unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

BBC News - Flu cases in Scotland fall by nearly half over the Christmas holidays - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

These revelations confirm some of our worst fears that the Government’s digital ID system will put the public’s personal safety and privacy at risk. www.itv.com/news/2025-12...

His party and leader reside in England.

Gary Lineker, "FIFA have always said they don't want to get involved in politics. But now they've given President Trump a peace prize"

“Judge me on what I do”, says the new chair of the EHRC. Don’t worry – we will! https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/31/new-ehrc-chair-mary-ann-stephenson-lgbtq-transgender-groups

AI adoption across government is accelerating, fast, yet government remains strikingly evasive about how any of this will actually work. Revisit our analysis 👉 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/starmers-r...

In case you thought Keir Starmer jailing peaceful protesters was a new low, it isn't. The fact the hunger strikers may not make new year is different, but he's been jailing the innocent since the very beginning of his tenure...

My last blog piece of 2025. The fightback against Anglo-British far right nationalism begins in Scotland with the Holyrood election in May 2026. The lastest opinion poll showing 53% support for independence tells us it's a fight we can win. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/m...

Wha knocks at my door this Hogmanay? A cannie young lassie, limber and gay. Lips o’ mine, e’en o’ mine— Come ben, come ben tho’ ye’re deid lang syne… —Marion Angus, “Hogmanay” THE SINGIN LASS (1929) #poem #poetry #Hogmanay digital.nls.uk/works-by-sel...

I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget. How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy? t.co/jIObxTAoeL

Can't name any gaffes, of course, but king sensible demands to be taken seriously while predicting Sarwar will be FM

An awful lot of time and effort goes into making enough people believe that the economy works the same way as your mums purse.

Of all the London Labour leaning writers in the media who speak to their London Labour mates about how London Labour sees things going for London Labour outside London this lad is probably the worst.

All the devolved governments run by secessionist parties. Labour's worst results in Scotland and Wales in over a century. Nigel Farage and Reform UK knocking at the door to No 10 Is Starmer about to preside over the biggest political collapse since Asquith? My latest for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

UK (Scotland), Find Out Now poll: Scenario: Nigel Farage (REFORM~NI) is UK Prime Minister Independence referendum Yes: 61% No: 39% Fieldwork: 11-19 December 2025 Sample size: 1,000 ➤ europeelects.eu/uk

🚨 NEW | For the first time on record, British voters now **oppose** a national ID card system. ✅ Support: 38% (-19) ❌ Oppose: 47% (+22) Via @YouGov, 8 Dec (+/- vs 16 Jun)

It’s obvious Starmer is failing the challenge of global heating. But how much should he be doing? 👇 https://goodlaw.social/zarx

“Open the door for the auld year It is the pairtin-time Open the door for the new year And lat the bairn win hame. Bundle your winter’d joy and grief On the back o’ the year that’s dune Open your hert for the new life And lat the bairn come in.” Poem for Hogmanay : William Soutar

The clear pattern here is: completely ignore the reason why you lost Scotland, the people must be insane; ignore the reason why you lost control of the party, the members must be insane; ignore the reason why the public hates you, everybody must have gone insane.

Can't do much better than this really. A more interesting question is why people find it surprising.

What possible explanation could there be for this, other than making the conditions and suffering of Palestinians even more horrific and accelerating the genocide?

you can equally easily answer this question by asking 'which members of the public is this party supposed to appeal to?' and realising that it's a demographic almost exclusively comprised of journalists

3. Inside the BBC's Gaza fiasco: how the world's most trusted media organisation fell apart www.equator.org/articles/ins...

China forecast to have sold one in every 10 new cars in UK in 2025

Ohio mom claims 19-year-old daughter died after radiation exposure from #nuclear plant: lawsuit www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I don't believe in Scottish exceptionalism, but I do believe in Independence, as does the latest polling. If you want change it's a much healthier option than Farage and his shop soiled team.

This is what was supposed to happen when Johnson was elected and Brexit shoved through: the public would see that the system is so utterly crooked and self-serving that it cannot be fixed, so they would rise up. And well, all of that happened exactly as you’d expect, except for the rising up part.

"With Scottish, Welsh, and local English elections coming up in May next year, Labour look on course for their worst set of election results in a century. In other words, the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, is on the verge of presiding over the greatest defeat in the history of his party."

Same as the wars or austerity really: this is *their project*, a thing they bought into and fought to inflict upon the public. And just like the wars and austerity, they fully understand why it is completely fucked and they *do not want to hear you, the pig-people, explaining how they fucked it*.

Well, Starmer and Reeves rather remind us of bosses most of us have had, don't they?

Reeves reminds me of a boss who had been promoted *way* beyond his capabilities and was thus dreadfully insecure. It was rather tragic to witness at close hand. The misery was palpable. www.thenational.scot/news/2563827...

Is anyone surprised by this? www.thenational.scot/news/2572969...

”Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?” Auld Lang Syne, poem by Robert Burns (1788) sung at #Hogmanay #ScottishDiaspora #OTD A Highland Dance, by Scottish artist David Allan, c. 1780; watercolour on paper. National Galleries of Scotland

I am 83, still painting, writing, heading for 100. I am proud to be able to say I was an election agent for the great Winnie Ewing, hero of the nation. Back then Scotland was aye ‘too wee, too poor’ same Unionist lies today. Without Scotland’s wealth Westminster would be in a timeshare in a toilet.

A Scottish charity head has rejected an MBE, saying the UK Government is 'demonising disabled people'

One thing you get out of this is that this project has been being foisted on the public for 47 years now, and at no point has the fact that people fucking hate it ever made any of the important people think maybe it's time to stop.

Police officers in England and Wales fear reporting colleagues for wrongdoing, survey finds

Why is this latest Labour scandal being suppressed by BBC Scotland and STV? Keir Starmer has given a peerage to a former aide who campaigned on behalf of the same convicted sex offender linked to Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy. 👇

It’ll go lower, but they are actually now approaching the base level of their support within the country. If you had asked me in 2015, in 2020, in 2024 what proportion of the populace actively likes these people and wants what they’re selling was, I would’ve answered: around ten percent.

So, actual end of year poll tracker, given the poll released today. SNP projected one short of a majority. Seats (+/- 2021): SNP: 64 (-) Ref: 19 (+19) Lab: 17 (-5) Grn: 13 (+5) Con: 9 (-22) LD: 7 (+3) Alba: 0 (-) 21 marginals: 17 SNP, 3 Labour, 1 Conservative. 1/3

There is no far-right crank wing-nuttery this Labour Government (A LABOUR GOVERNMENT) won't immediately bend over to and oblige. Fuck sake.

🚨 More new polling, as a little Christmas/Hogmanay treat 🚨 Independence support is six points ahead as we go into 2026. Meanwhile, Yes support spikes when people are asked to consider the question in the context of a Reform government. www.thenational.scot/news/2573038...

Ludicrous for the Guardian to badge 'single sex spaces' a key test facing Starmer. It's neither a key test (polling shows it's a voting issue for almost no-one) nor a test for Starmer (it falls to judges to try and work out the disgraceful Supreme Court meant). Still, gotta stir the culture war pot.

Can we reach £3k by the New Year? It is going to take a lot of money and effort to get the new studio ready by the end of January. Please support us if you can afford it.

Once again, Jackie Baillie on STV goes unchallenged, claiming ambulances are routinely sent single‑crewed. If hospitalisation is needed, a fully crewed ambulance will always be dispatched. Since 2017, single‑crewed shifts have averaged 1% - 2% of all ambulance shifts, with last year at 1.6%.