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Alex Massie, in today’s Sunday Times.

3/ In other words: bang average by EU standards. Scotland’s renewables share is nowhere near “the best in Europe”. Alasdair Ferguson should be embarrassed to be pushing such an obvious fiction.

Tomorrow is McCrone Day, the most exciting day of the year at The National. So… on McCrone Eve… here is the definitive dismantling of the McCrone mythology. If you thought there was at least something to that mythology, this might change your mind… these-islands.co.uk/publications/i…

1/ According to the McCrone mythology, even if the famous 1974 memo was never “hushed up”, there was a conspiracy to keep his forecast of huge oil revenues hidden from the public. There must be at least something to this, right? Wrong! The McCrone mythology is built on a lie.🧵

Putin and his murderous thugs are watching this and laughing their heads off. Trump and Vance are singing his songs at the top of their voices. “This is going to be great television” says Trump. All he cares about. Was talking to Michael Woolf earlier today. “You have to remember

The cheek of Trump and Vance to use the Churchill bust as a symbol and then spout such provocative pro-Russian propaganda to Zelensky. If this was 1940 they'd be telling Churchill to stop continuing the war, do a deal and surrender half of Europe 'for peace'.

All you pro-Trump for the hell of it types have some thinking to do.

have watched this and now i feel physically sick

if i wasn’t on the other side of the world right now i’d seriously consider heading to London to join what I am sure will be resounding applause for Zelenskyy

Shona Robison would do well to read this chokkablog.blogspot.com/2015/04/full-f…

I don't think I have ever read anything so absurd in Financial Times Why publish it? The idea that VAT somehow creates a trade barrier, and is equivalent to a 25% tariff, is self evidently utter nonsense. ft.com/content/1de4d6…

John Swinney, refusing to state Scot Gov’s position on zonal pricing. Its genuine position is opposition, but he won’t say that for two reasons: (1.) He doesn’t want voters to know that his government has sided with the electricity generation companies, not ordinary households.

i don’t post much on here these days, but watching these two manoeuvre a buggy on Trump Aberdeen today and i just had to share it …

elite sport at it’s finest Tom Holland

The profits Lesley Riddoch seems to believe are being stolen away from Scotland are quite small relative to the huge capital expenditures required to generate them. And this will always be the case, as explained here: these-islands.co.uk/publications/i…

2/ Which is pretty bonkers. But not as bonkers as this. Despite pursuing full fiscal autonomy “the Scottish Government has not undertaken any analysis on the implications of full fiscal autonomy for the Scottish Government's budget”. The SNP is both incompetent and unserious.

Mairi Gougeon says the SNP believes the military is very important, but criticises the UK Government’s lack of principles in giving them weapons. The SNP will stick to its principle that public money should not be spent on arming the military. 🤯 #BBCSundayShow

i’ve been working on something that looks at fiscal comparisons between EU OECD countries and the UK - looking at this graph, who thinks the UK has an unacceptably high tax burden?

Higher rates of income tax in Scotland don't pay for the additions Lorna lists here. The dramatically higher spending per head we benefit from in Scotland vs England is thanks to Barnett funding - ie, our UK fiscal union, which Lorna wants to demolish.

Marvellous to see wee Pete objecting to the thesis outlined in this column while confirming it in *the very same tweet*.