'With so many Scottish people proudly walking around Boston this week in kilts and likely speaking Scots, hopefully this reminder of what makes Scots a language in its own right can help to put some of our national pride behind it too.' Emma Grae, via The National archive.is/yPqvZ

'The problem with AI data centres, and the community response, mirrors Scotland's onshore renewables revolution. The model is communities vastly affected by technologies from which they derive little benefit, and industries they don’t own.' Mike Small via Bella Caledonia bellacaledonia.org.u...

'As well as sucking up vast reserves of water and energy, AI data centres also require huge swathes of green space upon which to build. Scotland can offer much in each of these regards. And you can start to join the dots.' Jonathon Shafi, via The National archive.is/uZG0h

'If the media had spent more time talking about how migrants are the backbone of the NHS and the social care sector, and less time scaremongering about small boats, perhaps British politics would be less fraught than they are.' weegingerdug, via The National archive.is/AtutS

'The question to ask is what happens when the economy crashes, when the political far right might be willing to use that to exploit fear, and hate might be unleashed in ways not seen for a very long time? The answer is that I just do not know.' Richard Murphy

'Scotland needs to invest in itself. We can do this now, although with less room for manoeuvre than we will have once independence has been achieved and we have our own currency.' Jim Osborne, via The National archive.is/e2M67

'The SNP’s iron grip on the independence movement is beyond question. Yet such a relationship is in my view both an impediment to progress and a gift to our opponents.' Colin Fox, via The National archive.is/ORLpP

'Anas Sarwar and Labour’s Holyrood contingent just learned about the law of unintended consequences. Their eagerness to score some SNPbad points has bitten them on the arse.' weegingerdug

'The majority of the American public won’t realise that leaving Iran in control of the Middle East is a strategic defeat for the US. Nor will they care, if gas is below $3 a gallon.' Brynn Tannehill, via Byline Times

'Once we give our governments the power to decide which political opinions are acceptable, why on earth would you assume that they will stop at Palestine?' Mehdi Hasan , via The Guardian

In July, Broadcasting Scotland will be reporting from Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina to commemorate the 1995 #SrebrenicaGenocide. Many survivors of the Bosnian war came to Scotland as refugees after their homes were overrun and family murdered. We will always stand against racism and hatred!

'The goal of this proposed inquiry is not to cast light on Murrell’s crimes, or to make recommendations to improve the SNP’s internal procedures, it’s to generate more anti-SNP headlines in an independence and SNP hating media.' weegingerdug

'Anyone who canvassed on the streets in recent months will have heard distortions and downright lies paraded as facts by people whose bigotry is massaged daily online.' @tommysheppard.bsky.social, via The National archive.is/Htyxs

'We're living through the phoney war period before Trump's crisis in the Middle East really hits and delivers the most horrible crash. Many of our politicians are pretending everything is under control, when it is anything but.' Richard Murphy, via The National archive.is/Eku7Z

'Westminster has long since ceased to be a tool for improving the lives of ordinary people and become an instrument of the very forces which democratically elected political parties are supposed to protect the public from.' weegingerdug

'The ­human rights of the Iranian people should be an urgent cause for all progressives. That is true whether they are ­threatened by US-Israeli war or the repression of the Tehran regime itself.' Mark Brown, via The National archive.is/QcAIq

'Even a fully paid-up heathen like ­myself can suddenly discover the power of prayer when the guys in dark blue take to the field.' Ruth Wishart, via The National archive.is/0Brmg

'Governments and markets treat the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as an interruption to be waited out. Unfortunately, they are wrong. The longer this is mistaken for a crisis that will pass, the longer the response to it will also be wrong.' Nafeez Ahmed, via Byline Times

'As it stands, Ukrainian resilience, it would seem, has given it a rare ­modicum of leverage right now. Whether with its ­allies it can fully harness that to its ­ultimate ­advantage remains to be seen.' David Pratt, via The National archive.is/UM1HW

'The simple fact is that if another energy shock is coming, making millions of people poorer is not a solution. It will simply add a second crisis to the first and compound the shock the economy will suffer.' Richard Murphy

Phone-free schools are probably a good idea. They provide breathing space. They create bounded environments for learning and social interaction. But they should be understood as the beginning of the conversation, not the end of it.' Megan Davidson, via Common Weal

'Between the frightening green statistics and the utopian economic spreadsheets, there’s a Scottish model waiting to be forged. Now, if only we had a local scandal of shocking elite consumerism to trigger an entirely different national direction.' Pat Kane, via The National archive.is/MZ7Z2

'This petition seeks to drive that point home to Scotland’s politicians. It’s not about whether or not you believe in independence – it’s about whether or not you believe in democracy.' Gordon Macintyre-Kemp, quoted by the National archive.is/qhdgA

'Persuading our central and local government to reduce or ban glyphosate should be straightforward, given the international direction of travel, but campaign groups speak otherwise.' Henry Mathias, via Common Weal

'I’d point out that Murrell hasn’t cornered the market in sheer bare-faced effrontery. Why, look over there at none other than Douglas Alexander, still shiny and new as Secretary of State for Scotland, if not exactly untarnished.' Richard Walker,via The National archive.is/yx8C7

'Should John Swinney allow a Commons/Holyrood inquiry into the lax systems that let Peter Murrell steal for a decade? Aye, fine – if there's a parallel investigation of Labour over Mandelson’s abuse of his trade envoy role.' Lesley Riddoch, via The National archive.is/GxXHh

In our Scottish Parliament broadcast earlier, Hannah Mary Goodlad MSP called out the rhetoric of hate and told Reform that there is a history of welcoming and a future of belonging in Scotland.

