Scottish political journalism is now effectively professional Unionism. In short, hacks and reporters might not be Unionists, they just have to push whatever agenda Unionism requires at any given time in order to be successful. In many cases their career depends on it.

Sure sign that this is a piece of anti-SNP propaganda by BBC Scotland is the absence of any quote from Scottish Labour. Only the Scottish Tories are quoted.

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John Swinney will face the same campaign from BBC Scotland that his predecessors faced. Every sector will be portrayed as failing, even if it’s the best performing in the UK. Marry this to regular smears and you have a simple but effective strategy. He has to find a way to…

It’s both a deterioration in standards and bias. Scottish political journalism is dead. Yes, there are one or two ‘twitches’ that can be mistaken for life, but the truth is that the sector is long dead. What we are presented with isn’t journalism. It’s tabloid caricature. It…

More and more ‘news’ on BBC Scotland isn’t news at all. It’s a claim from a vested interest group. Trade unions are a frequent source of such ‘news’.

Shadow international development secretary Lisa Nandy tries, and fails, to rewrite history. #bbcqt

Oh dear, people in Cambuslang heard today that Michael Shanks MP
sent apologies as he had parliamentary duties. Clearly not true. Local libraries were not such a big priority perhaps!

Incredibly far-right stuff from the Labour leader, who opposes the Rwanda scheme because it doesn't remove enough people and making jokes about asylum seekers living in expensive accommodation 'because like Hotel California...there's no prospect of ever leaving'

Baillie epitomises Neo-Unionism. A genuinely nasty piece of work who revels in being unpleasant. She is Douglas Ross in a dress.

Baroness Hazarika there. She has principles. And if you don’t like them she has others.

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Apologising a day after defecting. bbc.com/news/uk-politi…

The Scottish Greens, previously derided as cranks and extremists, suddenly find themselves and their views credible and newsworthy.

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SNP cllrs just voted to kick the two Tories out of the Edinburgh council administration. For the second year running, Labour voted for them to stay. Labour were voted in by the Tories; their budgets pass with the votes of the Tories. The city's tawdry Labour-Tory deal continues.

Anas Sarwar described Gething’s appointment as FM as an ‘orderly transfer of power’. Nobody in the Scottish media has challenged him on this guff.

Kerr looking even more gormless than usual as he watches the childish antics of his colleague.

Voters have become so entranced at the slow-motion train wreck that is the Tory party that they’ve failed to notice Starmer has set a match to Labour’s socialist principles. They’ll only notice that particular inferno after he becomes PM.

Natalie Elphicke's neighbouring constituency Labour party issues a statement saying they are 'shocked and appalled' by the admission of such a 'toxic and divisive' figure into their party, and urge Labour members in Dover to apply for her membership to be rejected.

Anas Sarwar fielding awkward questions is the political equivalent of a solar eclipse.