Gavin Williamson

Rising bills. Falling living standards. The UK economic model is broken.

Independence is the fresh start for Scotland - so we can build a wealthier, fairer nation shaped by the people who live here.

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This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

That should come as no surprise given the development of age trends in voting over the past decade or so.

Is this not just a symptom of the Westminster first past the post system. That is the real problem of much that impacts UK

What is the business case for Nuclear in Scotland, we already produce nearly twice than we consume. We need a different strategy than this tired and unnecessary nuclear.

Perhaps because this is E&W greens and therefore not the whole UK, it’s how they minimised SNP coverage when they had 46 MPs

"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy “We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.

1/Striking speech by Macron: The future of European democracy depends on taking back its digital information space. A remarkable turn from Silicon Valley as source of enlightenment to being a purveyor of slop. And the stakes aren't just ad revenue but the nation.
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Its utter crap to compare Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 who has minimal powers to England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 who have 100% powers. Even with one arm behind our backs and a fixed budget Scotland still do better. Imagine what we can do with 100% #independence powers.

Revealed: How Palestine Action was banned Exclusive: Documents seen by Declassified reveal serious concerns within the UK government and MI5 about proscribing Palestine Action.

A reminder that "The UK government was secretly advised that Palestine Action is “highly unlikely” to advocate for violence while officials struggled to produce evidence the group posed a national security threat".

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This is truly chilling, and goes waaaay beyond immigration. When you have political parties saying that you don't need lawyers, courts, judges etc because the government cannot make mistakes absolutely everyone should be worrying. What starts with one group tends to expand to others.

I don’t have a crystal ball, but I have a good idea how this shutdown ends. Trump and Republicans will cave (he won’t admit he’s caving, of course, but he will cave).

Here’s why: Air traffic controllers.

SP26: Where are Reform’s votes coming from? With Reform on the rise, how has that affected other parties? In short, Reform are lapping up the 2021 Conservative and 2024 Labour votes, but barely registering amongst past SNP voters.

SP26: Where are Reform's votes coming from?

A longer read for the weekend, taking a look at the rise of Reform. If you're the Conservatives or Labour, this isn't good news. The SNP meanwhile lose few voters and benefit from the split elsewhere.

Don't spread this Nigel Farage really wants it to disappear.

A chicken is a noble beast,
The cow is much forlorner;
Standing in the pouring rain,
With a leg at every corner.

William McGonagall (1830–1902)

Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the elec...

Spain's wholesale electricity prices were 32% lower than the European average in the first half of 2025 -- thanks to wind and solar reducing the influence of costly fossil fuels on prices. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Graeme’s Column Politics is a dirty business. But there are some lines which should never be crossed. Weaponising child abuse is one

You may have seen false Tory claims that MSPs “voted against a grooming gangs inquiry”.

There's twisting truth, & then there's dragging politics into the gutter. Using “grooming gangs” as a dog-whistle & child abuse as a political football crosses a line.

Absolutely this!

The demographic time bomb that will end Westminster rule in Scotland We are now at the point which was predicted by a friend of mine in 2014 in the aftermath of that year’s independence referendum. After a careful study of the demographic breakdown of the refe…

"Support for independence in Scotland will continue to rise and sooner rather than later, Westminster’s tactic of deny and delay will break down. The dam will burst and independence will follow relatively quickly."
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At today's meeting on drugs in Scotland the Criminal Justice Committee took evidence on the Thistle, the safer drug consumption facility.

Dr Saket Priyadarshi of Glasgow City Alcohol and Drug Partnership said reports of increased drug-related crime in the area have not been informed by evidence.

As Reporting Scotland go looking for a ferry fiasco on Arran, nearly 80% are satisfied, dangerous weather is to blame for 96% of cancellations and the car deck was less than half full, to once again expose the media stories as whopping fibs
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This is better from the Courier. Helping to tackle misinformation and defuse tensions. One of the most common lies peddled by those trying to divide our communities over asylum is this rubbish about criminality. The police in Perthshire confirm - there is absolutely no evidence.

Spot on.

Of course that is exactly what Golden and the Tories want, to wreck the reputation of the Holyrood Parliament. Same as last weeks stooshie about Seagulls and a Tory MSP being given a pice of home truth about his actions high jacking an important piece of legislation for trivia.

MP slams 'false' rumours former school will be turned into asylum accommodation

An SNP MP has condemned false rumours a former school is being turned into asylum accommodation

It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…

‘So the rumours are true … time to ask some serious questions about Reform and Russia’

My column on Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales, admitting taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia while a member of the European Parliament

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If you hate the Pope because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.

'Important step forwards' as Housing Bill passes with plan for rent controls

NEW: Rent controls are set to be introduced in Scotland after the Government’s housing reform legislation passed at Holyrood

How about you just grow up?

Scottish Parliament passes Housing (Scotland) Bill with cross party support except for the Scottish Conservatives who voted against it at the final vote.

The Scottish Government say the bill will transform homelessness prevention and improve standards in rented housing in Scotland.

The real crisis of our age is one the media won’t talk about Not a day goes by without the BBC, Sky News or ITV News covering a story about what they insist on calling the “migrant crisis”. In this they are following the agenda of the right wing …

My latest blog piece, the real crisis of our age is one the media won't talk about. There is no migrant crisis, there's a greed of the super rich crisis.

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