Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇻🇦 | Ametur Cor Jesu • Southwestern Scotland

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

This will be my new pinned tweet, documenting my case for a South-Western Scottish identity and reasserting our unique local heritage that has been forgotten. The South-West contains everything that makes Scotland great.

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

Pray, this month, for the repose of the soul of Pope Benedict XV, peacemaker and devotee of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Pope Benedict XV, pray for us.
Pope Benedict XV, pray for peace.
Pope Benedict XV, pray for freedom.

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

During June we should pray for the repose of the soul of Pope Benedict XV. I feel that, as far as recent popes go, he is largely neglected, but he did a lot to promote devotion to the Sacred Heart. He canonised St. Mary Margaret Alacoque and established the First Friday prayers.

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

I double checked and this was posted under "News" on the Guardian site. It's not an op-ed or anything. It's an article sympathetic to a convicted sex offender who is at risk of deportation. You can't imagine this sympathy for certain other convicts.

https://t.co/ffDzLqPZq9

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

Prior to 2024, a convicted child sex offender scheduled to be deported was allowed to roam the country freely. It was only after Labour took power that he was required to even check in with the authorities.

The author of this Guardian piece seemingly thinks this is a bad thing.

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

The "one conviction", btw, is for committing sexual activity in the presence of a child. The author, Diane Taylor, reports his defence that drugs/alcohol caused him to remove his trousers on the bus. They do not verify whether this is true or not.

[Tim Doherty @Tim_ODoherty]

Last year I pointed to what 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 had done to cut back ALN numbers and what 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 could learn from it.

Today I turn to a case study in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 itself: Aberdeenshire.

A long-ish blog post on the changes which saw them cut their ASN rate from 48% to 38%:

https://t.co/6ZcPuuGEaN

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

I double checked my numbers with Gemini and it thinks it's even higher — almost ONE THIRD of Reform voters were pro-independence.

I think this is too high so I'm going to stick with my amateur 25% guesstimate. Either number is remarkable.

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

As I predicted, Reform did quite well with 2014 Yes voters — 13% compared to their overall vote of 16.6%.

That means Reform are the third most popular party with 2014 Yes voters, behind the SNP and barely behind the Greens, and more popular with Yes voters than Alba ever were.

[YouGov @YouGov]

🧵/ How Scotland voted at the 2026 Holyrood election: our new study breaks down how Scottish voters cast their ballots in last month's seismic election by all the key demographic and political divides

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

I'd like to see a media investigation into this. 25%~ of people who voted for the right-wing populists were Yes supporters.

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

@Tim_ODoherty @tompainebones Simple, it's made up. Reform won 367,000 votes — 11.5% of the Welsh population. It's impossible for that to account for 12% of the total electorate unless Wales is populated almost entirely by adults.

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

High quality theology discussions on Instagram dot com

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I asked a local councillor if the russian refinery here in Ireland should be sanctioned.

He said yes, if it was supplying Israel.
But Russia? No.

This is Ireland’s sanctions hypocrisy in 90 seconds.

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

@pl_european For Fidesz and ANO...?

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

@UT2003Official I had my own first day on Monday. Good luck friend 🫡

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

Three biggest contributors to regime collapse:

1) Elite overproduction
2) Widespread distrust towards institutions
3) Economic malaise

Worrying times ahead of us.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'His murderer was afforded decency. He was believed'

Henry Nowak's father says the 'contrast' in the police's treatment of his son and his murderer is 'unbearable' in a statement after Nowak's killer was sentenced to 21 years in prison.

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

@maxtempers 😭😭

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

@ScottishBevan @xXMaddiMaladyXx To have the confidence of an undergrad student 🤣🤣

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

@ScottishBevan @xXMaddiMaladyXx This is different than saying neoliberalism is authoritarian. If that's the argument you want to make, fine. But anti-state and not authoritarian are two different things, and it isn't pedantic to distinguish between the two.

[Aodán Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @aodanhill]

@ScottishBevan @xXMaddiMaladyXx I don't think it is pedantic to explain how a concept is being used. My first tweet is very clear: neoliberalism is about reducing the scope of state intervention in the economy. You respond saying that neoliberalism isn't anti-state. Sure. I never said it was.