#  @DeanMThomson Dean M Thomson Dean M Thomson posts on X about hamas, israel, china, keir starmer the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::892032913/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] +25% - [--] Month [-------] +1,420% - [--] Months [-------] +191% - [--] Year [-------] -61% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::892032913/posts_active)  - [--] Months [--] -64% - [--] Year [---] -70% ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::892032913/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] +0.08% - [--] Month [-----] +0.23% - [--] Months [-----] +0.18% - [--] Year [-----] +1.80% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::892032913/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) 18.54% [finance](/list/finance) 16.56% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 10.6% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 5.3% [social networks](/list/social-networks) 2.65% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 1.99% [stocks](/list/stocks) 1.99% [exchanges](/list/exchanges) 0.66% [currencies](/list/currencies) 0.66% **Social topic influence** [hamas](/topic/hamas) 4.64%, [israel](/topic/israel) 3.97%, [china](/topic/china) 3.97%, [keir starmer](/topic/keir-starmer) 3.31%, [money](/topic/money) 3.31%, [edinburgh](/topic/edinburgh) 3.31%, [palestine](/topic/palestine) #894, [beijing](/topic/beijing) 3.31%, [countries](/topic/countries) 3.31%, [murder](/topic/murder) 2.65% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@angieca26314731](/creator/undefined) [@lucyhunterb](/creator/undefined) [@krishgm](/creator/undefined) [@dalgetysusan](/creator/undefined) [@martinthejag](/creator/undefined) [@gracebrod1e](/creator/undefined) [@wickedhighland](/creator/undefined) [@channel4news](/creator/undefined) [@nicolasturgeon](/creator/undefined) [@jkrowling](/creator/undefined) [@scotnationals](/creator/undefined) [@johnmcternan](/creator/undefined) [@thesnps](/creator/undefined) [@scotexpress](/creator/undefined) [@thinkscotland](/creator/undefined) [@tpusa](/creator/undefined) [@mrserikakirk](/creator/undefined) [@johncleese](/creator/undefined) [@jruddy99](/creator/undefined) [@commonwealangus](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Credit Suisse Group (CS)](/topic/credit-suisse) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Who would send their kid to Eton college Since 2010: housemaster Matthew Mowbray was jailed for a series of sexual offences on students. David Goode an organist and music teacher was discovered using a school issued laptop for indecent images of children. Classics teacher Ian McAuslan guilty of making & possessing indecent images of children. Now Jacob Leland done for sexually abusing a pupil. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017838174991749250 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017838174991749250" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2017838174991749250) 2026-02-01T05:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Equality Act protects the characteristic of "sex" as meaning biological sex. We know know this excludes gender identity. Why is this beyond the understanding of the Scottish Government Scottish govt says it accepts Supreme Court ruling on sex but "if the answer to this case was considered to lie in that decision the Scottish ministers would have applied it. We are here because the answer is not considered to lie in that decision. https://t.co/gYJNmbpxcj Scottish govt says it accepts Supreme Court ruling on sex but "if the answer to this case was considered to lie in that decision the" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2019383149990670551) 2026-02-05T12:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A trip to Disneyland was viewed as appropriate payoff in the mind of Nicola Sturgeon. Fury as Nicola Sturgeon's chief nurse wanted to pay off QEUH families with 'a trip to Disneyland' https://t.co/4b0fPqZo0q Fury as Nicola Sturgeon's chief nurse wanted to pay off QEUH families with 'a trip to Disneyland' https://t.co/4b0fPqZo0q" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2019384056182632814) 2026-02-05T12:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Holyrood trailblazed the lost phone messages strategy. Ready for a rerun of Leslie Evans 'I shredded my notes as they were private' routine BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer his ministers and advisers will be forced to disclose all their communications with Lord Mandelson - including WhatsApp messages and emails - as part of a mass disclosure of evidence The Conservative party's "humble address" - a parliamentary BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer his ministers and advisers will be forced to disclose all their communications with Lord Mandelson - including WhatsApp messages and emails - as part of a mass" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2019428347969937651) 2026-02-05T15:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Scotland's needs: Hospitals working for public good as opposed to political pressure Tax cuts on working & middle class families A Scots Govt recognising GDP growth Prioritising hospitality not tax hikes Pro-north sea not 'Green' mimicry as Green laird profiteer" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2019429753581891861) 2026-02-05T15:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "If the far left - especially under Rayner - takes over labour the party deserves to be finished. At that point even Id need to consider my options. Theres a limit. Mandelson saga is not good for Wes Streeting. Angela Rayners chances of becoming our next prime minister are much improved. Mandelson saga is not good for Wes Streeting. Angela Rayners chances of becoming our next prime minister are much improved" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2019450608290251121) 2026-02-05T16:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Swinney complimented Mandelson. Perhaps the SNP will cease using this as a political distraction from their abandonment on womens sex based rights John Swinney's horror at all things Mandelson at FMQs in contrast to his gratitude just a year ago. 'First Minister closed again in thanking Lord Mandelson for taking the initiative to understand Scotlands interests.' https://t.co/t7ZebsV2Yu https://t.co/k9GknsvvU1 John Swinney's horror at all things Mandelson at FMQs in contrast to his gratitude just a year ago. 'First Minister closed again in thanking Lord Mandelson for taking the initiative to" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2019499765466296482) 2026-02-05T19:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The real scandal is not that Scotlands government wants more money. It is that virtually no scrutiny is applied to how effectively existing resources are being deployed. Scotland's NHS: 3% more funding 8% less care delivered. Scotland's schools: 20% higher spending 70-point PISA collapse More money. Worse results. Systemic failure. The SNP should prove competence before demanding higher taxes. 🔗https://t.co/9b7ANUxnny https://t.co/J34gq9cmmH Scotland's NHS: 3% more funding 8% less care delivered. Scotland's schools: 20% higher spending 70-point PISA collapse More money. Worse results." [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2020123661814960451) 2026-02-07T13:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Heres a parallel: Starmer finds himself at the same point as Boris Johnson did when Tory MPs voted for a motion on a standards investigation on Boris to go forward. Keir Starmer Rachel Reeves Morgan McSweeneys political fates are now all tied together. One goes all go" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2020365467706417620) 2026-02-08T05:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@LucyHunterB @rattlecans Will do I am planning to tag @DalgetySusan anyway when last in Scotland I told her about my book over a lunch at an accidents restaurant choice in Edinburgh 😅 (we have thought it was a different restaurant still very nice)" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2020497982286958985) 2026-02-08T14:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Morgan McSweeney has resigned. Mark my tweet from [--] hours ago. One goes but two others are unavoidably connected: Starmer and Reeves. Time for Wes Streeting to get his act together. If the far left candidate takes over may as well throw in the towel. Heres a parallel: Starmer finds himself at the same point as Boris Johnson did when Tory MPs voted for a motion on a standards investigation on Boris to go forward. Keir Starmer Rachel Reeves Morgan McSweeneys political fates are now all tied together. One goes all go. Heres a parallel: Starmer finds himself at the same point as Boris Johnson did" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2020503562003021880) 2026-02-08T14:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@AngieCa26314731 Then who is the candidate to oppose Rayner" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2020514137063706762) 2026-02-08T15:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@martinthejag @AngieCa26314731 Rayner is in left candidate. Wes Streeting oursproblem is polling Ive seen isnt optimistic. If Starmer had a MODICUM of political sense hed have waited for next revelation to drop McSweeney to buy Streeting and the adult wing time" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2020525834075771322) 2026-02-08T15:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Rayner is in left candidate. Wes Streeting oursproblem is polling Ive seen isnt optimistic. If Starmer had a MODICUM of political sense hed have waited for next revelation to drop McSweeney to buy Streeting and the adult wing time. Lord help us" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2020525997100060731) 2026-02-08T15:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Holyrood needs more MSPs and a committee system with members enjoying full immunity. That would create a backbench culture breaking whips in Edinburgh. Prof McCorkindale suggested this could all happen years ago. Could happen tomorrow. Source: McCorkindale University of Strathclyde: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/58337/1/McCorkindale_KLJ2016_Scotland_and_Brexit_the_state_of_the_Union.pdf https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/58337/1/McCorkindale_KLJ2016_Scotland_and_Brexit_the_state_of_the_Union.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2020533728792166489) 2026-02-08T16:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""Would you consider a pardon or commutation for Ghislaine Maxwell" "It's something I haven't thought about. I'm allowed to do it" Didn't GOP Chair of House Oversight James Comer (R-Ky) just set a precent when he called former Pres. Clinton to his committee Trump responds to questions about a possible Ghislaine Maxwell pardon: "I'm allowed to do it." https://t.co/6ISYSRf29k Trump responds to questions about a possible Ghislaine Maxwell pardon: "I'm allowed to do it." https://t.co/6ISYSRf29k" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2020585946006356129) 2026-02-08T19:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Director of communications Tim Allan has resigned. He was only brought into No [--] months ago. Thats Morgan McSweeney and now Tim Allan" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2020817179088748739) 2026-02-09T11:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Sir Chris Wormald the Cabinet Secretary is now negotiating his own departure. This comes as Morgan McSweeney and Tim Allan have resigned. Interestingly I understand that Scottish Labour MPs were privately calling for Mr Streeting to stand against Sir Keir before May to avoid a wipeout in the Holyrood election. Yet now some of those names appear to have bottled it in public and declined to back Anas Sarwars call for Starmer to resign. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020995156154122269 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020995156154122269" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2020995156154122269) 2026-02-09T22:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@gracebrod1e Every man has a breaking point Starmer is so historically unpopular that hes the man who cant afford to catch a cold" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2021012112253051037) 2026-02-10T00:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Have a heart David Lammy has waited [--] years to have a chauffeur-driven car. 'We've waited [--] years to get here no.' WATCH: GB News Political Editor @ChristopherHope asks David Lammy if it is time for Sir Keir Starmer to go. https://t.co/EqknVorAjC 'We've waited [--] years to get here no.' WATCH: GB News Political Editor @ChristopherHope asks David Lammy if it is time for Sir Keir Starmer to go. https://t.co/EqknVorAjC" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2021069732305338531) 2026-02-10T03:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@Wickedhighland I'm happy it worked this well from Hong Kong for my video copy tbh" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2021270880702054431) 2026-02-10T17:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The question isnt whether Douglas Alexander can run a Holyrood campaign while defending a failing Prime Ministerits whether Scottish Labour can survive being chained to Westminsters sinking ship. And while this Westminster psychodrama consumes all oxygen the SNP skates free: 36k pub rate hikes [---] closures NHS funding up 3% with care down 8% education spending up 20% with PISA scores cratering [--] points. Sarwar should be hammering these failures daily. Instead hes managing the fallout from a Prime Minister who wont accept reality. Starmer must resignnot for Labour for Scotland. Every day he" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2021278573974388837) 2026-02-10T17:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It very much is 'last role of the dice' Sarwar will likely lose his job if Scottish Labour finish a poor 3rd. Why shouldn't he take aim at the man chiefly responsible (Starmer) @DeanMThomson Looks like a last roll of the dice. An issue he will have is the people who do not like starmer in Scotland (ergo the people hes trying to woo) dont like him for the same reasons. I felt the speech was also very poor. Very self-centred and without any real conviction. @DeanMThomson Looks like a last roll of the dice. An issue he will have is the people who do not like starmer in Scotland (ergo the people" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2021256927162802436) 2026-02-10T16:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Keir Starmer must resign. Not just for Labourfor Scotland. Starmer's leadership isnt just destroying his own majorityits poisoning Scottish Labours one real chance at Holyrood. Sarwar has done the work: now Starmers toxicity threatens to drag him down anyway. On GBNews: Starmer took a big majority squandered it. Burnt through [--] minister every [--] weeks in first [--] months as PM. Sarwar's had the courage to say publicly what many only say privately on Whatsapp. https://t.co/2TW3Kw1PpS On GBNews: Starmer took a big majority squandered it. Burnt through [--] minister every [--] weeks in first [--] months" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2021264131219988967) 2026-02-10T16:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "True it takes focus off Bute House but I struggle to see how this hurts Sarwar ultimately. No stability comes from a weak PM. Sarwar's stance raises his profile in Scotland feeds into the 'standing up for Scotland' narrative many voters instinctively prefer. Besides he's at the courage to say publicly what many only whisper privately on whatsapp messages. Sarwar can politically outlive Starmer. @DeanMThomson Sure but now it becomes an election issue. Every MSP candidate is asked should Starmer stay or go. Takes the focus off Bute House. @DeanMThomson Sure but now it becomes an election issue." [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2021666412096631012) 2026-02-11T19:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Guess justice for the abused girls will need to wait Attorney General Bondi insists the S&P and Dow is performing too well do bring the Epstein class to justice. Pam Bondi LOSES HER MIND when asked why she has not indicted any of Jeffrey Epsteins clients. The Dow is over 50k right now the Nasdaq smashing records thats what we should be talking about https://t.co/88SpUdGbpK Pam Bondi LOSES HER MIND when asked why she has not indicted any of Jeffrey Epsteins clients. The Dow is over 50k right now the Nasdaq smashing records thats what we should be talking about https://t.co/88SpUdGbpK" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2021666837780738265) 2026-02-11T19:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Republican rep. Massie (R-KY) engages in a heated (furious) clash with Trump AG Pam Bondi. Accuses of her being responsible for this leg of a decades long coverup of a pedophile network. Rarely see this level of GOP v GOP in public with Trumps admin https://youtu.be/vgiW06lZrvcsi=CO9REkYM8e0F7GJj https://youtu.be/vgiW06lZrvcsi=CO9REkYM8e0F7GJj" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2021676095389806594) 2026-02-11T20:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Useful tool via @OpentoDebateOrg @CFR_org debate: U.S. Presence in Greenland: Necessary or Not Respectful academic & accessible. @JohnDonvan masterclass of polite informative debate via skilled hosting. My students at uni can benefit from this. https://youtu.be/P-Cw-PSQjDksi=LjIhtiDTQIRD4vpL https://youtu.be/P-Cw-PSQjDksi=LjIhtiDTQIRD4vpL" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2021726096073666667) 2026-02-11T23:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "His Majesty's Governmental Chief Mouser celebrates [--] years in office. Larry is the longest ever serving Number [--] Chief Mouser. https://www.itv.com/news/2026-02-14/larry-the-cat-to-celebrate-15-years-as-downing-streets-chief-mouser https://www.itv.com/news/2026-02-14/larry-the-cat-to-celebrate-15-years-as-downing-streets-chief-mouser" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022622087702286699) 2026-02-14T10:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A collection of post-liberals disinterested in serious politics. Too much Foucault with U.S. influenced identity politics. Scotland needs a Green Party that hasnt been making the laird class wealthy with taxpayer subsidised reforestation that they then privately profit from via carbon capture schemes. The Scottish Greens in Edinburgh want to defund the police. These people