIA
2 years
I mean transporting Liz Truss anywhere to do anything is by definition a waste of money
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4 years
Inspirational stuff. Anyone for the Duke of Sutherland?
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4 years
Get Independence Done
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6 months
Dear @spectator Douglas Murray is your Associate Editor. If he hasn't been sacked yet for his disgraceful comments about @HumzaYousaf - why not? Really keen to hear your response.
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3 years
Just for a bit of useful background to the naked political opportunism going on, here's @OpiniumResearch poll out today. Who would be the best First Minister of Scotland?
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2 years
You feeling safe cos of Trident aye?
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3 years
"Scotland was the only nation competing at Euro 2020 that did not have its own end-to-end national broadcasting set-up" - this is a massive cultural media failure ...
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3 years
It's astonishing that the only thing jeopardising a huge pro-indy majority in May should be the fractious ego of one man and a faction of the Yes movement as the SNP stand on historic polling and Yes touches 60% in the polls. The dark irony is that they have NO alternative plan
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2 years
from February 2022
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2 years
Loving Baroness Davidson’s perfornative outrage against the party that she grew out of and still advocates people support. What a dire hypocrite
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3 years
Douglas Ross tanking badly.
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11 months
I did not know this: the Wine & Spirit Trade Association donated £20k to the Tories just before they dropped glass from Deposit Return Scheme 🍾♻️🇬🇧
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9 months
The brutal reality for poor @JohnFerry18 & @dhothersall is that the concept of 'Equal Partners' is not a nationalist invention but was part of the (now distant) language used around 2014. The fact that it now lies abandoned is a reflection on the state of the Union, nothing else
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3 years
It's the 21 Century and BBC's Good Morning Scotland have Lord Digby Jones on discussing a new royal yacht costing £200million as part of the pandemic recovery
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"After 316 years Scotland is poor, impoverished even, for reasons never explained ... Scotland is simultaneously too poor to be independent but rich enough to “power up Britain.” Make it make sense?
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4 years
Remember when people actually argued that being part of this was somehow beneficial to Scotland?
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4 years
So sad to hear about the death of Alasdair Gray who was the inspiration for Bella Caledonia. Alasdair created our masthead, font and logo. He was an inspirational polymath. Thoughts are with his family, obituary and appreciation to follow....
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2 years
Sadly the attempts by the state broadcaster to weaponise "the Queen's love of Scotland" for political reasons undermined by them not knowing anything about *checks notes* Scotland 😂🇬🇧
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4 years
The sublime irony of Effie Deans careering around the highlands confused by all the garrisons has warmed my heart this Friday. She's like a post-imperial psychotic sat nav gone wrong. I do like her call for signs in one language or the other though. Gaelic it is? @DailyGael
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2 years
I wonder what the people who go on about the 'Precious Union' and the wonderful qualities of 🇬🇧 democracy think when they look on at the Owen Paterson scandal?
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4 years
Scotland hasn't voted for a Tory government in 65 years. It won't be long before there will be no-one alive who can remember such an event. It's been unimaginable in my lifetime #indyref2 #BorisScotland
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7 months
This famous painting depicts Air BnB Superhosts being driven from the land ...
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@ScotBandBassoc
The Scottish B&B Association
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It’s desperately sad to hear of so many brilliant B&Bs closing because of #STLlicensing , like this one today in the Highlands:
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3 years
Love this. Late capitalism selling you the idea that eating a burger in your car is quality time to yourself ...
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3 years
I heard on the news that it was raised in parliament the status of a portrait of HRH the Queen. "Had it in fact been left in 🇬🇧HQ in Kabul?" Really? Really?! This is what they're worried about? JFC, what a ******* country
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Don’t want to be rude but, er, wtf has it got to do with her?
@ScotNational
The National
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NEW: Rachel Reeves has demanded MSPs back Scottish Labour's efforts to topple Humza Yousaf and trigger an election. Anas Sarwar has already confirmed he will be lodging a no confidence motion in the Scottish Government.
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3 years
I hate the UK. Phone the police if you like. The End.
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2 years
The Scottish Tories attempt to usurp a political sub culture they barely comprehend has just magnified how totally alienated they are from Scottish society. It’s a kind of beautiful self-own
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Many things can be true at the same time 1) Scotland ISN'T doing enough about climate change 2) Greta Thunberg IS being weaponised against the Scottish Government 3) BBC Scotland's climate coverage is terrible
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Michael Gove playing a blinder all day making the case for Scottish independence and destroying any notion of this being a 'partnership of equals' ...
@AamerAnwar
Aamer Anwar✊🏾🏳️‍🌈#BlackLivesMatter
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Michael Gove @covidinquiryuk asked by our Sen Counsel @madisonmitchel1 ‘there was little attempt to outline what applied UK-wide..what applied only to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, the phrase ‘this country’ was employed frequently to mean 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 or GB or the UK. There wasn't clarity’ @covidinquiryuk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧
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3 years
Deeply embarrassing to be tied to 🇬🇧 and represented by Prince Charles and Boris Johnson wittering about James Bond #COP26Glasgow
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4 years
Jo Swinson is having a terrible election campaign. She comes across as simultaneously arrogant and inauthentic, accusations of using misleading data on election material look terrible and her East Dunbartonshire seat looks vulnerable
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‘Scottish flag tin’ 😳
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2 years
Okay that's it. You have to stop now. Dry your eyes and get off your knees 🍝 6.7 million in food poverty 👩‍⚕️ 6.8 million on NHS waiting lists 🔋 5 million unable to afford energy bills 🏠 Up to 1 million in rent arrears
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For anyone getting their nickers in a twist about this it’s been going on for about 40-50 years now
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Remember when HS2 was used to argue it was 'Uniting Britain'? 🇬🇧😀
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8 years
The Sun lied on "benefit tourism". People believed them.
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7 years
These are appearing all over the place [enjoy & share]
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3 years
Haven't seen policing this good since the Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021 #PoliceEscort #PermanentEmbarrassmentAndAnOccasionalDisgrace
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4 years
Projects to pull the plug on to help pay for the crisis? Trident, HS2 and Hinkley seem obvious starters? Any other takers?
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8 years
#EuroScot [please share]
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3 years
The ascension of Baroness Lundin Links marks the end of a very weird chapter of Scottish politics, in which we had to pretend she was a remarkable politician on the verge of greatness, which she very clearly wasn't ...
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3 years
This #C4Debate is a car crash for Douglas Ross. It's game over. The Union is basically a threat. @krishgm is very good on pushing the undemocracy of Tory rule
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Tweet in support of Humza Yousaf's call for a ceasefire and watch your timeline fill-up with racism and Scots filled with so much self-hatred and cringe the very idea of a Scottish Parliament interacting with the world is completely intolerable to them ...
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2 years
The depths of cultural self-hatred at play here ...
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3 years
Statue Defence update
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2 years
We occasionally share useful highly-researched quality infographics to help shape the political debate
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