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Scotland must 'close the gap' on broadband blackspots amid 4G probe
25 Nov 2025 at 6:00am
Telecommunication experts have warned the UK Government to urgently review how the Electronic Communications Code impacts Scotland's 4G blackspots.


Grooming gang row deepens as NSPCC urges ministers to show 'leadership' on abuse
25 Nov 2025 at 5:00am
NSPCC says Scotland still lacks a clear picture of child sexual abuse as pressure grows on ministers to consider a national inquiry into grooming gangs.


Political row erupts over NHS cancelled operation figures ? who?s telling the...
25 Nov 2025 at 5:00am
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has accused SNP ministers of twisting NHS statistics after they claimed he misled Parliament over cancelled operations.


Pick'n'mix Budget 2025 will lack coherent strategy that the UK desperately needs
25 Nov 2025 at 4:30am
Here's hoping for the return of a far less protracted and far more boring Budget in 2026


'Overwhelming majority' say pupils should have right to opt out of RE lessons
25 Nov 2025 at 12:10am
A poll for the Humanist Society Scotland found huge support for an independent opt-out


UK Government has ?less than a week? to salvage defence ties with EU, SNP warns
25 Nov 2025 at 5:00am
SNP warns the UK has under a week to secure access to the EU?s £150bn SAFE defence programme, risking isolation for Scotland?s defence industry.


McAllan urges Reeves to 'reinvigorate housebuilding' in Wednesday's Budget
25 Nov 2025 at 12:01am
Scotland?s housing secretary Mairi McAllan is urging Chancellor Rachel Reeves to help ?reinvigorate housebuilding? in the Budget on Wednesday.


Join The Herald on Wednesday for unrivalled coverage of the 2025 Budget
25 Nov 2025 at 8:00am
The Chancellor?s upcoming 2025 Budget promises to set the economic and political course for the year ahead. Tomorrow is a moment of immense consequence for households, businesses, and how Scotland economically moves into the future.


Are civil servants justified in their office fears - or are they just lazy?
24 Nov 2025 at 4:52pm
Unions representing civil servants warned it was difficult to get work done from the office - is the expectation placed on them too harsh?


'A real difference': Schools to benefit from innovation fund to 'spark curios...
24 Nov 2025 at 3:33pm
The funding will back more than a dozen creative initiatives spanning 78 schools


Kate Forbes to be quizzed by MSPs as public inquiry costs rise to £260 million
24 Nov 2025 at 1:23pm
Kate Forbes is to be quizzed by MSPs as the cost of public inquiries in Scotland has spiralled by £30 million in nine month rising to a total cost of almost £260m, according to data compiled by Holyrood researchers


David Cameron reveals prostate cancer diagnosis and backs screening
24 Nov 2025 at 6:53am
Lord David Cameron has revealed he was successfully treated for prostate cancer as he backed a targeted screening programme for the UK?s most common cancer in males.


Nigel Farage to hold mass rally in Scotland amid growing support for Reform
24 Nov 2025 at 6:30am
Nigel Farage is to return to Scotland early next month as Reform steps up preparations for the Holyrood elections.


'Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson failed us on Covid - and they haven't lear...
24 Nov 2025 at 6:30am
A woman who lost her husband and mother to Covid says she and other bereaved people were "let down" by Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon who "are not accepting responsibility"

The Scotsman

The Scotsman Politics


Home Office 'should have the guts' to meet public over Cameron Barracks asylu...
25 Nov 2025 at 6:00am

Fergus Ewing said the UK government ?has made this plan and should have the guts to put it to the people?

Councillors have warned about disparities in community funding, shorter consultation periods and a lack of site visits.

More than half of Scots are concerned pubs, cafes and restaurants could close following the Chancellor?s controversial decision to hike National Insurance contributions.

The UK Labour government's energy profits levy has been partly blamed for accelerating the decline of the North Sea oil and gas industry.

Between 2007 and September 2025, the overall bill for the cost stood at £258.8 million.

Protestors want Glasgow City Council to stop allowing immigrants to take English classes in Dalmarnock primary school - but the council is pushing back

Inaugural episode covered stories with depth and insight

The Ministry of Defence has granted a £142.1 million contract to improve living, working and training facilities at Edinburgh army sites

David Cameron, the former UK prime minister, has spoken about his prostate cancer diagnosis

Wings over Scotland

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Craig Murray

The Beat of the War Drums
20 Nov 2025 at 6:34am

In fascist lockstep, the entire British media, broadcast and print, corporate and state, is leading with a Ministry of Defence press release about a “Russian spy ship” inside “British waters”. No British media appears to have been able to speak to anybody who knows the first thing about the Law of the Sea. Here are …

The Beat of the War Drums

UN Reform and Scottish Independence
14 Nov 2025 at 11:06am

Scottish Independence is an extremely attractive prospect to states at the United Nations, and for reasons that you might not expect. Every state knows that the current UN structure is outdated and indefensible, with five states – US, China, Russia, UK and France – having a permanent seat and a total veto on the Security …

