The policy of making students pay fees for their own tuition was based on the premise that they would earn more and get that money back. It’s always been a questionable argument, now a new report shows that for many it is not true bit.ly/44rPsRq

USA: "Iran's use of military forces to conduct an armed boarding and seizure of a commercial vessel in international waters constitutes a blatant violation of international law, undermining freedom of navigation and the free flow of commerce. 1/2

Taking a leaf from his leader’s book, this Reform Councillor has taken his pay but only attended 1 meeting & won’t reply to constituents. A Party of grifters. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-uk-councillor-email-b2882569.html

Social Security spending is out of control. Or is it? Official figures showed it was not, so what have the OBR done? Removed the figures from latest reports. https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/watchdogs-silence-after-removing-figures-that-showed-social-security-spending-is-not-spiralling/

In case you're in any doubt of the limits that the Scottish NHS has imposed on it. He's now the Labour Health Secretary- being truthful for a change. The Scottish NHS is THE best preforming NHS in the UK DESPITE the consequences of Westminster it'd be even better with #ScottishIndependence 💙

Millionaire Tory peer defects to "anti-elite" party Reform UK. Offord was behind the Vote No Borders astroturfing campaign during the 2014 indyref which was mysteriously given massive publicity by the "impartial" BBC. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2567804...

The United States and Russia have officially formed an alliance against Europe, Ukraine, and Canada.

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

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🥀 Before the election, Labour promised to lower energy bills by £300 - but now they’re skyrocketing. With independence, we can use Scotland’s energy resources for the benefit of Scotland’s people. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

“It was the most horrific thing I’ve ever seen in my life – ever” www.theferret.scot/f...

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

Norway’s oil wealth fund is now worth more than $2Trillion. But for the ‛broad shoulders’ and BetterTogetherness of Westminster managing Scotland's oil and gas, Scotland would now be as poor as Norway. #DodgedThatBullet #IndependenceIsNormal #Scotland

NEW: Reform UK are charging supporters to watch Nigel Farage speak in Scotland this weekend, it has been reported

The Golden Age.

The start of 2026 will see the UK Unionist Establishment and their PR wing the Scottish Press and Broadcasters give it their all to break the SNP in the run up to the Holyrood Election. The vitriol that has been in a cycle of escalation since 2012 will know no bounds. 1/

Leaving the UK is normal returning is unheard of. 65 have left so far 0 have returned.

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

This article is like a case study in the media normalisation of the far right. The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the Scotland we must defend. #NoPasarán

Scotland’s at the heart of the so-called “union” only because without it Westminster would be screwed. We live in an extraction economy and are treated with contempt while our strategic assets are destroyed and our natural capital exploited for peanuts.

This is a brilliant interview with young refugee Motaz Amer from Glasgow - responding to Reform attacks on bilingualism in the city. "We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division" www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...

Hands up anyone who actually believes this bollocks.

The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.

Aye, a quick experiment and you can see that the BBC covers St. Patricks Day better. Googled both St Patricks and St Andrews Day separately. Even Starmer has a shindig for St Patricks Day 🤷‍♀️ Look at the dates. Coverage for St Andrews Day was more prolific 10 years back. It's a deliberate choice

If your doctor decided you needed an MRI (indicating concern about something serious) and you claim that you didn't ask why or what part of your body he wanted to look at, you are: 1. Really stupid; or 2. Dangerously detached from reality; or 4. Lying; or 4. All three. 🎯

For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

I just saw a woman on Reporting Scotland referring to asylum seekers as 'fighting age men' with the clear implication that asylum seekers are here to conduct a violent invasion. That's not just a racist dog whistle, it's a racist fog horn.

EXCLUSIVE: Scotland's national stadium should not be named after a company 'profiting from genocide', campaigners and local politicians have said 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

This is a good explainer on how the BBC promotes a right wing news agenda. https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/rachel-reeves-and-the-daily-mailification-of-the-bbc/

Farage filmed circa 2,000 fan videos over past 12 months making £140K - but spoke in HOP only 22 times for which we (taxpayers) pay the Grifting parasite £94K plus considerable expenses.. Just think… how much time did it take him to film 2000 videos, versus his job as an MP❗️😡

Did you know, the total value of whisky aging in Scotland is greater than the UK's entire gold reserves! 310 tonnes of gold,£22–£25 billion. Whisky in Bond, 22 million casks valued between £30 billion to £100 billion+! No wonder England won't let us escape with 75% of that going to HMRC London!

A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

Hotel Caledonia. You can’t check out any time and you can never leave.

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

This is an excellent explainer on why Labour’s restrictions on the Motability scheme are short-sighted & unfair. It’s almost as if they see disabled people as an easy target. https://www.thenational.scot/news/25656213.disability-campaigners-warn-misinformation-motability-cars/?ref=rss

This is why a con man shouldn’t have been allowed to become President! This 👇

Once again, Westminster confirms that Scotland is not part of a voluntary union. If we are such a burden, why won’t they let us go? Could it possibly be that they need our resources? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9z8w5zlyo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

A Proud Scot But in action. Michael Shanks doesn’t even know when St Andrew’s Day is. I hope the voters who elected him are paying attention. https://www.thenational.scot/news/25648269.scottish-labour-minister-mocked-excruciating-st-andrews-day-gaffe/?ref=rss

Publicity works.

This was the Daily Mail’s 2016 take on Britain trapped in the EU and gazing at the freedom and prosperity outside.

Scotland sees major falls in violent crime, housebreaking and drug possession but the Herald only sees the dark side talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/25/s...

This German scheme is a logical extension of neighbourhood heating schemes - something many European countries have invested in for years. But not in the UK, where British Governments prefer a wholly privatised approach that prefers to profit from individual householders.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

All to benefit Westminster.

Breaking: Mossmorran plant to move to Scunthorpe as it's the only way Westminster will agree to provide funding to save its 400 jobs.