Donald Trump seeks advice from an old friend as the Stormy Daniels hush money trial gets underway.

Nine years ago today Mumsy was out on the Westminster campaign trail aged 90 and with a perspective stretching back over quite a few elections.... She'd voted Communist in her youth, Labour and then The SNP plus Yes to independence and no, of course, to Brexit.

Always enjoy popping into Guid Reads in #Alva for a wee weekend rummage amongst the fabulous book collection. It's a warm and welcoming treasure trove with ever changing window displays. Pay them a visit if you get the chance! #Clackmannanshire

I was asked on @LBCRadio for my reaction to the further military aid now being sent to #Ukraine

We must make sure Putin loses and Ukraine 🇺🇦 - and democracy - prevail.

The Tories' Rwanda policy is a cruel farce as I told Iain Dale ⚒️🇺🇦.🇮🇱. on @lbcradio

Labour & the Tories are limpet close on Brexit. Perhaps believing #Brexit voters must endure its fall-out.

But why is Labour so keen to punish young people with this idiocy?

“A Labour spokesperson said: “Labour has no plans for a youth mobility scheme.”
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Brexit voters - rightly - feel conned. They know Brexit was built on lies.

Which makes it all the odder that Labour has now decided to become a hard line Brexit party.

Brexit voters realise that they were duped: “The percentage of Leavers saying they 'almost never' trust government has leapt by 33 points (from 23% to 56%) since the last election - twice as much as the increase for Remainers.” news.sky.com/story/a-crisis…

I see Scottish Conservatives MSP Jackson Carlaw has been behaving foolishly at Holyrood again. Which reminds me…..

Very pleased to say that, following our challenge, Rishi Sunak has been ordered to disclose his dealings, including on text and WhatsApp, with his former hedge fund Theleme over its lucrative investment in Moderna. goodlaw.social/jazv

This is a very good piece analysing how craven Ofcom has become under its current woeful leadership. GB News now either ignores or openly mocks the regulator.

BREAKING: Thousands more taxpayers moved to Scotland than left each year in the period after the Scottish Income Tax was brought in, new research has found.

The Scottish Government said it shows Scotland is 'an attractive place to live and work'.

Story to follow.

The SNP have already nationalised Scotland’s railway.

Keep up.

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Has it degraded? I think people imagine it was better in the past than it actually was.

Oh and it’s Nicolson LBC #FactCheck

Busy news day, some important stories and I’m at LBC radio studio ready to go on air with Iain Dale

Tune in now, I’m on at 8pm

The Tory Depute PM refers to alleged Israeli war crimes as “misconduct”. The perpetrator of those crimes - Israel - is democratic & can be “trusted” he says.

I doubt those bound, killed and buried would much have much cared whether their killers paid lip service to democracy.

Brexiters “who voted to leave the EU because they did not want Britain to be a refuge for desperate people seeking asylum are disappointed: when we were in the EU, covered by a returns deal, there was no opening for traffickers to exploit. Now there is.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“A man who was bred to believe that the rules don’t apply to him is left to sit silently, by edict of the court, as a jury of his peers decides his fate.”

What Donald Trump Fears Most - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Interesting..

There’s a war in #Ukraine slaughter in #Gaza and constituents fighting poverty at home.

But at Holyrood a Scottish Conservatives MSP called Jackson Carlaw asks an urgent question about which desks his opponents should sit at.

The Presiding Officer’s face is a picture….