UN Reform and Scottish Independence

The Four Mentors of King Charles
6 Nov 2025 at 3:40pm

As Godfather to Prince William, heir to the British throne, Prince Charles chose his close friend and adviser Laurens van der Post. A paedophile. Van der Post raped a 14 year old girl who had been given into his care for the sea voyage from South Africa to London. He then installed her in a …

The Four Mentors of King Charles

UK Government Opposes Application for Scottish Judicial Review of Palestine A...
30 Oct 2025 at 5:27pm

The UK government – in the undistinguished shape of Baroness Smith of Cluny, Labour party hack, youngest daughter of John Smith and Advocate-General for Scotland – has responded to the court in our request for a Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action. The Government asks that the judicial review be denied on …

UK Government Opposes Application for Scottish Judicial Review of Palestine Action Terrorist Proscription

Urgent ? We Need a Federal Your Party
29 Oct 2025 at 2:34pm

The draft Your Party constitution is for a highly centralised, London-based party which echoes the Labour Party. It “devolves” – they literally use the word – power from the centre to non-autonomous entities in Scotland and Wales. We need a Federal party – a completely different approach – where authority lies with the members, and …

Urgent – We Need a Federal Your Party

I Have Joined Your Party
27 Oct 2025 at 6:55pm

I am taking the plunge into Your Party. My worries remain about its centralist tendencies and lack of democracy, but I will work against those from within. Your Party is not a unionist party. It does not yet have a policy on Scottish Independence. I shall of course be striving for it actively to support …

I Have Joined Your Party

BBC Scotland

What could be coming in the UK Budget - and what it means for Scotland
25 Nov 2025 at 6:08am
Rachel Reeves' budget is the first of two which will set the context for the 2026 Holyrood election.

Budget cuts are ripping the heart out of our college - principal
25 Nov 2025 at 6:07am
Dundee and Angus College faces £2.5m of cuts, including withdrawing from its Arbroath sporting campus.

No 'route to profitability' for Mossmorran, says UK minister
24 Nov 2025 at 6:11pm
Ministers from both Holyrood and Westminster have held talks on plans to close the Fife chemicals plant.

Call for stronger safeguards in cosmetic treatments law
23 Nov 2025 at 12:40pm
A bill that aims to tighten restrictions on beauty treatments is being scrutinised in the Scottish Parliament.

Scotland cannot rely on migrants to fill social care jobs - Sarwar
22 Nov 2025 at 5:17pm
Anas Sarwar said the UK's "broken immigration system" needed to be fixed, and better wages were needed to attract Scottish workers.

Immigration changes will 'profoundly impact' Scottish care workers
21 Nov 2025 at 2:28pm
The UK government is proposing that workers on post-Brexit health and social care visas wait 15 years before permanent settlement.

Sturgeon excluded ministers from Covid decisions, inquiry says
20 Nov 2025 at 6:32pm
An inquiry criticises the former first minister for making decisions within a small group of ministers and advisers in response to the pandemic.

'This area is really struggling - Mossmorran closure is bad news'
21 Nov 2025 at 6:20am
The closure of the petrochemical plant could hit the already struggling town of Cowdenbeath.

Being a mum is harder than being deputy first minister, says Kate Forbes
21 Nov 2025 at 6:20am
The politician once tipped to be Scotland's leader talks about why she is walking away.

UK government will not change law for more legal drug rooms
20 Nov 2025 at 2:48pm
A committee urged the government to change the legal framework for drug consumption facilities but this was refused.

Plans for flexible four-day week in class for Scottish teachers
20 Nov 2025 at 12:54pm
Two teaching unions are holding strike ballots over how long teachers should spend in the classroom.

Starmer vows support for Mossmorran workers
19 Nov 2025 at 4:10pm
Hundreds of staff have been told their jobs are at risk as ExxonMobil prepares to close part of the site.

Scot Goes Pop

Scotland becoming a "YouGov democracy" is not the road to independence
25 Nov 2025 at 6:19am
* .* .*With just over one month of the year left to go, the 2025 Scot Goes Pop fundraiser is still short of its target figure.  If you'd like to help keep the lights on during the several months it...

Nothing succeeds like secession
24 Nov 2025 at 4:45pm
Just a quick note to let you know I am one of the interviewees in Dani Garavelli's Radio 4 documentary If At First You Don't Secede..., which is about the epic saga of the ever-elusive Indyref 2.  ...

"War is not a Hollywood movie. Living, breathing people are the ones who mus...
23 Nov 2025 at 6:23pm
Iuliia Mendel on Twitter: "Every subsequent deal for Ukraine will only be worse ? because we are losing. We are losing people, territory, and the economy.The EU (which by the way has paid Russia mo...

