Bob Henderson

Russian history. Political emigration in London. More than a passing interest in Scottish stuff too.

[SIMPLICIUS Ѱ @simpatico771]

Any updates on Odessa?🤔

[ScotNews @indyscotnews]

"Ireland's position was exactly analogous to that of Scotland"

"There are roots through the United Nations, particularly once you accept that Scotland's position is as a colony.

"That part is the part which is psychologically difficult for some people in the independence movement. It's very strange because nobody has any difficulty whatsoever in accepting that Ireland was a colony.

"Nobody will argue with you if you tell them Ireland was a colony. Ireland's position was exactly analogous to that of Scotland. It had a Treaty of Union. It had Irish people owning slaves in colonies abroad.

"It had the Irish elite fully co-opted into the colonial project. It had massive amounts of Irish people serving in the British Army. All the things people say make Scotland not a colony, they don't somehow see Ireland as not being a colony, because of exactly the same reasons.

"And that's because of course, Ireland has escaped. And once you've escaped, your former position becomes clearer.

"And we still of course, suffer the effects of colonial deprivation. Not only in our lack of control over our own fiscal policy, monetary policy, defence policy, foreign policy, but also in our massive exploitation and expropriation of our trade. The fact that nearly all our trade has to come in at great cost through England, and that nearly all our exports go out at great cost through England.

"We are controlled and we are milked. We suffer brain drain. Once you have that perception, it becomes fairly clear that the UN Decolonization Committee is a place to take your case." Craig Murray @LiberationScot @PAlanMcMahon @Broonpot @thomsonchris @CraigMurrayOrg @SSRG2021 @ScotSalvo @SalvoHighlands @IndyScotParty @LiberateScot @JNHanvey @citizentommy

[El Señor Extraño 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @_MisterStrange]

¿Sabías que la selección de Noruega goleó a Israel 5-0 en las clasificatorias del Mundial y luego donó el dinero que ganó a Gaza? Por si aún dudas a quién apoyar.

[Liberation Scotland Committee @LiberationScot]

The voluntary partner narrative, must be torn down, because Scotland, the dependency of England calling itself the UK - Scotland, the non self governing territory - has a route to achieving its right to self determination...That is the one liberation Scotland is now taking with our partners: liberation, decolonization, the restoration of sovereignty to a colonized people grounded in international law and universal human rights.

[Bob Henderson @drrhenderson]

@UndisScot Pittenweem

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

ROBIN COOK QUIT OVER A WAR DIED ON A SCOTTISH HILL AND THE CASE CLOSED BEFORE TEA TIME

Robin Cook spent his career being right at the worst possible time for his career.

In March 2003 he resigned as Leader of the Commons rather than back the Iraq War. His resignation speech got a standing ovation from MPs on all sides, something that had never happened in the chamber before.

He spent the next two years telling anyone who would listen that Tony Blair had marched Britain into a war built on nothing.

Two years later he was dead.

6 August 2005. Ben Stack, a remote mountain in Sutherland. Cook collapsed of a heart attack while hillwalking with his wife Gaynor, fell down a ridge, and was airlifted to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, where he was pronounced dead within the hour.

The post mortem two days later gave the cause as hypertensive heart disease. Police on the scene treated it as a medical matter and that was the end of their involvement.

No inquest reopening. No criminal inquiry. Just a senior politician who had publicly humiliated the government over an illegal war, dropping dead in one of the most remote spots in the country, with the official file shut almost as fast as it was opened.

Norman Baker, the Lib Dem MP and later Home Office minister who spent years digging into the death of weapons inspector David Kelly, said in 2007 that Cook had been on Ministry of Defence linked land when he died and that he had real doubts about the official account.

He got called a conspiracy theorist for asking the question. Funny how that label only gets handed out to the people asking questions, never to the people refusing to answer them.

Then there is the bit nobody mentions enough. Starting in 2020, someone filed Freedom of Information requests with Police Scotland asking for the basic details of that day.

What time officers were alerted. Whether witnesses were interviewed. Whether the people who came to help Gaynor Cook were ever identified. Police Scotland refused. The case went to the Scottish Information Commissioner, who in 2021 and again in 2022 sided with the police and let them keep it sealed under a legal exemption.

So twenty years on, the basic facts of how a former Foreign Secretary actually died on a hillside are still officially none of your business.

That is not evidence of a murder BUT it is evidence of an institution that would rather you stop asking than ever have to answer.

