@robconnell
Education, Socialism, Independence, Celtic, Music, #MDANT For a fairer country & safer planet. The opposite of poverty isn't wealth, it's justice. If you've ever wondered what you would have done during the rise of fascism, you're doing it now.
Of course fans shouldn't enter the pitch at all, but like in 1980, the Celtic fans came on the field to celebrate, and then the Rangers fans came on to fight.
Well done to the police for preventing it getting out of hand.
Yvette Cooper: "There is a very serious conflict underway in the Middle East, in the region, and we've seen these strikes continuing from the Iranian regime"
Israel and the US have set Iran on fire but Yvette Cooper wants us to believe the problem is Iran.
BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehranβs main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the cityβs sewers.
This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.
(π₯ Vahid Online)
As usual, Starmer takes us for imbeciles.
#TheEpsteinWar
What could possibly explain the intensity of Western interest, over the past century and more, in this region?
Given that Starmer's Britain zealously supported the slaughter in Gaza, and are timidly helping the assault on Iran, can we expect that @iandunt.bsky.social will finally concede that Labour are more the problem than the solution?
Never be in doubt.
In a choice between fascism and socialism, wealth will always choose fascism.
And wealth controls most governments and almost all media.
I know it's bold to 'bright-side' the incredible awfulness of the last week, but one positive is that many self-declared liberal or progressive commentators are finally prepared to admit that Tony Blair is a terrible human.
Screenshot of BBC headline "Failed asylum seeker families to be offered up to Β£40k to leave UK" - 5 March 2026
Screenshot of the Guardian headline "BNP would offer non-white Britons Β£50,000 to leave UK, says Nick Griffin" - 2010
"Families of failed asylum seekers will be offered up to Β£40,000 to leave the UK under a trial scheme announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood"
Sounds familiar
"BNP would offer non-white Britons Β£50,000 to leave UK, says Nick Griffin" - 2010
As they should.
Reminds me of the (apocryphal?) quote about The Velvet Underground, that not many actually saw them live at the time, but most of those who did started their own bands.
While I'm a huge fan, I saw them at Glastonbury in '93, & wasn't impressed, while Lou Reed was pretty good in '92.
Contradictory refrain giving what we just spoke about, but this is probably my favourite ever live recording.
Wish I'd seen Brian Setzer in the flesh.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhZ...
Well done, and don't feel that anything short of abstinence isn't valuable. As a society, many of us drink more than we should, and for me, it's about who's in charge: You, or the drink.
In my 20s I drank at least 3 nights a week, and then 2. Now usually 1. Don't let purity be the enemy of progress.
Americans.
You don't do yourself any favours by crying about unemployment or "the price of gas" being what will bring the Trump administration down, while your government commits war crimes abroad and builds fascism at home.
This incredible self-centredness is the problem.
Read the planet.
This is, of course, something that is applied to the SNP as well. From blithe assertions that independence is just the same as Brexit, to Lammy calling the SNP a "national security threat", to baseless smears (usually from the profoundly ignorant) that Scottish nationalists are in league with Putin.
Okay, enough. Look, the centre-right are going to be the centre-right, that's completely unsurprising to me. I don't expect the Economist to like Polanski.
But this shit is just dangerous. It is asserting that what is at the end of the day a democratic party is akin to literal neofascists.
Thanks for that, but I fully appreciate how bad things got under Tories.
It's not that I don't understand, we disagree.
I think Labour are making precious little improvement & making some things worse, you think they're doing all the good they can.
Seems likely we want different things from govt.
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
One of them is Fiona Bruce.
a poll shows that only eight percent of UK public support going to war with Iran alongside Trump.
only 8%.
yet nearly all of the UK media are screaming from the rooftops about how we must join the war.
this tells you a lot about the extreme right-wing bias of the UK media.
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Thumper Ritchie
Only way to do this is to destroy & replace FIFA.
Starmer sticking to his principles of supporting Israel, defending/excusing/minimising US aggression, condemning Iran for retaliation & self-defence, and offering British bases to be used for some killing now, and maybe more later.
It's like when the fascist Oswald Mosley's grandson, who Palantir hired to run its UK operations, appeared on Laura Kuenssberg wearing a black T-shirt.
None of this is accidental: it's all answering the question, 'what message do I want to send?' 'Fascism to immigrants' is the message Mahmood does.
The 'freedom loving' US is now killing as many Iranians a day as the 'terrorist' Iran Government executed in a year.
Do you see the terrorist yet?
Trump is threatening to militarily attack and invade Spain, an EU and NATO member, for refusing to take part in the US and Israel illegal war in Iran.
Orders all trade with Spain to be cut in revenge.
βIf we want, we can just fly in and use it. Nobody is going to tell us not to use itβ
ππ¦πΊπΈNow that the Mango Mussolini has gone Batsh1t Warmonger, we should wake up to just how vulnerable we are with 260 Nuclear Warheads at Faslane/Coulport, just 25 miles as the radioactive particle flies from Glasgow city centre β’οΈ
Indy to get Trumpβs Nukes out of Scotland!π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
youtu.be/fTMjBMWIWJQ?...
Trump's during an Oval Office meeting on March 3, 2026 stated.
"And now Spain actually said that we can't use their bases. And that's all right. We could use their base if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody's going to tell us not to use it. But we don't have to."
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We are rolling out the Β£2 bus fare cap across the Highlands and Islands, delivering real savings. Just two examples:
π Wick-Inverness, Β£31 down to Β£2.
π Elgin-Inverness, Β£15.60 β‘οΈ Β£2.
And we are protecting free bus travel for under-22s, over-60s and disabled people.