My response to Chris McEleny's allegation that I defamed him in reference to ...
22 Nov 2025 at 4:10am
I received an unsolicited email out of the blue a few hours ago from the Alba Party's disgraced former General Secretary, Chris McEleny, who was sacked and then expelled from the party due to his "...

BREAKING: Stew ducks the debate - it turns out he's NOT a Charlie Kirk type a...
21 Nov 2025 at 4:12pm
After issuing my video debate challenge to controversial blogger Stuart "Stew" Campbell, I said this: "Please do let me know your thrilling excuses for ducking / ignoring this debate challenge at y...

A challenge to Stew: you claim to be a debate-loving Charlie Kirk type, so it...
21 Nov 2025 at 4:16am
Stew on Twitter: "Ultimately this Bindel-Webberley thing is like when I foolishly tried to engage in a debate with James Kelly. Just like him, Webberley doesn't really want to engage and is incapab...

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: the ego has landed
20 Nov 2025 at 10:07pm
If the history books even bother telling the story of how the Alba Party died, their verdict will probably be a paradoxical one: that the party failed because it was fundamentally un-Salmondite in ...

18th November 2025: WHAT A NIGHT to be Scottish, as the SNP rack up yet ANOTH...
19 Nov 2025 at 6:19am
As you may have seen, The National actually contacted YouGov and asked them for a reaction to my video from Monday, in which I pointed out that they seemed to have suppressed an independence poll i...

STV Politics News

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Defence firm could look at employing some Mossmorran workers, Alexander says
24 Nov 2025 at 9:29pm
Douglas Alexander said Monday?s meeting with the Scottish Government, Fife Council, trade unions and local employers to find alternative futures for the workers was 'constructive'.

US Justice Department renews bid to unseal Jeffrey Epstein grand jury materials
24 Nov 2025 at 8:41pm
The Justice Department stated that the congressional action overrode existing law in a manner that permits the unsealing of the grand jury records.

Scottish Government to work with UK ministers in bid to help Mossmorran workers
24 Nov 2025 at 11:49am
Deputy first minister Kate Forbes said the Scottish Government would be involved in talks today with Scottish secretary Douglas Alexander.

?Scotland must not be left an afterthought?, Finance Secretary warns ahead of...
23 Nov 2025 at 3:13pm
Robison says Holyrood is 'not happy' after the UK Government failed to hold a meeting with them before the Budget.

Scotland?s Finance Secretary lays out demands ahead of Budget
23 Nov 2025 at 11:18am
Shona Robison urges UK Government to deliver more funding for Scotland?s public services, infrastructure, and cost-of-living support.

Sarwar outlines Scottish Labour plans for mental health emergency service
22 Nov 2025 at 11:57am
The party leader declared Scotland?s mental health services are in 'crisis' and accused the SNP of 'neglect'.

Scottish sport organisations warn they are ?running on empty?
21 Nov 2025 at 4:41pm
Leaders from various sports are calling for urgent reassurances from John Swinney.

Charity ball in Glasgow to honour life of late SNP MSP Christina McKelvie
21 Nov 2025 at 10:51am
The Christina McKelvie Ball is to take place on April 4, 2026 at Hilton Glasgow.

Swinney named as Scotland?s Politician of the Year at awards ceremony
21 Nov 2025 at 8:06am
The SNP leader picked up the top honour, which he had won back in 2009.

Tax the banks to offer £300 energy bill cuts, Reeves urged
21 Nov 2025 at 6:37am
The SNP compared its proposals to the Energy Bills Support Scheme, which provided £400 payments under the last Tory government.

Nicola Sturgeon says ?the buck stopped with me? during coronavirus pandemic a...
20 Nov 2025 at 6:24pm
The former first minister spoke out on Thursday following the publication of the UK Covid inquiry report.

I regret the suffering Covid inflicted, says John Swinney ahead of inquiry re...
20 Nov 2025 at 2:25pm
The First Minister was speaking ahead of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry publishing its report into how governments across the country responded to the virus.

John Swinney at FMQs as hundreds of jobs set to go at Mossmorran plastics pla...
20 Nov 2025 at 11:58am
The First Minister will take questions from MSPs at Holyrood.

Mossmorran ExxonMobil plant ?currently losing £1m a week?, Prime Minister Kei...
19 Nov 2025 at 1:48pm
ExxonMobil announced that it is planning to close its plant in Fife, putting more than 400 jobs at risk.

Daily Record

Daily Record - Politics

Scottish Labour MP goes viral after using biscuits to explain the UK's nation...
25 Nov 2025 at 10:12am
Gordon McKee, the MP for Glasgow South, has won praise for his humour and originality in explaining the country's ballooning debt pile.

Five Budget changes that could affect Scots when Rachel Reeves makes big anno...
25 Nov 2025 at 9:51am
The Chancellor will announce the long-awaited Budget on Wednesday.

Glasgow grooming gang victim to meet with John Swinney amid calls for inquiry
25 Nov 2025 at 4:30am
EXCLUSIVE: John Swinney will meet 'Taylor' after praising her courage in talking about the abuse she faced.

