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Anas Sarwar in council favouritism row over aide's wife
28 May 2023 at 6:35am
Tom Gordon


Candidates keep finances of SNP leadership race a secret
28 May 2023 at 6:30am
Tom Gordon


SNP to publish 'long overdue' police misconduct laws before July
28 May 2023 at 5:30am
SNP ministers will publish ?long overdue? legislation to better investigate and stamp out police misconduct before Holyrood breaks for the summer recess.


SNP could be forced to scale back fishing ban plans by Westminster
28 May 2023 at 5:30am
SNP ministers may be forced to scale back controversial plans to ban fishing in one tenth of Scottish waters amid suggestion the UK Government could refuse permission for the full rollout of the proposals.


'Priest who raped me was a police informer - so I fled to Scotland'
28 May 2023 at 6:00am
Victims of a notorious paedophile priest who may have abused 400 children over four decades have come forward to tell their story of suffering, allegations of cover-up by the Catholic Church and collusion with police. Writer at Large Neil Mackay investigates


Victims of 'industrial-scale' paedophile priest demand answers
28 May 2023 at 6:00am
THE victim of a notorious paedophile priest, suspected of being a police informer during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, has told how he had to flee to Scotland to rebuild his life.


It's inevitable Boris's bonkers-ness will cause Tories to implode
28 May 2023 at 6:00am
THE political circus act that is Boris Johnson has once again been shaking Westminster?s rafters even though the ex-PM was on the other side of the Atlantic.


How Ukrainian forces dance with death on the eastern front
28 May 2023 at 6:00am
Journeying across the frontline towns of the Donbas, Foreign Editor David Pratt meets a soldier and civilian at the sharp end of the war in the region


NHS spent £163m on compensation to Scots patients since 2018
27 May 2023 at 9:31am
475 successful claims were settled by the NHS over the four-year period between 2018 and 2022.


Unspun: The Herald political diary
27 May 2023 at 6:30am
Hair apparent


Humza Yousaf says coming from minority gives ?important perspective?
27 May 2023 at 1:04pm
The First Minister spoke out as he addressed an event organised by the LGBTQ+ wing of the SNP, Out For Independence.


Nicola Sturgeon: I didn?t know who Scottish Secretary Alister Jack was
27 May 2023 at 8:40am
Nicola Sturgeon said she did not know who Alister Jack was after he had been appointed by Boris Johnson.


UK Government unveil conditions for 'consistent' DRS exemption
27 May 2023 at 11:21am
THE UK Government has effectively killed off the Scottish Government?s design for a Deposit Return Scheme, with Whitehall telling ministers in Edinburgh that it can only go ahead with a number of substantial changes.


Our cartoonist Steven Camley?s take on Police Scotland
26 May 2023 at 6:00am
Our cartoonist Steven Camley?s take on Police Scotland

 

The Scotsman

The Scotsman Politics


Cost-of-living crisis: Plans for UK supermarkets to introduce price cap on ba...
28 May 2023 at 11:41am
A voluntary agreement with major retailers could see price reductions on basic food items like bread and milk


North Sea oil: Labour under Sir Keir Starmer would block any new oil and gas ...
28 May 2023 at 9:05am
Two oil fields, Cambo and Jackdaw, have recently been given licences.


Police Scotland: Why racism and sexism is down to failures of leadership at e...
28 May 2023 at 4:55am
Bleakest thing about report on racism and discrimination at Police Scotland is how unsurprising it is


Deposit Return Scheme Scotland: UK Government accused of 'sabotage' over Scot...
27 May 2023 at 1:37pm
The UK Government has been accused of trying to "sabotage" Scotland's deposit return scheme (DRS) after it ruled the environmental initiative could only go ahead if glass bottles were removed from its remit.

 

 

 

Wings over Scotland

The Cod-father
28 May 2023 at 10:59am
It’s a bit disappointing to see an Italian-born man play into Mafia stereotypes. “Nice indy movement you’ve got there. Be a shame if anything… happened to it.” Perhaps aware that the carrots they’ve been feeding Yes supporters for years are beginning to lose their power, the beleaguered SNP are now reaching for the stick. The …

The conscious uncoupling
27 May 2023 at 6:59am

The Battered Can
26 May 2023 at 11:06am
When I was a boy at Balbardie Primary School in Bathgate in the mid-70s, football was banned in the playground. Of course we were all fitba-daft laddies, so we sought ways around the prohibition. Occasionally someone would bring in a tennis ball, but those were difficult to control in school shoes and also apt to …

The Infinite Idiot
24 May 2023 at 9:36am
He just can’t grasp anything, can he? Because no, they don’t. Alert readers will recall the last time the SNP lost a lot of Westminster seats – the snap election of 2017, when the party shed a third of its votes and almost 40% of its MPs, almost the exact same number last night’s Times …

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
21 May 2023 at 11:05am
If you’re still falling for this idiot-fodder after seven years, give yourself a shake. Because for the love of Christ, an orangutan would have twigged by now. And we’re not talking about the long-suffering fans of Dundee United. In today’s Sunday Times, it’s revealed that Humza Yousaf would actually TURN DOWN a second indyref if …

In your face
20 May 2023 at 10:26pm
The SNP now seem to be involved in some sort of competition where they dare each other to come up with the most blatant insult to their own members and/or the wider independence movement and see just how much they can get people to put up with. First up was this drivel: Humza Yousaf is …

The Small Good Hamster
20 May 2023 at 6:59am

Full ahead backwards
19 May 2023 at 2:15pm
Just slightly under four weeks ago, this site told you “It seems very much as though the strategy has reverted to ‘Beg the UK government for a Section 30, and when they refuse, wait a while then beg them again'”. Once again, we’re dismayed to report that we called it right. Because last night SNP …

Well Ye Huv Noo
19 May 2023 at 10:45am
Just over a year ago, Shona Robison – then the Cabinet Secretary For Social Justice, now the Deputy First Minister – told the Scottish Parliament this: There now follow some quotes from the media regarding the case of Andrew Miller, aka Amy George, who yesterday admitted the kidnap and repeated sexual abuse of an 11-year-old …

Someone tell us the rules
18 May 2023 at 4:17pm
As we told you on Tuesday, this happened today: And we just can’t tell how it works any more. Andrew Miller aka Amy Miller aka Amy George is, like Adam Graham aka Isla Bryson, a transwoman. He has lived as a woman, in so far as that phrase has any meaning, for several years. He …


Craig Murray

Craig Murray

Lawyers For Israel Oppose Conscience
20 May 2023 at 11:37am

Two months ago I wrote an article entitled “Fascist judges” about the concerted move by judges in England to outlaw jury nullification. Despite the long and established history of juries refusing to convict for laws they view as an abuse of power by the state, climate protestors have been jailed for contempt simply for trying …

