The Herald

The Herald | Politics


Millionaire Tory donor and former Scotland Office minister defects to Reform
6 Dec 2025 at 12:52pm
The millionaire peer was announced by Nigel Farage as the party?s latest high-profile member during a rally in Falkirk.


Farage due in Falkirk as Reform UK gears up for Holyrood campaign
6 Dec 2025 at 8:38am
Nigel Farage is due to hold a rally in Falkirk on Saturday, prompting John Swinney to accuse him of seeking to ?whip up hate?.


Sarwar told to clarify whether he agrees Keir Starmer is 'rolling back' on de...
6 Dec 2025 at 5:30am
The SNP have written to Anas Sarwar asking him to confirm his position on whether Sir Keir Starmer is "rolling back on devolution".


Leading cancer hospital 'chronically run down' amid leaks in roof, MSP warns
6 Dec 2025 at 5:30am
Scotland's leading cancer hospital, the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, has been described as "chronically run down" after roof leaks were discovered.


Flags, politics and poverty: decoding Glasgow?s saltire surge
6 Dec 2025 at 10:00am
The first saltires appear on Springburn Road, just beyond the Colston traffic lights marking Glasgow?s northern frontier, beyond which the TOA taxis can add their nippy boundary charges


Left-wing Glasgow MP described as one of the ?lost generation of Labour?
6 Dec 2025 at 6:28am
John Maxton, Lord Maxton, was MP for Glasgow Cathcart from 1979 to 2001 and a Labour peer from June 2004 to his retirement on his 89th birthday on May 5th, 2025


UK Gov minister: Scrapping two-child limit too early would've been 'worst thing'
6 Dec 2025 at 6:30am
Scotland Office minister Kirsty McNeill has said scrapping the two-child limit prematurely would have been the "worst thing" for families in poverty.


Scottish Labour MSP quits as education spokeswoman amid links to sex offender
5 Dec 2025 at 6:44pm
Scottish Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy has resigned from the party's frontbench following links to sex offender.


Councils warn Scottish class-time cuts rest on ?untested? and unrealistic plans
5 Dec 2025 at 4:00pm
Councils warn Scottish Government plans to cut teachers? class time are untested, unfunded and could cost up to £300m, raising serious concerns over delivery.


Lessons unlearned: how Scotland?s asylum policies are fuelling fear and division
5 Dec 2025 at 11:30am
How did we arrive at this place? Gangs of aggressive men are gathering outside Scottish primary schools to harass and intimidate a handful of mums who seek nothing more than to learn the language of their new country


UK government vows 'largest reduction' in child poverty but charities sceptical
4 Dec 2025 at 10:30pm
The UK Government?s long-awaited child poverty strategy will ?deliver the largest reduction in child poverty since records began?, Labour ministers have promised.


Keir Starmer brands Nigel Farage ?toxic? over Glasgow language comments
4 Dec 2025 at 7:39pm
Sir Keir Starmer has branded Nigel Farage a ?toxic? and ?divisive disgrace? as he condemned the Reform UK leader's attack on Glasgow.


Is Scotland?s grooming-gang review just the latest SNP announceable?
4 Dec 2025 at 4:28pm
The SNP?s announcement on group-based child sexual abuse was meant to show urgency ? instead it sowed confusion.


Swinney condemns Farage over 'racist views' as school language row escalates
4 Dec 2025 at 1:49pm
The First Minister Joh Swinney has told journalists the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage holds views that are 'simply racist'.

The Scotsman

The Scotsman Politics


Nigel Farage in Scotland: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage due to hold rally in ...
6 Dec 2025 at 9:57am

Rally comes as Reform UK gears up its Scottish Parliament election campaign.

The Greens are the most likely party to back the SNP minority government?s budget plans.

