catherine maclean

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Reminder
Jeffrey Epstein in an email to Peter Thiel wrote -
‘Brexit, just the beginning’

[Alan Ferrier @alanferrier]

Members of the Royal Family spent at least £445,000 on visits to Scotland last year. The King's brief meeting with Prince Harry for tea at Clarence House on September 11 cost taxpayers some £44,209 as Charles flew from Aberdeen to RAF Northolt and then back again.

[MSF International @MSF]

We are deeply disturbed by reports of the arrest of Dr Dima Mohammed Amin, a specialist in obstetrics and gynaecology, from her home in the West Bank, Palestine. Dr Dima is the latest victim in Israel's systematic campaign of hunting down and detaining Palestinian medics.

She joins Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, Dr Iyad Al-Rantisi, Dr Mohammed Obeid and scores of others in arbitrary Israeli detention. They have not been charged with any offence; they were simply treating patients. That is not a crime.

We demand the immediate and unconditional release of all healthcare workers arbitrarily detained by Israeli forces.

[Jon Harvey @jondharvey]

Well this doesn’t happen every day. My life as Count Binface, on the front of the Times.

[Iain Mackenzie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿󠁧󠁧🇪🇺🐦 @iain_00]

ANTI-SCOTTISH INDUSTRIAL SABOTAGE BY UK GOV:
Former @scotgov economics minister, Kate Forbes, said at the time that the decision was ‘simply, sabotage of Scotland’s industrial future’.
Even Vince Cable agrees...
https://t.co/cdb6dya3Og

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

The Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel, Rabbi David Yosef said today that the Palestinian people do not exist, do not have rights, that it is good that Gaza was destroyed and that with the help of God, all of Gaza and the West Bank will be Jewish soon. The Jewish religion is being used as a tool of genocide. This is not a fringe rabbi. This is the most important rabbi in Israel.

[Hiroshi Suzuki @AmbJapanUK]

IRN-BRU!!😋😋😋

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 THE HIDDEN COST OF BREXIT

This is totally staggering.

Starmer’s UK-US medicines deal commits Britain to raising the net price the NHS pays for new medicines by 25% and, according to this analysis, spending around £14 BILLION more annually on new medicines by 2036.

In return, Britain gets zero US tariffs on pharmaceutical exports — for three years.

Why could America exert this pressure?

Brexit.

Inside the EU, trade negotiations are conducted collectively while individual countries determine medicines prices. Washington cannot simply threaten one member state’s exports to force its health service to pay American drug companies more.

Britain left that protection and faced Trump’s tariff threats alone.

This is what “taking back control” looks like when 68 million people negotiate against 340 million instead of negotiating alongside 450 million Europeans.

Sovereignty without leverage isn’t power, it’s economic suicide.

[Britain Grates @BritainGrates]

Andy Burnham & Keir Starmer flew the UK Government’s VIP Airbus A321, registration G-GBNI at an approximate cost of £14,000 PER HOUR.

The Government published these G-GBNI travel costs earlier in 2026:

Starmer to Cork: £40,519.26 in travel costs.
Starmer to Munich: £44,404.16.
Starmer to Helsinki: £79,630.98.
Starmer to the Women’s Euro 2025 final in Basel, accompanied by his wife and 10 officials: £60,130

Simply taking Cork, tracking records show roughly 2 hrs 56 mins of G-GBNI flying associated with the trip. For Helsinki, roughly 5 hrs 26 mins.

That works out at roughly:
Cork: £13,813 per airborne hour
Helsinki: £14,656 per airborne hour

Apply that observed range to Burnham's 2 hrs 8 mins of aircraft movements:

Estimated cost: £29,469–£31,266.

[annemac @annemac21776530]

When Royal Family takes private charter flights between RAF Northolt in London and Aberdeen for trips to Balmoral, individual flights average £20,000 each. Overall taxpayer-funded royal travel in Scotland topped £445,000 in recent financial disclosures. How do we vote THEM out ?

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Britain is being sold off - quietly, relentlessly and on a scale that should alarm every citizen who cares about our economic and industrial independence.

