Colin Clement

If you don’t want an unequal, bitter, fractious Scotland, don’t fall for Reform’s tartan Trumpery, writes Lesley Riddoch ✍️

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Summertime - Edward Hopper, 1943.
Source : Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington 🇺🇸

Martin Luther King Jr. devoted his life to fighting for justice and equality. Today, as divisions in our world deepen, his vision is not just inspiring, it is urgent. The work he began continues, and it is up to all of us to carry it forward.

Interesting to hear the redoubtable Fraser Nelson proclaim on @BBCr4today that independence hasn't moved. In fact it's currently 8 points ahead of where it was at the last Referendum and 6 points clear of support for the Union according to the latest poll.

Today's front page of The National 📰

Poll shows opposition to public cash for arms firms

OK, so Britain might have 354,000 homeless, 1.8m unemployed and 3.8m hungry kids. But on the upside, the FTSE-100 index hit an all-time high this morning.

Good, Just a Bunch of vile mouthed cretins

Bulgaria adopts the euro, nearly 20 years after joining the EU According to the latest Eurobarometer survey, 49% of Bulgarians were against the switch

Bulgaria adopts the euro, nearly 20 years after joining the EU

Screenshot of BBC Scotland news web page.

This is an absolute disgrace of an article. 7% of the electorate in this council ward voted for Reform and yet the BBC News report it as this.

President Clinton is right. This is not getting as much attnetion as it should. The USA under Trumpstein is betraying this promise, which means any agreement involving Russia and the USA is not worth the paper it’s written on 🤷‍♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...

matthew write on #LBC this morning speaking about 1000s of fake videos lying about labour....yet not one word about the continual onslaught of lies that is spewed forth about SG SNP Just a barrage of lies

#ScottishIndependence

James Reid, a hero of the '45 - Bagpipe News Today, we post this article from our archives. The article was written by Tommy Pearston and published in the December 1989 Piping Times. His subject was James Reid, the only […]

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On 15 December 1746, upon being convicted of High Treason at York, Jacobite Piper James Reid was executed “by hanging, drawing and quartering”

The court found that Reid had carried the bagpipes “as an instrument of war”

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Good to see you, @guyverhofstadt.bsky.social.

Despite the disastrous Brexit that we never voted for, Scotland remains a proud European nation. We will be back, with our own seat at the table. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

John Swinney commits to saving Dundee University as life sciences giant honoured The first minister spoke about the troubled university's importance to Dundee and Scotland as Professor Sir Philip Cohen received The Courier's Outstanding Contribution Award.

The first minister spoke about the troubled university's importance to Dundee and Scotland as Professor Sir Philip Cohen received The Courier's Outstanding Contribution Award.

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This is totally disgusting and so unfair

It's too late for Labour. They've moved too far to the right and kicked out anything and anyone that even smells of left-wing. Going to take them *years* to wind back now. In current form they are toast.

Starmer needs to learn that Holyrood won’t be pushed around Scotland’s colonial governor, Wee Dougie Alexander, Labour’s answer to the toxic oil slick that is Michael Gove, has said that Westminster would “take an SNP majority [at Holyrood…

'The only way that Scotland will be respected by Westminster is by playing hard-ball, and adopting a far more assertive and bold attitude.'
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Warmest congratulations to our friends, Plaid Cymru, on the sensational victory in Caerphilly.

Every good wish to Lindsay Whittle as he begins to serve as Member of the Senedd. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

BBC Scotland reporting nothing about one of its presenters being taken off air due to a complaint that the BBC Press Office won't reveal. Why not just tell us?

(video: MSM Monitor)

Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.

Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.

I want to live in a Scotland free from child poverty, and that’s what I’m focusing my government on.

But we also have a moral responsibility to the Global South, particularly when so many countries cut international aid.

My reflections on the visit to Zambia and Malawi 👇

‘Frankly incredible!’ UK National Audit Office reveals NHS England and Ireland are paying out for clinical negligence at FOUR TIMES and TWICE the level of NHS Scotland Professor John Robertson OBA Many thanks to stewartb for alerting us to this and for the opening words in the headline above. NOTE – I’m unsure of how to compare the far more numerous b…

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No British prime minister has discarded their claimed beliefs and policies so comprehensively or so swiftly.

The biggest political conman of our age.

Town centre Forfar kirk on market with £150k price tag St Margaret’s was previously at the centre of Church of Scotland redevelopment plans for a £1.6 million community centre.

St Margaret’s was previously at the centre of Church of Scotland redevelopment plans for a £1.6 million community centre.

BREAKING: The SNP Government will 'step in' and sponsor care worker visas to get around UK Labour's ban, John Swinney has announced

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Khan slams 'racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic' Trump LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan slammed Donald Trump as “racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic” after the US president’s extraordinary claim that London was under sharia law.And London Labour MPs call...

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How is it that Reform UK are over-represented on every BBC programme from Question Time to Strictly Come Dancing?