Thanks to @TheBreadmonkey for the #earworm and apologies for the 'Ike' involvement. Lots of other pairings out there but it's hard to beat the sheer power of this.

Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary live on Italian TV 1971

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL1l0Fz5RlE

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The whole drama of American force – which veteran BBC foreign correspondent Jeremy Bowen is now flatly calling “imperial America” – is creeping its way towards Scottish shores.

In terms of the North Atlantic trade and military front opening up, due to Arctic polar ice-melt, Scotland could not be more militarily strategic.

The gangsterism of Donald Trump throws down gauntlet to indy minded | The National

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25754917.gangsterism-donald-trump-throws-gauntlet-indy-minded/

https://youtube.com/shorts/KBIKtrmM80Y?si=IT32lSYcyeQT5YL8

@EUCommission Get a grip. Fascists get no oxygen.

Flight tracking websites showed American military aircraft landing at Wick John O’Groats airport earlier today, before flying further north towards Iceland.

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@arbeitstitel #Bonus

Mansplained! I've been mansplained! I feel dirty! Notwithstanding the fact that they were completely wrong I think I need a full body scrub. I didn't tell them they were wrong because I would've had to mansplain about mansplaining. Hardly worth the time or effort.

Labour MP Clive Lewis said: “The UK must stand firmly for international law, or admit it no longer believes in it.”

Meanwhile, MP Apsana Begum tweeted: “The Prime Minister's support for Trump will forever haunt his legacy.”

Former Labour MP Diane Abbott added: “If you cannot say this is illegal, all your talk of human rights, the law and democracy is so much hot air.”

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On Thursday, May 7, Scotland’s destiny will be in Scotland’s hands.

The people of Scotland have the opportunity to elect an SNP majority and secure a referendum on Scotland’s future.

That outcome is within touching distance, and it would make the world sit up and listen.

Scotland can send a powerful message that our future will be shaped by the will of those who live here – nobody else.

2026 is a year of opportunity for Scottish independence, says John Swinney

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25735631.john-swinney-opportunity-scottish-independence-2026/

@arbeitstitel All the best to yourself. ️

Happy New Year when it comes to all you crazy fools. I shall be tucked up and, hopefully, in the Land of Nod at the bells. Not a great fan of Hogmanay but not churlish enough to deny anyone else a happy time. I'm not Trump ffs!

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Your New Year’s reminder that there was less than 20 years between Adolf topping himself and the release of Love Me Do. There is hope. Everything is cyclical. Trump will self-destruct. Scotland will be independent. Things will get better.