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The UK Government has 'serious questions to answer' over why it blocked a £1.5 billion wind turbine factory from being built in Scotland over 'national security concerns' when a Chinese mega-embassy was given the go ahead in London, an SNP MP has said

🎯 Neither I nor the people of Scotland need any reminder of where Trident, the bullseye of this island’s target, is based.

This surfaced 5 months ago (see below) UKgov claiming “security risk” and set to block investment in Scotland. Where’s the security risk with an independent Chinese company making wind turbines? But UKgov will share gov data with Palantir a company that has strategic partnership with Israel Gov.

Every bit of support is welcome for this very vulnerable group.

Yet Ireland has cut fuel duty and other EU countries are reducing VAT. Heard on the news this morning Spain has slashed VAT from 21% to 10% - more than halving it. Meanwhile, with UK duty and VAT applied to already high pump prices, the Treasury has been raking it in recent weeks.

NEW: A second Tory MSP has been accused of using AI to generate hundreds of questions for the Scottish Government costing the public purse 'over £200,000 in one year' Read more here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling ft.trib.al/SVLeLoM

📣 On Saturday, we march for Scotland's independence. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Will you march with us? 📅 28th March • Assemble at 11:30am • Parliament Square, High Street, Edinburgh.

The BBC "imposed restrictions" on journalists and “misled” its audience in its coverage of the early weeks of Israel’s genocide on Gaza, a UK court has heard

Scotland polling by Lord Ashcroft in @holyroodmag.bsky.social today, which @devolvedelections.bsky.social projects the SNP falling two short of an outright majority, and the Greens as the 2nd largest party: SNP: 63 Greens: 18 Reform: 17 Labour: 12 Conservatives: 8 Lib Dems: 9 Other: 2

Do read the whole blog. It is wondrous in its bonkers accuracy. no01.substack.com/p/march-19-2...

Think-tank funded by the super rich wants to freeze the UK state pension, end the triple-lock. Full state pension is below 50% of the minimum wage. 2m pensioners live in poverty. 110,000 a year die in poverty. Democide disguised as financial policy. 👇 leftfootforward.org/2026/03/is-t...

Learn this, recognise this, and help! This is the domestic violence hand signal

“This is abject humiliation for Trump. Iran got a younger supreme leader, proved that it can hold the world hostage with a few mortar launchers, exposed NATO disunity and the US's comical lack of strategy, and helped Russia on sanctions and oil price. It is really very hard to find a single upside.”

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

BBC News at 10, "Keir Starmer's Labour government has agreed to give the US greater use of British bases in its continuing war with Iran" "Iran's foreign minister said the British decision was putting UK lives at risk"

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

This can't be said often enough.

EXCLUSIVE: The sale of a Highland estate by a Russian billionaire that is by-passing farmers' rights to buy their farms is an 'outrageous' example of 'casino culture' that has developed in Scotland’s land market, campaigners have said

BREAKING: The SNP Government will 'more than double' Labour's support for Scots using heating oil The Energy Secretary said the support offered by the UK Government 'only equates to around £33 per household'

Well what's the matter with Glasgow For it's goin' 'roon and 'roon... Good news for Subway users - and not before time. www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2594329...

BREAKING: The US counterterrorism chief has resigned after claiming Israel 'pressured' Donald Trump into the Iran war More to follow

Meet me on the corner when the lights are coming on And I'll be there, I promise I'll be there Down the empty streets we'll disappear until the dawn If you have dreams enough to share... The now vanished Union Corner on a sleepy faraway Sunday. Pic: Glasgow City Archives

Thirty years ago, 16 children and their teacher were killed at Dunblane Primary School and 15 more children were injured. Scotland will never forget the suffering and the unimaginable loss the families have endured. We will always hold them all in our hearts.

We're unlocking home ownership for a new generation with help for renters and first time buyers. Up to £10,000 to help first-time buyers. Make it #BothVotesSNP on 7 May for a Scottish Government working for Scotland.

30 years since the school shooting in Dunblane. So proud of everyone who fought tirelessly for the ban on hand guns in the UK. I cannot fathom living in a country where this happens frequently.

30 years since the school shooting in Dunblane. So proud of everyone who fought tirelessly for the ban on hand guns in the UK. I cannot fathom living in a country where this happens frequently.

The BBC means ‘sulphur’ which is vital for loads of stuff beyond ‘global tech’ - not least fertiliser without which millions and millions of us would starve to death. But they think we’re stupid so ‘niche yellow powder’ it is…

As the Herald maligns its home city, here are TWELVE reasons why Glasgow is really getting better and is already better than most English cities but it’s being hidden from you by Labour-supporting media talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/03/10/a...

No principles, no morality, no information, no expertise, just endlessly appeasing Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and assorted billionaires and foreign oligarchs or chasing the next headline, until suddenly colliding with reality. Bang, oof. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Quite an image on the BBC live page (www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...; no photographer credited). Sounds as if they've saved the station and the hotel, and more importantly, without loss of life. Citizens; heroes.

Scotland has the lowest child poverty rate in the UK, and 90,000 fewer children live in poverty thanks to our policies. But decisions at Westminster have too often held us back. I want to fully eradicate child poverty, and Scotland should have the full powers to do it.

The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out. I am amazed by the limited news coverage.

A huge fire is currently blazing in Glasgow city centre Emergency services have been tackling the blaze on Union Street since around 4pm on Sunday 📸Garry F McHarg / FOCAL Scotland

NEW: Scottish Labour have been urged to come clean on 'creeping' and 'secret' plans to privatise Scotland's NHS following an intervention from a think tank founded by Tony Blair 🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

A reminder. Israel currently stands accused of a genocide in Gaza, an illegal war in Iran, mass displacement in Lebanon and attacking Syrian sovereignty. Is this designed to be the new norm? Shifting focus away from Gaza into more widespread chaos and instability?

Can't believe this is the game I missed! I'll watch the highlights later but it's not the same. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

One of the most powerful things I've read in years, and a real dropping of the scales moment for something vile that has been insidiously poisoning everything for decades jameelajamil.substack.com/p/ah-shit-we...

More than half of Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens born abroad should be deported or encouraged to leave. No different to the old BNP or National Front voters. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This has been on the front page of the BBC Scotland website all morning. It talks about “eight years after the referendum”. The latter was in 2014. A child could do the arithmetic better!

An incredible retraction by the Daily Telegraph today. They have apologised for publishing an article last year headlined: “We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t afford to go on five holidays.” The entire story was fabricated; the family did not exist.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4