The Scottish Greens must now stand on their own feet as an environmental party with nationalism as an option but no more. That means supporting an election rather than a rerun of what I call the Truss process to find a new FM.

Humza resigns the way he has always worked - wearing a giant pair of flip-flops. His lack of integrity should have condemned him long ago. Parliament must not repeat the process that brought us Truss, Sunak, and Mr Unreliable himself. The voters should pick the next FM.

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Is a realistic but hopeful picture of how things could get better in our country.

In fishing you are supposed to catch the salmon. What may be happening in Scottish politics is that Salmond has got a First Minister on the end of the line and can reel him in at leisure.

We may see a new Scottish government quite soon and very likely in 2 years. What 5 actions should they take to make life better in Scotland? No posturing or high-risk adventures, please.

The collapse of the agenda on which SNP and Greens were elected shows us that we cannot rely on their promises as the basis of any vote to leave the UK. The 2014 process must now be dead - never to be revived.

Congratulations. As a non-nationalist Scot I am pretty desperate to minimise the damage of Brexit and not to go through another one. We have got out of the habit of seeing things from a European point of view and tweets like yours help make up for some of that deficiency.

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This is the most realistic picture of some kind of way forward in the Middle East I have seen.

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This is more like it. We don't actually need to worry about small change like a few billion but this is the sort of thing that can be agenda setting.

This response simply adds to the bitterness and division on gender change and makes finding an acceptable solution more difficult. Government minsters should do better.

'Performative, spurious nonsense': Scottish minister slams response to Hate Crime Act heraldscotland.com/news/24235463.…

There were very serious problems with the finances of the SNP during Nicola's leadership. There may not be provable criminality and if so the mismanagement will be covered up. Humza should commit now to an independent enquiry after the criminal process.

This is another betrayal of our young people and, ultimately, all of us.

We are paying £4m a year for people to lie to us or advise Humza on how to lie to us.

Remarkable data just published, detailing Scot Gov spend on comms staff (ie press officers).

The massive 21% increase in 2020-21 was understandable, because of Covid.

But why has spend continued to rise at an alarming rate? Up by a further 10% in each of the following 2 years.

I am always willing to help those in need so I suggest this. 1. Make Johnson a Lord. 2. Allow peers to lead the Tories 3. Go to the country with Lord Johnson as the candidate for PM. That should put the elitists to flight.

The Truth About Integration, by Sam Freedman open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/the…

How we avoid the exploitation of differences between Muslims and others and build a healthy society.

As I understand it Mr Hester and the Tories are refusing to confirm or deny his 'alleged' remarks. This is totally unacceptable and an added insult to Diane Abbott.

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A detailed and, I think, convincing portrait of Keir Starmer for those who realise how important he is to the future of this country.