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It’s with some sadness to see that the Bath-based blogger who has been marinading his own bile for a decade or so has today announced his own retirement (‘The Ship Song‘). I doubt very much this is true at all but his latest *explosive* blog is quietly hilarious. Presumably his role in the utter farce […]

Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie has slammed the home office and stated that Scotland must build an asylum system worthy of the name.Mr Harvie’s call comes as hundreds of locals in Pollokshields joined a protest following an attempt by the Home Office to forcibly remove asylum seekers.Patrick Harvie said:“It’s horrific that people have been forced to take such action to defend...

Or to be more precise, wouldn’t happen. It sucks being right all the time. But at least now, as we asked for, the lie is over. So that’s a good thing. We suppose we should celebrate, but we don’t feel much like it.

The highly successful event will run from 9 – 17 May 2020. 

Tuesday saw the installation of a shelter built by Orkney Mens Shed for the charity SiMBA at their gardens in Kirkwall.

SO it’s the end of the line for Abellio – or at least it will be in spring 2022, when its franchise agreement to run ScotRail services is brought to an end three years early. Passengers who have endured the repeated misery of delays, cancellations and overcrowding – while being asked to pay more and more in fares every year – will doubtless conclude this is not before time.

BORIS Johnson was blasted yesterday for “playing with his phone” rather than listening to the SNP response to a programme for government the party says shows contempt for Scotland.

GIVE or take a few admirable exceptions, politicians are a deceitful breed. On the international stage few epitomise this more than US President Donald Trump. Indeed there was something of a preordained outcome in the news this week that Trump had been impeached.

The General Election result confirmed that Scotland and RUK are on very different paths, politically, socially and globally. Only the arrogance of the Anglo-Brits now stands in the way of reality. The union has run its 312- year course. The scale of the SNP Landslide last week is being ignored at Westminster. Their placemen and Read more about First They Laugh[…]The post First They Laugh...

SNP AMENDMENT: UK MUST NOT LEAVE THE EU WITHOUT CONSENT OF THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT The SNP’s Westminster leader has warned that Boris Johnson is “blindly hurtling towards the cliff-edge” with his devastating Brexit bill, as the prospect of a No-Deal Brexit grows. Ahead of the Withdrawal Agreement coming before Parliament today (Friday), the SNP has tabled a Reasoned Amendment to the bill...

‘8% of the population but only 2.5% of the police taser firing’ It’s all over the English media but from BBC UK today: The use of Taser stun guns by police and England and Wales reached a record high last year, Home Office figures show. They were deployed in 23,000 incidents in the 12 months toContinue reading "Police Scotland’s taser restraint not reported because…."

Westminster Live – 19/12/2019   Join us for Westminster Live with the Brexit Bill 2nd Reading and Committee stages.   9.30am – No debate – Adjournment (Christmas) (Motion) Until 2.30pm – Allocation of Select Committee Chairs (Timing) (Motion) Until any hour* – European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill: Second Reading (*if the Business of the House […]...

The UN reported this week that the world is continuing to drift further off-course in dealing with climate change, despite growing alarm about the impacts of rising temperatures. With greenhouse gas emissions continuing to increase, even more drastic reductions are needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. The less we do the harder […]

As ever, the Guardian wins the prize for the most tendentious reporting of Roger Stone’s conviction. This is not quite on the scale of its massive front page lie that Paul Manafort visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorean Embassy. But it is a lie with precisely the same intent, to deceive the public into believing […]The post The Roger Stone – Wikileaks – Russia Hoax...

Contrary to the Establishment line, Prince Andrew does not automatically have diplomatic immunity for statutory rape charges in the USA: and if he does, the UK Government can waive it. Any British diplomat facing investigation for under-age sex in the USA would, beyond doubt, instantly have their immunity waived by the UK government. There is […]The post Boris Johnson Must Waive Any Claim...

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Ben Wray reports for Bella from Spain where the leaked ‘Scotland Papers’ expose a bizarre set of relations between Scotland and Spain, and examples of paranoia, bullying and racism in the Spanish Foreign Ministry. They call it ‘Los Papeles de Escocia’. The Scotland Papers, a leak of 80 documents from the Superior Court of Justice […]

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