By choosing to abandon zonal pricing, which would have reduced Scottish energy bills, local businesses are needlessly closing. That's lost jobs, money and a needless waste. On occasion, with 100% plus renewable generation Scottish energy could be free.

Utterly chilling insight into how Keir Starmer's team has been operating from the beginning. As others have been pointing out for years, the Labour Party and the country have been taken for a ride. There was a coup within the party, using a host of dirty tricks. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I would rather chew my own arm off than any of these gruesome dining options.

This is the dame Labour minister who said smuggling gangs should be sent to a 'Scottish Island' www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... It seems this sort of thinking was common behind the scenes in the Starmer / Mandelson / McSweeney project.

How to say life expectancy has risen without saying life expectancy has risen. This is such scurrilous and dishonest journalism, the real truth hidden in one line slipped into the middle of this deceitful agitprop.

Starmer needs to commission an independent inquiry into Labour Together- or he too becomes implicated in an increasingly unsustainable cover-up New by me in @theguardian.com on why PM needs to act on Labour Together hiring a PR firm to smear journalists www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Something dark at the heart of Labour.

Labour Betrayal of Aberdeen! They pledged thousands of GB Energy jobs for our city, but so far only thirteen posts have been created. Their HQ deal allows for only 50 desks so what happened to the thousands of jobs Aberdeen was promised?

The BBC just ran a report from Norway about electric ferries being fantastic👍 Obviously flew over the multiple CalMac electric ferries to get to Norway to film that! It would just kill them to say anything positive about CalMac #VoteSNP for independence

The police should be knocking on *the former prince* Andrew’s door.

After Nigel Farage suggested Turkish barbershops were fronts for money laundering and drug running, this barbershop in Glasgow decided to respond. G11 Barbers in Partick teamed up with street artist Rebel Bear to hit back at the Reform leader brilliantly 😂

I'm sure BBC Scotland would love to give us this good news story of Scottish ferries.

The defence that Starmer is 'shocked' at being lied to is so thin as to be transparent. This conversation from 2024. Everyone knew this would be the outcome.

Tomorrow's front page 📰 In the public interest

This is really quite sinister. Something quite dark at the heart of the Labour project. Who are they really serving?

Damning from Journalist Oli Dugmore on #bbcquestiontime “Not only did the people at the top of the Labour party know about this… they didn’t think that that was disqualifying, they thought ‘actually, this is our guy’” says Mandelson’s appointment was “extraordinary” given links to Jeffrey Epstein

The risks of appointing Mandelson were obvious to some random guy on the internet 2 years ago, yet all a surprise to Keir Starmer, who knew him well for at least a decade. Compared to the 'blue tents' debacle here in Scotland, I hope as many resources are deployed in investigating this.

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

Emily Thornberry complains about English students attending Scottish universities having to pay tuition fees, when it's free for Scottish students Then she suggests that Scotland should allow English students to study for free like Scottish students

Then and now the focus on individuals - Peter Mandelson and Michelle Mone - diverts attention from the real point. Our institutions, which should protect the public, just nod along with what is a kind of theft by the privileged. No one goes to prison, no one is ever held accountable.

Brexit was "done against the wishes of the people". True in Northern Ireland and Scotland. Time for all 4 nations to either reaffirm the union or go their separate ways. I don't see it benefiting the smaller nations at all, and Northern England gets a raw deal as well.

This is shocking. This currently isn't happening in Scotland, but soon could be happening. Saddling a new job started with £100k of debt will take a lifetime to pay.

The UK government is charging exorbitant interest on loans for English and Welsh students. I think we need to be very wary of this happening in Scotland.

Of course we already know this in Scotland, but perfectly explained here

This makes no sense… An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto… No thanks If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote Sign the petition & help make that law. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

This is a massive benefit to Scots, and keeps access to education open to everyone.

An extraordinary poll in Wales today, including 50% planning to back pro-independence parties.

