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Penny Mordaunt: Scots will not stand for SNP's block on their freedom of speech and debate
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Penny Mordaunt: Scots will not stand for SNP's block on their freedom of ...
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Labour overtakes SNP in polls for first time: Uh oh. Today brings tidings of misery for hapless Humza Yousaf as a new poll reveals that support for Labour has ...
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Labour overtakes SNP in polls for first time
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Insight: Greens could harm SNP’s election as Bute House Agreement set for second trans rights test
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Insight: Greens could harm SNP’s election as Bute House Agreement set for ...
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The Greens are embarrassing the SNP: For an image of the ‘progressive nationalism’ that has disfigured Scottish public life over the past decade ...
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The Greens are embarrassing the SNP
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Scottish education: Sharp declines in numbers of maths and physics teachers raise huge concerns for future – Scotsman comment
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Scottish education: Sharp declines in numbers of maths and physics ...
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SNP ditches public trust question from national survey: If you don’t want to know the answer, don’t ask the question. That seems to be the mantra by which the ...
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SNP ditches public trust question from national survey
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Quick Glance: Tory Donor's Racist Comments on Diane Abbott
  • Comments made by a Tory donor about Diane Abbott deemed racist

  • Frank Hester apologizes for his remarks, Downing Street labels them unacceptable

  • Cabinet Minister Kemi Badenoch described the comments as racist and called for space for forgiveness

  • Labour and the Liberal Democrats call for the Conservatives to return donations from Hester
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Sunak risks losing seat in general election as shock poll suggests Tories will be left with just 98 MPs
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Sunak risks losing seat in general election as shock poll suggests Tories ...
Quick Glance: Tories projected to hold under 100 seats compared to Labour's 468 in exclusive poll
  • Rishi Sunak's Easter message welcomes spring as a time of hope and renewal.

  • A new mega poll shows the Tories are heading towards a record low, potentially winning less than 100 seats.

  • The 15,000-person MRP poll indicates Labour leading with a 19-point margin and 45 percent of the vote share.

  • Labour would secure a massive majority of 286 seats, while the Conservatives face their worst election outcome.
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Top ten moments of the SNP police probe: One whole year has passed since the infamous forensic tent was set up outside former first minister Nicola Sturgeon’s ...
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Top ten moments of the SNP police probe
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Independence has been damaged by the current SNP, says veteran Sillars: At 86, Jim Sillars is five years older than the American President yet his powers of ...
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Independence has been damaged by the current SNP, says veteran Sillars
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Conservatives set for worst election result yet, research shows: Survey of 15,000 people suggests even party leader Rishi Sunak’s North Yorkshire seat is at risk
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Conservatives set for worst election result yet, research shows
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We're sick of Big Brother Harvie's endless virtue signalling: How did we ever get into such a mess? With the incompetent and hypocritical SNP/Green management of ...
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We're sick of Big Brother Harvie's endless virtue signalling
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Euan McColm: Hate Crime Act damaged from the start by influence of campaigners and weakness of Nicola Sturgeon
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Euan McColm: Hate Crime Act damaged from the start by influence of ...
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New poll reveals SNP supporters don’t think Yousaf is up to the job: In a week that will prove testing for Humza Yousaf as public outrage over his hate crime ...
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New poll reveals SNP supporters don’t think Yousaf is up to the job
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Sturgeon accused of being a part timer in Holyrood: It’s been a year since Peter Murrell, the husband of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon ...
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Sturgeon accused of being a part timer in Holyrood
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New update for WASPI women as State Pension compensation debate next month: SNP MP Patricia Gibson’s motion for a debate is supported by 60 MPs from across all ...
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New update for WASPI women as State Pension compensation debate next month
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JK Rowling, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk are fuming over Scotland’s hate crime law. Here’s why.
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JK Rowling, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk are fuming over Scotland’s hate crime ...
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Jim Sillars: SNP needs to get away from the Yes movement: JIM SILLARS is recalling a visit he made to the Scottish Parliament for the unveiling of the portrait ...
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Jim Sillars: SNP needs to get away from the Yes movement
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Labour demand action after more than 100 disabled people died waiting for support last year
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Labour demand action after more than 100 disabled people died waiting for ...
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Labour to become largest party in Scotland, new poll predicts: As Scotland’s embattled First Minister continues to face backlash over his Hate Crime Act ...
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Labour to become largest party in Scotland, new poll predicts
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Lisa Cameron MP: Why I am happy being a Conservative: Lisa Cameron traces the beginning of the end of her career in the SNP back to a vote in the House of ...
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Lisa Cameron MP: Why I am happy being a Conservative
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SNP’s Mhairi Black pledges ‘brutally honest’ look at politics in her first Edinburgh Fringe show
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SNP’s Mhairi Black pledges ‘brutally honest’ look at politics in her first ...
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Four groups keeping quiet on the SNP’s Hate Crime Act: It’s three days since Scotland’s Hate Crime Act took effect and there is no sign of public outrage ...
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Four groups keeping quiet on the SNP’s Hate Crime Act
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SNP minister under fire for confusing tax claims: Is the SNP on a mission to make itself even more unpopular? Wellbeing economy minister Màiri McAllan is the ...
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SNP minister under fire for confusing tax claims
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Who’s to blame for Scotland’s ferry fiasco?: You wait eight-and-a-half years for someone to lose their job over the SNP’s ferries fiasco ...
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Who’s to blame for Scotland’s ferry fiasco?
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Could Scotland's new Hate Crime Act overwhelm the police?: The SNP's new Hate Crime Act came into effect yesterday, but already it has been met with backlash ...
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Could Scotland's new Hate Crime Act overwhelm the police?
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Scotland's government says a new law will tackle hate crime. Critics say it could hurt free speech
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Scotland's government says a new law will tackle hate crime ...
Quick Glance: JK Rowling Challenges Police: Scotland's New Hate Crime Laws
  • JK Rowling dares police to arrest her as Scotland's new hate crime laws come into force.

