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Sugar levy forces AG Barr to 'review' Irn-Bru - maker could consider recipe c...
26 Nov 2025 at 6:39pm
The taste of Irn-Bru could be about to change again with maker AG Barr saying it will have to ?review the implications? of a change to the sugar tax on fizzy drinks.  


Scotland?s £820m Budget boost comes with warnings hiding in the fine print
26 Nov 2025 at 6:26pm
Scotland is set to receive an £820m Budget uplift, but economists warn the money arrives unevenly as frozen tax thresholds, new levies and delayed cuts reshape the UK?s finances.


Budget 'to kill off North Sea oil industry within five years'
26 Nov 2025 at 6:00pm
North Sea oil industry leaders warned the Chancellor's decision to leave the windfall tax in place in the Budget could lead firms to slash investment and jobs.


A Budget far less chaotic and dramatic than billed but with big tax takes
26 Nov 2025 at 5:41pm
A far less chaotic and dramatic Budget than many might have expected, perhaps even accomplished


Who is Nus Ghani, the deputy speaker who presided over the chaotic UK Budget ...
26 Nov 2025 at 4:40pm
Nusrat Ghani, the Commons deputy speaker, chaired the Budget. Here?s who she is, what her role involves, and why she oversees major parliamentary debates.


We campaigned to scrap the two-child benefit cap - and this is why it matters
26 Nov 2025 at 4:35pm
Removing the two-child benefit cap was always going to be controversial. But fundamentally, it matters. This is why The Herald campaigned for it.


What is the OBR - and why does today's Budget leak matter?
26 Nov 2025 at 3:35pm
The OBR?s role, what it does on Budget day, what went wrong with the leak, and why the watchdog?s credibility and control of forecasts now face fresh scrutiny.


Will Rachel Reeves succeed in bridging the UK's credibility gap?
26 Nov 2025 at 11:57am
One of the longest build-ups in the history of the UK Budget comes to a head today as the Chancellor delivers her tax and spending plans


Reeves faces Bru Budget backlash as industry warns of 'severe' sugar tax cons...
26 Nov 2025 at 12:00am
The Government?s tighter sugar-tax threshold will pull Irn-Bru and other major soft drinks into the levy for the first time, prompting warnings of higher prices and claims ministers are ?shifting the goalposts?.


Here's who's behind Glasgow's Palestine Saltires as councillors field complaints
26 Nov 2025 at 12:48pm
A war of words has broken out over the presence of mixed Palestine and Scotland flags on lampposts in Glasgow


Scotland and the UK budget: Five key ways it affects you and your money
26 Nov 2025 at 3:01pm
Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her UK budget - but how does it impact Scotland, and more importantly, your money?


'Deeply concerned': Scotch whisky chief outlines major Budget fears
26 Nov 2025 at 10:25am
A leading independent Scotch whisky distiller has voiced his fears that today?s Budget could include a further rise in spirits duty.


Two-child benefit cap scrapped by UK Government following Herald campaign
26 Nov 2025 at 12:12pm
Rachel Reeves will scrap the two-child benefit cap, forecasts published by the OBR has revealed.


Budget 2025 live: Reeves confirms two-child cap scrapped
26 Nov 2025 at 7:30am
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered her second budget

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UK Budget RECAP: SNP on 'absolute chaos' for Scotland as Rachel Reeves defend...
26 Nov 2025 at 5:22pm

The UK Budget was a crucial moment for under-pressure Sir Keir Starmer and his Chancellor Rachel Reeves - the markets seem happy, but what will the ultimate fallout be?

The scenes were shambolic as the OBR released the details of the Budget before Rachel Reeves got up to speak.

A total of 138 former patients who were harmed by the disgraced neurosurgeon Sam Eljamel are listed as core participants at the public inquiry

?It is clear the UK government doesn?t understand or accept the fact that you can?t tax your way to growth? ? Sandy Begbie, SFE

Chancellor also signals petrol and diesel duty will rise in 2026 for first time in 16 years

The Chancellor has announced her spending plans - and here are the key impacts for Scotland

From pensions and ISAs to sweet drinks and fuel, here is how the Budget will impact you

It?s one of the most discussed - and leaked - budgets in recent history, but not all of it directly impacts Scotland.