Pam Duncan-Glancy has resigned from her role as Labour education spokeswoman over her friendship with a convicted sex offender

Wings over Scotland

The cost of failure
4 Dec 2025 at 1:19pm
For several years now, this site has recorded how the SNP’s continued existence is now entirely dependent on UK state funding. The party would simply go bust without Westminster money. And how precarious a position that puts it in is sharply illustrated by the latest release of donations income from the Electoral Commission. In a …

Ain?t Got Time To Bleed
3 Dec 2025 at 8:12pm
It is our solemn duty to inform you we’ve received another legal threat, readers. Should we cease and desist? Let’s see. The article in question is this one, and this is everything it said about Mr McNeil: Only one “statement” is attributed to him – the words “The authorities will be there so we need …

Ginger beer and fruit and nuts
3 Dec 2025 at 1:44pm
We miss the days when this was parody, not “progressive” ideology. ? But we are where we are. And hey, it’s great news that their adult roles are still open to all.

Wishing for swans
1 Dec 2025 at 1:58pm
For lack of anything more interesting to write about, we thought we might do a monthly rundown of polling in the leadup to next year’s Holyrood election, with seat projections from a neutral source, in the shape of the newish Devolved Elections website. And very quickly, things got a bit weird. Our original thought was …

The Groomers? Friends
27 Nov 2025 at 12:59pm
We’re just putting this here for the record, really. It’s a “debate” from the Scottish Parliament last night, on a motion from Patrick Harvie complaining that vulnerable children aren’t being pushed into a programme of lifelong medicalisation, sterilisation and mutilation quickly enough. The motion completely ignored both the findings of the Cass Review and the …

Searching And Looking
22 Nov 2025 at 9:44pm
Disgraced ex-policeman and notorious vexatious serial complainant Lynsay Watson is having quite the meltdown on the groomer-and-paedophile haven Bluesky tonight. Let’s listen in. The trigger is that Watson has been asked to attend a voluntary police interview in connection with allegations of harassment against him – something that’s happened before, and which he’s managed to …

Reach For The Stars (And Stripes)
19 Nov 2025 at 8:49am
To be honest, we’re mainly putting these here so you don’t have to keep looking at that picture of Alan Cumming. But they also show what you can achieve, whether in football or politics, if you actually attack rather than being content to endlessly shuttle it all sideways and backwards until you get beaten without …

Over The Hill And Down The Slope
14 Nov 2025 at 1:15pm
We’ve just been leaked the SNP’s first poster roughs for Holyrood 2026. One more push, everyone!

Grift Away
8 Nov 2025 at 2:31pm
Oh good, another plan. Just three and a half years to wait. Should we, what’s the phrase, “Save The Date”? Rhetorical question, obviously. If you’re in a hurry, folks, just scroll down to the video and start there, because Believe In Scotland’s latest wheeze to get hold of your folding money and stash it in …

Rise Of The Machine
7 Nov 2025 at 11:49am
It’s Wings’ 14th birthday today, and to be entirely honest with you, readers, like a lot of teenagers we’re having a bit of an existential crisis. It’s quite difficult to see any point in being a Scottish political journalist for the next five years, because it’s just going to be one depressing Groundhog Day after …

Craig Murray

The Terrifying Case of Natalie Strecker
2 Dec 2025 at 8:30am

I am confident that over 2 million people in the UK have shared thoughts on the Genocide in Gaza that are stronger than anything Natalie Strecker has expressed. I am quite certain that I am one of those 2 million. Yet Natalie Strecker, an avowed pacifist, today faces up to ten years in prison under …

The Terrifying Case of Natalie Strecker

Resisting Authoritarianism
28 Nov 2025 at 8:34am

In the last three days I have been in London at the judicial review of Palestine Action and today I am in Jersey for the terrorist trial of Natalie Strecker. I made a brief impromptu speech outside the High Court, in intervening to try and stop some people in wheelchairs from being arrested as “terrorists”, …

Resisting Authoritarianism

Judicial Malfeasance and Palestine Action
26 Nov 2025 at 2:56am

The Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action – funded so far by readers of this blog – has been simply shelved by delay tactics that plainly break the Scottish legal system’s own rules. Our case was ruled competent for us to serve the petition on the UK government. They replied in the …

Judicial Malfeasance and Palestine Action

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

BBC Scotland

Scottish Conservative peer defects to Reform UK
6 Dec 2025 at 2:46pm
Malcolm Offord appeared at a rally alongside Nigel Farage in Falkirk on Saturday to announce the move.

