This story about Rachel Reeves is giving me Eric Cartman vibes
www.thenational.scot/news/2563827...
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Johnson & Cummings killed 23,000 people.
If a lockdown had been imposed on 16 March, a week earlier than it was, it could have cut the number of deaths in England in the first wave of the virus by almost half, saving 23,000 lives, the Covid inquiry says.
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‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
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My latest blog piece, a vote for Labour, or for another anti-independence party in Scotland, is voting to be ignored and irrelevant.
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A Labour vote in Scotland is a vote not to matter
You’ve got to hand it to the Labour party, they are certainly consistent, consistent in their shafting of Scottish workers. It’s almost as though, despite Labour’s protestations t…
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My latest blog piece, about Shabana Mahmood pandering to the basest instincts of the far right and why it's doomed to failure
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Starmer’s Labour enables fascism
When the race baiting far right criminal Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and the hard right Reform UK are praising Labour’s policies, you know that something has gone profoundly wrong in a party which …
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My latest blog post, inspired by the clarion call of pro Scottish independence actor Alan Cumming.
"Just get your boots off our neck, Westminster"
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Just get your boots off our necks, Westminster
In an interview with The National newspaper, the actor Alan Cumming, who currently hosts the US version of the popular show The Traitors and who is outspoken in his support for Scottish independenc…
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Anas has gone all bashful again. But then no one in the Westminster Labour party cares about his opinion on anything. He's a nepo-baby irrelevance who will be deposed after next May's Holyrood election.
www.thenational.scot/news/2561710...
Anas Sarwar silent amid Keir Starmer leadership chaos
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has refused to say whether he backs Keir Starmer as Prime Minister amid speculation he may be ousted
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My latest blog article No, independence supporters’ well documented compaints about BBC bias on the Scottish constitutional question are nothing like Trump's attacks on freedom of the press.
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No, independence supporters’ compaints about BBC bias are nothing like Trump
There is certainly no love lost between supporters of Scottish independence and the BBC. It is however egregious I’m-not-a-nationalist-I’m-British bollocks to suggest, as former Labour …
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He's the guy who ran the media campaign for Ken MacIntosh's (remember him? No me neither) Labour branch office leadership bid against Kezia Dugdale. 'Nuff said.
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It is typically egregious Unionist nonsense to suggest that Scottish independence supporters back Trump's far right assault on the BBC which would make the BBC even more right wing and biased against Scottish independence than it already is
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Now Scottish Yessers are on the same side as Donald Trump
A perfect storm of editorial failure and external pressure has cost the BBC its most senior leaders, but we should not lose sight of the fact that…
