WHEN looking for anti-German jingoism on social media, I didn’t have to search very far to find it.
I WILL be campaigning hard against Anas Sarwar at the ballot box. But I will stand shoulder to shoulder with Anas - and anybody else - to see off racists
A SURVEY published today showed that 46 per cent of women MSPs have received death threats since being elected. 29 per cent have also received threats of sexual violence.
SINCE 2014 the Chinese government has been engaging in a campaign against the Muslim population of Xinjiang, suppressing expressions of religion and imprisoning large numbers of people of mainly Uyghur ethnicity in detention camps, without due process. Estimates put the number of people detained at over a million.
IT'S not often I agree with Dan Hodges, but I enjoyed seeing him make a strong case today for the UK Government to agree to a referendum on Scottish independence
UK Labour leader Keir Starmer, interviewed on the Marr programme today, made it clear that a Labour Government would not re-introduce free movement with the EU, in a change from his previously stated position.
SCOTTISH Labour leader Richard Leonard has caused a stramash by arguing that Covid restrictions imposed on the hospitality sector by the Scottish Government have an air of puritanism about them – and even suggesting that people could be forgiven for thinking that Nicola Sturgeon had effectively imposed a version of 1920s US prohibition on their communities.
WHEN the National asked me to write something about Aberdeen councillor Douglas Lumsden, the Tory Co-Leader of the City Council, attempting to bypass the Scottish Government to make a funding deal with the UK Government I had to go and check that the story was actually real, it seemed so preposterous.
TODAY, former UK Prime Minister Sir John Major suggested that the current UK Government should agree not just to one independence referendum but to two – one to agree that Scotland and the UK should negotiate an independence settlement, and a second confirmatory referendum to agree to that settlement once it has been signed off.
WHEN I first read that Boris Johnson is introducing fines starting at £1000 and increasing to £10,000 for people failing to self-isolate if they have tested positive for Covid my initial reaction was almost to laugh.
