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Alan Rich32
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Willing to give this a go. Cycling,walking and a wee look at politics. Supporter of Scottish Independence. More a reader than a poster.
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You can tell the Celtic Alliance has got the Unionists rattled as they're promising to present a positive case for the Union again. This time they mean it, no honest, pinky promise. Of course their problem is that it doesn't exist.

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The positive case for the Union will be along shortly, this time they mean it.
The flag waving We’re not nationalists we’re British brigade are seriously rattled by the Celtic Alliance, although of course they’d never admit to it, they’re currently doi…
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September 15, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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My latest blog piece, with Burnham's admission at PMQs that the trigger for a Scottish independence referendum should ber the same as the agreed process for a border poll in Northern Ireland, the independence cat is well and truly out of the bag.

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The independence cat is out of the bag
Speaking to The National this week after Andy Burnham – perhaps inadvertently – set out the conditions for Scotland to hold an independence referendum, polling expert Professor John Cur…
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September 10, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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My latest blog post. Marra and Fagan's inability to give a coherent answer on the question of the trigger for an independence referendum shows how inept and incompetent they are. And you thought Sarwar was over-promoted?

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The branch office’s stagnant talent puddle
The Labour party in Scotland has got itself into a hopeless mess on the topic of another independence referendum. Actually, that previous sentence could just have stopped at the word mess. The two …
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September 2, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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My latest blog piece. Keir today, gone tomorrow, what Starmer's sudden departure from the House of Commons tells us about him and about the wreckage of the formerly centre-left - but now decidedly corporate centre-right - party he leaves in his wake.

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Keir today, gone tomorrow
With intentionally spiteful timing, failed prime minister Keir Starmer announced that he’s stepping down as an MP just as his successor was due to address Parliament for the first time. With …
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September 1, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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While it's welcome that The Record has finally woken up to the necessity of an agreed trigger for another independence referendum, the paper's proposal predictably benefits the Labour party, not Scotland as a whole.

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The Record’s proposed trigger for Indyref2 benefits Labour not Scotland
The first crack has appeared in the “We’re not nationalists we’re British” dam against the rising tide of support for independence and the generational shift that puts oppos…
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August 31, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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My latest blog piece. BBC Scotland's hit piece on Glasgow tells us a lot more about the agenda of the BBC in Scotland than it does about Glasgow. The BBC's great unmentionable is the link between far right protests, Loyalism & British nationalism.

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The BBC’s Glasgow hit piece says more about the BBC than Glasgow
I’ve already briefly mentioned BBC Scotland’s disgraceful hit job on Glasgow which was broadcast earlier this week, but it’s worth exploring the issues around the programme in mor…
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August 19, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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While Burnham's announcement that disabled people's bus passes in England will be valid 24 hours a day from April next year is to be welcomed, it would have been nice for the UK media to acknowledge that 60+ and disabled bus passes in Scotland have been valid 24 hours a day for years now.
August 18, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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Scottish Labour Councillors on the board that approved the completion of the QEUH are entirely responsible for the £170m repairs to the water supply and drainage system
Glasgow Live today: Taxpayers could face a bill of up to £170 million to repair Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus. The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) and adjoining Ro…
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August 9, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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My latest blog piece. The nasty party gets nastier. Kemi Badenoch's race to the bottom with Reform UK. Former Nazis are welcome in the Tory party but not supporters of net zero or international human rights laws.

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The nasty party gets nastier
The Tories are on a mission. Having had the title of the Nasty Party wrested away from them by Reform UK and by the even more unpleasant Restore Britain, Kemi Badenoch is determined to prove that t…
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August 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Even before today’s results Scotland’s schools narrowed attainment gaps across the board and ‘most deprived’ 14/15 year-olds made major strides in literacy
The gutter press today, above, with the same old un-educated claims. The facts: Note how the those pupils from deprived areas improved by 10% while those least deprived barely did so. From Ach…
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August 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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My latest blog piece. The shameful anti-SNP hysteria of the British media in Scotland even spins good news into SNPbad as we saw this week with the media response to the news that the pass rate for exams in Scotland has increased for a second year.

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Even good news is spun into SNPbad by the media in Scotland
It’s often said there are two kinds of people in the world, those who say the glass is half full, and those who say it’s half empty. This is in fact inaccurate as there is a third kind,…
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August 5, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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My latest blog piece, Burnham's mini bounce has less to do with Labour improving (spoiler alert it hasn't) and more to do with the immolation of Reform UK on a Clacton binfire of Farage's arrogance, greed and entitlement.

