“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
For clarity, this happened on the B4437 outside Burford in Oxfordshire.
Perhaps you should have mentioned that, @STVNews
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"That was a party election broadcast on behalf of the Scottish National Party."
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❤️Glasgow.
If Scotland is not “allowed” to deliver its verdict on the promises and commitments made to it in 2014 in order to secure a No vote, then the UK's so-called democracy will have exposed itself - for all the world to see - as fraudulent, an empty shell.
Scottish Daily Mail, 2016: "Oil revenue plunges by 97% - SNP dream of leaving UK dead in water." Scottish Daily Mail, 2026: "We're sitting on a goldmine! North Sea oil hits record high"
Started, going, etc.
Lad sitting in t-shirt in the sun with his wife next to him wrapped up warm in the snow.
Still the most iconic Scottish weather picture, in my humble opinion.
‘Show the people that our Old Nobility is not noble, that its lands are stolen lands - stolen either by force or fraud; show people that the title-deeds are rapine, murder, massacre, cheating, or court harlotry; dissolve the halo of divinity that surrounds the hereditary title; let the people clearly understand that our present House of Lords is composed largely of descendants of successful pirates and rogues; do these things and you shatter the Romance that keeps the nation numb and spellbound while privilege picks its pocket.’
A quote from Tom Johnston's book, "Our Scots Noble Families". It was first published in 1909 and caused a sensation. He later became wartime Secretary of State for Scotland and first chairman of the North of Scotland Hydro Board.
Finally got there. "SNP candidate ditched" still their headline, mind you. Let's see how long this stays on the front page...
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This is BBC Scotland's top story. What a surprise.
Good job she didn't use her iPad while on holiday or that would've been the BBC's top story for weeks.
This story's currently being covered by The Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Herald, The Telegraph, Daily Express, The Sun, The Mirror, Daily Record, The Scotsman, The National, and many others.
BBC Scotland? Not a peep. Radio silence.
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The new goal of Trump's Iran War appears to be opening the Straight of Hormuz, which was open before the start of Trump's Iran War.
PROFESSOR Danny Dorling has a game he plays with Labour audiences in England. He asks them to name the one country in Europe that has reversed child poverty over the last 16 years – not through revolution, not through vast increases in spending, but through relatively modest and targeted changes in welfare provision. The room always goes quiet. Nobody ever gets it. He has to tell them. It’s Scotland. And the reason they don’t know is itself part of the story. The British press has never really told them.
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The Iran war is such a clusterfuck Trump may need to release the Epstein files as a distraction.
There's a small minority in Scotland (History Woman, Effie Deans, AgentP and their chums) who'll be wetting themselves at this prospect. Scotland back in its box and then bled dry.
Independence is imperative.
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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: "To every American who wants peace through strength: may Almighty God bless our troops. Please pray for them every day on bended knee in the name of Jesus Christ."
But it's Iran who are the religious nutters, apparently.
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@alanferrier Maybe we shouldn’t have sold off British Gas, British Petroleum, British Steel, British Telecom, British Rail - all the national and nationalised industries and utilities which belonged to the British people as a common treasury for the future - to a bunch of wide-boys and spivs. 2:59 PM · Jul 13, 2022
It's like he read my mind ;)
“A sustained project of privatisation and deregulation has turned Britain from a place which made things people need into a place which makes money for people who own things. “We live in rip-off Britain: an economy built to reward the few off the work of the many. A country where people work so hard and try to do the right thing but still struggle to afford the basics, and find themselves constantly cutting back. “The very basics, the things we rely on to build the foundations of a good life, have been taken out of our hands, sold for profit – and then sold or rented back to us at crushing rates. The water that keeps us alive. The energy that warms us. The home that keeps us safe. “We’ve stopped working to save for a deposit, a summer holiday or even to put a bit away for the future – so many of us are working just to cover the increasing cost of getting by every day.”
I'm not a Green voter but well said, @zackpolanski.bsky.social. About time we had a politician in the UK with the courage to articulate this fundamental, undeniable truth.
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Urinal as Trump's mouth
Dutch urinals: disturbing.
I'd advise against holding your breath.
Thanks to BBC Wales for reporting this. I'm sure BBC Scotland will also be all over it haha.
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"When a lazy aristocrat from a dying dynasty uses a helicopter to travel seventeen miles, the edifice shakes. But when that same man rapes a 17-year-old and calls her a liar, it is the end of days."
Utterly excoriating from Mr O'Hagan.
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I have no issue with Tony Blair expressing his opinion, other than the fact that he should be doing it from a dock in The Hague.
Or as that nice Mr. Orwell said: “The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
If Iran didn't want to be attacked they shouldn't have put their country right in the middle of all those US military bases.
Glasgow's Cowcaddens Cross looking east towards Hope Street, c1900.
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Glasgow city council’s property company forces the closure of a jewel in Glasgow's arts scene just a month after we lost the CCA. Short-sighted cultural vandalism and totally unacceptable. @glasgowcc.bsky.social - sort it out.
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