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BREAKING: Iran has stunned the US by becoming the first nation in history to successfully hit an F-35 fighter jet, despite a puzzled Trump insisting they have no air defences 👀

Paul Johnson and the IFS played a key role in laundering austerity in the 2010s, lending a veneer of credibility to what was at root a project of class warfare. This should be seen through the same lens

You might have formed the impression that Paul Johnson, former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, knows what he's talking about. The media treats him like the voice of God. But here he is - and not for the first time - talking out of his hat. Let's break it down in a short thread. 🧵

This was like when Putin spoke out in support of JK Rowling. You will know them by their friends.

The most enduring of Labour's many sins may be Shabana Mahmood's decision to seek to render respectable Reform's politics of dishonesty and hate.

Are you a thumb-sucking infant too scared to govern your own county? If so, great! Vote for Reform and we’ll make you nice and obedient again

Another “women’s rights activist” spreading the religious right’s ’abortion to birth’ lie. The term limit will remain 24 weeks. Scratch a transphobe…

Offord trying the tried and tested method to bat away the independence question by asserting that nobody wants a referendum. Except it isn't true. According to YouGov's latest on the question, 40% want a referendum in the next Parliament, and 45% don't. There very much is an appetite for one.

Scotland is part of Europe, much more so than England. It has an ancient history, a gift for culture & business & a big heart. Its future, like Ireland’s, is in the EU. Imagine Farage in charge. He’d end devolution & be a Trump like figure.

I honestly can’t get my head around Scotland not wanting to be independent. Since the Cameron govt, Scotland has been walked over time & time again. The UK media & many politicians are anti-Scottish & culturally there is a massive gap. Does Scotland want to be ruled by ever English far right?*

I can’t believe that Trump just joked about Pearl Harbor while sitting next to Japan’s prime minister at the White House. What an absolute embarrassment!

IF ever Scotland needed to vote SNP and fully back independence, it is now. Be4 this cancer gets in.

Within seconds of her autocue freezing, the Reform MP started making jokes about Islam

These fascist fuckers come to Scotland as if they own it, spreading hate.

I get the point, and I respect the writer making it. But Americans have to understand that their country can never be trusted again. Once Trump is gone, and even if MAGA implodes, the damage has been done, and the relationship will never be reset. The US could easily do this again. Too late, sorry.

The message from Farage is clear. If you're a British Muslim wanting to peacefully exercise your right to pray in public then you're a threat to the nation. If you're a convicted far-right rioter who was part of a violent street mob then you'll get a personal message of endorsement

The details here are fascinating about the genuine preparation for a North Atlantic war - against a supposed military ally.

Reform MP Sarah Pochin says she wanted to come to the party's Scottish conference in a "tartan burka" but was stopped from doing so. "One day lets have one of these events that is not livestreamed and we'll do all the naughty stuff"

It's fairly obvious from everything we've seen this week that Kemi Badenoch has a basic hostility towards Muslim people. Goes right back to her earlier comments about people from majority Muslim areas of Nigeria being her "ethnic enemies"

NEW: Ex-staff of THREE Labour government cabinet ministers, including Prime Minister Keir Starmer, are now working for a firm led by a former Israeli intelligence officer. Online records are being removed. Here’s what they are trying to hide:🧵

🎥 Protesters attempted to disrupt the Reform UK Scottish Conference today with a banner targeting Nigel Farage. Full story: www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2595121...

Nigel Farage fumes as protester interrupts Reform conference speech www.thenational.scot/news/2595173...

Japanese reporter "Why didn't you tell your allies beforehand about attacking Iran?" Trump "We wanted it to be a surprise. Nobody knows better about surprises than Japan, right? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbour?" Yep, he went there. Audible groans in the room.

If Reform don't want devolved powers why stand for election to the Scottish Parliament? just like the UKIP EU MP's. Bunch of donkeys taking the money for something they don't believe in. Anyone seen an SNP lord?

A splendid example of why Rachel Reeves' speech saying the UK will align where it chooses with the EU is almost meaningless not least to the EU - because it comes alongside asks for exemptions.

Why does every techbro billionaire believe the same things - "anti-woke", "free speech" (for me but not you) - and sponsor the same creeps? Because their common belief system boils down to this: "I'm the King. Nothing must stand in my way. No one else has rights." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The always brilliant @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is coming to Scotland - speaking in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Pitlochry, in April/May. Book tickets here: makehopepossible.org/tickets/

The Labour Government in its pocket?

Contrary to Daily Record’s shameful front page today – Scotland’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services hit 90% target for fifth time in a row but in media silence talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/03/18/c...

How Kemi Badenoch's spokesman responded when I asked if she agrees with her Shadow Lord Chancellor that Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square is an "act of domination"

First Minister material? No chance.

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"For every person in Scotland whose life has been turned upside down by stroke, today’s comment from Anas Sarwar was deeply disappointing. Stroke is not a punchline or a pose. It is a life-threatening medical emergency." Demonstrating his usual leadership qualities? www.chss.org.uk/news/chest-h...

The initial remark is bad enough, but to then suggest to a reporter that they don't do their job, by reporting on a politician making said offensive remark.

50 days until the election. We’re improving lives of people in Scotland today - from GP walk-in centres and free prescriptions, to the Scottish Child Payment and free tuition. Imagine how much more we could do with independence. On May 7, vote SNP. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

NEW: Anas Sarwar is facing calls to apologise and meet with a leading charity after a "disgraceful joke at the expense of stroke survivors". After a press conference, Sarwar asked if photographers had got his "stroke pose" on camera.

🚨BREAKING: Joe Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, has RESIGNED in protest at the war in Iran. Wow. “I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.”

Richard Tice says every Briton should strive to support a rioter, neo-nazi event and far right slogans as much as possible.

BBC Scotland has been much more favourable to the Israeli Govt, currently indicted on war-crimes & allegations of genocide, than it has to the ScottishGovt. www.thenational.scot/news/2594088... For more great content like this subscribe to the The National app here: www.thenational.scot/subscribe/

An essential/must read – then thank your lucky stars you live here. My heart goes out to thoe having to endure those circumstances.The Scottish NHS isn’t perfect but it’s clearly better than in England – although no doubt there are some who may have experienced something a bit like it at some point.

Nothing says 'we are guilty' like putting up massive screens and banning anyone from coming near.

UK energy: about 14m households getting ‘below-average’ service

I’m sure I heard somewhere this was a far right shit show with actual Nazis in attendance.

The meningitis outbreak in England: media criticism targeted on the Biosecurity agency BUT none on the lack of UKGovt’s leadership. Why is Wes Streeting not being called to account for sitting on his hands & allowing the crisis to develop? BBC Scotland would already have called for SNP resignations!

Vote SNP in May.

We now go to the Labour desk at BBC Scotland for screaming demands that the SNP government resign... ‘National disgrace’: pothole repair backlog hits record £18.6bn in England and Wales www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Former Channel 4 News editor Ben de Pear has said there are 'urgent questions' about the BBC’s coverage of the attacks on Iran