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Arthur Seat retweeted
Good morning!
On the train to London amongst a chorus of squelchy coughs and nose-blowing.
It's so strange that no-one knows about the bad air they're sat in.
We really need to improve ventilation on public transport.
Arthur Seat retweeted
germwatch.co.uk - There is a widespread respiratory illness characterised by sore throat, runny nose, nasal congestion and cough, with occasional fever, headache and fatigue.
The pattern appears in Scotland, Northern England, Midlands, South East and Wales.
Arthur Seat retweeted
Scotland - genuinely one of the greatest countries on this earth. You come online and see so many trying to tell us all how much of a cesspit it is. That it's been invaded and that it's lost. It's not. It's fucking great! Get out and about instead of living in your echo chamber.
Arthur Seat retweeted
So why aren’t Labour doing anything about it then?
Public ownership of Thames Water now, not a penny in compensation.
Vote Green in Holborn and St Pancras on Thursday to get Labour to finally act.
Kemi Badenoch thinks “privatisation was a success". She's living in an alternate reality.
Water is a symbol of what has gone wrong in Britain.
In the years since privatisation our waterways have been pumped with sewage whilst water bosses receive bonus after bonus.
Labour is putting an end to this with a strengthened Water Bill which will repeal Margaret Thatcher’s ideological ban on public ownership of water companies.
And we’ll also give Mayors new powers to hold water companies to account, and close the loopholes water companies use to pay excessive bonuses.
Arthur Seat retweeted
Castle Tioram is an ancient ruined castle in Loch Moidart one of the seats of Macdonald of Clanranald. It hit the headlines over 20 years ago when the person who claimed to own it (Lex Brown) proposed to renovate the property and convert it to residential use 1/4
Arthur Seat retweeted
I resigned from Google today.
I enjoyed my work and loved the people, but my GDM team was working on a new generation of chips to make AI much faster and cheaper, and I think AI is already progressing too fast, so I had to quit.
Arthur Seat retweeted
MPs vote on assisted dying TOMORROW
“Please listen to us .. Please keep us safe.” @tommyjessop
People with Down syndrome have raised concerns about pressure, coercion & safeguards
If MPs have doubts people will be protected, they should vote NO.
Still time to contact your MP
Arthur Seat retweeted
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, and we’ve published two new resources to mark it.
Arthur Seat retweeted
To all MPs whether for, against, unsure or abstaining on the assisted suicide vote on Friday in the Commons, please watch Better Off Dead? @BBCOne @OpenUniversity It’s my documentary explaining why no disability rights organisation supports this unsafe law bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
Arthur Seat retweeted
🚨The most important graph in the world has another 6 months of data!🚨
NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space.
The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled over the past 26 years!
The most important graph in the world.
Two years ago NASA showed the world that the rate of global heat uptake had doubled since 2005.
It barely made the news.
nasa.gov/feature/langley/joi…
Arthur Seat retweeted
Happy Birthday, Henry George.
Henry George was born 187 years ago today, and it is one of the stranger injustices in American intellectual history that most people have never heard of him. In 1879 a self-taught journalist published Progress and Poverty. It sold millions of copies—more than any other book in English except the Bible for a stretch of the 1890s. It asked why poverty deepened as technology and wealth exploded. His answer: the community creates the value of land; private capture of that unearned rent drives inequality, speculation, and boom-bust cycles. Tax the land, untax work and trade. Simple. Radical. Classical.
Though it cited individual liberty as the source of all social progress, that book also helped ignite the Progressive Era. Reformers, labor activists, and municipal governments were motivated by his diagnosis of privilege and his demand for equal opportunity. At the same time, later anti-statists—Albert Jay Nock, Frank Chodorov, and the strain now called geolibertarian—saw in him a man who advocated true laissez-faire: no taxes on production, a state funded only by the value the community itself creates. He sits in both the libertarian and progressive family trees. Most founders of movements do not.
