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Edinburgh Sick Kids 'lifesaving' social care team set to be removed after 30 years Despite councillors voting to halt the move, officials took the decision and insisted it would cause “no loss of resource and no loss of service”.

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It's pretty clear now. If Scotland wants to be back in the EU, the only route is for us to join after we've regained independence.

Which, by my reckoning, would take no more than seven years (including our own referendum).

Here's how:

open.substack.com/pub/yesinpic...

Eyebrows raised in the Commons as SNP's Stephen Flynn quotes Mandelson telling the FT to "fuck off"

Jim Shannon's face says it all

Douglas Alexander tries to claim UK Government credit for Alexander Dennis furlough DOUGLAS Alexander has said that the UK Government has been “leading intensive work” on saving jobs at Alexander Dennis – despite the bus…

Scottish Devolution = Westminster claims credit for the good things that Holyrood achieves, whilst blaming Holyrood for the things that aren't devolved from Westminster and over which Holyrood has no control.
www.thenational.scot/news/2546922...

All these Tory MPs switching to Reform.

Now watch as the BBC treat the Holyrood 2026 election as dress rehearsal for the next UK general election, and relentlessly promote their agenda of giving disproportionate coverage to the right-wing parties.

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Again, I really do have concerns about exactly how Justin Webb is acquiring his knowledge of US politics or what prompted him to make this exact point.

This is the leadership countries should expect - one which stands up for all the people who make up that nation.

A voice which speaks up for all of Scotland's people is needed, now more than ever.

As Westminster and England lurch to the Far Right,

It is clear #Scotland is on a different path.

Scruton is part of an intellectual culture giving respectability to racism Howls of outrage over philosopher Sir Roger Scruton's loss of a government job ignore the reality of his output.

When I wrote this in 2019 some accused me of exaggerating the connection between the intellectual bigotry/racism of the Spectator and Telegraph (as exemplified by Scruton and Murray) and BNP/street-level thuggery. If anything I was too cautious..

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Here's why energy is the key battleground for our children's future Simon Forrest speaks about how energy is the battleground for our children's future.

www.thenational.scot/news/2544410...

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

Repeat after me: 40% of the men arrested for rioting against asylum seekers in Southport had previously been reported to the police for domestic violence.

Why would anyone want to associate themselves with that lot?

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Is a party with just four MPs getting too much coverage on the BBC? With me in the studio to discuss this are Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Lee Anderson and Sarah Pochin.

Farage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon Mayor EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, sadly died in July 2024. But that didn’t stop Reform UK six months later picking her as their Croydon mayoral candidate. By our Political Edit…

Reform will have to reselect in Croydon, as their initial candidate for Mayor had been dead for 6 months when they selected her, Inside Croydon report

Being dead is one way to pass the social media vetting but was likely to get noticed eventually

insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...

National Guard soldiers walk past the Department of Labor in Washington on Tuesday. In the distance beyond the 6 armed soldiers is a huge draped banner with Trump’s fave and the words America Workers First. There is also a huge Is flag draped down the building. Photo credit to J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE (AP)

Photo of the Day.

If you had suggested anything like this before November’s election, you would have been accused of being hysterical.

Taken on Tuesday in Washington D.C. by J. Scott Applewhite for Associated Press.

Nigel Farage's chaotic press event shows he a drag for Reform UK in Scotland Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says the Reform UK leader has a poor grasp of Scottish politics

Nigel Farage's chaotic press conference shows he is a liability for Reform UK in Scotland

SNP: "Meanwhile, a recent survey showed that Scottish Water is the joint most trusted utility supplier in the UK, scoring a remarkable customer satisfaction level of 94%...Customers pay over £100 less in water bills than those in England & Wales, for some of the best quality water in the world."

Let’s get out of Broken Brexit Britain.

Independence! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare.

Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this:

newrepublic.com/article/1997...

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/08/28/a...

How long before Starmer instructs the UK police to do this ?
If you think it can`t happen here then you never understood what Scargill and the miners faced at Orgreave, this is why he was demonised, he, his fellow union men like McGahey knew exactly who they were fighting, see this

Sebastian Payne @SebastianEPayne And if you're interested in the ECHR, here's why I changed my mind and think we must bid it farewell From thetimes.com 2:27 PM · Aug 28, 2025 · 3,110 Views

"Moderate Tory", Seb Payne, on "why he changed his mind" on the ECHR.

It would be better to just be honest and say: Because my boss told me, I am tired of swimming upstream, and I really want to be an MP. So, I've decided to go with the flow.

Instead of these unedifying mental gymnastics.

YouTube video by The Scotland Channel DISTORTING SCOTLAND

Straight Talk interviews Professor John Robertson who carried out research into mainstream media bias in Scotland in the run up to the 2014 independence referendum and how the BBC tried to have him sacked by his university for publishing the research. WATCH NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFEn...

What a f*cked up place the UK has become. Bad enough to convince me to vote Yes to Scottish independence in 2014, but now so bad, greedy, cruel and dystopian that I'm struggling to understand why *anyone* in Scotland wants the UK to continue. 😳😬

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A wee repost would not go amiss !

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A neat summary.

1/4 - whisky's share of UK food and drink exports
1/3 - all UK food and drink exports
1/2 - UK's renewable energy.

And ALL of the UK's progressive parties in government 👍

Listen son, don't tell anyone but we know, we know that every public service in Scotland is doing better than they are in England or Wales. Of course they are. Look at the facts that daft prof Robertson has posted every day since we tried to get him sacked more than 10 years ago.