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alanferrier

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I live in Glasgow and my hobbies include arranging my CDs in alphabetical order, discovering new and exotic whiskies, sheep-spotting and flying my kite.

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I hear the party with 2 Scottish MPs is refusing to take part in any televised debate which includes the small party with only 43 MPs.

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Rats leaving sinking ship at an accelerating rate, I see.

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There's a not-so-subtle difference between Labour's campaign posters in England and those used in Scotland. I wonder why that might be.

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Dutch evening TV news (NPO Journaal) is rather more informative about British history than the (dutifully curated) BBC: “As a former colony that long fought against British rule, Ireland recognises the Palestinian struggle against oppression.”

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Fixed that for you, New Statesman.

Fun fact: England is the only country in the world to have fully privatised its water and sewerage systems.

Via the Financial Times: "Scotland—which has its own state-owned water company—massively outperformed its neighbours with water standards similar to much of Scandinavia."

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A typical nuclear reactor produces about 1 GW of electricity.

The Pentland Firth alone has the potential for about 4.2 GW of tidal stream power.

Waiting for the naysayers to ask me what we'll do when the moon no longer orbits the earth.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960148113005466

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@lostsettler Short answer: no. Long answer: also no.

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@lostsettler Tidal drag actually increases the height of the Moon's orbit. It slows the Earth's rotation transferring angular momentum to the Moon. This increases the Moon's orbital energy while decreasing the kinetic energy of the Earth( However the vast majority of the energy lost by the Earth is lost as heat.

Tidal energy extraction would very slightly increase this effect, slowing the Earth more and increasing the Moon's distance. But we're talking about a minuscule increase.

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Scotland neither wants nor needs a new nuclear power station. England needs a new nuclear power station, but they just don't want it in England.

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Pinched from the other place.

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Paul Kavanagh on how Sunak's "threats" speech was reported by our beloved State broadcaster.

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I wonder how the newspapers and TV would have reacted had John Swinney called unionists an extremist threat to Scotland.

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Rishi Sunak's Ethics Adviser sounds like something you'd get printed on t-shirts for lads on a stag night.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-reported-ethics-adviser-32805012

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Remember, folks:
British Nationalism: "proud, emotional, regal, joyous."
Scottish Nationalism: "provincial, divisive, reactionary, extremist."

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Imagine living in a world where you can be arrested or sacked for saying please don't kill children because it might hurt the feelings of the child killers.

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That'd be the Nelson Mandela who said in 1997 that the ANC's struggle was ongoing. “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”

Tell me you don't know who Nelson Mandela was or what he stood for without telling me, etc... https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-labours-david-lammy-suggests-mandela-would-oppose-gaza-student-protests

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The Labour Party: abolishing the House of Lords since 1910.

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I'm sure BBC Reporting Scotland will be all over this.

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FREE places on Open University Microcredential Courses (Normally Up To £800) - Scotland only. Supported by @ScotGov and the Scottish Funding Council. Final deadline for applications is Sunday, 19 May.

Go grab yourself some free training (link fixed): https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/choose/scotland-micro

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"The £2.1bn link between Peterhead in north east Scotland and Drax in north Yorkshire, is expected to provide enough 'green' electricity from Scottish offshore wind farms to power 2m homes in England."

There are 2.55 million homes in Scotland.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/the-yorkshire-beach-where-ps21bn-cable-carrying-electricity-from-scottish-windfarms-will-come-onshore-4039515

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The Rector of the University of Glasgow, a Palestinian witness to war crimes, is now banned from entering both Germany and France and, it would seem, the whole of Europe.

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The fact that the Tories have lost almost 500 local councillors in England and Wales but Labour has only managed to pick up fewer than 200 of these leads me to believe that alarm bells will be ringing at Labour HQ.

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Neal Ascherson - always worth a read, be you independence or union-minded.

"Polls saying the nationalist cause is no priority among voters are misleading. The aspiration to once again be a sovereign European state has only been strengthened by devolution."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/04/the-snp-may-be-laid-low-but-the-call-of-scottish-independence-is-loud-and-clear

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A recurrent theme from the UK media - @theSNP leaders being hung, crucified, beheaded, hunted. Still - Andrew Neil thinks they're "brilliant" so that's fine.

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Perfect.

Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting photo ID

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