Lawyers For Israel Oppose Conscience

Trial By Jury
16 May 2023 at 12:02pm

When I started this blog I never envisaged I would be forced to write a defence of the use of juries in Scotland. We live in troubling times indeed. A jury is an essential protection against the power of the state. It is a randomly selected group of citizens who decide on the facts of …

Trial By Jury

Now Protest Is a Moral Duty
12 May 2023 at 9:49am

The torrential rain was shed from the policeman’s flat hat via its curved plastic peak, forming a curtain of water that flowed down in front of him, obscuring his face. His name was Martin. A female colleague stood in solidarity beside him. Two other female policemen were filming with a large video camera from three …

Now Protest Is a Moral Duty

Freedom of Speech: Elbit and Fascist Policing
10 May 2023 at 8:59am

Update: Back protesting again today. I learn that 46 protestors who have been arrested have been released on the bail condition that they leave Leicestershire. Yes, the entire county. People arrested for doing absolutely nothing but exercise the democratic right to protest, are thus prevented from exercising that right further, without a long period in …

Freedom of Speech: Elbit and Fascist Policing

Julian?s Voice is Heard Once More
7 May 2023 at 4:39pm

Though convicted of nothing, and merely in “administrative detention” entitled to the presumption of innocence, for five years Julian Assange’s voice has been effectively silenced. The dreadful place of harsh incarceration that is Belmarsh prison, where terrorists are kept, has not allowed his voice to be heard by the world. Journalists are not permitted to …

Julian’s Voice is Heard Once More

The USA ? What Democracy?
3 May 2023 at 11:13am

Joe Biden will very probably be re-elected. No incumbent President has ever lost a primary (though it should be remembered the current primary system is younger than me). Only one sitting President has ever not been selected by their party to stand again, and that was knocking on two hundred years ago. Both Biden’s main …

The USA – What Democracy?

BBC Scotland

BBC News - Scotland politics

Humza Yousaf accuses UK government of deposit return scheme sabotage
27 May 2023 at 3:49pm
The UK government has excluded glass from the Scottish deposit return scheme, casting doubt over its future.

Police Scotland officers offended at chief's racism remarks
26 May 2023 at 4:20pm
Police Scotland officers say their job will be harder after their chief constable said the force is institutionally racist.

Police chief defends SNP finances investigation
25 May 2023 at 1:17pm
Sir Iain Livingstone says he will "fiercely resist" any attempts at political interference in the probe.

Margaret Ferrier: Commons vote on Covid train trip MP is postponed
26 May 2023 at 12:35pm
A vote on whether to ban Margaret Ferrier from Westminster was pulled as not enough MPs were present.

Scottish government faces £1bn shortfall in spending plans
25 May 2023 at 6:46pm
The finance secretary says the outlook is extremely challenging amid warnings of an increasing funding gap.

Summit aimed at tackling pupil violence to be held
24 May 2023 at 4:28pm
There is concern that behaviour in Scottish schools has worsened since the pandemic.

Ex-SNP councillors form new North Lanarkshire party
24 May 2023 at 2:40pm
The group quit the SNP amid a row over sexual harassment claims against a former council leader.

What happens next in the Margaret Ferrier case?
26 May 2023 at 3:04pm
If the MP is suspended for breaking Covid rules, a by-election is more likely - but not certain.

Margaret Ferrier: Covid breach MP faces fresh calls to quit
23 May 2023 at 11:11am
Margaret Ferrier has been urged to resign now rather than wait to be recalled by her constituents.

Scottish Covid inquiry: Public asked to share experiences of pandemic
23 May 2023 at 8:10am
The public are being asked to share their experiences of how Holyrood ministers handled the pandemic.

Lorna Slater defends deposit return scheme plan
23 May 2023 at 8:52pm
Lorna Slater denies claims that crucial assessments have not been submitted to the UK government.

Junior doctors in Scotland offered 14.5% pay rise
22 May 2023 at 10:29am
The new Scottish government pay offer comes after BMA Scotland members voted for strike action.

Scot Goes Pop

Fresh questions for Humza over his refusal to try to win independence, as new...
24 May 2023 at 1:10pm
You rather suspect the London media will be scratching their heads in incomprehension as this latest full-scale Scottish poll from Ipsos, arguably the UK polling firm with the strongest pedigree, c...

Pressure mounts on Humza Yousaf to resign before the general election as new ...
24 May 2023 at 11:57am
For those of you who don't know how MRP modelling works, it's based on real polling, but the aim is to project the likely winner in each individual constituency, and also to project the most likely...

The first clause in any proper independence Code of Conduct should be a belie...
21 May 2023 at 5:14pm
Q. What do you call a political party that thinks Scotland should be forced to remain in the United Kingdom if as many as 59% of its people want independence?A. The SNP.? James Kelly (@JamesKelly) ...

The final betrayal: Yousaf goes through the motions of holding the special co...
20 May 2023 at 4:29pm
If The National are reporting this development accurately, the new specified function of the conference is - "will be solely focused on how Scotland is able to hold a legally binding independence r...

The SNP have no independence strategy but lots of pro-indy votes. For Alba t...
19 May 2023 at 2:03pm
In 2021, I made three adventurous predictions about the result of the Holyrood election, one of which was that Alba was likely to win at least a seat or two.  When I was later taunted about being a...

A belated look at last week's Survation poll showing another boost in support...
15 May 2023 at 10:47pm
I'm not firing on all cylinders because of my injuries, so please forgive any spells of radio silence.  However, I did promise to have a belated look at last week's Survation / True North poll (I b...


Photos of my Eurovision pilgrimage to Liverpool (before it went a bit wrong)
13 May 2023 at 7:10pm
I'm still feeling and looking distinctly grim after my freak accident in Liverpool late on Thursday night.  However, I took about fifteen thousand photos and videos before that happened, so I'd pro...

Mishap in Liverpool
12 May 2023 at 1:10pm
I had a freak accident last night and ended up spending half the night in hospital.  I was walking in the Albert Dock area of Liverpool (where I had just been to the Eurovision semi-final), and I t...

STV Politics News

Latest Politics News | STV News

?Horrifying? rise in Scots needing emergency cash grants to pay for basics, S...
28 May 2023 at 8:45am
Crisis grants to help people pay for food in emergency situations rose by 41% between 2019 and 2022.

Third of NHS scanners older than recommended lifespan, figures show
28 May 2023 at 8:25am
The oldest machine was found in the NHS Highland area ? a 28-year-old X-ray machine.

Home Office aims to deter Channel crossings from Albania with ad campaign
28 May 2023 at 8:17am
The department announced it will 'make clear the perils' migrants may encounter on small boats when it starts in Albania next week.

