I'm the former SNP MSP for the Falkirk East constituency. Now back home, a resident Hebridean and loving it. Retweets are not endorsements.
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Well done @donaldlabour! When working on the 2015/16 Land Reform Bill I fought hard to ensure there was a statutory duty to take every reasonable step to ensure at least one member of the @ScottishLandCom is a Gaelic speaker. Our work on the 2016 Act must not be watered down!
I have lodged a motion in the Scottish Parliament to annul the SSI laid by the Scottish Government to reduce the number of Scottish Land Commissioners from 5 to 4.
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I suppose Abdul El-Sayed had a point, to a degree, but …… is this not the kind of attitude the MAGA brigade has/had that pissed us all off! Not impressed!
Michigan's Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed confronted @jamesmatthewsky, telling him he wouldn't answer his questions as he wants "zero" votes in the UK.
Watch the heated exchange between the two.
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If the world is getting a little too much may I recommend the inexplicably obsolete word ‘latibulating’, from the 17th century? To latibulate is to find a cosy corner somewhere and hide in it.
Scandalous! How many times can the Acorn project be shafted by London governments? #YouYesYet? pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/pol…
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Scotland just delivered one of the most powerful clean-energy statements in modern history. On multiple occasions, the country’s wind turbines generated around 200% of national electricity demand, producing far more power than Scotland itself needed.
It can be done!!!
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #renewables
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💯School children will be nourished on first rate protein from off local land, the ecosystem will benefit from less overgrazing, and tree plantations & gardens will be under less deer pressure. The @ScotGamekeepers have long pressed for such common sense.
app.scotsman.com/story/93184…
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This seems like a great time to reshare my favourite Sir Patrick Stewart performance, ‘What has the ECHR ever done for us?’ It’s just perfect in every possible way … including the ending 😂😂😂 RIP.
🎥 The Guardian
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The comms around this have been a mess. It is quite incredible that this is being spun as very little has changed. Grant funding and loans/equity are not equivalent. Almost 24 hours later and we are still trying to have key questions answered. Article to come!
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It’s worth repeating that the “root cause” of the 🇷🇺 war against 🇺🇦 is Vladimir Putin. Nothing less.
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The Chancellor has admitted that an independent Scotland could have had a £1 trillion wealth fund by now - but instead, the country's energy resources were frittered away.
How could this happen? Editor Laura Webster explains
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Here’s a Labour Chancellor hiding the truth from the people of Scotland. Not so much a “conspiracy” as a matter of recorded history. Yet there are still those who seek to deceive.
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For what it’s worth, the SNP has been calling for a sovereign wealth fund for decades.
And the SNP press office did more or less this calculation and arrived at the same £1 trillion figure in June.
#justsayin
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‘We'd have a British sovereign wealth fund now that will be worth probably a trillion pounds’
Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP suggests what Britain could have gained if it had set up an energy wealth fund like Norway’s back in the 1980s
#Peston
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What. The. Actual. Fuck…
Praising Vladimir Putin as a humanitarian? What world are you living in? It’s obscene
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Simple question: Who do you believe has your best interests at heart, the millionaire/billionaire Easdale brothers who have amassed obscene wealth on the back of charging you, the public, to use their buses, or the First Minister who hasn’t?
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We now hear that 🇺🇸 and 🇷🇺 are also discussing joint data centers. Good luck with that. Europe will certainly not join in. Not difficult to know which interests in 🇷🇺 that will be jubilant over this.
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Find it just so typical that rather than Scotland's media explore what public ownership of busses means to the public, or how it works outside of Scotland - or even how it works in our own capital city - the amplified central voices are reactionary businessmen.
Yep 👇
Russia doesn't need to invade Britain to threaten Britain.
When I warned in 2024 that we had entered a pre-war world, it wasn't simply about the prospect of tanks crossing European borders.
Russia has developed ways to threaten our security without triggering a conventional military response. Cyberattacks, sabotage, disruption to energy supplies and attacks on critical infrastructure can all cause enormous damage without a shot being fired.
Look at the numbers.
Russia is spending over 7% of its GDP on defence. Its military expenditure has effectively trebled since 2021.
Meanwhile, the number of nationally significant cyber incidents handled by Britain's National Cyber Security Centre rose from 89 to 204 in just one year. Not all were Russian, but the figures illustrate our growing vulnerability.
Lord Peter Ricketts, Britain's former National Security Adviser and former head of the Foreign Office, is right to warn about the threat to our essential services.
But here's the fundamental question: we spend a great deal of time debating whether Britain has enough missiles, aircraft, warships and troops to defend itself. And rightly so, because there are serious concerns about our military readiness.
Yet are we devoting anything like the same attention to defending our electricity supplies, hospitals, banking systems, water networks and communications?
The next attack on Britain may not look like the start of a war.
It may look like an ordinary Monday morning when everything suddenly stops working.