Stonehenge, carnival, folk and fascists: how Zakia Sewell (pictured in front of cherry blossoms) went in pursuit of the real story of Britain

The 6 Music DJ and writer Zakia Sewell, whose new book explores her mixed-race heritage and the ancient myth of ‘Albion’, tells @michaelamakusha.bsky.social everyone has a stake in a complex, nuanced country

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Claim Scotland is ahead of UK in emissions reductions is True The SNP election manifesto contained a claim about the performance of the Scottish Government in reaching 'net zero' emissions.

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Anti-social behaviour in Glasgow – This SNP council should be praised for implementing dispersal zone to further combat it even though it has fallen by two thirds in ten years From BBC Scotland today, the above and: Police have arrested 43 people in the first month of a new dispersal zone to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour in Glasgow city centre. Officers have use…

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Anas Sarwar 'offered me a Reform-Labour deal THREE TIMES', MSP says SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar offered Reform UK a deal to jointly “get the SNP out” on three separate occasions, a former MSP has alleged…

Reform's only MSP says Anas Sarwar offered a Reform-Labour deal to him three times." So that's Sarwar's word against Offord's, Graham Simpson's and several reports in the press.

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Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Oil spills from the Iran war are visible from space | CNN Satellite images show oil swirling in the water after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes on oil facilities and ships. Experts fear an environmental catastrophe

I legitimately don't have words.

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Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson

Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS

Nothing to see or everything to see

Palantir must be removed from the NHS

Several people with signs like this at the Boston Marathon today

Reform MSP doubles down on claim 'Anas Sarwar offered Reform-Labour deal' A SENIOR Reform UK candidate in the Holyrood election has denied Anas Sarwar’s claim that he called the party’s Scottish leader Malcolm Offord…

Come on Anas! Own up! You’ve been lying again!
Reform MSP doubles down on claim 'Anas Sarwar offered Reform-Labour deal'
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Amazonian royal flycatcher: #AGoodPlace

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Unbelievably, Keir Starmer can now be compared to Boris Johnson The Prime Minister was once a man with a reputation for integrity and decency

It is preposterous and honestly rather shameful for Starmer to act so upset over the Mandelson affair. He is basically attacking Robbins for doing precisely what he wanted him to do inews.co.uk/opinion/unbe...

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸

THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Labour’s Holyrood campaign lurches from one crisis to another There’s less than three weeks to go until the Holyrood election and the wheels have well and truly come off the Labour campaign. With the headlines being dominated by the Mandelson story &#82…

My latest blog piece, less than 3 weeks from the Holyrood election, Labour's campaign lurches from one crisis to another. Sarwar has been forced to claim that a vote for Labour in Scotland is not an endorsement of the Labour leader or the Labour UK Govt.

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Keir Starmer mocked as 'photo-op taken with WMD rather than Anas Sarwar' in Scotland KEIR Starmer has been mocked for choosing to have his photograph taken with a “weapon of mass destruction rather than stand beside Anas Sarwar”…

Keir Starmer visits Scotland for a photo-op with a weapon who isn't Anas Sarwar.

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Register to vote Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.

The deadline for registering to vote in the Scottish election is midnight tomorrow (20 April). Many 16 & 17 year olds are not registered. Anyone over 16 resident in Scotland can vote in Scottish elections, you don't have to be a UK citizen. You can register online here

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I wish when the Scottish press touted the results of opinion polls like today's More in Common poll it would point out that polls which base their results on having the Scottish Greens stand in every constituency are necessarily inaccurate. The Greens are standing in only 6 constituencies.

Register to vote Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.

You now have less than 12 hours to ensure all the independence supporters in your life are registered to vote. Data suggests 20% of the adult population of Scotland are either not registered to vote at all or are not registered at their current address. Register to vote -
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The causes of healthy life expectancy falling – Scotland already has far more, per head of population, GPs, nurses, midwives and other professionals than other parts of the UK so maybe look at this? The Herald today has: Scotland already has far more, per head of population, GPs, nurses, midwives and other professionals than other parts of the UK (table above, sources below) so Prof Cameron&#8…

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How Sarwar tried to steal credit for a trade union's achievement
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Prof Mary Beard agrees with me (us) on listening to Tucker Carlson regarding Trump and Iran My main critical friend, who when I became addicted to opioid painkillers, constructively said ‘Some f*****g professor!’ , agrees with me on Tucker Carlson, a Christian and a Trump fan,…

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Health visitors in England are key to Labour’s preventative strategy but they’re plummeting there after two years in government while Scotland after 19 years of the SNP has four times as many per head... From BBC Breakfast early this morning (06.17 to 06.20am) and repeated with the above shocking figures throughout the show: The number of health visitors in England has fallen by almost half over th…

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Despite 1 320 more referrals, Scotland’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services hit 90% target for fifth time in a row but in media silence The Child, adolescent, and psychological therapies national dataset (CAPTND) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Report published today, does not cover waiting times targets, so I used the …

As the Record today shamelessly distorts the figures on behalf of Anas, how despite 1 320 more referrals, Scotland’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services hit 90% target for fifth time in a row but in media silence
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Sample in the latest supposedly 'All to play for' poll has been adjusted, skewed in favour of, the 2024 General Election result when the electorate were duped by Labour 'Change', before Mandelson, and before they screwed everything up and is thus a useless outlier - have faith!

Scotland remains a progressive outlier with only half the level of concern about immigration and no chance of Reform UK winning even one constituency – Libby Brookes must improve YouGov, no friend of the SNP sees no sign of Reform UK coming first anywhere. Reform UK in Westminster polls – ahead consistently with up to a third of the voters. Reform UK in Scotland &#821…

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If you see anyone reading the Daily Record today

Contrary to England, vulnerable children in Scotland must be placed in regulated safe settings Thanks to Dottie for alerting me to this. In the Guardian today: Ministers must get to grips with the “national scandal” of England’s shadow child social care system, the children’s commissioner ha…

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Vulnerable children placed in caravans and AirBnB

Are Labour politicians now telling us how crap it is for Scotland to be within the UK? Voting Labour is not really voting Labour? By stewartb Strange times for Unionists in Scotland!  The Daily Record has just told its readers that ‘Anas Sarwar has claimed voting for Scottish Labour is not an endorsement of Keir Starmer …

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How can South Uist have no ‘mainland’ ferry service when the Skye Bridge offers an alternative that takes the same time? Keeping the Ferry Frenzy kettle boiling right up to the election, BBC Scotland today has the above and: The owner of a South Uist tourism business has said they are dealing with a wave of cancellat…

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New research report – The Politicisation of BBC Reporting in the 100 days before the Scottish Election 2026 – Comparing BBC Wales and BBC Scotland On Friday 17th April 2026, only three weeks before the Scottish Parliament election on May 7th, 2026, a research team at Talking-up Scotland completed a 100-day survey of the BBC Wales and BBC Scot…

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