First Minister Humza Yousaf brands UK Government?s DRS glass ban order ?democ...
27 May 2023 at 5:12pm
Humza Yousaf accused UK Government ministers of 'trying to ride roughshod' through plans and 'undermine devolution.'

First Minister Humza Yousaf blasts UK Government over demands to remove glass...
27 May 2023 at 9:02am
Humza Yousaf revealed he had been sent a late-night letter from Westminster regarding the environmental scheme.

Scottish colleges in plea for emergency funding as further education hits ?cr...
26 May 2023 at 9:05pm
The EIS Further Education Lecturers? Association has urged the Scottish Government to act urgently.

Humza Yousaf accuses UK Government of ?holding devolution in contempt? over d...
26 May 2023 at 1:48pm
The First Minister branded the reported decision to block Scotland's deposit return scheme while it included glass 'a democratic outrage'.

Violent trans offenders ?will not be held in Scottish women?s prisons,? says ...
26 May 2023 at 9:49am
The justice secretary said 'safeguards' were in place to prevent trans prisoners with a history in violence being placed in female-only jails.

Scotland faces £1bn spending gap next year, warns deputy first minister Shona...
25 May 2023 at 10:16pm
The deputy first minister warned MSPs of the looming budget gap as the medium term financial strategy was published.

Introduce new tax on higher earners, Greens urge Scottish Government amid Hol...
25 May 2023 at 6:12pm
The party wants the wealthiest in Scotland to pay more as Holyrood faces a £1bn budget shortfall.

House of Commons vote to suspend Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP Margaret Fer...
25 May 2023 at 5:12pm
The former SNP MP faces a 30-day suspension from the House of Commons after breaking Covid-19 rules during the pandemic.

Police Scotland Chief Constable says SNP finance probe must be free from ?pol...
25 May 2023 at 3:53pm
Sir Iain Livingstone defended the investigation into the SNP's finances at a meeting of the Scottish Police Authority on Thursday.

Anas Sarwar claims ?culture of secrecy? at heart of Humza Yousaf?s Scottish G...
25 May 2023 at 3:13pm
The Scottish Labour leader pointed to figures he said showed the government 'riding roughshod' over FOI laws.

Live: Humza Yousaf faces First Minister?s Questions in wake of Police Scotlan...
25 May 2023 at 11:50am
The force's outgoing chief constable said that 'institutional racism, sexism, misogyny and discrimination' were a reality for Police Scotland.

Daily Record

Daily Record - Politics


Westminster 'blocking us at every turn', claims Lorna Slater in deposit retur...
28 May 2023 at 11:15am
The Green minister could not guarantee the deposit return scheme would still go ahead in Scotland next year following a late intervention from the UK Government.


Labour set to ban new North Sea oil and gas developments in race to net zero
28 May 2023 at 9:28am
Keir Starmer is set to make the announcement when he visits Scotland next month to set out his net zero energy policy.


Peter Murrell to face police quiz over probe into SNP sex pest Jordan Linden
28 May 2023 at 4:30am
It will be the second time the ­husband of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has faced detectives in as many months.


Patrick Harvie calls SNP MSP Fergus Ewing an 'angry old man' in row over Gree...
27 May 2023 at 4:30am
EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Harvie claimed Ewing was "out of step with his party and out of step with the future."


Rape survivor 'retraumatised by lawyer' in court welcomes waiving of transcri...
27 May 2023 at 4:30am
Ellie Wilson, 25, has campaigned for greater transparency in the courts after Daniel McFarlane was convicted of raping her.


Keir Starmer demands action by social media giants to curb spiralling school ...
27 May 2023 at 4:30am
In an exclusive interview, he said it was time platforms took "responsibility" for harmful content - a key demand of the Record's Our Kids campaign to tackle youth violence


Keir Starmer says Scots would be 'very resistant' to paying higher income tax...
27 May 2023 at 4:30am
The Labour leader said boosting growth rates, not raising tax, would be his priority.


Nicola Sturgeon says it's her dream to write a novel after quitting as first ...
26 May 2023 at 10:44pm
The ex-FM says it's her "dream" to write a novel ? and hinted that a memoir could be in the works.


Scottish Government Minister hits out at 'glass exemption' plan for deposit r...
26 May 2023 at 3:12pm
Circular economy minister Lorna Slater said the reported UK Government proposal would ?ride roughshod over the devolution settlement?.


Sheku Bayoh arrest cop denies claims he wanted to join BNP as a teenager
26 May 2023 at 12:20pm
The pre-recorded testimony of Alan Paton, who has since retired from Police Scotland, was played to the inquiry into the death of Mr Bayoh, which occurred in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in 2015 while he was b...

The National

The National | Politics

Martin Geissler and Lorna Slater clash over deposit return scheme
28 May 2023 at 12:39pm

A BBC journalist and a Greens minister clashed over Westminster?s meddling in the Scottish Government?s flagship recycling scheme in an ?extraordinarily hostile? interview.

Senior Police Scotland officer says racism admission is progress
28 May 2023 at 11:44am

Sir Iain Livingstone?s admission that Police Scotland is ?institutionally racist and discriminatory? will allow the next chief constable to build on progress to tackle the problem, a senior officer has said.

Labour must return Just Stop Oil-linked donations, says Tory chair
28 May 2023 at 10:55am

THE chairman of the Conservative Party has written to Labour demanding the party return donations from a funder who has also gifted substantial sums to radical eco-protestors.

No new North Sea oil and gas development under Labour government
28 May 2023 at 11:19am

NEW North Sea oil and gas developments will reportedly be blocked under a Labour government.

Matty Healy backs Scottish independence during Radio 1 Big Weekend set
28 May 2023 at 10:05am

THE lead singer of one of the world?s biggest bands has backed Scottish independence during an appearance at a music festival in Dundee.

Angus MP Dave Doogan claimed traffic fine on expenses
28 May 2023 at 9:24am

AN SNP MP has been named among four politicians who claimed fines for traffic violations on expenses.

The shameless ego of Boris Johnson is on trial again
28 May 2023 at 5:00am

IT was the Scottish comedian Mark Nelson who first posed the possibility that it was Boris Johnson and not a laboratory in Wuhan, or an infected bat, that was the first traceable source of Covid.

Looking back at the 1989 Scottish Constitutional Convention
28 May 2023 at 5:00am

THE last Scottish Constitutional Convention took place in very different times, but the demand for political change has far from faded away over the subsequent decades.

Deposit Return Scheme is yet another UK power grab
28 May 2023 at 5:00am

IF there?s ever an example of how devolution isn?t working, it?s the deposit return scheme. Scotland was set to be the first country in the UK to introduce a system of consumers paying a refundable deposit of 20p for drinks in plastic, glass and cans, joining more than 45 other countries around the world that have similar schemes.

