News Round-Up
5 May 2025
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.
Three murderers, all originally male but now identifying as female, are currently living among vulnerable women inmates, despite new transgender guidance from the Scottish Prison Service.
J.K. Rowling has vowed to continue "calling a man a man" in defiance of controversial new SNP hate crime laws, which she branded "ludicrous".
The SNP's anti-Islamophobia campaign is in disarray following the revelation that Lindsay Taylor, the face of the campaign, works for the extremist organisation Muslim Engagement and Development.
The MV Hallaig, a hybrid electric ferry praised by Nicola Sturgeon for its carbon emission reduction, is currently operating solely on diesel due to a £1.5 million battery replacement taking an estimated 18 months.
A U.K. mother claims she pleaded guilty to a crime she did not commit to avoid sharing a prison with two transgender inmates convicted of murder and sexual assault.
As our politicians cheer economic disasters as supposed wins for the climate, can't they see the damage they are doing to our country with their headlong pursuit of Net Zero, asks David Craig.
SNP ministers have quietly downgraded their claim that Scotland has a quarter of Europe’s offshore wind potential to just 7%, in a major blow to their economic case for independence.
Labour thumping victory over the SNP in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election was achieved in part by backing off from Net Zero policies, the war on the motorist and gender woo.
SNP leader Humza Yousaf may be leading his party towards electoral disaster, but that's no reason not to put him on the cover of Time magazine and laud him as a "next generation leader", it seems.
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