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Proud purveyor of indigenous news to Indigenous Scots since 2014 Daily news from the most read site worldwide for all things Scottish that doesn't ask for donations, annual crowd-funders or tell you what to think. No nation ever rose up to demand its abolition!

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Stand-up comedian Henning Wehn: “We don’t do charity in Germany. We pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments’ responsibilities."

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Yikes! 😲 10pm: Edinburgh hit by monsoon downpour, thunder and lightning.

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Storm Dennis When forecasting storms the Irish don't mince their words.

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Ouch! From Germaine Greer

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My Dear Friends I have met so few of you, but am so glad you visit so often. It is a great comfort. The hospital has told me my incurable cancer has spread, news I dreaded. Another operation aims to cut it out, but I fear the worst. Two opponents, Death and Westminster.

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Why are people acting so surprised? This is the story for over 300 years.

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A hit, a palpable hit, ma'am. Boris says: 'There is no border.' Nicola says: 'An absurd statement; if the prime minister is questioning that, what would he say if I pitched up in Newcastle and tried to implement Scottish government policy there.'

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Now, this is what I call stacking logs!!! A lumberjack with sophisticated aesthetics. @WingsScotland

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CENSORED On every bulletin, just as King Charles swears the oath to Scotland, BBC News cuts the recording at the point before he speaks the 'Claim of Right'. No one can convince me BBC does not know what it's doing. @BBCNews @bbclaurak @BBC @BBCScotlandNews

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The zinger is the last line "I'm in Spain this month. So many elderly Brits living here trying to return to UK because of health concerns. Can the NHS cope? They can't sell their retirement homes. They are very very angry..... Many of them voted leave!!!"

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Hold The Front Page! The Sun credits freelance snapper Alan MacGregor Ewing with taking the photos of Chief Medical Officer Catherine Calderwood in the Fife. I learn he hails from Glasgow. What is he doing in the Neuk of Fife 80 miles from home?

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The most common national holiday around the world is independence from the British.

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The colonial mentality "Brexit has proved impossible to deliver: turns out it’s tricky for English voters to take back control of their borders when one of them is in someone else’s country." Frankie Boyle

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Salmond Trial Not Guilty The judge, Lady Dorrian has Alex Salmond stand and told - he is a free man, and discharges him from the court. The jury is thanked. The trial is over.

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Sorry to remind you Had Scotland enough time to cross the 50% back in 2014 we would be sitting here smug as hell, counting the companies shifting to Scotland, re-regulating our banks, signing our EU membership deal, looking at England thinking, wow, we sure missed that bullet.

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Repainting Boris' special plane almost finished

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Grouse Beater's Agenda for Today: Post photo of flowers in garden Compose essay expressing ire at SNP cruelty Inform family of imminent death and how to cope Choose palliative procedure, hospital, hospice, or home I choose to die at home among folk I love. Freedom at last!

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Another Good News Story Holyrood rejects Culloden Battlefield luxury steading development. Campaigners in celebratory gleeful mood.

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Scotland is among the world’s most *naturally* wealthy nations. Of UK assets it owns: 34% of the UK's natural wealth. 90% of fresh water. 62% of maritime area. 96% of crude oil. 63% of natural gas. 60% of timber. 32% of landmass. 26% of renewable energy. 90% of its hydro-power.

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Forbes Pokes Swinney in the Eye Swinney questioned whether she's fit to be FM. A spokesman for Forbes said: “The Prime Minister is a Hindu, the Mayor of London is a Muslim. Many will wonder why the Dep. FM thinks a woman holding Christian views disqualifies her from the job."

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Scotland's Law Under Attack "Remarkable that the Government - at this most delicate moment for the Union - is considering stripping from the Scottish Courts powers explicitly preserved to them by the 1706 and 1707 Acts of Union. Just, wow." Jo Maugham QC

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“I go to jail with a clean conscience after a Kafkaesque trial. I genuinely do not know who I am supposed to have identified ... I believe this is actually the state’s long sought revenge for my whistleblowing on security service collusion." Craig Murray, Human Rights Activist

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How many Embra folk, let alone Scots, know that the Cleopatra's needle next to Edinburgh's old Calton Hill jail, was erected to commemorate the political martyrs jailed or transported to Australia for 'sedition', that is, writing pamphlets to promote the independence of Scotland?

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Dear Editor of the Daily Record You're a disgrace, a toilet bowl of smears, not eligible to be called hacks. Your article on my work and the essay in question is brazenly libellous. You've no ethics, no morals. Call your over-worked lawyers now. See you in court. @Daily_Record

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Glasgow Athletics Quite wonderful to see Josh Kerr victorious and not use a Union Jack as the flag of his homeland for his victory lap while running as part of 'Team GB'.