?How Britain Broke The World' shows how the breakdown of UK diplomacy
28 May 2023 at 5:00am

ONCE in a while, a book comes along that demands a closer look. How Britain Broke The World is such a volume. Written by Arthur Snell ? who wants ?Britain to do better as a country? ? and published by Canbury Press, it is a devasting account of how the UK messed up its relations with other countries to such a degree that it threatens world order.

Bella Caledonia

Bella Caledonia

Clutching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
28 May 2023 at 10:52am
Polling published this week from YouGov and IPSOS showed seemingly contradictory insights into the trajectory of Scottish politics. According to new YouGov polling, if a general election held tomorrow the SNP could fall back to 27 seats in Scotland, with Labour gaining 23 from their nationalist rivals to bring their seat tally up to 24, …

A? Dùsgadh na Gaoithe / Waking the Wind; Finding the Folklore of a Fragile Ec...
26 May 2023 at 12:57pm
The exhibition A Fragile Correspondence opened last weekend in Venice, one of the eight collateral events for the 18th International Architecture Exhibition ? La Biennale di Venezia at the Arsenale Docks, S. Pietro di Castello, Venice. Commissioned by the Scotland + Venice partnership and curated by the Architecture Fringe, -ism, and /other, A Fragile Correspondence …

Un Conventional
26 May 2023 at 11:37am
I remember it vividly: a sea of saltires and a soundscape of joy and noise from Mogwai, Frightened Rabbit, Stanley Odd, Franz Ferdinand and loads more at the Usher Hall for A Night for Scotland, sometime in September 2014. It was intense. It was the pinnacle of ecstatic Yes-Certainty. But it was a bubble and …

?Just Listen to the Birdsong Now? ? Possibilities for people and nature in co...
24 May 2023 at 12:29pm
The exhibition A Fragile Correspondence opened last weekend in Venice, one of the eight collateral events for the 18th International Architecture Exhibition ? La Biennale di Venezia at the Arsenale Docks, S. Pietro di Castello, Venice. Commissioned by the Scotland + Venice partnership and curated by the Architecture Fringe, -ism, and /other, A Fragile Correspondence …

Plan 75: A Near Future Warning
23 May 2023 at 3:56pm
Content Warning: Suicide, Assisted Dying, Violence  As the Japanese-language film Plan 75, from Chie Hayakawa, nears its final screenings, the following offers a late encouragement that folk catch a screening before the end of its limited run. The film is a feature-length follow-up to Hayakawa?s 2018 short as part of Ten Years Japan in which …

Off the Map
21 May 2023 at 10:56am
“History?s a strange thing. A day went by recently that it?ll remember. But we scarcely noticed at all. Merely a whisper was felt … here we are. Crossing the last thresholds of the greatest event in human history, and it barely makes the news.” – Umair Haque This week, news broke that sometime in the …

Moments of Closure
18 May 2023 at 11:43am
Woodside Library is Aberdeen?s oldest. It first opened to the public in 1883 ? the gift of Sir John Anderson, an ageing industrialist ? and was shuttered a few months shy of its 140th anniversary. Built in grey granite, signature stone of the city?s civic realm, the library interior is bright and airy. Book-lined walls …

On Scottish Seaweed
17 May 2023 at 2:38pm
Back in 2013, seaweed wasn?t really a thing. I was driving up to Fife from Cornwall that September, white van full to the gun?ls with seaweed harvesting and monitoring equipment, towing my currach boat behind me. I?d had enough of Cornwall, too many sharp elbows, too white, too self-satisfied. I?d set up a community seaweed …

The UK populist right has to be defeated or democracy will be trashed 
16 May 2023 at 7:39pm
Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics, by Matthew Goodwin, Penguin Press £10.99. Reviewed by Gerry Hassan The state of UK politics is not pretty, which is true of many Western countries. The conventional tropes of the mainstream, left, right and centre, have conspicuously failed. In their places have emerged the insurgent populism of …

The omnipresent heirs of the Blob, have drunk the hemlock of decline
16 May 2023 at 7:16pm
It’s Day Two of the National Conservative conference and the commercial opportunities for t-shirt production are very real. A favourite was this from Prof. Gwythian Prins: “So many, particularly in the establishment, and the omnipresent heirs of the Blob, have drunk the hemlock of decline.” But seriously the gathering was a potent brew of the …

Guardian - Scottish Politics

Scottish politics | The Guardian

Holyrood accuses Tories of trying to ?sabotage? deposit return scheme
27 May 2023 at 3:07pm
Conservative ministers say Scotland will have to remove glass bottles from its environmental initiativeThe UK government has been accused of trying to ?sabotage? Scotland?s deposit return scheme (DRS) after it ruled the environmental initiative could only go ahead if glass bottles were removed fr...

Sunak says he wants more information before decision on Braverman?s alleged b...
22 May 2023 at 8:07pm
PM has asked for further information before decided whether ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus will be asked to investigate Braverman. This blog is now closedTop Home Office mandarin knew of Braverman?s alleged speeding requestStarmer says Labour would zone in on the biggest killers.He says it woul...

MP Margaret Ferrier loses appeal over Commons ban for Covid rule breaches
22 May 2023 at 2:56pm
Failure of appeal paves way for possible byelection in former SNP MP?s Scottish constituencyUK politics live ? latest updatesMargaret Ferrier has lost her appeal against a proposed 30-day ban from the House of Commons over Covid rule breaches, paving the way for a byelection in the MP?s Scottish ...

Junior doctors in Scotland offered cumulative 14.5% pay rise
22 May 2023 at 11:34am
British Medical Association to put government offer to hospital doctors, who had voted to take strike actionHospital doctors in Scotland have been offered a cumulative 14.5% pay rise in a fresh attempt by Scottish ministers to avert highly disruptive strikes.Junior doctors had voted overwhelmingl...

Kemi Badenoch says global carmakers? UK concerns ?nothing to do with Brexit? ...
18 May 2023 at 5:02pm
This live blog has now closed, you can read more of our UK political coverage hereKemi Badenoch, the business and trade secretary, has said that the problem raised by car manufacturers worried about exports to the EU facing tariffs from next year ?isn?t to do with Brexit?.She made the comment dur...

Alister Jack spares Tories a byelection by ruling out Lords switch
17 May 2023 at 6:24pm
Boris Johnson ally says he would not accept peerage while still an MP but will stand down at next electionAlister Jack, the Scottish secretary, has spared Rishi Sunak a byelection by ruling out taking the peerage he is understood to have been offered by Boris Johnson.The Dumfries and Galloway MP,...

