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Once a city he adored, Edinburgh is now plagued by poor governance, unkempt streets and costly, ineffective public projects, says Dr Roger Watson.
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Fraser Hudghton of the Free Speech Union challenges Scotland's Hate Crime Act following news that from next year, 'hate crime' will encompass age-related threats or abusive language.
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The SNP-Green's disastrous bottle recycling 'Deposit Return Scheme' has cost £86 million, left taxpayers facing massive compensation claims and the administering company in administration.
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Police Scotland has confirmed that a 52 year-old woman has been arrested as part of its ongoing investigations into the SNP's finances. Who on earth could it be?
The post Breaking: Nicola Sturgeon Arrested in SNP Finances Probe appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Scotland’s SNP drama, May elections & another independence referendum The Duran: Episode 888 Scottish politics is in disarray – the row between Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon is hardly an endorsement for independence Row between Salmond and Sturgeon is hardly an endorsement for independence | Sean O’Grady Voices No one would claim that Westminster and […]

Richard Lyle during First Minister’s Questions in the Scottish Parliament, on February 7, 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland. [Ken Jack/Getty Images]

MEMO | May 26, 2020

A member of the Scottish parliament (MSP) has sparked outrage by suggesting that the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians when Israel was founded in their land in 1948 was “self-inflicted”.

Craig Murray, a former UK diplomat turned anti-war activist, has been charged with contempt of court for writing blog posts.…
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Will Westminster allow Scotland another referendum on independence from the United Kingdom?

This week, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson rejected a request from SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon for a second independence referendum. In a comment made to RT, broadcaster and former UK MP George Galloway described the snap reaction by the PM as contrary to the inherent right of self-determination.

By Johanna Ross | December 18, 2019 The Scottish independence movement has come a long way since I was a child. A few decades ago the Scottish National Party was on the fringes of politics and even when the Scottish parliament was founded, it was a Labour government at the helm. Independence was a distant […]

With only weeks to go to Brexit’s target date, there is deadlock in the British parliament, recriminations on both sides, and, writes Russell Merryman, a growing realisation that what was promised might be impossible to deliver.
Anti-Brexit sentiment is growing as the deadline for Article 50 approaches [MERRYMAN]
We’ve all heard of the thought experiment involving a cat and a piece of radioactive material locked together in a box, the decaying material could, at any moment, give off an atomic particle which would kill the cat.