Here is Scotland using only renewables to produce electricity.
But we are charged the cost of producing electricity with gas!

Firstly gold plated is a cheap way to make things look better than they are. Secondly I wish this country actually would at least do something a bit gold plated occasionally because right now our infrastructure projects look like a collection of driftwood and sticky plasters.

Yep. The BBC now brands itself with Reform logos.

A letter to act on.

I think this sums up what many people think: Scotland has improved enormously under the SNP, much more than England under the London parties in the same period. We need to protect that, as well as building for the future.

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Little known fact, but the NZ household sector is really very wealthy compared to our economy and the rest of the world. This data doesn't include land or weatherboard palaces, it's just a huge stack of financial assets - shares, equity, cash etc. How do we do it? [🧵 1/n]

Oh no! Thoughts and prayers with the unionist media....😭

Tomorrow's front page 📰

BBC slated over interview treatment of John Swinney

Scotland is an outlier compared to most other developed nations.

Raising the school starting age to 7 and introducing a play-based kindergarten stage for 3 to 6 year olds would help boost education and child wellbeing outcomes.

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

I agree. Makes no sense he managed to become a father. It takes all sorts.

It's got to sting. You base your whole strategy on blaming last Govt for inflation caused by a global price shock, and then another one pops up as you head into the election!
Now, can you invest in lessening the impact? Well, yes, but you can't because you've made fiscal constraint your thing! Lol.

To be fair they could be on to something: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

BBC Scotland has produced approx 150 to 200 ferry stories in the last year.
Cal Mac are running with a success rate of over 95%. They are amongst the cheapest ferry connections in the world and work in some of the most challenging waters in Europe.👇

So, when you hear the ‘how will we afford it’ question, counter like this – and remember that the ‘we’ here is NZ *as a whole*:
If we can’t afford enough people to teach and support in schools, how can we afford to pay the Aussie banks $10bn a year? [cont...]
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Balance sheet update (yesterday's data).
Let's start with that little pink stub - total Govt liabilities (debt). Believe it or not, *that's* the debt number that our commentariat obsess over! Let's dive in and have an explore... [🧵 1/n]

As someone remarked a few months ago, the Holyrood election is clearly a two horse race between the SNP and the BBC.

Looking forward to the Trafalgar Square ‘No Kings’ demonstration too.

I often get asked the question (cos people know I'm sad):
How can the NZ Govt balance sheet be so healthy despite all of the crazed covid borrowing etc? Let's have a quick look. [🧵 1/n]

Armed man allegedly sent manifesto to schools, govt promising to become NZ's 'most deadly mass shooter' The 20-year-old sent a manifesto promising to "kill everyone" to several schools, the police and the government, police allege.

The media should stop using 'manifesto' and change it to 'ramblings'. But that doesn't sound scary enough to sell. Same as describing terrorists as 'sophisticated' for simultaneous bombings. It's like arranging to meet mates at a place and time. Called using a watch www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Interestingly, whilst the UK has agreed to a 25% price hike when buying US drugs for the NHS, the EU has done no such thing. Quite the reverse. The US has pressured the EU to drop ITS prices so the US pays less. It hasn't agreed.

Which would Scotland be better off being part of: the EU or the UK?

Did you know that tiny independent Malta is smaller than the Isle of Arran, has a population smaller than Edinburgh, has a GDP only 5% of Scotland’s, yet joined the EU in 2004 and in 2017 shared the EU presidency chair with The Netherlands and Slovakia?

And yet some unionists *still* argue that Scotland is uniquely incapable of joining their EU or doing myriad other things that many smaller countries already do well. Grow some ambition, please.

What a shock. They claim to hate each other in England, but offer to work together in Scotland. The London parties are not be trusted.

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Poster comparing the pack independnece march in Edinburgh on Saturday 28th March 2026, with the total lack of reporting of this by BBC News.

Read the news you're not getting. Because you're definitely not being told it by the BBC. #Scotland #Holyrood26 #SNP1SGP2

Absolutely nothing on the impartial BBC website.

Why are they so against reporting on the UK public’s stance against the far right?

Shameful.

'I can't quite see where the end of the march is' 👀

Broadcaster Lesley Riddoch explains why she joined today's Scottish independence march in Edinburgh

Powerful stuff! 🌻

Fantastic analysis and explanation thanks. Makes dismal reading though!

Most reckonomists misunderstand banking and credit so they posit all manner of explanations for the productivity stall... Ockham's Razor escapes them. Our puzzling chart is replicated across the world. Here's the UK version.
Bottom line - crap measures and fantasy models drive bad strategy. [Ends]

Real example: Our utilities industries were 'reformed' in the 1980s. The new companies shed workers, reduced maintenance, and made juicy profits. Guess what? Labour productivity increased! That's just maths. Anyway, productivity party ended when we needed more people to fix things. [3/n]