Expert debunks everything you've been told about Scotland's 'deficit' It's GERS day: The day in Scotland when the Government Expenditure and Revenue Statement for Scotland is published by the Scottish Government ...

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A new Scotland – the quest for a national upgrade A new Scotland, based on collective endeavour and guaranteed living standards, will return outcomes greater than the sum of its parts

'The concept of wellbeing – placing people and planet above profit – resonates deeply with Scots, 50% of whom support independence to escape the UK’s corporate-driven system."

The people who brought you Brexit on a promise of ‘control’ now threaten civil unrest and frothing racism as govt policy…
For love of god can we just stop listening to anything they have to say. They represent nothing but inadequacy and failure. Surely our country can do better than this.

As effectiveness of new UK Labour government plan to protect victims from released prisoners is questioned, a Scottish MP and former senior police officer explained the better Scottish system more tha... Professor John Robertson OBA Today’s latest ‘back-of-a-cigarette-packet’ plan by the UK Labour Government to protect victims from released violent offenders has been criticised by…

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FACT CHECK: Gordon Brown’s 'worse every day' warning on Scottish child poverty “Gordon Brown warns child poverty in Scotland is getting 'worse every day' as he calls for UK Government action” ...

Fact Check: Is Gordon Brown right that Scottish child poverty 'worse every day'?

No. It has gone down and that Gordon Brown is a liar is no news to anyone in Scotland. www.thenational.scot/news/2537279...

Huge congratulations to Scotland’s young people on your #SQAResults!

✅ Pass rates are up.
✅ Over 200,000 Higher entries.
✅ Vocational awards are up by 22.6%.
✅ Attainment gap is narrowing.

You’ve done Scotland proud. 🤝

Thoughts on the SNP’s independence strategy We are back from our trip to England, and before writing anything else I have to tell you that both my other half and I are completely besotted with our new baby granddaughter. I realise that I am …

"You don’t win [independence] through stage-managed conferences and avoiding controversy. You win it by pushing the line. By risking consequences. By standing up when you’re told to sit down – and refusing. You win it by making a nuisance of yourself . ."
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I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Scotland has only half the TB rate of England due to less poverty, more affordable housing and better healthcare access and could further improve with independence Professor John Robertson OBA I’ve used the Grok AI to assist in researching and presenting this paper. I’m able to check the references it helpfully offers. Last year the Scottish and E…

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Is YouGov sampling concealing the prospect of an SNP tidal wave that sweeps Jackie Baillie into the radioactive waters of the Clyde in May 2026? Professor John Robertson OBA The above predictions are apparently based on the latest YouGov poll for Holyrood voting intentions giving this: The predictions are better than I’d expect given …

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For those who still maintain it was a voluntary union – the suffocation of Scotland’s independence movement in 1746 Blue – posts of 6-12 men permanently; Yellow – temporary posts; purple – several weeks posts; black -roadbuilding waypoints; orange – forts; green – staging posts Prof…

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Is it true that Scotland’s water pollution levels are bad? - Bylines Scotland The Independent Water Commission confirms Scotland's water meets high standards, contradicting recent political claims of poor quality

The Independent Water Commission confirms
Scotland's water meets high standards, contradicting recent political claims of poor quality.

Another Labour MP at best misleading people

The council is a Labour/Tory/Lib Dem coalition and withdrew objections to this

But of course it is the SNP to blame

#IndyClan ⚔️ if you want to arm yourself with real Data as every rag headline for months and months would have you believe our Scottish NHS is broken! Search “Scotland‘s Data on a Map” gives you all the information.
Pass it on knowledge is power ✊🏻#ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Lesley Riddoch: The ban on Palestine Action is to scare folk into passivity IT ain’t over. Most professionals and papers are distancing themselves from the “terrorist” group Palestine Action (PA), and thus the genocide…

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Wee Ginger Dug: Steve Reed's water claims are that of an incompetent charlatan IN an article for The National, the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Energy has angrily responded to false statements made earlier…

