🚨EXCLUSIVE: A US anti-abortion group with links to Donald Trump and the American evangelical right spent millions of dollars on legal action in the UK and across Europe last year, The National can reveal 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2622576...

Westminster MPs have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayer cash on firms with current or past party links, The Sunday National can reveal 👇 Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Refugees are woven into Scotland

Great to be shortlisted this year + to see all these noms for the team. There has never been a more important time for good, compassionate reporting on refugee issues amid the toxic bin fire that is UK politics at the minute. The article in question: www.thenational.scot/news/2546845...

SPECIAL REPORT: I was at the Court of Session today as the UK Government tried to stall the Scottish Palestine Action review and former diplomat Craig Murray attempted to suspend the ban. Here is what I saw 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2614427...

🚨On my way to a Court of Session hearing today on whether to suspend the Palestine Action ban in Scotland pending the Judicial Review later this year. Huge constitutional implications. Keep up-to-date here (🧵) and thenational.scot with a full write up later

EXCLUSIVE: US military use of Scotland's publicly owned Prestwick Airport spiked in the days before the latest strikes on Iran www.thenational.scot/news/2614052...

EXCLUSIVE: Reform MSP Thomas Kerr's company has been struck off and dissolved after failing to file its accounts www.thenational.scot/news/2613992...

🧵 (1/5): Every summer, thousands of migrant workers travel to Scotland to pick our world class strawberries and raspberries - sustaining an industry worth £188m to the Scottish economy 🍓 But behind the picture-perfect punnets, many say they’re living in shocking conditions👇

EXC: The landfill site behind the huge Fife blaze was found to be “major non‑compliant” at its last inspection by Scotland’s environment watchdog, The National can reveal. The Ladybank fire has been sending smoke over nearby communities for over a week👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2612135...

A sinister neo-Nazi fight club appears to be increasingly targeting young Scots, the Sunday National can reveal 👇 Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

EXC: FOI emails reveal the Electoral Commission’s former CEO raised concerns that far-right party Independent Green Voice’s branding may have been designed to confuse voters into mistaking it for the Scottish Greens. Senior staff pushed back👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2609950...

EXC: Scottish Labour official calls on Anas Sarwar and Jackie Baillie to resign. Another member of the party's governing body has called for a leadership election 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2609159...

🚨 I am at the Holyrood election count in Edinburgh today - perhaps the most exciting race in Scotland. As many as 4 parties could realistically win constituency seats in the capital. I'll be covering it all in this thread and online/print for @scotnational🧵 👇

EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish salmon farm is under investigation by a UK Government agency after blind and diseased salmon missing chunks of flesh were filmed at their Highland facility www.thenational.scot/news/2607665...

🧵(1/5) THREAD: What happens when the people propping up our NHS, care and key sectors start to feel unwelcome? New research shared with the Sunday National suggests 93% of skilled migrants would consider leaving the UK if Labour's immigration rule changes go ahead 👇

EXC: UK nuclear industry in Holyrood lobbying blitz ahead of Scottish election www.thenational.scot/news/2605241...

Here's your first look at tomorrow's front page 📰 'Crisis will hit if migrants leave': Special report as UK Labour's harsh new policy threatens to drag Scotland into disaster 🥀

EXCLUSIVE: 13 of Scotland’s US-style megafarms are under investigation over suspected breaches of their pollution permits, The National can reveal. It comes after we revealed that megafarms helped drive a sharp rise in deadly ammonia emissions last year www.thenational.scot/news/2600194...

EXC: An anti-abortion group active in Scotland has withheld details about the amount of US funding it receives.   It comes amid concerns over a US initiative aiming to fund MAGA-aligned groups in the UK and Europe, featuring involvement from Reform UK www.thenational.scot/news/2599260...

🚨 Stay tuned for later today when we release our EXC interview with SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn on The National podcast. Iran war, Morgan McSweeney, Ming Yang, wild anecdotes from Westminster (ahead of likely switch to Holyrood) - lots and lots discussed ...

SPECIAL REPORT: Prestwick Airport was used over 30 times by US military aircraft heading to key bases across the Middle East and Europe in the days leading up to the bombing of Iran – and the flights have since continued. A deep dive into the data 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2593610...

Another fire has struck the heart of Glasgow – this time at the Union Corner building. It adds to a string of recent losses: the Mackintosh, the O2 ABC, Victoria’s nightclub. Why do the city’s historic buildings keep burning down? Special report👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2592143...

🧵(1/2): Last week, Shabana Mahmood toured Sjælsmark return centre as the UK eyes Denmark’s hardline asylum model. I went there in 2024. It may not be a prison — but it certainly feels like one

🧵THREAD: A group of over 8000 migrants across the UK are preparing to take the UK Government to court over the proposed changes to immigration rules. The group has raised £25k and taken advice from a barrister in preparation for a legal fight, The National has learned👇

EXCLUSIVE: A group representing over 8000 migrant workers across the UK is preparing to take the UK Government to court over the proposed changes to immigration rules 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

EXC: US tech firms in lobbying blitz of Holyrood amid AI data centre push and national security concerns www.thenational.scot/news/2585427...

EXCLUSIVE: A bunker at a Highland nuclear site quietly leaked radioactive water for over a year before the alarm was raised – and officials have now ordered a hunt for similar hidden structures that may be leaking too, the Sunday National can reveal 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2585447...

🚨 EXC: A leading Scottish rocket firm has gone bust, with 150 jobs at risk, The National can report. Orbex had been planning to launch satellites from the Highlands but is now in administration www.thenational.scot/news/2584479...

*Not so fun fact. Matt Goodwin was my dissertation supervisor. Only briefly mind. I swapped after he said that my idea - a study and survey on the politics of the homeless (less than 1% vote) - was of "no academic interest". I got a 1st 🎓

We finally got the truth about Humza Yousaf's 'emo haircut' 🔎

For decades, rather than prioritising domestic investment in its technology sector, the UK has largely opted for the easier route: relying on US technology We take a look at how dangerous this is now, in a special report on national security 👇 Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Today, I was at the Court of Session at a landmark hearing that could ultimately lead to the ban on Palestine Action being ruled unlawful in Scotland. Here's what you missed 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2575690...

EXCLUSIVE: An MSP has written to Google after The Sunday National revealed that the tech giant has been giving free advertising to anti-abortion groups targeting pregnant women in Scotland 👇 Labour's Monica Lennon warned that Google could be subsidising misinformation

EXCLUSIVE: Anger as anti-abortion groups gives talks and plays at Scottish schools. 🗣️"They shouldn’t have been allowed anywhere near our schools" www.thenational.scot/news/2572424...

Tomorrow's Sunday National front page 📰 Anti-abortion group 'shouldn't be allowed near our schools'

EXCLUSIVE: No 10 accidentally leaked confidential internal emails discussing the Huntingdon train mass stabbing to The National www.thenational.scot/news/2559307...

The UK Government has announced plans to move asylum seekers en masse into military barracks – including in Scotland. In Denmark, they’ve done it for years. And last year, I visited one of them. Here's what I learned 👇 www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

🚨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...