No constituencies won by @ReformUKScot. Here's a suggestion. In the next Holyrood election, instead of voting for Reform, take the ballot paper, shove it up your arse and set fire to it. The effect will be just the same as wasting your vote on a losing Reform candidate. Enjoy.

When Kemi @KemiBadenoch asked me to go into the HoL I had two provisos.. I won’t lie, & I won’t give up my grandma day (unless really really urgent). She backed me on both. I believe the @Conservatives are a very different party under her. It’s why I said yes.

RT @PurpleStandard: No matter what happens with the Portadown District parade, one outcome of this episode is the utter rejection of any me…

There was no alternative, @moneillsf. Enjoy the walk.

With focus on the Sandie Peggie tribunal, Alison Ann-Dowling and Norma Hart, two Scottish trade unionists, were also at court yesterday against the Community union, which they believe targeted them for their beliefs about sex and gender. Only in The Times thetimes.com/uk/scotland/art…

This summer, John Swinney was pushing the UK gov and PM to reverse a block on the Chinese-owned Ming Yang wind farm factory. Tonight, The Sunday Times reveals the chairman was named in a Communist regime bribery scandal. SNP due diligence? thetimes.com/uk/scotland/art…

Any Unionist who seriously buys the "your Britishness will be respected" or "a new Ireland will be fully inclusive" line is fooling themselves. Don’t surrender your identity first, then expect those who wanted it gone to suddenly protect it.

Want to know why @HumzaYousaf backed away from suing @elonmusk ? Read on in The Sunday Times, which is also carrying an exclusive extract of the former first minister's brand new book, Under Fire thetimes.com/uk/scotland/art…

I’ve made my feelings clear about Drumcree but I will say this. Unionism has had to deal with parade determinations it did not agree with on numerous occasions. Nationalism needs to take this one on the chin instead of trying to whip up tensions and inflame the situation further.

It’s no coincidence that, less than a week after Blue Kelly told the world from beyond the grave that the Provos lost and “the Brits won”, they’re itching for a rematch. Perhaps there’s a use for the Kesh after all. If they’re getting the old band back together, reopen the jail.

You know who I fear for in all this “let’s get the Provo band back together” talk? The Northern Catholics who ended up in graveyards across the country, while the Provisional movement ultimately entered government and administered British rule in Northern Ireland.

All unionists and loyalists should remain calm, peaceful & stay off the streets. Do not become involved an any disorder or rise to the provocation. We simply want a rights-based society, and nationalism has psychologically had a complete tantrum at the realisation our community have rights. This is a legal matter, and it is now for the rule of law to face down the aggression, thuggery and irresponsible behaviour of nationalism, and Sinn Fein in particular.

Exactly this. If the President of Sinn Fein continues to make threats of a return to armed conflict unless she gets her way, she must be jailed along with the IRA terrorists who were released as part of the GFA.

Sounds good. Just bypass the failed Holyrood institution.

ANDREW NEIL: My clash on Question Time with a Lib Dem MP, and why the Left is so blind to the reasons why we must NOT rejoin the EU trib.al/Y2OSyoO

Exactly this.

Farewell, Calgary. For years I have argued that we need to build systems around the possibility of recovery. Not simply systems that keep people alive, important though that is. Not systems that become expert at processing people in services. But systems ambitious enough to ask what it takes for a human being to get a life back. A home. Family. Relationships. Work. Community. Responsibility. Purpose. Hope. In Alberta I have had the privilege of watching people wrestle seriously with how you actually build such a system. There are fierce debates here about treatment, harm reduction, recovery, evidence, rights, responsibility and the proper role of government. Good. Those debates should happen. They matter. What has lifted me though is the ambition beneath them. There is a willingness here to ask difficult questions, to change things that aren’t working, to build new institutions, to invest in recovery communities and recovery capital, and above all to believe that people suffering from addiction are capable of considerably more than being safely managed. That shouldn’t be a radical idea. Somehow, in parts of the world, it has become one. I have met some extraordinary people this week. Researchers, clinicians, policymakers, recovery leaders, people with lived experience and people quietly doing the hard work of building the infrastructure around all of this. I have been challenged, encouraged, occasionally surprised and very often inspired. And I have been reminded of something I perhaps needed reminding of myself. After decades of fighting for recovery, it is easy to become weary. You begin to wonder whether the argument will ever move on. Then you travel thousands of miles and discover people having the very conversations you have been longing to hear, and attempting, courageously and imperfectly, to turn those conversations into institutions, services and communities. I have wept with gratitude just to witness it. Alberta has courage. It has ambition. And there is a certain frontier quality here that I have grown rather fond of: if something isn’t working, there seems to be rather more appetite for rebuilding it than forming another committee to explain why nothing can change. I like that. I leave Calgary enormously grateful for the welcome, the conversations, the disagreements, the generosity and the friendships. And I leave hopeful. I don’t know what part, if any, I might one day play in what is being built here. But I very much hope I can contribute something. Because the questions Alberta is grappling with aren’t merely Albertan questions. Every country struggling with addiction eventually has to confront them. What are we trying to achieve? What do we believe people are capable of? And are the systems we have built actually helping them get there? Thank you, Calgary. You have given this old recovery warrior a considerable spring back in her step. Now onwards to British Columbia. ❤️

Do Safe Injection Sites actually help? Does the data support it ? According to a study published in March of 2026, not necessarily. This is Kym Kaufmann, CEO of @RecovExcel explaining the study and it's findings out of Alberta 🇨🇦 Let's unpack. 🧵full link to the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/……

Sorry @moneillsf but there's just no alternative.

This reply is utterly pathetic. FFS @D_G_Alexander write Burnham an answer to this question which he can rehearse and memorise. And when he's asked if he's a unionist, tell him to reply, "Well, I'm not a separatist. Are you?"

Excellent.