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AHOY SCOTLAND: FULL STEAM ASTERN!

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By Mark E. Saunders of “The Scottish Minuteman” https://www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=61575625542197 — More money to keep us afloat. Less investment to help us move forward — Since the Labour government’s budget last month, there has been quite a bit of talk about Westminster giving Scotland an additional £600 million to ‘spend’. But there’s a little more to that story than meets the eye — or the ears for that matter. Firstly, the £600 million isn’t an annual payment. It’s the total additional funding spread across four years. And secondly, when you look at where the money is going, things become a wee bit less impressive. It … Continue reading AHOY SCOTLAND: FULL STEAM ASTERN!

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After 8 years of Liverpool county lines drug gangs in the Highlands violent crime is up 270% compared to 12% in Scotland

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That it’s like an escalation of behaviour. It’s getting to the point now in the Inverness area, where the violence is getting to a different level and it’s something that really we’re taking a really firm stance on. But we’re also very conscious it’s very challenging. Highland Cops commissioned by BBC 2 and BBC Scotland and produced by Firecrest Films is in its fourth series of frankly fascinating documentary style episodes on crime in the Scottish Highlands, with ravishing background, often foreground, scenery shots and increasingly impressive and likeable police officer characters. The production seems to have wriggled out from … Continue reading After 8 years of Liverpool county lines drug gangs in the Highlands violent crime is up 270% compared to 12% in Scotland

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The Scottish Lib Dems are gathering disaffected right-wingers

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By Liz S Well here’s something else worthy of our contempt in that there is a constant demonising of the SNP from a certain party and their party branch office manager, while they (and he) acts as if they (and he), among all parties and all party leaders in Scotland, were the only true political moral crusaders at Holyrood. To whom do I refer ? The Lib Dems and Alex Cole-Hamilton. Firstly we had the ex Tory MSP Maurice Golden who chose not to stand as an MSP in this year’s Scottish elections, however in July 2026 The Courier newspaper … Continue reading The Scottish Lib Dems are gathering disaffected right-wingers

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More nonsense from the Herald as they begin the process of demonising the latest SNP CEO on anti-abortion groups at the National Conference

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On the front page in the Herald today, a story going nowhere. They tried to make much of it, front page and bigger on October 12: and: This is nonsense, the Herald knows it’s nonsense and so will the SNP’s advisers. Parties retain substantial control over their own conferences, agendas, and who they platform. Fringe events are typically subject to approval and are not the same as membership rights. Political parties are expressive associations. They control their own conferences, agendas, and who they platform. Fringe events are not the same as open commercial venue hire; they form part of the … Continue reading More nonsense from the Herald as they begin the process of demonising the latest SNP CEO on anti-abortion groups at the National Conference

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There’s a far bigger ‘steelworks crisis’ – we have none but must pay for it in England and I feel sure ‘Flynn’ knows just what we should do about it – get out!

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No doubt the Dalzell plant needs looking at but it’s a far less significant matter than this: Latest increase – Scots taxpayers to pay first £120 million instalment to keep old English steelworks in business and another £100m to save old English oil refinery so that it can replace Scottish oil refinery to refine oil almost entirely from Scottish waters Labour has been urged to lay out a credible plan for the future of British Steel, as the government spending watchdog warned of the “startling” costs of keeping the struggling manufacturer in business with no end in sight. British Steel … Continue reading There’s a far bigger ‘steelworks crisis’ – we have none but must pay for it in England and I feel sure ‘Flynn’ knows just what we should do about it – get out!

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Experimenting on monkeys in Scotland is a reserved matter, Labour’s Home Secretary David Blunkett was responsible for agreeing to it and Donald Trump had shares in it

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The Ferret today has a piece on Nearly 500 monkeys have been transported more than 6000 miles to Scotland from Mauritius to be used in animal experiments since the start of 2025, The Ferret can reveal. The monkeys are used in tests at a research site in Tranent run by a company called Charles River Laboratories that buys, sells and experiments on animals. The US multinational – which specialises in gene and cell therapy, medical devices, and biotechnology – conducts research on dogs, monkeys, rats and mice to make medicines, fertilisers and weedkillers. https://www.theferret.scot/hundreds-monkeys-imported-scotland/?ref=story-alerts-newsletter Their report does refer to UK … Continue reading Experimenting on monkeys in Scotland is a reserved matter, Labour’s Home Secretary David Blunkett was responsible for agreeing to it and Donald Trump had shares in it

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Herald readers, amid their latest ferry feeding frenzy with F-all facts, need a further good reminder how much the SNP has done for islanders also with grant subsidies

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Thanks to TuS reader Legerwood for reminding me that Herald readers, amid their latest ferry feeding frenzy with F-all facts, need a further good reminder how much the SNP has done for them especially with grant subsidies out of our budget The Scotsman 11 August 2026, quotes a Labour MSP saying ‘Our islands have been let down, time and again, by the SNP.’ Readers will know that CalMac is almost certainly the best – cheapest, most frequent, most reliable, safest – in the world. How reliable, currently, has CalMac been for, say Mull? In February 2026, latest figures, in a … Continue reading Herald readers, amid their latest ferry feeding frenzy with F-all facts, need a further good reminder how much the SNP has done for islanders also with grant subsidies

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Herald readers, amid their latest ferry feeding frenzy with F-all facts, need a good reminder how much the SNP has done for islanders especially with the Road Equivalent Tariff [RET]

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Thanks to TuS reader Legerwood for reminding me that Herald readers, amid their latest ferry feeding frenzy with F-all facts, need a good reminder how much the SNP has done for them especially with the Road Equivalent Tariff [RET] on the Clyde and Hebridean Network Another ferry ‘fiasco report’ on 12 January 2026. The facts hidden every time they write this rancid garbage: There’s a very significant background story never told of just how much this SNP Government has done to transform life on the islands, funded by the rest of us living often in less pleasant places and with … Continue reading Herald readers, amid their latest ferry feeding frenzy with F-all facts, need a good reminder how much the SNP has done for islanders especially with the Road Equivalent Tariff [RET]

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Glasgow City Region ‘already far more advanced in regional working than is often reflected in public commentary’ and ‘already operates as a mature regional delivery platform’ –

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The Glasgow City Region is ‘already far more advanced in regional working than is often reflected in public commentary’ and ‘already operates as a mature regional delivery platform’ – GCR’s Director of Regional Economic Growth. By stewartb Notwithstanding the current political focus across the UK on devolution to city regions, there is a dearth of evidence-based reporting by the MSM and (of course) by the public service broadcaster we’re stuck with, BBC Scotland on what local authorities together with business, universities and others in the third sector already do and achieve in partnership in Scotland’s city regions. Arguably, the absence … Continue reading Glasgow City Region ‘already far more advanced in regional working than is often reflected in public commentary’ and ‘already operates as a mature regional delivery platform’ –

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Why we have no A&E crisis but England does

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In the Herald today, this: Here’s why we have no crisis but NHS England does From stewartb 5 March 2026 on NHS England manipulating stats again, researched by stewartb and just framed by me. RCEM press release (march 4): ‘NHS England corridor care definition interesting but meaningful change must follow’ ‘Dr Ian Higginson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said: “.. we can already measure long waits and overcrowding. It remains to be seen whether trying to measure corridor care on top of this will prove more effective. “We have two main concerns about the complex definition. Firstly, … Continue reading Why we have no A&E crisis but England does