He wrote like a prophet. His 1877 Fourth of July oration treats liberty not as a slogan but as the condition of virtue, wealth, and knowledge—and its full realization as “the City of God on earth.” Einstein, Tolstoy, Shaw, Dewey, and Sun Yat-sen all took him seriously. When he died in 1897 while running for mayor of New York, the funeral was one of the largest the city had seen.
It is unusually unfair that he faded. His book outsold almost everything. He influenced both the American left’s reform tradition and the American right’s later libertarian one. His central problem—progress that does not lift the bottom—has not gone away. Housing costs, land speculation, and the tax burden on labor are still with us.
There is a strong case to be made that universities teach "neo-classical" economics merely to avoid addressing the land issue and Henry George.
He has no statues, stamps or street names because he was correct and those in power don't care about fairness or the future of humanity as much as hanging on to the status quo.
Arthur Seat retweeted
Today people will catch covid not knowing that in three or six or nine month's time they will develop heart disease or diabetes or organ dysfunction as a result.
Public Health has failed us.
Long Covid reveals itself in many ways, but all of them start with Covid.
Arthur Seat retweeted
Who Owns Scotland? I have published the 44th monthly update to Who Owns Scotland which contains ownership information on 5075 landholdings covering 5.94 million hectares (14.7 million acres) or over 77.16% of rural Scotland. This project is solely funded by subscriptions. Please consider subscribing. Link in next post.
Arthur Seat retweeted
.@AndyBurnham sends his first UK military plane to Israel since becoming PM
This A400M flew from RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus to Tel Aviv on Wednesday. It stopped in Israel for an hour before returning to base
The A400M can carry a payload of 81,600 lbs or 116 fully equipped soldiers
Arthur Seat retweeted
Trumps Turnberry case a defining test of Scottish judicial independence and popular consent
Beyond Party Politics
The Test of Scottish Consent
The legal boundary of Scottish sovereignty is no longer a theoretical debate it’s happening right now in our courtrooms.
On Monday, August 31, the High Court in Glasgow will hear the case of seven activists indicted over property damage at the Turnberry golf course.
Whatever your views on political protest, the critical issue is the legal mechanism being applied.
Prosecutors are seeking a statutory
"terrorist connection" a increased charge
What this means
Because these people chose to support the people of Palestine dying at the hands of a brutal regime ( which Trump Supports)
they were peacefully asking them to stop using a sign and the UK government also to stop helping them.
The UK government is silencing us all and forcing Scotland to abide by the English coerced law of the Supreme Court of England.
Scotlands courts are independent by the right written into the Act of the Union.
This override would destroy Scotland’s courts of it’s independence the thin edge of the wedge.
By attempting to make property damage a terrorist act.
What was a simple demonstration of solidarity for the people of Palestine something the overwhelming majority of the Scottish people agreed with, into an act of terrorism using this to create a case of aggravation for standard property damage.
This isn't just about one protest, it is an empirical test of Scottish jurisdiction and public consent.
State Overreach vs. Civic Rights. Attaching terrorism designations to domestic protest sets a dangerous precedent, threatening to redefine fundamental civil liberties.
Jurisdictional Independence.
It tests whether Scottish justice operates under its own legal traditions or is drawn into external political agendas and UK wide frameworks that break the UN charter IHL and the advice of the pick and ICC.
The Principle of Popular Sovereignty.
Under the Scottish constitutional tradition, ultimate authority rests with the people, not central government overreach.
A legal system cannot function without the genuine consent of the governed.
The real question before Scotland is clear.
Do we accept the expansion of central state authority over our courts, or do we assert our right to self determination and independent justice?
We are documenting this process, building the digital archive, and establishing a non partisan civic voice outside the traditional political party structure.
Read the archive.
Understand your rights. Join the movement.
🌐 SCC-public.com
#ScottishCivilCouncil #PopularSovereignty #ScotsLaw #HumanRights #Scotland
Arthur Seat retweeted
✈️ A major milestone for Britten-Norman
The first fully UK-built Islander since production returned to Bembridge has begun its ground-test programme, with first flight targeted for September.
Read more: britten-norman.com/first-ful…
