Something that’s “never-ending” isn’t a “crisis” it’s the norm. The only credible response to chronic mismanagement of the Scottish ferry shambles is a revamp of the entire operating model, such that it serves the customers over the bureaucracy.

“harm reduction is the policy of the poor. If you have the money and are addicted, you get therapy, inpatient treatment, family intervention. If you are working class and addicted, you get a welfare check, a naloxone kit, and a list of rapidly diminishing drop-in centres.” 👏

I wonder how the Greens would reconcile wind farms wiping out the Scottish Orcas?

How to burn 🔥 public money on an industrial scale in Scotland.

This is a central question of the COVID origins scandal: Why would an American virologist using our tax dollars export technology to soup up viruses without a trace to a Chinese military-connected lab?

When a basic price signal (energy cost) is lost in a sea of bureaucratic fog that’s a red flag 🚩 hoisted over government policy.

Thankfully GB Energy in Aberdeen has been such runaway success that no worker will notice the closure. 🙃

Think just as carefully as the clowns 🤡 who drafted the bill?

This “just transition” bollocks in Scotland is for the consultants and civil servants to bill their time against. If any worker were actually assisted then that would be an accident of the entire paper pushing process.

Nobody in UK to fill those jobs? Labour is closing an opportunity gap for the unemployed.

Last Orders for Labour

When I think of all the working class people I’ve represented over the years who have not qualified for legal aid or who have barely qualified with a big contribution required from their personal funds, I find this absolutely astonishing. heraldscotland.com/news/25282315.…

Liz Truss can blame the Bank of England for her moment melting the economy. Wreckit Reeves has nowhere to hide 🙈

Taxi 🚕 for Keir Starmer

In Summary: Rehab in Scotland is so crap that Amy Winehouse would say “Yes, Yes, Yes”.

The German word "scheinheilig" means to be pretend holy or hypocritical. That's Germany (lhs) and Italy (rhs) on Ukraine. As Ukraine burns, German and Italian firms say they export to Kyrgyzstan (black), but little of that stuff ever arrives there (blue). It goes to Moscow...