DΛVID HӨӨD

Founder, Edinburgh Institute; delivers Competitive Advantage. Author: The Marketing Manifesto, Competitive SME, Direct! Stravaiger & Flâneur. Views are my own.

[DΛVID HӨӨD @davidhood]

It's Brexit anniversary and what do the @BBCNews lead with? Warning that holidays me be interrupted (or worse) because of EU border controls. It's because of *Brexit* you ridiculous joke of a broadcaster. @Ofcom @newsmediaorg #Churnalism

[DΛVID HӨӨD @davidhood]

Like everyone, I want the vile criminal and kleptocratic Westminster regime out of the country. Scotland needs to go it's own way to become an independent Nordic and equitable, just, nation, back in the EU.

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Like everyone, I want this vile criminal out of the country. Victims must come first.

I will ask the Home and Foreign Secretaries to review all possible options - and they should consider nothing is off the table.

https://t.co/u42MdjrX65

[Tayab Ali @tayab_ali_]

If you served in the IDF since Oct 2023 you should be considered a suspect in relation to war crimes.

- UN Commission of Inquiry

[The National @ScotNational]

SNP plans to issue Scottish Government bonds to raise funding have taken a step forward as nine major banks have joined up 👇

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

It took me a couple of days to read the latest @UN Commission of Inquiry's report on how Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children. I had to stop, again and again, just to breathe. The level of devastation, the detail, the evidence, it is overwhelming.

The findings are devastating and unequivocal: Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in #Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank.

At @Amnesty, we documented the genocide in Gaza in our report published in December 2024, and more recently detailed evidence of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. We know the patterns. We have exposed the atrocities. Yet reading this report still shakes you to the core. It goes deeper into the intent, into the systematic nature of the violence, into the unbearable reality that children themselves are being targeted.

This is not collateral damage. This is not incidental. This is deliberate. Children, killed, maimed, traumatized, deprived not only of safety, but of any possibility of a future. Entire generations being erased in plain sight.

How much more evidence does the world need? How many more reports must confirm what is already undeniable?

Governments cannot continue to look away. Silence and inaction, in this moment, are complicity.

This must end. Israel must be held fully accountable.

🔗https://t.co/n6K8HpK3nh

[Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk]

The UN's latest Children and Armed Conflict report has found Israeli forces were the biggest perpetrators of verified grave violations against children globally, and Israeli armed and security forces were responsible for one in four of all verified violations in 2025.

And these figures are just the tip of the iceberg, representing only those cases the UN was able to document, record and verify.

The UK Government must end its complicity and suspend all arms sales to Israel, suspend the UK-Israel trade and partnership agreement, and hold all perpetrators of grave violations to account.

[YesCymru @YesCymru]

The Crown Estate made £200 million profit from its assets in Wales last year.

✅ 12% went to the Royal Family.
✅ 88% went to the UK Treasury.
❌ 0% came to Wales.

Not a single penny!

YesCymru has long campaigned for control of these assets to be transferred to Wales as happens in Scotland. Every Welsh council has voted in favour of the YesCymru led campaign, yet Tory and Labour UK governments have refused.

This is yet another example in a long list of Westminster ignoring Wales.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

So morally and institutionally unfit for purpose is @BBCNews that not only will they not allow the word “genocide” in relation to Gaza, they will not even allow a debate about why the overwhelming consensus of genocide experts agree it is the correct description

BBC has made itself complicit in GENOCIDE

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

It is 88 pages - see BELOW

Every UK politician and editor and interviewer and journalist SHOULD READ IT

[The National @ScotNational]

The First Minister has called a senior Reform MSP an 'absolute disgrace', accusing him of 'trivialising' the terror-linked anti-Muslim attacks in Edinburgh last week

SNP leader John Swinney levelled the accusations at Thomas Kerr, the deputy leader of Reform UK in Scotland

[DΛVID HӨӨD @davidhood]

@BBC what about this kind of *factual*, responsible and journalistic reporting rather than desparate, framed, lying propaganda? @Ofcom

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

Prosecutors have addressed the falsehoods, smears and innuendo being circulated by the BBC and the rest of the BritNat media about the Murrell case. This is worth watching in full. Kudos to LBC News for filming this.

[DΛVID HӨӨD @davidhood]

What say you, @BBCScotland? The @BBC is just an Anglo-Imperial regime organ. Only bad news (augmented or fabricated) about Scotland makes the 'news'. @Ofcom @newsmediaorg @journalism_news @soeditors @vlvuk @carolvorders @mediareformUK @NewswatchUK

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

BBC Scotland has all but ceased informing the Scottish public on initiatives, announcements and policy launches from the Scottish Govt. The station just doesn't report them anymore. Look at the list of recent stories that failed to get a mention.
https://t.co/lupQPjuAdm

[DΛVID HӨӨD @davidhood]

Awful? Pledging allegiance solely to those who democratically placed you there, and as per the Scottish Constitution the people are sovereign, not Parliament or a foreign monarch? She's spot on.

[Peter Heaton-Jones @PHeatonJones]

Utterly disgraceful & disrespectful behaviour from the new SNP MP for Arbroath & Broughty Ferry. She added a preamble to the loyal oath indicating she didn’t accept it, then read the actual words holding up crossed fingers, presumably to signify she didn’t believe it. Awful.

[DΛVID HӨӨD @davidhood]

Pro EU and Scottish independence at the Scottish Parliament, ahead of the cross party meeting to discuss closer ties between Scotland and the EU (which we voted to stay in, but pulled out illegally)

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

The thing that makes Labour's attempt to install Burnham as PM worse than previous Downing Street coups is that Burnham wasn't even a candidate in the 2024. Andy Burnham will be the first ever PM to circumvent a UK general election. We have the first rigged premiership.

[The National @ScotNational]

NEW: Three -quarters of Scots believe Brexit was wrong, a new poll has found, as the 10th anniversary of the vote looms

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Nine SNP initiatives to tackle child poverty all unique to Scotland and all of them not news for you apparently https://t.co/dhgP0Fvgbz

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

US Sanctions? Hear the case, then decide for yourself.
You may disagree with my words, my findings, or my work as a UN independent expert altogether. That is legitimate.
But using sanctions against me for fulfilling a mandate is not debate about opinions: it is an abuse of power.

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Unemployment in England 19% higher than in Scotland after nearly 20 years of not being governed by a social democratic party like the SNP https://t.co/XFCvGaJlbd

[The National @ScotNational]

Scotland's new NHS app has been launched, with the SNP pledging the party will 'never let the US tech giant Palantir get its hands on Scotland’s NHS' https://t.co/4OC8HAtSGK