Geoffrey Barrow, in his inaugural lecture as Professor of Scottish History, University of Edinburgh, 1979: "The failure of Scotland to establish its own organisation for public service broadcasting was the greatest cultural disaster which Scotland suffered in the 20th century."

JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.

“Holy shit even I couldn’t come up with that!” - George Orwell

As was predicted...

UK is a police state

BUSINESS Coffee cult bans Scots currency. Time to ban their shops in Scotland. @costacoffee

It's almost as if still having a link to the EU is a good thing.... Scotland could have this if it were independent. The UK is holding us back.

I do not know how this isn’t a major story across Scotland. As far as I can see the National and the Scotsman are the only ones willing to report on it. Clearly the Sun is more focused on Nicola Sturgeon’s Pizza, the Times criticising John Swinney in the USA and the Daily Mail is obsessing over MSPs genitalia to care about the Scottish economy

At least we don't have to have the boring 'what should our national anthem be' discussion anymore. Right? 🤔

It is 2026 not 1690, it is absolutely ridiculous that Scotland's Catholic community has to tolerate these hate marches against their faith: x.com/ScotNational/status/20… & for all the British nationalist haters out there I am not a Catholic.

IS MY KNIGHTHOOD IN THE POST? No 3,420 I did not realise Scotland governs England, we dominate the people's every day life, disallow it a foreign policy, keep most of what England earns, block membership of Europe, deny England full civil and constitutional rights. No? It's the reverse? How embarrassing you are.

A week to celebrate. A week to recover. An extra week just to annoy this guy. On repeat every year until the end of time.

You are in government You have responsibilities @scottishgreens Scotland’s data centre pipeline: 6,200MW in planning. 11,000MW proposed. Nearly three times peak winter electricity demand. How? Three stages: 2022 NPF4 written before ChatGPT existed. Data centre analysis assumed emissions offset by reduced commuting. AI workloads: not modelled. Policy lag. Understandable. 2021 Scottish Government launched its own Green Datacentres Action Plan to actively court data centre investment. Scottish Enterprise as delivery partner. 20 shortlisted sites. NPF4 changed so councils must “identify and support” applications removing the need to justify necessity. A deliberate political choice. 2025/26 APRS formally warned Ministers. Moratorium requested. Refused. Pipeline kept growing. Wilful inaction. Indefensible. Westminster’s role: AI Growth Zone at Newhouse/Ravenscraig is a reserved UK Government designation. Two governments. Same direction. Neither built in a single community safeguard. The Greens? The data centre pipeline was SNP economic policy, not a shared Bute House priority. Is that correct? The Greens left government in April 2024 partly over climate failures. Accountability sits with SNP-led ScotGov and Westminster it seems. Six known gaps no statutory green definition, no EIA, no water standard, no cumulative energy assessment, no Section 75 on future owners, no community right of appeal all unfilled. they knew, they chose, and they did nothing.

Hearing Scotlands rights (UN Human Rights) to self-determination/Decolonisation is scheduled to be heard on 15th July 2026 in Geneva. Could you clarify this @SSalyers2 @LiberationScot?

The most obvious example of BBC bias - promoting politically motivated front pages - and one that's probably the easiest to deal with, yet the broadcaster refuses to. It actually revels in circulating bias, innuendo and disinformation.

Radio BritNat Breakfast is this morning asking how Scottish Labour politicians feel about the Makerfield by-election where they are all campaigning and completely disinterested in why these 'Scottish' Labour politicians aren't campaigning in the two *Scottish* by-elections.

A horse is built to run. A donkey is built to stand and think about it. You have met Hector. This is the other half of his field. Here is the thing nobody warns you about a parade horse. Hector stood through the King's Troop and the massed bands and a nation's worst day without shifting a hoof, and he will still, in a quiet Welsh field, levitate sideways at a pheasant coming out of a hedge. A carrier bag on the wind is, to a horse, a clear and present danger. The guns were a job, and the job had rules. The hedge has a pheasant in it and no rules at all, and so the flight animal underneath the seventeen years of training remains, on the matter of pheasants, entirely undefeated. Nelson does not look up. Nelson has never looked up. A donkey does not flee, it assesses, and it assessed the pheasant long ago and found it beneath comment. People call that stubbornness. It is an animal declining to spend adrenaline it sees no reason to spend. And here is the domestic arrangement, which anyone who has kept the two together will know on sight. Nelson is a third of Hector's size and entirely in charge. He eats first. He picks the dry spot. He decides when they move. The black charger who carried the weight of the state stands by, with enormous patience, while a small grey donkey finishes the good hay. The one thing that reliably undoes Hector is Nelson leaving the field. Five minutes, a foot trim, a vet down the lane, and the great composed horse comes apart at the gate, calling and calling, because a horse is herd to its bones and has decided that its herd is one unbothered donkey. Nelson, for his part, despises rain. A desert animal washed up in Denbighshire, he stands in the shelter looking martyred while Hector grazes out in the wet, waterproof and serene. Two opposite natures, each propping up the other exactly where it is weak. The horse who fears small things and the donkey who fears nothing at all. It works. It was always going to.

RT @SeannachaidhS: "Can anyone name anything that was accurately described as "Highland" (as in, was ubiquitous throughout what we presentl…

This censorship law is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The real goal is to enable the UK government to track everyone.

Grief impacts each orphan differently. For some, rescued within days or hours of birth with little memory of their lost mother or herd, it is fleeting. Instinctually, they follow any figure bigger than themselves, grateful for comfort. Others, rescued at an older age, with deeper memories, feel it more acutely. They retreat from the world and need lots of patience as they slowly begin to trust and come out of their shells. We rescued Alia last October. She arrived at our Nairobi Nursery deeply withdrawn after losing her mother and family. For months, she kept to herself and watched the other orphans play from a distance. This April, the Keepers noticed something change. She climbed into the mud wallow with the herd. She even invited Arthi to play. She is still our quietest girl but months later, she is starting to open up. Adopting Alia helps fund her milk, her Keepers, and the years of growing up ahead until she's ready to rejoin the wild. Adopt Alia: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o…