One of the key promises of the Labour party in Scotland during the 2024 Westminster general election campaign was that a vote for Labour was a vote to save the jobs of the workers at the Grangemout…

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

The men arrived on small boats. No they didn’t. They’re Middle Eastern. Oh, they’re British. They’re dangerous. No, they’ve been bailed! What 10-year-old would take this seriously?

The above was in the Daily Record yesterday. Where are UK drug dealers ‘Thickboar’ and ‘Octo-hand’ from? They are cousins from Merseyside, in the Liverpool area in England. …

It has attracted strong praise from respected poverty experts, with some describing it as exceptional even by European standards. These are among the strongest attributable statements: FigureQuote …

From the Joseph Rowntree Trust in 2025: Projected child poverty rates by January 2029: NationThen-current rate usedProjected by Jan 2029Scotland23.7%21.8%England30.8%31.5%Wales32.3%34.4%Northern Ir…

By Mark E. Saunders of “The Scottish Minuteman”  Here we go again! Apparently, the evil nasty Scottish Government Ministers are about to “hammer hard-up Scots” because certain m…

From BBC Scotland today: In 2017, MSPs passed a law requiring ministers to hit four targets, external, including pushing the share of children in relative poverty below 10% by 2030. But the JRF&#82…

if a tenant reports damp or mould. New legislation aims to hold those in the private and social sector accountable for carrying out necessary repairs within strict timescales. Awaab’s Law is …

Above, a lightly-clad firefighter working in Dunwich heat next to a nuclear power station. In the Guardian today: The government quietly scrapped plans to prepare the countryside in England for wil…

Today, from Geo All Day, this map below: and: A small but high-profile group of European countries has publicly welcomed the possibility of the United Kingdom eventually re-joining the European Uni…

The Guardian today, above, 20 years since women workers in the century-long Labour Party-run council first took it to court over unequal pay for equal work. Then less than two years after the SNP t…

From the SNP, two days ago, the above and: If you ever needed a textbook example of Westminster’s breathtaking contempt for the people of Scotland, Andy Burnham has just delivered it on a silver pl…

A truer image of the UK and Scotland within it: From rtpscott today, in Talking-up Scotland: Speaking about papers there is a picture of the UK in the Sunday (Yoon) Paper today which is more or les…

and the Scottish Government’s on course to miss legally binding targets to cut poverty ‘by a wide margin.’ That’s come from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s annual rep…

Newton-on-Ayr Railway Station statistically* the most dangerous railway station in Scotland but only the 67th most dangerous in the UK. The Guardian today has: ‘The violence is off the scale’: staf…

Exclusive: Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gapin...

Crowdfunder – transfer – JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account 12266421 The Herald, you have to feel for the wee souls, dragging up another scare story from the sump of the…

Here’s the gist of the above: The article’s argument is that Scotland’s free personal care model is the closest working version of what Andy Burnham is proposing. Burnham has said that …

Professor John Robertson OBA This is just wrong. Elites in Scotland and in India played a leading role in the British Empire. 99% of the population in both places were starved, worked into the grou…

By Liz S STV News reports: “Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch is adamant that, despite Andy Burnham’s defence of the United Kingdom earlier this week, Labour is not serious about keeping the …

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John Swinney has urged the UK Government to work towards returning to the EU as swiftly as possible

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The Scotsman is desperately trying to build a reputation on death and despair in maternity wards. So far, it’s shoddy, fail, do not resubmit, leave the course. In classic churnalist mode, the…

Labour do this all the time, fail to do their sums. Are they all Eton classicists like Boris? In Labourlist on 7th November 2020, an excitable writer translates 1.2 billion as ‘billions.’ On Thursd…

I know that image is fake but is it also truthy? Crowdfunder – Bank transfer – JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account 12266421 That nice wee Andy Burnham, PM, credits his pa…

By Liz S Andy Burnham was interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday 27 September. Kuenssberg reminded him that “in July 2026 you said he would go as fast as you can in sorting out care for the elde…