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The day when a rank outsider, student and amateur politician, wiped out a flat-footed, arrogant dullard who helped rule a colonial territory for over thirty years.

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To Unionists, This is a Bad Thing Scottish Water has never been privatised, it invests 33% more in infrastructure than private English water companies it has no debt, leeches no profit and has the lowest sewage dumping in Britain.

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MP who just resigned wrote. "We are a proud nation and it is a sad day when we are reduced to obeying rules made by other countries who have shown that they do not have our best interests at heart." If I didn't know better I'd have sworn he was Scottish. 🤔

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The Act of Union Under paragraph 2(1)(a) the Prerogative is expressly declared *not to be reserved*. It follows, nothing exists in law to prevent the Scottish Government exercising their Prerogative powers to revoke the Articles of Union and hence the Act of Union!

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Dear Scotland How pleasant to walk around Dublin's fair streets and not chance upon a single Union Jack, or any stuck on food or garments produced in the Republic. Fine old pubs feel no need to deck themselves with Royal bunting, nor hotels offer a "full English breakfast".

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Biden on Boris' Brexit “I was really disappointed. I was not surprised, because in times of confusion and great change I think we all become susceptible to demagogues and charlatans who in order to aggrandise their power find a scapegoat.”

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Bercow on May Her resignation speech - tears in her eyes and a lump in her throat. ... upsetting for her but I could not feel much sympathy. There was no such emotion over the victims of Grenfell Tower, Windrush or food banks. She was tearful only when adversity affected her.

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The Stone of Scone The Stone of Destiny will be required in London for the coronation of the next monarch. I don't believe that we, as a nation, should allow it to be removed, yet again, from within our borders!

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BREAKING NEWS I am informed a memorandum has gone out to SNP MPs and staff to 'expect a snap general election'. If this happens it should be regarded as a FINAL MANDATE from the people of Scotland to withdraw from the Union to negotiate a new Accord with rUK.

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Hope renewed.

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A House Jock intimates readiness to sell out Scotland. On Sky News, Carlaw was asked if decisions on food standards for Scotland should be taken in Edinburgh or London. He said it was “absolutely right” powers are seized by Westminster. The powers lie with Scotland, devolved.

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Dear Edinburgh Council Did you really cut down trees and bushes so that Underbelly could use the site and leave it like this? Has no one told you this is the bloody capital of Scotland, and its centre ought to be sacrosanct, or do you not care? @adamrmcvey @Edinburgh_CC

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Today's Tory Corruption Matt Hancock awarded a PPE contract to his sister's company in which he has a 20% interest. He tried to cover up the transaction. So far, it's calculated he's personally involved in a lot more PPE fraud.

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Am I in Heaven? Sir John Curtice avers, for the first time in Scottish history, the Yes side is the favourite to win a referendum on Scottish independence. The polling expert, who made accurate predictions of the results in *four* general elections, says he has done his sums.

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"*Next* referendum." @NicolaSturgeon Couple at Tescos, he English, she Scots, admiring my old car and then: "Been socialists all our lives, fathers too. The SNP have done amazing with very little; we don't like what's happening in England, so we're voting Yes next referendum".

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Oh, the irony. Sinn Féin has the numbers to make Mary Lou McDonald the next Taoiseach. So, England dumps Europe to find greatness again only to discover it is weaker than Ireland.

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Enjoy the beautiful Orkney accent as well as his succinct remarks.

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“Scottish nationalism has nothing to do with English, German or Greek nationalism. I call it patriotism. A patriot loves his country, a nationalist thinks his country is superior to the others. Scots voted in favour of internationalism by staying in the EU.” Yanis Varoufakis

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I shouldn't laugh but... 😁😆😅😂🤣 The Biden administration announced it prioritises a post-Brexit trade deal *with the EU* over the UK because the EU economy is “simply far larger”. Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle said "Our priority is China and then the EU, not the UK."

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With one minor exception, all Scottish newspapers believe in the removal of the SNP government and reinstatement of parties supporting the Union. They're hostile to a populace enjoying full civil and constitutional rights. This, I'm asked to believe, is a sign of a free press.

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Please retweet as many times as you can manage

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The Shock of the Old As I predicted, Ms Wark made her programme *during* the trial, transmitted now as a *retrial* of Alex Salmond. Her comments are trite, placing herself in a central role of a retrial disgusting. She forfeits the right to be called a journalist. @KirstyWark

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The worst enemy of a Scot isn't an Englishman but another Scot trying to be an Englishman. "Gove says Tories will block another Scottish referendum."

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Am in a remote corner of Iceland called Kerlingarfjall with a small group of French and we are celebrating the intense discomfort of the British state skewered by Scotland’s Court of Session judgement. Enjoy it while we can!