  • The author criticizes the legislation aiming to combat harm caused by hatred and prejudice, extending protections to various criteria.

  • Critics, like Rowling, fear the laws could limit freedom of speech and do not adequately protect women.

  • The Scottish Government defends the laws as safeguarding against hatred and emphasizes freedom of expression and prejudice reduction in society.
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Labour won’t repeal Scotland’s hate law as police say no action against JK Rowling
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Labour won’t repeal Scotland’s hate law as police say no action against JK ...
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Ministers to change juryless trial pilot plan after SNP revolt threat: Humza Yousaf's government is to planning to press ahead with controversial pilot for ...
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Ministers to change juryless trial pilot plan after SNP revolt threat
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JK Rowling is right to scorn Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act: The town of Salem, Massachusetts, has become synonymous with the witch hunt, but between the 16th and ...
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JK Rowling is right to scorn Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act
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How did my MP vote on the smoking ban? Full list of MPs who rebelled against Rishi Sunak
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How did my MP vote on the smoking ban? Full list of MPs who rebelled ...
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Operation Branchform: SNP probe fears amid force 'turmoil': A complainer in the Operation Branchform investigation has raised concerns over whether the probe ...
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Operation Branchform: SNP probe fears amid force 'turmoil'
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South Africa Election Is Continent's Most Important Contest in 30 Years: If the ruling ANC party is forced to share power, it will be historic — painful at ...
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South Africa Election Is Continent's Most Important Contest in 30 ...
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Perth and Kinross Council raises price of school dinners for first time in six years
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Perth and Kinross Council raises price of school dinners for first time in ...
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General election 2024: Who are the former MPs, including Douglas Alexander, hoping to make a comeback to Westminster?
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General election 2024: Who are the former MPs, including Douglas Alexander ...
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Campaigner accuses Anderson of 'opportunism' over pension pledge: The Government has taken billions of pounds from the pension pot set up for ex-miners and their ...
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Campaigner accuses Anderson of 'opportunism' over pension pledge
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Scottish Labour candidate suspended after being accused of sharing 'racist' tweets linking Humza Yousaf to Hamas
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Scottish Labour candidate suspended after being accused of sharing ...
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Labour pledge £134m for Scottish NHS to cut waiting lists: A Labour government would give an extra £134million to the NHS in Scotland through cracking down on ...
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Labour pledge £134m for Scottish NHS to cut waiting lists
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SNP leader Humza Yousaf’s brother-in-law charged with abduction and extortion: Ramsay El-Nakla is due in court following the death of a man who fell from a block ...
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SNP leader Humza Yousaf’s brother-in-law charged with abduction and ...
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Rental housebuilding market 'closed' by SNP, Green homes law: The build to rent market in Scotland has been 'basically closed' until there is more clarity around ...
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Rental housebuilding market 'closed' by SNP, Green homes law
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Chris Deerin: Lack of leadership could cost SNP dearly at upcoming elections: Yousaf's poor leadership of the SNP is going to cost the party wins in the ...
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Chris Deerin: Lack of leadership could cost SNP dearly at upcoming ...
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Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on SNP and Greens: Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on SNP and Greens
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Our cartoonist Steven Camley’s take on SNP and Greens
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Warring SNP and Greens will tear the Yes movement to bits: ANY unfortunate independence supporters still labouring under the misapprehension that the Yes ...
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Warring SNP and Greens will tear the Yes movement to bits
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SNP has ‘mountain to climb’ meeting north-east energy job promises, says trade unions chief
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SNP has ‘mountain to climb’ meeting north-east energy job promises ...
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Operation Branchform: Complainer raised concerns with SNP: The SNP were warned about concerns over party finances, transparency and membership numbers back in ...
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Operation Branchform: Complainer raised concerns with SNP
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SNP to give new cost for police bill after flaws in figures: Ministers will be forced to give an update on the cost to the taxpayer of government plans to reform ...
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SNP to give new cost for police bill after flaws in figures
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Scottish minister condemns ‘offensive’ Swastika post made by father: Tom Arthur Snr – the father of the SNP MSP – has resigned his party membership after sharing ...
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Scottish minister condemns ‘offensive’ Swastika post made by father
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Hate crime law puts devolution in the dock,charged with ignorance and incompetence - Brian Monteith
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Hate crime law puts devolution in the dock,charged with ignorance and ...
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Council debt ‘more than one-and-a-half times latest annual funding settlement’: Annual figures released by the Scottish Government showed the cumulative debt for ...
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Council debt ‘more than one-and-a-half times latest annual funding ...
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In Scotland, online misgendering ‘could be investigated’ under new law: Scotland’s minister for victims and community safety has said people “could be ...
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In Scotland, online misgendering ‘could be investigated’ under new law
Quick Glance: Rowling's Remarks on Scottish Hate Crime Law Not Criminal
  • Harry Potter author JK Rowling has stated that her posts regarding Scotland's new hate crime law are not criminal, as confirmed by Police Scotland.

