Today’s the day the Tartan Army head to watch the baseball en masse. The @RedSox game on Friday was well attended by Scotland fans but today is set to be even bigger. There is a planned march to the game from Back Bay with live music at the starting point. The meeting point is Evans Way Park. If you’re there or going feel free to tag us in your photos and videos. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #TartanArmy #Boston

The Scots say I’ve been adopted. I say I’ve been rescued.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥺

MARK HIRST CASE - UPDATE On the 18th of this month three judges of the Court of Session will give their view following the Lord Advocate's appeal against Lord Lake's judgement (last February) in Hirst's claim against the Crown for his malicious prosecution in 2020. As Hirst points out, the press has largely ignored the issue, so keep an eye on the Beater's News site for announcement of the outcome.

Top work, STV. Maybe if they could get the England national team off for 5 minutes, they'd know who this is.

Huge story👇 Reuters report Israeli firm BlackCore targeted John Swinney during Scottish election.

BREAKING: The Scottish Government has made a £400,000 donation to a Scottish football fan who is walking 3000 miles across the United States Craig Ferguson aims to make it to Boston ahead of Scotland's first game in the World Cup and raise £1 million for a mental health charity

November 1971. Chiswick, West London. Erin Pizzey is 32 years old. She is not a lawyer. Not a politician. Not a doctor. She is a woman who talked Hounslow Council into lending her a cold, rundown building on Belmont Road — a former community hall — for almost nothing. Her original plan was modest. A warm room. A cup of tea. Somewhere for mothers with young children to simply get out of the house. Then the door opened. A woman stood in the entrance. She was covered, head to foot, in bruises. She was holding two small children. She was shaking. She didn't want tea. She needed somewhere to hide. Erin let her in. She didn't turn her away. She didn't tell her to call the police. Because Erin had already called the police. They told her the same thing they told every woman in Britain at the time: they could not enter a private home over a "domestic dispute." That was the law. The home was private. What happened inside it was a family matter. When Erin contacted a female civil servant to report what she was seeing, the response was astonishing. The woman told her flatly: "There wasn't a problem of battered wives until you made one." Erin put down the phone. Then she went back to her residents and made sure they were fed. Within weeks, 40 mothers and children were sleeping in four tiny rooms. No funding. No staff. No legal authority. She didn't stop. By 1973, word had spread through quiet whisper networks — one woman telling another, "There is a place. Go to Chiswick. She won't turn you away." That same year, Erin hosted the first National Women's Aid Conference in the UK. Women from across Britain arrived, and they all recognized the same thing at once: what she had built needed to exist everywhere. In 1974, the council set a maximum of 36 residents. At peak times, 150 women and children were living inside those walls — sleeping on floors, on chairs, in hallways. The building smelled of cooking, fear, and something else entirely: relief. Erin was taken to court for overcrowding. She appealed all the way to the House of Lords. She kept the doors open the entire time. That same year, she wrote a book. Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear. It was the first published account of domestic violence in British history. It used real stories from real women inside the shelter. Overnight, a problem that had no official name was on front pages from London to New York. The movement spread. Refuges opened across the UK. Then Australia. Then Canada. Then the United States. The pattern she created in four small rooms in West London — no blueprint, no permission, no funding — had been replicated in hundreds of shelters across the Western world. MP Jack Ashley stood up in Parliament and said: "It was she who first identified the problem, who first recognised the seriousness of the situation and who first did something practical." She was ranked 14th in a poll of the 100 women who shook the world. She was awarded the Italian Peace Prize. She received a CBE. The charity she founded — Chiswick Women's Aid, which became Refuge — grew into the largest domestic violence charity in the United Kingdom, with over 460 employees and an annual income of more than £33 million. Erin Pizzey passed away on October 4, 2025, aged 86. She never stopped. It all began with one woman, one borrowed building, and an absolute refusal to say no. Forty women and children showed up with nowhere to go. She made room. Share this if you believe one ordinary person, refusing to look away, can build a shelter that holds the whole world. Follow us Lost in Yesterday

With thanks to G McPherson for this ⭐ 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝’𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧. 𝐀 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 — 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐧 — 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐡. This new total body PET scanner can: • be 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝟒𝟎× 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 • scan patients 𝟏𝟎× 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 • use 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 • scan 𝟓𝟎% 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐲 • and capture the 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐠𝐨. It’s the kind of breakthrough countries brag about for years. Grampian News covered it last night — because it was developed on their patch. BBC once again didn’t seem to think it was newsworthy. I wonder 𝐖𝐇𝐘? But in hearing this Mo and I are so proud of Scotland, it gives us both a lovely feeling. I hope you are the same. Thanks for reading.