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Scotland be advised: For the first time in 800 years Ireland has greater power than England. Simple arithmetic: shoved aside in the past it was isolated, Now it has 27 states rooting for it. A small country inside the EU has superior influence than a large one on the outside.

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Just Saying.....

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WARNING Any person proclaiming Salmond's guilt, specifically or generally, will be blocked - for their own good. I advise readers not to answer those taunts but report them to Twitter instead. There will be no mob rule here.

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Leader Campaign Update Regan: "I think this situation [we're in], where you’ve a leader who’s married to the party's chief executive, I don’t think we would accept that in a corporate setting, It's not appropriate. Murrell is running this contest - a clear conflict of interest."

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Freeports - or selling off chunks of Scotland Inverness and Forth 'green' freeports are confirmed by UK and Scottish ministers. The principle of selling land to be governed by unaccountable, faceless investors, and adding 'green' to the title, is highly controversial.

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"I am so bored of this "you hate the English" crap. So one last time - I am English. I want Scotland to be independent I voted for it in 2014. I'll march in Edinburgh on 6th for it. I will vote for it again in #indyref2 . But I still love my mum." Julie Murray

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The Truth Is Out - Scotland Subsidises England UK Energy Minister, Graham Stuart MP admits that Scottish Oil and Gas revenues have been subsiding energy bills for "every household" in the UK. Get England off our backs and out of our pockets!

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Tweet of the Day "I grew up in New Zealand. Scotland's economic potential is a magnitude or more in advance of what my homeland can ever hope for. I don't see Kiwis looking to rejoin the British Empire any time soon." Hugh Wallace

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Oh, Sneaky BBC At It Again

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Tit-for-tat Dear Islanders and Highlanders When faced by English tourists you don’t know dragging their emotional and virus baggage with them against all medical advice, refuse to take their *foreign* funny money. Just sayin'.

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Another love letter from the EU.

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2 years

What's the fashionable phrase? Oh yes. 'I'm up for that'"

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BBC-Wark TV Documentary I have sent a letter to the BBC's director general asking for the programme to be delayed. It's wholly inappropriate to broadcast it prior to or during the parliamentary enquiry and without evidence from Salmond. The BBC claims impartiality- prove it!

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"When the Queen was born the British empire stretched from Newfoundland to Papua New Guinea, covering a quarter of the world’s people. Today, England is a lovely island in the North Sea that is rapidly becoming the size of Iceland in terms of political importance." German pundit

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Indy Activist Mark Hirst Acquitted The independence activist Mark Hirst has been acquitted of all charges. The court said he had no case to answer.

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Reality arrives at Buckingham Palace.

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What is going on outside of Buckingham Palace?

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The Declaration of Independence is 700 years old this year, more relevant now than ever. Time England respected it.

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SNP's Betrayal of Free Expression Scotland's Parliament Building, originally designed for exterior public meetings and protests, has drawn up legislation to make such gatherings outside Holyrood a *criminal prosecution* from 1st October, and so easier for police to make arrests.

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Dame Dick She leaves with a £575,000 payoff, plus £160,000 a year pension and a probable seat in the Lords. The Menezes family received £100,000 compensation from the MET their son's state murder.

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On Being Colonised England has the right to impede a law or regulation passed by the Scottish Government if it thinks the law interferes with England's freedoms, but Scots do not have the right to block laws imposed by Westminster if they restrict the freedoms of Scots.

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Sunset over Bannockburn

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We are running out of time, everything warned is coming to pass

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"Angela Merkel has a doctorate in quantum chemistry. She was a research scientist who entered politics in 1989, elected to the Bundestag in 1990, became first female chancellor in 2005. She served 4 terms. Leave EU, on the other hand, are knuckle scraping racists" Emma Kennedy

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BREAKING Ash Regan has empasised her view ending the Union using a unilateral declaration of independence based on general election votes is legitimate. [See international law.] "If YES parties won a majority of votes it's a clear declaration from the people of Scotland”.

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A Question..... There's debate for the possibility of a formidable duo: Regan is FM, Forbes remains finance secretary. Both are impervious to the wails of the genital survey clan. Surely the duo is worth considering - so long as they have *independence* as the primary aim?

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Strange comment to make - you're the one who joined with the Tories to ensure Scotland voted No to running its own affairs. What we got is what you created.

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Oh dear god - time to buy some tins. Horrendous 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Watch how the newsreader tries to stop Peter Oborne from naming names, thus enhancing Oborne's thesis that some journalists are doing the nasty work of Dominic Cummings.

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Dear SNP I share the dream but today told I won't see it materialise. I would, however, like an apology from the SNP before the light dims. A political party should contain people capable of compassion, who think nothing of themselves, who need no 'permission'. @theSNP

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To the sons of bitches exhorting people to unfollow me, to denounce my writing, to disassociate themselves, identifying my family, posting malicious fabrication, be advised you prove my point fascist-speak invades our lives. Each attack only encourages me to point you out.

