At the Edinburgh Festival Nicola Sturgeon is claiming she heard rumours that Alex Salmond had affairs? Well what about the rumours about wee Nicola and a female Scottish footballer, a french woman and fighting at the Balmoral hotel? Should journalists be questioning her about

There will be more, a lot more. But this is a start... the light of transparency needs to really needs shine into the dark corners now. There are a lot more cases out there. thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 Yes, they did & do. They’re completely out of touch. Children’s panels continue to encourage children to confirm their pronouns & schools facilitate self-ID. All this as Scottish Government claim it’s just guidance, up to individual panels & schools to implement & not their liability.

How many parents let their little children go to the shops alone these days? 🙁

firefighter Robert Moss was arrested for criticizing management in a PRIVATE Facebook chat. Police arrested him at his house and seized his devices, telling him “his right to 'freedom of expression' must be 'limited to maintain public safety and order' What? We have no

I'm disgusted and angry that once again we private citizens have to pay for a court action to make the government we elected comply with the law we support, which will no doubt be defended using the tax we pay. Anyway, just sent in my shilling!

It’s hard to express is how strange the last week has been, to find yourself at the centre of a storm, in which a best-selling book you edited has been censored out of an exhibition at your national library, and the library is doubling down on the righteousness of that decision./

Hadley Freeman And so publicly funded. None of these people would have anything like the influence and opportunities they have, without the backing of the public purse. I’m still processing all this. It’s not like I’m new to this world at the political end./

Hadley Freeman But I am shell-shocked, honestly, by the last few days, not just original decision, but possibly even more by the reaction of the national librarian to the story breaking. Anyway, I need some head space, so today I’m going to sit in my garden in the sun/

This is from someone who wasn't here. Let's never forget that ALL the violence reported during the entire campaign came from the No side. Senior BT figures called us quasi-fascist, violent and hateful. They wouldn't debate. GC folk really ought to know better than this.

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Decades of underinvestment is killing liberal democracy, The effects, which are treated as causes to explain that away are underemployment, rent extraction, neoimperial adventures and material decline.

its a constant in history, from late medieval England to Heian Japan, that the unfulfillable expectations of the growing cadet branches of a ruling class lead eventually to conflict and the brutal imposition of a new form of authority.

I sometimes hear politicians extolling the benefits AI will bring to the NHS. But the public need to know these benefits are for now just aspirations. The benefits of AI on clinical outcomes and NHS efficiency are largely stilll to be confirmed by independent evaluations.

Hi Anas Sarwar. Will you be supporting your father’s call for what some may view as an attack on free speech and/or introduction of a blasphemy law. Asking on behalf of the Scottish electorate.

Launch of the SNP Women’s Pledge in 2019. The SNP WP was the first group of women from a political party to organise in defence of women’s rights. Joan McAlpine was the first MSP to speak up. Joanna Cherry was the first MP to speak up. Just saying

I’m a bleeding-heart liberal. I’m pro-immigration and I love the fact that the country I live in offers asylum to the oppressed. My life and my surroundings are better because of people whose parents or grandparents came to the UK from the Middle East or Africa. Despite cultural

The State Pension was one of the major steps taken in getting rid of the gulags, FFS