Braverman urges Tories to avoid Trumpism, saying ?events in US in recent year...
15 May 2023 at 6:04pm
Home secretary makes speech to National Conservatism conference and warns against following path in US. This live blog is now closedQ: Would Labour repeal the Public Order Act?Starmer says Labour was opposed to it as it was going through. Continue reading...

Sturgeon calls for both sides to ?take a breath? in rape trial reform row
15 May 2023 at 12:00pm
Sturgeon laments polarisation in first policy intervention since stepping down as Scotland?s first ministerUK politics live ? latest updatesNicola Sturgeon says the furious backlash to Scottish government plans to pilot jury-less trials for rape cases is the latest example of the polarisation of ...

?We?re going to fight this hard?: Labour keen for byelection test in Rutherglen
14 May 2023 at 1:34pm
Anticipated vote would be chance to take on a shaken SNP and send message to voters UK-wideOn Rutherglen?s Main Street, the mood of Scottish Labour activists was as bright as the afternoon sunshine as they gathered for some teatime door-knocking. They were with Michael Shanks, their new candidate...

Archbishop of Canterbury?s attack on illegal migration bill ?wrong on both co...
10 May 2023 at 6:23pm
Justin Welby says bill is ?morally unacceptable? and rules on protection of refugees are not ?inconvenient obstructions?. This live blog is closedIn the House of Lords peers are just starting to debate the second reading of the illegal migration bill.Simon Murray, aka Lord Murray of Blidworth, is...

Wee Ginger Dug

Wee Ginger Dug

The clean fuel of independence
26 May 2023 at 3:28pm
The reasons why Scottish independence is so badly needed for the success, sanity, and security of this country keep piling up. Just in the past few days more reasons have been added to the ever growing pile, not that most people in Scotland would know that because we are saddled with a parochial and provincial …

A tale of two opinion polls
24 May 2023 at 7:24pm
Wednesday was a day of two polls, one of them was loudly touted by the anti-independence Herald and Scotsman newspapers, which these days are becoming almost unreadable in their strident and ceaseless attacks on the SNP even as they ignore far worse stories about the Conservative party. That poll was of course the YouGov poll …

Charting a way forward
22 May 2023 at 11:18am
The SNP has announced a new date for the special independence convention which was originally scheduled to be held on March 19 but was postponed due to the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon. The event was intended to give SNP members the opportunity to decide how to proceed with achieving a vote on independence in the …

National Conservatism, self-pity, idiocy and English fascism
18 May 2023 at 10:48am
The Brextremist hard right culture wing of the Tory party, which these days is most of it, has been holding a conference in London to air its delusional and self-pitying views. The so-called ‘National Conservatism’ conference is giving the Tories full throttle to blame all the ills of modern Britain on migrants, the EU, the …

Starmer?s transforming Labour into the Tories? Mini-Me
15 May 2023 at 11:14am
In a speech to the Progressive Britain conference in central London last week Labour leader Keir Starmer insisted that he didn’t care if people think that his party’s priorities sound conservative. We’ve noticed that Keir, we’ve noticed. In an attack on the the Tory government of Sunak, he claimed it “can no longer claim to …

The SNP are still a force to be reckoned with
11 May 2023 at 10:43am
Reports of the demise of the SNP are most definitely premature. An opinion poll by YouGov published this week shows that the SNP still enjoys a commanding lead over Labour in voting intentions for the next Westminster General Election. The poll showed that the Tories are losing support to Labour with Conservative vote share plummeting …

The authoritarian abhorronation and SNP opportunities
8 May 2023 at 11:06am
The abhorronation has finally finished, barring the usual interminable post match analyses from a British media determined to keep Chas’s special day going on for as long as possible, as it congratulates itself with the assertion that no other country could have put on an event like Saturday’s. That same media, in all its hours …

The English local elections and the Tories? voter suppression tactics
4 May 2023 at 10:40am
On thursday there are council and mayoral elections in England, the first big electoral test for Rishi Sunak since he became leader of the Tory party following Liz Truss’s disastrous short stint in Downing Street. There are elections in 230 local authorities across England as well as elections for mayors in Bedford, Leicester, Mansfield and …

Swearing at the Kingzilla?s special day
1 May 2023 at 4:40pm
Are you all getting ready for the Kingzilla’s special day? People in Scotland are either not interested or actively repelled by the festival of compulsory British nationalim. At the weekend fans at a Celtic match were filmed singing, “You can stick yer coronation up yer arse,” Scotland’s official entry in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. …

Melting Frost
27 Apr 2023 at 2:29pm
David ‘Lord’ Frost is at it again. A couple of days ago he appeared on GBeebies News for an interview with Dan Wootton, an economic migrant who’s an oozing toxic combination of nastiness and self-regard doing a poor impression of Tucker Carlson on the Price Drop Channel of right wing politics. A few days previously …

The Courier

Scottish Politics News From Holyrood and Westminster | The Courier

Angus MP Dave Doogan claimed driving fine on expenses
28 May 2023 at 10:44am
The SNP politician was listed alongside three Tories in England, including a UK Government minister.

Dan Peña is ready to take on Scotland
26 May 2023 at 5:00pm
Dan Peña wants to build a better future for Scotland.

Listen: Stooshie podcast ? Police Scotland ?institutional racism? bombshell
26 May 2023 at 5:00pm
We look at Sir Iain Livingstone's parting comments and the reaction, along with the latest political polling and concern over school violence.

EXCLUSIVE: Keir Starmer vows not to block drug consumption rooms in Scotland
26 May 2023 at 6:00am
The Labour leader promised he would 'respect' the decision of the Scottish Parliament if it decides to back the introduction of the facilities.

Perth and Kinross Tory councillor questions how ?friendly and welcoming? SNP-...
26 May 2023 at 5:50am
Councillor Angus Forbes says Scotland is an 'unattractive' place for people from other countries compared to England.

Keir Starmer pledges to ?rebuild and repair? Kirkcaldy as prime minister
25 May 2023 at 6:08pm
The Labour leader insisted victory in places like the Lang Toun is "very important to me personally" as well as his party's hopes of forming a government.

ANDREW LIDDLE: Kirkcaldy can be Keir Starmer?s kind of town again
25 May 2023 at 5:28pm
Victory in Kirkcaldy was once totemic for the SNP and if Labour leader Keir Starmer has his way it will be at the heart of his party's comeback in Scotland.

SNP MSP blames Covid and contractors for ?massive? A9 delays
25 May 2023 at 3:30pm
Clare Adamson said Covid has "changed the landscape" of who is prepared to do work on major road projects.

KEZIA DUGDALE: A Labour victory means winning back votes in Scotland, and tha...
25 May 2023 at 10:50am
Poll after poll suggests Labour can win big at the next General Election, but regaining ground in Scotland is by no means guaranteed.

