"Robins made clear that at no point was the Mandelson appointment made conditional on vetting, despite being announced well in advance. The Cabinet Office, he said, argued there was no need to vet Mandelson at all."
#labour #mandelson
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"research by cognitive psychologist Shane Littrell introduces the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale (CBSR), a tool designed to measure susceptibility to impressive-but-empty organizational rhetoric."
#bullshitjobs #work #employment
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Reading shouldn’t be a luxury. It should be accessible to all.
A re-elected SNP government will expand access to free books for children across Scotland, in partnership with The Dollywood Foundation UK.
On May 7, make it both votes SNP for a Scottish Government that’s on your side.
Aerial view of a residential area with text about SNP giving renters first refusal if landlords sell homes.
Renting should not mean losing your home with no say in what happens next.
If re-elected the SNP will give private renters the first chance to buy the home they live in at a fair market price if the landlord decides to sell.
Make it both votes SNP on May 7th for a government that’s on your side.
Time to take control of our huge renewable energy resources
#ScottishIndependence #VoteSNP2026
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Next time your up I can show you around. Loads to see here in our bonny, historic city.
"In legislative terms, Westminster is free to pass whatever cockamamie legislation a majority is prepared to support. In Scotland, it is increasingly a different story, managing a substantial legal risk and constant threats of legal challenge."
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The Labour minister who thought Scotland could be a dumping ground for people smugglers, resigns.
Lovely story.
The Labour minister who thought Scotland could be a dumping ground for people smugglers, resigns.
Lovely story.
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"Some of our politicians seem intensely comfortable making remarkably serious accusations against the integrity of the judicial process on the basis of no evidence, on the off chance there’s a gram of political advantage to be found in it."
#law #scotland
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This Scottish legislation is gathering global attention.
#scotland #communitywealthbuilding
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"Globalization is “over” when Eurasia says it is, NOT when the USA has a protectionist temper tantrum"
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"We live in a country with a one-dimensional media class that all says the same thing and all agrees about everything. In no particular order: everything in Scotland is dreadful; the Union is sacrosanct forever; we desperately need new nuclear power"
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"The abuse had happened over 30 years ago, but it still had a hold over her. It was still destroying her. Indeed, it was clear from this admission that it would likely kill her, at an all too young an age."
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"Call me old-fashioned, but identifying journalists’ sources, listing reporters as “persons of interest”, and mapping out “leverage” over one of them sounds like “investigating journalists”.
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"Had the funding been declared, the press, the public and - crucially - Labour party members would have seen that Labour Together’s kumbaya vibe was all an act."
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"Labour Together paid a controversial PR firm at least £30,000 to investigate journalists that were digging into how its undeclared funding bankrolled Keir Starmer’s successful Labour leadership campaign"
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"everyone always knew, from his long career, that Mandelson was a wrong ‘un. But why did three British Labour prime ministers – Blair, Brown and Starmer – persist in appointing him to high office?"
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"Had it not been for the release of these files, the exercise in Mandelson’s rehabilitation would be ongoing, with the backing of many of the insider media club"
www.thenational.scot/news/2581907...
"Small modular reactors are merely a concept. Renewables and CCGTs are real. Any claims from Labour and the Tories on the cost and schedule are based on a myth – and the SNP must hit this point at every possible turn"
www.thenational.scot/news/2581338...
Join the festival this March in Leith.
#economics #scotland
Mainstream economics has failed us – our festival hopes to change the conversation
www.thenational.scot/news/scottis...
""The United Kingdom has chosen not to base a single offshore patrol vessel, frigate or destroyer in Scotland – requiring vessels to be dispatched from the south coast of England when the flagship of the Russian Northern Fleet arrived off Scotland,”
#defence #scotland
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Is the private sector more productive?
#reform #economics
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"You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration, when integration becomes the source of your subordination"
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