Reform UK in Scotland urged not to take any money from Russia as Holyrood ele...
25 Nov 2025 at 4:30am
EXCLUSIVE: The Scottish Lib Dems made the demand amid concerns of Russian interference in Western democracies.

Bosses at Social Security Scotland handed inflation-busting pay rises despite...
24 Nov 2025 at 1:59pm
EXCLUSIVE: Directors at the taxpayer-funded quango have enjoyed big pay hikes despite the SNP Government facing a £2bn blackhole in welfare spending by the end of the decade.

Retired judge urges £20 tax on kitchen knives in Rachel Reeves Budget
24 Nov 2025 at 1:58pm
Former circuit judge Nic Madge issued the call two days before the Labour Government's Budget.

Nigel Farage heading to Scotland for 'major' Reform UK event ahead of Holyroo...
24 Nov 2025 at 1:25pm
The Reform UK leader will speak at a Falkirk hotel just a short distance from where regular anti-migration protests have been held in the town.

Pro-Scottish independence social media accounts linked to 'coordinated influe...
24 Nov 2025 at 12:01pm
Engagement farming accounts have exploded on X since users were allowed to start earning money from their viral posts.

The SNP had the chance to change Scotland after the pandemic but blew it
24 Nov 2025 at 4:30am
In his Daily Record column, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says the First Minister is not the politician who will turn around Scotland.

Labour accused of treating oil and gas workers 'like the miners in the 1980s'
24 Nov 2025 at 4:30am
EXCLUSIVE: Louise Gilmour of GMB Scotland claimed the abandonment of the energy workers is akin to forty years ago.

The National

The National | Politics

Nigel Farage rules out any investigation into Reform UK links with Russia
25 Nov 2025 at 9:26am

REFORM UK leader Nigel Farage said he will not investigate any Russian links within his party, stating that he is ?not a police force? ...

Nigel Farage: Alleged racist comments not made in 'hurtful or insulting way'
25 Nov 2025 at 9:02am

NIGEL Farage has claimed he did not make comments in a ?hurtful or insulting way?, after 20 people he went to school with accused him of racism and antisemitism as a teenager ...

Ellie Gomersall: The Budget is here, unlike the change Labour promised
25 Nov 2025 at 5:00am

Tomorrow will finally see an end to months of speculation about the UK?s next annual Budget

Colin Fox: Budget will do nothing to stem crises facing working people
25 Nov 2025 at 5:00am

What can we expect from Chancellor Rachel Reeves?s Budget tomorrow?

Emma Roddick: Why we need a social tariff on energy bills
25 Nov 2025 at 5:00am

When I was little, I found a sudden chill in the weather exciting

Calls for end to uncontrolled release of pheasants for shooting
25 Nov 2025 at 5:00am

MSPs are being urged to back plans to curb the mass release of pheasants for shooting

Jonathon Shafi: The demographic ticking clock of indy is grinding to a halt
25 Nov 2025 at 5:00am

It can be easy to forget that a whole generation of young voters did not experience the 2014 independence referendum, and were not shaped by it

Here's what Rachel Reeves?s mansion tax means for wealthy Scots
24 Nov 2025 at 8:14pm

In a bid to raise £450 million, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to hit England?s wealthiest households with a 'mansion tax'

BBC board member Robbie Gibb quizzed on 'orchestrated coup' at top of broadca...
24 Nov 2025 at 7:01pm

BBC board member Robbie Gibb has said he has no intention of stepping down ? and rejected claims that he is an ?active agent? of the Tory Party within the broadcaster ...

Labour slated for presiding over 'unnatural disaster' as Gaza faces brutal wi...
24 Nov 2025 at 7:56pm

MPs have accused the Labour Government of presiding over an 'unnatural disaster' in Gaza, urging ministers to act as Palestinians brace for brutal winter conditions

Holyrood Magazine

Holyrood Website

Tories narrowly beat Reform in council by-election
21 Nov 2025 at 3:53pm
This is the closest Reform has come to winning an election in Scotland so far

UK Government launches new AI growth plan
21 Nov 2025 at 12:20pm
The UK Government has launched a new plan intended to boost the growth of the artificial intelligence sector

UK armed forces test drone-destroying laser weapon ?
21 Nov 2025 at 10:34am
The UK armed forces have successfully tested a laser weapons system capable of destroying drones travelling at up to 400 miles per hour

Christina McKelvie Ball announced in memory of late MSP
21 Nov 2025 at 10:29am
The event will raise funds for cancer charities

UK Covid-19 Inquiry: Scottish Government response was 'too little, too late'
21 Nov 2025 at 7:07am
Official probe criticises all UK governments for lack of preparation

Nicola Sturgeon accepts 'mistakes and misjudgements' made during Covid pandemic
20 Nov 2025 at 5:31pm
Deputy first minister Kates Forbes earlier said ministers were ?committed to learning from the past?

