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Great explainer on the latest UK-Scottish Government constitutional court battle ⬇️

On holiday and the Wi-Fi network terms and conditions require not doing anything that "could constitute criminal behaviour in the UK ***or anywhere else in the world***". That is an incredibly broad clause...

Enjoying the Conservatives announcing Cameron’s return like a football club tweeting about a player coming back from injury

More substantive things to discuss about the Scottish budget, but this needs to be mentioned more. Parliamentary scrutiny relies on the opposition being well-informed on the substance (even if the vote is a foregone conclusion). Only giving them ten minutes weakens Holyrood

Couldn’t (wouldn’t) pick any other jumper for today 🎄

Probably the most interesting appointment in yesterday's reshuffle - part of the rare SNP gender recognition rebellion and a strong Kate Forbes supporter. Obvious appeal in knowing the brief, but also an effort to draw a line under the internal party division of the last year?

Just for fun, undergraduate institutions of Scottish First Ministers: Glasgow (Dewar) Heriot-Watt (McLeish) Stirling (McConnell) St Andrews (Salmond) Glasgow (Sturgeon) Glasgow (Yousaf) Surprisingly varied - and the only to produce a post-war PM (Edinburgh, Brown) has no FMs.

Another country visited means another photo in front of the legislature (Stortinget, 🇳🇴)

Parker and Street’s victory and concession speeches are British democracy at its best - well-natured, gracious, and respectful Respect to both of them for that - it wouldn’t hurt to have more of that in politics

And Swinney becoming First Minister-designate today adds another line to the list. Glasgow (3) Heriot-Watt (1) Stirling (1) St. Andrews (1) Edinburgh (1) Post-war UK PMs is Oxford (13), Edinburgh (1), and arguably Stanford (1) for comparison