are crazy. https://t.co/os4mxgsrI9 The Scottish Greens in Edinburgh want to defund the police. These people are crazy. https://t.co/os4mxgsrI9" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022651324781969455) 2026-02-14T12:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Reform and SNP are both populist parties focusing their forward energy in an us vs them binary the comparison isnt unreasonable to reasonable minds. Likewise the collapse of a previously Labour dominated body politic (Wales [----] Scotland 2025). Fascist What @DeanMThomson Ah you're cheerleading for fascists. No surprise. @DeanMThomson Ah you're cheerleading for fascists. No surprise" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022665867599974853) 2026-02-14T13:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I bet he does. SNP cant attack him by forcing him to defend a weak PM. Defused the nat game plan. Anas Sarwar says he feels 'liberated' after calling on Keir Starmer to quit as Prime Minister. https://t.co/bbjP8YBwUT Anas Sarwar says he feels 'liberated' after calling on Keir Starmer to quit as Prime Minister. https://t.co/bbjP8YBwUT" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022674334431732124) 2026-02-14T14:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "You defend 'protest' Coming from an ex-director of the Scottish Islamic Foundationa group that brought Anas Al-Tikriti (whose foundation was later listed as terrorist) and Mohammad Sawalha (former Hamas commander) to Holyrood A tale of three people: Humza Yousaf a former Hamas Commander and the cousin who praises extremist preachers https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/humza-yousaf-the-former-hamas-commander Palestine Action should never have been proscribed a terrorist organisation. The Government tried to use counter-terror laws laws designed for terror groups like al-Qaeda against a protest" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022680246387106187) 2026-02-14T14:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Palestine Action is an anti-Semitic front and if this Labour government fails to fight to keep it on the proscribed list I'm truly done. Jews have a right to protections same as anyone else" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022685337542365663) 2026-02-14T14:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "When your brain is warped by Foucaults post-liberal b.s. that all knowledge is the result of ideology and power facts become subjective. They live in a post liberal post modern world. Its tragic for womens sex based rights and us gays who insist were same-SEX attracted. This is beyond a joke now https://t.co/6KT9IRB3Hg This is beyond a joke now https://t.co/6KT9IRB3Hg" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022694023891435528) 2026-02-14T15:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Excellent. Islamists jailed for life for plotting mass atrocity of Jews in Manchester https://t.co/WH7ikjtQW8 Islamists jailed for life for plotting mass atrocity of Jews in Manchester https://t.co/WH7ikjtQW8" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022694040266047745) 2026-02-14T15:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@Antunes1 Guess justice for the abused girls will need to wait Attorney General Bondi insists the S&P and Dow is performing too well do bring the Epstein class to justice" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2021666862023721131) 2026-02-11T19:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Is there an election coming up Looks like it the freebie policies are coming out. Btw- did everyone get their free laptops from last time 🚨Rail fares on ScotRail services are set to be frozen for the next year following a [---] million subsidy from the Scottish Government Read more: https://t.co/ho29JZAdq6 https://t.co/lt91PIVdCX 🚨Rail fares on ScotRail services are set to be frozen for the next year following a [---] million subsidy from the Scottish Government Read more: https://t.co/ho29JZAdq6 https://t.co/lt91PIVdCX" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022034538936119595) 2026-02-12T19:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The First Minister can run from the press but not the voters come May. First Minister John Swinney refuses to answer press questions about the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital : https://t.co/xMdjT6Dmoa First Minister John Swinney refuses to answer press questions about the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital : https://t.co/xMdjT6Dmoa" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022024328712487259) 2026-02-12T19:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I reckon theyll lose their [--] list MSPs and perhaps a couple of constituencies. The wild card is reform. Theyre so new there isnt enough poling data to properly chart out how theyll affect opposition parties. I saw numbers saying theyre currently collecting 31% of all [----] no voters so most out of all unionist parties. If they add more to that Id hate to underestimate their impact. [--] months ago I was totally underestimating how well theyd do in Scotland now I think they could be the official opposition in Holyrood. Labours a mess due to Starmer Tories have imploded (they squandered their time" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022039754536341959) 2026-02-12T20:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Not even half a million Little wonder Sturgeon never saw a thing. Who can blame her Nicola Sturgeons ex Peter Murrells EIGHT court charges REVEALED including 460K SNP embezzlement and falsifying docs https://t.co/ww1Kl0ne71 https://t.co/AFvxDT1Z6Q Nicola Sturgeons ex Peter Murrells EIGHT court charges REVEALED including 460K SNP embezzlement and falsifying docs https://t.co/ww1Kl0ne71 https://t.co/AFvxDT1Z6Q" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022229904197403042) 2026-02-13T08:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Pam Bondis testimony has only added to the Epstein firestorm. Doubt that will please her audience of one Donald J. Trump. BREAKING: Multiple Epstein victims tell NBC News that Pam Bondi intentionally un-redacted their names and other victims' names as a way to threaten them into silence I think we all realize now that the DOJ really wanted to silence us and they thought that they could https://t.co/c6zeiFFAvG BREAKING: Multiple Epstein victims tell NBC News that Pam Bondi intentionally un-redacted their names and other victims' names as a way to threaten them into silence I think we all" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022034307234378105) 2026-02-12T19:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Sturgeon being the shy retiring wallflower that she is never realised a thing you understand. Peter Murrells [------] SNP credit card spend revealed as court papers detail [--] shops including Harrods and Selfridges https://t.co/Vbx20j4Mum https://t.co/McJSIbFDQ7 Peter Murrells [------] SNP credit card spend revealed as court papers detail [--] shops including Harrods and Selfridges https://t.co/Vbx20j4Mum https://t.co/McJSIbFDQ7" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022229682197016946) 2026-02-13T08:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "RT @Neilsocialist: Shocked I am (not)" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022665346105438481) 2026-02-14T13:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Scotland's NHS: 3% more funding 8% less care delivered. Scotland's schools: 20% higher spending 70-point PISA collapse More money. Worse results. Systemic failure. The SNP should prove competence before demanding higher taxes. https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/more-money-worse-results https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/more-money-worse-results" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2020014790597578975) 2026-02-07T06:00Z [----] followers, 12.9K engagements "A small snippet from my book 'Scotland Undone: Nationalism Dogma and Decline in the Devolution Era' (out end of February) Sturgeon Isla Bryson and a performance without end" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022607657627193847) 2026-02-14T09:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "If the SNP hierarchy believed his passing would put an end to these legal matters they will be rudely awoken" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022621508766777530) 2026-02-14T10:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Wales is about to have its equivalent of Scotlands GE2015 moment. 🏴New Senedd voting intention. Reform UK holds a 7-point lead over Plaid while Labour is in third. ➡ REF UK 31% (+29) 🌼 PLAID 24% (+4) 🌹 LAB 20% (20) 🌳 CON 13% (13) 🔶 LIB DEM 6% (+1) 🌍 GREEN 5% (+3) 30/1 - 10/2 N=806 (16+) changes w [----] constituency vote https://t.co/26og6qodTq 🏴New Senedd voting intention. Reform UK holds a 7-point lead over Plaid while Labour is in third. ➡ REF UK 31% (+29) 🌼 PLAID 24% (+4) 🌹 LAB 20% (20) 🌳 CON 13% (13) 🔶 LIB DEM 6% (+1) 🌍 GREEN 5% (+3) 30/1 - 10/2 N=806 (16+) changes w 2021" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022651551400206731) 2026-02-14T12:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "My policy on oil and gas Drill baby drill. Just as Tony Blair's foundation advocates. Anas Sarwar pours fuel on the Labour fire leaving only the Tories to stand up to the SNP https://t.co/WMaRtzfu0f Anas Sarwar pours fuel on the Labour fire leaving only the Tories to stand up to the SNP https://t.co/WMaRtzfu0f" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022684707214041196) 2026-02-14T14:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "True. Gordon Brown never profited from his position he is a decent man - regardless of the policy proscriptions his critics dispute. A fine man of integrity. I miss that sort of character honestly. And I dont mean this in a right left critique fashion. Gordon Brown has spent more time aiding the powerless than the powerful since he was PM which is why he is poorer than his peer PMs but a far better man. I think he is emerging now as a great man. Gordon Brown has spent more time aiding the powerless than the powerful since he was PM which is why he is poorer than his peer PMs but a far better" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022694320701362507) 2026-02-14T15:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "RT @LucyHunterB: The only thing that stops this is political leadership and its absence is becoming so damaging and the people involved b" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/2022699227806347312) 2026-02-14T15:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "During the tribunal barrister Naomi Cunningham put it plainly: This isnt about dignity. Its about one man forcing women to affirm himand removing single-sex facilities for all women. It was bullying. And the NHS condoned it. 11/" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1948349977823973754) 2025-07-24T11:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Read and subscribe 👇 The Lanyard Class Came for Sandie Peggie #SandiePeggie #Scotland #GenderDebate #LanyardClass #SturgeonLegacy 17/17 https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/the-lanyard-class-came-for-sandie https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/the-lanyard-class-came-for-sandie" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1948350004768215530) 2025-07-24T11:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The idea that Hamas should be entrusted with leading a 'transition' in Gaza is absurdthey are the architects of the current catastrophe. And the notion that peace hinges on pressuring Israel not to defeat the group that started this war Thats not diplomacy; its delusion. Honestly @krishgm is this performative naivety or just moral confusion Hamas want a permanent ceasefire to be able to transition to new Gaza leadership on their own terms. Israel want to be able to go back to destroying Hamas after getting the hostages back. The same impasse as ever so the killing and starvation goes on" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1948454068344803711) 2025-07-24T18:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The 47th President of the United States holds the economic fate of key Scottish industries in the palm of his hand. Whether its whisky tourism or even film one wiggle of Trumps sharpie-pen can shift billions. The $100 Benjamins follows him wherever he goes. Counter-productive is if the First Minister puts his personal distaste ahead of the burdens of his office to protect our industries and jobs" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1949035926178427387) 2025-07-26T09:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@pictureladyjan @RpsAgainstTrump That's the Fed chair 😅" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1949158162977702145) 2025-07-26T17:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Identity politics that post-modern soup is comfortable for people of means as it permits them to be victims of society too. Whereas a traditional class based conceptualisation highlights that 'solidarity' is excluding those with means. University social sciences have begun to inculcate working and lower middle class folk into a mindset alongside those with means - all sharing the same bizarre jargonistic language (a calling card for them to all highlight to each other they're part of the 'in group'" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1949434896843178314) 2025-07-27T11:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "This escalating mess requires Scottish Government leadership. Alas the powers that be are silent as they are knee-deep in precipitating this current crisis in NHS Fife. Meanwhile public confidence continues to fall in both Fife NHS and public service institutions more broadly. Sandie Peggie inspires others to come forward and challenge NHS Fife as nurse faces 'racism' claim - https://t.co/eSRvgOibwy https://t.co/eSRvgOibwy Sandie Peggie inspires others to come forward and challenge NHS Fife as nurse faces 'racism' claim - https://t.co/eSRvgOibwy https://t.co/eSRvgOibwy" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1949936021086622033) 2025-07-28T20:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@marcuscarslaw1 I remember the Glasgow Airport Rail Link (GARL) being a big policy promise as far back as Jack McConnel's time as First Minister I'm now [--] and long given up on seeing any meaningful investment of infrastructure around Glasgow. Only Edinburgh gets a look in these days" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1950875677260964039) 2025-07-31T11:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Same sex marriage built on traditional conservative principles such as individual liberty personal responsibility limited government family values and social stability. The government should interfere as little as possible in the private lives of individuals is fundamentally conservative. Preventing same-sex couples from marrying involves the state in deeply personal decisions. Allowing same-sex marriage is consistent with the belief that individuals should be free to live their lives without undue government interference. To quote Barry Goldwater Government should not be in the business of" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1950885614259212353) 2025-07-31T11:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Tell me you dont understand Anglo-American conservatism without telling me you dont understand Anglo-American conservatism Same sex marriage built on traditional conservative principles such as individual liberty personal responsibility limited government family values and social stability. The government should interfere as little as possible in the private lives of individuals is fundamentally conservative. Preventing same-sex couples from marrying involves the state in deeply personal decisions. Allowing same-sex marriage is consistent with the belief that individuals should be free to" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1950885954706698305) 2025-07-31T11:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The church of Scotland insists that its right of religious conscience means they can and ought to marry same sex people. It's their deeply held religious conviction. Who are you to deny the Kirk its right of religious conscience and demean their faith by brandishing it 'virtue signalling' You do not have a monopoly of how other religious traditions define marriage" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1950982621602709818) 2025-07-31T18:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@world_bucks77 No I live in Zhuhai it says I work for Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1951296690662576533) 2025-08-01T14:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Channel4News @krishgm Gove is entirely correct" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1951319094025666917) 2025-08-01T16:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@AboodTamara21 @Channel4News @krishgm Hamas started a war with an attempted genocide. Israeli defensive operations (and this wider war) ends with the unconditional surrender of the throat-chopping terrorist Hamas regime alongside the release of all hostages. Palestinians should be demanding Hamas surrender" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1951424037898305719) 2025-08-01T23:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "🧵THREAD: Scotlands Fiscal Black Hole SNP's Path To Fiscal Ruin With fingers in their ears and eyes on short-term polls successive SNP leaders ignored repeated warnings from Scotlands fiscal watchdog. Result A [---] billion budget black hole 1/ https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/not-listening-how-the-snp-ignored https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/not-listening-how-the-snp-ignored" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1951722377949188248) 2025-08-02T19:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Since [----] the Scottish Fiscal Commission has warned about the risks of unfunded social security expansion. The SNP pressed ahead anywayprioritising populist giveaways over sustainable budgeting. 