Exclusive: First Minister John Swinney is being urged to make a legal challenge over means testing winter fuel payments. Calls being made by Alex Salmond & Age Scotland and follows legal advice..1/5

We made it clear today that the far right aren't welcome in Scotland #NaeNazisInGlasgow #NoRacismNoFascism #StopFarRight

This is just extraordinary. A major BBC charity has stopped its funding for LGBT Youth Scotland over reputational concerns. But Police Scotland says it will ‘continue to work’ with the charity, which it has signed up to run a diversity training initiative for call-handling staff.

At least six senior civil servants and advisors plotted to have Alex Salmond jailed on false charges

Fergus Ewing is one of the SNP’s longest serving MSPs. He was a minister and a cabinet secretary at the heart of government until 2021. He believes high ranking civil servants and special advisors colluded to attempt to have Alex Salmond jailed.

The rot that has infected Scottish taxpayer-funded organisations thetimes.com/article/2efe2b…

Ah, the new leader of the party of independence.

This won't go away until it's all out in the open.

The day Alex Salmond walked out of court a free man was the day the difference between him/sturgeon became evident. He cared about C19/Scots she cared about her

‘Angry? I’m raging’…I talk to Scotland’s tireless children’s champion about the scourge of child poverty in 2024. SallyAnn Kelly eloquently eviscerates the political decisions that have ruined the lives of the young My Big Read in today’s The Herald heraldscotland.com/politics/24569…

These grave allegations should be properly investigated. If a court order is standing in the way of investigation, then the court should be asked to consider whether it is in the public interest that that should continue to be the case

To my shame, I had no idea that Scottish councils send debt collectors after low-income families who owe money for school meals. That’s just one of the facts I learned which made my blood boil during this interview with Scotland’s children’s champion heraldscotland.com/politics/24569…

Sometime soon this will be seen on a park bench: "In memory of Mary and Ray (1942 - 2024). They did not die in vain. They died of hypothermia so that Rachel Reeves might balance her books"

Susan, the people you refer to as 'the far right' were the Orange Order and various assorted anti-Catholic bigots. Your council and many others spend all year planning with them and accommodating them. Did you not recognise them? Susan Aitken

“In the first three months of 2024, Charlotte claimed an average in attendance fees of £5,309 a month…” She was gifted this job for life, at age 29. Answerable to no-one, no real duties, unsackable. She just needs to turn up to get our taxpayer money. prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/67789…

Scottish government must ‘brush up’ its act on dentistry, says Labour. buff.ly/3MyicP4

“There’s nane ever fear’d that the truth should be heard, But they whom the truth would indite.” ⌛️…