'Try an experiment with me. Talk about renewables with someone you know who isn’t in the political bubble. I want you to keep track of how long it takes before they mention a particularly pointed claim against, especially, wind turbines.' Dr Craig Dalȝell, via Common Weal

'There are plenty of people in Westminster who have contempt for Scottish democracy. These ridiculous comments show why it's crucial we achieve independence, to have the full powers and autonomy of a normal country.' Gillian Mackay, quoted by Jamie Calder, via The National archive.is/aCUOv

'Why raise interest rates when this inflation is clearly being caused by a shortage of oil, gas, fertiliser, food, and other materials, none of which will in any way be made more available by increasing interest rates?' Richard Murphy

'Trump himself is, at this point, little more than a festering ball of anger and hate.' Paul Krugman

'A leader may be able to say truthfully that they did not commit a crime. They may be able to say truthfully that they were deceived. But politics is not only about personal innocence. It is also about stewardship.' Assa Samaké-Roman , via The National archive.is/U54Ss

'Israeli officials outlining their visions for Palestinian ethnic cleansing must simply mean the Sun has risen from the east. Treating it as an anomaly is to fundamentally misunderstand the landscape. ' Hamza Yusuf, via The National archive.is/wmSSv

'Now that Iran is reportedly breaking off talks with the Trump administration and seeking “complete closure” of the Strait of Hormuz because of Israel’s attacks on Lebanon, we can expect an even larger Trump dump.' Robert Reich

'The US has been piling on the pressure in what many observers now see as a clear attempt at regime change in Cuba.' David Pratt, via The National archive.is/wMf7L

“The choice in Scotland is now between UK nationalism clutching destruction and Scottish nationalism working to save people and planet at home and across the world.” Owen Dudley Edwards, quoted by Alan Riach, via The National archive.is/ja3IP

'New developments over the last day or two in the Middle East are pushing us closer to economic meltdown.' Richard Murphy

'Community ­energy schemes are quietly ­succeeding ­despite limited support, but compared to others, we're barely scratching the surface. In Denmark, there around two-thirds of onshore wind is community-owned. In Scotland, it’s less than 1%.' Dr Liam Hainey, via The National archive.ph/Yy7OH

A centralised and secretive political culture let Peter Murrell steal from SNP funds for a decade. Does that justify a Common/Holyrood inquiry? If so why not also investigate Labour over Mandelson's abuse of trade envoy role? It's a funny old world. Listen lesleyriddoch.com/podcast

'We can't leave big decisions on AI to Tony Blair and Pope Leo.' Pat Kane, via The National archive.is/lXQJT

'More than half of Scotland’s houses, 55 per cent, fail the Scottish Government’s basic housing quality standards. 28 per cent of them fail the legal “Tolerable Minimum” standard and could therefore be deemed not fit for human habitation.' Dr Craig Dalȝell via Common Weal

'A recent Reuters report uncovered that Trump’s attacks have done nothing to harm Iran’s capacity to build nuclear weapons. What’s changed is that the US has undermined diplomacy as a means of containing proliferation.' Samuel Earle, Scottish CND affiliate, via The National archive.is/9cItp

'Both Trump and Putin must now face the hard reality that their respective powerful militaries have been unable to vanquish their much “weaker” adversaries.' David Pratt, via The National archive.is/j2bsX

'A society that waits until boys commit acts of profound violence before attempting to teach empathy, dignity and moral responsibility has already failed long before the courtroom is reached.' Megan Davidson, via Common Weal

'Sometimes you wonder if folk really care enough to make independence happen. They really do.' Lesley Riddoch remembers Norman Cunningham, an inspiring campaigner for independence. archive.is/jMFwL

'In the end, the dashed hopes of the independence campaign were politically embezzled, misappropriated and traduced. Understanding how that process took place, and learning the lessons, is a prerequisite for moving forward.' Jonathon Shafi

'The unceasing attacks by the media on all things Scottish and the campaign to render Scotland as being just the same as England has done its work. All politicians are the same, the trope goes. Scotland is bad at everything.' George Gunn, via Bella Caledonia bellacaledonia.org.u...

'The assumption that lofty temperatures in Kew Gardens are of relevance to people north of the Border is quite irritating when you rightly expect journalists to ensure they distinguish between different areas of the UK.' Steph Brawn, via The National archive.is/7uJN4

'For years, many who have felt frustrated by the elitist mainstream media have been crying out for this to happen, so why are we suddenly seeing more left-wing figures put their head above the parapet to explicitly call them out?' Steph Brawn. via The National archive.is/sg9bD

'Greenland is no longer a vast, cold, thinly populated island on the edge of the map. It is a pivotal territory in an accelerating competition between the world’s major powers.' Fuad Alakbarov, via Bella Caledonia bellacaledonia.org.u...