Nicola Sturgeon's response to Covid Inquiry report in full
20 Nov 2025 at 5:30pm
Nicola Sturgeon's full response to the Covid Inquiry's?report

First Minister grilled over missing Mossmorran transition plan
20 Nov 2025 at 1:16pm
Conservatives and Greens pile on pressure over future for ExxonMobil workforce

Edinburgh University researchers develop software to make AI 10 times faster
20 Nov 2025 at 12:47pm
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have developed a software system that could allow artificial intelligence systems to operate 10 times faster

Angela Constance not present to answer question on grooming gangs
20 Nov 2025 at 12:00pm
Constance said during a debate in September that the child protection expert did not support further?inquiries?into child sexual abuse

Guardian - Scottish Politics

Scottish politics | The Guardian

Uk politics: Streeting defends asylum policy, but says he?s not ?comfortable?...
19 Nov 2025 at 5:31pm
Health secretary still maintains that forced removals are ?right thing to do for the country?Healey is now taking questions.Q: How close are are we to war?It is Labour that is the party of defence. Continue reading...

Starmer stands by McSweeney and says he has been ?assured no briefings agains...
13 Nov 2025 at 6:06pm
This blog has now closed, you can read more on this story herePA Media has more on what the monthly performance figures from NHS England show. PA says:The data shows 180,329 people in England had been waiting more than a year to start routine hospital treatment at the end of September, down from ...

Scotland plans to issue £1.5bn of its own bonds ? ?kilts? rather than gilts
13 Nov 2025 at 12:48pm
Announcement by first minister John Swinney comes after Moody?s and S&P give country same credit rating as UKThe Scottish first minister John Swinney has said Edinburgh is on track to issue its own government bonds, nicknamed ?kilts?, after the country was given the same credit rating as the UK.T...

The Guardian view on Scottish land reform: vast estates remain feudal in scal...
9 Nov 2025 at 5:25pm
Half of the country?s privately owned countryside is held by just 421 owners. New legislation suggests democrats still fear powerful interestsNo other European country has such a narrow base of proprietorship as Scotland. Half of all privately owned rural land is held by 421 people or entities. T...

Nicola Sturgeon: I understand why people doubt my ignorance of alleged SNP em...
7 Nov 2025 at 3:20pm
?Trust me, I had no idea? about potential wrongdoing in Scottish National party, says former first ministerNicola Sturgeon on leadership, scandal and trolling the trolls ? podcastNicola Sturgeon has said she fully understands why many people find it hard to believe she had no idea about alleged e...

Nicola Sturgeon on leadership, scandal and trolling the trolls ? podcast
7 Nov 2025 at 5:00am
In a special, bonus episode of Politics Weekly, Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey sit down with Scotland?s former first minister Nicola Sturgeon for a frank conversation about her time in office and the future of nationalist politics.Nothing is off the table: her leadership, Covid, the gender row tha...

Lammy says he was not ?equipped with the details? when facing questions on mi...
6 Nov 2025 at 5:22pm
This live blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereDavid Lammy, the deputy PM and justice secretary, has welcomed the fact that Billy Smith is back in custody, but described the spike in release mistakes as ?unacceptable?.According to PA Media, Lammy said:William Smith is back in c...

Met police issue statement with more information about missing Algerian priso...
5 Nov 2025 at 6:18pm
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereDavid Lammy starts by saying the PM is in Brazil.He says the thoughts of all MPs are still with the victims of the appalling attacks in Huntingdon and Peterborough, where, he says, he was at school for seven years. Continue reading...

Reeves says she should have checked rental licence had been obtained as letti...
30 Oct 2025 at 6:50pm
No 10 releases redacted emails between Reeves? husband and letting agentRachel Reeves? rental error: standards adviser looking at new informationRobert Peston, ITV?s political editor, says he thinks it is a mistake for the Conservatives to be saying Rachel Reeves should have to resign over the re...

MPs vote down Farage?s proposal for UK to leave ECHR ? as it happened
29 Oct 2025 at 5:20pm
This blog is now closed, you can read more of our UK political coverage hereMark Sedwill, the former cabinet secretary and former national security adviser, goes next. He is now a peer, and a member of the committee.He says the deputy national security adviser, Matthew Collins, thought there was ...