Dundee couple who feared for son?s life at Carseview say ?no progress? one ye...
25 May 2023 at 6:00am
Ryan Caswell was first detained at the mental health unit in January 2020 and is currently classed as a delayed discharge.

Gerry Hassan

Gerry Hassan ? writing, research, policy and ideas

How the 1970s began for me and how I was nearly written off at the age of five
23 Jun 2022 at 12:29am
How the 1970s began for me and how I was nearly written off at the age of five Gerry Hassan Scottish Review, 22 June 2022 It did not start too well for me: the seventies. I was only a few months into primary school. Making friends. Finding my feet as a shy, sensitive only child … How the 1970s began for me and how I was nearly written off at the age of five appeared first on Gerry Ha...

Independence is not about process politics. It is about democracy
22 Jun 2022 at 12:18am
Independence is not about process politics. It is about democracy. Gerry Hassan The National, 21 June 2022 The air is thick with talk of referenda. How one is held, its status, who can initiate it and has to agree to it, and the timetable indicated by Nicola Sturgeon and Angus Robertson of October 2023. All … Independence is not about process politics. It is about democracy appeared ...

What Scotland?s big independence debate is about and should be about
17 Jun 2022 at 7:35pm
What Scotland?s big independence debate is about and should be about Gerry Hassan Bella Caledonia, 15 June 2022 Nicola Sturgeon has fired the gun on Scotland?s independence debate, standing in Bute House yesterday with Patrick Harvie, co-leader of the Scottish Greens, launching the first of several papers on independence. This has brought forth the usual … What Scotland’s big indepen...

What independence has to do to win
15 Jun 2022 at 7:36pm
What independence has to do to win Gerry Hassan The National, 14 June 2022 The Scottish Government will make an important announcement on independence today; one long awaited by independence supporters. It has long been apparent that the 2014 offer needs not just updating but completely revising and that serious, substantive work needs to be … What independence has to do to win appea...

The last days of Boris Johnson and what comes after?
8 Jun 2022 at 7:43pm
The last days of Boris Johnson and what comes after? Gerry Hassan Scottish Review, 8 June 2022 Tory leadership votes of no confidence come around much more frequently nowadays. This is not a misperception, but rooted in the decline in the authority and quality of Tory leaders, the nature of the Tory tribe and the … The last days of Boris Johnson and what comes after? appeared first o...

Goodbye to the Britain that we have all grown up with
7 Jun 2022 at 8:18pm
Goodbye to the Britain that we have all grown up with Gerry Hassan The National, 7 June 2022 Four days of Platinum Jubilee celebrations; wall-to-wall endless media coverage and sycophantic commentary on TV, radio and papers; and as the weekend concluded a Tory leadership vote of no confidence was finally triggered against Boris Johnson, beginning … Goodbye to the Britain that we have...

The relevance of George Orwell today; Standing up for democracy and against f...
1 Jun 2022 at 8:26pm
The relevance of George Orwell today: Standing up for democracy and against fascism Gerry Hassan Scottish Review, 1 June 2022 George Orwell?s influence as a writer has grown since his death in 1950 at the age of 46, particularly in recent decades. He was unashamedly a voice on the left – independent minded, an iconoclast … The relevance of George Orwell today; Standing up for democra...

What are we celebrating in the Queen?s Jubilee?
31 May 2022 at 8:30pm
What are we celebrating in the Queen?s Jubilee? Gerry Hassan The National, 31 May 2022 This is a watershed week for Britain and the monarchy at the marking of the Queen?s Platinum Jubilee. It does however raise the question – what exactly are we celebrating? The Queen has been Head of State for the past … What are we celebrating in the Queen’s Jubilee? appeared first on Gerry Hassan ...

How do we put government and leadership back in Scotland and the UK?
25 May 2022 at 9:31pm
How do we put government and leadership back in Scotland and the UK? Gerry Hassan Scottish Review, 25 May 2022 UK government and politics are not in a good place. They have been traduced and trashed in ways once unimaginable. Boris Johnson has presided over an administration from top to bottom of unbelievable incompetence, serial … How do we put government and leadership back in Scot...

Progressive politics has to talk about class and race, and challenge the fals...
24 May 2022 at 9:32pm
Progressive politics has to talk about class and race, and challenge the false divisions of the right Gerry Hassan The National, 24 May 2022 These are divisive times in politics and public life; strident voices stoking division are all around. Many of them tell us that the age we live is shaped by ?culture wars? … Progressive politics has to talk about class and race, and challenge t...

Talking up Scotland

Talking-up Scotland

If it was first-past-the-post ? 59, 5, 5, 4!
27 May 2023 at 10:37am
Above, the recent Ipsos poll turned into Constituency seat predictions. If Scotland had retained the first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system, fiercely defended by both Cons and Labour, for Westminster elections, the Scottish Parliament would have 59 SNP MSPS, 5 Labour, 5 Cons and 4 Lib Dems. In Westminster, it’s currently 59 SNP MPs, 13 Cons, 4 Lib Dems and 1 Labour. In most recent historic...

25 000 patients forced to sleep alongside opposite sex only in England
27 May 2023 at 9:45am
A Scottish newspaper above, the UK Guardian below: Thanks again to Dorothy for alerting me to this. The Guardian makes it clear that this issue applies only to NHS England. I can find no evidence of such failures reported anywhere in Scotland. Perhaps many more beds per head of population averts this? The Herald, the Glasgow Times and even the National have the story with no mention of the word...

SNP Government ensures NHS Scotland has more hospital beds per head of popula...
26 May 2023 at 9:13am
NHS hospital bed numbers per 1,000 population  – Scotland better resourced than England and Wales according to new RCEM briefing By stewartb The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has provided summary data on NHS hospital bed capacity – ?RCEM Explains: – Hospital beds across the UK? – dated May 2023. See https://res.cloudinary.com/studio-republic/images/v1684400862/RCEM-Explains-Hospita...

When 45 babies die in Kent does a Conservative notice?
26 May 2023 at 7:56am
Opening BBC Breakfast this morning, the appalling story of a truly dysfunctional maternity service in Kent, almost entirely Tory MPs, but not the biggest story across BBC UK, below: In the full story, above, there’s not a mention of any politician, Government or Labour opposition. It was the same in the even more shocking report from Shropshire in 2020 when we had: More than 1 000 cases! The he...

SNP Government?s Courts Recovery Programme reduces backlog by 36% in just one...
25 May 2023 at 11:31am
BBC Scotland have been headlining this today: Warning Scotland’s court backlogs could take years to clear From Boyle’s actual report this: We’ve had reason to look at Scotland’s Auditor General before. From February 2023: Above the UK National Audit Office home page. Below Audit Scotland: The differences in messaging are sharp. The UK NAO is all progress, support (three times) and recovery. Aud...

