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More guidance for foreign news desks. Memo 3. Things are slipping again. Correspondents please note the following: 1) Lebanon is a country, even though majority Muslim. It includes ‘south Lebanon’. Another country setting up a ‘security zone’ there is called ‘an invasion.’ 👇

If I worked at a bank and I took a £55k donation to give preferential 'loans' to certain companies I would go to jail. Please tell me what the difference is when you are a politician and you handout corrupt contracts.

Because it was for Scotland. That's literally the only reason.

The Israel lobby is like the wind: you can't see it, but you see its effects everywhere you look. Pretending it doesn't exist is essential to its survival, because if people knew our political system was wholly dominated by a foreign state, they'd want to know why. #ItWasAScam

@BBCScotlandNews Bizarre piece that fails to list other China investment approved by UK Govs: Chinese Embassy Heathrow airport Northumbrian Water UK Power Networks Hinckley Point C nuclear plant Bradwell B nuclear plant London EV Company Beatrice wind farm @BBCHighlands @PGourtsoyannis

The UK Govt decision was delayed for 18 months. Perhaps even the BBC is joining the dots - "the fact this news comes on the eve of a Scottish election campaign, and in the middle of a fresh energy crisis, gives the issue extra political force."

You’ve just blocked £1.5bn of investment into Scotland.

Starved by whom? Nobody can say.

🚨 This is extraordinary. UK security services raiding a lawyer acting in a torture case against the state, and seizing legal files. That strikes at legal privilege, fair trial rights, and the rule of law itself. “The UK government’s raid of a lawyer’s office in the case of a Guantanamo Bay suspect allegedly tortured by the CIA with UK knowledge is “extremely troubling”, the High Court has heard.” independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

But the ferries - HMS Daring has been docked for more than 3,000 days or over 8 years! The Type 45 Power Improvement Project cutting into hulls to add diesel generation after warm-water failures. nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-royal-navy…

An ex-government adviser confirmed today that meetings were held during the Autumn recess to discuss what to do if “they come for Morgan’s messages”. One week after Parliament returned, McSweeney reported his phone as “stolen”, directing the police to the wrong address.

This is why Westminster paid off their grifting chancer to close Scotland’s only refinery. They now have a full hand. Complete control of our oil, renewables and refining. This isn’t coincidence but strategic planning, and the basis of colonialism; make your colony dependent.

John Swinney says he was “blindsided” by the UK Government’s decision on Ming Yang. “Don’t tell me there wasn't a coincidence that that announcement was made at the very end of the Scottish parliamentary session. That's not a UK government acting in good faith”.

This mobile phone is vital to the Mandelson scandal. The Labour Prime Minister’s then Chief of Staff says it was stolen. This Labour Secretary of State told the public that the theft happened months before the Mandelson scandal. Turns out that’s not true. Why did he lie?

NEVER Forget NEVER Forgive NEVER Vote Labour It is one thing for Starmer’s obsequious🇬🇧Labour Branch Officer Sarwar to LIE about GB ENERGY GRANGEMOUTH WASPI WOMEN BUT To LIE to grieving QEUH families KNOWING🇬🇧Labour Councillors on GGHB are GUILTY of the scandal is WICKED & EVIL

I was invited by BBC radio Merseyside to ask a question of chief Constable Rob Carden live on air yesterday between 12.15 and 1pm. My question would have been about my violent arrest and house arrest for holding a piece of paper. Despite that the proscription of Palestine Action is at present ruled unlawful by the courts by 10.24 my invitation to ask a question was withdrawn. The producer used a number of gobble de gook reasons which honestly just didn’t make sense. What are these people afraid of ? These cowards, propagandists and defenders of genocide can’t even accept a question from a 75 year old woman in case it shows up the authoritarianism of their own government. There is no justification for the shameful way I was arrested, confined to my home for weeks under house arrest, my movements severely restricted for months and then charged under anti terror legislation. The police are colluding with the state in intimidating ordinary people who are against genocide and daring to say so. How weak and cowardly of them that they have to silence us from even asking one bloody question. To think they call the show , The Hot Seat - laughable isn’t it ? To think this country looks down its nose at North Korea .

Labour's new direction for Scotland. Vote labour , get nothing.

This is spot on. The uk government is actively working against Scotland now. Don’t forget also that the deposit return scheme that was blocked for Scotland has now been passed in Wales.

Why are only newspapers north of the border allowed to be concerned about Palantir?

So this Labour @GOVUK are very happy for the Chinese to build a mega-embassy in the heart of London, but refuse to allow Chinese £1.5bn investment in Scotland: x.com/timespolitics/… Says it all about this so called union of equals.