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BBC Reporting Scotland felt it was important to carry a puff piece for Reform UK after it won a council by-election in West Lothian on a mere 22% turnout - which BBC Scotland didn't think was so important to mention. I don't recall them ever giving any other council by-election such coverage.

Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan Proposed plan would apply to tourists of all countries, including those not required to get a visa to visit the US

How to kill off America's tourism industry, which is already reeling under huge drops in the numbers of foreign visitors. There's no way I'd go to America. I'm sure I'm not the only one put off.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The dangerous stupidity of Keir Starmer You can say many things about the opportunistic moral vacuum that is Keir Starmer, but he’s not stupid, he just behaves as though he was. The one time human rights lawyer Starmer’s late…

Starmer's dangerous stupidity in pandering to the far right means he may prove to become the unwitting midwife of Scottish independence.

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Photo of two trains, on top the new Great British Railways livery, a garish and over the top streak of red and white on blue. Underneath a ScotRail train with a schematic representation of the Scottish flag formed of dots on a blue background.

If youmust give trains a flag themed livery, it can be done tastefully. The new Great British Railways livery is not it. Why does everything have to be 'Great' British? It smacks of desperation. The livery looks like a GB News studio on wheels. The ScotRail livery is how to do it successfully.

Westminster and Scotland’s energy, fool me once… Scotland is, by far and away, the most energy rich country of the islands of Britain and Ireland. Moreover it has more in the way of energy resources than just about any other country in Europe, wi…

My latest blog piece, Westminster and Scotland's energy - Fool me once... Scotland must not allow Westminster to squander its vast renewable energy resources the way Scotland's oil and gas were squandered by Westminster.

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I'm as shocked as you are

No Borders, eh? Oh, the irony.

I hope the Scottish media presses Malcolm Offord on the hypocrisy of a man who set up the Vote No Borders campaign announcing he'll be standing for a party which wants to close borders to everyone who's not white and rich.

But I won't be holding my breath

Offord's astroturfing Vote No Borders campaign was one of the BBC's blatant attempts to influence the outcome of the 2014 indyref. It was given a full 10 minutes on the 6 o clock news & falsely presented as a grassroots campaign while the BBC ignored genuine grassroots initiatives on the Yes side.

I don't understand why the British media allows a far right party funded by the super rich and stuffed full of former Tories to continue to present itself as "anti-elite". It's such a blatant and risible lie yet Farage is never called out on it.

Millionaire Tory donor Malcolm Offord defects to Reform The millionaire peer was announced by Nigel Farage as the party’s latest high-profile member during a rally in Falkirk.

Millionaire Tory peer defects to "anti-elite" party Reform UK. Offord was behind the Vote No Borders astroturfing campaign during the 2014 indyref which was mysteriously given massive publicity by the "impartial" BBC.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2567804...

I do my very best to forget the existence of Murdo

The FIFA Peace Prize
The Love Island Prize for Particle Physics
The RuPaul's Drag Race Prize for Applied Mathematics
The Strictly Come Dancing Prize for Economic Theory
The Never Mind the Buzzcocks Prize for Architecture
The Farage Prize for Anti-Racism
The Eurovision Prize for Moral Philosophy

Trump getting a "peace prize" from FIFA is the diplomatic equivalent of Elon Musk's lackeys taking him out for an evening of Karaoke and Ketamine after he's been dumped by his latest baby-mamma.

And I can't take a Starmer apologist seriously either, so we're even. Have a good day and goodbye.

GB News 'spewing racist hate' with attack on ethnic minority MPs GB News has been blasted for broadcasting “racist hate” after a pundit called British-born MPs from ethnic minority backgrounds “ambassadors…

We are a long way beyond "legitimate concerns about illegal immigration" These ghouls are now attacking the right of British born citizens with Asian or African family backgrounds to be in the UK and participate in public life. This is racism pure & simple.

www.thenational.scot/news/2567342...

Public school boy, multi-millionaire Farage, & his party backed by the super-rich yet posing as "anti-establishment" are the biggest con trick in British political history, if he gets into No 10 the public anger & fury will eclipse that experienced by that other political con artist Starmer.

Farage’s contemptible attack on Glesca weans 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 …

My latest blog piece, just days after the Scottish Languages Act comes into force, Farage attacks Glasgow school kids in order to scaremonger about immigration. A new low even by his disgusting standards.

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You do you

It was a member of the public in a report on the demonstrations outside the hotel in Falkirk.

The Scottish Languages Act 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 previou…

My latest blog piece on the new Scottish Languages Act granting official status to Gaelic and Scots and why these languages are national languages of Scotland.

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I just saw a woman on Reporting Scotland referring to asylum seekers as 'fighting age men' with the clear implication that asylum seekers are here to conduct a violent invasion. That's not just a racist dog whistle, it's a racist fog horn.

Your Party conference thrown into chaos as Zarah Sultana boycotts first day Sultana skips Saturday’s proceeding in solidarity with delegates expelled over links to other parties

I think it's safe to say that Corbyn's ridiculously self-sabotaging political project won't pose an electoral challenge to Starmer's right wing Labour party, and that's a shame as the left really needs to get its act together.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I’m disabled, here’s the truth about the Motability scheme. 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 disabl…

I'm disabled. Here's the truth about the Motability scheme. It's a vital lifeline for disabled people with mobility issues, and we have to pay for it.

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Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.

The stench of sleaze grows ever stronger around Farage and his associates. Piling on the hypocrisy, former Brexit MEP David Coburn lives in France.

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Government to ditch day-one unfair dismissal policy from workers’ rights bill Flagship Labour plan to be replaced with six-month threshold after Peter Kyle vows to not let businesses ‘lose’ under new law

More Labour capitulation to the rich and powerful. I wish I could say I was surprised.

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

Rachel Reeves’s budget creates tax break for rich former non-doms Cap on inheritance tax paid by their offshore trusts will only help those worth more than £83m, say experts

Labour, still looking after the interests of the wealthiest.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Photo of Labour MP Gordon McKee, side by side with Harry Enfield's Tory Boy character.

Separated at birth, Labour MP Gordon McKee who charged the taxpayer £1500 for a camera kit to film Tik Toks in which he spread racist stereotypes about Chinese people, and Harry Enfield's Tory Boy character.

The lie that protects the rich from tax rises 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 ye…

My latest blog piece, the lie that the rich deploy as a shield to protect themselves from tax rises and the politicians they buy to promote it

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Nigel Farage rules out any investigation into Reform UK links with Russia REFORM UK leader Nigel Farage said he will not investigate any Russian links within his party, stating that he is “not a police force” ...

Farage is refusing any investigation into links between Reform UK and Russia.

Gosh, I wonder why? It's a mystery.

www.thenational.scot/news/2564728...