Wee Ginger Dug

Wee Ginger Dug

The Scottish media?s covid double standards
21 Nov 2025 at 1:37pm
Did Nicola Sturgeon get everything right during the Covid pandemic when she headed a devolved government limited powers at its disposal and she was faced with an anti-independence Scottish media that screamed she was politicising the pandemic in order to further the cause of independence whenever she sought to diverge from the line being taken …

A Labour vote in Scotland is a vote not to matter
19 Nov 2025 at 5:01pm
You’ve got to hand it to the Labour party, they are certainly consistent, consistent in their shafting of Scottish workers. It’s almost as though, despite Labour’s protestations to the contrary, Scottish votes don’t matter to the Labour party and its strategists. We’ve seen a party which campaigned on the slogan vote Labour to save Grangemouth …

Starmer?s Labour enables fascism
17 Nov 2025 at 6:58pm
When the race baiting far right criminal Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and the hard right Reform UK are praising Labour’s policies, you know that something has gone profoundly wrong in a party which purports to be on the centre-left. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced a set of measures which are aimed at making the lives of …

Just get your boots off our necks, Westminster
14 Nov 2025 at 3:23pm
In an interview with The National newspaper, the actor Alan Cumming, who currently hosts the US version of the popular show The Traitors and who is outspoken in his support for Scottish independence, demanded “Get just get your boots off our necks, Westminster.” He made the powerful call for Scottish self-determination in connection with the …

No, independence supporters? compaints about BBC bias are nothing like Trump
12 Nov 2025 at 3:01pm
There is certainly no love lost between supporters of Scottish independence and the BBC. It is however egregious I’m-not-a-nationalist-I’m-British bollocks to suggest, as former Labour party hack Carlos Alba writes in Wednesday’s Herald newspaper, that Yes supporters are now on the side of Donald Trump as he threatens the Corporation with a billion dollar lawsuit …

Believe in Scotland?s path to independence, the routemap we need
10 Nov 2025 at 7:25pm
I have previously blogged about my view that the UK is entering a terminal phase crisis which it is unlikely to survive in its current form. The pro-independence campaign group Believe in Scotland is of a similar opinion and believes that this crisis provides Scotland and Wales with a unique opportunity to seize independence and …

Labour?s doomed attempt to paint the SNP as a threat to national security
6 Nov 2025 at 3:34pm
The oil is running out, all the banks will leave, you won’t have a pension, you can’t use the pound, the EU won’t let you back in, and now we have – the SNP are a threat to national security. This wasn’t an off the cuff remark from a harried Labour minister being put under …

The need for iGERS
4 Nov 2025 at 5:13pm
The pro-independence campaign group Believe in Scotland has proposed a replacement for the discredited GERS (Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland) figures which are published every year to the delight of British nationalists up and down the land. These statistics, which as Professor of Accountancy Practice Richard Murphy regularly points out, are based on unreliable and …

Migrant hysteria, the lie driving the rise of the far right
31 Oct 2025 at 6:30pm
The far right is on the rise, and it’s on the rise due to an artificial panic manufactured by rich and powerful interests in order to distract public attention from the greed and avarice of the wealthiest in society, a tiny segment which has hoarded ever greater wealth over the past few decades even as …

Rising support for independence and the end of the so-called Union
27 Oct 2025 at 7:58pm
There have been some mixed messages recently from opinion polling about the SNP’s chances of winning a majority at next year’s Holyrood election. Over the weekend The National published a report of an analysis of recent polling which suggested that the SNP could win a majority in its own right. This contrasts with other polling …

The Courier

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Scottish Politics News From Holyrood and Westminster | The Courier

Could Rosyth-Europe ferry set sail thanks to Brexit reset?
27 May 2025 at 6:01am
Hopes have been raised for a simple solution to a cross-border problem.

Kirkcaldy MP demands pro-suicide forum is torn down
26 May 2025 at 6:01am
Around 100 suicides have been linked to the sickening forum which provides guidance to people on ending their life.

UHI Perth aviation students warn of ?unsettling times? after training firm?s ...
26 May 2025 at 6:00am
Worried Samuel Hughes, 19, is among students sharing their fears at a time of crisis for Perth College.

Fresh Dundee University strike begins over compulsory Levehulme Centre job cuts
26 May 2025 at 6:00am
University staff are taking five days of industrial action as the institution pushes ahead with plans to axe the forensic research hub.

NHS Fife nurse at centre of controversial trans tribunal suing her own trade ...
25 May 2025 at 2:32pm
A&E medic Sandie Peggie is now taking legal action against the Royal College of Nursing.

EXCLUSIVE: Dundee University still to strike rescue deal with government
23 May 2025 at 5:46pm
Opposition MSPs have expressed concern at the time taken to agree a deal almost a month after the fresh recovery plan was unveiled.

6 senior figures who left Dundee University during financial crisis
23 May 2025 at 5:10pm
Several university chiefs have moved on since £30m financial black hole emerged.

Dundee University activist artist leads degree show protest over financial cr...
23 May 2025 at 4:45pm
Duncan of Jordanstone student Finn Millar says he wants to play a part in "keeping the university alive".

John Swinney admits constituents have expressed Perth leisure concerns to him
23 May 2025 at 6:01am
The first minister wants further talks between both sides of Perth leisure debate.

EXCLUSIVE: Dundee University chief operating officer Jim McGeorge quits
22 May 2025 at 1:58pm
Dr Jim McGeorge ? who was responsible for good governance - had been on a period of extended leave.