Over the past 20 years, foreign companies have acquired thousands of British firms in deals worth hundreds of billions of pounds. Official ONS data on foreign buyers taking control of UK companies valued at £1m+ shows the sheer volume of overseas acquisitions:

▪️In the decade from 2016 to 2025 alone: more than 6,000 foreign acquisitions, with a combined value exceeding £630 billion.

▪️The trend has accelerated recently. Foreign takeovers of UK manufacturers, transport and retail firms rose for the third straight year in 2025. Overseas bidders snapped up cheap UK assets amid lower valuations.

▪️The stock of foreign-owned UK companies has exploded: from about 56,000 in 2015 to over 156,000 by 2025 - a 177% increase.

This is not abstract finance. It means that key decisions about British jobs, research, factories, supply chains and even critical infrastructure are increasingly made in boardrooms overseas. Short-term shareholder gains for sellers often come at the long-term cost of economic security, national capability, tax base, and strategic autonomy.

For two decades Britain has run one of the world’s most open asset grabbing playgrounds. The result? A steady hollowing-out of the industrial and corporate base that once defined us. The “family silver” keeps leaving the country - while politicians just throw around empty rhetoric about British growth and sovereignty.

Britain has become an asset grab. We are being plundered. It is a major part of our national decline.

[Dun Garbhan @Dungarbhan]

Yoons greetin about the FM seem unaware that

“PM Burnham's controversial 38 min flight on a gov jet to Manchester cost an estimated £30k and his close protection security team was forced to drive to the destination to meet him.”

His vanity project will cost £10m pa.

[CMS48 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #sonhs @CMS481]

Scotland's crime rate is 60 % less than England's. @BBCScotlandNews where truth is never knowingly broadcast.

[A.M.MacJ @ammacj]

Did BBC make a big story out of this?
@BBCJamesCook

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Itamar Ben-Gvir: "I have a son going in and out of Lebanon with his reconnaissance unit. He and his friends deserve for us to bomb Beirut - to crush them."

He's calling for the destruction of a city of 2 million people

These people are lunatics - and people still pretend they're interested in peace.

[The Lady J of Tay @brawday]

Former Tory Scottish Secretary takes £5k donation 'dark money' trust

https://t.co/7aBCZmj5CP

[GBC @GBC_Press]

A British surgeon returning from Gaza made a shocking claim about the Israeli military:

"Palestinian children's bodies were returned with their hearts, lungs and livers removed."

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

About 5000 years ago, a family sat beside a stone hearth in Orkney and arranged their belongings on a stone dresser. The dresser is still there. The hearth is still there. The stones they shaped with their hands are still fitted together, dry-laid without mortar, without cracking, after fifty centuries of Orkney winters. Skara Brae is the oldest surviving domestic settlement in northern Europe, and almost nothing about it has decayed. It is not ruins. It is a home.

The village was buried in a sandstorm around 2500 BCE and stayed buried until a violent storm in 1850 stripped the dunes back and revealed it to an astonished farmer. What the excavations uncovered over the following decades was almost impossible to credit: eight interconnected stone houses, linked by covered passages, each with its own hearth, storage alcoves, box beds defined by stone slabs, and a shelved dresser facing the entrance. Whoever lived here arranged their space with taste and care. They had privacy. They had community. They had, in the stone dresser placed where a modern family might put a television, something they wanted to see the moment they walked in the door.

No one knows exactly who built Skara Brae, what language they spoke, or where they went. We know they built their homes together, shared resources through the connecting passages, and lived here continuously for about 600 years. Older than the Egyptian pyramids. Older than Stonehenge. Built by people whose names we will never know on an island at the edge of the world. The oldest thing about Scotland is not a castle or a clan. It is a hearth, and it is waiting in Orkney.

#drthehistories

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Twice as effective closing their own illegal dumps but Scots taxpayers to pay for Burnham's clear-up of illegal dumps in West Yorkshire, Surrey and Kent and there will be no Barnett consequentials https://t.co/slymHDVo72