Listening to Nigel Farage this week keep thinking of Ian Paisley. Farage lacks Paisley’s rhetorical flair but the style, the dog whistles, the plausible deniability is all there Crucially, both men sent others off to do violence with their words

As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.

This is a great, thoughtful interview. Thanks to Michelle O'Neill for sitting down with The National Podcast!

I'm loving all this unexpected kindness and altruism being shown by the Unionist media towards SNP donors. They are so clearly worried about us. It's heartwarming so it is.

Something not to forget today: As Covid Inquiry reconvenes today, a reminder of just how FM, Nicola Sturgeon, and the Scottish Government kept excess mortality here at one third lower than the UK average, saving thousands, talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/16/a...

I know the British state sees independence as a grave threat. But with this feeding frenzy on...£400k of non-public money, it's clear that the state media and RW press have had their marching orders post HR26. Buckle up. More turbulence expected. We'll emerge stronger though.

Kuenssberg grills Sturgeon re £400,000 her husband admitted embezzling.. Yet Farage isn’t grilled re hiding £5 million from a shady overseas billionaire & changing his story❌ Secretly buying a £1.4 million house in cash❌ Nor lying over his #Clacton house❌ Hmm if only there was a way of asking him🤔

petition.qomon.org/0b54a0b8-dem... I signed this petition!

More hypocrisy from Westminster.

It was our ritual. Every single night for over 14 years, I'd drape my hand out of the bed, ruffle his fur and tell him, "tonight is not the night, I love you,see you in the morning" Last night was that last night. Don't let anyone tell you it's JUST a dog. I'm broken.

It would be bad for public confidence if there was a suspicion that large corporate interests are buying access to the Government via the Tony Blair Institute. My letter to the cabinet office. 👇🏼

This is a very good piece on police interviews and the right to silence in Scots law (which - online know-alls please note - is not the same as in England), with reference to Nicola Sturgeon's decision not to answer police questions. www.scottishlegal.com/newsletter/6...

In other news Joani Reid, Labour MP for East Kilbride, whose husband was arrested as a Chinese spy, says she had ‘no knowledge’ of her husband’s alleged criminality or the huge sums of money & gifts he was receiving from Chinese agents. Jackie Baillie MSP was unavailable for comment…..🤔😉

Has anyone seen anything on the SNP receiving restoration for their losses, by Proceeds of Crime seizures or other means. The party really needs to go for the criminal's assets one way or another. Relentlessly.

Normal logic… somebody embezzles money off an old lady she is a victim they are criminal. An employee embezzles money from their company the company is the victim they are criminal. Unionist logic he embezzled from SNP and somehow it’s SNP/John Swinney’s fault??

In all the words that will be written implying that the SNP were complicit etc; It should be hammered home that the @snp.org were the victims in the case.

Robert Jenrick claims Reform is for workers Reform voted against the Employment Rights Bill because they back zero-hours contracts & fire/rehire If you really were the party of workers you'd be asking why someone working 40hrs/wk cant afford to pay their bills in the 1st place

You know these 5000 troops Trump is sending to Poland...whose side do we think they're on?

I can't begin to imagine how the Israelis treated Palestinians when they were bold enough to boast about doing this to international citizens, captured by an act of piracy in international waters.

My latest blog post. John Swinney fires the starting gun on the push for independence. Tuesday's Holyrood motion demanding the power to hold an independence referendum be devolved to Holyrood is the opening salvo in an issue that's not going away. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/j...

'It's interesting to see the media scramble to find something wrong with the SNP’s pledges on price caps, while reporting the UK Government’s approach in a better light.' Abbi Garton-Crosbie, via The National archive.is/UKsYv

Stephen Flynn on Labour temporary allowing the purchase of Russian oil from third countries, "This is a betrayal of the Ukrainian people and as someone who has served in the Westminster parliament, I am outraged by this"

Does his man cave contain any of the 20,000 barrels per day production of aviation fuel he shut down when he closed the Grangemouth refinery last year? Now we're easing Russian sanctions to make up for it.

"From when we were intercepted we were met with such levels of violence.. the fact that Israel would do that to us with the world on us, I can only imagine what they do to Palestinian prisoners"

I think Stephen Flynn will be a very very useful addition to the Scottish Government 🔥

Has anybody checked on the good Lord Foulkes, what with Hearts losing the SPL and the SNP winning the Scottish elections?