Scottish Labour frontbencher quits over links to sex offender
5 Dec 2025 at 10:13pm
Pam Duncan-Glancy has resigned as Labour's education spokesperson after reports she maintained links with a disgraced councillor.

Swinney brands Farage comments about Glasgow pupils racist
5 Dec 2025 at 9:29am
The Reform UK leader said the proportion of children who do not have English as a first language in Glasgow was "cultural smashing".

Is Scottish Labour on the brink of Westminster revolt?
4 Dec 2025 at 6:11am
The prime minister is set to visit Scotland later, but there are murmurings of discontent among his MPs.

UK and Norway form naval alliance to hunt Russian submarines
4 Dec 2025 at 4:55pm
The partnership aims to protect undersea cables, which Western officials say face increased threat from Moscow.

Flu cases in Scotland more than double in a week
4 Dec 2025 at 4:48pm
In the week of 24-30 November, lab-confirmed cases rose from 845 to 1,759, according to Public Health Scotland data.

Seven health boards given £230m bailout loans despite record funding
4 Dec 2025 at 6:12am
Despite record levels of NHS funding, seven health boards needed government help to balance their books last year.

GB Energy plan to focus on historical oil and gas areas
4 Dec 2025 at 6:12am
The new publicly-owned body says its investments will aim to support 10,000 jobs by 2030.

Scottish government orders review of grooming gangs evidence
3 Dec 2025 at 5:17pm
The review will inform a future decision on whether or not there should be a judge-led public inquiry.

Reeves should resign for misleading public, says Swinney
1 Dec 2025 at 12:53pm
The first minister has called for the chancellor to step down due to comments she made ahead of the Budget.

Should football fans be banned from games for using pyrotechnics?
30 Nov 2025 at 1:10pm
The Scottish government is seeking views on whether banning orders should be given out for the use of flares or fireworks at matches.

Health secretary insists there is enough stock of flu vaccine
3 Dec 2025 at 12:28pm
Over a million adults and 400,000 children received the flu jab between September and November.

Scot Goes Pop

Nigel Farage's rant about the native languages of Glasgow school pupils revea...
6 Dec 2025 at 7:52am
Today's video commentary below is in two parts.  Firstly, I look at how Nigel Farage's complaint that almost one-third of Glasgow school pupils do not speak English as a native language marks out R...

If Rachel Reeves' rejection of an independence referendum "carries little wei...
4 Dec 2025 at 8:41am
Stephen Flynn has said that Rachel Reeves' rejection of an independence referendum in the event of an SNP overall majority "carries little weight", but if it really doesn't matter what the UK gover...

"Utterly dominant": SNP soar to almost 40% support in latest Scottish subsamp...
3 Dec 2025 at 5:52pm
*  *  *Scot Goes Pop: The Final Fundraiser is underway (you can read more about why I anticipate it being the final one HERE) and it's already pretty close to halfway to its target figure of £1700....

Scot Goes Pop: The Final Fundraiser (plus an update about the video blogging ...
1 Dec 2025 at 6:37am
Click here to go straight to the fundraiser page.Scot Goes Pop's annual fundraiser for 2025 ended up getting much, much closer to its target figure than I ever thought was possible, so a million th...

STUNNING YouGov polling confirms SNP are far more popular with voters in Scot...
30 Nov 2025 at 5:59am
* .* .*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...

IT'S OFFICIAL: Rachel Reeves confirms Scotland is in a FORCED union with Engl...
28 Nov 2025 at 11:17am
* .* .*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...

Does the Alba Party's "princess" Shannon Cullen regret her ill-judged associa...
27 Nov 2025 at 1:12pm
In a way it's ironic that the Alba Party have become so vehemently anti-monarchy, because they certainly believe in the principle of Royal Families within their own ranks.  Famously, Christina Hend...

Landmark YouGov poll shows how SNP could win independence by holding the bala...
26 Nov 2025 at 6:08am
* .* .*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...

STV Politics News

Latest Politics News | STV News

Former deputy Scotland secretary Malcolm Offord defects to Reform UK
6 Dec 2025 at 2:29pm
Malcolm Offord made the announcement at a rally attended by Nigel Farage in Falkirk on Saturday.

Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy resigns from shadow cabinet over friendship with...
6 Dec 2025 at 10:41am
Pam Duncan-Glancy resigned from the shadow cabinet with immediate effect after the Daily Record approached her over her links to former councillor Sean Morton.

Scotland?s energy industry facing ?existential threat?, John Swinney warns Ke...
5 Dec 2025 at 2:39pm
The First Minister met with the Prime Minister ahead of a summit of the British-Irish Council in Wales.

John Swinney brands Glasgow schoolchildren comments made by Nigel Farage as ?...
5 Dec 2025 at 2:33pm
The Reform leader posted a video on social media claiming one in three Glasgow schoolchildren do not speak English as their first language.

Prime Minister announces strategy to cut child poverty by 550,000 by 2030
5 Dec 2025 at 12:42pm
Approximately 4.5 million children are currently living in poverty in the UK.

Sarwar?s fingerprints ?all over the Budget?, says Starmer
5 Dec 2025 at 9:34am
The Prime Minister touted his Scottish leader?s influence as he addressed members on Thursday.

UK Government unwilling to support Scottish industry, John Swinney claims
5 Dec 2025 at 7:09am
The First Minister is expected to push for ?urgent? support for Scottish industry.

SNP has damaged rather than improved Scotland, says Starmer
4 Dec 2025 at 8:35pm
The Prime Minister spoke with less than six months to go to the next Holyrood election.

John Swinney defends justice secretary Angela Constance over grooming gang re...
4 Dec 2025 at 4:43pm
The Scottish Tories accused the justice secretary of 'misleading the Scottish Parliament and the public'.

Swinney ?waiting with expectation? for UK ministers to secure whisky tariff deal
4 Dec 2025 at 2:54pm
The Scottish First Minister said he has put ?significant effort? into seeking an agreement to cut the US levies.

?John Swinney?s head is completely in the sand over NHS crisis?, warns Libera...
4 Dec 2025 at 1:33pm
An Audit Scotland report found promises to improve the NHS have not been met, despite more spending and staffing.

John Swinney to face FMQs after ordering a grooming gangs evidence review
4 Dec 2025 at 11:45am
The review will help the Scottish Government understand the 'extent and scale' of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Business minister to announce Scotland?s space strategy will be refreshed
4 Dec 2025 at 7:30am
Richard Lochhead will make the announcement at Space-Comm Expo in Glasgow later on Thursday.

Starmer to visit RAF base with Norwegian PM as he heads to Scotland
4 Dec 2025 at 7:15am
Sir Keir is also expected to meet campaigners and MSPs to discuss his government?s child poverty strategy.

Daily Record

Daily Record - Politics

Scottish Labour education spokeswoman quits over friendship with convicted se...
5 Dec 2025 at 6:17pm
MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy resigned her education role after the Record approached Scottish Labour about her links to disgraced former councillor Sean Morton. Concerns were raised about her judgement.

Scotland's role in fight against Russia as Putin "ready" for war - everything...
5 Dec 2025 at 9:15am
Russia's despot has said: ?Russia does not intend to fight Europe, but if Europe starts, we are ready right now.?

Keir Starmer brands Nigel Farage a 'toxic disgrace' over Glasgow pupils comments
4 Dec 2025 at 7:31pm
The Prime Minister tore into the Reform UK leader who had spoken of the "cultural smashing of Glasgow.?

Cutting income tax is the promise Anas Sarwar needs to make to distance himse...
4 Dec 2025 at 5:30pm
Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says Anas Sarwar may need to bring forward his income tax plan is he wants to eat into the SNP's 17 point lead for Holyrood.

John Swinney slams Nigel Farage?s remarks on Glasgow schoolchildren as 'racist'
4 Dec 2025 at 3:00pm
John Swinney condemned Nigel Farage after the Reform UK leader claimed one in three Glasgow schoolchildren do not speak English as a first language, calling the remarks ?simply racist?.

SNP donations dry up as John Swinney's party receives £2,584 this year
4 Dec 2025 at 10:06am
New figures have been published by the Electoral Commission.

Tackling this evil is taking too long as grooming gangs probe ordered by SNP ...
4 Dec 2025 at 4:30am
Record View says the concerns of victims must be central if this review is to command public support and reassurances have to be provided.

