Great to have @johnswinney.bsky.social join us on the doors in East Whitburn today! 🥀 The Labour-Tory council coalition failing our communities is barely clinging on So this by-election is our best chance to build a better West Lothian together! 🗳️ So please vote Callum on December 11 #ActivrSNP

Braw day in Blackburn campaigning for a more affordable, brighter and better connected West Lothian. Folks are resonating with our campaign to put your priorities first again, after a decade of neglect from West Lothian’s Labour-Tory coalition! Thanks to everyone who joined us today 💛 #ActiveSNP

Fantastic support in Whitburn today for @snp.org — including some first-timer voters I bumped into! Folks on the doors feel excited for our campaign to make West Lothian more affordable, brighter and better connected And I think it’s fair to say that meeting wee Hugo was the highlight! #ActiveSNP

We share the light and our love from around the world to you, we hope that you and your family enjoy a very Happy Diwali!

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It's pretty clear now. If Scotland wants to be back in the EU, the only route is for us to join after we've regained independence. Which, by my reckoning, would take no more than seven years (including our own referendum). Here's how: open.substack.com/pub/yesinpic...

Eyebrows raised in the Commons as SNP's Stephen Flynn quotes Mandelson telling the FT to "fuck off" Jim Shannon's face says it all

Scottish Devolution = Westminster claims credit for the good things that Holyrood achieves, whilst blaming Holyrood for the things that aren't devolved from Westminster and over which Holyrood has no control. www.thenational.scot/news/2546922...

All these Tory MPs switching to Reform.

Now watch as the BBC treat the Holyrood 2026 election as dress rehearsal for the next UK general election, and relentlessly promote their agenda of giving disproportionate coverage to the right-wing parties.

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Again, I really do have concerns about exactly how Justin Webb is acquiring his knowledge of US politics or what prompted him to make this exact point.

This is the leadership countries should expect - one which stands up for all the people who make up that nation. A voice which speaks up for all of Scotland's people is needed, now more than ever. As Westminster and England lurch to the Far Right, It is clear #Scotland is on a different path.

When I wrote this in 2019 some accused me of exaggerating the connection between the intellectual bigotry/racism of the Spectator and Telegraph (as exemplified by Scruton and Murray) and BNP/street-level thuggery. If anything I was too cautious.. www.politics.co.uk/comment-anal...

Repeat after me: 40% of the men arrested for rioting against asylum seekers in Southport had previously been reported to the police for domestic violence. Why would anyone want to associate themselves with that lot? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Is a party with just four MPs getting too much coverage on the BBC? With me in the studio to discuss this are Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Lee Anderson and Sarah Pochin.

Reform will have to reselect in Croydon, as their initial candidate for Mayor had been dead for 6 months when they selected her, Inside Croydon report Being dead is one way to pass the social media vetting but was likely to get noticed eventually insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...

Photo of the Day. If you had suggested anything like this before November’s election, you would have been accused of being hysterical. Taken on Tuesday in Washington D.C. by J. Scott Applewhite for Associated Press.

Nigel Farage's chaotic press conference shows he is a liability for Reform UK in Scotland

SNP: "Meanwhile, a recent survey showed that Scottish Water is the joint most trusted utility supplier in the UK, scoring a remarkable customer satisfaction level of 94%...Customers pay over £100 less in water bills than those in England & Wales, for some of the best quality water in the world."

Let’s get out of Broken Brexit Britain. Independence! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare. Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1997...

How long before Starmer instructs the UK police to do this ? If you think it can`t happen here then you never understood what Scargill and the miners faced at Orgreave, this is why he was demonised, he, his fellow union men like McGahey knew exactly who they were fighting, see this

"Moderate Tory", Seb Payne, on "why he changed his mind" on the ECHR. It would be better to just be honest and say: Because my boss told me, I am tired of swimming upstream, and I really want to be an MP. So, I've decided to go with the flow. Instead of these unedifying mental gymnastics.

Straight Talk interviews Professor John Robertson who carried out research into mainstream media bias in Scotland in the run up to the 2014 independence referendum and how the BBC tried to have him sacked by his university for publishing the research. WATCH NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFEn...

What a f*cked up place the UK has become. Bad enough to convince me to vote Yes to Scottish independence in 2014, but now so bad, greedy, cruel and dystopian that I'm struggling to understand why *anyone* in Scotland wants the UK to continue. 😳😬

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A wee repost would not go amiss ! @ruthwatson.bsky.social @andrew.sharpe.scot @porridgedrawers.bsky.social @maureenpickering.bsky.social @missallot.bsky.social @julia-campbell.bsky.social @yeskirriemuir.bsky.social @para-handy.bsky.social @aigwilson.bsky.social @jrtomlin.bsky.social

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A neat summary. 1/4 - whisky's share of UK food and drink exports 1/3 - all UK food and drink exports 1/2 - UK's renewable energy. And ALL of the UK's progressive parties in government 👍

Listen son, don't tell anyone but we know, we know that every public service in Scotland is doing better than they are in England or Wales. Of course they are. Look at the facts that daft prof Robertson has posted every day since we tried to get him sacked more than 10 years ago.

It's not difficult. So why won't Labour listen?

Morning all Indy peeps. Just an update on our #YESScots @sovereign.scot comms campaign. #freescotland26 #defacto26 First large banner measuring 2.5 x 1.25 metres has been ordered and will appear somewhere soon. We decided on design 2 and the strap line "From Westminster Rule"

Whereas in Scotland, the government has brought in free tuition; free bus travel for young people; negotiates settlements with NHS staff so we don’t have strikes; blocks new nuclear power stations; gave you the vote at 16 years ago and gives you a free baby box to start you off!

They lie about Scotland to save face for England

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Junior doctors in England vote to strike again - how BBC Scotland hid the facts from their viewers last year: talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/02/24/j...

Very excited about this event at the end of August - come to beautiful Islay and talk to me about #sophiefromromania and much else www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/isl...

We learn today that Labour’s welfare compromise will STILL send 150,000 people into poverty. Just think about that - a Labour Government voluntarily chooses to increase poverty. Scotland is taking a different course thanks to the SNP. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Given a public house wasn't established here until 1970 (the "Gold Medal", referencing the Commonwealth Games), and Conan Doyle died in 1930, it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to deduce that this probably *wasn't* actually a "favourite watering hole" of Sir Arthur 🕵️

As far as I can tell, the BBC have accidentally forgotten to report this. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that it doesn’t fit with their usual stance of only reporting negative stories about Scotland. https://www.independent.co.uk/money/scotland-big-issue-england-wales-westminster-b2776324.html

He’s such good fun. I recall him spluttering at a parliamentary event about 3 years ago when I suggested that the land should be taxed and the proceeds used to for community buyouts, thereby financing the lairds’ own clearance.

What happens when a political agenda takes over any semblance of journalistic standards Telegraph admits its story about private school family not being able to go on five holidays was complete nonsense and not remotely fact-checked Beyond embarrassing www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/the-t...

Someone’s very interested in this: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...