Social justice secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville is to lobby the UK government on lifting the two-child benefit cap

The leaking of the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast has been condemned, with immediate calls for an inquiry

Labour vowed to end all new oil and gas licences in a flagship manifesto commitment

Maurice Golden said he has received offers from every party in Holyrood except the Greens and Reform

Wings over Scotland

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Craig Murray

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

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

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

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

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

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

Urgent – We Need a Federal Your Party

BBC Scotland

Scotland to receive £820m boost from UK Budget
26 Nov 2025 at 4:31pm
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced her tax and spending plans, many of which will apply directly in Scotland.

Tax, benefits and minimum wage: What does the Budget mean for Scotland?
26 Nov 2025 at 6:01pm
Rachel Reeves has outlined her tax and spending plans but how do they impact on Scotland?

More North Sea drilling to be allowed in new Labour plan
26 Nov 2025 at 10:32am
The chancellor will unveil the North Sea Strategy in her Budget speech, the BBC understands.

Covid lockdown linked to rise in child developmental issues
26 Nov 2025 at 5:14pm
The University of Edinburgh-led study examined health visitor reports on 258,000 children between March 2020 and August 2021.

Bid to let drug users smoke cocaine in consumption room
26 Nov 2025 at 3:13pm
The Thistle currently lets people inject heroin or cocaine while under medical supervision without being prosecuted, but does not have a smoking room.

'I would love to be doing this in my 60s' - the debate over selling sex in Sc...
26 Nov 2025 at 6:01am
Porcelain Victoria is concerned that a potential change in law in Scotland could drive sex workers into poverty.

Emergency bill to avoid £400m refund for business rates 'blunder'
25 Nov 2025 at 5:45pm
A mistake in a 2020 law means owners of up to 34,000 properties may have paid tax they did not need to.

Creative Scotland 'should take risks and be more ambitious' - review
25 Nov 2025 at 5:29pm
The independent review said the quango is "too bureaucratic" and has a narrow interpretation of the opportunities in its remit.

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

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

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

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

Scot Goes Pop

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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UK Government to allow oil and gas extraction near existing North Sea fields
26 Nov 2025 at 4:54pm
Energy secretary Ed Miliband said it is a ?world-leading? plan

Extra £820m for Scottish Government announced in UK Budget
26 Nov 2025 at 2:30pm
Three Scottish projects will also get cash from the UK Government as part of the 2025 budget.

UK Government refusal to pay for Trump and Vance visits ?deeply disappointing?
26 Nov 2025 at 2:02pm
The estimated additional cost of policing the presidential visit alone was about £20 million.

Tory MSP Maurice Golden says he couldn?t stand for ?shambolic? party at next ...
26 Nov 2025 at 12:58pm
Maurice Golden announced in April that he would not run for re-election next year.

Keir Starmer faces PMQs ahead of Rachel Reeves? ?tax-hiking? budget 
26 Nov 2025 at 12:08pm
There is wide speculation that Labour is planning to raise taxes on Wednesday.

Two-child benefit cap scrapped and taxes hiked in UK Budget
26 Nov 2025 at 12:04pm
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has outlined a host of changes to taxes and spending.

MSP seeks ?consensus? at Holyrood on Bill to criminalise those who buy sex
26 Nov 2025 at 7:36am
Independent MSP Ash Regan has brought forward a member?s Bill at the Scottish Parliament.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves set to unveil tax-hiking budget
26 Nov 2025 at 7:00am
The chancellor is due to deliver her second budget in the House of Commons on Wednesday.

Nigel Farage insists he did not racially abuse fellow pupils after interview ...
25 Nov 2025 at 9:08pm
Allegations from more than a dozen school contemporaries suggested the Reform leader engaged in alleged incidents of deeply offensive behaviour.

Scottish ministers accused of ?failure of leadership? on North Sea oil and gas
25 Nov 2025 at 8:28pm
Environmental Standards Scotland chair Dr Richard Dixon said the current government had 'gone a little backwards from the rather strong position'.

Glasgow Labour MP goes viral after explaining UK debt with custard creams
25 Nov 2025 at 3:08pm
Gordon McKee's video had been viewed almost two million times.

Milkshakes and lattes expected to be hit by Government sugar tax
25 Nov 2025 at 10:47am
Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced plans to extend the sugar tax in her autumn budget last year.