Grooming gangs probe ordered by SNP Government after anger by victims
3 Dec 2025 at 4:18pm
Professor Alexis Jay will have a role on a review that could result in a full inquiry.

MSP suspended by Labour facing Holyrood exit after he is unable to contest Ed...
3 Dec 2025 at 1:15pm
EXCLUSIVE: Foysol Choudhury had been selected in Edinburgh Northern, but the internal Labour selection has been reopened and it will be an all-women shortlist.

Everything you need to know about Vladimir Putin's World War Three threat
3 Dec 2025 at 12:35pm
Russia's president issued the chilling message as talks on ending the war in Ukraine have stalled.

The National

The National | Politics

Scottish peer defects to Reform UK with announcement in Falkirk
6 Dec 2025 at 1:58pm

MALCOLM Offord, the current treasurer of the Scottish Conservative Party and a member of the House of Lords, has defected to Reform UK

False narratives risk distorting the 2026 Holyrood campaign
6 Dec 2025 at 12:00pm

Two recent interventions from the political right should set alarm bells ringing ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections

DUP seeks to block Sinn Fein bid for European Parliament ?observer status?
6 Dec 2025 at 11:13am

THE DUP is to seek to block a Sinn Fein bid for ?observer status? in the European Parliament

Allies of Angela Rayner react after claims of Wes Streeting pact
6 Dec 2025 at 9:27am

ANGELA Rayner will ?not be played like a pawn,? a source close to the former deputy prime minister has said, after claims of a mooted deal for her and Wes Streeting to run for the Labour leadership

LIVE: Updates as Nigel Farage visits Falkirk for Reform UK rally
6 Dec 2025 at 9:04am

We bring you live updates as Nigel Farage visits Falkirk today, with an asylum hotel protest taking place four miles away and counter-demonstrations

What you need to know as Nigel Farage and counter-protest head to Falkirk
6 Dec 2025 at 5:00am

REFORM UK are set to hold a rally near Falkirk today, with an asylum hotel protest taking place four miles away in the Scottish town.

Glasgow University rector slams 'Viscount Blair' role as interim Gaza leader
6 Dec 2025 at 5:00am

The rector of Glasgow University has hit out at ?Viscount Blair? being touted as the interim leader of Gaza

How Glasgow NHS workers forged vital links with Palestinian medical staff
6 Dec 2025 at 5:00am

Scottish trade unions have been credited with helping to provide vital support for Palestinian health workers

Nigel Farage?s language of hate falls flat in face of wonders we could build
6 Dec 2025 at 5:00am

Nigel Farage has made a complete plonker of himself in his attempt to start a culture war in Glasgow

Can library claim be supported with facts?
6 Dec 2025 at 5:00am

HAVE I understood your article correctly: in the imagination

Holyrood Magazine

Holyrood Website

Scottish space sector calls for increased funding in strategy review
5 Dec 2025 at 2:50pm
In the wake of business minister Richard Lochhead?s announcement that a review of Scotland?s space strategy is on the cards for 2026, Holyrood asked key players in the Scottish space sector what they are hoping for from the strategy

Edinburgh Airport suspends all flights after IT crash ?
5 Dec 2025 at 11:20am
Edinburgh Airport suspended all flights in and out of the nation's capital earlier today due to an IT issue with their air traffic control provider

Keir Starmer sets out 'moral mission' to tackle child poverty
4 Dec 2025 at 10:30pm
Scottish charities have called for the government to do more?

