A recipe for ridicule! Yousaf proposes to promise the EU Scotland WILL adopt the euro, whilst telling the Scots that we WON'T. Sovereignty's position by contrast is crystal clear: upon Independence, we will immediately adopt - and indefinitely commit to - a Scottish currency.

Results of The Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social poll: Two-thirds & more want public ownership of utilities like water, rail, post, energy & buses Private ownership siphons off profits for CEO's salaries/bonuses & shareholder dividends - instead of being used to improve service & cut customer bills

"Under the new law, the undemocratic European Commission has empowered itself to regulate content on the internet without any hint of accountability to the millions of ordinary European citizens who use these services." Norman Lewis in spiked spiked-online.com/2023/03/23/the…

Change Wales in this tweet to Scotland, and it all applies equally.

Yet another reason to stop putting your trust into the constant empty campaign promises of SNP,Greens, Labour,LibDem&Tories. To get Scotland,incl.the Highland&Islands,back on track join us Sovereignty &vote for us in the upcoming elections Shetland News shetnews.co.uk/2023/07/14/no-…

From my article on the Mearns super pylon plans. It's no wonder local residents are unhappy.

Why are Amnesty taking up a position on a topic that is so divisive?

"More than 470 European NGOs and associations have sent a letter to the leaders of the European Union, urging them to take immediate and effective steps to end the ongoing illegal blockade of Artsakh by Azerbaijan." armenpress.am/eng/news/11155…

Remember the whole argument about whether or not an EU member state is sovereign? Yesterday the EU referred Sweden to the CJEU for failing to fully implement what it was told to do. Doesn't sound very sovereign to me. ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

Why does European Commission think that Azerbaijan's intentions with the Agdam road proposal are anything other than malign, given the Azeris' willingness to famish the entire #Armenian population in #Artsakh?! #RecognizeArtsakh

The widespread closures of bank branches across Scotland's towns and communities is a bit mental! How are older customers and rural businesses supposed to prosper when they have to travel miles for face-to-face banking services?

Faslane where Trident on the Clyde is housed, is some 40 miles North West of Glasgow & the Central Belt where 3.5 million Scots live: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demograph… yet in Scotland in 2023 some Scots still vote for British nationalist parties. I scratch my head and ask why?

If the Tories can unilaterally dismantle the devolution settlement that over 74% of Scotland voted in favour of in 1997. Scotland can unilaterally dismantle the Act of Union that 110 (bribed) nobles signed on our behalf in 1707.

We need a collective response to climate disaster, not punitive individualism by Robin McAlpine dlvr.it/Ssg7z9

Outrageous! telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/2…

"There's many of people in the Cabinet and the leadership that haven't uttered a word to me or vice versa, for well over a year. And it's very sad." SNP MSP Fergus Ewing says he won't be deterred by the "toxic atmosphere amongst the SNP group in Holyrood."

Fergus Ewing has laid into the coalition's extremist legislative programme, saying there's a danger that an #IndyRef2 would be lost as a result of measures like self-ID, HPMAs and the Deposit Return Scheme. @FergusEwingSNP #ScottishIndependence thenational.scot/news/23682550.…

The way you fix an aging population is to pursue pronatalist policies (newborns having an average age of zero), not by encouraging mass migration.

Oddly fitting is the line from Swinburne's 'On the proposed desecration of Westminster Abbey', "Each divine veiled head shall speak in silence with averted face." H/t Peter Hitchens

The Scottish Government is now seeking to beef up its role in the regulation of solicitors, undermining the independence of the legal profession. We join Law Society Scotland in condemning this move.