Dr Richard Denniss dismantles the gas industry’s favorite threat.
If taxes kill investment, why is the gas industry rushing to Norway to pay 78%? 🙄
“They are playing us for fools.” 🔥
Nationals’ Susan McDonald has no rebuttal & scrambles to change the subject. #auspol
Now there's a threat we can all get behind...
The Cayman Islands?
As Richard Murphy notes: Scotland can much better survive the economic and resources challenges to come on its own, than it can within the Union.
I'll be voting Yes in 2028.
But first...
🏴|🇪🇺 𝘝𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘚𝘕𝘗 𝘰𝘯 𝟩 𝘔𝘢𝘺
www.thenational.scot/politics/260...
Anas Sarwar, John Swinney and Malcolm Offord dominating the Channel 4 leaders' debate. (Image: PA)
'If Scotland had control over its own immigration policy, we could put in place a system which would have human rights and justice at its heart rather than a plethora of conflicting rules that are a nightmare to navigate.'
Richard Walker, via The National
If you want to rejoin the EU and give your children a future why on earth would you vote for a Unionist party ?
Clear evidence Scotland needs to be out of the UK by 2029
It doesn't provide any security at all because it all runs out in a matter of hours...
As I set out here, think that “Starmer simply unaware” is the most likely fit with his governing style. And that style is why the government is failing.
Westmonster politics in a nutshell.
Our media in Scotland would rather regurgitate old ferry stories than talk about important issues like treason.
'We Scots find ourselves still in the extraordinary position that slightly over fifty percent of us (according to most recent polls) hold views that are almost entirely unrepresented in the mainstream media.'
Jamie Jauncey, via 'Don Roberto and Me'
I'm an @snp.org supporter but IHT has always made me feel uneasy and I find it interesting that Norway abolished inheritance tax in 2014.......
Nice one Neil..
Dear Wes Streeting, thank you for behaving as if you were Scotland’s colonial viceroy. Every condescending sneer from you, every imperious command, gets me what I want: one step closer to independence
My column on Streeting’s refusal to ever grant another referendum
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Let's see if the UK Govt approves the Vestas proposal to build a factory here..
New polling shows that 60% of Americans have an unfavourable view of Israel, which is likely to mean the end of bipartisan support | Martin Burns
Via @bylines.scot
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"Here is Calmac CEO letter to staff, exposing media and politicians on their deception on ferries.
Calmac have given the media this information but media choose not to report it."
“It’s deeply shocking that Reform has developed such close ties with Orbán’s regime, an authoritarian govt with an appalling record of rolling back democracy and civic rights”
Where ‘deeply shocking’ = entirely on brand.
Hungary shows us we must never give them power.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/08/m...
Ukraine is the biggest winner tonight.
The Kremlin has lost significant influence with Orban's loss.
So still not as fast as a petrol or hydrogen station....
Oh worse than that Dan.. When AMTE power ltd wanted to build a new sodium ion factory in Dundee it couldn't raise the money, went tits up and was bought up for peanuts by a Dutch startup.
Supporting one of India's largest companies with zero taxpayer payback due or expected. Scotland..."you'll have had your oil refinery".
Huge cheers from our international teams in the Orion Mission Evaluation Room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center 🥳
The entire Scottish energy strategy needs rethinking such that it favours the consumer, not the corporations