2/" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1951722380247883798) 2025-08-02T19:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Ill comment on whatever I choose. You are not the arbiter of which academics from which universities get to participate in the civic life of their own country. And lets be honestyoud likely welcome it if a pro-indy pro-nationalist Hollywood luvvie weighed in. The hypocrisy is transparent and frankly unbecoming. One more thing: next time try commenting under your real name. Hiding behind a name like Flying the Saltire only underscores how unserious your contributions really are" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1952011450068677038) 2025-08-03T14:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "David your governments ultimatum to Israelthreatening unilateral recognition of Palestinehas only incentivised Hamas to keep holding the hostages. So with respect spare me the pearl-clutching now that you're confronted with the brutal reality of their suffering which your morally bankrupt policy has helped prolong. The images of hostages being paraded for propaganda are sickening. Every hostage must be released unconditionally. Hamas must disarm and have no control over Gaza. We are working with partners on a long-term solution and plan for peace. This must begin with an immediate The images" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1952023192106660122) 2025-08-03T15:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The next UK General Election is shaping up to be akin to [----] an inflection point of historic importance. [----] was the fork in the road where the post war consensus finally unravelled. [----] feels like its the terminal endpoint for the Thatcher-Blair consensus. Centre right on economics centre left on culture - that brand of institutional muscle memory centrism is going to collapse. Voters dont want it party loyalties are fragmenting apace. Its just that Labour and Conservative parties havent cottoned onto the shift among the electorate. Something new is coming but who knows what it will be" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1952716955565089258) 2025-08-05T13:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "According to the South China Morning Post China has officially begun the final assembly phase of a next-generation fusion reactor called Burning Plasma Experiment Superconducting Tokama (BEST) Using the same physics that power the sun the payoff will be unlimited clean energy" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1952799360686899350) 2025-08-05T18:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "When Trump threatens the EU with a 35% tariff unless it invests $600bn in the U.S. that's not negotiations. That's blackmail by an unfriendly country. Time the EU learned to be independent of the U.S. & develop strategic autonomy. Maybe then China might take Brussels seriously" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1952967687115771922) 2025-08-06T05:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""I asked my intelligence source why Blair misled us all over Saddam's weapons. His reply One word . CAMPBELL" Gilligan Andrew (1 June 2003). The Mail on Sunday. p.26 Having lost his Beeb spot he is desperate for a remake of Grumpy Old Men Having lost his Beeb spot he is desperate for a remake of Grumpy Old Men" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1953040084069970279) 2025-08-06T10:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "🧵 From Spit to Slaughter: The Escalatory Logic of Antisemitism Antisemitism doesnt eruptit escalates. Mocked children spat-on schoolboys. Harassment dismissed as "petty" often proves a staging ground for catastrophe. History teaches but we dont want to listen👇 1/" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1953138184654877138) 2025-08-06T16:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "In Vienna Jewish children were spat at on their way to school. In Berlin in [----] they were chased by boys shouting Judenschwein. In Biaystok in [----] they were terrorized before the pogrom began. In the UK [----] theyre being soaked by water guns. Laughed at. Filmed for fun. 2/" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1953138187506790489) 2025-08-06T16:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "These arent isolated acts of cruelty. Theyre signals. Warnings. Street-level harassment of Jewsespecially childrenhas time and again laid the groundwork for systemic exclusion state violence and mass murder. 3/" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1953138190199517690) 2025-08-06T16:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "In 1900s Vienna Mayor Karl Lueger mainstreamed antisemitism with a smile. His supporters Middle-class professionals. Teachers. Priests. Parents. Children absorbed the messageand began to spit taunt shove. Spit became symbol. And symbol became policy. 4/" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1953138192707727453) 2025-08-06T16:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Academics are joining in. Dr. Morad El Kadmiri (UCL Essex Warwick) posted blood libel tropes and claimed Jews are guided by the devil. His universities Silent. Social permission is being given. 12" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1953138209749168319) 2025-08-06T16:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "October 7th wasnt an explosion. It was a culmination. Hamas didn't just murder Israeli familiesit live-streamed it. They broke into the Idan family home shot through the safe room door killed the children and broadcast the terror to the world. 13" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1953138211569414629) 2025-08-06T16:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Antisemitism doesnt eruptit escalates. From Vienna to Biaystok to London harassing Jewish children has long been the first step in societys slide toward violence. I trace the patternfrom history to Britain today. 📖 From Spit to Slaughter https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/from-spit-to-slaughter-the-escalatory https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/from-spit-to-slaughter-the-escalatory https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/from-spit-to-slaughter-the-escalatory https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/from-spit-to-slaughter-the-escalatory" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1953421370928365706) 2025-08-07T11:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "3 Early Germany SDP: Women Equal rights. Equal responsibilities. Vote Social Democratic Amid the trauma of the collapse of Wilhelmine Germany after the Great War this poster called on the newly enfranchised women of [----] Germany to vote for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the elections for the constitutional convention that would become known as the Weimar National Assembly. Given the wartime and post-armistice deprivation political chaos amid the power-vacuum of where the Kaiser once said the call to vote might have fallen on deaf ears. Yet Germany's Social Democrats looked forward to" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1953578446849819023) 2025-08-07T22:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "4Twilight of Weimar Germany SDP: 'Schtz Eure demokratischen Volksrechte Whlt Liste [--] Sozialdemokratie Wahlplakat' Far removed from the hopes of [----] the SDP by November [--] [----] were instead warning voters: "Protect your democratic civic rights Vote for List [--] Social Democracy" The famous SDP poster calling for peoples rights captures the spirited anti-Nazi anti-Communist resistance of the SDP to the politics of extremism both left and right. 4/" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1953578449844809899) 2025-08-07T22:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The Scots were colonisers not colonised. Surely even @JohnSwinney can grasp this [--] countries have gained independence from the United Kingdom - and not one of them has tried to come back. Thats because independence is normal. Decisions for Scotland made in Scotland. Its a future worth voting for. 🏴 [--] countries have gained independence from the United Kingdom - and not one of them has tried to come back. Thats because independence is normal. Decisions for Scotland made in Scotland. Its a future worth voting for. 🏴" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1953799796973588661) 2025-08-08T12:45Z [----] followers, 25.8K engagements "I need a vpn when in China to access some news websites. Never imagined Id also required it in the UK too. Thanks @Keir_Starmer. Well done. *slow clap* Famous TikTok influencer Dylan Page announces that some of his news videos (very safe stuff by the way) have been taken down on TikTok due to the UK Online Censorship Law. He said he will leave the UK if it continues. The Tories and Labour are still both supporting this https://t.co/eOfDn1MCGM Famous TikTok influencer Dylan Page announces that some of his news videos (very safe stuff by the way) have been taken down on TikTok due to the UK" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1954131616143470699) 2025-08-09T10:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "An arrogant middle class man thinks the law is for other people. He supported a prohibited group which has targeted and harassed Jewish owned businesses undermined the national defence of the nation vandalising RAF property. I have zero sympathy with this man. [--] year prison sentence - the maximum the law permits should be thrown at him. BREAKING: Met police arrest a disabled blind man at the Parliament Square protest where many hundreds are holding placards which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" https://t.co/RABO0ID78g BREAKING: Met police arrest a disabled blind man at" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1954834064671678615) 2025-08-11T09:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Wearing a PRESS jacket does not in itself confer journalistic credibility. Multiple sources including Israeli intelligence have linked Anas al-Sharif to the terrorist Hamas organisation. Israeli intelligence assessments state that al-Sharif previously headed a Hamas cell and participated in rocket attacks against Israel. Publicly available photographs indicate repeated personally intimate contact with senior Hamas terrorist figures. Photo 1: Al-Sharif early in his career pictured with Fathi Hammad a member of Hamass political bureau. Photo 2: Al-Sharif in [----] alongside senior Hamas" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1954838164800966706) 2025-08-11T09:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Wearing a PRESS jacket does not in itself confer journalistic credibility. Multiple sources including Israeli intelligence have linked Anas al-Sharif to the terrorist Hamas organisation. Israeli intelligence assessments state that al-Sharif previously headed a Hamas cell and participated in rocket attacks against Israel. Publicly available photographs indicate repeated personally intimate contact with senior Hamas terrorist figures. Photo 1: Al-Sharif early in his career pictured with Fathi Hammad a member of Hamass political bureau. Photo 2: Al-Sharif in [----] alongside senior Hamas" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1954838761671438405) 2025-08-11T09:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@AgentP22 Sh cant have it both ways gender is an internal immutable truth and thus people self-identify but an external force should decide and arbitrate who forfeits said internal self identifying truth. Shes intellectually bankrupt Nicola Sturgeon once dismissed concerns about self-ID as not valid. Now she says some rapists can forfeit their chosen gender. Its more than hypocrisyits the collapse of her entire ideology. Read & subscribe for free👇 https://t.co/r6a5zNSjTM #Sturgeon #SelfID #WomensRights https://t.co/3uOXmgWTD8 Nicola Sturgeon once dismissed concerns about self-ID as not" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1954921074099167452) 2025-08-11T15:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "We are treated to a selective application of ontologytreating gender as an immutable fact in most circumstances but as a revocable privilege in othersundermining the theoretical framework which Ms Sturgeon polarised a nation over 📖Read & Subscribe👇 https://open.substack.com/pub/deanmthomson/p/the-intellectual-collapse-of-nicolar=je6w3&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/deanmthomson/p/the-intellectual-collapse-of-nicolar=je6w3&utm_medium=ios" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1954927988018905107) 2025-08-11T15:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@DalgetySusan No Ill prefer reading Robert Louis Stephenson on the plane I reckon. Sturgeons dirge will be free in six months from any good charity shop" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1955185734685450397) 2025-08-12T08:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Frankly I am disinclined to believe Ms Sturgeon's explanation of events. "So @NicolaSturgeon was there a conspiracy to jail Alex Salmond" "No that's an absurd claim." "So the whole incident was free of any bias" "No the committee members investigating the handling of complaints were taking direction from Salmond. They were all out to get me." "So @NicolaSturgeon was there a conspiracy to jail Alex Salmond" "No that's an absurd claim." "So the whole incident was free of any bias" "No the committee members investigating the handling of complaints were taking direction from Salmond. They were" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1955211862103986272) 2025-08-12T10:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Nicola Sturgeon writes in Frankly about when @jk_rowling wore her Nicola Sturgeon destroyer of human rights t-shirt: It resulted in more abuse of a much more vile nature than I had ever encountered before. It made me feel less safe and more at risk of possible physical harm. The sheer lack of introspection from the erstwhile FM is breathtaking. This from Ms not valid who branded gender critical women as bigots and transphobes I wonder how safe the vulnerable women felt at the prospect of Isla Bryson - the male rapist - self-IDing into their prison" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1955233660140974445) 2025-08-12T11:43Z [----] followers, 58.6K engagements "There shouldn't be a 'case by case basis' for letting biologically male rapists into female prisons Kat.🤦♂ @DeanMThomson @jk_rowling You are bigots and transphobes You cannot self ID into a prison it is a case by case basis on which you would be at risk being in a mens prison @DeanMThomson @jk_rowling You are bigots and transphobes You cannot self ID into a prison it is a case by case basis on which you would be at risk being in a mens prison" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1955578547776487613) 2025-08-13T10:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This reporting is so wildly inaccurate misleading and distorting of the actuate that I've officially submitted a complaint to their press regulator. Absolutely disgraceful. I'll be publishing a breakdown of the @ScotNational's journalistic malpractice shortly on my Substack BREAKING: Scottish Government revenue is growing faster than spending new 'GERS' figures show It comes despite a fall in income from North Sea oil which is putting pressure on the public finances said Finance Secretary Shona Robison https://t.co/gInGs3uEMQ BREAKING: Scottish Government revenue is growing faster than" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1955588617776369720) 2025-08-13T11:13Z [----] followers, 30.5K engagements "Imagine being lied to by a national newspaper and just 'lolz'ing it all away Any serious independence supporter should be outraged by @ScotNational's statistical manipulation. Building support for independence on false premises about Scotland's fiscal position is: Intellectually dishonest Strategically counterproductive Ultimately self-defeating When the fiscal reality eventually becomes undeniable the independence cause will suffer far more damage than if supporters had confronted uncomfortable truths from the beginning. Lolz. Dean hates Scotland. Imagine being like this. Lolz. Dean hates" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1955630207341109352) 2025-08-13T13:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "At Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University I lecture in logical syllogism to undergraduate studentsbasically it offers a structured way to examine arguments and determine if conclusions logically follow from premises. For example: Major Premise: All men (A) are mortal (B). Minor Premise: Socrates is a man (C). Conclusion: Therefore Socrates (C) is mortal (B). Another way of thinking about it: If all As (men) are Bs (mortal) and all Cs (Socrates) are As (men) therefore: all Cs (Socrates) are also Bs (mortal). Applied to media analysis it helps distinguish between accidental errors and" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1955638787272228934) 2025-08-13T14:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A 5'2" woman and a book stands before the walled city of Scotlands cultural citadel and they crumble And somewhere across centuries the voice of Homer warns: Troy has viewd her walls thrice circled and her chief pursued. Who'd have thought the bourgeois bastions of our cultural elites prove so fragile" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1955641712686100714) 2025-08-13T14:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "David is not the only person to have been told this series of events. Luckily I remember exactly how @NicolaSturgeon is alleged to have reacted when Police Scotland arrived at her house to arrest her husband. I'm told she went ballistic screaming "Do you know who I am" etc. Three words from a police officer shut her up: "Ma'am body cam." Luckily I remember exactly how @NicolaSturgeon is alleged to have reacted when Police Scotland arrived at her house to arrest her husband. I'm told she went ballistic screaming "Do you know who I am" etc. Three words from a police officer shut her up: "Ma'am" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1955924010161856770) 2025-08-14T09:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A highly misleading statement from a former MSP: ➡ GERS are not Scottish Government figures they only publish them This is false. GERS is produced by Scottish Government statisticians in the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser of the Scottish Government with the Scottish Governments chief statistician taking overall responsibility for the publication. It is designated as a National Statistics product which means it is produced independently of Scottish Ministers and has been assessed by the UK Statistics Authority as being produced in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics. The" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1955932511172792365) 2025-08-14T10:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The so-called 