Keir Starmer: Nigel Farage is a ?disgrace?
4 Dec 2025 at 7:07pm
The prime minister was on a visit to Glasgow when he called out comments made by the Reform leader

John Swinney has ?head in the sand? on NHS woes
4 Dec 2025 at 12:56pm
Auditors warned that despite record levels of investment, the NHS had not improved in line with government commitments

Richard Lochhead launches review of Scotland?s space strategy ?
4 Dec 2025 at 10:43am
Business minister Richard Lochhead has announced a review of Scotland?s space strategy

Reform UK banks ?10m war chest thanks to crypto investor
4 Dec 2025 at 10:17am
Electoral Commission publishes third quarter donations

NHS in Scotland ?unsustainable? despite record levels of investment
4 Dec 2025 at 7:05am
A damning assessment by Audit Scotland found that activity remains below pre-pandemic levels

Keir Starmer to meet Norwegian PM in Scotland
4 Dec 2025 at 6:00am
The PM will also be in Glasgow to meet Anas Sarwar

Malcom Burr wins lifetime achievement award at Scottish Public Services Award...
3 Dec 2025 at 11:01pm
Malcom Burr, the chief executive of Western Isles Council,?has been a public servant for over 40 years, working in the former Strathclyde region, Orkney,?and the Western Isles

Guardian - Scottish Politics

Scottish politics | The Guardian

John Swinney defends immigration as Scotland faces rise of Reform
6 Dec 2025 at 9:00am
Exclusive: First minister mounts robust defence of diversity as SNP prepares campaign for Holyrood election in MayScotland needs immigration to bolster the size of its working-age population, the country?s first minister has said, mounting a forceful defence of diversity in the face of rising su...

Farage criticises BBC over racism allegations and claims one fellow pupil sai...
4 Dec 2025 at 6:01pm
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereNigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, said that in Essex county council elections were postponed. He said district councils were being replaced with a new ?pretty amorphous unitary authority?. Because of that, the area also needed ?a clea...

Starmer says budget did not break manifesto tax pledge ? as it happened
27 Nov 2025 at 5:54pm
PM says: ?We kept to our manifesto in terms of what we?ve promised. But I accept the challenge that we?ve asked everybody to contribute?Ask the Guardian your budget questionsShare your views on the new ?mansion tax?Budget calculator: find out if you are better or worse offThe Conservative party i...

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...

Wee Ginger Dug

Wee Ginger Dug

Farage?s contemptible attack on Glesca weans
3 Dec 2025 at 9:15pm
Nigel Farage has been a racist bully again. But don’t worry, he’s only doing it indirectly and without intent to offend or insult. So that’s OK then. Just days after the Scottish Languages Act came into force the English nationalist golf club boor has taken aim at school children in Glasgow. Apparently it’s the “cultural …

The Scottish Languages Act
1 Dec 2025 at 6:56pm
Scotland’s status as a multilingual country is now recognised in law with the Scottish Languages Act coming into force on St Andrew’s Day. The Act beefs up the legal protections previously given to Gaelic and elevates it to the status of an official language of Scotland. For the first time in history, official legal recognition …

I?m disabled, here?s the truth about the Motability scheme.
29 Nov 2025 at 4:06pm
The Labour party has capitulated to right wing demonisation of the most vulnerable minority group in the country, the disabled. I’ve pointed this out before but it bears repeating. The disabled are the only minority group that anyone can become a part of at any time. Anyone can become involved in a serious accident that …

The lie that protects the rich from tax rises
27 Nov 2025 at 3:30pm
Better late than never, Rachel Reeves finally followed the lead of the SNP Government in Holyrood and announced that the heinous two child cap on benefits will finally be abolished from May next year, cue a load of hypocritical Labour MPs trying to pretend that they supported this measure all along despite voting to keep …

Hope of a better Scotland can defeat the far right
25 Nov 2025 at 2:42pm
Racists complain that migrants don’t want to learn English and integrate, but when migrants do want to learn English and integrate, racists mount a protest outside the school where English language lessons are being given to the mothers of some of the pupils, insisting that they are “protecting our kids” from unvetted adults on school …

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 …

The Courier

[CaRP] Can't open remote newsfeed [403].
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'

Part-time MSP and GP allowed to malign Glasgow?s leading Cancer hospital base...
6 Dec 2025 at 10:40am
Professor John Robertson OBA Sandesh Gulhane MSP, Conservative Shadowy Health Secretary has a casual visit to Scotland’s leading cancer care centre and spots rain-bins, after several days of rain last week. We don’t hear the number nor see any photos but with no other evidence offered, he and his Herald chums work up the above disgusting account. A Healthcare Improvement Scotland inspection rep...