Talking up Scotland

Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz'

There is NO evidence that NHS Scotland directed pregnant women to controversi...
25 Nov 2025 at 10:37am
Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian today, the above and: The NHS has been directing pregnant women to a website that connected them to the Free Birth Society, an organisation that has been linked to baby deaths around the world after promoting labour without medical support. A number of NHS trusts are directing women who are contemplating a ?free birth? to a charity website that until...

Nothing in Scotland looks anything like the mass child grooming rape gangs i...
25 Nov 2025 at 10:08am
Professor John Robertson OBA The Record‘s Paul Hutcheon and Labour‘s Joani Reid are at it again today desperate to have rape grooming gangs here too in the hope that the SNP can be blamed for them and just in time to save Anas for the May 2026 Holyrood elections. I’ll repeat the evidence that totally refutes the notion but first, look at that frontpage from October 2025 on the right. Why would ...

Dangerous weight-loss drug being pushed by Jackie Baillie and Wes Streeting ?...
25 Nov 2025 at 9:22am
purchased weight loss jabs (sic), according to new data. That’s five times the number accessing them via the NHS. The figures come form Glasgow-based Simple Online Pharmacy, one of the UK’s largest providers. Regulators have stressed prescribers must check patient details. The Scottish Government say health boards decide access. Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Scotland has already attempted, l...

Reposted as ?Scottish? media use further early prisoner release to irresponsi...
25 Nov 2025 at 8:45am

Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund for Adults ? Scotland leads in and other cou...
24 Nov 2025 at 7:10pm
Professor John Robertson OBA From the Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund for Adults – Year 4 – Monitoring and reporting summary published today: Key Findings ? Reach of Funded Projects: Number of awards: 1,462 grants have been awarded in Year 4 which has resulted in funding for 1,446 organisations. This means 6,192 awards have been made across the first four years of the Fund. Balance...

Winter is here and Welsh Labour is not prepared, as TWICE as many wait more t...
24 Nov 2025 at 7:06pm
stewartb ?Winter is here and the SNP is not prepared. Waiting times are too long, corridor care is too common, and it will only get worse as winter continues. It is time for a new direction.? These British Labour Party politicians in Scotland really take the biscuit, really are egregious and hypocritical when it comes to the NHS. These are characteristics the mainstream media in Scotland ? the ...

Jackie Baillie apparently blowing a big bubble of lies as Scotland leads the ...
24 Nov 2025 at 3:50pm
Professor John Robertson OBA BBC Reporting Scotland last night had the above, missing key facts on vaccine uptake and the resilience of NHS Scotland. Here they are: Scottish Government significantly widened access to free flu vaccine to give more than twice as many, per capita, protection from worrying new mutation First, availability in England ? you can get the free NHS flu vaccine if you: So...

Early learning and childcare workers minimum pay now higher in Scotland than ...
24 Nov 2025 at 2:02pm
Professor John Robertson OBA From the Scottish Government today: From 1 April 2025, the minimum rate of pay for childcare workers delivering funded early learning and childcare (ELC) in Scotland is £12.60 per hour. This is in line with pay rates for adult social care workers and children?s social care workers. https://www.gov.scot/publications/early-learning-and-childcare-minimum-pay/ There is ...

Scottish Government?s Funded Early Learning and Childcare project ? 97% engag...
24 Nov 2025 at 1:39pm
Professor John Robertson OBA The Scottish Study of Early Learning and Childcare: Phase 6 report, published today is a very sober, careful, modest piece of work giving no quick sign of success or failure. I’ve had to read in carefully to extract the good news. What is it all about? This report outlines findings from the 6th phase of the Scottish Study of Early Learning and Childcare (SSELC), foc...

As Trump suggests Ukrainian territory loss to Russia is he all wrong?
24 Nov 2025 at 12:01pm
Professor John Robertson OBA As a pro-independence Scot, I?ve been interested in the breakaway movement in eastern Ukraine, for some time, since well before Putin?s brutal exploitative invasion, just as I have for those in Quebec, Catalonia and the Basque Country. I generally avoid comment on trans, the Rangers and Ukraine. I get enough personal abuse on the ferries. However, I like a survey, s...

Scotland and Independence

"scotland independence -guardian" - Google News

X feature exposes Iranian-run pro-Scottish independence accounts - UKDJ - ???...
24 Nov 2025 at 12:13pm
X feature exposes Iranian-run pro-Scottish independence accounts - UKDJ  ????? ??????????