'journalist' Israel took out was a hostage taker. Bet all the Palestine luuvvie journos won't issue apologies or clarifications for their shoddy reporting. @EYakoby I am [--] of those hostages I was held by him @EYakoby I am [--] of those hostages I was held by him" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1956674418580562182) 2025-08-16T11:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@BjCruickshank I did I sent you the news article you complained about a paywall so I have you a copy from behind the paywall. You're disinclination to accept evidences when its placed in front of you is not my issue" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1956844019071463581) 2025-08-16T22:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@johnmcternan https://x.com/deanmthomson/status/1957415149096022247 Rent controls never ever work. For one thing it reduces supply as developers build fewer rental units if future rents are capped. Further existing landlords convert rentals into condos or leave units vacant. Not forgetting rent controls causes misallocation as some households https://x.com/deanmthomson/status/1957415149096022247 Rent controls never ever work. For one thing it reduces supply as developers build fewer rental units if future rents are capped. Further existing landlords convert rentals into condos or leave units" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1957415856754823636) 2025-08-18T12:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@johnmcternan All the academic research cited is wrong because Your ideology requires it You have alternative data to alter perceptions" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1957418612253147496) 2025-08-18T12:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Made it half way Dubai waiting for the next flight. So far this journey Ive rewatched Casablanca Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Next flight maybe Ill try that Trump film Apprentice never seen it before but it won awards" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1957562922689007940) 2025-08-18T21:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The SNP's accounts also show a deficit of [------] for [----]. And membership income has collapsed from from [-------] to just [-------] in a single year. Still no sign of that 'ring fenced' indyref fund of over [------] "woven through" @theSNP's accounts either. SNP membership income equates to nearly [--] times the total for all other parties combined. https://t.co/ftPNvyg11L SNP membership income equates to nearly [--] times the total for all other parties combined. https://t.co/ftPNvyg11L" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1959266266180440122) 2025-08-23T14:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@GMacdonaldSNP The SNP's accounts also show a deficit of [------] for [----]. And membership income has collapsed from from [-------] to just [-------] in a single year. Still no sign of that 'ring fenced' indyref fund of over [------] "woven through" @theSNP's accounts either" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1959266392127275224) 2025-08-23T14:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@ScotExpress https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1959520342252343589 Nice of @ScotExpress to finally catch-up to my SNP Gupta reporting. only a few years late. ➡Nov [--] [----] for @Think_Scotland: https://t.co/RpwXCdiT4p And for my Substack: ➡SNP-GUPTA FILES #3: GFG INVOICES USED IN GREENSILL LOAN RAISE CONCERNS https://t.co/biwe6iVDT1 https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1959520342252343589 Nice of @ScotExpress to finally catch-up to my SNP Gupta reporting. only a few years late. ➡Nov [--] [----] for @Think_Scotland: https://t.co/RpwXCdiT4p And for my Substack: ➡SNP-GUPTA FILES #3: GFG INVOICES USED IN" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1959522455980040604) 2025-08-24T07:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@GeorgeFoulkes @theSNP @ScottishLabour Some of us have been writing about this (and sat down with Willie Rennie about it for discussion) years ago https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1959520342252343589 Nice of @ScotExpress to finally catch-up to my SNP Gupta reporting. only a few years late. ➡Nov [--] [----] for @Think_Scotland: https://t.co/RpwXCdiT4p And for my Substack: ➡SNP-GUPTA FILES #3: GFG INVOICES USED IN GREENSILL LOAN RAISE CONCERNS https://t.co/biwe6iVDT1 https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1959520342252343589 Nice of @ScotExpress to finally catch-up to my SNP Gupta reporting. only a few" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1959572682045096105) 2025-08-24T11:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "If this prediction turns out to be true before the next general election Nigel Farage will become Prime Minister. Basically highly credible economists are saying this is a Callaghan pre-1979 moment. My God the IMF again. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/23/rachel-reeves-britain-debt-bailout-1970s-imf-economy/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/23/rachel-reeves-britain-debt-bailout-1970s-imf-economy/" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1959574279047315765) 2025-08-24T11:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "It's the terminal end point of so many small c conservative traditions I love. Farage would represent a revolutionary populist moment which I shall never sign up to. I'm committed to the untrammelled tradition of Judge Fortescue via Bishop Almer Burke Disraeli tradition. It's dying now on the alter of populism. Unspeakably tragic" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1959579266892661240) 2025-08-24T11:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "As First Minister Nicola Sturgeon imposed higher income tax rates on Scottish households. She now claims ignorance over the allegedly missing Indyref funds. Yet she was savvy enough to set up Nicola Sturgeon Ltd to channel her non-MSP earningsincluding the [------] advance for her memoir Frankly. By taking a [-----] payment as a dividend she ensured it wasnt subject to the same higher tax rates she had imposed on everyone else" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1961366842154652001) 2025-08-29T09:54Z [----] followers, 36.5K engagements "Starmer attacks Met after Father Ted creator arrested over trans posts Youre the PM the police simply enforce the laws which Parliament passes - how about our PM changes the laws which compel the bobbies on beat to make these absurd arrests https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/02/graham-linehan-claims-he-was-arrested-for-tweets-heathrow/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/02/graham-linehan-claims-he-was-arrested-for-tweets-heathrow/" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1963032337496866836) 2025-09-03T00:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Scorching hot day here at Beijing Normal Hong Kong Baptist University. Agenda: delivering a two hour lecture on identities. Ancestry language and citizenship. Who loves a Venn diagram I do 😬" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1963103107556233437) 2025-09-03T04:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Angela Rayner declared in [----] that tax avoidance is damaging our country and explained she preferred to concentrate on evasion. Yet she seems to have learned the ropes herselfmanaging to pay just [-----] in stamp duty on a second home instead of the [-----] due #hypocrisy" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1963378669545726349) 2025-09-03T23:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The unelected Parliament at the behest of a military junta in Burkina Faso has prohibited homosexuality. Theres a word for this: barbarism. This military junta and its acolytes are barbarians ruining a proud African country. For shame. https://share.google/vTIiBj2Hmqxidq4EI https://share.google/vTIiBj2Hmqxidq4EI" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1963395571026375012) 2025-09-04T00:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Just caught up on PMQs and have to admit No [--] must be ecstatic with that. The opposition in Parliament - across the board - totally fumbled the Angela Rayner situation. If Farage is away in the USA nobody else has the ability to land the ball into an open goal" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1963396190592176279) 2025-09-04T00:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Forgive an uncharacteristic outburst but this Reform sing-along grotesquery offends me so deeply Im shaking with rage. Im only [--]. Yet I grew up in a Scotland where politics still felt like it mattered like it was run by adults who carried responsibility on their shoulders. Brown. Cook. Darling. Dewar. My uncle Ian Davidson I was never prouder than when he voted as chairman of the Scotland committee against the Iraq War. Even on the right Rifkind a truely serious man who took politics as a serious matter. Whatever their faults they treated politics as the lifeblood of a nation not as a" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1964238386379751669) 2025-09-06T08:04Z [----] followers, 18.6K engagements "European countries are de-risking from the United States. An example is the new European push to recover their gold reserves from the USA. About 37% of German reserves are stored in the U.S. Roughly 43% of Italian gold remains in Federal Reserve vaults. Both want it back" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1964995858250023144) 2025-09-08T10:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The dynasty of [----] years descended from the Goddess Amaterasu has only [--] heirs alive on earth: [--]. Crown Prince Fumihito (Akishino) [--] Younger brother of Emperor Naruhito [--]. Prince Hisahito of Akishino [--] [--]. Prince Masahito Prince Hitachi [--] Hisahito must produce a male heir The first coming of age ceremony of the Imperial Japanese Dynasty of Yamato for [--] years. It could unless the young [--] year old Prince produces a male heir become the last. A country faced with rapid demographical ageing faces the last heir of a dynasty https://t.co/C2ZEISvMlk The first coming of age ceremony of the" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1965066441667018819) 2025-09-08T14:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order. Prince Klemens von Metternich Chancellor of Austria. The silhouetted remains of the High Court Banksy are much more likeable than the original - creating a curiously medieval quality.as if depicting Thomas a Becket being attacked in the crypt https://t.co/wzfioU1CHb The silhouetted remains of the High Court Banksy are much more likeable than the original - creating a curiously medieval quality.as if" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1965749751338688688) 2025-09-10T12:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "50% of U.S. soybeans are exported & China represents 25% of total demand. This year China has placed [--] orders. US soybean agriculture now in crisis. This is what I mean when I say placing a tax (tariff) on imports means placing a tax on your own exports https://share.google/emuaLQoJ29gjLzR1N https://share.google/emuaLQoJ29gjLzR1N" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1965924427272695896) 2025-09-10T23:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Without knowing anything about the shooter this is how MAGA influencers politicians and journalists are reacting. Its impossible to avoid the conclusion these folk want a civil war" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1966319496358146188) 2025-09-12T01:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Oxford Union president George Abaraonye who debated Charlie Kirk celebrates his murder. Simply appalling behaviour bringing the Oxford Union into disrepute grounds enough surely to merit his removal from post. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/11/oxford-union-president-george-abaraonye-charlie-kirk-murder/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/11/oxford-union-president-george-abaraonye-charlie-kirk-murder/" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1966435845491277995) 2025-09-12T09:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Just submitted an article for Think Scotland outlining more details on the SNP-Gupta fiasco. Here's a teaser: a group of Credit Suisse bankers - it turns out - did better diligence work than the entirety of the Scottish Government and civil service. Quite the scandal afoot" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1966719700702032123) 2025-09-13T04:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements ""The word freedom means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order." -Prince Metternich Democracy depends on debate. Never give into the men of violence Mrs. Erika Kirk Addresses The Nation After Her Husbands Assassination @TPUSA @MrsErikaKirk https://t.co/55Gvxtbc7G Mrs. Erika Kirk Addresses The Nation After Her Husbands Assassination @TPUSA @MrsErikaKirk https://t.co/55Gvxtbc7G" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1966776427124072945) 2025-09-13T08:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@charliekirk11 @TPUSA @MrsErikaKirk "The word freedom means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order." -Prince Metternich Democracy depends on debate. Never give into the men of violence" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1966776627548799080) 2025-09-13T08:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Bob Vylan who regularly calls for the deaths of IDF soldiers mocks Charlie Kirks assassination. What a vile man. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/09/14/bob-vylan-inciting-pogrom-amsterdam-charlie-kirk-idf/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/09/14/bob-vylan-inciting-pogrom-amsterdam-charlie-kirk-idf/" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1967363495567278383) 2025-09-14T23:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "3/ By Dec [----] SNP minister Ivan McKee admitted in Holyrood: We are advised there is one specific part of the contract that may not comply with state aid rules. Translation: taxpayers could be on the hook for clean-up costs running to tens of millions" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1969346935237624194) 2025-09-20T10:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "4/ FOI requests later revealed [------] already spent on legal advice. The SNP still refuses to release those legal opinions. The real democratic deficit may not be at Westminster but right here in Edinburgh 'SNP DISH OUT [------] OF TAXPAYERS MONEY TO LAWYERS' 🔗 https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/snp-dish-out-160813-of-taxpayersutm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/snp-dish-out-160813-of-taxpayersutm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1969346940220686565) 2025-09-20T10:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "8/ Worse still Greensills loans to Gupta were allegedly backed by fake invoices. The FT found multiple European companies named on GFG invoices who flatly denied ever doing business with him. Credit Suisse missed it. SNP ministers didnt bother to look. 'SNP-GUPTA FILES #3: GFG INVOICES USED IN GREENSILL LOAN RAISE CONCERNS' 🔗 https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/snp-gupta-files-3-gfg-invoices-usedutm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/snp-gupta-files-3-gfg-invoices-usedutm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1969346960189768094) 2025-09-20T10:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "9/ Credit Suisse bankers smelled fraud. They hired investigators who concluded Guptas trades were simply fake. Yet the Scottish Government doubled down throwing public money at him including a 7m loan from Scottish Enterprise" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1969346964614422723) 2025-09-20T10:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I had desired it with an ardor that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished the beauty of the dream vanished and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Dr. Frankensteins reaction to his own creation in Mary Shelleys [----] novel i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1969904626708500586) 2025-09-21T23:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It takes a particularly ancient pathology to blame Jews for Charlie Kirks murder the oldest hatred of them all. The anti-Semitism of Tucker Carlson on full display. Displaceable stuff from Putins puppet" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1970014722276909295) 2025-09-22T06:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Netanyahu has inflicted lasting damage on Israel. Netanyahus planned U.N. speech is being overshadowed by European moves to isolate Israel with the U.K. as well as Canada and Australia recognizing a Palestinian state and more to come as well as an upcoming EU vote on sanctions. @LahavHarkov reports: https://t.co/tD1iwbaBWk Netanyahus planned U.N. speech is being overshadowed by European moves to isolate Israel with the U.K. as well as Canada and Australia recognizing a Palestinian state and more to come as well as an upcoming EU vote on sanctions. @LahavHarkov reports: https://t.co/tD1iwbaBWk" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1970020477126254994) 2025-09-22T07:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "MAGA = Let's make the Argentine peso great again Meanwhile midwest farmers have lost ALL of their soyabean sales to China this growing season after Beijing - correctly - purchased '0' due to the tariff trade war. Is this what MAGA means Who wants that These options may include but are not limited to swap lines direct currency purchases and purchases of U.S. dollar-denominated government debt from Treasurys Exchange Stabilization Fund. Opportunities for private investment remain expansive and Argentina will be Great These options may include but are not limited to swap lines direct currency" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1970116539744747860) 2025-09-22T13:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I thought 'MAGA' insisted they were elected to oppose censorship First amendment in the USA is for everyone even those you oppose who insist on posting tasteless takes. BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. https://t.co/Uj8lQEdXo5 https://t.co/CcbM4eGpYM BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1970984548977790979) 2025-09-24T22:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Labour needs to listen women were and are the backbone of the Scottish and wider Labour movement. People like Mary Barbour of Govan who organised the [----] rent strike among legion who made the party what it is. Labour MUST respect women's fundamental rights. The view from the back of the room #LabourConference2025 Stonewall event . .Labour Women's Declaration event https://t.co/BvpdfxSvt5 The view from the back of the room #LabourConference2025 Stonewall event . .Labour Women's Declaration event https://t.co/BvpdfxSvt5" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1972625222554783821) 2025-09-29T11:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "EA games is now bought over by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund - led by journalist murdering Crown Prince Salman and also private equity firm Silverlake and Affinity Equity Partner - run by Jared Kushner (who was given 7bn after he left the Trump WH by Saudi Arabia)" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1973210267166363949) 2025-10-01T02:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Home secretary is 100% correct to demand the cancellation of pro-Palestine marches. The terrorist attack on the synagogue underscores the rampant anti-Semitic hatred these marches are stirring up. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/10/03/cancel-pro-palestine-marches-home-secretary-demands/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/10/03/cancel-pro-palestine-marches-home-secretary-demands/" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1974115944625820068) 2025-10-03T14:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@ArmstrongT97969 Good man it's horrible that this is all happening. Honest people need to make a stand" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1975478510379819019) 2025-10-07T08:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "White House imagined on liberation day that China would buckle to US trade war pressure. The EU UK might have but China wasnt ever going to. Now US fragmented China policy is meeting a coherent Beijing strategy. Soybean farmers woes is just the start. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/11/chinas-rare-earth-gambit-reveals-the-next-phase-of-its-economic-warfare-00602692 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/11/chinas-rare-earth-gambit-reveals-the-next-phase-of-its-economic-warfare-00602692" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1977515172450504909) 2025-10-12T23:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The reality of Hamas rule in Palestine. Hamas carries out public executions just hours after signing peace treaty with Israel https://t.co/wxZSLgmm97 https://t.co/XFM6LvSfsN Hamas carries out public executions just hours after signing peace treaty with Israel https://t.co/wxZSLgmm97 https://t.co/XFM6LvSfsN" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1978228571035345351) 2025-10-14T22:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Some facts on this interminable 'free tuition' nonsense: [--]. ScotGov controls tuition costs in two ways: control of per-student funding and restricting funded places. [--]. Majority of funding is via main teaching grant which was worth around [----] per student in [------]. Universities also charge Scottish students a notional tuition fee paid by the Scottish Government on their behalf. BUT: this has been frozen in cash terms at [----] per year since [------]. [--]. Therefore Scottish universities received direct public funding of [----] for each Scottish student in [----] meaning it was around 19% LESS IN REAL" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1978409929141588395) 2025-10-15T10:37Z [----] followers, 17.9K engagements "@DavidGSwaim1 @JohnCleese Tariffs are paid by Americans not the citizens of the countries they are levied against" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1978677023850610961) 2025-10-16T04:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Tariffs are paid by Americans not the citizens of the countries they are levied against So if the USA imposes a 20% tariff on the EU Americans pay the passed over costs as American businesses pass the cost over onto the products etc American purchase. Europeans dont pay. @JohnCleese Tariffs John @JohnCleese Tariffs John" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1978677411358077099) 2025-10-16T04:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Swinney is ditching the Sturgeon era anti-oil & gas exploration and development. Hes indicating that future coalition arrangements with the Scottish Green party is off the table under his leadership. Swinney: oil and gas exploration and development is a matter for Westminster" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1979114494954549700) 2025-10-17T09:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "#UKIP leader #NigelFarage declares himself a Commoner. He's expensively educated stockbroker son of a stockbroker. #UKIP lies strike again" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/569772902918332416) 2015-02-23T08:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "#UKIP leader #NigelFarage abandons another immigration policy. He really is making it all up as he goes along #GE2015" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/573368349050204160) 2015-03-05T06:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Sturgeon doubling down on negativity: gambling Brexit Britain could seem less 'safe' than separation. She'll fail. https://x.com/pgharkness/status/777396001661456385 https://x.com/pgharkness/status/777396001661456385" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/777759353717661696) 2016-09-19T06:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "So Keir Starmer's position isn't to deliver best value for money for the UK taxpayer Another example of why Labour cannot be trusted with the economy. They fail to see tax money as the people's not the governments to fritter away on grandstanding & populist measures. https://x.com/iainmartin1/status/977846563035901953 Shark jumped. Keir Starmer joins blue passport madness. Says must be made in UK not France. By company making passports for [--] countries https://x.com/iainmartin1/status/977846563035901953 Shark jumped. Keir Starmer joins blue passport madness. Says must be made in UK not" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/977847342899511296) 2018-03-25T09:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "So.Saudi Arabia is less anti-semitic than @UKLabour under @jeremycorbyn" [X Link](https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/981295572639399936) 2018-04-03T22:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @angieca26314731 @lucyhunterb @krishgm @dalgetysusan @martinthejag @gracebrod1e @wickedhighland @channel4news @nicolasturgeon @jkrowling @scotnationals @johnmcternan @thesnps @scotexpress @thinkscotland @tpusa @mrserikakirk @johncleese @jruddy99 @commonwealangus
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"Who would send their kid to Eton college Since 2010: housemaster Matthew Mowbray was jailed for a series of sexual offences on students. David Goode an organist and music teacher was discovered using a school issued laptop for indecent images of children. Classics teacher Ian McAuslan guilty of making & possessing indecent images of children. Now Jacob Leland done for sexually abusing a pupil. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017838174991749250 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017838174991749250"
X Link 2026-02-01T05:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Equality Act protects the characteristic of "sex" as meaning biological sex. We know know this excludes gender identity. Why is this beyond the understanding of the Scottish Government Scottish govt says it accepts Supreme Court ruling on sex but "if the answer to this case was considered to lie in that decision the Scottish ministers would have applied it. We are here because the answer is not considered to lie in that decision. https://t.co/gYJNmbpxcj Scottish govt says it accepts Supreme Court ruling on sex but "if the answer to this case was considered to lie in that decision the"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A trip to Disneyland was viewed as appropriate payoff in the mind of Nicola Sturgeon. Fury as Nicola Sturgeon's chief nurse wanted to pay off QEUH families with 'a trip to Disneyland' https://t.co/4b0fPqZo0q Fury as Nicola Sturgeon's chief nurse wanted to pay off QEUH families with 'a trip to Disneyland' https://t.co/4b0fPqZo0q"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Holyrood trailblazed the lost phone messages strategy. Ready for a rerun of Leslie Evans 'I shredded my notes as they were private' routine BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer his ministers and advisers will be forced to disclose all their communications with Lord Mandelson - including WhatsApp messages and emails - as part of a mass disclosure of evidence The Conservative party's "humble address" - a parliamentary BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer his ministers and advisers will be forced to disclose all their communications with Lord Mandelson - including WhatsApp messages and emails - as part of a mass"
X Link 2026-02-05T15:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Scotland's needs: Hospitals working for public good as opposed to political pressure Tax cuts on working & middle class families A Scots Govt recognising GDP growth Prioritising hospitality not tax hikes Pro-north sea not 'Green' mimicry as Green laird profiteer"
X Link 2026-02-05T15:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If the far left - especially under Rayner - takes over labour the party deserves to be finished. At that point even Id need to consider my options. Theres a limit. Mandelson saga is not good for Wes Streeting. Angela Rayners chances of becoming our next prime minister are much improved. Mandelson saga is not good for Wes Streeting. Angela Rayners chances of becoming our next prime minister are much improved"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Swinney complimented Mandelson. Perhaps the SNP will cease using this as a political distraction from their abandonment on womens sex based rights John Swinney's horror at all things Mandelson at FMQs in contrast to his gratitude just a year ago. 'First Minister closed again in thanking Lord Mandelson for taking the initiative to understand Scotlands interests.' https://t.co/t7ZebsV2Yu https://t.co/k9GknsvvU1 John Swinney's horror at all things Mandelson at FMQs in contrast to his gratitude just a year ago. 'First Minister closed again in thanking Lord Mandelson for taking the initiative to"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The real scandal is not that Scotlands government wants more money. It is that virtually no scrutiny is applied to how effectively existing resources are being deployed. Scotland's NHS: 3% more funding 8% less care delivered. Scotland's schools: 20% higher spending 70-point PISA collapse More money. Worse results. Systemic failure. The SNP should prove competence before demanding higher taxes. 🔗https://t.co/9b7ANUxnny https://t.co/J34gq9cmmH Scotland's NHS: 3% more funding 8% less care delivered. Scotland's schools: 20% higher spending 70-point PISA collapse More money. Worse results."
X Link 2026-02-07T13:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Heres a parallel: Starmer finds himself at the same point as Boris Johnson did when Tory MPs voted for a motion on a standards investigation on Boris to go forward. Keir Starmer Rachel Reeves Morgan McSweeneys political fates are now all tied together. One goes all go"
X Link 2026-02-08T05:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@LucyHunterB @rattlecans Will do I am planning to tag @DalgetySusan anyway when last in Scotland I told her about my book over a lunch at an accidents restaurant choice in Edinburgh 😅 (we have thought it was a different restaurant still very nice)"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Morgan McSweeney has resigned. Mark my tweet from [--] hours ago. One goes but two others are unavoidably connected: Starmer and Reeves. Time for Wes Streeting to get his act together. If the far left candidate takes over may as well throw in the towel. Heres a parallel: Starmer finds himself at the same point as Boris Johnson did when Tory MPs voted for a motion on a standards investigation on Boris to go forward. Keir Starmer Rachel Reeves Morgan McSweeneys political fates are now all tied together. One goes all go. Heres a parallel: Starmer finds himself at the same point as Boris Johnson did"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AngieCa26314731 Then who is the candidate to oppose Rayner"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@martinthejag @AngieCa26314731 Rayner is in left candidate. Wes Streeting oursproblem is polling Ive seen isnt optimistic. If Starmer had a MODICUM of political sense hed have waited for next revelation to drop McSweeney to buy Streeting and the adult wing time"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Rayner is in left candidate. Wes Streeting oursproblem is polling Ive seen isnt optimistic. If Starmer had a MODICUM of political sense hed have waited for next revelation to drop McSweeney to buy Streeting and the adult wing time. Lord help us"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Holyrood needs more MSPs and a committee system with members enjoying full immunity. That would create a backbench culture breaking whips in Edinburgh. Prof McCorkindale suggested this could all happen years ago. Could happen tomorrow. Source: McCorkindale University of Strathclyde: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/58337/1/McCorkindale_KLJ2016_Scotland_and_Brexit_the_state_of_the_Union.pdf https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/58337/1/McCorkindale_KLJ2016_Scotland_and_Brexit_the_state_of_the_Union.pdf"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""Would you consider a pardon or commutation for Ghislaine Maxwell" "It's something I haven't thought about. I'm allowed to do it" Didn't GOP Chair of House Oversight James Comer (R-Ky) just set a precent when he called former Pres. Clinton to his committee Trump responds to questions about a possible Ghislaine Maxwell pardon: "I'm allowed to do it." https://t.co/6ISYSRf29k Trump responds to questions about a possible Ghislaine Maxwell pardon: "I'm allowed to do it." https://t.co/6ISYSRf29k"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Director of communications Tim Allan has resigned. He was only brought into No [--] months ago. Thats Morgan McSweeney and now Tim Allan"
X Link 2026-02-09T11:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Sir Chris Wormald the Cabinet Secretary is now negotiating his own departure. This comes as Morgan McSweeney and Tim Allan have resigned. Interestingly I understand that Scottish Labour MPs were privately calling for Mr Streeting to stand against Sir Keir before May to avoid a wipeout in the Holyrood election. Yet now some of those names appear to have bottled it in public and declined to back Anas Sarwars call for Starmer to resign. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020995156154122269 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020995156154122269"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@gracebrod1e Every man has a breaking point Starmer is so historically unpopular that hes the man who cant afford to catch a cold"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Have a heart David Lammy has waited [--] years to have a chauffeur-driven car. 'We've waited [--] years to get here no.' WATCH: GB News Political Editor @ChristopherHope asks David Lammy if it is time for Sir Keir Starmer to go. https://t.co/EqknVorAjC 'We've waited [--] years to get here no.' WATCH: GB News Political Editor @ChristopherHope asks David Lammy if it is time for Sir Keir Starmer to go. https://t.co/EqknVorAjC"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Wickedhighland I'm happy it worked this well from Hong Kong for my video copy tbh"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The question isnt whether Douglas Alexander can run a Holyrood campaign while defending a failing Prime Ministerits whether Scottish Labour can survive being chained to Westminsters sinking ship. And while this Westminster psychodrama consumes all oxygen the SNP skates free: 36k pub rate hikes [---] closures NHS funding up 3% with care down 8% education spending up 20% with PISA scores cratering [--] points. Sarwar should be hammering these failures daily. Instead hes managing the fallout from a Prime Minister who wont accept reality. Starmer must resignnot for Labour for Scotland. Every day he"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It very much is 'last role of the dice' Sarwar will likely lose his job if Scottish Labour finish a poor 3rd. Why shouldn't he take aim at the man chiefly responsible (Starmer) @DeanMThomson Looks like a last roll of the dice. An issue he will have is the people who do not like starmer in Scotland (ergo the people hes trying to woo) dont like him for the same reasons. I felt the speech was also very poor. Very self-centred and without any real conviction. @DeanMThomson Looks like a last roll of the dice. An issue he will have is the people who do not like starmer in Scotland (ergo the people"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Keir Starmer must resign. Not just for Labourfor Scotland. Starmer's leadership isnt just destroying his own majorityits poisoning Scottish Labours one real chance at Holyrood. Sarwar has done the work: now Starmers toxicity threatens to drag him down anyway. On GBNews: Starmer took a big majority squandered it. Burnt through [--] minister every [--] weeks in first [--] months as PM. Sarwar's had the courage to say publicly what many only say privately on Whatsapp. https://t.co/2TW3Kw1PpS On GBNews: Starmer took a big majority squandered it. Burnt through [--] minister every [--] weeks in first [--] months"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"True it takes focus off Bute House but I struggle to see how this hurts Sarwar ultimately. No stability comes from a weak PM. Sarwar's stance raises his profile in Scotland feeds into the 'standing up for Scotland' narrative many voters instinctively prefer. Besides he's at the courage to say publicly what many only whisper privately on whatsapp messages. Sarwar can politically outlive Starmer. @DeanMThomson Sure but now it becomes an election issue. Every MSP candidate is asked should Starmer stay or go. Takes the focus off Bute House. @DeanMThomson Sure but now it becomes an election issue."