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

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

Daily Record

Daily Record - Politics

John Swinney urged to use extra Budget cash on reducing child poverty levels ...
26 Nov 2025 at 5:00pm
Campaigners have called on the First Minister to ?come good? on previous commitments to use the money earmarked for mitigating the two-child cap on tackling child poverty.

Labour Government scrapped two child benefit cap after ?personal campaign? by...
26 Nov 2025 at 4:13pm
Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says the Budget was good for Scottish Labour and gives Anas Sarwar gains to take to voters.

North Sea oil boost as Ed Miliband announces new drilling in existing fields ...
26 Nov 2025 at 2:08pm
Ed Miliband, the UK Energy Secretary, said the new plan would ensure the North Sea "is an energy powerhouse throughout the twenty first century".

Budget 2025: 10 things Scots need to know from Rachel Reeves' big announcement
26 Nov 2025 at 2:00pm
The UK Chancellor announced a blizzard of policies during a 70 minute speech to MPs. We've rounded up the most important.

Budget 2025: Energy bills cut by £150 in bid to ease cost of living crisis
26 Nov 2025 at 1:41pm
Fuel bills have soared in recent years in the wake of Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine.

Budget 2025: Fuel duty to increase for first time in 16 years under Rachel Re...
26 Nov 2025 at 12:58pm
Fuel duty has not risen since April 2010.

Budget 2025: Two child benefit cap axed as Chancellor ends 'heinous' Tory policy
26 Nov 2025 at 12:41pm
The move is expected to lift 20,000 Scots kids out of poverty.

Budget 2025: full details of Rachel Reeves tax and spending plans leaked
26 Nov 2025 at 12:21pm
The incredible blunder came half an hour before the Chancellor was set to stand up.

Five tax rises Rachel Reeves set to introduce at long-awaited Budget
26 Nov 2025 at 9:29am
The Chancellor will set out her long-awaited spending plans at lunchtime.

Rachel Reeves Budget LIVE as Chancellor confirms tax rises amounting to £26 b...
26 Nov 2025 at 8:59am
The two-child cap on benefits will be abolished next year while the Scottish Government will receive an extra £820m in funding.

The National

The National | Politics

Prosecutors accused of 'gaslighting' after activists burn terror case offer
26 Nov 2025 at 8:21pm

Pro-Palestine activists who face terrorism charges have accused prosecutors of 'gaslighting' them after burning offers of getting off with a warning

The Union is a gilded cage from which Scotland must escape
26 Nov 2025 at 6:30pm

RACHEL Reeves?s Budget is not a new beginning; it is the final, brutal confirmation that the British state is bankrupt ? not just of money, but of ideas and morality. Her so-called ?fiscal responsibility? is a grotesque capitulation.

Scottish tourism body issues 'setback' warning after UK Budget
26 Nov 2025 at 6:22pm

Scotland's leading tourism body has warned Chancellor Rachel Reeves that her Budget could have severe impacts on the industry

Rachel Reeves called out for failure to end 'age-based wage discrimination' i...
26 Nov 2025 at 6:17pm

SCOTLAND?s National Union of Students has called for further action to combat age-based wage discrimination ...

Blow to SNP as MSPs vote to remove entire section from flagship nature bill
26 Nov 2025 at 6:01pm

THE SNP Government has been dealt a major blow after MSPs voted to remove an entire section from its flagship nature bill ...

'Privilege': John Swinney meets new Irish president Catherine Connolly
26 Nov 2025 at 5:54pm

John Swinney has pledged to "champion" the friendship between Scotland and Ireland after he became the first head of government to meet Irish President Catherine Connolly

John Swinney pledges more cash for tackling poverty as two-child cap scrapped
26 Nov 2025 at 5:48pm

MONEY freed up in Holyrood?s Budget as a result of Chancellor Rachel Reeves scrapping the two-child benefit cap will be used to fight poverty, Scotland?s First Minister pledged.

Two pro-Scottish independence presenters arrested under terrorism laws
26 Nov 2025 at 5:30pm

TWO prominent pro-independence presenters have been arrested and charged with terrorism offences ...

'Unacceptable': Scottish Labour MP panned for 'conspiratorial' Covid-19 claim
26 Nov 2025 at 5:00pm

A Scottish Labour MP has been accused of a 'conspiratorial anti-Chinese remark' ...

