Scotland has too much energy to be independent - These Islands’ Sam Taylor

👇 While Labour and Tories want to spin, to put this election into context. 🟡 This is the SNP's greatest ever result in a local election. 🔴 This is Labour's second worst result in almost 50 years. 🔵 The Tories's vote has collapsed to 1990-levels. #LES22

People try to tell you what to think every day. Here are what some individuals and organisations told you about Liz Truss and her government’s “mini-budget” - perhaps worth remembering next time they try to tell you something… 1. The Daily Mail

Halloween on South Uist, 1932 looked pretty terrifying. Children made homemade costumes from sheepskins, haystack wigs, scraped-out skulls and sheep ears! One boy spent an entire day peeling the skin from a sheep skull to make his mask! (📸 Canna House Photographic Collection)

So THIS is how we're doing Halloween in Glasgow these days! 👻 haha! L🖤VE IT. #Halloween #Ghostbusters #Glasgow #Parade #Halloween2022

Jo Cox was murdered by someone who saw her pro-immigration anti-Brexit views as a threat to the UK, 2 weeks after the Express called asylum seekers invaders, and 2 hours after Nigel Farage's Breaking Point poster. Today Suella Braverman called asylum seekers an #invasion.

"Hydrogen trains will no longer be considered as a replacement for diesel locomotives in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after a study found installation of overhead electricity lines or battery hybrid trains far more economic over a 30-year period" hydrogeninsight.com/transport/will…

We don't need cuts or tax hikes on ordinary people. Tax the rich instead. ▪️End non-dom status 🟰£3bn ▪️Annual 1% tax on wealth over £5m 🟰£10bn ▪️45p income tax rate over £80k. 50p rate over £125k 🟰£6bn ▪️Equalise Dividend and Capital Gains Taxes with income tax rates 🟰£21bn

Juergen Maier(former CE, Siemens UK) - "Brexit is costing food manufacturers 15 to 20% more to deal with the red tape... & there is a solution staring us in the face... rejoining the single market... "

One reason for spiralling asylum numbers is we’re no longer part of the EU asylum scheme. People come to UK knowing they won’t be relocated back to the first EU country they entered. No-one will mention this, or push the need for closer involvement in the Euro-wide scheme.

My interview with #ImACeleb contestant Matt Hancock

Isn't that lovely for BP. A mere £7 billion in 3 months. Nothing to see here, move along now. current-news.co.uk/news/bps-profi…

The UK is a democracy in name only, our politics captured by the ultra-rich. And now the oligarchs' oligarch is our unelected Prime Minister. Everything we value depends on wresting power out of the hands of this plutocracy.

“The rotten state of Brexit” Finally grown up discussions are taking place about the economic damage Brexit is doing to the UK economy

This is such a poignant conversation with such a wonderful man. Blue Peter interviews Anne Frank’s father Otto in 1979

FACT: No migrant, asylum-seeker or refugee can EVER damage the health and wealth of the UK as much as the Tories have.

Yesterday #wind generated 51.0% of GB electricity, more than gas 20.9%, nuclear 15.9%, imports 5.6%, hydro 2.4%, biomass 2.2%, solar 1.8%, coal 0.1%, other 0.0% *excl. non-renewable distributed generation

Jonathan pie 👏👏 is on one today, one of his best yet I’ve sped the clip up to make it fit into the twitter 2.20 time allowance It’s an absolute annihilation of the tories stance on strikes & how disgraceful workers are being treated #jonathanpie #ToriesDestroyingOurCountry

I just entered @AutoTrader_UK’s monthly️ #ElectricCarGiveaway & you can too! This month’s prize is a MG Model MG4 worth over £26k! It’s free to enter & you have until 28th February. All information (including Ts&Cs) can be found here: bit.ly/3xDYOHy

I just entered @AutoTrader_UK’s monthly️ #ElectricCarGiveaway & you can too! This month’s prize is a Citroën Ami ! It’s free to enter & you have until 30th June. All information (including Ts&Cs) can be found here: bit.ly/3xDYOHy