Relatively little racism, sexism and homophobia in Police Scotland?
25 May 2023 at 11:09am
From BBC Scotland, yesterday: Police Scotland: Racism, sexism and homophobia uncovered in review A review of the culture within Police Scotland has uncovered first-hand accounts of racism, sexism and homophobia by serving officers. The review group, set up in 2021, heard instances of people being “punished” for raising concerns. It also heard the force’s efforts to improve its culture are being...

92 year-old woman ?didn?t like? to press nurse call button because ?they?re t...
25 May 2023 at 10:31am
This is a true story that won’t make it to BBC Scotland because it’s not about someone being let down by NHS Scotland and by implication, if not direct accusation, the ‘SNP’ Government or ‘Yousaf.’ Six weeks ago, my mother Margaret (92) had a fall and was hospitalised in Kirkcaldy. After four weeks of testing and treatment, she was placed in an assessment ward in Dunfermline. Only days later sh...

Turkey building four new CalMac ferries ?on time? due to massive Turkish gove...
25 May 2023 at 9:58am
By all means read the original BBC Scotland report above, if you feel up to it. You won’t find in it this: or the many forms of support listed here: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.oecd.org/turkiye/48641944.pdf You won’t find this: Turkey is similar to Spain, Poland, Croatia and other European shipbuilding countries, but Turkey is surpassing these countries,? sai...

Road injuries and deaths stabilise at lowest levels on record
24 May 2023 at 8:13pm
BBC Scotland today is headlining: Deaths on Scotland’s roads highest since 2016. This and other media reports fail to inform the public responsibly. The facts: The total casualty figures for 2022 are the third lowest since records began. The number of fatalities increased by 33, from 141 in 2021 to 174 in 2022. This latest rise follows on from a long-term downward trend. Since 2000, the number ...

Latest poll suggests recovering SNP will lose few seats as Labour stagnates
24 May 2023 at 2:33pm
Much is being made of an earlier YouGov poll, still not available for scrutiny, suggesting major SNP Westminster losses. It will be interesting to see how the above today, from IpsosScot, for 15-21 May 2023, is reacted to, if at all. It comes as the latest in a trend suggestion SNP consolidation, perhaps recovery, and Labour stagnation with resulting, at best, minor gains for Labour in 2024: Al...

Politically Speaking

Politically Speaking: Scotland?s flagship political podcast

Breaking the Cycle
31 Mar 2022 at 2:58pm
Holyrood's Chris Marshall talks to Sean Duffy, chief executive of the Wise Group, and SNP MSP Rona Mackay, a member of the Scottish Parliament's Criminal Justice Committee, about Scotland's stubbornly high prison population and the effectiveness of community-based alternatives to incarceration. This podcast is sponsored by the Wise Group. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spoti...

Keeping it human
10 Feb 2022 at 8:38pm
After a bruising week in which the statutory regulator, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, found itself in the eye of the Gender Recognition Act storm, Mandy Rhodes interviews its chair, Baroness Kishwer Falkner. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holyrood/message

Questioning the question
14 Jan 2022 at 12:49pm
After a paper written by the former SNP policy lead, Chris Hanlon, on ?devo max? sparked an almighty row about what question or questions should be asked in any future Independence Referendum, Mandy Rhodes speaks to SNP President, Mike Russell, former Labour MSP Neil Findlay, and academic, Professor James Mitchell, on why it mattered. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.c...

Labour of Love
16 Dec 2021 at 11:45am
Scottish Labour?s Richard Leonard talks to Louise Wilson about his political career and why he decided to step down as party leader earlier this year. Elsewhere, the Holyrood team discuss the coming Omicron wave and whether the controversy over Downing Street parties has made it less likely that people will follow guidelines this Christmas. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spo...

COP26: Where are the Global South?
10 Nov 2021 at 3:35pm
In this special COP26 edition of the podcast, Louise Wilson hears from Alistair Dutton of SCIAF about who is feeling climate change first and worst, the missing $100bn climate finance, and the achievements of COP so far. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holyrood/message

COP26: Can we be cautiously optimistic?
5 Nov 2021 at 11:20am
In this special COP26 edition of the podcast, Louise Wilson speaks to WWF Scotland?s Fabrice Leveque about cautious optimism, how Scotland can prove it?s a climate leader and the work still to be done. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holyrood/message

All Eyes on Scotland
29 Oct 2021 at 11:30am
In the latest edition of the podcast, Mandy Rhodes speaks to SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford about the latest push for independence and the UK Government?s decision not to award a carbon capture plant to Scotland. Elsewhere, the team discusses the upcoming COP26 climate summit and asks ? does Glasgow really have a rat problem? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/...

An Attack on Democracy
25 Oct 2021 at 9:31am
Following the murder of Sir David Amess MP, there is renewed focus on the growing level of threat and intimidation politicians face, particularly online. In this edition of the podcast, journalist Margaret Taylor speaks to SNP MP Carol Monaghan about what it was like to receive a death threat. Elsewhere, the team discuss whether Sir David?s death will lead to a tightening of security for electe...

Joking aside
13 Oct 2021 at 2:00pm
Former Scottish Conservatives leader Jackson Carlaw is the guest on this week?s edition of the podcast, fresh from being named Wag of the Year at the Holyrood Political Awards. He reflects on a career in politics and what really happened when he stepped down as leader last year. Elsewhere, the team discuss Nicola Sturgeon?s comments about having ?time on her side? when it comes to a second inde...

The case for independence
6 Oct 2021 at 4:35pm
In this edition of the podcast, Mandy Rhodes speaks to former SNP deputy leader Jim Sillars about his life in politics and why he believes the current party leadership is failing to articulate the case for independence. Elsewhere, the team discuss a landmark legal ruling by the Supreme Court and Prime Minister Boris Johnson?s speech to the Conservative party conference. --- Send in a voice m...