With the correct planning and investment Scotland could be using 100% renewable electricity. At the moment all the investment is going into exporting our renewables. This is being charged to Scottish consumers. With cheaper or free renewable energy thousands of jobs can be created in Scotland.

Some experiments with data science tools, analysing the Scottish independence polls since 2014. YouGov strikingly the outlier in the polls, consistently 5-7 points lower. What are they doing differently to the other pollsters? Data sourced from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion...

The Guardian waking up to its own existential crisis - Scotland was meant to be controlled by devolution - English devolution is a mess - English identity is confused with British identity and nationalism - The Welsh taken for granted - No comment allowed on this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian crossword setter has had it with Michelle Mone

I look forward to Plaid Cymru being all over our screens. In the real world this will be portrayed as Reform "surging" to 2nd place. Regardless of the London media it looks like the Welsh have had enough.

Is anyone able to reproduce this for the Scottish independence referendum?

It's Farage at his absolute weakest - thin-skinned, easy to offend, and nurturing a persecution complex. He’s a vile man, no intellectual ability, just attacks anyone who disagrees with him. A Trumpian drip.

Also the network is treated as UK wide when upgrading, but Scottish consumers, looking out at turbines are charged more for being 'remote' in their standing charges. Double standards being applied to Scottish consumers, and zero benefit from all the renewables, charged as if it was coal or gas.

What’s Scotland supposed to do? Consult Nostradamus to find out how we have another referendum? Rachel Reeves says that even if the SNP wins a majority on its own at Holyrood the UK government will still not permit another vote. It’s a democratic outrage My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

Independent or remaining in the union, it's up to the people of Scotland to decide our own status as a nation. I'm not sure on what authority Rachel Reeves thinks she can decide for us.

If you're in Glasgow this Friday afternoon, I'm giving a talk. It's free and all are welcome: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-talk-by-...

Brilliant from the journalist. The most on-the-ropes I’ve ever seen Farage. His usual bluster tactic didn’t work. His uttering of ‘well, you wouldn’t’ when the journalist said ‘I don’t quite know what you mean’ was genuinely pathetic. More of this please.

I think we all knew that the UK COVID inquiry would result in a stitch up of our First Minister. We were right. What it highlights clearly is the ignorant, arrogant and dismissive attitude of Westminster - particularly No.10 - towards our Government. www.lbc.co.uk/article/unfa...

Nice timeline cleanser for a Friday. I also can't believe that this all happened this week.

Grangemouth being lined up to be a giant bomb factory. If it's nuclear or explosive, then Scotland is where it goes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Is anyone able to tell me where the "average UK energy consumer" lives?

So is ex Tory spin doctor and Boris Johnson appointee Sir Robbie Gibb now an impartial BBC board member? If so, why did he like an anti SNP tweet? Well the (Tory) ex BBC Chair told me Gibb’s finger accidentally passed over the “telephone” & “the heart got pressed.” Comedy gold.

🇬🇧 Remember when the “impartial” bbc assisted “BETTER TOGETHER” to produce a “NO THANKS” campaign video for Indref1 The video was filmed within the bbc North britain, Pacific Quay HQ, using bbc specialist staff, facilities, recording and production equipment 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #FTBBC

The BBC in Scotland has suppressed support for independence, which is supported by over 50% of Scots. The achievements of the Scottish government are omitted, ignored or talked down by unionist opposition parties. Many simply switch off because their news and current affairs are so dire!

Amid all the fuss, remember that for much of the 1960s and 1970s, "the Spare" Andrew Windsor was just one unfortunate incident away from being the next king. Hopefully, this appalling saga will lead to a proper national debate on our hereditary monarchy. Long, long overdue.

We have a national broadcaster that seems to spend its time running the nation down. I can't imagine this would happen in any other country in the world. Either the station should be reformed or shut down. Also I notice it has a massive amount of news content relative to other BBC stations.

Another week, another panel without a single person representing the Green Party, Your Party, SNP, Cymru and Lib Dems. That's only about 60% of voters that never have any representation. Balanced? BS more like.