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began. The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start. Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have. If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

Colin Smyth appeared in court yesterday on serious drink driving charges. He is currently on bail for possessing indecent images of children. He has separately been charged with placing a camera in the toilets at Holyrood. The UK's colonial media in Scotland is largely silent.

UNION STREET An historic Glasgow tenement block and its shops, destroyed in a major fire, has been recreated in miniature Karen Bones spent 10 weeks working on a replica of the B-listed Victorian building, including the vape shop that started the blaze. The model - made out of recycled cardboard - depicts all the businesses affected by the blaze. It also features the building's landmark dome as well as iconic signs which once adorned its roof. Karen said: "After seeing the devastation on the TV, I felt compelled to try and recreate it because such a big part of my childhood was walking up and down Union Street and being fascinated by the Irn-Bru sign." Among her creations are scale replicas of venues and buildings ranging from the Barrowland Ballroom and other famous Glasgow music venues to coastal cafes, historic castles and cottages. Working from a renovated caravan in her garden in Larbert, she not only builds the pubs and clubs she worked in for nearly 20 years but also takes commissions through her small business, Bricks & Bones.

Instead of concentrating on what Nicola Sturgeon perhaps did or didn't know, why don't the media concentrate on what they do know about Farage?

The irony coming from a politician who was at helm as Minister for Postal affairs when hundreds of postmasters were prosecuted pretty sure forcing people into destitution Jail and Suicide is something that should bar you from public life

Is this you or is this another Rosena Allin-Khan who was forced to repay thousands after breaching expenses rules THREE times? #BBCLauraK #hypocrite news.sky.com/story/labour-mp…

Why yesterday’s court ruling failed to uphold the full force of Scottish constitutional law. The Constitutional Contradiction at the Heart of the 1707 Union The Treaty of Union claimed to create “one kingdom of Great Britain” through the merger of the Scottish and English Crowns. Yet the treaty contained a built in contradiction that made this outcome legally impossible from the outset. Scotland’s condition precedent prevented the extinction of the Scottish Crown Before agreeing to union, Scotland imposed a condition precedent. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤔☮️⚖️🌏 The Claim of Right (1689) must remain in force. The monarch must continue to swear the Scottish coronation oath, a statutory requirement obliging the Crown to uphold Scotland’s distinct laws, liberties, and Presbyterian settlement. These conditions meant the Scottish Crown could not be dissolved or merged. And because a kingdom is defined by the territorial jurisdiction of a crown, the inability to merge crowns meant the kingdoms themselves could not legally merge. Basically The treaty’s primary aim a single kingdom under a single crown was constitutionally impossible under the terms Scotland required. England never intended to extinguish its own Crown England had no intention of dissolving the English Crown into a new, joint British Crown. Instead, it Retained its own Crown intact. Rebranded it as the “British” Crown. Declared that this “extension” of the English Crown into Scotland fulfilled the treaty. This reinterpretation pacified Scottish elites but nullified the treaty’s stated purpose. It transformed a supposed merger into what was, in substance, an English annexation with a change of name. The constitutional fiction persists but not universally Within the UK, political and legal institutions have largely accepted the idea that the English Crown simply became the British Crown. However, in international law where crowns, sovereignty, and state succession are treated with precision the notion that a kingdom can be “extended” rather than merged has never been accepted. The continued existence of The Scottish Crown, The Scottish coronation oath, The Great Seal of Scotland, And the Claim of Right as a living constitutional instrument, all reinforce the unresolved contradiction. Therefore The United Kingdom rests on a constitutional structure that does not match the legal mechanics required to create it. The treaty promised a merger of equals,the conditions ensured that merger could not occur; and England proceeded as though it had. The consequence is a state whose foundational act is internally inconsistent a contradiction that remains visible in both domestic constitutional practice and international legal interpretation. ☮️⚖️🌏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤔

I want an enquiry into @BBCScotlandNews Taking money from folk while pretending to be a public service broadcaster.

Dear @Keir_Starmer The Scottish Parliament has passed a mandate to ask Westminster to devolve the powers required to hold a Scottish independence referendum. We the people of Scotland wish democracy to be upheld with the immediate powers transfered. Please RT if you agree.

Scots must grasp Scotland's an English colony. The English colonial state is blocking Scotland's right to self-determination under international law. Scots must understand it's a crime in international law. Going to the UN is the way. Scotland's liberation movement is there NOW.