Lesley's back frae her grand tour and it's provided her with plenty of food for thought on Brexit,land ownership,rural housing and the power of story to reconnect us with Scotland's past and potential future.
Sir Keir Starmer is fond of repeating Harold Wilson's famous quote that Labour is a moral crusade or it is nothing. In the light of his abandonment of the pledge to get rid of the two child benefit cap, on top of all the other policy u-turns, we ask just what does Labour now actually stand for?
We also look at the contortions performed by Anas Sarwar,Jackie Bailie, and Douglas Alexander et al to maintain the fiction that they oppose the cap,support Starmer's position, and it's all the fault of the SNP.
The House of Lords caved in last night as all its amendments to the Illegal Migration Bill were defeated. The peers didn't even use their powers to delay the legislation for the permitted 12 months. Meanwhile a,mainly, Red Wall group of Tory MPs,The New Conservatives, have come up with a plan to circumvent the illegality of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda.Ship them off to a "remote(sic) Scottish island".
There are thoughts on Thursday's three by elections, Dr Philipa Whitford's announcement that she won't be seeking re-election, and the September 2nd Indy rally.
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https://visitdundreggan.co.uk/
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Plus,yet another, Pat promises the last, chap at the door interruption.