Mark

Tha mi dhachaigh agus tha mi cho tollichte. It’s been a long journey. Here to learn, not to teach. Saor Alba.

[Sara Salyers @SSalyers2]

LIBERATION SCOTLAND:
NEW MEMBER APPEAL🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙
Dear Supporter of Scottish Independence,

It is now clear that the recent election has delivered a fractured ineffective administration at Holyrood that will spend the next 5 years unable to progress either (a) independence for Scotland (despite its ‘pro-indy’ majority) in the face of Westminster refusal, or (b) expand national domestic investment in services and infrastructure to improve living conditions for Scots (to at least parity with other western countries with which Scotland is regularly compared) without the necessary control over the revenues from Scotland’s own resources, especially energy.

The presence of ‘nationalist’ administrations in Cardiff and Belfast means that Starmer (and his Downing Street successors) will simply double-down on blocking ‘indyref2’ in response to any repeat demands by John Swinney! Westminster’s constitutional arrangements with NI, Wales and Scotland are NOT identical and there is a real danger that Westminster/Holyrood could trap Scotland within a future ‘devo-max’ settlement that undermines our historic popular sovereignty and strengthens England’s illegal grip on our nation, its territory and resources.

The only deliverable route to restoring Scotland's full historic nationhood is through engagement with the international legal mechanisms of the UN and associated international organisations. It does NOT pass through Westminster or its Holyrood administration.

Liberation Scotland’s key mission is to secure international recognition of Scotland as a Non-Self-Governing Territory (NSGT), as defined by the UN (i.e. colony), and to initiate the UN-mandated process of decolonization of the Scottish nation and sovereign people, including via the UN Special Committee on Decolonization (C-24) and terminate England’s wrongful act of 320 years of colonial annexation of Scotland.

It is this important international campaign by Liberation Scotland, with support from Scots at home (including Salvo’s domestic campaign) and our extensive global diaspora, that gives Scotland an international voice where it matters and provides a clear and deliverable route, free from Westminster interference, to the restoration of Scotland to its rightful place as an independent and sovereign nation state within the international community of nations.

Details of Liberation Scotland’s UN campaign (including attendance by Liberation Scotland representatives in March at the UN Human Rights Council 61st session in Geneva) can be found on our website and in our latest member newsletter, along with details of Salvo’s domestic campaign to protect Scotland’s historic national Common Good assets, which are currently under threat of loss to our communities from sale, transfer or change of use.

Thanks to our extensive work during the last 2 years, Scotland’s case is now firmly on the agenda at the UN and our nation’s voice is being heard once again – most recently at the C-24 Regional Seminar in Nicaragua, where Liberation Scotland contributed towards four interventions on the very live issue of the advancement of decolonization.

However more work remains to be done, and with three further interventions and a side event programmed for New York and Geneva later this month and next, we ask you to please join us and support our campaign any way you can to restore Scotland’s nationhood and sovereignty and to return its alienated assets and resources to the ownership of its people.

Sign up as a Liberation Scotland member today via this link: https://t.co/rigaBmWpI3

Liberation Scotland Committee 07 June 2026

[Mark @markbignumber]

@oakroyd 505 pizza pie! The original Scottish pizza cooked in the traditional manner.

[390k 😊 Paris Paname 🔄 @ParisAMDParis]

🎨 Claude Monet.
Jardin de l'Infante
1867. Paris

[Hebridean @Islandcroft]

In May 1845, 90 men, women, and children were evicted from the glen of Glencalvie in Ross-shire. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

They had nowhere to go. So they sheltered in the churchyard of Croick Church, sleeping under the open Highland sky with their children and whatever they could carry.

[Angus B MacNeil 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @AngusBMacNeil]

Westminster is not blocking independence.
Westminster is blocking a referendum.

Do not confuse the two.

It isn't for Westminster to hold the door open for Scotland.
It is for Scotland to find and open the door AND show some spine.