X Link 2026-02-11T19:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Guess justice for the abused girls will need to wait Attorney General Bondi insists the S&P and Dow is performing too well do bring the Epstein class to justice. Pam Bondi LOSES HER MIND when asked why she has not indicted any of Jeffrey Epsteins clients. The Dow is over 50k right now the Nasdaq smashing records thats what we should be talking about https://t.co/88SpUdGbpK Pam Bondi LOSES HER MIND when asked why she has not indicted any of Jeffrey Epsteins clients. The Dow is over 50k right now the Nasdaq smashing records thats what we should be talking about https://t.co/88SpUdGbpK"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Republican rep. Massie (R-KY) engages in a heated (furious) clash with Trump AG Pam Bondi. Accuses of her being responsible for this leg of a decades long coverup of a pedophile network. Rarely see this level of GOP v GOP in public with Trumps admin https://youtu.be/vgiW06lZrvcsi=CO9REkYM8e0F7GJj https://youtu.be/vgiW06lZrvcsi=CO9REkYM8e0F7GJj"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Useful tool via @OpentoDebateOrg @CFR_org debate: U.S. Presence in Greenland: Necessary or Not Respectful academic & accessible. @JohnDonvan masterclass of polite informative debate via skilled hosting. My students at uni can benefit from this. https://youtu.be/P-Cw-PSQjDksi=LjIhtiDTQIRD4vpL https://youtu.be/P-Cw-PSQjDksi=LjIhtiDTQIRD4vpL"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"His Majesty's Governmental Chief Mouser celebrates [--] years in office. Larry is the longest ever serving Number [--] Chief Mouser. https://www.itv.com/news/2026-02-14/larry-the-cat-to-celebrate-15-years-as-downing-streets-chief-mouser https://www.itv.com/news/2026-02-14/larry-the-cat-to-celebrate-15-years-as-downing-streets-chief-mouser"
X Link 2026-02-14T10:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A collection of post-liberals disinterested in serious politics. Too much Foucault with U.S. influenced identity politics. Scotland needs a Green Party that hasnt been making the laird class wealthy with taxpayer subsidised reforestation that they then privately profit from via carbon capture schemes. The Scottish Greens in Edinburgh want to defund the police. These people are crazy. https://t.co/os4mxgsrI9 The Scottish Greens in Edinburgh want to defund the police. These people are crazy. https://t.co/os4mxgsrI9"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Reform and SNP are both populist parties focusing their forward energy in an us vs them binary the comparison isnt unreasonable to reasonable minds. Likewise the collapse of a previously Labour dominated body politic (Wales [----] Scotland 2025). Fascist What @DeanMThomson Ah you're cheerleading for fascists. No surprise. @DeanMThomson Ah you're cheerleading for fascists. No surprise"
X Link 2026-02-14T13:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I bet he does. SNP cant attack him by forcing him to defend a weak PM. Defused the nat game plan. Anas Sarwar says he feels 'liberated' after calling on Keir Starmer to quit as Prime Minister. https://t.co/bbjP8YBwUT Anas Sarwar says he feels 'liberated' after calling on Keir Starmer to quit as Prime Minister. https://t.co/bbjP8YBwUT"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"You defend 'protest' Coming from an ex-director of the Scottish Islamic Foundationa group that brought Anas Al-Tikriti (whose foundation was later listed as terrorist) and Mohammad Sawalha (former Hamas commander) to Holyrood A tale of three people: Humza Yousaf a former Hamas Commander and the cousin who praises extremist preachers https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/humza-yousaf-the-former-hamas-commander Palestine Action should never have been proscribed a terrorist organisation. The Government tried to use counter-terror laws laws designed for terror groups like al-Qaeda against a protest"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Palestine Action is an anti-Semitic front and if this Labour government fails to fight to keep it on the proscribed list I'm truly done. Jews have a right to protections same as anyone else"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"When your brain is warped by Foucaults post-liberal b.s. that all knowledge is the result of ideology and power facts become subjective. They live in a post liberal post modern world. Its tragic for womens sex based rights and us gays who insist were same-SEX attracted. This is beyond a joke now https://t.co/6KT9IRB3Hg This is beyond a joke now https://t.co/6KT9IRB3Hg"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Excellent. Islamists jailed for life for plotting mass atrocity of Jews in Manchester https://t.co/WH7ikjtQW8 Islamists jailed for life for plotting mass atrocity of Jews in Manchester https://t.co/WH7ikjtQW8"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Antunes1 Guess justice for the abused girls will need to wait Attorney General Bondi insists the S&P and Dow is performing too well do bring the Epstein class to justice"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Is there an election coming up Looks like it the freebie policies are coming out. Btw- did everyone get their free laptops from last time 🚨Rail fares on ScotRail services are set to be frozen for the next year following a [---] million subsidy from the Scottish Government Read more: https://t.co/ho29JZAdq6 https://t.co/lt91PIVdCX 🚨Rail fares on ScotRail services are set to be frozen for the next year following a [---] million subsidy from the Scottish Government Read more: https://t.co/ho29JZAdq6 https://t.co/lt91PIVdCX"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The First Minister can run from the press but not the voters come May. First Minister John Swinney refuses to answer press questions about the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital : https://t.co/xMdjT6Dmoa First Minister John Swinney refuses to answer press questions about the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital : https://t.co/xMdjT6Dmoa"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I reckon theyll lose their [--] list MSPs and perhaps a couple of constituencies. The wild card is reform. Theyre so new there isnt enough poling data to properly chart out how theyll affect opposition parties. I saw numbers saying theyre currently collecting 31% of all [----] no voters so most out of all unionist parties. If they add more to that Id hate to underestimate their impact. [--] months ago I was totally underestimating how well theyd do in Scotland now I think they could be the official opposition in Holyrood. Labours a mess due to Starmer Tories have imploded (they squandered their time"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Not even half a million Little wonder Sturgeon never saw a thing. Who can blame her Nicola Sturgeons ex Peter Murrells EIGHT court charges REVEALED including 460K SNP embezzlement and falsifying docs https://t.co/ww1Kl0ne71 https://t.co/AFvxDT1Z6Q Nicola Sturgeons ex Peter Murrells EIGHT court charges REVEALED including 460K SNP embezzlement and falsifying docs https://t.co/ww1Kl0ne71 https://t.co/AFvxDT1Z6Q"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Pam Bondis testimony has only added to the Epstein firestorm. Doubt that will please her audience of one Donald J. Trump. BREAKING: Multiple Epstein victims tell NBC News that Pam Bondi intentionally un-redacted their names and other victims' names as a way to threaten them into silence I think we all realize now that the DOJ really wanted to silence us and they thought that they could https://t.co/c6zeiFFAvG BREAKING: Multiple Epstein victims tell NBC News that Pam Bondi intentionally un-redacted their names and other victims' names as a way to threaten them into silence I think we all"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Sturgeon being the shy retiring wallflower that she is never realised a thing you understand. Peter Murrells [------] SNP credit card spend revealed as court papers detail [--] shops including Harrods and Selfridges https://t.co/Vbx20j4Mum https://t.co/McJSIbFDQ7 Peter Murrells [------] SNP credit card spend revealed as court papers detail [--] shops including Harrods and Selfridges https://t.co/Vbx20j4Mum https://t.co/McJSIbFDQ7"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"RT @Neilsocialist: Shocked I am (not)"
X Link 2026-02-14T13:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Scotland's NHS: 3% more funding 8% less care delivered. Scotland's schools: 20% higher spending 70-point PISA collapse More money. Worse results. Systemic failure. The SNP should prove competence before demanding higher taxes. https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/more-money-worse-results https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/more-money-worse-results"
X Link 2026-02-07T06:00Z [----] followers, 12.9K engagements
"A small snippet from my book 'Scotland Undone: Nationalism Dogma and Decline in the Devolution Era' (out end of February) Sturgeon Isla Bryson and a performance without end"
X Link 2026-02-14T09:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If the SNP hierarchy believed his passing would put an end to these legal matters they will be rudely awoken"
X Link 2026-02-14T10:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Wales is about to have its equivalent of Scotlands GE2015 moment. 🏴New Senedd voting intention. Reform UK holds a 7-point lead over Plaid while Labour is in third. ➡ REF UK 31% (+29) 🌼 PLAID 24% (+4) 🌹 LAB 20% (20) 🌳 CON 13% (13) 🔶 LIB DEM 6% (+1) 🌍 GREEN 5% (+3) 30/1 - 10/2 N=806 (16+) changes w [----] constituency vote https://t.co/26og6qodTq 🏴New Senedd voting intention. Reform UK holds a 7-point lead over Plaid while Labour is in third. ➡ REF UK 31% (+29) 🌼 PLAID 24% (+4) 🌹 LAB 20% (20) 🌳 CON 13% (13) 🔶 LIB DEM 6% (+1) 🌍 GREEN 5% (+3) 30/1 - 10/2 N=806 (16+) changes w 2021"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"My policy on oil and gas Drill baby drill. Just as Tony Blair's foundation advocates. Anas Sarwar pours fuel on the Labour fire leaving only the Tories to stand up to the SNP https://t.co/WMaRtzfu0f Anas Sarwar pours fuel on the Labour fire leaving only the Tories to stand up to the SNP https://t.co/WMaRtzfu0f"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"True. Gordon Brown never profited from his position he is a decent man - regardless of the policy proscriptions his critics dispute. A fine man of integrity. I miss that sort of character honestly. And I dont mean this in a right left critique fashion. Gordon Brown has spent more time aiding the powerless than the powerful since he was PM which is why he is poorer than his peer PMs but a far better man. I think he is emerging now as a great man. Gordon Brown has spent more time aiding the powerless than the powerful since he was PM which is why he is poorer than his peer PMs but a far better"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"RT @LucyHunterB: The only thing that stops this is political leadership and its absence is becoming so damaging and the people involved b"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"During the tribunal barrister Naomi Cunningham put it plainly: This isnt about dignity. Its about one man forcing women to affirm himand removing single-sex facilities for all women. It was bullying. And the NHS condoned it. 11/"
X Link 2025-07-24T11:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Read and subscribe 👇 The Lanyard Class Came for Sandie Peggie #SandiePeggie #Scotland #GenderDebate #LanyardClass #SturgeonLegacy 17/17 https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/the-lanyard-class-came-for-sandie https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/the-lanyard-class-came-for-sandie"
X Link 2025-07-24T11:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The idea that Hamas should be entrusted with leading a 'transition' in Gaza is absurdthey are the architects of the current catastrophe. And the notion that peace hinges on pressuring Israel not to defeat the group that started this war Thats not diplomacy; its delusion. Honestly @krishgm is this performative naivety or just moral confusion Hamas want a permanent ceasefire to be able to transition to new Gaza leadership on their own terms. Israel want to be able to go back to destroying Hamas after getting the hostages back. The same impasse as ever so the killing and starvation goes on"
X Link 2025-07-24T18:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The 47th President of the United States holds the economic fate of key Scottish industries in the palm of his hand. Whether its whisky tourism or even film one wiggle of Trumps sharpie-pen can shift billions. The $100 Benjamins follows him wherever he goes. Counter-productive is if the First Minister puts his personal distaste ahead of the burdens of his office to protect our industries and jobs"
X Link 2025-07-26T09:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@pictureladyjan @RpsAgainstTrump That's the Fed chair 😅"
X Link 2025-07-26T17:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Identity politics that post-modern soup is comfortable for people of means as it permits them to be victims of society too. Whereas a traditional class based conceptualisation highlights that 'solidarity' is excluding those with means. University social sciences have begun to inculcate working and lower middle class folk into a mindset alongside those with means - all sharing the same bizarre jargonistic language (a calling card for them to all highlight to each other they're part of the 'in group'"
X Link 2025-07-27T11:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This escalating mess requires Scottish Government leadership. Alas the powers that be are silent as they are knee-deep in precipitating this current crisis in NHS Fife. Meanwhile public confidence continues to fall in both Fife NHS and public service institutions more broadly. Sandie Peggie inspires others to come forward and challenge NHS Fife as nurse faces 'racism' claim - https://t.co/eSRvgOibwy https://t.co/eSRvgOibwy Sandie Peggie inspires others to come forward and challenge NHS Fife as nurse faces 'racism' claim - https://t.co/eSRvgOibwy https://t.co/eSRvgOibwy"
X Link 2025-07-28T20:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@marcuscarslaw1 I remember the Glasgow Airport Rail Link (GARL) being a big policy promise as far back as Jack McConnel's time as First Minister I'm now [--] and long given up on seeing any meaningful investment of infrastructure around Glasgow. Only Edinburgh gets a look in these days"
X Link 2025-07-31T11:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Same sex marriage built on traditional conservative principles such as individual liberty personal responsibility limited government family values and social stability. The government should interfere as little as possible in the private lives of individuals is fundamentally conservative. Preventing same-sex couples from marrying involves the state in deeply personal decisions. Allowing same-sex marriage is consistent with the belief that individuals should be free to live their lives without undue government interference. To quote Barry Goldwater Government should not be in the business of"
X Link 2025-07-31T11:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Tell me you dont understand Anglo-American conservatism without telling me you dont understand Anglo-American conservatism Same sex marriage built on traditional conservative principles such as individual liberty personal responsibility limited government family values and social stability. The government should interfere as little as possible in the private lives of individuals is fundamentally conservative. Preventing same-sex couples from marrying involves the state in deeply personal decisions. Allowing same-sex marriage is consistent with the belief that individuals should be free to"
X Link 2025-07-31T11:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The church of Scotland insists that its right of religious conscience means they can and ought to marry same sex people. It's their deeply held religious conviction. Who are you to deny the Kirk its right of religious conscience and demean their faith by brandishing it 'virtue signalling' You do not have a monopoly of how other religious traditions define marriage"
X Link 2025-07-31T18:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@world_bucks77 No I live in Zhuhai it says I work for Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University"
X Link 2025-08-01T14:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Channel4News @krishgm Gove is entirely correct"
X Link 2025-08-01T16:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@AboodTamara21 @Channel4News @krishgm Hamas started a war with an attempted genocide. Israeli defensive operations (and this wider war) ends with the unconditional surrender of the throat-chopping terrorist Hamas regime alongside the release of all hostages. Palestinians should be demanding Hamas surrender"
X Link 2025-08-01T23:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"🧵THREAD: Scotlands Fiscal Black Hole SNP's Path To Fiscal Ruin With fingers in their ears and eyes on short-term polls successive SNP leaders ignored repeated warnings from Scotlands fiscal watchdog. Result A [---] billion budget black hole 1/ https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/not-listening-how-the-snp-ignored https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/not-listening-how-the-snp-ignored"
X Link 2025-08-02T19:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Since [----] the Scottish Fiscal Commission has warned about the risks of unfunded social security expansion. The SNP pressed ahead anywayprioritising populist giveaways over sustainable budgeting. 2/"
X Link 2025-08-02T19:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Ill comment on whatever I choose. You are not the arbiter of which academics from which universities get to participate in the civic life of their own country. And lets be honestyoud likely welcome it if a pro-indy pro-nationalist Hollywood luvvie weighed in. The hypocrisy is transparent and frankly unbecoming. One more thing: next time try commenting under your real name. Hiding behind a name like Flying the Saltire only underscores how unserious your contributions really are"
X Link 2025-08-03T14:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"David your governments ultimatum to Israelthreatening unilateral recognition of Palestinehas only incentivised Hamas to keep holding the hostages. So with respect spare me the pearl-clutching now that you're confronted with the brutal reality of their suffering which your morally bankrupt policy has helped prolong. The images of hostages being paraded for propaganda are sickening. Every hostage must be released unconditionally. Hamas must disarm and have no control over Gaza. We are working with partners on a long-term solution and plan for peace. This must begin with an immediate The images"
