Rab Bruce’s Spider

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Of course with HS2 they spent the bulk of the money tunnelling under the Home Counties, as they didn’t want overground rail and bridges spoiling the view.

On the other hand, 450 massive pylons in Scotland, in order to supply England, was no problem at all as they wouldn’t spoil the view in England

Did I miss it or did Jackie Baillie have nice words to say about this. No I didn’t think so!

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It's no accident that there are more inspectors
chasing the few quid each of benefit fraud
with scathing headlines every time
than there are HMRC inspectors
looking into (but almost never prosecuting )
$billions in tax and company fraud

Exactly what I was thinking.

A Company called Skyrora have a licence to launch rockets from Scotland’s spaceport. The National calls them a Scottish Company with HQ in Glasgow & manufacturing in Cumbernauld. The BBC calls them a UK Company based in Edinburgh.
Whichever is correct, note the BBC emphasis on Britishness.

Others discover what Scots always knew…

Ooft! Robin McAlpine drops a plethora of F-bombs as he rips into Sir Keir Starmer over his stance on Gaza.
http://robinmcalpine.org/the-farce-the-futility-the-horror/

Wilfred Frost asks Nick Maynard, can the British govt actually do anything more than just political posturing over Gaza?

Nick: Call it genocide. Recognise the war crimes. A complete arms embargo. Stop all military assistance. Cease all existing trade deals. Apply sanctions.

these were not radical left-wing anti-zionist rabbis. these were mainstream liberal zionist rabbis getting arrested at the israeli consulate, over the starvation of gaza.

If you think John Swinney’s latest plan for independence is a good one, I’ve got bad news for you.
Latest blog.
https://rabbrucesspider.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-plan-for-what.html

It seems Trump is happy to waste money in his quest for cruelty. There can be no excuse for destroying birth control when it has already been paid for.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/trump-birth-control-contraceptive-burned-aid-us-b2797930.html

Just hours ago, Islamophobic freaks like Laura Loomer were blaming the shooting on Islam and Muslims and immigrants, as ever, meanwhile the NYPD police officer killed was a Muslim. Awful. A pregnant widow. Awful.

Has the EU played Trump at his own game, making promises they can’t keep in order to satisfy his ego? If so, well done.

We know that Trump has only a loose connection to the truth, but his ignorance of, or deliberate lying about, wind turbines is staggering.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/28/are-trump-claims-about-wind-power-correct

Can’t argue with any of that. What still disappoints me is the number of Scots who fell for the Labour lies. It’s as if they learned nothing from 2014 and haven’t been paying attention since then.

Ex-Sun editor David Dinsmore to take up government communications role Dinsmore will join Whitehall as civil servant in top communications role after reportedly impressing Starmer during interview

So if you are a Labour MP in Liverpool now is the time to deffect - Starmer is going all out to loose you your seat
Ex-Sun editor David Dinsmore to take up government communications role www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The UK Online Safety act is trying to ban access to Wikipedia.

It ain't about safety.

Just 5 months before the 2024 election, I challenged Labour on BBC Question Time, to clearly commit that an incoming Labour government would recognise Palestine.

No caveats, no conditions, Ian Murray simply said yes.

He's now been in the cabinet for over a year, and it still hasn't happened.

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Reform councillors criticised after voting to spend £150,000 on political advisers Plan was put forward by 19-year-old leader of Warwickshire council George Finch who also lobbied to remove Pride flag

Reform's George Finch, the 19-year-old leader of Warwickshire county council, pushes forward plans to spend £150,000 on hiring political advisers despite pledging to cut waste and save money.

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

How the crypto industry bought Trump (and by extension DC) What could possibly go wrong?

open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
If you asked Donald Trump even the most basic questions about what cryptocurrency is and how it works, he would probably be unable to offer you anything coherent. What he does know is that it is a gigantic spigot of money, and since he

#Scottishindependence would mean not being attached to those higher energy bills

The fact that the President of the United States posts a fake video of a kneeling Barack Obama being handcuffed and we’re supposed to pretend it’s perfectly normal, everyday stuff shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Return of a Crass Act When I was eleven years old, Pope John Paul II visited Glasgow. I remember it being a big deal at the time, and massive crowds came to hear him preach, but the thing that sticks in my mind was the …

Return of a Crass Act theorkneynews.scot/2025/07/21/r...

Labour using the Boris Johnson ploy of telling blatant lies because they know the MSM won’t call them out. So the lie is believed.

As resident (junior) doctor strikes loom in NHS England, SNP settlement praised by BMA means NHS Scotland set to avoid thousands of excess deaths again Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian today, the above and: In a letter to the NHS chief executive, Sir Jim Mackey, the BMA council chair, Dr Tom Dolphin, and the deputy council chair, Dr Em…

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DWP staff have been caught stealing disabled people's benefit money The iPaper reported the story, but don't think it downplayed DWP staff stealing from claimants - instead, focusing on benefit fraud

DWP staff have been caught stealing disabled people's benefit money

The iPaper reported the story, but don't think it downplayed DWP staff stealing from claimants - instead, focusing on... yes, you guessed it: benefit fraud
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

What does Brexit mean for the UK's beaches? The UK was branded “the dirty man of Europe” when it joined the EU in the 1970s, partly due to the polluted state of its beaches. Since then, significant

The UK was branded “the dirty man of Europe” when it joined the EU in the 1970s, partly due to the polluted state of its beaches... in 2016 96.5% of UK bathing waters... passed EU standards—announced as the “best on record” by the Government.

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