When Douglas Alexander breached the ministerial code by failing to declare he'd met with Mandelson's former lobbying firm BBC Scotland steadfastly refused to pursue the story. Andrew Kerr sent one message asking for Alexander to comment, which he ignored. No follow up. The story just died.
There's no mechanism or appetite within BBC Scotland for pursuing the BritNat parties. None whatsoever. The SNP issued calls for an inquiry into Alexander and it wasn't even reported by BBC BritNat. From Sarwar's election bots and the numerous scandals involving senior Scottish Labour figures [two awaiting trial and whatever happened to Foysol Choudhury?] the Labour party gets a free pass.
🇺🇸TRUMP: "I've settled eight wars, actually nine, and now it looks like we could have 10."
🇮🇷IRAN: "This man actually started a war, lost it, and fools everyone by saying he settled it. Absolutely crazy." 🤣
When Trump’s presidency is over, it should be annulled. No library, no portrait, no titles, no honors, no Nobel prize. It’s a record of shame. Do you agree?
Vance: zero visits to Ukraine. Rubio: zero. Trump: zero. But Trump did invite Putin to the United States.
Senator Mark Kelly made it plain: not a single senior member of the Trump administration has set foot in Ukraine. Not Vance. Not Rubio. Not Kushner. Not Witkoff - the men supposedly driving the peace process.
They haven't been to the country whose future they're negotiating.
Someone is deciding Ukraine's fate without ever looking it in the eye.
Note to anyone angry that Trump's name was taken off the Kennedy Center, don't you worry. You can still find his name in the Epstein files over 38,000 times.
Reporter: ''So you agree that people who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted?''
JD Vance: ''Yes'' Reporter: ''Ok, I'm just checking, because you helped raise money for people who did so on January 6th''
JD's Soul Leaves his Body.
Three huge Scottish stories from the last seven days that BBC Scotland either refused to report or quickly killed.
Labour's £600m PFI legacy bill
Douglas Alexander/Peter Mandelson
Renewable projects £1bn connection charge
BBC Scotland reporters *must* wonder about this surely?
This nonsense about Scottish Labour 'splitting' from the UK party is just that, nonsense. There is no such party as 'Scottish Labour'. There's just Labour. If Labour MSPs split from UK Labour then they cease to be Labour MSPs. They'd lose all funding from London and be broke inside six months.
Scottish Labour is a branch of an English party and will remain so. It'll do as told by London.