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Independent Water Commission for England and Wales – providing a partial and flawed assessment of significance of ownership for performance outcomes? By stewartb The ‘Independent Water Commission Final Report’ (aka the Cunliffe report) published on July 21 has a lengthy section examining any possible relationship between water company ownership …

Independent Water Commission for England and Wales carefully avoids comparing customer satisfaction ratings which are much higher in Scotland:
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Farage promises to build more jails by Our Reform Correspondent Nick Money BRITAIN'S next prime minister, Nigel Farage, has vowed to expand the prison service to deal with the increasing lawlessness in Broken Britain. Farage said it was imperative that we have more prisons to accommodate law-breakers such as Reform MPs. Said Farage, "No, let me finish! We are looking at hundreds more Reform MPs after the next election, and with our vetting systems we are guaranteed to have a vast number of criminal members of Parliament, who have stolen public money or pushed their girlfriends down the stairs." When asked how much all this would cost, the Reform leader explained in great detail that he didn't have a clue and couldn't care less. Farage also promised to send the worst offenders to El Salvador, following a successful pilot programme sending Reform supporters to live in Dubai.

When so much of the media rolls out the comfy red carpet for Farage, Private Eye trips him up and milkshakes him.
Be more Private Eye.

The truth is that Scotland does not need England MAY I recommend to your readers the book Independence or Union, by the highly respected historian Professor Sir Tom Devine? The consensus of…

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England is desperate to hold the Union together, since the revenue from energy resources and much more from Scotland that flows into the London Treasury each year far outweighs the money Westminster pays out to a constricted devolved Scottish Parliament.

@krishgm.bsky.social why are you letting Steve Reed lie about Scottish Water?

You are one of the best journalists and yet you still never challenge lies about Scotland

Do better

@krishgm.bsky.social Watching you with Steve Reid lying about publiclybowned Scottish Water and letting him away with it. Why does English based media not educate itself on Scotland?

Scotland’s drinking water is the best in Europe and is ranked second in the world but not reported by ‘our’ media? Image – Holyrood Magazine – ‘Quality of Scotland’s drinking water improves in 2016’ – before Tory Lord Ashcroft bought it to foul its coverage. By JB In February…

UK Labour allowed to lie about nationalised Scottish Water again on BBC this morning, unchallenged by this fact:
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Stephen Flynn, "On Brexit, everyone across the UK right now feels that Britain is broken"

"And the guy who orchestrated Brexit, Nigel Farage, doesn't have to face the consequences of the economic damage that Brexit has done to the UK"

Yes I heard that on LBC too this morning, very annoying!

Decades ago the Nationalist writer Oliver Brown called the BBC in Scotland the Anglo-Saxophone! Still pertinent. Oliver wrote in the Scots Independent and came away with this piece of brilliance when every Scottish MP at Westminster was a loyal unionist.

Unbelievable exchange this morning on Radio Scotland between presenter and economist @RichardJMurphy, with presenter interrupting & conducting an interview with barely concealed contempt. Really bad.

Rachel Reeves says the UK is open for business with the US, EU and India deals:

But we only get £22 billion:
- £3.4 billion from UK-US tariff deal
- £14 billion from UK-EU reset
- £4.8 billion from UK-India

Rejoining the EU Single Market would give us £140 billion

Nigel Farage Says He Wants to Scrap the Two-Child Benefit Cap - But There's Something He's Not Telling You The Reform leader needs to be reminded whose idea it was to push hundreds of thousands of children into poverty in the first place, writes Josiah Mortimer

Nigel Farage Says He Wants to Scrap the Two-Child Benefit Cap - But There's Something He's Not Telling You

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Brian Wilson knows nothing about the massive benefit islanders get from Scot Gov generosity on ferries By Professor John Robertson OBA Brian Wilson is in the Herald today with another ill-informed rant against CalMac and by association, of course, the SNP in Government. Read it yourself, i…

How the Scottish Government treats the islanders better than the average citizen and a long way from the 'second class' rating the Scotsman accuses it of:
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