EXCLUSIVE: More than half of former Labour voters who intent to back a centre or leftwing party in the next general election have cited the government's record on Gaza as a reason for abandoning Labour, new polling shows.
@ScotNational@MhairiHunter Having been a Financial Analyst who lived & worked all over the world for 35+ yrs I’m sick to my back teeth saying for all that time Scotland should & would be a very wealth & successful Independent country.
For 50+ yrs WM has needed Scotland much more than Scotland needs WM.
The difficulty the BritNats and their media allies had when Murrell pled guilty was switching the narrative and framing the SNP as villain instead of victim. It hasn't worked. Swinney's approval rating has increased.
They've got ten days before the two by-elections so will likely throw a couple of haymakers in desperation. Unfortunately for them the focus of most people will be on the World Cup.
We think they've had their window of opportunity and simply blown it. The Westminster 'inquiry' might yet go ahead and generate the usual tabloid headlines, but folk will tire of an unnecessary 'show trial' that's diverting time and money away from important work.
Besides, do they really want to be seen dragging Scotland's elected FM to London for a kangaroo court?
Remember when I was at ITV Border, and Michael Grade was chairman of ITV.
We got a memo to say Grade was coming to speak to the 150 staff at 2pm.
His chauffeured Jag arrived, he breezed into the newsroom, happy as Larry, and said “Very sorry - I’m closing Border TV.” The he left.
The chauffeur kept the car engine running throughout.
The UK could be Nationalising the Energy Industry right now by ensuring every new Wind Turbine and Solar Panel is owned by the State.
Within a few years it would give the Government control over the price of Energy, the price could be driven down and the rest bought for peanuts.
Guess what should be @BBCScotlandNews / #MisReportingScotland lead item tonight
But given its implicit criticism of Westminster & England's control of Scotland's energy, guess what almost certainly won't even be included
Broadcasting, just like Energy, is Reserved for a reason
Scottish renewables projects will be hit with a £1bn bill to use the UK grid. Meanwhile, projects in England and Wales are paid to connect.
https://t.co/pMKOTTGi16
So Scotlamd pays high connection charges, then England gets the power for free
Just one of many reasons Energy is Reserved to Westminster / Wastemonster
Front page of @BBCSport's football section, and not a single mention of the visa bans affecting Iranian footballers, as well as numerous fans and officials from participating teams ranging from Iraq to Scotland.
Not one word.
Yet these same outlets spent years relentlessly scrutinizing South Africa, Russia, and Qatar over everything from human rights concerns to crime and security issues.
The contrast in coverage is striking.
He was such a heavy smoker that he would sometimes light up even in the operating room. When ash from his cigarette fell onto the surgical table, he reportedly brushed it off with a joke: “Don’t worry—it’s sterile!”
In the years after World War II, countless Soviet veterans struggled with severe leg injuries that refused to heal. Complicated fractures, chronic infections, and deformities often left physicians with limited treatment options. Working in the city of Kurgan, surgeon Gavriil Ilizarov pursued a radically different idea: that bone could regenerate if it was slowly and carefully pulled apart. During the 1950s, he developed a circular external fixation device made of metal rings and tensioned wires that gradually separated bone segments, stimulating new bone growth in the gap between them.
This breakthrough, later known as distraction osteogenesis, transformed the treatment of complex fractures, limb deformities, and shortened limbs. Although Ilizarov’s work remained largely unknown outside the Soviet Union for decades, it gained worldwide recognition in the 1980s when he successfully treated Italian explorer Carlo Mauri after multiple previous surgeries had failed.
Today, the Ilizarov method is used across the globe and is regarded as one of the most significant innovations in the history of modern orthopedic surgery.
BBC journalist Julia Macfarlane posting messages on social media that aren't just politically motivated but inaccurate. Scotland's trains are amongst the most reliable in the UK. The ferries too have a high reliability rate. BritNat bias from @juliamacfarlane.
BBC Scotland has been trying to push a fake narrative that Scotland is in the grip of a knife crime epidemic for at least a year. Laura Maxwell had to apologise and issue a correction live on air after claiming it was on the rise. It wasn't.