It's funny that with the government promising to crack down on price gouging to help the cost of living they still allow broadband, mobile and TV companies to do massively above inflation mid-contract price rises as long as they tell you in advance!

1/3 Thanks to Believe in Scotland for this. If further proof were needed that Scotland is undergoing a deliberate Scorched Earth policy then there is this. www.businessforscotland.com/the_uk_is_ac...

Looking forward to hearing the Calmac naysayers turning their attention to the scandal that is England's disastrous HS2, its £102 bn budget, delayed from 2026 to 2039, all to cut 20 minutes off the Birmingham to London train journey.

Tell me how many MSPs the Lib Dems have?

Outrage as Chinese firm snubbed by Westminster shifts £1.5bn factory plans from Highlands to Europe It is called asset stripping, making sure that Scotland is stolen of assets it needs for independence. www.thenational.scot/news/2611441...

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The "Scottish" Daily Express decrying John Swinney and the "SNP Government" for not calling out the reported football mayhem in Glasgow. Even though the SNP has yet to even form a government. The Express...pandering to the gullible as per.

What we learnt from Scotland’s 2026 elections electoral-reform.org.uk/what-we-lear... Electoral Reform Society – ERS...or Why The SNP Needs To Get Itself A Smarter Strategy Than "both votes SNP".

A country almost a tenth the size of Scotland joining the EU? Surely it's too wee?

The media come at Polanski and miss big time! This is a scary example of media bias to the Greens. They took a badly researched story from a Labour supporting tax guy ran it without doing any of their own checking. Now they're all exposed as idiots. And that was their best attack against Zack😂

New York Times confirms Israel using dogs to rape This is so disgusting I am sorry to share it but we need to know the extent of the Israeli depravity. open.substack.com/pub/owenjone...

Lord Offord and Baroness Mone. They would have made a lovely couple.

Huge congratulations to Rhun ap Iorwerth on his election as First Minister of Wales. I am looking forward to working closely with him to advance our shared priorities. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

There absolutely should be sackings at the Electoral Commission over this. A fake party that does no campaigning, will have spent £0, and whose own holocaust denying leader acknowledged is only there to confuse voters, came 7th, only explainable if it did indeed confuse voters.

Trump: Drugs coming by sea meaning coming by water. A lot of people don’t know what I mean by sea. They think I mean vision. I’m talking about sea like the sea. You might lose brain cells if you read this.

I see ITV crazy-eyes Peter Smith has floated the idea of Andy Burnham contesting one of the 2 new vacancies for Westminster created by hugely talented SNP MPs joining Holyrood. Wouldn't it be the funniest thing ever if he stood in Scotland and got walloped by the SNP?

I'm thinking that Keir Starmer is a greyer version of John Major.

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, won a BAFTA award last night. The BBC refused to show it but Channel 4 aired it anyway. There's still some real journalists out there, actually challenging power and showing the terrible war crimes they try to hide.

NHS England went out of its way to tell us (www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechn...) our data was safe. It wasn't. And we are right to worry. Palantir is deeply political. And highly unethical: it paid for a smear campaign against Good Law Project. Did they also access my medical records? My family's?

Labour in England in bed with Palantir, Reform will pay back it's crypto millionaire donors and now down to Russia. And the Tories just can't help torying. Thank goodness Scotland has some protection but we need to take the next step. Independence Is Normal.

"The Scottish people just elected the largest ever majority of pro-Indy MSPs, standing on a commitment for a second independence referendum. The Scottish people have voted for a second referendum and that means they should damn well get one."

Very dissapointed that even @channel4news.bsky.social framed the list seats won by reform as a massive win for them. Not emphasising the huge difference in seat numbers and votes cast between them and SNP..yes they had a muted breakthrough here but the big up from the news promotes them.

Hello @devolvedelections.bsky.social do I get a physical medal with this or is it just the intense feeling of satisfaction? Beyond chuffed that Ballot Box Scotland, a labour of love hobby project by Some Random Nerd, was more accurate than every single Holyrood MRP. Say it with me: NO MORE MRPs!