[Sara Salyers @SSalyers2]

The real standing of the Claim of Right is apparently worrying for the Anglo-British state. Our Scottish, pro-indy politicians continue to ignore it.

[Liberation Scotland Committee @LiberationScot]

It's well worth the effort if an understanding of why Scotland has no need of Westminster permission to resume statehood where annexation froze it in time. But an AI summary in 150 words will give you the gist:

Summary: A Colonial Document in Two Parts

The core argument: The English colonial state's one‑page response to the Scottish Parliament's 109‑page SP Paper 1030 inquiry is not merely arrogant but historically recognisable as colonial administrative discourse — minimising a nation's democratic aspirations to administrative trivia.

Key points:

The SP Paper 1030 inquiry was framed within "the UK constitutional context", deliberately excluding international decolonisation law. Its 12 witnesses and 4 advisers formed a closed academic circuit whose conclusions were predetermined.

The English response is one page — not legal analysis, but declarative contempt. It asserts Westminster sovereignty, cites the UK Supreme Court as final authority, and declares a referendum "not one of" the issues that matter.

Legal framework ignored: The response fails to mention UN Resolutions 1514/1541, the ARSIWA articles on state responsibility, the ICJ's Chagos principle, or document A/HRC/61/NGO/210 (formally before the UN, identifying Scotland as a non‑self‑governing territory).

Foundational conflation: The submission treats Scotland's independence as secession from a lawful state. If Scotland is in fact an English dependency (annexed in 1707), the route is decolonisation — an inalienable right requiring no permission.

Conclusion: The single page and the 109‑page report form a single colonial document. The answer lies not in Westminster but in the UN system, where document A/HRC/61/NGO/210 now sits — independent of colonial permission.

[David Vargas Araujo @DavidVargasA18]

Netanyahu, está muy enojado con la publicación de este video de Lamine Yamal, y el Barcelona.

El Mossad, hace maromas para bajar el video contra los genocidas del mundo.

Israel, está molesto con la difusión de este video. Hay que difundirlo.
RT👇

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

There is nothing more peak Britain than a 77 year old nepo baby, dripping in stolen jewels and hauled around in a gilded carriage, reading a list of hard choices for people who actually work for a living.

A man who just pocketed a £45 million pay rise sat on a literal golden throne today to tell you to "flourish in work" while his government "reforms" your benefits.

To sit there in that much unearned luxury and talk about raising living standards for the masses is a level of delusion that borders on pathology. Absolute mockery of the working class.

The era of the golden parasite needs to end.
#KingsSpeech #AbolishTheMonarchy #CostOfLiving

[Angry Pict @SymbolStones]

There Is No Exit. There Is Only Restoration, and a Return.

The fastest way forward isn't the one we've been sold.

Let me start with the word "Scotexit."

I understand why people use it. It's punchy. It conveys urgency. But it contains a hidden concession that costs us a lot before we've started.

"Exit" implies we entered. It implies the supposed union is a door we walked through and can walk back out of - when Westminster decides to unlock it.

That's not what the history shows. That's not what the law shows. And more importantly, that's not a strategy. That's a queue.

The Queue Strategy and Why It Fails:

For twenty years, the mainstream independence movement has been standing in a queue.

The queue works like this: win elections, ask for a referendum, get refused, win more elections, ask again, get refused again, and gradually - the theory goes - Westminster will have to say yes.

It hasn't worked. It won't work. Not because the numbers aren't there, but because the strategy contains a fatal flaw at its core.

It asks the entity that benefits from the union to adjudicate whether the union should end.

That's not politics. That's a permission slip from your abuser.

What the History Actually Shows:

Here's what years of serious historical and legal research - not campaigning, not lobbying, actual scholarship - has established:

The Treaty of Union of 1707 was not a voluntary merger between equal partners. The Scottish Parliament was not a legitimate signatory. It had been dissolved by Queen Anne under authority she derived from a Great Britain that didn't legally exist yet. Its members had been coerced, bribed, and threatened. The process violated the constitutional framework Scotland had operated under for centuries - a framework in which sovereignty resided not in the Crown, not in Parliament, but in the Community of the Realm.