?Westminster should learn from Holyrood before another generation pays the pr...
6 Dec 2025 at 9:13am
Professor John Robertson OBA This comparative assessment of the effectiveness in reducing child poverty with Labour's newly announced Child Poverty Strategy or Scotland's now established Child Payment has not been directly biased in favour of the views of Labour, the SNP or me but, unavoidably, will have been impacted by the weight of the recent media presence of the former. Nevertheless, I fee...

Why frailty among older people seems less common to GPs in Scotland ? Stronge...
5 Dec 2025 at 11:39pm
Professor John Robertson OBA From the Guardian yesterday: GPs failing older people living with frailty, National Audit Office finds Did the national audit report blame the Labour Government for any of this? Did it note that England had far fewer GPs per head than Scotland. No and no. I asked AI: Are there reports of GPs failing older people living with frailty in Scotland? While there are no ex...

Internationally acclaimed Scottish writer?s latest on Scotland?s Radicals wil...
5 Dec 2025 at 1:49pm
Professor John Robertson OBA Ron Culley needs no introduction from me because AI can do it so much more fully it seems: Ron Culley is a Scottish author and former public sector executive, best known for his work as a novelist specializing in historical fiction, political thrillers, and biographical works with a focus on Scottish and Irish history.Literary CareerCulley has published over a dozen...

NHS Scotland?s greater resilience and Scottish Government actions paying off ...
5 Dec 2025 at 8:33am
Professor John Robertson OBA You may remember in 2020, Boris Johnson saying that NHS Scotland had resilience problems which would harm its Covid response. In the end, the excess death rate in England was twice that in Scotland. Recently, we had Jackie Baillie making a similar morbid wish fulfilment prediction suggesting that the ‘SNP’ was not ready for winter. It’s not working out well for Bail...

As Turkish yard delays small, simple-design, ferry again and again, here?s Cl...
4 Dec 2025 at 10:59pm
Professor John Robertson OBA In the Herald today: Scottish ferry built in Turkey delayed again with Christmas delivery ‘a challenge’ The contract for the MV Isle of Islay was awarded to Cemre Shipyard in Turkey in March 2022. She was expected to be delivered by the end of 2024 but has been delayed several times and seems most unlikely to make it in 2025, more than 1 year late. She is a smalle...

No CalMac ferry has ever killed a fishing boat crew member, while privatised ...
4 Dec 2025 at 10:58pm
Professor John Robertson OBA From ITV yesterday: A Condor Ferry worker who endangered lives after his vessel collided with a fishing trawler has been handed a 20-month prison sentence. Lewis Peter Carr, from Sunderland, appeared at Jersey‘s Royal Court on Thursday 4 December to receive his sentence. He was found guilty in a trial this September of endangering ships, structures, or individuals –...

?Grooming gangs? ? As Herald platforms Tories to reveal their squalid purpose...
4 Dec 2025 at 10:56pm
Professor John Robertson OBA The abovementioned calls are from a expected quarter: You see that first line in the second paragraph? They already know that there are grooming gangs in Scotland like the ones in Rochdale and other midland towns, which have raped thousands of young white girls from badly -run care homes. There’s no point having an inquiry if you already know the answer. I know a di...

Why do Scotland?s deprived areas NOT have the most troubled hospitals?
4 Dec 2025 at 10:54pm
Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian yesterday, the above and: Blackpool report: why do England?s deprived areas have the most troubled hospitals? The findings of the report into Blackpool Victoria hospital are as shocking as they are damning: a culture of bullying, racial discrimination and harassment that has contributed to a staff exodus with a direct impact on patients. The treatmen...

Patient sexually assaulted and killed in her bed, six staff jailed including ...
4 Dec 2025 at 10:51pm
Professor John Robertson OBA Seeing the Guardian report today on the massive shocking scandal at Blackpool Victoria Hospital, I was reminded of the media-saturated story in 2018 – 2022, when Doctor Iain Kennedy made his name exposing bullying at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. The contrast in the media/opposition party treatment could not be sharper. First, Blackpool: In the Guardian yesterday ...

