A letter to act on.

Survey reveals shocking standards of research by trade union affiliated with Labour in Scotland By reader George S Gordon On Wednesday the Scotsman had an article based on Unison Scotland surveys of its members in the NHS, headlined – “Exclusive: Survey reveals ‘shocking’ concerns over health…

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Trump warns US-UK trade deal ‘can always be changed’ with relations in ‘sad state’ President says he gave Britain ‘better deal than I had to’ but ally was ‘not there when we needed them’ on Iran

Trump threatens to end US-UK trade deal because UK won't join his illegal Iran war.

There is no special relationship. It is subservience to the US.

Don't make agreements with Trump. He doesn't honour them.

The King's visit should be cancelled.

UK must rejoin the EU, build alliances with others.

James Bembridge on X: Hate is too weak a word for what I feel towards the NHS. I'd tear it down and salt the earth upon which it stood.

Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.

All the denials from 'Scottish' Labour on their clandestine deal with UK Reform, and the pile-on abhorrance shown by their MSPs at John Swinney picking up on it on yesterday evening's Channel 4 debate, and yet here we have The Scotsman reporting on it on Monday 30th March.

Lord Offord and Nigel Farage are trying to spread their poison in Scotland. I will have absolutely none of it.

We are focused on what actually matters - helping with the cost of living, improving our NHS and treating all people with dignity.

Inside the £64bn pharma deal that could cost more lives than Covid With the NHS on its knees, the UK has struck a secretive new drugs deal. But how was it made – and what will it really cost?

£64bn is the cost of UK capitulation to pharmaceutical companies and Trump.

Secret deal commits the NHS to pay higher price for new and existing drugs

No debate in parliament.

Govt can tax the rich, cut other services, let people die, start manufacturing drugs and become self-reliant.

UK to give £380m grant to Tata battery factory in Somerset Investment in plant due to supply batteries to Jaguar Land Rover expected to boost economic growth and secure jobs

Corporate Welfare.

UK Govt to give £380m grant to Tata battery factory in Somerset.

The Govt isn't taking an equity stake in return, won't receive any dividends. It isn't a loan and isn't repayable.

Political parties demonize human recipients of welfare but hand free money to corporations.

Buttigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"

More affordable homes. More rights for tenants. More support for first time buyers.

We will make it easier for you to have a secure home of your own.

Vote SNP on May 7th.

Barnardo’s find 7 in 10 ‘UK’ parents want the SNP Baby Box which may have stemmed a surge in infant mortality due to Tory austerity in Scotland

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Never has it been clearer that Scotland might have all the energy - but also none of the power.

Fuel Finder has revealed that seven of the ten most expensive places to buy diesel in the UK are in Scotland, including the highest in the UK at £2.29 per litre in Thurso.

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Scotland is an energy superpower, yet we pay the highest fuel prices in the UK.

This is a scandal of Westminster’s making - and while other countries act to support people, the UK government does nothing. It’s time to take control of our energy with independence.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

These comments are a threat of genocide, plain and simple. The US President must not act in this way.

What the world needs is the courage of diplomacy and the wisdom of de-escalation. 

The UK Labour government must act now to ensure that de-escalation takes place.

A madman has control of the most powerful military in the history of the world and the leaders of his party are too afraid to say or do anything to stop him.

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military.

The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him.

Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

This is the most horrifying, psychotic, grotesque message Trump has ever posted—openly threatening to commit genocide. This is beyond reckless. It’s dangerous, dehumanizing, and utterly unfit for any leader.

Vance accuses EU of ‘foreign interference’ in upcoming Hungarian election while endorsing Orbán

JD Vance flies to Hungary to interfere with the election, while complaining that people who haven't flown to Hungary to interfere with the election are interfering with the election.

I doubt he'd know where to feed himself if it wasn't for his mouth flapping all day long.

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Vance said he wants to help Orban “as much as I can” ahead of Hungary’s parliamentary elections on Sunday.

The irony klaxon exploded when he then accused Brussels of trying to interfere in the vote, describing it as “one of the worst examples of foreign election interference.”

🇬🇧 Anas Sarwar’s election promise of 70,000 ‘GB Energy’ jobs for Scotland, turned out to be 29 jobs

🇬🇧 Labour take Scots for absolute mugs

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A message for the media in Scotland.
A Labour MPs husband is accused of spying for China,his wife has inappropriate & drunken “flirtations” with not one but two submarine captains,there’s total blackout coverage of leaks into the Clyde and you think that’s ok & have a “nothing to see here” attitude?

The Emma Caldwell Public Inquiry must ask if the Scottish Labour Government of 20 years ago took its eye of the ball BBC Scotland From Emma Caldwell Public Inquiry begins work, published yesterday: The independent Public Inquiry into the investigation of Emma Caldwell’s murder in April 2005 has been formally set-…

As senior detectives, now passed, are conveniently being scapegoated, the Emma Caldwell Public Inquiry must also ask if the misogynist Scottish Labour Government of 20 years ago took its eye of the ball talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/09/t...

For how how long have we been told that the US has this fabulous written Constition whereas we do not?

But the US Constitution has been shown to be the emperor with no clothes

It might as well be a blank sheet of paper

It might as well not exist

The US is acting entirely on the whim of one man

Sorry, but if they don't have the courage to defend the Constitution, they won't have the courage to prosecute him for war crimes.

Other way around . . - Indy PosterBoy Imagine that the UK was governed from Edinburgh, and England sent all its tax revenue £billions to Holyrood.

Imagine that the UK was governed from Edinburgh, and England sent all its tax revenue £billions to Holyrood. Imagine that Holyrood then gave England half back, but spent the rest on ‘national infrastructure’ projects like upgrading the A9 to a 6-lane motorway . .
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This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Scotland is more at risk than at any other time since Union of 1707, expert says IT may come as a surprise to many Scottish independence supporters but Scottish Unionism is finished and has been for some time, according to a new…

‘For example, everything England does is the norm and best practice, Scottish practice is always worse.’

“In contrast, old Scottish Unionism defended and supported distinctively Scottish culture and institutions, or it created them.”

But now it’s just ‘Scotland bad’ the unionist media prevents…

Petrol stations forced to close after running out of fuel The shortages come as the price of filling a family car with diesel exceeded £100 for the first time in more than three years

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland is the only major oil producer in the world that doesn’t have a single refinery

This is for the very same reason that Scotland is the only maritime country in the world without a port, or international ferry links

A Scotland that’s isolated and dependent will remain chained to the union