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Burnham’s mini bounce
Our visitors have left now. It was lovely to see them. As far as the blog is concerned I’m able to type again. There was a problem with the keyboard on my laptop which has now been repaired. …
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August 1, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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Waiting for BBC Scotland to tell us in its reporting on Anas Sarwar's peerage that a couple of months ago he said he'd never accept a peerage and in 2022 said: "The House of Lords has no place in 21st century politics. It is unacceptable…to have unelected representatives wielding such power."
Mr Bean: Rowan Atkinson Waiting
Alt: Mr Bean: Rowan Atkinson Waiting
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July 22, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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My latest blog piece before taking a break for a family visit. Silly season politics, Burnham's coronation, a Tory columnist's boredom and a desperate and inherently implausible attempt to fan the dying embers of the Murrell saga.

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Silly season politics
With Friday’s coronation of Andy Burnham as leader of the Labour party and his official accession to Ten Downing Street on Monday, the UK is now on its seventh prime minister in ten years. Me…
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July 17, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Will former Modern Studies teacher and Labour Junior Minister for Energy now accept this final demolition of the case for nuclear energy from the London-based top medical journal in the world and acce...
I’m going to have to have a serious word with some of the 11 0000 plus folk following us on xtwitter. I posted the basic details of this earlier with a request to ‘share, share and shar…
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July 17, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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My latest blog post, Reform UK's latest front in the right wing culture wars catches Scotland's languages, Cornish, and Irish in the Anglocentric crossfire, Reform is a party of clowns which doesn't care about the consequences of its own policies.

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Reform UK’s attack on Scottish languages
It’s the greatest attempted Westminster assault on Scottish culture since the Jacobite wars. Reform UK has proposed an amendment to the UK Government’s elections bill which would crimin…
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July 14, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Spare a thought for Rupert Lowe. 16 kids and their teacher were slaughtered in Dunblane, another 15 were shot and wounded. Hundreds more were traumatised and grief stricken, but Rupert's dad had to give up his shooting hobby.

There's no violin small enough.
July 9, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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My latest blog piece. Alister Jack's recent colonialist intervention in the Lords may have been rebuffed, but it tells us that devolution has no future in the UK.

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Alister Jack’s colonialism remains a threat to Scotland
The former colonial governor of the northern province, Alister Jack, who was given a peerage by Rishi Sunak as part of a back room deal. Jack rejected an earlier nomination by Boris Johnson in 2023…
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July 9, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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Declassified researched two years of reporting by seven British media outlets and found only 16 mentions of the phrase Israel lobby without speech marks.

Why don’t UK media mention the Israel lobby? Because they’re part of it.

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Why don’t UK media mention the Israel lobby?
Because they’re part of it.
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July 6, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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👉 NEW — Foreign minister swerves questions about Britons fighting for Israel

By Phil Miller, Alex Morris & Hanna-Johara Dokal

Minister Hamish Falconer ran through traffic in Whitehall when asked why his government allows British citizens to fight in Gaza

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Foreign minister swerves questions about Britons fighting for Israel
Hamish Falconer ran through traffic in Whitehall when asked why his government allows British citizens to fight in Gaza
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July 6, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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Keir Starmer is routinely saying that Britain hasn’t participated in the illegal US/Israeli war on Iran.

But information suggests Britain has played an active, hidden intelligence role. 👇

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UK played hidden intelligence role in Iran war, data suggests
Exclusive: Ministry of Defence satellite data analysed by Declassified indicates Britain had a more active role in Iran war than ministers admit.
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July 6, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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My latest blog piece, what the recent media feeding frenzy about the Murrell case tells us about the dire state of the media and democracy in Scotland.

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The feeding frenzy
Peter Murrell was sentenced on Tuesday for a crime of which the SNP was the victim. That has not diminished the appetite of the media in Scotland to continue its witch hunt. Ever since Murrell plea…
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June 26, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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My latest blog piece, thoughts on Starmer's resignation and his replacement by Burnham.

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The burst socks of British politics
Starmer has gone, a man whose main achievement as Prime Minister was to throw away a landslide majority in the House of Commons and make himself even more unpopular than Liz Truss. The UK is now he…
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June 22, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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For those of us who see Palestinians as human beings, this was Starmer's defining moment.

It is not sustainable to behave in this way while leading the nominally progressive party in a two party system. Starmer's unpopularity is not one of life's great mysteries.

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Keir Starmer denies saying Israel 'has the right' to withhold water and power from citizens in Gaza
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June 22, 2026 at 9:03 AM