A year just flies by. My thoughts today are with the friends and family of Christina Mclelvie who I know is keenly missed. I made a promise to her family that there are those of us in politics who would continue to carry the flames of her many passions. I hope I’ve lived up to that promise.

Javier Bardem, Mark Ruffalo and Joaquin Phoenix pledge to never work with any company that supports or condones the Genocide in Gaza and Apartheid in Israel.

Bette Midler: "All You Fascists Bound to Lose!" @therealbettemidler.bsky.social ... Brilliant 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼!!! youtube.com/watch?v=U5VX...

"A toddler in Gaza released from Israel custody has been returned to his family with suspected torture wounds" Israel tortured a 21 month old Palestinian child.

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At the SNP #Holyrood26 Campaign Launch, @johnswinney.bsky.social rounds of his speech in rousing form.

SNP leader, @johnswinney.bsky.social speaking now at the SNP #Holyrood26 Election Campaign Launch.

We are at the SNP Campaign Launch in Glasgow.

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Heading to Glasgow for @johnswinney.bsky.social's SNP campaign launch event. Tune in live. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/snp-holyrood...

Former prisons minister Crispin Blunt pleads guilty to possession of the class-A drug methylamphetamine — also known as “crystal meth” — and the class-B drugs amphetamine, cannabis and γ-butyrolactone.

Tune in at 11:40 for the final #FMQsLive before the Scottish Parliament dissolves ahead of the May 7th Holyrood Election, starting with General Questions to Ministers, followed by #FMQs. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/first-minist...

Tune in at 2:00pm for #ParliamentLive from Holyrood with a Ministerial Statement on Scotland’s Climate Change Plan and Stage 3 Proceedings of the Visitor Levy and Crofting and Scottish Land Court bills. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/parliament-l...

The countdown to the 2026 Senedd election is underway — and several key dates will shape the weeks ahead.

Matt Goodwin says "Bilingualism undermines our shared culture and nation". I’d argue monoglotism undermines it far more from a Welsh perspective. go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...

The Iran war is such a clusterfuck Trump may need to release the Epstein files as a distraction.

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Tune in at 12:00 midday for this week's #FullScottish with @islabarker.bsky.social, @paulmclennanmsp.bsky.social and @huwmarshall.substack.com discussing the week's top Scottish and international news, including #MiddleEast, energy and #ThePromise. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/full-scottis...

Nuclear safety, on Trumpism. What could possibly go wrong. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Slovenia’s PM Robert Golob has asked the EU to investigate claims that Israeli firm Black Cube interfered in the country’s election.

The BBC in Scotland has been intentionally hollowed out. I saw the beginnings of it, in the late 1990s, when a hatchet-man was brought in to decapitate the editorial team in News and Current Affairs. Then he himself was axed. It is a real shame. The BBC used to be excellent.

Spirit Ridge Tour with The Sinners & a wee solo tour in Leith www.deanowens.com youtube.com/shorts/OQxbp...

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims fought in the world wars. The armies that fought+won the second world war against fascism had an ethnic + faith mix that matches the Britain of 2025 more than that of 1939-45, so arrival of Windrush is the story of black RAF servicemen returning to Britain in 1948

US fighter jet hit by Iranian fire for first time since beginning of war

"The cargo also included blood from Danish blood banks, so that the wounded could receive treatment if it had come to battle" a/c to 'sources in the Danish gov't, top officers, as well as high-ranking officials & intel sources in Denmark, France & Germany" www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Remarkable story from Denmark's nat'l broadcaster. "When Danish soldiers were flown to Greenland in January...they brought explosives so they could destroy, among other things, the runways in Nuuk & Kangerlussuaq [to] prevent US mil aircraft from landing" www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Tune in at 2:00pm for #ParliamentLive from Holyrood and another late night session as MSPs vote at Stage 3 on the Scottish Government’s “The Promise” – Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/parliament-l...

Tune in at 11:40 for this week's #FMQsLive, starting with General Questions to Ministers, then followed by #FMQs at 12:00 midday. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/first-minist...

The United Nations has warned of “ethnic cleansing” committed by Israel in the occupied West Bank, citing the displacement of more than 36,000 Palestinians over the past year. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260318-un-...

International Energy Agency: “The war in the Middle East is creating the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.”

Tune in at 2:00pm for #ParliamentLive from Holyrood with the Stage 3 Proceedings of the Green's greyhound racing ban bill and the Scottish Government’s “The Promise” – Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/parliament-l...

Apologies, but the signal from the Parliament became unstable towards the end of our broadcast, due to network bandwidth issues.

Tune in at 2:00pm for another marathon #PartliamentLive from Holyrood, which concludes this evening with the debate and final vote on the Stage 3 Proceedings of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill as amended. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/parliament-l...

Tune in at 2:00pm for #ParliamentLive from Holyrood and the second day of debate in the Stage 3 Proceedings of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill www.broadcastingscotland.scot/parliament-l...

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Join us midday for this week's #FullScottish with @islabarker.bsky.social and @lindafab.bsky.social discuss the week's top Scottish and international news. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/full-scottis...

Getting ready to head to Edinburgh to bring you live coverage of the @snp.org Campaign Conference 2026, with interviews, all the speeches and debates. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/snp-campaign...

Let's be clear: you would not be pulling THAADs from South Korea and moving a Marine Expeditionary Unit from Japan to the Gulf two weeks after launching a war on Iran if you had properly anticipated the fallout it would be likely to cause.

Our thoughts and condolences to all those at BBC Scotland on receiving this sad news. Hours of scheduled programming, banked interviews, analysis, editorials binned. James Cook will be in deep trauma and distressed and beyyond comforting - tough shit!

Tune in at 9:30 am for #ParliamentLive from Holyrood as MSPs sit on a Friday for a fourth day debating the amendments to the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/parliament-l...

Join us for #ParliamentLive from Holyrood, with the third day of the third day of the Stage 3 Proceedings of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/parliament-l...

Join us for this week's #FMQsLive, starting with General Questions to Ministers, then followed by #FMQs. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/first-minist...

Tune in at 2:00pm for #ParliamentLive from Holyrood and the second day of debate in the Stage 3 Proceedings of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill www.broadcastingscotland.scot/parliament-l...

Tune in at 2:00pm for #ParliamentLive from Holyrood with the Stage 3 Proceedings of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/parliament-l...