Nigel Calvert.

@BrianSpanner1 it's been obvious for decades. i can never find it online but I'm positive I can remember a retiring captain of industry - head of Scottish CBI or something like that - retirement speech saying it's impossible to do business in Scotland without an SNP MSP in your back pocket.

I see it’s becoming cool to talk about how the SNP bribed the third sector to become its vegan secret police. I feel like I’ve woken up in 2013. Did folk really not see this at the time?

Exclusive: 🔺Victims of SNP predator Jordan Linden demand probe into 'Hunger Games' Youth Parliament. 🔺Men tell of the ‘pressure cooker’ environment where underage drinking, wild parties, and sex was rife among members aged between 14-25 dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

For the SNP to deny knowledge that Jordan Linden was rotten is absurd. Here are two emails sent in 2017, and 2022, about him. They knew.

@joannaccherry @DailyMail This journalist has suffered threats, intimidation and demonisation from you also, Joanna. Please don’t use me in your anti-SNP crusade when you have caused me nothing but grief ever since I reported legitimately on bullying claims in your WM office c 2019.

New from me @spectator: The First Minister’s Holyrood campaign centres on grudge and grievance underpinned by the ubiquitous use of misinformation. It is a tawdry way to win power, and Scots should be wise to it. Link to article in next tweet 👇

As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable? Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms? That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres? That men don’t belong in women’s sport? That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders? That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues? That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context? That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex? That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights? That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society? That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit? That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t? That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology? That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century? Let me have your thoughts.

My ancestors were betrayed by their Gabonese compatriots and sold into slavery, but I see Gabon is demanding reparations on behalf of >me< from >someone else< 😍 Also, another term for slavery is ‘forced labour’ – but what happens in the Gulag stays in the Gulag, eh comrade?

We’ve just gun after gun held to our heads. If you won’t treat some men as women… you won’t be able to go around unbothered with short hair; you’ll lose abortion rights; you can’t keep single-sex organisations or indeed anything. A movement built on threat.

@whooith No, it does not. Sexual crimes are usually making or distributing sexual images of children, sexual assault or rape. Almost always by men, almost always against women or children. That’s what these men pretending to be women have done. Either own it - or say they’re not trans.

SNP MSPs called for ex-Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy to resign over her ongoing relationship with sex offender Sean Morton, who had been in informal kinship care with her family. One might expect the same robust approach from the SNP towards one of their own.

Worth remembering that when @HRwritesnews broke this story on Sunday, the SNP's first response was to threaten her with an IPSO complaint about her reporting heraldscotland.com/politics/20582…

Olympic women's sport to be for biological females only bbc.in/47la3Z5

Reminder that whilst the SNP and @JohnSwinney call out Offord for his racist joke and seek his removal from public life, they championed this racist, homophobic bully as if she was a saint and she made far far worse comments far more often The hypocrisy is repulsive

@HMorrison97 @ScotNational Where was the expose on Nat favourite, the late Janey Godley? The moral compass of the National journalists seems to only work some of the time

Britain is 110% self-sufficient in lamb. Let that sink in for a moment. Not "pretty good." Not "mostly fine." One hundred and ten percent. We grow more than we eat and export the rest. We have done this on permanent upland pasture that cannot be used for anything else, managed by farmers whose families have worked the same ground for generations, using animals that have been optimised for these conditions over centuries. 85% self-sufficient in beef. 100% in milk. 90% in eggs. The animal products on your plate, if you're eating in Britain, are almost certainly British. The supply chain is: farm, abattoir, butcher or supermarket. Measured in miles. Sometimes in tens of miles. Now. Your January strawberries are from Egypt. Your year-round peppers are from Spain or Morocco. Your salad leaves are from Israel in winter. Your green beans come from Kenya. Your blueberries are from Peru or Chile. They travel by refrigerated air freight, which is roughly fifty times more carbon-intensive per kilogram than road transport, to sit in a plastic clam shell next to a small flag and the word "fresh." The environmental argument against British animal products is not an environmental argument. It is a geography argument made by people who have not checked where their food comes from. Check where your food comes from.

Alyn Smith in @ScotNational. This kind of facile thinking is absolutely endemic in Scotland. For about the millionth time: renewables are not a jackpot. Norwegian hydro, where nature did much of the capex, is an exception. But Scottish wind definitely isn’t.

This is MMA fighter Sean McInnes. When Anne Marie Boyle asked him to leave her alone, he punched her in the face so hard that he broke her cheekbone and her eye socket, knocked her unconscious, and left her with a life-altering brain injury. He was given less than two years behind bars. It would be a real shame if this post was widely circulated and impacted his career in a negative way.

-I posted some data about civil service absences. - It wasn't about the Scottish govt, but incidentally included a chart showing it was really high there. -Nats go bonkers, write article in their newspaper saying it must be evil made up lies -Today, they publish a fun correction:

“In the 6 years that I’ve been in this gender ideology/women’s rights mess I’ve heard every stupid argument that exists & one thing I’ve concluded is: it is more understandable how someone could be a flat earther than someone who indulges in gender ideology…”

1/2 This long, technical. paper by @KathrynPorter26 should be compulsory reading for all (especially Scottish nationalists) who believe a golden future of cheap renewable energy awaits a separate Scotland. watt-logic.com/2026/03/14/sco…