Well done, Jeanne Freeman for correcting the record. Clearly Lady Hallett did not understand the devolution settlement.

*Sunday November 23rd 07:50

☃️WINTRY SHOWERS☃️

Windy says any wintry showers out there this morning . . . I knew the rain was coming but didn’t expect this . . . It’s absolutely fuking miserable out there

🔴 Intense rain
🟠 Heavy rain
🟢 Rain
🔵 Wintry showers (snow. sleet. hail)

Mon then 🤷‍♂️

Only with independence Scotland would go from the most expensive electricity in Europe to the cheapest Professor John Robertson OBA The above video excerpt is already out these across social media. I’m just giving another wee push and, importantly reminding folk that location pricing is never,…

Only with independence Scotland would go from the most expensive electricity in Europe to the cheapest talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/20/o...

Keir Starmer breaks silence on ExxonMobil site at Mossmorran KEIR Starmer has addressed the closure of the ExxonMobil site in Fife which threatens more than 400 jobs.

Westminster bails out two English companies as 'essential' but fails to give the same support to similarly important industries in Scotland and Wales.

For a 'just transition' that works for Scotland’s people, we need #ScottishIndependence

www.thenational.scot/news/2563397...

*Thursday November 20th 07:00

TEMPERATURE UPDATE SCOTLAND

Windy says cheeky wee UPDATE as things are evolving daily

(Tuesday 🥶)
(Wednesday 🥶🥶)
Thursday 🥶🥶🥶🥶
Friday 🥶🥶🥶
Saturday 🥶
Sunday 🥵

*Monday November 17th 21:40

☃️SNOW TUESDAY UPDATE SCOTLAND☃️

Windy says this is how it's looking tomorrow morning give or take

Mind though. For many it's a non-event

But it will be COLD and ICY so watch they roads first thing

Night 👋

*Monday November 17th 08:30

MONDAY UPDATE SCOTLAND

Windy says awe right guys . . . wee bit fresh oot there this morning but if you think it's cold now, yer gonnae be fuked on Wednesday & Thursday then eh

For goodness sake, Mike.
Scotland's not selling their health data and Water is a public utility
Equating England as UK exhibits a symptom of English Exceptionalism* (see attached) with the auto reflex England=GB=UK.
You don't half make an arse of yourself when you do it..
bsky.app/profile/para...

"There is stupid and there's stupid 👇 this goes beyond"

Even when Scotland gets a global thumbs-up financially the SNP get zero credit In Scotland, any news – even good news – is subjected to partisan point-scoring. It means we repeatedly fail to have the debates we really need,…

Even when Scotland is praised on the world stage the SNP gets no credit

Financial agencies applaud Scotland’s economy, but all we get is sneering. Govts need held to account but credit where credit is due

It shows how meaningless the quality of our debate has become

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Scotland builds far more affordable housing than England and far far more than Labour ever did but Shelter Scotland is back to suggest Scottish Government failure Professor John Robertson OBA How do Scotland and England compare in terms of affordable housing? Scotland generally provides more affordable housing per capita than England, particularly …

As Shelter are advised in the Guardian today to follow Crisis UK in actually building homes for the homeless with their massive income, a reminder of their tendency here instead to snipe at the SNP government providing the most social housing in the UK:
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/09/02/s...

Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors A realistic understanding of their costs and risks is critical.

Why they're not rushing ahead anywhere with 'small' nuclear reactors like the one planed by Labour for Wales - more costly, less efficient, more polluting, more cancers-triggering and terrorism vulnerable
blog.ucs.org/edwin-lyman/...

. It’s on for a good few hours as well, so that morning commute, especially across CENTRAL Scotland will be horrendous - localised flooding, standing water and surface spray

#dontdrivelikeawankersomeonelovesyou

*Thursday November 13th 04:30

HEAVY RAIN MIDDLE BITTY

Windy says WEATHER wise. As forecast. Heavy rain through the night, and overnight into Thursday morning for parts of southern and CENTRAL Scotland (or as I call it - the middle bitty sideways)

Graphic showing that unemployment has risen to 5% in the UK, but fallen to 3.7% in Scotland.

In Scotland, we're working hard to undo the damage being inflicted by Labour in Westminster.

His taste is in his arse !

Glasgow University Rector describes Zionist entity organ theft from Palestinian bodies while Starmer welcomes Herzog to Downing Street How can Scotland bear being shackled to the morally bankrupt British State?

Glasgow University Rector describes Zionist entity organ theft from Palestinian bodies while Starmer welcomes Herzog to Downing Street
open.substack.com/pub/dearscot...

Nearly THREE times as many emergency patients per capita wait 12 hours or more in NHS England than in NHS Scotland By stewartb Campaign against austerity needed to push Westminster to support the NHS in England, NI and Wales even to match the A&E waiting times performance in Scotland – for the sake of…

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/11/n...

*Tuesday November 11th 08:25

🌧️HEAVY RAIN SCOTLAND🌧️

Windy says this is how it's looking just now give or take
That's the heavy rain coming in from the SW as forecast, although it's a few hours late if I'm brutally honest, as I went for 6am ish

Sarwar wrote about 70,000 jobs , they genuinely think we're stupid

www.holyrood.com/news/view,sa....

The latest figures show that 262 prisoners in England and Wales were mistakenly released in the year leading up to March 2025, according to the prison service's annual digest. That's a 128% increase.

Number of prisoners mistakenly released in Scotland, 0

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UK energy companies made £30bn profit.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn

£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.

Direct cause of inflation and poverty.

128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.

🚨The BBC has issued a correction after copying an anti-SNP press release from the Scottish Tories almost word for word

Get the details: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

*Sunday November 2nd 22:00

Windy says mind now. Exceptionally MILD tomorrow with overnight lows as high as +10/12c degrees, and day time highs of +15/17c degrees as we draw in warm MOIST air from the SW

#warmrain

Beautiful morning beach walk before the rain came in.

*Friday October 31st 09:30

THERE'S NO HALLOWEEN HOWLER

Windy says I mentioned it on Wednesday and touched on it yesterday. There's NO Halloween Howler tonight for Guising but it will be a wee bit windy wae blustery showers coming and going

Still in bed, dogs snoring, one arm out from the duvet and it's freezing so think I'll stay put. Might really treat myself and put the heating on for an hour. Fife.

Growth is not coming back — and nor should our democracy depend upon it Martin Wolf has (once again) declared in the Financial Times that the fate of democracy rests on economic growth. As he said, in advance of the Budget: [Reeves'] first priority must be to get whatev...

In an article in the FT yesterday, its long-term columnist, Martin Wolf, suggested we must sacrifice both people and planet to growth to supposedly save democracy. Almost everything he wrote was wrong. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...