John Swinney was education secretary when Nicola Sturgeon claimed the SNP would eradicate the attainment gap by 2026.
Ten years later and Scotland’s most deprived communities are still facing a postcode lottery when it comes to educational achievement.
When the country is looking for answers on asylum hotels, the cost of living is getting worse, and doctors are threatening to go on strike again - further endangering lives, it's disgraceful that Keir Starmer recalled his Cabinet to try and sort out a political problem for the Labour Party.
Recognising a Palestinian state won't bring the hostages home, won't end the war and won't get aid into Gaza. This is political posturing at its very worst.
FFS. Wind is not a free source of energy. Wind resources are a place where you might build some infrastructure. An offshore wind farm is an expensive piece of infrastructure. Paying back its costs is the cost of wind energy. Those costs are very substantially greater than zero.
1. SNP force Alexander Dennis to implement higher wages plus other measures to allow them to pitch for subsidy.
2. Alexander Dennis then become uncompetitive.
3. SNP subsidise Ember bid using cheap Chinese buses.
4. Alexander Dennis leave Scotland.
A lesson in Economics.
‘I was walking past the Emirates stadium, when sadly I tripped over Sue Gray’s purse.
I found myself accidentally inserted into a private hospitality box, wearing thousands of pounds worth of designer clothes’
First Jimmy Saville, now this? Free Gear Keir was utterly useless at his job then as he is at his current one.
In 2008, Fayed, the then owner of Harrods, was interviewed by the Metropolitan Police under caution after a 15-year-old girl told detectives he had sexually assaulted her at the London department store.
In February 2009, when Keir was director of public prosecutions (DPP), the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced that no charges would be brought because there was “no realistic prospect of conviction”.
Via @Telegraph
A young female boxer has just had everything she’s worked and trained for snatched away because you allowed a male to get in the ring with her. You’re a disgrace, your ‘safeguarding’ is a joke and #Paris24 will be forever tarnished by the brutal injustice done to Carini.
State the obvious truth.
This is a man.
A man that hits women.
And our subverted society doesn’t just let him hit women - it actually actively celebrates it.
The yellow line marks the beginning of SNP government in Scotland. And it also marks the moment when per person health spending in Scotland began to slide relative to per person spending in England. The SNP has used the powers of devolution to deprioritise spending on the NHS.
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