X Link 2025-08-03T15:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The next UK General Election is shaping up to be akin to [----] an inflection point of historic importance. [----] was the fork in the road where the post war consensus finally unravelled. [----] feels like its the terminal endpoint for the Thatcher-Blair consensus. Centre right on economics centre left on culture - that brand of institutional muscle memory centrism is going to collapse. Voters dont want it party loyalties are fragmenting apace. Its just that Labour and Conservative parties havent cottoned onto the shift among the electorate. Something new is coming but who knows what it will be"
X Link 2025-08-05T13:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"According to the South China Morning Post China has officially begun the final assembly phase of a next-generation fusion reactor called Burning Plasma Experiment Superconducting Tokama (BEST) Using the same physics that power the sun the payoff will be unlimited clean energy"
X Link 2025-08-05T18:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"When Trump threatens the EU with a 35% tariff unless it invests $600bn in the U.S. that's not negotiations. That's blackmail by an unfriendly country. Time the EU learned to be independent of the U.S. & develop strategic autonomy. Maybe then China might take Brussels seriously"
X Link 2025-08-06T05:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""I asked my intelligence source why Blair misled us all over Saddam's weapons. His reply One word . CAMPBELL" Gilligan Andrew (1 June 2003). The Mail on Sunday. p.26 Having lost his Beeb spot he is desperate for a remake of Grumpy Old Men Having lost his Beeb spot he is desperate for a remake of Grumpy Old Men"
X Link 2025-08-06T10:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"🧵 From Spit to Slaughter: The Escalatory Logic of Antisemitism Antisemitism doesnt eruptit escalates. Mocked children spat-on schoolboys. Harassment dismissed as "petty" often proves a staging ground for catastrophe. History teaches but we dont want to listen👇 1/"
X Link 2025-08-06T16:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In Vienna Jewish children were spat at on their way to school. In Berlin in [----] they were chased by boys shouting Judenschwein. In Biaystok in [----] they were terrorized before the pogrom began. In the UK [----] theyre being soaked by water guns. Laughed at. Filmed for fun. 2/"
X Link 2025-08-06T16:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"These arent isolated acts of cruelty. Theyre signals. Warnings. Street-level harassment of Jewsespecially childrenhas time and again laid the groundwork for systemic exclusion state violence and mass murder. 3/"
X Link 2025-08-06T16:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"In 1900s Vienna Mayor Karl Lueger mainstreamed antisemitism with a smile. His supporters Middle-class professionals. Teachers. Priests. Parents. Children absorbed the messageand began to spit taunt shove. Spit became symbol. And symbol became policy. 4/"
X Link 2025-08-06T16:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Academics are joining in. Dr. Morad El Kadmiri (UCL Essex Warwick) posted blood libel tropes and claimed Jews are guided by the devil. His universities Silent. Social permission is being given. 12"
X Link 2025-08-06T16:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"October 7th wasnt an explosion. It was a culmination. Hamas didn't just murder Israeli familiesit live-streamed it. They broke into the Idan family home shot through the safe room door killed the children and broadcast the terror to the world. 13"
X Link 2025-08-06T16:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Antisemitism doesnt eruptit escalates. From Vienna to Biaystok to London harassing Jewish children has long been the first step in societys slide toward violence. I trace the patternfrom history to Britain today. 📖 From Spit to Slaughter https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/from-spit-to-slaughter-the-escalatory https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/from-spit-to-slaughter-the-escalatory https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/from-spit-to-slaughter-the-escalatory https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/from-spit-to-slaughter-the-escalatory"
X Link 2025-08-07T11:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"3 Early Germany SDP: Women Equal rights. Equal responsibilities. Vote Social Democratic Amid the trauma of the collapse of Wilhelmine Germany after the Great War this poster called on the newly enfranchised women of [----] Germany to vote for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the elections for the constitutional convention that would become known as the Weimar National Assembly. Given the wartime and post-armistice deprivation political chaos amid the power-vacuum of where the Kaiser once said the call to vote might have fallen on deaf ears. Yet Germany's Social Democrats looked forward to"
X Link 2025-08-07T22:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"4Twilight of Weimar Germany SDP: 'Schtz Eure demokratischen Volksrechte Whlt Liste [--] Sozialdemokratie Wahlplakat' Far removed from the hopes of [----] the SDP by November [--] [----] were instead warning voters: "Protect your democratic civic rights Vote for List [--] Social Democracy" The famous SDP poster calling for peoples rights captures the spirited anti-Nazi anti-Communist resistance of the SDP to the politics of extremism both left and right. 4/"
X Link 2025-08-07T22:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The Scots were colonisers not colonised. Surely even @JohnSwinney can grasp this [--] countries have gained independence from the United Kingdom - and not one of them has tried to come back. Thats because independence is normal. Decisions for Scotland made in Scotland. Its a future worth voting for. 🏴 [--] countries have gained independence from the United Kingdom - and not one of them has tried to come back. Thats because independence is normal. Decisions for Scotland made in Scotland. Its a future worth voting for. 🏴"
X Link 2025-08-08T12:45Z [----] followers, 25.8K engagements
"I need a vpn when in China to access some news websites. Never imagined Id also required it in the UK too. Thanks @Keir_Starmer. Well done. slow clap Famous TikTok influencer Dylan Page announces that some of his news videos (very safe stuff by the way) have been taken down on TikTok due to the UK Online Censorship Law. He said he will leave the UK if it continues. The Tories and Labour are still both supporting this https://t.co/eOfDn1MCGM Famous TikTok influencer Dylan Page announces that some of his news videos (very safe stuff by the way) have been taken down on TikTok due to the UK"
X Link 2025-08-09T10:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"An arrogant middle class man thinks the law is for other people. He supported a prohibited group which has targeted and harassed Jewish owned businesses undermined the national defence of the nation vandalising RAF property. I have zero sympathy with this man. [--] year prison sentence - the maximum the law permits should be thrown at him. BREAKING: Met police arrest a disabled blind man at the Parliament Square protest where many hundreds are holding placards which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" https://t.co/RABO0ID78g BREAKING: Met police arrest a disabled blind man at"
X Link 2025-08-11T09:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Wearing a PRESS jacket does not in itself confer journalistic credibility. Multiple sources including Israeli intelligence have linked Anas al-Sharif to the terrorist Hamas organisation. Israeli intelligence assessments state that al-Sharif previously headed a Hamas cell and participated in rocket attacks against Israel. Publicly available photographs indicate repeated personally intimate contact with senior Hamas terrorist figures. Photo 1: Al-Sharif early in his career pictured with Fathi Hammad a member of Hamass political bureau. Photo 2: Al-Sharif in [----] alongside senior Hamas"
X Link 2025-08-11T09:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Wearing a PRESS jacket does not in itself confer journalistic credibility. Multiple sources including Israeli intelligence have linked Anas al-Sharif to the terrorist Hamas organisation. Israeli intelligence assessments state that al-Sharif previously headed a Hamas cell and participated in rocket attacks against Israel. Publicly available photographs indicate repeated personally intimate contact with senior Hamas terrorist figures. Photo 1: Al-Sharif early in his career pictured with Fathi Hammad a member of Hamass political bureau. Photo 2: Al-Sharif in [----] alongside senior Hamas"
X Link 2025-08-11T09:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@AgentP22 Sh cant have it both ways gender is an internal immutable truth and thus people self-identify but an external force should decide and arbitrate who forfeits said internal self identifying truth. Shes intellectually bankrupt Nicola Sturgeon once dismissed concerns about self-ID as not valid. Now she says some rapists can forfeit their chosen gender. Its more than hypocrisyits the collapse of her entire ideology. Read & subscribe for free👇 https://t.co/r6a5zNSjTM #Sturgeon #SelfID #WomensRights https://t.co/3uOXmgWTD8 Nicola Sturgeon once dismissed concerns about self-ID as not"
X Link 2025-08-11T15:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"We are treated to a selective application of ontologytreating gender as an immutable fact in most circumstances but as a revocable privilege in othersundermining the theoretical framework which Ms Sturgeon polarised a nation over 📖Read & Subscribe👇 https://open.substack.com/pub/deanmthomson/p/the-intellectual-collapse-of-nicolar=je6w3&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/deanmthomson/p/the-intellectual-collapse-of-nicolar=je6w3&utm_medium=ios"
X Link 2025-08-11T15:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@DalgetySusan No Ill prefer reading Robert Louis Stephenson on the plane I reckon. Sturgeons dirge will be free in six months from any good charity shop"
X Link 2025-08-12T08:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Frankly I am disinclined to believe Ms Sturgeon's explanation of events. "So @NicolaSturgeon was there a conspiracy to jail Alex Salmond" "No that's an absurd claim." "So the whole incident was free of any bias" "No the committee members investigating the handling of complaints were taking direction from Salmond. They were all out to get me." "So @NicolaSturgeon was there a conspiracy to jail Alex Salmond" "No that's an absurd claim." "So the whole incident was free of any bias" "No the committee members investigating the handling of complaints were taking direction from Salmond. They were"
X Link 2025-08-12T10:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Nicola Sturgeon writes in Frankly about when @jk_rowling wore her Nicola Sturgeon destroyer of human rights t-shirt: It resulted in more abuse of a much more vile nature than I had ever encountered before. It made me feel less safe and more at risk of possible physical harm. The sheer lack of introspection from the erstwhile FM is breathtaking. This from Ms not valid who branded gender critical women as bigots and transphobes I wonder how safe the vulnerable women felt at the prospect of Isla Bryson - the male rapist - self-IDing into their prison"
X Link 2025-08-12T11:43Z [----] followers, 58.6K engagements
"There shouldn't be a 'case by case basis' for letting biologically male rapists into female prisons Kat.🤦♂ @DeanMThomson @jk_rowling You are bigots and transphobes You cannot self ID into a prison it is a case by case basis on which you would be at risk being in a mens prison @DeanMThomson @jk_rowling You are bigots and transphobes You cannot self ID into a prison it is a case by case basis on which you would be at risk being in a mens prison"
X Link 2025-08-13T10:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This reporting is so wildly inaccurate misleading and distorting of the actuate that I've officially submitted a complaint to their press regulator. Absolutely disgraceful. I'll be publishing a breakdown of the @ScotNational's journalistic malpractice shortly on my Substack BREAKING: Scottish Government revenue is growing faster than spending new 'GERS' figures show It comes despite a fall in income from North Sea oil which is putting pressure on the public finances said Finance Secretary Shona Robison https://t.co/gInGs3uEMQ BREAKING: Scottish Government revenue is growing faster than"
X Link 2025-08-13T11:13Z [----] followers, 30.5K engagements
"Imagine being lied to by a national newspaper and just 'lolz'ing it all away Any serious independence supporter should be outraged by @ScotNational's statistical manipulation. Building support for independence on false premises about Scotland's fiscal position is: Intellectually dishonest Strategically counterproductive Ultimately self-defeating When the fiscal reality eventually becomes undeniable the independence cause will suffer far more damage than if supporters had confronted uncomfortable truths from the beginning. Lolz. Dean hates Scotland. Imagine being like this. Lolz. Dean hates"
X Link 2025-08-13T13:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"At Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University I lecture in logical syllogism to undergraduate studentsbasically it offers a structured way to examine arguments and determine if conclusions logically follow from premises. For example: Major Premise: All men (A) are mortal (B). Minor Premise: Socrates is a man (C). Conclusion: Therefore Socrates (C) is mortal (B). Another way of thinking about it: If all As (men) are Bs (mortal) and all Cs (Socrates) are As (men) therefore: all Cs (Socrates) are also Bs (mortal). Applied to media analysis it helps distinguish between accidental errors and"
X Link 2025-08-13T14:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A 5'2" woman and a book stands before the walled city of Scotlands cultural citadel and they crumble And somewhere across centuries the voice of Homer warns: Troy has viewd her walls thrice circled and her chief pursued. Who'd have thought the bourgeois bastions of our cultural elites prove so fragile"
X Link 2025-08-13T14:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"David is not the only person to have been told this series of events. Luckily I remember exactly how @NicolaSturgeon is alleged to have reacted when Police Scotland arrived at her house to arrest her husband. I'm told she went ballistic screaming "Do you know who I am" etc. Three words from a police officer shut her up: "Ma'am body cam." Luckily I remember exactly how @NicolaSturgeon is alleged to have reacted when Police Scotland arrived at her house to arrest her husband. I'm told she went ballistic screaming "Do you know who I am" etc. Three words from a police officer shut her up: "Ma'am"
X Link 2025-08-14T09:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A highly misleading statement from a former MSP: ➡ GERS are not Scottish Government figures they only publish them This is false. GERS is produced by Scottish Government statisticians in the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser of the Scottish Government with the Scottish Governments chief statistician taking overall responsibility for the publication. It is designated as a National Statistics product which means it is produced independently of Scottish Ministers and has been assessed by the UK Statistics Authority as being produced in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics. The"
X Link 2025-08-14T10:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The so-called 'journalist' Israel took out was a hostage taker. Bet all the Palestine luuvvie journos won't issue apologies or clarifications for their shoddy reporting. @EYakoby I am [--] of those hostages I was held by him @EYakoby I am [--] of those hostages I was held by him"
X Link 2025-08-16T11:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BjCruickshank I did I sent you the news article you complained about a paywall so I have you a copy from behind the paywall. You're disinclination to accept evidences when its placed in front of you is not my issue"
X Link 2025-08-16T22:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@johnmcternan https://x.com/deanmthomson/status/1957415149096022247 Rent controls never ever work. For one thing it reduces supply as developers build fewer rental units if future rents are capped. Further existing landlords convert rentals into condos or leave units vacant. Not forgetting rent controls causes misallocation as some households https://x.com/deanmthomson/status/1957415149096022247 Rent controls never ever work. For one thing it reduces supply as developers build fewer rental units if future rents are capped. Further existing landlords convert rentals into condos or leave units"
X Link 2025-08-18T12:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@johnmcternan All the academic research cited is wrong because Your ideology requires it You have alternative data to alter perceptions"
X Link 2025-08-18T12:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Made it half way Dubai waiting for the next flight. So far this journey Ive rewatched Casablanca Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Next flight maybe Ill try that Trump film Apprentice never seen it before but it won awards"
X Link 2025-08-18T21:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The SNP's accounts also show a deficit of [------] for [----]. And membership income has collapsed from from [-------] to just [-------] in a single year. Still no sign of that 'ring fenced' indyref fund of over [------] "woven through" @theSNP's accounts either. SNP membership income equates to nearly [--] times the total for all other parties combined. https://t.co/ftPNvyg11L SNP membership income equates to nearly [--] times the total for all other parties combined. https://t.co/ftPNvyg11L"
X Link 2025-08-23T14:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@GMacdonaldSNP The SNP's accounts also show a deficit of [------] for [----]. And membership income has collapsed from from [-------] to just [-------] in a single year. Still no sign of that 'ring fenced' indyref fund of over [------] "woven through" @theSNP's accounts either"
X Link 2025-08-23T14:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ScotExpress https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1959520342252343589 Nice of @ScotExpress to finally catch-up to my SNP Gupta reporting. only a few years late. ➡Nov [--] [----] for @Think_Scotland: https://t.co/RpwXCdiT4p And for my Substack: ➡SNP-GUPTA FILES #3: GFG INVOICES USED IN GREENSILL LOAN RAISE CONCERNS https://t.co/biwe6iVDT1 https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1959520342252343589 Nice of @ScotExpress to finally catch-up to my SNP Gupta reporting. only a few years late. ➡Nov [--] [----] for @Think_Scotland: https://t.co/RpwXCdiT4p And for my Substack: ➡SNP-GUPTA FILES #3: GFG INVOICES USED IN"