British military trained in Israel during Gaza genocide
26 Nov 2025 at 5:06pm

British military troops were trained in Israel during the genocide in Gaza, it has been revealed

Holyrood Magazine

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UK Government scraps two-child limit amid tax-raising budget
26 Nov 2025 at 2:16pm
The Scottish Government will receive an additional ?820m over the period of the spending review

Scottish ministers urged to establish grooming gangs inquiry after NSPCC inte...
25 Nov 2025 at 5:48pm
A minister said she wanted to ensure an inquiry was the best use of resources

UK budget must 'ease taxes' for Scottish tech firms
25 Nov 2025 at 5:00pm
The chief executive of ScotlandIS, Karen Meechan, has called for Rachel Reeves to lower taxes on Scottish tech firms

Creative Scotland ?too bureaucratic? and must take more risks, review finds
25 Nov 2025 at 11:58am
It said the national arts body is ?distant and impersonal?

Supreme Court gender ruling drove up complaints over Scottish politicians, st...
25 Nov 2025 at 11:54am
Critics are spreading a 'false narrative' to 'undermine' watchdogs, MSPs are told

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

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

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

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

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

Guardian - Scottish Politics

Scottish politics | The Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wee Ginger Dug

Wee Ginger Dug

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 …

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

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

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

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

The Courier

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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'

3.5 MILLION children could be lifted out of poverty if the Labour Party in En...
26 Nov 2025 at 12:09pm
Professor John Robertson OBA From the Scottish Government yesterday: More than 300,000 children supported by Scottish Child Payment Social Security Scotland?s Scottish Child Payment is supporting 322,230 children across the country, newly published figures show.  Launched in February 2021, the Scotland-only benefit gives families with low incomes crucial financial support to help with the cost ...

SNP Government initiatives leading to plummeting waiting lists with overall l...
26 Nov 2025 at 9:10am
Professor John Robertson OBA From NHS waiting times – stage of treatment published yesterday, the above impressive signs of progress. with increasing numbers treated yet plummeting longer waits. https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/nhs-waiting-times-stage-of-treatment/stage-of-treatment-waiting-times-inpatients-day-cases-and-new-outpatients-25-november-2025/ Important note – These...

Nearly three times as many more in England waiting for a social care assessme...
26 Nov 2025 at 9:03am
Professor John Robertson OBA From People requiring a social care assessment and care at home services, published yesterday: The number of people estimated to be waiting on a social care assessment for a package of care was 7,806 on 3 November 2025. This is an increase of 30% from the estimated number of people waiting this time last year (4 November 2024). https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/...

Scotland?s universal and generous IVF system costs nothing in the longer term...
26 Nov 2025 at 9:00am
Professor John Robertson OBA From IVF waiting times in Scotland Quarter ending 30 September 2025 published yesterday: During the quarter ending 30 September 2025, 362 patients were screened. The 90% standard was met, with all patients attending a screening appointment within 52 weeks of referral. All patients were screened within 26 weeks at the Aberdeen IVF Centre, and most patients at the Dun...

NHS Scotland has 3 000 more beds, 30% more per head, than NHS England, to ena...
26 Nov 2025 at 8:58am
Professor John Robertson OBA From Acute hospital activity and NHS beds information (quarterly) Quarter ending 30 June 2025, published yesterday: There were on average 13,681 available staffed beds per day for all acute specialties in the quarter ending 30 June 2025 ? a 0.3% decrease compared to the same quarter in the previous year. An available staffed bed is a bed which is resourced for inpat...

Shocking contrast as nearly twice as many Scots have access to an NHS dentist...
26 Nov 2025 at 8:54am
Professor John Robertson OBA The above table from Public Health Scotland today, reveals a very high level of access to free NHS dental treatment in Scotland – 90% of children and 97% of adults with 100% access for some age groups. Source: https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/nhs-dental-data-monitoring-report/nhs-dental-data-monitoring-report-quarter-ending-september-2025/ When I s...

Community owned assets surge in Scotland up to 14% higher than in England
25 Nov 2025 at 4:15pm
Professor John Robertson OBA From Community Ownership in Scotland 2024, published today, the above and: This publication reports the number of assets in community ownership which are recorded by the Scottish Government. There are several initiatives which have been put in place to enable community ownership.  There are several initiatives which have been put in place to enable community ownersh...