Scotland and Independence

"scotland independence -guardian" - Google News

SNP plays longer game in bid for Scottish independence - BBC
29 Apr 2023 at 8:00am
SNP plays longer game in bid for Scottish independence  BBC

Netherlands for Scottish Independence hold march and rally in Hague - The Nat...
28 May 2023 at 5:03am
Netherlands for Scottish Independence hold march and rally in Hague  The National

Church will remain "impartial" on Scottish independence - The Church of Scotland
25 May 2023 at 12:45pm
Church will remain "impartial" on Scottish independence  The Church of Scotland

Call to invite Unionists to Scottish independence convention - The National
28 May 2023 at 5:03am
Call to invite Unionists to Scottish independence convention  The National

Mark McGeoghegan: Here's what Scottish independence polls tell us - The National
24 May 2023 at 8:25pm
Mark McGeoghegan: Here's what Scottish independence polls tell us  The National

Matty Healy backs Scottish independence during Radio 1 Big ... - The National
28 May 2023 at 10:07am
Matty Healy backs Scottish independence during Radio 1 Big ...  The National

Thousands join march for Scottish independence - BBC
6 May 2023 at 8:00am
Thousands join march for Scottish independence  BBC

There are two different Humza Yousafs when it comes to ... - The Scotsman
22 May 2023 at 12:24pm
There are two different Humza Yousafs when it comes to ...  The Scotsman

Dougray Scott says Labour 'really should' be in favour of Scottish ... - The ...
16 May 2023 at 8:00am
Dougray Scott says Labour 'really should' be in favour of Scottish ...  The Big Issue

Lesley Riddoch: Will Scotland choose to survive or thrive? - The National
28 May 2023 at 5:03am
Lesley Riddoch: Will Scotland choose to survive or thrive?  The National

SNP

"SNP" - Google News

SNP lost in dreamland as more tax rises loom - The Times
27 May 2023 at 6:00pm
SNP lost in dreamland as more tax rises loom  The Times

Police chief defends SNP finances investigation - BBC
25 May 2023 at 1:17pm
Police chief defends SNP finances investigation  BBC

SNP split as eight politicians announce plans for new party - GB News
26 May 2023 at 2:55pm
SNP split as eight politicians announce plans for new party  GB News

Former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon joins LinkedIn - The Times
27 May 2023 at 12:01am
Former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon joins LinkedIn  The Times

Queen's beloved Range Rover now BANNED from Glasgow thanks to SNP's LEZ - Sco...
26 May 2023 at 12:01am
Queen's beloved Range Rover now BANNED from Glasgow thanks to SNP's LEZ  Scottish Daily Express

The by-election that could shape Scotland's political landscape - The Spectator
27 May 2023 at 6:00am
The by-election that could shape Scotland's political landscape  The Spectator

Peter Murrell to face police quiz over probe into SNP sex pest Jordan Linden ...
28 May 2023 at 4:30am
Peter Murrell to face police quiz over probe into SNP sex pest Jordan Linden  Daily Record

Nat war of words as Patrick Harvie calls SNP MSP Fergus Ewing an 'angry old m...
27 May 2023 at 1:02pm
Nat war of words as Patrick Harvie calls SNP MSP Fergus Ewing an 'angry old man'  Scottish Daily Express

UK Government outflanks SNP yet again as Ministers could grant DRS pilot... f...
26 May 2023 at 8:45am
UK Government outflanks SNP yet again as Ministers could grant DRS pilot... for UK scheme only  Scottish Daily Express

Whistleblowing nurse says Scottish Covid Inquiry is 'fatally flawed' due to S...
27 May 2023 at 9:45am
Whistleblowing nurse says Scottish Covid Inquiry is 'fatally flawed' due to SNP influence  Scottish Daily Express

Referendum (Google News)

"Scotland referendum -guardian -telegraph" - Google News

SNP plays longer game in bid for Scottish independence - BBC
29 Apr 2023 at 8:00am
SNP plays longer game in bid for Scottish independence  BBC

Church of Scotland commits to neutral stance on referendum decisions - Premie...
27 May 2023 at 8:25pm
Church of Scotland commits to neutral stance on referendum decisions  Premier Christian News

Netherlands for Scottish Independence hold march and rally in Hague - The Nat...
28 May 2023 at 5:03am
Netherlands for Scottish Independence hold march and rally in Hague  The National

SNP accused of 'moving the goalposts' over independence ... - Financial Times
26 May 2023 at 5:00am
SNP accused of 'moving the goalposts' over independence ...  Financial Times

Thousands join march for Scottish independence - BBC
6 May 2023 at 8:00am
Thousands join march for Scottish independence  BBC

Seven things we learned from the poll putting independence support ... - The ...
24 May 2023 at 2:30pm
Seven things we learned from the poll putting independence support ...  The National

'De facto' independence referendum is still an option says SNP ... - The Scot...
21 May 2023 at 11:30am
'De facto' independence referendum is still an option says SNP ...  The Scotsman

There are two different Humza Yousafs when it comes to ... - The Scotsman
22 May 2023 at 12:24pm
There are two different Humza Yousafs when it comes to ...  The Scotsman

Referendum route to independence now 'dead', says SNP's longest ... - The Sco...
5 May 2023 at 8:00am
Referendum route to independence now 'dead', says SNP's longest ...  The Scotsman

Lesley Riddoch: Will Scotland choose to survive or thrive? - The National
28 May 2023 at 5:03am
Lesley Riddoch: Will Scotland choose to survive or thrive?  The National

Holyrood Magazine

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Deposit Return Scheme: Lorna Slater accuses UK Government of 'treating Scotti...
26 May 2023 at 2:12pm
Minister's anger as reports suggest Scottish Government DRS faces major change or block by UK

Scottish Deposit Return Scheme 'could become pilot for UK-wide' recycling system
26 May 2023 at 11:49am
UK Government decision on Internal Market Act exemption for DRS understood to be imminent

Scottish Prison Service hails 'step change' for women as new trauma-informed ...
26 May 2023 at 9:18am
Stirling Prison replaces Cornton Vale

Margaret Ferrier suspension vote postponed
25 May 2023 at 5:38pm
It is expected to be brought back when MPs return from recess in June

First Minister welcomes ?monumental? admission Police Scotland is 'institutio...
25 May 2023 at 2:11pm
"It?s so, so important we now see action in terms of what can be done to dismantle those barriers," Yousaf said

Chief constable says Police Scotland is ?discriminatory and racist?
25 May 2023 at 12:23pm
Sir Iain Livingstone told a meeting of the Scottish Police Authority that prejudice is a ?reality for Police Scotland? and is ?rightly of great concern?

SNP support down as Yes voters eye Labour, poll finds
25 May 2023 at 8:10am
Link between SNP and Yes voters 'weakening', Ipsos says, as First Minister Humza Yousaf records lower satisfaction rating than Labour leader Anas Sarwar

?Transformational change? needed in children?s hearing system
25 May 2023 at 7:00am
Scotland?s unique children?s hearing system must be overhauled and the volunteer-only model ended, an expert group has concluded

5G technology tested at Scotland 5G Centre supported live broadcast of Corona...
24 May 2023 at 5:12pm
The temporary private 5G standalone network, which was deployed by the University of Strathclyde and spin-out company Neutral Wireless, was the largest of its kind at the Coronation

Rishi Sunak tells the SNP to 'reconsider' DRS
24 May 2023 at 2:19pm
The Prime Minister criticised the SNP/Green scheme telling the Commons that they should ?reconsider? the DRS as it will ?reduce choice and increase prices for consumers?