🚨EXCLUSIVE: Labour care minister Stephen Kinnock (below) accepted a £12,873 California trip paid for by Palo Alto Networks — a firm with active NHS contracts. The 5-day Napa Valley visit was classed as a “team-building trip” for the company’s board, which includes Kinnock’s wife. Details 👇

The rhetoric about asylum seekers and refugees - from far too many politicians + media outlets - has been disgusting of late. Shared humanity abandoned for cheap clicks and soundbites. Next week, we highlight positive stories of refugees in Scotland 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2540775...

EXCLUSIVE: An anti-Donald Trump protest is being planned near his mother's birthplace in Lewis. The US president is set to arrive in Scotland tomorrow ...👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2533794...

🧵THREAD: Labour’s new immigration rules are a ticking time bomb for Scotland's care sector. And for Perth + Kinross – the region with the highest proportion of elderly people in the country – it could be a disaster 👇

EXC: Keir Starmer has been accused of ‘fuelling the far-right’ and pandering to Nigel Farage with his latest asylum seeker crackdown 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2533688...

EXC: The isle of Eigg on Scotland's west coast has announced a full boycott of Israeli goods and services amid the country's genocide in Gaza. The community-owned island unanimously came to the decision at a recent residents association meeting 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2533509...

My deep dive into the arms firm lobbying blitz we're seeing at Westminster lately ... 👇

EXC: The Scottish Tories spent more than £150,000 of taxpayer money on MSP "media training" in just two years. And all of it went to firms run by two of the party’s former spin doctors. Not very DOGE ... 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2530696...

NEW: Extreme far-right groups have signed a joint declaration encouraging supporters to support and infiltrate Reform UK, and 'covertly' run for the party

NEW: Donald Trump has long boasted that the golf courses he owns in Scotland are the "best in the world". But are they financially successful? I had a wee deep dive into their accounts ... www.thenational.scot/news/2513545...

🚨 Great to be shortlisted for an @amnestyuk.bsky.social media award for my coverage of the Gaza family visa campaign, including this investigation into the Palestinians killed while waiting for the Home Office to waive its cruel fingerprint rules: www.thenational.scot/news/2420566...

Thank you all who donated! The ceasefire may be intact but Gaza's healthcare system is still being targeted and is at risk of total collapse. Your donations could literally save lives 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2500105...

Here's your first look at tomorrow's Sunday National 📰 Private eyes on our NHS: We reveal how much donor cash Labour politicians have raked in 🥀🩺

EXCLUSIVE: UK neo-Nazi groups are 'really excited' by Elon Musk's salute Read the special report from @jameslwalker.bsky.social 👇

🚨 Here is the first edition of Good News Scotland, a free newsletter celebrating all that is going well in Scotland. We talk some of my favorites positive stories of 2024 and why I had a bit of an existential crisis coming up with them. Also, sign up 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2485418...

📷: What changed? This is Keir Starmer pictured at Scottish Labour conference in 2021 with two Waspi campaigners holding a sign saying he supports "fair and fast compensation" for 1950s women. Today, four years later, and as PM, he gives them nothing ...

NEW: It has been a truly awful week for Anas Sarwar and Scottish Labour. Find out why in this week's Branch Office Updates newsletter 🌹👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2477564...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: The Palestinian ambassador to the UK has said that Keir Starmer's government must recognise the state of Palestine “now” and stop “sitting on their hands” Labour had pledged to recognise Palestine in the party's General Election manifesto

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Labour slated over plan to prioritise arms firm investment

EXC: US-style mega farms in Scotland are fuelling a rise in deadly ammonia pollution. 3000 deaths a year could be prevented by halving UK emissions. But instead, in Scotland at least, air emissions are at their highest since 2011. Read more about it below 👇

EXC: The UK Government is set to discuss providing funding (via the National Wealth Fund) to help reinstate a ferry link between Scotland and mainland Europe. Labour MP Graeme Downie has been in contact with the Chancellor and told me he will set up a Treasury meeting ASAP👇

Here's your first look at tomorrow's front page 📰 'Chancer' Sarwar makes U-turn 🥀

Fancy having our team on your feed? Here is your starter pack of National reporters and contributors on BlueSky so far! 💙