Wee Ginger Dug: Keir Starmer doesn't want nationalised industry, look at Grangemouth SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has called on the Labour government to nationalise the Grangemouth oil refinery, as there are reports that…

My piece for @scotnational.bsky.social today

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Grangemouth and Scunthorpe a travail of two cities The steel works in Scunthorpe were in the news this week as the plant is threatened with closure and the Labour government is in talks with Jingye, the Chinese owners of British Steel in an attempt…

My latest blog piece contrasting the Labour govt's efforts to save the Scunthorpe steel mill with its inaction when it came to saving the Grangemouth refinery.

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My piece for today's @scotnational.bsky.social

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And @labouruk.bsky.social will continue to defend this genocide

Britain’s food supply is precarious – and Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you? | George Monbiot I’ve started a stockpile, but that isn’t the answer. If crisis strikes, the government needs a strategy to protect us all, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1. Reading some of the comments beneath this week's column, I'm struck once again by how fiercely resistant many people are to understanding how our food is produced, how it reaches us and how the system works. This willed ignorance is lethal. Short🧵
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Dear Bluesky...

"We are not here to take part, we are here to take over!" 👍🍀

Galatasaray fan's today...

Israel Just Killed a Pregnant Palestinian Woman – And Western Media Doesn’t Care How many Palestinian women and children have to be killed in the occupied West Bank before anyone in the US or UK gives a damn?

"The Israelis shot and killed an innocent young woman and then caused the death of her unborn baby, too.

Shocking, right? Depraved? Murderous? And yet, as of Monday morning, there was no mention of Sundus Shalabi on...the New York Times or the BBC" - me, for Zeteo:

NEW: A new study has highlighted instances where GB News had played down racism, 'dressed it up as humour' or allowed 'divisive polemics' to go unchallenged.

The report ultimately concluded ultimately that it is 'an anti-Muslim hate channel'.

I did miss out several 9's past the decimal point!!

Balgy Gap Shows Something is Missing from Scotland’s Energy System The privatisation of Scotland's power has proved a failure

This brilliant article by @JackieKemp shows everything that is wrong with the U.K. and the corrupt energy market. open.substack.com/pub/jackie12...

I love that so many millions have seen your posts and so many 100s of thousands have liked them on a subject 99.9999% of us have never come across. Beautiful stuff.

Amazon workers on strike from Black Friday to Cyber Monday (WFXR) – Amazons workers across 20 countries, including the United States, are striking against what the organizing labor union calls anti-worker and anti-democratic practices.

Amazons workers across 20 countries, including the United States, are striking against what the organizing labor union calls anti-worker and anti-democratic practices.

X is a fascist, racist echo chamber run by a billionaire.

As Janey Godley has her funeral, here is her roasting Michelle Mone.

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Israel has killed over 1,000 doctors and nurses in Gaza, deliberately targeting hospitals and blocking medical supplies, according to the Wafa News Agency. Over 310 healthcare workers have been arrested, tortured, or executed.

The CEO of Legatum, co-owners of GB News, saying the quiet part out loud...

Wales to form own deposit return scheme to encourage recycling - after glass bottles row The previous UK government had ruled glass could not be included, but the Welsh government has announced it will now press ahead with its own scheme.

Allowed in Wales, while Scotland was blocked from delivering the exact same scheme by Westminster.
Can you see what they're doing yet? They are literally ripping the pish out of us Grievance politics for the sheer hell of it. Just keeping their jackboot on our necks.

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NEW: Now-retired NHS surgeon Nizam Mamode who spent four weeks in Gaza has called out Keir Starmer over his refusal to use the word genocide 👇

Immediately✊🏽

Emergency workers killed in Lebanon as Israeli strikes pound country At least 25 people are dead across Lebanon in the last 48 hours as Israeli strikes pound the country's southern and eastern regions.

Fourteen emergency rescue workers were killed by an Israeli strike that targeted an emergency response centre in eastern Lebanon. Another 11 people died in strikes across the south of the country. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

I was asked (repeatedly, aggressively) on the other platform for my lawyery views on Allison Pearson’s story.

I declined to comment because Ms Pearson is a famously unreliable narrator of events, and I wanted to wait for independent evidence.

Alas for Ms Pearson…

Allison Pearson: Police told me I was "accused of a non-crime hate incident".

Essex police bodycam footage: "It’s gone down as an incident or offence of potentially inciting racial hatred online. That would be the offence."

A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power | Carole Cadwalladr The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite

"The world’s richest man bought a global communication platform and is now the shadow head of state of what was the world’s greatest superpower. That’s the message. Have you got it yet?"

Carole Cadwalladr is back and we need to pay attention.
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#Brexit... The greatest con ever pulled on the UK public. We essentially imposed economic sanctions against ourselves, yet by adding #immigration into the equation, millions STILL fell for it & voted for #Farage. #UnFuckinBeLIEvable 🙄

EXCLUSIVE: The Labour UK Government is going beyond genocide denial and attempting to revise its definition in its refusal to accept Israel is committing such an act in Gaza, a Middle East expert has said.

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