That framework was never abolished. It was suppressed.

That's not a grievance or a myth. That's documented, evidenced, and - critically - it has a legal pathway attached to it.

The Actual Fast Route:

There is no fast route if "fast" means shortcuts. But there is a direct route, which is faster than the queue, because it bypasses the gatekeepers entirely.

It has three components:

One: Assert the correct legal position:

Scotland isn't seeking permission to leave a voluntary union. Scotland is asserting that a coercive annexation, carried out in violation of the constitutional order that governed the relationship between the Scottish Crown and the Community of the Realm, was and remains legally defective.
The claim isn't "let us go."
The claim is "what was done to us was unlawful, and we have never stopped saying so."

That's the position of the Claim of Right - reaffirmed by Westminster itself in September 2016, largely without its members understanding what they were reaffirming.

Two: Take the case to the international arena:

Westminster cannot block what Westminster cannot control. The UN decolonisation framework exists precisely for situations where a metropolitan power will not voluntarily relinquish a colonial relationship. Scotland has a stronger evidential case for colonial status - structural economic extraction, demographic decline relative to the incorporating power, suppression of legal and constitutional frameworks - than many territories that achieved UN recognition.

The route runs through Geneva, through the Human Rights Council, through international legal bodies where Westminster's veto doesn't operate.

This is the route currently being developed - quietly, carefully, and with serious legal preparation.

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[Indy @IndyPenguine]

Why are there only three devolved administrations in a political union of four countries?

#EnglishIndependence

[Mark @markbignumber]

@is_glasgow @CitizynKayne I used to regularly get dropped at the Lyceum on Saturdays for the matinee, while my mum and my granny would go shopping. You couldn’t hear a thing because of all the kids shouting and screaming all the way through the films. It was brilliant.

[Christophe Dorigné-Thomson @thomsonchris]

@Keir_Starmer There is no Britain. It means England. It's an English colonial construction for the colonisation of Scotland & Ireland. As an English colony, Scotland is now decolonising via the United Nations. Read the report submitted to the UN Secretary General stating Scotland's a colony.

[Angry Pict @SymbolStones]

All we need to know about this gamekeeper posing as a poacher is buried in the article:

"Happer helped produce the acclaimed 2008 series A History of Scotland when she worked for the BBC" - presented by Unionist Neil Oliver, now a GB News far-right broadcaster.

This is managed critique: a friendly intervention designed to delay change by performing the appearance of challenge. The BBC doesn't need reform. It needs to be understood for what it actually is.

The BBC's own Charter mandates it to "reflect the United Kingdom, its culture and values." The ongoing Charter Review goes further - explicitly requiring it to "tell a unifying national story." You can't square that constitutional function with independent coverage of a constitutional challenge to the entity the BBC is mandated to reflect and preserve.

The bias Happer identifies as correctable is the designed function of the BBC. That contradiction isn't fixable as long as the BBC is the British Broadcasting Corporation.

[wokeandwoofing @wokeandwoofing]

I work very closely with a number of very well respected climate scientists, and whenever I ask them what is the solution to our current crisis, they always say the same thing: "We need more people to glue themselves to things"

[Mark @markbignumber]

@Arteymas_ Este es perfecto. No hace falta esa basura AI.

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Vetheuil - 1880, Claude Monet

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Padre solo hay uno…

Y está creando en su pequeña momentos que siempre atesorará en su memoria.

Si tienes algo así en la vida, lo tienes todo! 😍

[Christophe Dorigné-Thomson @thomsonchris]

Scotland Qualifies as a Colony Under United Nations Law: Let Us Apply the Criteria and Watch the Evidence Speak @decolonise_Scot

https://t.co/ssJjnsVm8B