EXCLUSIVE: Costa Coffee has been branded 'absolutely ridiculous' after the business banned Scottish banknotes across dozens of stores, The National can reveal

Unionist parties and commentators have lost interest in how our politics is funded because they are only interested in seeing the SNP get a bloody nose, Mhairi Black writes ✍️

UK dirty tricks being deployed to stop the facts of Scotland’s position within their colonial entity being presented openly to the international community. What have they got to hide? What do they fear?

Scotland Invented Modern Football and Is Still an English Colony. Haiti Freed Itself From France in 1804 and Has Been Punished For It Ever Since. On 13 June 2026, They Meet at the World Cup. What That Match Really Means. decolonise.scot/the-real-fou…

The world is beginning to see it: "Scotland and Haiti, what other arena are there those two nations would have any point of connection?" I mean, in arena where we talk about people who hate colonisers, I think that's... Yes! That's probably where an arena where the Scots and the Haitians would probably walk off the pitch and be like, hey, what do you think of the British? What do you think of the French? Well, look at that. What do you think of the English? What do you think of the French? Oh, well, look, we got all of these connections. I think they have a lot more in common than people think. I don't know, do you think that's true? I think that is true. That did occur, we were talking about this before, and it did occur to me that normally the answer, like what do these two apparently random countries have in common? A lot of the time the answer is they hate the English. Yeah. And often it's justified." Next up the Anglo-Brits, telling them: "Scotland was never colonised"... because clearly the coloniser knows best and gets to decide. "Read a history book"... because the coloniser wrote them. And all the usual denials.

Occasionally you see you see glimpses of the Soft Power Scotland will have as an independent country bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/0…

Russian oligarchs, billion­aires, foreign governments, international royalty, and banking giants are among those behind nearly 1000 offshore entities that are illegally flouting the land control registry, The Ferret can reveal

Wow! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙 Thousands of Scotland fans are taking part in the Tartan Army March to Fenway Park in Boston ahead of the Red Sox game In partnership with @sparscotland

If it's endlessly annoying watching the World Cup through an English lens, in an era of social media that is no longer a bounded media narrative. The 'UK' broadcast media doesn't have a grip on the stories we share - and are told - anymore bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/0…

هناك ملوك عاشوا حياتهم وهم يحكمون نصف أوروبا تقريبًا، ثم نسيهم التاريخ وهناك ملك إنجليزي خسر معركة واحدة قبل أكثر من سبعمئة عام وما زال الاسكتلنديون يذكرونه بالاسم قبل كل مباراة كرة قدم يتبع..

Tartan Army dance with Haitian fans after the game i.stv.tv/4ekuM1J

Here’s the Scotland Tartan Army belting out Flower of Scotland at Boston fan zone for the Scotland v Haiti World Cup match. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚽️

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Israeli firm "meddled" in Scottish Parliament election

First Minister @JohnSwinney met Mayor of Boston Michelle Wu to strengthen cultural & economic links with one of the United States' most important cities. The meeting was an opportunity to showcase Scotland as a place to live, work, study, do business & visit. @mayorwu529

Another interesting point on the BlackCore story is that we only know about it because the French Government went public on it. I would assume the UK Government will have known in advance, but curious that they've said nothing - at least that I can see - since the story broke.

Watch as Boston Mayor, Michelle Wu, says that now she’s seen the Tartan Army, she understands “it took a Scot to send the British packing” in the city 251 years ago 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸 In partnership with @SPARScotland

GLASGOW IS ANTI-FASCIST

Big News this morning : The George Washington statue near Fenway Park in Boston has been given the Highest Honour By the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Fans. Someone has got up there God knows how and placed a traffic cone □on his heed. 😅🤣😂😂. This is a proud moment for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland. 👍🏻

Pretending to be a Scot for 90 mins is fooling nobody.

Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp is right on the money here: x.com/ScotNational/status/20… English nationalism is on the rise & its roots are in fascist ideology. Scotland has to leave & leave fast. #ScottishIndependenceASAP