Scotland and Independence

"scotland independence -guardian" - Google News

Nigel Farage to rally in Scotland as Reform UK gains ground ahead of election...
6 Dec 2025 at 7:48am
Nigel Farage to rally in Scotland as Reform UK gains ground ahead of elections  France 24

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

Scottish political snapshot, November 2025 - YouGov
17 Nov 2025 at 8:00am
Scottish political snapshot, November 2025  YouGov

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

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

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

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

Forget Nostradamus, Indyref2 likely depends on one thing: Scotland?s ?settled...
2 Dec 2025 at 4:23pm
Forget Nostradamus, Indyref2 likely depends on one thing: Scotland?s ?settled will?  The Herald

More of the SNP's independence strategy should be revealed before May - TheNa...
3 Dec 2025 at 3:38pm
More of the SNP's independence strategy should be revealed before May  TheNational.scot

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

SNP

"SNP" - Google News

Starmer has left millions of children ?languishing in poverty?, claims SNP - ...
6 Dec 2025 at 7:34am
Starmer has left millions of children ?languishing in poverty?, claims SNP  Radio News Hub

How the SNP paralysed Scotland - New Statesman
5 Dec 2025 at 5:09am
How the SNP paralysed Scotland  New Statesman

How Scotland's colleges are being crushed by SNP austerity - The Scotsman
6 Dec 2025 at 6:00am
How Scotland's colleges are being crushed by SNP austerity  The Scotsman

MSP Jackie Baillie: 'SNP?s underfunding of education sector is coming home to...
6 Dec 2025 at 12:00pm
MSP Jackie Baillie: 'SNP?s underfunding of education sector is coming home to roost'  Helensburgh Advertiser

Tackling this evil is taking too long as grooming gangs probe ordered by SNP ...
6 Dec 2025 at 3:36am
Tackling this evil is taking too long as grooming gangs probe ordered by SNP Government  Daily Record

Al-Futtaim and SNP achieve seamless S/4HANA conversion in record time - Yahoo...
4 Dec 2025 at 9:07am
Al-Futtaim and SNP achieve seamless S/4HANA conversion in record time  Yahoo Finance

SNP welfare quango ?turning a blind eye to benefits fraud? - The Telegraph
5 Dec 2025 at 3:52pm
SNP welfare quango ?turning a blind eye to benefits fraud?  The Telegraph

STRAIGHT TALKING: ?Between a rock and a hard place? - Who will stand up in Ho...
6 Dec 2025 at 2:00pm
STRAIGHT TALKING: ?Between a rock and a hard place? - Who will stand up in Holyrood against energy companies ?eager to sink their teeth into whatever they can extract from Shetland??  Shetland Times

NIGEL FARAGE: Labour and the SNP have failed ...no wonder we're winning over ...
5 Dec 2025 at 9:35pm
NIGEL FARAGE: Labour and the SNP have failed ...no wonder we're winning over millions  Daily Mail Online

Glasgow?s asylum crisis is the result of SNP recklessness - UnHerd
2 Dec 2025 at 1:23pm
Glasgow?s asylum crisis is the result of SNP recklessness  UnHerd

Referendum (Google News)

"Scotland referendum -guardian -telegraph" - Google News

No independence referendum if SNP wins majority, Reeves says - BBC
27 Nov 2025 at 8:00am
No independence referendum if SNP wins majority, Reeves says  BBC

Forget Nostradamus, Indyref2 likely depends on one thing: Scotland?s ?settled...
2 Dec 2025 at 4:23pm
Forget Nostradamus, Indyref2 likely depends on one thing: Scotland?s ?settled will?  The Herald

Ukraine Today: Russia slams ?flawed? Scotland referendum; Kremlin observers c...
30 Nov 2025 at 12:20pm
Ukraine Today: Russia slams ?flawed? Scotland referendum; Kremlin observers critical of independence vote (VIDEO)  Kyiv Post

Scotland Wants to Issue Its Own Bonds. Last Time It Paid With Its Independenc...
30 Nov 2025 at 5:00pm
Scotland Wants to Issue Its Own Bonds. Last Time It Paid With Its Independence.  The Wall Street Journal

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

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

Scottish political snapshot, November 2025 - YouGov
17 Nov 2025 at 8:00am
Scottish political snapshot, November 2025  YouGov

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

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