The new hero of Scottish independence? Nigel Farage - politico.eu
13 Oct 2025 at 8:00am
The new hero of Scottish independence? Nigel Farage  politico.eu

Swinney sets out latest plan for an independence referendum - BBC
4 Sep 2025 at 8:00am
Swinney sets out latest plan for an independence referendum  BBC

Transparency tool reveals how Iran used social media to back SNP - The Times
24 Nov 2025 at 9:50pm
Transparency tool reveals how Iran used social media to back SNP  The Times

Twenty-five years of data shows how link between identity and views on Scotti...
9 Oct 2025 at 8:00am
Twenty-five years of data shows how link between identity and views on Scottish independence has grown stronger  The Conversation

Scottish political snapshot, November 2025 - YouGov
17 Nov 2025 at 11:03am
Scottish political snapshot, November 2025  YouGov

A Fresh Start with Independence - The Scottish Government
8 Oct 2025 at 8:00am
A Fresh Start with Independence  The Scottish Government

Independence can 'restore Scots standard of living' as rankings show UK plumm...
9 Nov 2025 at 8:00am
Independence can 'restore Scots standard of living' as rankings show UK plummet  TheNational.scot

Scotland casts fresh eye on independence vote as UK's political landscape shi...
24 Oct 2025 at 8:00am
Scotland casts fresh eye on independence vote as UK's political landscape shifts  Courthouse News

Proof Scottish pro-Indy account network operated from Iran - UK Defence Journal
23 Nov 2025 at 12:26pm
Proof Scottish pro-Indy account network operated from Iran  UK Defence Journal

SNP

"SNP" - Google News

SNP leader John Swinney: ?Scotland and England are going in completely differ...
25 Nov 2025 at 5:03am
SNP leader John Swinney: ?Scotland and England are going in completely different directons?  The Irish Times

?Five days left?: SNP warns UK risks losing £150bn EU defence partnership - T...
25 Nov 2025 at 5:06am
?Five days left?: SNP warns UK risks losing £150bn EU defence partnership  The Herald

SNP ordered separate NHS app as ?it would look bad to use English one? - The ...
24 Nov 2025 at 7:43pm
SNP ordered separate NHS app as ?it would look bad to use English one?  The Telegraph

Transparency tool reveals how Iran used social media to back SNP - The Times
24 Nov 2025 at 9:50pm
Transparency tool reveals how Iran used social media to back SNP  The Times

SNP must get to grips with Scotland's 'eye-watering' £250 million bill for pu...
25 Nov 2025 at 6:00am
SNP must get to grips with Scotland's 'eye-watering' £250 million bill for public inquiries  The Scotsman

The SNP have crossed the line on abortion - The Spectator
18 Nov 2025 at 3:53pm
The SNP have crossed the line on abortion  The Spectator

Nicola Sturgeon: I understand why people doubt my ignorance of alleged SNP em...
7 Nov 2025 at 8:00am
Nicola Sturgeon: I understand why people doubt my ignorance of alleged SNP embezzlement  The Guardian

Shared SNP effects across breeds increase the genomic prediction accuracy for...
26 Aug 2025 at 8:00am
Shared SNP effects across breeds increase the genomic prediction accuracy for numerically small breeds  Nature

Plaid Cymru and SNP leaders discuss forming 'progressive alliance' - BBC
30 Oct 2025 at 7:00am
Plaid Cymru and SNP leaders discuss forming 'progressive alliance'  BBC

SNP take over running of Stirling Council - BBC
10 Nov 2025 at 8:00am
SNP take over running of Stirling Council  BBC

Referendum (Google News)

"Scotland referendum -guardian -telegraph" - Google News

Swinney sets out latest plan for an independence referendum - BBC
4 Sep 2025 at 8:00am
Swinney sets out latest plan for an independence referendum  BBC

Scottish political snapshot, November 2025 - YouGov
17 Nov 2025 at 11:03am
Scottish political snapshot, November 2025  YouGov

The new hero of Scottish independence? Nigel Farage - politico.eu
13 Oct 2025 at 8:00am
The new hero of Scottish independence? Nigel Farage  politico.eu

In the United Kingdom, prime minister rejects possibility of Scotland indepen...
3 Jun 2025 at 8:00am
In the United Kingdom, prime minister rejects possibility of Scotland independence referendum  ConstitutionNet

Scotland casts fresh eye on independence vote as UK's political landscape shi...
24 Oct 2025 at 8:00am
Scotland casts fresh eye on independence vote as UK's political landscape shifts  Courthouse News

Why Alberta?s push for independence pales in comparison to Scotland?s in 2014...
27 May 2025 at 8:00am
Why Alberta?s push for independence pales in comparison to Scotland?s in 2014  The Conversation

First Minister John Swinney sets out latest plan for independence referendum ...
4 Sep 2025 at 8:00am
First Minister John Swinney sets out latest plan for independence referendum  Sky News

Part Two: What an independent Scotland could look like - A Fresh Start with I...
8 Oct 2025 at 8:00am
Part Two: What an independent Scotland could look like - A Fresh Start with Independence  The Scottish Government

John Swinney's independence strategy backed by SNP members - BBC
11 Oct 2025 at 8:00am
John Swinney's independence strategy backed by SNP members  BBC

One Cause, Many Voices: Scotland?s Divided Independence Movement Strategy - A...
4 Sep 2025 at 8:00am
One Cause, Many Voices: Scotland?s Divided Independence Movement Strategy  Australian Institute of International Affairs