SNP councillor for Montrose at Angus Council. Opposition Leader. Promoted by Bill Duff c/o SNP 3 Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ
Hillside by Montrose
Joined March 2011
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Production Management philosophy.
You will always find people who will tell you why you can’t do something. Safety, weather conditions not right, there is a d in the day of the week...
The trick is to know which corners to cut. Otherwise nothing happens.
Now Scottish Indy?
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For last 24 hours I’ve seen footage of horrific scenes from Gaza, just absolute human misery. Yet..it’s not there on any news outlet’s home pages, not discussed on our witless political shows. We’re just going to ignore it? Is that the plan?
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The firm acting for Messrs Brand and Goldsmith was Archerfield Partners LLP. We think they have serious questions to answer.
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Everyone says Russell Brand silenced his victims for years with legal threats.
Let's see those threats.
Lawyers will keep silencing victims and journalists in the shadows until we expose what they're doing.
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Bernie Sanders will go down as the most consequential politician of this era despite never becoming president
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Very well-informed French sports newspaper @lequipe says Wenger is seriously considering standing for FIFA president against Infantino in March, isn't sure, expected to decide next week
On saura en milieu de semaine prochaine si Arsène Wenger (77 ans), courtisé de toutes parts, se présente pour être le nouveau président de la FIFA, dont l'élection est prévue le 18 mars. La tentation est réelle.
l.lequipe.fr/ZVC
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Apple dodges $2.7bn in taxes by booking $50bn profits in Singapore.
Footloose corporations have no loyalty to any place, people or product. Boycott Apple
Singapore plays the game because others let it.
It is race to the bottom.
archive.ph/kcbqi
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In 2014, a woman accused Russell Brand of assault. A court then banned her from ever talking about it, even to the police. She had no lawyer; there was no proper trial.
It's hard to believe so here, for the first time, is a copy of the injunction: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/11/07/…
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Thomas Massie says he'll have the 218 signatures next week to force a House vote on a new Epstein files bill.
It would let survivors get their own records and let state attorneys general prosecute.
ALT Thomas Massie and a redacted Epstein document
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Poundland's private equity owners extracted £18.3m in 17 months, bought for £1.
£8.6m interest, £3.8m store closure fees, £2.6m debt arrangement plus other fees.
PE has £22.5m secured loan, will get paid first. HMRC owed £97m. Trade creditors owed £127m.
news.sky.com/story/revealed-…
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'There were a lot of people in the Balmoral area who had stories of women being brought up to the castle or to one of the lodges on the estate'. Watch the latest episode of The Lownie Report here: youtube.com/watch?v=_bokJ8Zf…
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"There are rumours that the King is doing a deal with Fergie to buy her silence." I spoke to News24 about Fergie, the Alphabet Capital payments and the fraud trial Andrew has been summoned to give evidence in.
news24.com.au/lifestyle/cele…
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Simon Schama is bang on the money in today’s FT: liberal democracy is back in business. Trumpism in the US, Orban in Hungary, Vučić in Serbia have all been swept aside. In Israel, nearly 60 per cent of voters repudiated Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
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The Windsor's paid £12m to a woman who Andrew Mountbatten Windsor claimed he had never met. Is anyone really surprised by this? xitter.gq/andrewlownie/status/21…
"There are rumours that the King is doing a deal with Fergie to buy her silence." I spoke to News24 about Fergie, the Alphabet Capital payments and the fraud trial Andrew has been summoned to give evidence in.
news24.com.au/lifestyle/cele…
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‘God created the world, but the Dutch created The Netherlands’. This map shows the land reclamation in The Netherlands. Source: buff.ly/30gKN0M
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Crypto industry braces for reckoning over Trump ties ft.trib.al/oFMhIKx
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Ben Hodges: I think Trump has been bribed. US President Donald Trump is likely in the pocket of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. This was stated by the former commander of US forces in Europe, retired General Ben Hodges, during an appearance on the German political talk show *Maybrit Illner* on ZDF. “I think he [Trump] has been bought,” Hodges suggested. He added that he could not confirm this in writing, but believed it was obvious anyway.
According to him, Trump can now either confess to everything and confirm that he ‘belongs to Putin’, or try to evade responsibility, counting on his successor to defend him.
Hodges noted that, as an American, he could say that the US has never had a perfect president. However, he said that having a president who is not only corrupt himself but also allows those around him to be corrupt is an “incredible disgrace”.
Elmar Thewessen, ZDF’s US correspondent, suggested that, following the Republicans’ defeat in the congressional elections, investigations into the Trump administration could escalate into criminal cases. Several media outlets have already reported, citing Democrats, that such cases are in the pipeline.
In October, following Trump’s ‘diesel deal’ with Putin, Hodges stated that ‘the US had abandoned Ukraine on the eve of a harsh winter’.
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66% want Medicare for All
61% want a billionaire wealth tax
57% want a $20/hour minimum wage
63% want a data center moratorium
58% want to end military aid to Israel
73% want to ban super PACs
79% want a 10% credit card interest rate cap
No more excuses. Democrats must deliver.
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Scotland has really benefited from finding the oil, just take a look at Canary Wharf,
Sit doon ya unionist bam,
Oil is not devolved, its stolen.
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A Scottish bus operator has reported more than £1.1 million in operating profit after its first year under public ownership
