A month after the arrival of Scotland's Hate Crime Act and it appears reports of the demise of the Scottish Enlightenment may have been premature, no thanks to the SNP but due to the doughty spirit of the Scots.
Police Scotland staff have been given a script defending Humza Yousaf after he faced a deluge of hate crime reports.
Police Scotland "can’t cope" with the deluge of hate crime reports made under the SNP's new law, while officers are confused about who should be charged because of inadequate training, frontline officers have warned.
In the latest episode of the Weekly Sceptic, the talking points are J.K. Rowling's heroic defiance of Police Scotland, the civil war on the Right likely to follow a Tory defeat and Team GB's desecration of the Union Jack.
An MSP is threatening Police Scotland with legal action if it doesn’t delete a 'hate incident (non-crime)’ recorded against him and scrap the guidance it's following, whereby it records all allegations of hate as HINCs.
Police Scotland has confirmed that a 52 year-old woman has been arrested as part of its ongoing investigations into the SNP's finances. Who on earth could it be?
Nicola Sturgeon has been spoken to by Police Scotland for not complying with her own draconian mask mandate. Will she now do what she's demanded Boris do for breaking Covid rules and resign?
When some students at Edinburgh held a party they were prepared for Police Scotland to take an interest, but were shocked when the first officer out of the van shouted, "F***ing Tories. Get one of them! We only need one!"
by an Edinburgh University student "What's that you say? Tories on the beach? We're on it, Chief." I joined a couple of dozen fellow students at Edinburgh for a birthday party on a secluded beach outside the city last week on the same day that Sir Patrick Vallance announced what we were doing was harmless. “It’s difficult to see how things like large beach gatherings lead to spikes”, he told Parliament hours before we all took Ubers to Lothian’s pretty seashore. That was confirmed by Professor Mark Woolhouse: “There were no outbreaks linked to public beaches – There’s never been a COVID-19 outbreak linked to a beach, ever, anywhere in the world.” We pay attention to Prof Woolhouse because, in addition to being SAGE's SPI-M committee on pandemics, he’s a top Edinburgh University epidemiologist. Unfortunately, Police Scotland was not following the science, as I will shortly reveal. Since arriving at university last Autumn, I’ve witnessed how parties halls of residence are invariably raided by campus security or police officers. Usually, it’s fellow students objecting to the sounds of revelry and loud music who then dob us in to the authorities. Aside from that, students have endured periods in quarantine when they or someone on their floor tests positive. When that happens, you're banned from leaving your rooms and fed packed ...
