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Just here to say I’m not going to be around on Twitter, following Musk’s closing of journalists’ accounts. Please feel free to join me on Mastodon. I’m on .scot but join whichever group appeals, you can still see folk in other groups.

1/12 This report was written by a train driver following an incident on his train. It is a detailed summation of what happened when one of his passengers was taken ill on board…

Strap in, we’re going on a ride from Westminster to the Isle of Man. This is the story of Michelle Mone and that £29m.

I live down a narrow lane at the bottom of a steep hill that doesn't get gritted. When it snows, getting down is slippery. Leaving (uphill) is impossible unless you have a 4x4. So people get stuck. Yesterday this delivered a lesson in the social costs of Neo-liberalism. 1/7

This is a nice thing to do. I get a voucher for each person round our dinner table on Christmas Day, in lieu of crackers which terrify the dog and are filled with planet trashing tat. Options for places other than Scotland too.

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I think many families have already suffered ‘assisted’ dying at the hands of this shameless man.

Two brilliant threads here from Richard Murphy
Come in and read them. Wish our politicians would.

Listening to its correspondents tying themselves in knots, trying to report the biodiversity crisis without breaking editorial guidelines, reminds me of how the BBC's mistaken understanding of bias forces them to endorse Micro-Consumerist Bollocks instead of political action. 🧵

Brilliant thread. One that John Lamont MP 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 should read, as a member of CEN and a part of the crazy party that just approved a new coal mine here in U.K.

Just when the government is planning on relaxing financial services regulation we discover exactly why they should not be doing so

I wrote to my MP, John Lamont MP 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 this morning.
Why not write to yours too, as the government trash the environment?

writetothem.com

This is better than trashing the planet with crackers on your Christmas table.

itison.com/Glasgow/deals/…

The government is, apparently, planning to legislate for new performance standards that public sector workers must meet before they are allowed to strike. The idea makes no sense, unless the government sets standards for itself that it must meet. A thread….

What if this isn't a kid being cute, but a kid coping with shaming? This Santa video is making the rounds again, w/ folks saying 'how funny, how adorable'. I'm going to show you the sadness, anger, surprise & distrust that so easily goes unseen by us adults. A THREAD.

Its intended effect, of which genocide was an integral part, was exercise of sweeping power and massive theft of resources to benefit a particular group: ludicrously, again euphemistically, defined as “Aryans”. “Thieves, murderers and fellow travellers” would be more accurate./7.

Inflation will cease to be a problem soon: the issue will be that people’s pay will not have kept up with it taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2022/12/0… Inflation will fall soon: the problem is people will not be able to afford the remaining higher prices, which requires real pay increases.

Mixed feelings about yesterday's visit to Buckingham Palace. 10 mins after arriving, a member of staff, Lady SH, approached me, moved my hair to see my name badge. The conversation below took place. The rest of the event is a blur.
Thanks Mandu Reid & Suzanne Jacob for support🙏🏾

Check this,… the cost of the dodgy PPE contracts were actually added to the NHS budget…

… so it will look like the govt are investing in the NHS when they are actually “laundering” public money through the NHS!

Then they say “record NHS funding”.

They think we’re idiots!

This would be funny if it weren’t so serious.

Once again, fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber every national delegation at COP27. Complete failure is of course ensured until they stop letting in the fossil fuel industry. It's a mockery of any real effort to stop Earth breakdown.