X Link 2025-08-24T07:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@GeorgeFoulkes @theSNP @ScottishLabour Some of us have been writing about this (and sat down with Willie Rennie about it for discussion) years ago https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1959520342252343589 Nice of @ScotExpress to finally catch-up to my SNP Gupta reporting. only a few years late. ➡Nov [--] [----] for @Think_Scotland: https://t.co/RpwXCdiT4p And for my Substack: ➡SNP-GUPTA FILES #3: GFG INVOICES USED IN GREENSILL LOAN RAISE CONCERNS https://t.co/biwe6iVDT1 https://x.com/DeanMThomson/status/1959520342252343589 Nice of @ScotExpress to finally catch-up to my SNP Gupta reporting. only a few"
X Link 2025-08-24T11:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If this prediction turns out to be true before the next general election Nigel Farage will become Prime Minister. Basically highly credible economists are saying this is a Callaghan pre-1979 moment. My God the IMF again. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/23/rachel-reeves-britain-debt-bailout-1970s-imf-economy/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/23/rachel-reeves-britain-debt-bailout-1970s-imf-economy/"
X Link 2025-08-24T11:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It's the terminal end point of so many small c conservative traditions I love. Farage would represent a revolutionary populist moment which I shall never sign up to. I'm committed to the untrammelled tradition of Judge Fortescue via Bishop Almer Burke Disraeli tradition. It's dying now on the alter of populism. Unspeakably tragic"
X Link 2025-08-24T11:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"As First Minister Nicola Sturgeon imposed higher income tax rates on Scottish households. She now claims ignorance over the allegedly missing Indyref funds. Yet she was savvy enough to set up Nicola Sturgeon Ltd to channel her non-MSP earningsincluding the [------] advance for her memoir Frankly. By taking a [-----] payment as a dividend she ensured it wasnt subject to the same higher tax rates she had imposed on everyone else"
X Link 2025-08-29T09:54Z [----] followers, 36.5K engagements
"Starmer attacks Met after Father Ted creator arrested over trans posts Youre the PM the police simply enforce the laws which Parliament passes - how about our PM changes the laws which compel the bobbies on beat to make these absurd arrests https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/02/graham-linehan-claims-he-was-arrested-for-tweets-heathrow/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/02/graham-linehan-claims-he-was-arrested-for-tweets-heathrow/"
X Link 2025-09-03T00:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Scorching hot day here at Beijing Normal Hong Kong Baptist University. Agenda: delivering a two hour lecture on identities. Ancestry language and citizenship. Who loves a Venn diagram I do 😬"
X Link 2025-09-03T04:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Angela Rayner declared in [----] that tax avoidance is damaging our country and explained she preferred to concentrate on evasion. Yet she seems to have learned the ropes herselfmanaging to pay just [-----] in stamp duty on a second home instead of the [-----] due #hypocrisy"
X Link 2025-09-03T23:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The unelected Parliament at the behest of a military junta in Burkina Faso has prohibited homosexuality. Theres a word for this: barbarism. This military junta and its acolytes are barbarians ruining a proud African country. For shame. https://share.google/vTIiBj2Hmqxidq4EI https://share.google/vTIiBj2Hmqxidq4EI"
X Link 2025-09-04T00:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Just caught up on PMQs and have to admit No [--] must be ecstatic with that. The opposition in Parliament - across the board - totally fumbled the Angela Rayner situation. If Farage is away in the USA nobody else has the ability to land the ball into an open goal"
X Link 2025-09-04T00:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Forgive an uncharacteristic outburst but this Reform sing-along grotesquery offends me so deeply Im shaking with rage. Im only [--]. Yet I grew up in a Scotland where politics still felt like it mattered like it was run by adults who carried responsibility on their shoulders. Brown. Cook. Darling. Dewar. My uncle Ian Davidson I was never prouder than when he voted as chairman of the Scotland committee against the Iraq War. Even on the right Rifkind a truely serious man who took politics as a serious matter. Whatever their faults they treated politics as the lifeblood of a nation not as a"
X Link 2025-09-06T08:04Z [----] followers, 18.6K engagements
"European countries are de-risking from the United States. An example is the new European push to recover their gold reserves from the USA. About 37% of German reserves are stored in the U.S. Roughly 43% of Italian gold remains in Federal Reserve vaults. Both want it back"
X Link 2025-09-08T10:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The dynasty of [----] years descended from the Goddess Amaterasu has only [--] heirs alive on earth: [--]. Crown Prince Fumihito (Akishino) [--] Younger brother of Emperor Naruhito [--]. Prince Hisahito of Akishino [--] [--]. Prince Masahito Prince Hitachi [--] Hisahito must produce a male heir The first coming of age ceremony of the Imperial Japanese Dynasty of Yamato for [--] years. It could unless the young [--] year old Prince produces a male heir become the last. A country faced with rapid demographical ageing faces the last heir of a dynasty https://t.co/C2ZEISvMlk The first coming of age ceremony of the"
X Link 2025-09-08T14:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order. Prince Klemens von Metternich Chancellor of Austria. The silhouetted remains of the High Court Banksy are much more likeable than the original - creating a curiously medieval quality.as if depicting Thomas a Becket being attacked in the crypt https://t.co/wzfioU1CHb The silhouetted remains of the High Court Banksy are much more likeable than the original - creating a curiously medieval quality.as if"
X Link 2025-09-10T12:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"50% of U.S. soybeans are exported & China represents 25% of total demand. This year China has placed [--] orders. US soybean agriculture now in crisis. This is what I mean when I say placing a tax (tariff) on imports means placing a tax on your own exports https://share.google/emuaLQoJ29gjLzR1N https://share.google/emuaLQoJ29gjLzR1N"
X Link 2025-09-10T23:44Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Without knowing anything about the shooter this is how MAGA influencers politicians and journalists are reacting. Its impossible to avoid the conclusion these folk want a civil war"
X Link 2025-09-12T01:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Oxford Union president George Abaraonye who debated Charlie Kirk celebrates his murder. Simply appalling behaviour bringing the Oxford Union into disrepute grounds enough surely to merit his removal from post. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/11/oxford-union-president-george-abaraonye-charlie-kirk-murder/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/11/oxford-union-president-george-abaraonye-charlie-kirk-murder/"
X Link 2025-09-12T09:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Just submitted an article for Think Scotland outlining more details on the SNP-Gupta fiasco. Here's a teaser: a group of Credit Suisse bankers - it turns out - did better diligence work than the entirety of the Scottish Government and civil service. Quite the scandal afoot"
X Link 2025-09-13T04:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
""The word freedom means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order." -Prince Metternich Democracy depends on debate. Never give into the men of violence Mrs. Erika Kirk Addresses The Nation After Her Husbands Assassination @TPUSA @MrsErikaKirk https://t.co/55Gvxtbc7G Mrs. Erika Kirk Addresses The Nation After Her Husbands Assassination @TPUSA @MrsErikaKirk https://t.co/55Gvxtbc7G"
X Link 2025-09-13T08:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@charliekirk11 @TPUSA @MrsErikaKirk "The word freedom means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order." -Prince Metternich Democracy depends on debate. Never give into the men of violence"
X Link 2025-09-13T08:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Bob Vylan who regularly calls for the deaths of IDF soldiers mocks Charlie Kirks assassination. What a vile man. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/09/14/bob-vylan-inciting-pogrom-amsterdam-charlie-kirk-idf/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/09/14/bob-vylan-inciting-pogrom-amsterdam-charlie-kirk-idf/"
X Link 2025-09-14T23:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"3/ By Dec [----] SNP minister Ivan McKee admitted in Holyrood: We are advised there is one specific part of the contract that may not comply with state aid rules. Translation: taxpayers could be on the hook for clean-up costs running to tens of millions"
X Link 2025-09-20T10:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"4/ FOI requests later revealed [------] already spent on legal advice. The SNP still refuses to release those legal opinions. The real democratic deficit may not be at Westminster but right here in Edinburgh 'SNP DISH OUT [------] OF TAXPAYERS MONEY TO LAWYERS' 🔗 https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/snp-dish-out-160813-of-taxpayersutm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/snp-dish-out-160813-of-taxpayersutm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2"
X Link 2025-09-20T10:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"8/ Worse still Greensills loans to Gupta were allegedly backed by fake invoices. The FT found multiple European companies named on GFG invoices who flatly denied ever doing business with him. Credit Suisse missed it. SNP ministers didnt bother to look. 'SNP-GUPTA FILES #3: GFG INVOICES USED IN GREENSILL LOAN RAISE CONCERNS' 🔗 https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/snp-gupta-files-3-gfg-invoices-usedutm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 https://deanmthomson.substack.com/p/snp-gupta-files-3-gfg-invoices-usedutm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2"
X Link 2025-09-20T10:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"9/ Credit Suisse bankers smelled fraud. They hired investigators who concluded Guptas trades were simply fake. Yet the Scottish Government doubled down throwing public money at him including a 7m loan from Scottish Enterprise"
X Link 2025-09-20T10:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I had desired it with an ardor that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished the beauty of the dream vanished and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Dr. Frankensteins reaction to his own creation in Mary Shelleys [----] novel i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now"
X Link 2025-09-21T23:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It takes a particularly ancient pathology to blame Jews for Charlie Kirks murder the oldest hatred of them all. The anti-Semitism of Tucker Carlson on full display. Displaceable stuff from Putins puppet"
X Link 2025-09-22T06:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Netanyahu has inflicted lasting damage on Israel. Netanyahus planned U.N. speech is being overshadowed by European moves to isolate Israel with the U.K. as well as Canada and Australia recognizing a Palestinian state and more to come as well as an upcoming EU vote on sanctions. @LahavHarkov reports: https://t.co/tD1iwbaBWk Netanyahus planned U.N. speech is being overshadowed by European moves to isolate Israel with the U.K. as well as Canada and Australia recognizing a Palestinian state and more to come as well as an upcoming EU vote on sanctions. @LahavHarkov reports: https://t.co/tD1iwbaBWk"
X Link 2025-09-22T07:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"MAGA = Let's make the Argentine peso great again Meanwhile midwest farmers have lost ALL of their soyabean sales to China this growing season after Beijing - correctly - purchased '0' due to the tariff trade war. Is this what MAGA means Who wants that These options may include but are not limited to swap lines direct currency purchases and purchases of U.S. dollar-denominated government debt from Treasurys Exchange Stabilization Fund. Opportunities for private investment remain expansive and Argentina will be Great These options may include but are not limited to swap lines direct currency"
X Link 2025-09-22T13:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I thought 'MAGA' insisted they were elected to oppose censorship First amendment in the USA is for everyone even those you oppose who insist on posting tasteless takes. BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. https://t.co/Uj8lQEdXo5 https://t.co/CcbM4eGpYM BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook"
X Link 2025-09-24T22:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Labour needs to listen women were and are the backbone of the Scottish and wider Labour movement. People like Mary Barbour of Govan who organised the [----] rent strike among legion who made the party what it is. Labour MUST respect women's fundamental rights. The view from the back of the room #LabourConference2025 Stonewall event . .Labour Women's Declaration event https://t.co/BvpdfxSvt5 The view from the back of the room #LabourConference2025 Stonewall event . .Labour Women's Declaration event https://t.co/BvpdfxSvt5"
X Link 2025-09-29T11:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"EA games is now bought over by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund - led by journalist murdering Crown Prince Salman and also private equity firm Silverlake and Affinity Equity Partner - run by Jared Kushner (who was given 7bn after he left the Trump WH by Saudi Arabia)"
X Link 2025-10-01T02:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Home secretary is 100% correct to demand the cancellation of pro-Palestine marches. The terrorist attack on the synagogue underscores the rampant anti-Semitic hatred these marches are stirring up. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/10/03/cancel-pro-palestine-marches-home-secretary-demands/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/10/03/cancel-pro-palestine-marches-home-secretary-demands/"
X Link 2025-10-03T14:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ArmstrongT97969 Good man it's horrible that this is all happening. Honest people need to make a stand"
X Link 2025-10-07T08:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"White House imagined on liberation day that China would buckle to US trade war pressure. The EU UK might have but China wasnt ever going to. Now US fragmented China policy is meeting a coherent Beijing strategy. Soybean farmers woes is just the start. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/11/chinas-rare-earth-gambit-reveals-the-next-phase-of-its-economic-warfare-00602692 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/11/chinas-rare-earth-gambit-reveals-the-next-phase-of-its-economic-warfare-00602692"
X Link 2025-10-12T23:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The reality of Hamas rule in Palestine. Hamas carries out public executions just hours after signing peace treaty with Israel https://t.co/wxZSLgmm97 https://t.co/XFM6LvSfsN Hamas carries out public executions just hours after signing peace treaty with Israel https://t.co/wxZSLgmm97 https://t.co/XFM6LvSfsN"
X Link 2025-10-14T22:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Some facts on this interminable 'free tuition' nonsense: [--]. ScotGov controls tuition costs in two ways: control of per-student funding and restricting funded places. [--]. Majority of funding is via main teaching grant which was worth around [----] per student in [------]. Universities also charge Scottish students a notional tuition fee paid by the Scottish Government on their behalf. BUT: this has been frozen in cash terms at [----] per year since [------]. [--]. Therefore Scottish universities received direct public funding of [----] for each Scottish student in [----] meaning it was around 19% LESS IN REAL"
X Link 2025-10-15T10:37Z [----] followers, 17.9K engagements
"@DavidGSwaim1 @JohnCleese Tariffs are paid by Americans not the citizens of the countries they are levied against"
X Link 2025-10-16T04:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Tariffs are paid by Americans not the citizens of the countries they are levied against So if the USA imposes a 20% tariff on the EU Americans pay the passed over costs as American businesses pass the cost over onto the products etc American purchase. Europeans dont pay. @JohnCleese Tariffs John @JohnCleese Tariffs John"
X Link 2025-10-16T04:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Swinney is ditching the Sturgeon era anti-oil & gas exploration and development. Hes indicating that future coalition arrangements with the Scottish Green party is off the table under his leadership. Swinney: oil and gas exploration and development is a matter for Westminster"
X Link 2025-10-17T09:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"#UKIP leader #NigelFarage declares himself a Commoner. He's expensively educated stockbroker son of a stockbroker. #UKIP lies strike again"
X Link 2015-02-23T08:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"#UKIP leader #NigelFarage abandons another immigration policy. He really is making it all up as he goes along #GE2015"
X Link 2015-03-05T06:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Sturgeon doubling down on negativity: gambling Brexit Britain could seem less 'safe' than separation. She'll fail. https://x.com/pgharkness/status/777396001661456385 https://x.com/pgharkness/status/777396001661456385"
X Link 2016-09-19T06:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"So Keir Starmer's position isn't to deliver best value for money for the UK taxpayer Another example of why Labour cannot be trusted with the economy. They fail to see tax money as the people's not the governments to fritter away on grandstanding & populist measures. https://x.com/iainmartin1/status/977846563035901953 Shark jumped. Keir Starmer joins blue passport madness. Says must be made in UK not France. By company making passports for [--] countries https://x.com/iainmartin1/status/977846563035901953 Shark jumped. Keir Starmer joins blue passport madness. Says must be made in UK not"
X Link 2018-03-25T09:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"So.Saudi Arabia is less anti-semitic than @UKLabour under @jeremycorbyn"
X Link 2018-04-03T22:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
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