Rhona Anderson

Interest in Scottish politics, sustainable community development, social justice and of course independence for Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Rhona Anderson @AndersonRhona]

@SuzJamieson 😂😂 could do with one myself

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

BEFORE YOU BOARD YOUR NEXT FLIGHT READ THIS

A former airline captain named John Hoyte reached out to me recently. He spent nearly 30 years flying commercial aircraft, developed serious neurological damage, lost his career, and has been trying to get this story properly investigated ever since.

He sent me documents spanning two decades. The scale of what is in them is HUGE.

What he shared includes parliamentary records, a 320-page published report from the British pilots union, @BBC coverage, House of Lords testimony, and active litigation in multiple countries. This has been heard at the highest levels. It has largely been buried.

Most commercial jet aircraft use a system called bleed air. Instead of drawing fresh air from outside, the plane takes compressed air directly from the engines and pumps it into the cabin. That is the air you breathe for the entire flight.

When engine seals wear down, oil and hydraulic fluid can leak into that air supply. Those fluids contain organophosphates, the same compounds found in certain pesticides and nerve agents. Inhaling them can cause neurological damage, memory loss, and chronic fatigue. In documented cases, far worse.

This design has been in use since the 1950s. The health risk has been documented for just as long.

In 2005, @BALPApilots, the British pilots union, published a full conference report on this with the University of New South Wales. The following year, 27 BALPA pilots were tested by University College London. All 27 showed evidence of toxic poisoning and reduced cognitive function. Not some of them. All of them.

@BBCPanorama covered it in 2008. The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee heard evidence on it in 2007 and 2008. In February 2007, 40 unrelated passengers on a single XL Airways flight were seriously injured by contaminated cabin air. Their cases went to court. Twenty of them won a US jurisdiction ruling in 2010.

A UK coroner recorded a death linked to this in 2015.

France has formally recognised aerotoxic syndrome as an occupational disease. In the US, a law professor is suing Boeing for $40 million after a single exposure left him permanently injured. Morgan & Morgan, America's largest personal injury firm, is now actively taking mass cases on behalf of passengers and crew.

John himself was one of those 27 pilots tested by UCL. He founded the Aerotoxic Association in 2007 at the Houses of Parliament to support other survivors. He has been fighting for this for nearly 20 years.

Almost every commercial jet aircraft except the Boeing 787 Dreamliner uses the bleed air system. The 787 uses a different design that avoids this problem entirely. That safer design has existed for years. That fact alone says everything.

BBC has not covered this story since 2020. The UK Civil Aviation Authority continues to say there is no positive evidence of a link. The Aerotoxic Association has been contacted by more than 2,500 people who believe they have been affected.

John is looking for mainstream investigative journalists who want to dig deep into this. He is an expert witness with decades of evidence and is willing to answer every question. He has a passenger injured on that 2007 flight, Samantha Sabatino, whose case is in the parliamentary record.

This is a genuine story of enormous public interest and it deserves proper investigation.

If you are a journalist or researcher and want to speak to John directly, his contact details are in the comments.

I will add media coverage links in the comments section.

Sources:
@AerotoxicAssoc (Aerotoxic Association)
@BALPApilots (British Airline Pilots Association) @forthepeople (Morgan & Morgan)
gcaqe org (Global Cabin Air Quality Executive)

@BBCPanorama covered it in 2008 with a full documentary titled Something in the Air.

@heraldtweets
@WSJ
@FlightGlobal
@TheCanaryUK
@the_ecologist

[Bruce Bowman @boswelltoday]

1/25
Scotland has a Crown Office problem.

@COPFS prosecutes crime and investigates sudden, suspicious and unexplained deaths. The Lord Advocate also advises government.

That is too much power behind too many closed doors.

[Mossgiel Organic Farm @MossgielFarm]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 COME ON SCOTLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Luke Warm Dave @DaveLukewarm]

Caravanaggio's "politicae difficultatibus"

An angry Scottish crowd demand justice and transparency from the judiciary while the Lord Advocate turns their head away from their benefactor, refusing to bite the hand of the despotic leader that feeds them.

[Marko Polo @markthehibby]

@joannaccherry https://t.co/fqxT6ksYIK

[Scottish Banter @1scottishbanter]

Introducing the Scottish-American travel dictionary 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We’ve put together this guide to keep the Tartan Army out of trouble in the States.

