Journalist. Mountaineer and cyclist. Welsh rugby fan. SNP and wind farms not for me. Love singing.
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Migrant flow reduced but still in the thousands. The real problem lies in the pull factor. Shut down free benefits, clamp down on illegal working and the flow, like the British summer this year, will soon start to dry up.
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Mouth always engages before brain with this woman.
Astonishing ignorance from Lara Bird, who accuses the previous Conservative government of “absolutely scrapping any future of renewables in Scotland”.
In 2009 there was 2GW of wind capacity in Scotland. In 2024, after 14 years of Tory government at Westminster, there was 15GW.
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And why do we need Holyrood?
John Swinney and the SNP say Scotland needs just two NHS health boards, one for the west and one for the east of the country, instead of the 14 we have currently
But if that is so, why do we need 32 Scottish councils and over 1200 local councillors?
heraldscotland.com/news/2651…
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Must be tricky for The Herald being in the same stable as The National.
'They have a dwindling membership, reduced finances and questions still to answer about who knew what and when while their former Chief Executive was embarking on his fancy goods side hustle' 👇
𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴
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Yes. Far too many low turnout in elections. If people want to spoil their ballot papers that's fine, but voting is vital.
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Swinney looks like Dr Krippen in that white jacket.
Eradicating child poverty, improving economic growth, taking action on net zero and improving our public services. They are our priorities.
Today, First Minister @JohnSwinney sets out the actions this government will take to improve the lives of people in Scotland.
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There again, everything the SNP do is beyond bonkers.
The SNP’s plan to impose price controls on supermarkets is almost unbelievably bad.
By way of illustrating just how bonkers it is let us imagine that the same policy applied to car sales.
The SNP would cap the price of a Fiat 500. Fine! (Not fine, actually but let’s let that slide for now.)
But when all the Fiat 500s have been sold, the dealer would be compelled to sell another, more expensive, car (eg, an Audi) for the price of a Fiat 500.
And when all the Audis have been sold the process repeats itself. So, in this illustration, the dealer would be forced to sell a Bentley for the price of a Fiat 500.
That is genuinely how it is supposed to work with prices capped for 50 (!) foodstuffs.
Beyond bonkers.
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Gumption.
At my local train station a well-spoken man in his early 20s has taken on a small coffee kiosk. There’s always a queue for his excellent and affordable drinks and he tries to make conversation with every customer, for whom this interaction might be the only cheerful one of the day. He works like stink. Elsewhere in the town many of his contemporaries won’t be stirring - in any sense - for hours yet. What does he have, that they don’t?
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Yeah, but let's not worry about the price cap going up soon and the relentless push for net zero adding hundreds to our bills.
The Prime Minister has taken action to support people across our country by cutting VAT from electricity bills ahead of the winter.
This Labour Government is taking action to give families some breathing space and make the basics of life more affordable.
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Looks amazing, but could the knives potentially be removed from the sculpture and caused mayhem?
The Knife Angel travelled to Edinburgh and was installed yesterday at The Kirkgate in Leith.
A huge thank you to Hiab Hire Scotland, and to our partners at @Edinburgh_CC and Places for People Scotland for helping bring the Knife Angel to our city.
#SaferCommunitiesEdinburgh
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Nothing but petty, nitpicking parochialism.
What an utterly childish and small-minded reaction to what was plainly a genuine mistake — acknowledged, apologised for and corrected.
Have the bosses at Transport Scotland really got nothing better to worry about than temporary branding on a ticket gate?
This tells you far too much about the petty nationalism that infects the top of too many of Scotland’s public bodies. Everything becomes a grievance. Everything becomes constitutional.
Transport Scotland should be focused on improving Scotland’s transport system, not “hitting the roof” over a Union Jack.
scotsman.com/news/transport/…
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Based in Chester so what the hell are you doing pronouncing on what happens to Scotland. Keep your nose out.
Scottish Independence poll (Survation, 27 August 2026)
Should Scotland be an independent country?
YES 52%
NO 48%
British Nationalists must accept independence isn't going away, and is a legitimate political aim. That said, I think supporters should focus on building support.
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He's got them dangling at the end of a string with an independence carrot on the end of it.
Monumental failures, broken promises, scandals, theft, malicious prosecutions, rusting ferries, gender ideology etc. but strangely in Scotland we have a loyal cult that will obediently vote for @theSNP
Do they honesty think this clown is capable of delivering what Alex Salmond didn’t?
He’s a political pygmy in comparison,
I wouldn’t trust Swinney to sit the correct way round on a toilet. He’s a complete empty vessel surrounded by Ill-equipped activists and spin doctors telling him which slogans to drop into his incessantly droll PR campaign.
He’s using the same old worn out tactics of grievance, division and blaming everyone else to keep the loyal ones onside - when does “it’s Westminster’s fault” become nothing more than a lame excuse for the SNP’s diabolical and disastrous record?
Clinging to an increasingly unlikely outcome isn’t determination, it’s refusing to accept reality because the truth doesn’t fit with the fantasy.
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