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Michael Sheen returned OBE The actor relinquished his OBE to explore the “tortured history” his native Wales has with England (and Scotland), in his Raymond Williams lecture 'without hypocrisy'. He wants stopped the practice - 'Prince of Wales' title given to the heir apparent.

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The Irish waste no time Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald: “It is now impossible to ignore the growing demand for a referendum on Irish Unity and I want to reiterate Sinn Féin's call for the Irish government to establish an All-Ireland Forum on Irish Unity without delay."

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Remember how Scotland was told the value of pound will collapse, perhaps as much as 10% if we vote Yes in 2014? Dodged a bullet there, didn’t we? The pound's lowest value in 2015 was $1.46. The value of the pound is now $1.24. We are 15% poorer ... and counting.

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GO OAN YERSEL, CHARLIE! * (* Scots phrase applauding eloquence.) King Charles emphasises countries with a constitutional relationship to his family are free to choose their future.

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Look at the state of you, Galloway! A failed politician, too vain to take off your hat indoors, rejected by the Labour party that despises you, bereft of a single voter, a catsuit clown, a firebrand burnt out years ago, reduced to theatrical threats whispered into thin air.

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'I'M COMING BACK!': 'Put that in your Scottish Nationalist Pipe and smoke it!' Standby for fireworks. #MOATSMESSAGE #ukpolitics YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS: @georgegalloway | @RTUKnews | @RT_com | @SputnikInt

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Gosh, golly Philippe Lamberts, a Belgian MEP and Co-President of the Greens in Brussels says Scotland would be welcomed into the EU. He also praised Nicola Sturgeon for her leadership, suggesting she is a potential candidate for President of the European Commission.

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BBC Scotland relentlessly hammering SNP over the Queen Elizabeth Hospital 'contaminated water' issue.Almost as if it's an agent for the Tory party.

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The British State cannot argue that Scotland is not a colonised nation when simultaneously it collects and keeps the majority of Scotland's taxes, plunders our natural resources, and denies us referenda.

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British Legion in Aviemore flying the Saltire and not the Union Jack. Something [good] is afoot. 😄

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BREAKING Murrell Unfurls Peter Murrell has been told to resign as the SNP’s Chief Executive by the end of today or face a no confidence motion from the party’s NEC. A senior member of the ruling body said: “We have the numbers. There's not a hope in hell Peter can survive"

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Scotland's right to hold referenda The Court of Session declaration is not 'asking' the court 'if' Scotland has the power to hold a referendum without consent. It asserts that it *does* and challenges the UK Government to prove otherwise.

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Tigger - for he's the only one An outraged Drew Hendry MP condemns the Internal Market Bill, shows it undermines devolution absolutely. When the speaker tells him to take his seat he refuses and is marched out of England's phony debating chamber.

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Scotland essential to UK’s survival. "Scotland's oil and gas resources allows Britain to borrow money and keep its AAA rating up. Without the £1.6 trillion value of these assets, what is a grim picture becomes grimmer. The UK would struggle without Scotland." Julia McNulty

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Aussie couple "You don't have to be a Scots to be shocked by the way London and its political parties treat Scotland - and Irish - one insult after another, abuse too. Why in hell do you people put up with it? Does no one see it?" (More Aussie observation when I have it.)

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No More Colonialism Sandra Mason, Acting Governor of Barbados, says by Nov. 30, on the 55th anniversary of their independence, Barbados will break up with Elizabeth II and swear in a local Barbadian president as head of state. Barbados is going to become a republic.

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Release of Craig Murray Human rights activist, Craig Murray, is due to be released from Saughton Prison at 10am, Tues 30th, this month. Friends and well wishers are welcome to assemble at the prison gate to support Craig; he plans to read a statement to the media.

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Your daily Planet Earth picture Suilven, Sutherland, Scotland.

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A small country of 5 million people New Zealand lifts all Covid restrictions, declaring the nation virus-free. Fingers crossed.

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The House of Poor An English company situated in Scotland (conning tourists) that is included in a list of those failing to pay the minimum wage.

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Snippy Gossip SNP insiders say moves are afoot to place Ash Regan as a top contender for party leader and future FM. Regan clashed with Sturgeon over the GRR Bill and resigned. She is known to want SNP to return to an inclusive, open party.

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BBC Reporting Scotland. Three stories missing. Not covered: 1. Audit Scotland report praising admin of Queensferry Crossing project. 2. Call from midwives to roll out innovative Baby Boxes across the UK. 3. Michel Barnier warns Scottish brands such as whisky vulnerable post-EU.

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