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PEACE 🕊️ SOCIALISM 🚩 INDEPENDENCE 🏴 CLIMATE ✳️ It’s time for a Scotland that puts All of Us First.
Scotland
Joined July 2013
Robin McAlpine says we have a financial services sector whose purpose is to take money away from you and not to support the economy.
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Scotland’s offshore wind should power a fairer future - not just profits for distant shareholders. The wind belongs to all of us. We should all have a stake in our energy future. 🧵
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“After more than 1,000 days, 3 FMs, 4 PMs I have learned that setbacks are inevitable, and progress rarely as swift as we want it to be, but that Scotland is full of extraordinary people with extraordinary ideas.” https://t.co/SgkDaP8ANf
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“I increasingly think that states which don’t have wholly-public systems managed and controlled by a single agency are in trouble. Having society rely on a patchwork of private business interests just to phone the doctor is madness.” https://t.co/TPTurIDHmr
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We take modern digital connectivity for granted - too for granted. We are woefully ill-prepared for inevitable and possibly catastrophic outages.
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REVIVE's reaction to Land Reform Bill passing in the Scottish Parliament => https://t.co/RMBIabmFRO This fires the starting gun for our conference as we aim to build the most ambitious legislation ever, after the next election! 👇 https://t.co/jYQ8RbSOu9
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TODAY: Stop by Flatiron Public Plaza to learn about Grayscale CoinDesk Crypto 5 ETF (Ticker: $GDLC) and the underlying tokens. Bitcoin Ethereum $SOL $XRP $ADA We’ll be sharing how $GDLC streamlines crypto exposure and giving attendees a limited-edition Grayscale Speedcube to
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As buildings crumble, services slide and bills soar, workers and tenants in Scotland’s largest city are battling back against decline. 🎧 Listen to ‘A Glasgow We Can Afford’ w/ Paul Shaw (@GetGlesgaMoving) and Stella Rooney (@Glasgow_LR) now: https://t.co/JWF5bl96bi
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After 3 years with us, Policy Communications Coordinator Kaitlin Dryburgh bids us a fond farewell as she moves onto pastures new. Kaitlin has been a wonderful and consistent part of the team, she will be sorely missed. Read her words at the link below 🔗
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Robin McAlpine says our reliance on technology has whittled away at society’s capacity for resilience. Link below 🔗
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Warriors Path to Restoration Dear Warrior, There are battles the world will never see, battles fought in silence, behind closed doors, and inside the mind long after the war has ended. This guide was created for you. Not as another program, not as another checklist, but as a
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As with most legislation in Scotland, progress and change is held up with mountains of (often self-inflicted bureaucracy). @BetterBusesSPT needs you to demand your MSP takes action to improve transport in Glasgow.
Why are we still waiting for Better Buses? 🚌 In Sept, @SPTcorporate finally approved plans to take our buses back into public control 👏 But @ScotGov are now holding things up!😠 Watch & share our new animation and email your MSPs to demand action👇 📨 https://t.co/nAcazoCJnz
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https://t.co/i5zij4GFV4 Buses In Scotland - How Do We Get Out of This Mess? Watch our animation to find out then complete our e-action!
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Why are we still waiting for Better Buses? 🚌 In Sept, @SPTcorporate finally approved plans to take our buses back into public control 👏 But @ScotGov are now holding things up!😠 Watch & share our new animation and email your MSPs to demand action👇 📨 https://t.co/nAcazoCJnz
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Kate Whitaker of @FoEScot at our conference this past weekend, discussing the relationship between climate collapse and intensifying conflict worldwide:
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“The Scottish Government appears to be concerned that profit-making care providers would walk away from service provision if the ability to make £28k per child per year stopped.” https://t.co/v3aur1Wxg7
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ON June 17, the Scottish Government introduced the horribly named Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill ...
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“We are trapped in a system where people who worked in a system in which the primary purpose was to fill in paperwork are then becoming parliamentarians who think the primary purpose of government is to fill in paperwork.” https://t.co/DASrJAHB3W
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Our politics always seems to solve a problem in the way - because our politicians tend to think in a particular way. We need politicians with a more varied approach to problem-solving if we want to...
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Nick Kempe writes in our @scotnational column that there needs to be a systematic break between independent foster agencies and profit-making companies. Link below 🔗
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Abacus Global Management $ABL Reports Third Quarter 2025 Results Third Quarter 2025 Highlights: • Total revenue for the third quarter grew 124% to $63.0 million, compared to $28.1 million in the prior-year period. The increase was driven by continued growth in Abacus’ Life
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Robin McAlpine says we need to build a political culture which produces ambition and capacity to achieve public innovation. Link below 🔗
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“Commercial lobbyists argue gambling brings in investment, when in reality it extracts wealth. If we were being truly radical we would follow the lead of some Nordic countries and nationalise all gambling, allowing profits to be used for public good.” https://t.co/ngPykTnjyI
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Gordon Brown is right that the gambling industry has become a money-printing blight on our society worth billions of pounds and should be taxed. Pity it was him that caused this to happen in the...
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“In Scottish public policy this is to say that all your feelings are ‘valid’ and should always be affirmed. The evidence strongly suggested this doesn’t help…” https://t.co/mobtfQO7Bm
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The one thing we all know is that being in touch with your feelings is good for you. Except the evidence is actually much more in the other direction and it is not clear our obsession with being...
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Kaitlin Dryburgh makes the case for nationalising gambling in our @ScotNational column. Link below 🔗
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Robin McAlpine says emotional performativity is holding back our ability to effectively use our emotions. Link below 🔗
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“It’s often said that Scottish independence is about making choices. I can think of no more stark a choice in the future than the one that faces us over military spending and how Scotland faces the world.” https://t.co/EmFmeXlEEP
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How GERS will be used to make Scotland pay for Britain’s wars.
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