Britain does not need conspiracy theories when the real story is this embarrassing on its own.

SOURCES
@HeraldScotland - Norman Baker doubts over Robin Cook's death
@FOIScotland - Decision 074/2021 and Decision 011/2022, Police Scotland FOI refusals on Robin Cook case file
@policescotland - original statement treating death as a medical matter
@BBC - Robin Cook resignation speech

[Bob Henderson @drrhenderson]

Wonderful!😂

[Bob Henderson @drrhenderson]

@RusHeritageUK @FXMC1957 👍👍 My treasured copy of 'Three Friends', presented to me as a parting gift by some dear friends in Minsk, 1976.

[Konstantin Tarasov @katarasov1917]

SOON at @CambridgeUP

The Cambridge Companion to Lenin, edited by Matt Rendle

https://t.co/63RfdM8NEg

[James Ryan @YashaRyan85]

The Cambridge Companion to Lenin, edited by Matt Rendle, will be out in February! I'm very pleased to have contributed the chapter on violence.
https://t.co/SpIEwWco4H

[Bob Henderson @drrhenderson]

Very much looking forward to it!

[MarxMemorialLibrary @MarxLibrary]

Join us next Saturday 27 June for a very special event joint with the Amwell Society for their bicentenary

We are hosting a panel on radical history including Bob Henderson on Lenin; Rachel Holmes on Eleanor Marx and John Allan on Lubetkin

https://t.co/yYQ3ml4ZFO

[Simon Forrest @SimonForrest11]

This is a betrayal & abdication of duty. The SNP, a party that:
- enables cheap power for machines but not its people
- shuns environmental concerns for corporations whilst hammering small business
- puts tech-bro's before Jock Tamson's bairns
Despicable.
https://t.co/ZrhvenA0mJ

[Ross McLaren @Ross_McLaren_]

@christina_ivey At the same time Jamaica was a colony, my ancestors were being burned out of their homes, evicted from their land, their language, dress, and way of life destroyed, so if it's alright with you, I won't have ignorant arseholes pontificating on my country's history

[Utkarsh Sharma @techxutkarsh]

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

[Bob Henderson @drrhenderson]

'This ⁠modus operandi was not limited the head of Viginum, Marc-Antoine Brillant, said. "It also appears to ⁠have been used to carry out foreign digital interference operations in other countries or ⁠regions, such as Angola, Togo, the elections in Scotland'. . .

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in NYC, Scotland elections https://t.co/OHzQVpz34W

[Sara Salyers @SSalyers2]

If GPs vote to proceed with this plan, “Plan B”, cryptically named to hide its horrors, then they will be taking a swerve away from the public provision of primary healthcare, the likes of which we haven’t seen for the past 80 years. They’ll be actively building a two-tier healthcare system instead of fighting for the one that aims to treat everyone equally. The privateers, those who have been pushing for this since Thatcher’s days, will have won.”
https://t.co/HOyZL6ZaAU

[Knowledge of London @Knowledgepoint]

Marx Memorial Library, Clerkenwell Green: Just north of Clerkenwell Road lies the epicenter of Victorian radicalism. Vladimir Lenin edited 17 issues of the underground socialist newspaper Iskra (The Spark) in 1902–1903. Originally built in 1738 as a Welsh Charity School. It later housed the Twentieth Century Press, which printed early English editions of works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Despite its name, the square has had no grass for over 300 years, operating instead as a paved urban space that resembles a preserved, historic village center in central London.

[Bob Henderson @drrhenderson]

@Heal_within96 @martinez_j7902 Apparently June 2024

[Sara Salyers @SSalyers2]

With thanks to G McPherson for this
⭐ 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝’𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧.
𝐀 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 — 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐧 — 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐡.

This new total body PET scanner can:

• be 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝟒𝟎× 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞

• scan patients 𝟏𝟎× 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫

• use 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

• scan 𝟓𝟎% 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐲

• and capture the 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐠𝐨.

It’s the kind of breakthrough countries brag about for years.

Grampian News covered it last night — because it was developed on their patch.

BBC once again didn’t seem to think it was newsworthy. I wonder 𝐖𝐇𝐘?

But in hearing this Mo and I are so proud of Scotland, it gives us both a lovely feeling. I hope you are the same.

Thanks for reading.

[Bob Henderson @drrhenderson]

@allan_jone66082 @JamesMelville I'd also highly recommend
Pittenweem's superb Dory!
https://t.co/BsW9MHDGxg