Must say I went from half asleep to 100mph listening to Andrew Neil’s nonsense this morning. Took an hour afterwards to calm down. I’m sure we can expect a lot more of these lazy assaults on Scotland & indy.

It’s time to call out journalists and campaigners from all political parties and none. Kate Forbes MSP is a Christian. Judge her on her skills and proposals to get Scotland back on track. Her religion is irrelevant. Stop abusing her.

Interesting phenomena that I've seen a couple of times - a few people are OK with Kate Forbes being in the cabinet, as long as she is not FM.
I'm keen to see if this limited acceptance is a widespread view, so please read this carefully:

Q - I could accept someone like KF as:

Public service reminder to folk commenting on Kate Forbes - Free Church positions on moral questions are almost always identical to official Roman Catholic positions (on contraception/divorce more liberal) so think before writing something about FC you wouldn’t write about RC?

Voters believe Kate Forbes would make a better first minister than John Swinney, new polling by Ipsos has shown. But Swinney is the favourite among SNP voters. holyrood.com/news/view,kate…

The establishment of the Scottish Parliament has: a) righted the wrong of the democratic deficit of rule from WM; b) reflected the political views of Scotland more fairly by PR; c) passed sig legislation which WM would not have: for example: land reform.

NEW: Ivan McKee MSP, who ran Kate Forbes’ leadership campaign last time, tells LBC that he’s backing her again, that there needs to be a contest and that the SNP needs to “get it right this time”
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Woth noting that John Swinney is no friend of local democracy or Parliament 1/4

Kate Forbes is the only option to keep the SNP from electoral oblivion robinmcalpine.org/the-snp-must-c…

Holyrood Sources Geoff Aberdein Neither the SNP nor the country can afford to take a step backwards. John is absolutely the wrong choice. We need an FM that's prepared to kick butt, dump policies the public will never support and concentrate on the economy. Only Kate can do this.

Whurr the F**k Are We Noo?

The Scottish political scene is in flux; the SNP and Green Party face internal and external challenges, the worst aspects easily damaging to their perceived inability to govern well since the halcyon days of Alex Salmond's administration where an

Rumours about a Scottish election in Sept.

Imagine it’s a plebiscite / defacto referendum.

Where do you put your 2 votes?

This poll is 5 days - please

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for max responses.

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Humza Yousaf resigns. In some way I feel pity that he was never able to fully chart his own path as First Minister. However, I also believe that he was the worst of the three leadership candidates for last year's SNP contest. The SNP are on the rocks. Can they save themselves?

It is an ideology - gender ideology.

It has its grounding in the critical social justice movement and queer theory specifically.

It is a pretend post-modernist movement that pioritises the ‘lived-experience’ of tiny populations over empirical evidence, reality and the common

Greens Eating Each Other

The Green Party is in a state of open civil war this weekend with party loyalists and rebels launching brutal attacks on each other. Rebels have demanded co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater go and there’s also been calls for the deselection of

The process I have tagged #ScottishUDI is the only process that works for Scotland’s cause. Now as always, that cause involves two distinct struggles. The struggle to assert and defend our right of self-determination – the right of the people of Scotland to decide the

Why does Scotland have no advanced seaports?
Why do all of our exports and imports go through English ports? Listen to Prof Alf Baird on the Internal Colonial Model.

'So Freeports are not new. It's a Tory reaction to economic collapse, if you like, economic. Just zero growth,

Ian Brotherhood Prof Alf Baird on the topic:

“…there is what is known as 'cultural colonialism'. Colonial powers impose cultural assimilation processes which seek to alter the identity of a people. This leads to the psychological condition we know as 'the colonial mindset', where a people

From Robin McAlpine's latest:

'We have no sense of who we are as a nation, no proper discussion of who we’ve been. We don’t discuss what our future might look like, or (perhaps more importantly), what it would feel like. We have no physical sensation of what the experience of

Woodburning stoves have now been banned by the Scottish Government. A small thread:
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