🪓 Three more arts presenters on Radio Scotland have been the chop under the latest shake-up overseen by new boss Victoria Easton Riley, who took on the role last summer after being hired from a commercial radio operator. 🪓
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Edinburgh Trams "stopped" firm's apprenticeship recruitment ad because they were "part of the defence industry". www.heraldscotland.com/news/2604325...
I suppose it will come down to whether you believe Starmer would not have appointed Mandelson if he knew he failed the vetting.
He was prepared to overlook all the issues already flagged by the Cabinet Office. If they were the same issues, would he really have said, actually let's cancel it?
Asked if Keir Starmer will still be PM on May 7, Anas Sarwar says "Look, that's for parliamentary process somewhere else. That's for the UK parliament to decide. That's for them to look at individual processes.” @heraldscotland.bsky.social
"He said, 'At some point, we need to talk about how we work together to get rid of the SNP'."
Reform's Malcolm Offord stands by comments that Anas Sarwar approached him to work together
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Speaking to journalists in Larbert, Lord Offord insisted he was not making up the "get rid of the SNP" conversation. He said the interaction was witnessed by Max Bannerman, one of his aides.
"I remember exactly what he said, he said, 'interesting move to Reform... I always thought you were more of a unionist than a Tory, Malcolm'."
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Sorry, Scotsman were with Offord. My mistake.
'Malcolm Offord is a liar' - Anas Sarwar
The Scottish Labour leader says the Reform UK leader in Scotland's claim that Sarwar sought an election deal with him is 'utter nonsense'
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Nonsense and guff! Story was up at 9.15pm last night. I'm just back from the Sarwar presser. Colleague at the Offord event. Scotsman weren't at either. We'll have an updated story soon.
One of the highlights of any election is making @heraldscotland.bsky.social TV critic Alison Rowat watch the leaders’ debates. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/260...
The SNP’s Angus Robertson said: “I do not believe for a nanosecond that if this project were to be happening in the rest of the United Kingdom it would have been blocked in the same way.”
Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander said the First Minister had traded “in the basest of politics, of hostility towards our friends and neighbours in the United Kingdom this evening”.
The row over the Ming Yang turbine factory continued in the spin room after the debate. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2601470...
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Given recent misinformation being spread about how these models work, here's an accessible explainer:
This particular model involves two main procedures. The first involves predicting actual national party support based on the data available to us. To do so, I use LOESS regressions...
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Hah, you Scots and your tame vaguely similarly-named parties, you haven't seen anything. Here are the logos of the Croatian Party of Rights, the Croatian Party of Rights 1861, the Autochthonous Croatian Party of Rights and the Croatian Pure Party of Rights, all of which are separate parties.
Donald Trump threatened to stop supplying weapons for Ukraine in order to pressure European allies to join a “coalition of the willing” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to people briefed on the discussions.
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George Galloway appears to have pulled out of the Glasgow Southside contest. Still on the list though.
Despite that, the Electoral Commission said there was nothing to investigate. IGV had, they said, met the legal criteria: “We are satisfied that there are clear and sufficient differences between the two parties' registered names, descriptions, and emblems to avoid confusion.”
Had the Scottish Greens won 115 extra votes in the South of Scotland and a little more than 900 in Glasgow, they’d have been returned to Holyrood with 10 MSPs instead of eight.
Not too far-fetched to suggest that some, or even probably most, of those who ended up voting for IGV probably meant to vote for the Scottish Greens.
Parties that did campaign, that did leaflet, that did have some form of media profile, did far worse.
Reform UK, for example, managed just 543 votes in Glasgow.
In 2021, despite having no campaign and no real online presence, bar a weird-looking webpage that hadn’t been updated since 2007, they won 2,210 votes in Glasgow and 1,690 in the South of Scotland.
Glasgow nominations for the Holyrood election are out. The far-right Independent Green Voice is back. In 2021, this fake party, led by a Holocaust denier thrown out of UKIP, probably cost the Scottish Greens two MSPs.
The reported inappropriate relationship between suspended Scottish Labour MP Joani Reid and the captain of a nuclear-armed submarine is 'deeply concerning', Anas Sarwar has said
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