Number of properties for private rent in Scotland increases for second month ...
25 Nov 2025 at 3:42pm
Professor John Robertson OBA From Housing statistics: Scottish Landlord Register data published today, the above data reveal an increase in the number of private properties for rent in Scotland by around 700 in October 2025, on top of around 900 in August 2025: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-landlord-register-data/ The total of 349 817 has now returned to 99.7% of the April 2025 fig...

Scotland sees major falls in violent crime, housebreaking and drug possession...
25 Nov 2025 at 2:51pm
Professor John Robertson OBA The Herald has an agenda and it’s so clear above – Crime is rising and the SNP is to blame. I have an agenda too but unlike the MSM I’ve never sought to hide it – some things are improving and we need media balance so that people can correctly assess the quality of their lives under the SNP. They’re selective to paint a dark picture. I’m selective to try and balance...

An new Scots Wha Hae by Bill Warren with a fantastic catalogue of TuS links a...
25 Nov 2025 at 11:29am
Bill Warren sent me this today. I’m stunned, deeply impressed. I was further stunned when I found the above by another Warren whom I cannot trace – any connection Bill? The same theme was allegedly played in 1429 by the Franco-Scots army at the siege of Orléans in front of Joan of Arc. ScotsWhaHae.OnlineBest viewed in Landscape on your mobileLinks to evidence at end of line with a ctrl click WH...

Scotland and Independence

"scotland independence -guardian" - Google News

Two pro-Scottish independence presenters arrested under terrorism laws - TheN...
26 Nov 2025 at 5:34pm
Two pro-Scottish independence presenters arrested under terrorism laws  TheNational.scot

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

Will X sharing where users log in from help with spotting disinformation? - BBC
24 Nov 2025 at 10:46am
Will X sharing where users log in from help with spotting disinformation?  BBC

X feature exposes Iranian-run pro-Scottish independence accounts - UKDJ - ???...
24 Nov 2025 at 2:33pm
X feature exposes Iranian-run pro-Scottish independence accounts - UKDJ  ????? ??????????

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

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

Ireland's 'golden combination' of independence and EU membership a template f...
26 Nov 2025 at 6:02pm
Ireland's 'golden combination' of independence and EU membership a template for Scotland  Irish Examiner

?Proud Scots? for independence exposed as Iran-based troll network - The Times
24 Nov 2025 at 9:50pm
?Proud Scots? for independence exposed as Iran-based troll network  The Times

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

Lesley Riddoch: Rachel Reeves's attack on the SNP shows Labour's fear - TheNa...
27 Nov 2025 at 5:05am
Lesley Riddoch: Rachel Reeves's attack on the SNP shows Labour's fear  TheNational.scot

SNP won?t rule out copying Chancellor?s stealth income tax rise - The Telegraph
26 Nov 2025 at 7:41pm
SNP won?t rule out copying Chancellor?s stealth income tax rise  The Telegraph

Decoding non-coding SNPs: systems genomics modelling dissects the heterogenei...
26 Nov 2025 at 10:26am
Decoding non-coding SNPs: systems genomics modelling dissects the heterogeneity of IBD  EMBO Press

Downie accuses SNP of fuelling ?misinformation? over Rosyth - UK Defence Journal
26 Nov 2025 at 11:57am
Downie accuses SNP of fuelling ?misinformation? over Rosyth  UK Defence Journal

Labour?s budget feeds the SNP beast - The Times
26 Nov 2025 at 10:39pm
Labour?s budget feeds the SNP beast  The Times

'SNP U-turns on heat pumps and burning logs leave Scots householders out in t...
23 Nov 2025 at 7:06am
'SNP U-turns on heat pumps and burning logs leave Scots householders out in the cold'  The Herald

UK Budget RECAP: SNP on 'absolute chaos' for Scotland as Rachel Reeves defend...
26 Nov 2025 at 11:15am
UK Budget RECAP: SNP on 'absolute chaos' for Scotland as Rachel Reeves defends tax rises  The Scotsman

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

Scots face double whammy tax hike as SNP refuse to rule out following Rachel ...
26 Nov 2025 at 9:47pm
Scots face double whammy tax hike as SNP refuse to rule out following Rachel Reeves tax hikes  MSN

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

Referendum (Google News)

"Scotland referendum -guardian -telegraph" - Google News

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

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

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

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

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

Ireland's 'golden combination' of independence and EU membership a template f...
26 Nov 2025 at 6:02pm
Ireland's 'golden combination' of independence and EU membership a template for Scotland  Irish Examiner

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

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

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

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