Maguire: "Overall benefit spending as a share of the national economy is about where it was 10yrs ago. The fact [Robertson] has gone for benefits shows it as a highly political attack" And not only is it about the same as 10yrs ago, we spend less than most European countries

The Offord/Sarwar story was ignored by Radio Scotland Breakfast for the first hour. Martin Geissler briefly mentioned it at 0700. Philip Sim is going to give a report after 0830. Missing from TV & Radio news bulletins, but there's space for ferries. It's not on the BBC website.

Record Politics That the same guy who : "Promised" to keep Grangemouth open "Promised" to recompense WASPI women "Promised" 10000 GB Energy jobs in Aberdeen "Promised" Scotland leading the UK join in, it's a long and revolting list of lies...

‘Scottish’ Labour - just following London’s lead as usual! x.com/explosiveenema…

🚨🇧🇪 JUST IN: Belgium just seized two British military shipments bound for Israel. At Liège Airport. 33 crates. Military components including lasers, sights, fire control systems, and aircraft parts. The cargo arrived by truck from the UK. It was supposed to fly to Tel Aviv on a

It seems George Robertson may just have had a vested interest when he called for a boost to defence spending. Funny that. George Robertson and the defence consultancy thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sack…

The one pledge that stood out for us when we watched Anas Sarwar's manifesto launch live on Monday was his staple items pledge. We couldn't believe it when nobody picked it up and highlighted it. No retailer complained. There was a wall of silence.

No mention that France introduced a similar scheme back 2023 to cap essential food items due to high food prices. The same policy was being considered by the UK gov. But it’s only a ‘gimmick’ because it is an SNP policy, Meanwhile, Tesco profits last year were £3.15 billion!

ITV's Peter Smith describes John Swinney's pledge to cap the price of essential food items as ... communism. Communism? Is the energy price cap communism too? Are bus fare price caps also communism? When did broadcast journalism become this bad? Is Scotland just unlucky?

First, disabled drivers saw the Motability scheme heavily curtailed. Now they must use an app which tracks their every move, even when they are not driving. Big Brother is here. ‘Intrusive’ Motability app is ‘worse than having a computer virus’ disabilitynewsservice.com/intrusive-mota…

Just pointing out that I broke the story 7 months ago that Mandelson failed vetting from the security services and put it to Downing Street...so the idea that Downing Street only found out on Tuesday is complete nonsense. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Lord George Robertson who has urged slashing of welfare to pay for defence has claimed £681.6k of allowances from sitting in the House of Lords. Benefit Scrounger? bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/17/lor…

Scotland hasn’t voted for a right wing government since 1955 Yet since then we have spent 47 years under right wing rule Now we are facing being ruled by a far right UK Party…. despite voting overwhelmingly for a socialist party. Do you blame us for seeking Independence?

Issue 116 of the award-winning iScot Magazine is out now in digital format, with paper copies coming soon. A cracking mix of articles in this edition. iScot Magazine

Just 20 minutes before Trump announced the Strait of Hormuz was open—Someone dumped 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures. A $760 million bet that oil prices would drop. Orders far larger than anything else in the market at that moment. They made a fortune. But somebody knew the

If Scotland really was such a burden with its huge deficit subsidised by rest of UK. Do we really think that so much effort by the Unionist press, tv, etc, to attack everything, and I mean everything SNP do, in an effort to stop Independence would happen. Ask yourself why then

Anas Sarwar telling a lie? I’m shocked. Not. But you’d think football clubs would know better than to allow a politician to promote their Party inside a stadium. Hamilton Accies rebuke Anas Sarwar's 'ridiculous' claim that Labour brought club home thenational.scot/news/26032551.…

A White House spokesperson says any implication that people linked to the Trump admin have used inside info to make big profits from putting bets on US attacks on Iran, peace deals or falls in the price of oil is ‘baseless and irresponsible reporting’. Phew — that’s a relief.

Conservative MP Edward Leigh thinks disabled people and pensioners cost too much. He claims £2350 to pay his Council Tax, and £2500 to pay his energy bills every year But he isn't disabled or a pensioner, he is on £94,000 He should pay his self and cut the bloody benefit costs

Anas Sarwar says he’ll fix NHS Scotland. And it seems he’ll do this by … slashing NHS budgets. Do not trust this man. IFS say Scottish Labour would slash £1bn from NHS budgets thenational.scot/news/26032940.…