  • Despite complaints about her posts, where she referred to trans women as men, Rowling argued that freedom of speech and belief would cease in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex was deemed criminal.

  • Prime Minister Rishi Sunak emphasized that people should not be criminalized for stating simple biological facts.

  • While the law consolidates existing hate crime legislation and introduces a new offense of stirring up hatred against protected characteristics, women have not been granted protection, raising concerns about freedom of speech in Scotland.
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SNP, Green homes law challenged by Scotland's housebuilders: Scotland’s housebuilders have warned the new SNP and Green administration Housing Bill risks ...
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SNP, Green homes law challenged by Scotland's housebuilders
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GPs have had rug pulled from under them with loans suspension, Labour claims: A letter sent by the Government last month and seen by the party announced the move ...
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GPs have had rug pulled from under them with loans suspension ...
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People who earn £28,850 warned they face tax increase from tomorrow: From Saturday, Scottish taxpayers on a £30,000 salary will be paying an extra £11 and those ...
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People who earn £28,850 warned they face tax increase from tomorrow
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Full timeline in SNP finance crisis one year after Nicola Sturgeon raid: A full timeline of events related to the ongoing police investigation into the Scottish ...
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Full timeline in SNP finance crisis one year after Nicola Sturgeon raid
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Our job is to inform on Hate Crime Act and give both sides: To say the Scottish Government's new Hate Crime Bill has divided opinion is something of an ...
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Our job is to inform on Hate Crime Act and give both sides
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Yousaf: 'SNP would like to see a conclusion to Operation Branchform': Humza Yousaf has said the SNP would welcome an end to Operation Branchform.
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Yousaf: 'SNP would like to see a conclusion to Operation Branchform'
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Kent set for first-ever Lib Dem MP as poll predicts 10 Tories will be ousted: The Conservatives will lose 10 Kent MPs and the Liberal Democrats will win their ...
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Kent set for first-ever Lib Dem MP as poll predicts 10 Tories will be ...
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A96 dualling: Fears more than £37 million could be 'thrown down the drain'
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A96 dualling: Fears more than £37 million could be 'thrown down the ...
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Glasgow must not let the Mack go down as a site of shame: THANK you for your series on the future of Glasgow School of Art. I would like to respond to some of ...
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Glasgow must not let the Mack go down as a site of shame
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DVLA issues Post Office alert with new guidance for drivers from this week: The DVLA has signed a new contract with the Post Office, after over 100 ...
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DVLA issues Post Office alert with new guidance for drivers from this week
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Scotland's Hate Crime Act: David Hume would be horrified by SNP's Orwellian attempt to suppress ‘wrongthink’ – Toby Young
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Scotland's Hate Crime Act: David Hume would be horrified by SNP's ...
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Battleground Scotland: The key seats and battlegrounds at the general election: The SNP face a real battle to maintain not just third-party status ...
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Battleground Scotland: The key seats and battlegrounds at the general ...
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Conservative Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely won't defect to Reform Party: Conservative MP for the Isle of Wight, Bob Seely, has revealed he has been approached to ...
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Conservative Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely won't defect to Reform Party
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Humza Yousaf isn’t cut out to be SNP leader: Just as damning during these last 12 months is the absence of anything that might pass for a wider political vision.
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Humza Yousaf isn’t cut out to be SNP leader
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Date set for Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond at A9 inquiry: Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon will answer questions in front of a committee examining the SNP ...
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Date set for Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond at A9 inquiry
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SNP's Hate Crimes Act show how much they hate us: No one else does down Scotland quite as often and quite as gleefully as the SNP does down Scotland ...
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SNP's Hate Crimes Act show how much they hate us
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Fergusons was a shambles - yet they shoot the messenger: One good thing about the removal of David Tydeman as chief executive of the Ferguson shipyard at Port ...
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Fergusons was a shambles - yet they shoot the messenger
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Humza Yousaf has a lower favourability rating than Nicola Sturgeon – Ipsos poll: Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has the lowest rating of the major ...
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Humza Yousaf has a lower favourability rating than Nicola Sturgeon – Ipsos ...