Read carefully to avoid confusing the locals, deeply offending the country, or being interrogated by Homeland Security over a sandwich.

[Dublin Airport @DublinAirport]

They’ll be coming! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A warm welcome to the thousands of @ScotlandNT fans travelling through Dublin Airport this week to reach the @FIFAWorldCup in the US.

Great atmosphere in the terminals.

(We’re a little jealous though! ⚽️)

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

This is absolutely heartbreaking to listen to.

A local woman tells more about the migrant attack in Belfast

The victim is SPECIAL NEEDS, he struggles as it is

He was jumped by TWO MIGRANTS, not one.

THERE'S ANOTHER SUDANESE MAN INVOLVED RUNNING FREE- HE MUST BE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY

The man who was attacked was HELPING the migrant attackers move in to their accommodation

HE WAS BEING KIND TO THEM AND THEY REPAID THAT WITH VIOLENCE

He is believed to be blind in one eye and has completely lost the other, he was already hard of hearing

"WHAT KIND OF LIFE IS HE GOING TO HAVE WHEN HE COMES OUT OF INTENSIVE CARE?"

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

🧵This, from Robin McAlpine, sums up the current position of the SNP very well & also lays out legitimate concerns about Crown Office. “A political party in this country has allowed its Chief Exec to steal money, it bullied & forced out whistleblowers…1/3 https://t.co/2isgUXlkzT

[Rhona Anderson @AndersonRhona]

@comedyray Awww congratulations Ray and family what lovely news 💖

[Taylor @dtaylor5633]

One last big punt and I might be able to furnish this place as well ❤️❤️❤️

https://t.co/vXlYPl5Zb5

[Taylor @dtaylor5633]

I'm so fucking emotional now folks. After a week where I thought I lost my family, was an inch away from stepping in front of a train only to be stopped and being slung in the mental health hospital. Shaking

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

David is a good guy and a staunch indy activist currently going through a thoroughly rotten time and deserves any bit of hauners you can offer. https://t.co/6rMhQJgb4d

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

This site has become almost unusable because of how many different fake images there are of Farage beating up Andrew Bailey - never seen anything this number... it's like every second post!

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Genetically Modified Mayo: Hellmann's 'Real' Mayonnaise now requires a bioengineered label on its jars.

Less than 2% of each jar is egg...98% is chemicals, oils, corn starch, EDTA & thickened with gums.

This isn’t food anymore — it’s a Frankenstein experiment in a jar. GMO corn, seed oils that inflame your arteries and disrupt hormones, EDTA that leaches minerals from your body, and synthetic gums that wreck your gut lining. Every spoonful is quietly feeding chronic disease, autoimmune chaos, and the slow poisoning of America’s families.

They slapped a “bioengineered” warning on it like it’s no big deal — because they know most people won’t read it. Hellmann’s sold its soul for profit while we were busy trusting the brand our grandparents used.

STOP FEEDING THIS TO YOUR KIDS.
Boycott it. Throw it out. Make your own in 60 seconds with real ingredients. Your body will thank you.

Quick Homemade Butter Mayo (Immersion Blender – makes about 1 cup)
Ingredients:
- 1 large egg (room temperature)
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard (or prepared mustard)
- ¼ teaspoon salt (or to taste; use ½ tsp if butter is unsalted)
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, melted and cooled slightly to warm (not hot)

Directions:
1. Place the egg, lemon juice, mustard, and salt in a tall narrow jar or container that just fits your immersion blender head.
2. Insert the immersion blender to the bottom and blend for a few seconds until combined.
3. With the blender running, slowly pour in the melted butter. Move the blender up and down gently as it thickens into creamy mayo (about 30-60 seconds total).
4. Taste and adjust salt or lemon if needed.

Store in a glass jar in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

[Iain Macwhirter @iainmacwhirter]

SNP crisis: Salmond conspiracy is the next shoe to drop
https://t.co/IjW8ACmDfx

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

Well done to the social media person at Rowhead Farm near Stirling in Scotland for what is possibly the greatest Facebook post of all time …

[Christopher Talbot @Lord_Talbot64]

The Old Bailey trial of the three men accused of arson attacks on Keir Starmer’s former homes & car started late April 2026 and was expected to finish by the end of May. If it has now concluded, why has there been no public announcement of any verdict?