Alex Gallagher

Scottish Nationalism, like all nationalisms, depends on myths and grievances. One such is the insult that Scotland is "too wee and to poor" to be independent. In fact it's an insult created, not by their opponents, but by nationalists themselves to confuse the debate.

https://bylines.scot/news/scotland/too-wee-too-poor-is-a-nationalist-red-herring/

#politics #scotland #snp #ukpolitics #independence

Starmer absolutely right about this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15xeyny73wo

The Guardian reporting that a deal was within reach before Trump began bombing Iran ....

"UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach"

A must read ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/17/uk-security-adviser-attended-us-iran-talks-and-judged-deal-was-within-reach?CMP=bsky_gu

#politics #ukpolitics #uspolitics #iran #trump

It's difficult to argue with the content and conclusions of the lead letter in Today's Glasow Herald.

I certainly wouldn't.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/25934905.snp-clueless-two-key-issues-economy-defence/

#scotland #snp #independence #economy #defence #politics #ukpolitics

TBH I don't understand why this isn't a much bigger scandal. The Information Commissioner cannot trust in the SNP Scottish Government to meet it's legal duties vis information transparency.

https://www.holyrood.com/news/view,scottish-government-cant-be-trusted-with-salmond-files-information-commissioner-says

#scotland #snp #politics #ukpolitics

The only way to protect ourselves from oil and gas price spikes is to get off the rollercoaster of fossil fuel markets and onto clean homegrown power.

That’s the mission of this Labour Government.

#politics #ukpolitics #labour #energy #netzero

Another SNP scandal. Grenfell type combustible cladding on Glasgow's giant hospital. SNP refuses to replace it. This goes beyond incompetence or stupidity. It's verging on criminal.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/designer-scadal-hit-qeuh-claims-36833008#Echobox=1772944757

#scotland #politics #ukpolitics

Keir Starmer spoke with European leaders this morning on coordinating our responses to the Iran War.

Meanwhile Kemi Badenoch was on BBC Breakfast supporting Trump and undermining the UK's efforts in the Middle East.

And Farage is off to Mar-a-Lago as clown prince to Trump.

So much for His Majesty's "Loyal" Opposition.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-call-with-e4-leaders-6-march-2026

#iran #trump #politics #ukpolitics #uspolitics

@proscience@toot.community It was the pro-independence SNP that said it.

No wonder tourism to the USA is dramaticallydown this year.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

#politics #ukpolitics #tourism #usa

There's more. What a bunch of plug uglies is Reform PLC.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/20/reform-uk-matt-goodwin-gb-news-inappropriate-comments-complaint
#politics #ukpolitics #reformUK

More good news on the economy. Record January surplus boosts Chancellor Reeves.

Paul Dales, the chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said: “The UK economy started the year looking a lot healthier and will give the chancellor something positive to point to in her fiscal statement on 3 March.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/19/uk-reports-record-breaking-surplus-rachel-reeves?CMP=bsky_gu

#politics #ukpolitics #economy #labour

A mural of Scott McTominay's overhead kick which helped Scotland qualify for the World Cup this summer, has been immortalised on a tenement on Somerville Drive just a few hundred metres away from Hampden Park in Glasgow, where the Napoli midfielder's thundering acrobatic shot billowed the net.

#scotland #worldcup #football #mctominay

The arrest of Andrew Windsor highlights a contradictory difference between the USA's model written constitution (failed) and the UK's ramshackle unwritten constitution (not doing too bad so far).

#poilitics #ukpolitics #princeandrew #epstein

Journalism is part of the problem. Roger Mosey, a journalist, saying what every thinking person in the country already knows and have known for years, but which his fellow journalists, including many on the Guardian, deny against all the evidence.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/18/britain-media-policy-sensation-peter-mandelson-donald-trump

#politics #ukpolitics

Are you a woman? Is your mother a woman? Is your wife a woman? Sister? Daughter? Do you have a Granny? Aunts? Female cousins. Is your neighbour a woman? Do you have female friends? Are you a decent, respectable human being? Then there's no way you can vote for this. Spread the word. #reform #ukpolitics #womensrights

Why the press has failed to sack Starmer.

Thoughtful piece from Mark Urban on the disconnect between political reporting and the public.

https://markurban.substack.com/p/did-the-lobby-misread-the-starmer

#ukpolitics #politics