Scotland must wear it's own currency, simples. "Stability very often requires adaptation. We all intuitively understand this principle in daily life – to maintain a stable body temperature, you do not dress identically in July and in January," www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

Aye #Scotland #TartanArmy www.threads.com/@mhairi_blac...

The UK Government’s decision to strike down gender reforms in Scotland shows why the country needs independence, Alan Cumming has said, as he told Westminster to 'get your boots off our necks'

"Baron Laidlaw dodges taxes and lives in Monaco, ordinary Brits are struggling with rising bills, NHS cuts, and climate collapse" #inequality #uk www.thenational.scot/news/2561563...

Congratulations Gillian Martin #environment #climatejustice www.thenational.scot/news/2561401...

How can Scotland have a "soft touch" approach to crime, and the biggest prison population in history, hitting just under 8,400 last month? This weekend's Herald on Sunday / Sunday National column on Anas Sarwar's pitch for the "tough on crime" vote. www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

"I trust that the information contained in this report will be enough to support the proscription of the SNP, ...The Proclaimers, Lorraine Kelly and anyone who has ever mentioned that the only place that Elvis ever went to in the UK was Prestwick Airport." www.thenational.scot/news/2560629...

"Founded in 2018 by Edinburgh couple Nicola Wood MBE and Garreth Wood MBE, Kids Operating Room has installed 111 paediatric operating rooms across 36 countries" www.thenational.scot/news/nationa...

Britain’s tarnished royal house has only done what became necessary and expedient after multiple attempts to temporise their way out of it, with the minimum possible concessions. www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

No *hit Sherlock #snp #scottishindependence

"The department said in its response that “no information is held in scope of your request” – meaning no Scottish Labour MPs or MSPs contacted any ministers about whisky tariffs in that period" #whisky #scotland #tariffs www.thenational.scot/news/2558835...

"The UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) found that housing minister Steve Reed – formerly the environment minister – was found to have risked "misleading the public" after falsely claiming "pollution levels in Scotland are worse than they are in England" www.thenational.scot/news/2558059...

"Said media’s disappointment at Reform’s failure was palpable. Plaid’s handsome victory, leaving Reform far behind in their wake, did not fit the narrative of Farage’s inevitable rise to power, which the British media has been touting for months." www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

The Climate Inequality Report 2025 reveals how wealth drives the climate crisis, and proposes new policy options to address it. wid.world/news-article...

On the way to talk and learn about the 'gubbins' of Scottish independence. #scottishindependence www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-c...

"“Despite Scotland representing 60% of our fishing capacity, despite landing almost 50% of the catch in these islands, despite more than 75% of all species caught landed by Scottish vessels, we are offered a mere 7.78% of the fund.” #fishing #funding #Scotland www.thenational.scot/news/2556623...

Telt #SNP

"Westminster has been quite successful at sweeping successive Scottish independence mandates under the carpet, but the addition of Wales and Northern Ireland will be impossible to conceal. That stinging verdict on the Union will be visible from outer space." www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

Democracy and central banking go under the microscope. #central-banking #democracy

Owned. #snp #scottishindependence

We don't need any unelected chamber in an independent Scotland. #SNP #ScottishIndependence

"As always, the UK is not far behind following the US into this fascist madness" #fascism #uk #usa www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

“The people of Scotland have in my opinion a constitutional right to determine their political future.” #scottishindependence www.thenational.scot/news/2547876...

Excoriating #mandelson

"it is right that Scotland welcomes these children and their families." #gazagenocide #scotland www.thenational.scot/news/2546896...

Working class? Working class woman, even? Lefty? How very dare you! You're operating on eggshells love. Don't mess with the political and journalistic rules in the UK. #journalism #ukpolitics youtube.com/shorts/1zfiV...

"Aberdeen has a long tradition of welcoming people from all over the world." #aberdeen #asylum #immigration www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/6847...

"The Global Sumud Flotilla is the largest civilian mission of its kind in history." #gazagenocide www.thenational.scot/news/2545418...

"We will pause new awards of public money to arms companies whose products or services are provided to countries where there is plausible evidence of genocide being committed by that country." "That will include Israel." #Gaza #genocide #Scotland www.thenational.scot/news/2543871...

Why mass party membership matters. #scottishindependence #snp www.thenational.scot/news/2542718...

"It was not migrants who imposed austerity on our communities and drove down living standards. It was not refugees who have pushed children into poverty." #scottishindependence www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

"Edinburgh Television Festival’s office is still located in London" UK dysfunctional centralisation writ large on a door somewhere on London. #scottishindependence www.thenational.scot/culture/2539...

It is inevitable. #scottishindependence

""the tangled web of increasingly manic media opinion formers, who are still trying to persuade the public that their concern about dead, dying and amputated and malnourished civilians somehow represents support for an extremist cause," #gazagenocide #palestine www.thenational.scot/politics/253...

"The inalienable right of a people to be free is reduced to a crude bargaining chip, a chess piece on a board to be discarded for a greater strategic cause" notes @owenjones.bsky.social www.thenational.scot/politics/253...

"While companies in Labour-run England aren’t delivering for anybody except shareholders, Scottish Water has been labelled the UK’s top-performing water company and as the most trusted utility in the UK" #scottishwater www.thenational.scot/politics/253...

"Labour are here defending the privatisation of the very water than rains from the sky." #scottishwater bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/07/23/d...

Water is not a business, water is a necessity for life. Scotland rejected this particular neoliberalism. #scottishwater

"final report from the Independent Water Commission led by Sir Jon Cunliffe was published this week. It found that 66% of Scotland’s water bodies are of good ecological status compared with 16.1% in England and 29.9% in Wales" @scotnational.bsky.social #water www.thenational.scot/news/2533185...

Water is an essential for life. It is not a business model. We rejected the neoliberal model of water privatisation. Water is THE public good. #water

"The people doing the killing and destroying face no consequences. The people raising the alarm are taken away in handcuffs" @lauraewebster.bsky.social #gaza #palestine #genocide #democracy www.thenational.scot/politics/253...

"the UK “out of step with comparable liberal ­democracies,” where “mere property damage has seldom been a sufficient basis for designating groups as terrorist”." Who knew? Everyone in the Scottish independence movement. #proscription #palestine #genocide #law www.thenational.scot/politics/252...

Today is the tragic anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster, where 167 died off the coast of Aberdeen. Greed over lives. #piperalpha #disasters #scotland en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_A...

""Lord Robert Cecil – later awarded a Nobel Peace Prize as one of the founding architects of the League of Nations – denounced “suffragist outrages” as a “very serious evil” with the aim of “anarchy”. #palestineaction #suffragettes #democracy #terrorism www.thenational.scot/politics/252...

Great Britain wastes £180,000 every hour switching off wind turbines and overpaying gas generators to switch on. That's £655,358,610 so far this year! wastedwind.energy