The above was in the Daily Record yesterday. Where are UK drug dealers ‘Thickboar‘ and ‘Octo-hand’ from? They are cousins from Merseyside, in the Liverpool area in England. Stephen Earle (EncroChat handle “Octo-hand”) is reported as being from Huyton (one later report says Crosby). His cousin Terence Earle (“ThickBoar”) operated with him from Merseyside. They trafficked heroin and cocaine between Merseyside and Motherwell in Scotland, using EncroChat, and were later jailed after the network was cracked in Operation Venetic / Operation Joyfully. Terence Earle was sentenced to 16½ years in April 2023. Stephen Earle fled to Portugal in 2020, was … Continue reading English drug dealers help flood Scotland with heroin and cocaine

From rtpscott today, in Talking-up Scotland: Speaking about papers there is a picture of the UK in the Sunday (Yoon) Paper today which is more or less brushing Scotland out. The GMB‘s Rhea Wolfson or the Sunday Post‘s Derek Healey are by no means obvious candidates for the accusation of being anti-Scotland, so I have to think they did not see the graphic before it ‘went to press.’ I have to think Belfast-born editor Thomas Hawkins did. When you see this diminishing of Scotland, you may be reminded of the recent UN rejection of world maps projecting, especially, Africa as … Continue reading A colonial instrument visually subordinating Scotland

From the SNP, two days ago, the above and: If you ever needed a textbook example of Westminster’s breathtaking contempt for the people of Scotland, Andy Burnham has just delivered it on a silver platter. The Westminster Prime Minister’s latest grand scheme is to establish a ‘National Care Service’ south of the border, funded entirely by scrapping the state pension triple lock – which covers the whole UK. But as a Guardian journalist revealed, Burnham’s big idea appears to be to simply copy the free personal care system that Scotland has already enjoyed for over two decades – and it won’t … Continue reading How Andy Burnham’s ‘raid on older people’s pockets will collectively fleece Scottish pensioners out of an eye-watering £4 billion’

Today, from Geo All Day, this map below: and: A small but high-profile group of European countries has publicly welcomed the possibility of the United Kingdom eventually re-joining the European Union. The debate returned in late September 2026 after UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Britain should reconsider its long-term relationship with the EU, with options ranging from closer economic ties to full membership. https://www.facebook.com/geoallday Is that all? Make that ‘Scotland’ instead of ‘UK’ and get the map at the top, and: A YouGov EuroTrack survey published in July 2025 found majorities in the five EU countries polled would support … Continue reading Europe far more enthusiastic about Scotland returning to EU than about England/UK

The Guardian today, above, 20 years since women workers in the century-long Labour Party-run council first took it to court over unequal pay for equal work. Then less than two years after the SNP took over control of the Council, the above. Readers will already know that to pay the women workers a fair wage and to keep ‘the ship afloat’ in terms of services and council tax increases, some council functions dominated by men workers will have to face a pay reduction. Thanks to a Labour’s council’s decades-long, deep-rooted misogyny and incompetence, the current SNP council has no choice. … Continue reading History being re-written as a century of Labour misogyny and contempt for women workers is conveniently forgotten by media