heather lowrie

Travel editor of the Scottish Sun, Scotland's biggest selling daily. 01414205204

[Mackenzie @eatadickfarage]

@scarycath They had a consultation, saw the results, and then said naaah fuck the plebs, we'll do it anyway

[heather lowrie @heatherlowrie2]

What's ridiculous is the lie

[Laura Mitchell @MorayLaura]

Ridiculous furore about the FM and the whisky tariffs. In Speyside - the biggest whisky producing region in the country - those working in the industry have been v grateful for @JohnSwinney’s leadership. Everyone delighted by the outcome and hopeful we can now focus on growth. 🥃

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

There is a deep fracture running through the heart of Britain's justice system, and the acquittal of the Palestine Action ram-raiders has just torn it wide open.

An Israeli-owned arms factory was attacked in the early hours of the morning. A prison van was driven through a perimeter fence and used as a battering ram. Protesters entered the site wearing red jumpsuits, wielding sledgehammers, flares and fire extinguishers. Police were confronted. A serving officer's spine was fractured. None of this is disputed. Much of it was caught on camera. And yet six activists walked free.

They were cleared not because the acts did not occur, but because the law was quietly bent around their cause. Violence was reframed as protest. Weapons were downgraded to tools. Intent was dissolved into belief. The jury was not asked to judge what was done, but what the defendants claimed to feel. Justice was not blind; it was selective.

In any functioning legal system, motive does not neutralise violence. You do not get to ram-raid a factory because you "genuinely believe" you are on the right side of history. You do not get to swing a sledgehammer near a police officer because you "did not intend" to hurt anyone. You do not fracture a spine and then retreat behind moral sincerity. Since when did belief become a defence? Since violence began to be graded by politics.

The truth is uncomfortable but obvious. If the same acts had been carried out by a nationalist group – a prison van driven into a factory linked to Gaza, police injured in the process – the outcome would have been swift and brutal. There would have been terrorism charges, exemplary sentences, and sermons about deterrence. No indulgence. No benefit of the doubt. Everyone knows this. Including the police.

That is why the Police Federation's response matters. It was measured, restrained, and quietly damning. Officers expect the law to stand behind them when they are seriously injured in the line of duty. In this case, it did not. What they saw instead was hesitation, indulgence, and a system fearful of being seen as firm. A state that cannot protect its own officers evenly cannot expect loyalty in return.

This was not an isolated failure. It fits a pattern the public has learned to recognise. Tweets are criminalised. Jokes are investigated. Peaceful protesters are kettled, searched, and charged. Meanwhile, organised militant groups who cloak themselves in fashionable causes are handled with gloves, caveats and excuses. The law has not been rewritten; it has been selectively applied.

And that is why trust is draining away. Not because people want chaos, but because they can see that order is no longer neutral. Justice now depends on who you are, what you believe, and which slogans you carry. When juries are encouraged to weigh belief over action, the rule of law is already wobbling. When courts fear public reaction more than principle, the state has begun to retreat.

This verdict will be studied. It will be tested. Others will learn from it. The message sent was not that violence is unacceptable, but that violence is negotiable – provided it comes wrapped in the right ideology.

That is the real scandal. Not six people walking free, but a system quietly admitting it no longer applies the law evenly. When that happens, public anger is not irrational. It is the last remaining form of honesty.

"A prison van was driven through a perimeter fence and used as a battering ram. Protesters entered the site wearing red jumpsuits, wielding sledgehammers, flares and fire extinguishers."

[heather lowrie @heatherlowrie2]

Never, ever seen a convicted murderer given an op ed in a newspaper. Outrageoys. How do his victim's family feel seeing this? Shameful. How low can the DR go?

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

What is the purpose of this? (Quite aside from anything else, it does not explain why he shouldn’t be in a male prison, other than that he doesn’t like it.)

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

Here it is on page 745 of an 847 page bundle of documents supplied to the hospitals inquiry. Seems significant, tbh.

[Antifa Public Watch Official @UnmaskedAntifa]

I will call this thread "The Westminster Sxx crimes Scandal.

MARK TROTTER - LABOUR ACTIVIST AND FORMER CARER IN CHILDRENS' HOMES

TROTTER was first spoken to by police in Sept 1981 but the magnitude of the historical reports/allegations that only came to light when the story was released into MSM. It was seen as a cover up due to him being a Labour Party activist.

Several boys who were in his care died of AIDS related complications and in 1995 Trotter himself died of AIDS.

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[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @__Injaneb96]

Islamist militants are killing women and children and terrorizing civilians. It is so heartbreaking to see loud voices on social media stay silent.
Those who have been lecturing us on “genocide” for the past two years are suddenly out of words.

[heather lowrie @heatherlowrie2]

@GlamourMagUK Disgraceful comment

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

A massacre is taking place in Sudan, and the world has pretty much ignored it. In western Darfur, the city of el-Fasher was surrounded for months by the RSF. These are rebel forces who have been at war with the government of Sudan and are supported by the UAE. The government forces finally fell, and the city was taken over by the RSF, which has been systematically murdering thousands of people, going house to house. I have been sent videos of piles of bodies and people being shot in the head; these are too graphic to share on Facebook. They are just killing for the sake of killing. This is the face of radical Islam. We’ve been working in Sudan for over 30 years, and our hearts break for this country. Pray for the innocent people—men, women, and children—who are being murdered as you read this. https://t.co/oZQzRXArzP

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The ignored and brutal civil war in Sudan, which has already claimed 150,00 lives and displaced millions, has now taken an even more terrible turn in El Fashir, under siege and suffering famine.
RSF rebels have captured the city, triggering the panicked flight of its remaining starving civilians.
The victorious militias, which are predominantly ethnically Arab, have gone on a barbaric killing rampage of the local non-Arab population.
The violence echoes the genocidal slaughters carried out by the Janjaweed militia — the RSF’s predecessor — in Darfur two decades ago.

[Rachael Wong @RachaelWongAus]

NINE MEN in womanface have been awarded 'women of the year' by @GlamourMagUK. Apparently men are better women than women.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I grew up in an era when mainstream women’s magazines told girls they needed to be thinner and prettier.

Now mainstream women’s magazines tell girls that men are better women than they are.

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

No, @WSJ, the Bibas family did not simply "die in captivity."

Four-year-old Ariel and nine-month-old Kfir were murdered in cold blood. Terrorists killed them with their bare hands.

Stop whitewashing Hamas brutality.

[Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee]

I assure you she’s delusional. She can thank @realDonaldTrump anytime just to set the record straight.

[heather lowrie @heatherlowrie2]

@timeswmariana Scotland

[Steve Urwin @urwinsky]

@JuliaHB1

[heather lowrie @heatherlowrie2]

@PSCupdates Shame on you

[Jackson Carlaw @Jackson_Carlaw]

I am 66 & as it nears its end, in my heart I feel today is one of the most shameful in our country’s history.

In Edinburgh Waverley, Glasgow Central, Liverpool & London, I choose to believe those chanting death to Israel tonight of all nights are the worst of us & that the decent majority, are just disgusted.

[Oscar Gabriel @Oskargavriel]

@euanmccolm Decent people need to speak out.

The hatred comes from a small (but growing) number.

It's the silence of those who look away that is putting people in danger.

[heather lowrie @heatherlowrie2]

@leeharris Agree