Rachel Reeves: The hole in our finances is forcing us to raise taxes by £40 billion. OBR: Brexit is costing £100 billion (£40 billion in tax revenue) #Budget2024

Mike Pence: “The American people deserve to know that President Trump and his advisers didn't just ask me to pause, they asked me to reject votes, to return votes, essentially to overturn the election.” (2023) x.com/michael8175876…

Of the 10 million pensioners ‘reeling’ from the loss of winter fuel payments, the Macraes can at least cushion the blow a little from their 60 buy-to-let properties in and around Colchester. (The Telegraph, playing it for laughs again).

‘Scotland won’t be immune to the shocks of a Trump win’ I talk to Scotland’s leading expert on global security Prof Peter Jackson about what a Trump win means for Britain, America, Ukraine, Taiwan, trade, NATO & the Edinburgh govt. His assessment is stark heraldscotland.com/politics/24696…

A Trump win will cause panic in NATO & Europe over SNP independence policy. Scotland’s leading global security expert tells me Trident removal would be seen as ‘corrosive’ to European defence & jeopardise SNP plans to join NATO My The Herald Big Read heraldscotland.com/politics/24696…

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Following the U.K. budget which provides an uplift of £3.4bn to Scotland’s block grant in 2025-26 in this blog I set out why the Scottish budget must take a long-term perspective University of Glasgow Centre for Public Policy UofG ASBS uofgasbs.bsky.social spectator.co.uk/article/the-sc…

This is excellent. All of the quotations are accurate (even, I am embarrassed to admit, the curse words). But I also stressed that there are a good number of senior people within the SNP who understand the complexities and dangers of a rash policy toward the Nuclear deterrent.

Les couvs des collections de sciences humaines des 1970s étaient vraiment chouettes, avec ce mélange d'illustrations abstraites / minimalistes et de titres sans majuscules (anti-autoritarisme post 68...?)

Kamala Harris’s father sets the record straight on whether he’s a Marxist: “I asked Donald Harris, who grew up in Jamaica and is now eighty-six years old, how he would describe himself. Harris replied, “Marx himself said, ‘I am not a Marxist.’ He was expressing his objection to

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New Scottish Parliament poll, Norstat 30 Oct - 1 Nov (changes vs 20-22 Aug): List: SNP ~ 29% (+1) Lab ~ 22% (-6) Con ~ 14% (nc) RUK ~ 11% (+2) Grn ~ 9% (+1) LD ~ 9% (+2) Alba ~ 3% (-2) Cons: SNP ~ 33% (nc) Lab ~ 23% (-7) Con ~ 15% (+3) RUK ~ 11% (+2) LD ~ 10% (+2) Grn ~ 6% (+1)

One view: ‘The partygate scandal was overblown’ - Kemi Badenoch Another view:

James Dyson owns 36,000 acres of farmland and the largest farming company in the UK. Completely unmentioned in this piece, of course.

The Times splashes on the views of James Dyson who thinks the Budget is really unfair to people like him. That’s a billionaire who backed Brexit then moved his firm to Singapore - and owns more than 30k acres of UK farmland. But you wouldn’t know any of that from this article.

Unbelievable … except it is not.

Join us for a presentation of the history of the #bagpipes across the centuries, illustrated with pieces played by Angus Clarke! Born in Perth, Angus Clarke has been involved in piping for over 40 years 13 Nov Institut français d'Ecosse with the Franco-Scottish Society 🎟️ ifecosse.org.uk/events-agenda/…

Interesting snapshot of attitudes toward independence in Scotland

So many wrong takes here. To start, what makes the F-35 or the B-21 expensive is the software and the electronics, not the pilot per se (of course, having the pilot makes it more expensive, but the primary source of cost overrun and time delays was the software).