A still from our new Wallace Monument camera through our Stirling studio window.

Do you live in or near Stirling? Are you interested in broadcasting for Scotland? @broadcastingscotland.scot are always on the lookout for folk to help out on both sides of the camera.

@broadcastingscotland.scot new studio over in Stirling. Was over there to return some gear that Linda had loaned us. Very nice setup and even better view from the window! @ruthwatson.eurosky.social

Thoughts from a Labour MP: “We have to face up to the fact every single one of them is fucking useless. Andy’s strategy has been a disaster. Angela has bottled it. Ed clearly a hiding to nothing. Wes is AWOL. God knows what Catherine West is doing. I am not quite sure how we ended up here.”

Catherine West letter in full 👇

NEW: Labour MP Catherine West tells @BethRigby she'll write to colleagues to gauge support for a leadership contest but will not stand as a candidate. "It's asking for support for the timetable - not for me as a candidate - which tests the temperature in Parliament among Labour MPs".

Too little. Too late.

Was that it? Apprenticeships for kids living in poverty? What about eradicating poverty? One in three children in Wales live in poverty. The Welsh Labour Government spent £7billion in efforts to eliminate it, what happened? It went up. Thankfully we have a new Government in Wales.

Kick in the teeth for the people of Port Talbot...

Breaking! Starmer announces that British Steel in Scunthorpe will be nationalised. No mention of Grangemouth or Mossmorran yet.

Amazing & infuriating that the BBC’s Scotland site leads with ‘what went wrong for Labour’…+fronts Dame Jackie & ASarwar - the pro-UK, pro-Starmer/anti-Starmer, pro-Nuclear, anti-Scotland team. Tells us v little. Personally I feel sorry only for their younger more talented losses, Monica Lennon eg.

On this week's #FullScottish with @islabarker.bsky.social, @jackmiddletonsnp.bsky.social and @huwmarshall.substack.com discussed the week's top Scottish and international news including the elections and @johnswinney.bsky.social's full victory speech. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/full-scottis...

Or, watch it on catch-up! And watch till the end to see the full speech by @JohnSwinney.bsky.social from Saturday, including the Q&A session with journalists.

Available to watch on catch-up #BroadcastingScotland The broadcaster #ForScotland

On this week's #FullScottish with @islabarker.bsky.social, @jackmiddletonsnp.bsky.social and @huwmarshall.substack.com discussed the week's top Scottish and international news including the elections and @johnswinney.bsky.social's full victory speech. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/full-scottis...

It's #MothersDay around the world. Enjoy this wee clip from Scottish troubadour @deanowens1.bsky.social's video of a song for his mum. Recorded in #Nashville TN, it's a fun song - with a scene-stealing turn from drummer Evan Hutchings! From Award Winning album. youtube.com/shorts/kIxAM...

The worst, most damaging, and most compromised High Representative that the “international community” ever sent to Bosnia and Herzegovina – courtesy of Angela Merkel – is finally leaving.

BREAKING: A source close to Wes Streeting tells me he feels confident that he is the one Labour MP who could make an even less popular Prime Minister than Keir Starmer. He is therefore preparing a leadership challenge ♥️

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

If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and buried Gold, And all the old romance, retold… —Robert Louis Stevenson, “To the Hesitating Purchaser” – a short prefatory poem from TREASURE ISLAND (1883) #BookWormSat 🏴‍☠️ 💙📚

BREAKING: Former minister Catherine West has announced that she will challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership of the Labour Party if he is not removed from office by the cabinet imminently www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

In Edinburgh for @JohnSwinney's @theSNP victory speech.

Who do we think might be the youngest MSP? My best guesses are Iris Duane 🟢 or Zen Ghani 🎗? Both born after the Scottish Parliament was re-convened... #ChildrenoftheDevolution #sorry

From facebook. If we had the same voting system as Westminster we would have 60 SNP 4 tories 4 Lib Dem 2 labour 2 greens. So, when Unionists start talking about majorities it's to muddy the waters. Look at the numbers above and tell me that's not a mandate for a referendum.

SNP first in Scotland, Plaid in Wales, Reform in England and best Labour result a tie with Reform for 2nd place in Scotland, far behind SNP. Real political energy coming from Plaid Cymru & English/Welsh Greens, hopefully Scottish politics can absorb some of that - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

Worth repeating that the SNP has more MSPs than all the unionists put together. The bbc and other right wing anti-Scotland, anti-EU folk seem to have trouble understanding that. Scotland isn’t England.

The view from the studio this evening as I was tidying up after today's marathon #ScotlandCounts broadcast.

Join us for our #ScotlandCounts Holyrood 2026 Election Special with results and analysis of all the votes as they come in. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/scotland-cou...

Hearing Nick R discuss sympathetically the connection between (suppression and extinguishing of both) culture and language after being dominated by an external controlling power made me growl. Estonia, Ukraine or Cornwall and even Wales, ok. He gets. Scotland? … Not so much. Walloper.

On the latest TJRS: while the Empire enjoys the lavish MET Gala, sponsored by tech oligarch Jeff Bezos, the rest of us wonder if we’re going to retain the right to vote. www.youtube.com/live/SjjN72H...

Internet is a basic need. Proud to announce that we are expanding NYC’s Neighborhood Internet Program, which provides free, high-speed broadband to New Yorkers living in affordable housing. Now an additional 2,000 NYC households will gain access to high-speed broadband across the Bronx.

Which is the backwards country now, United States?

As a politician, Eric Swalwell portrayed himself as a defender of women's rights. But in private, more than a dozen women say he made them feel uncomfortable. CNN's Pamela Brown reports. Read more: https://cnn.it/4eYWB1s

BBC Scotland phone-in again pushing messages of 'they are all the same,' 'nobody at the door,' 'lacklustre campaign' and emphasising 'Westminster will say no to an independence referendum.' Imagine living in a democracy with fair and balanced independent media. www.broadcastingscotland.scot/donate/

It is a glorious sunny morning in our studio. If only we had the funding to pay staff to produce live news every day.

This week's #FullScottish is available to watch on catch-up now.

This level of corruption is unprecedented in American history

This week's #FullScottish is available to watch on catch-up now.

If you're looking for insight on the elections in Wales and Scotland tune in at 12

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

Independent newsrooms are Europe’s first defence against foreign interference

and by unprofessional I mean unethical

So nice to see the Israeli military’s concern for the well-being of Lebanese civilians in action Sarcasm aside, this framing by Reuters is disgraceful and unprofessional

We have an excellent #FullScottish lined up for you tomorrow, with @islabarker.bsky.social and guests, Marion Fellows and @huwmarshall.substack.com and including an interview with @johnswinney.bsky.social, celebrating tariffs being removed from #ScotchWhisky.

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🇷🇸 #Serbia: To mark World Press Freedom Day, @mediafreedomeu.bsky.social will host a webinar examining the role the European Union can play in responding to Serbia’s deepening media freedom crisis. 📅 May 4 at 13:00 CET 👉 Register here: buff.ly/oJMd6LR #WPFD26

This is unbelievable. This is the President of the United States and he does not appear to know if he is talking about Ukraine or Iran.

BREAKING: Arrest warrant issued for former FBI Director James Comey

We have a working newsroom and new young reporters raring to go. This has been a lot of hard work and has cost a lot of money to get here - more than we have coming in, so we are going to have to pass round our begging bowl again.

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