An integrated system allowing Scots to use a single ticket across different modes of public transport will be in place before the next Holyrood election, Transport Secretary Stephen Flynn has pledged 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

This is pure extraction of wealth from one group of people to another We urgently need: Windfall tax on oil giants Windfall tax on banks Both are creaming money off us during a cost of living crisis Even Thatcher had the balls to tax the banks Will you @andyburnham?

Nicola Benedetti: Edinburgh's visitor levy is costing EIF £50,000 a year. So let’s find the biggest event and make a nice large number. Similar complaints about other countries? Or about the council facilities tourists and workers use? www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Nicola Benedetti: Edinburgh's visitor levy is costing EIF £50,000 a year

The EIF opens this weekend

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A £240m contract with the Ministry of Defence, a £330m deal with the NHS, but only £2m of tax in the UK 🤔 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/palantir-corporation-tax-uk-2024-accounting-practices

Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts

Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss

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🚨 Today we’ve released Takers, a new report showing a strong public mandate for tackling wealth extraction in the UK. 📈 It finds wealth extraction is widely opposed across the political spectrum, undermines economic fairness, and demands urgent policy action. 🔗 fairnessfoundation.com/takers

These oil and gas companies bear a striking resemblance to the firms which insist the UK’s Energy Profits Levy is crippling them financially and destroying their business model.

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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Shortlist: The Derick Thomson Prize for Best Poetry Book 2026 - Am Measg Luaithrean, Beò, Robbie A. MacLeòid (Stewed Rhubarb Press) - CEUM, Iain D. Urchardan (Acair) - Dàn nam Ban, Ceitidh Chaimbeul (Leamington Books) - Sradagan san Iarmailt, ed. Marcas Mac an Tuairneir (Francis Boutle Publishers)

Since Sep 2022, I've been building a website where you can find out who owns rural Scotland. Today I am publishing the latest update (July 2026) which contains ownership information on 5050 landholdings covering 5.9 million hectares (14.7 million acres) or over 77% of rural Scotland 1/2

Exclusive: Some EU citizens in the UK have been contacted by the Home Office to say they were granted settlement status after Brexit "in error". If you know anyone this happened to contact me on lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain

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My mum is leaving hospital this week, with complex needs. The care, thought & joined up approach between all parts of the system has been astounding The SNHS & local Council here really do communicate brilliantly with each other & us as family Well done Tayside & PKC 👏

Building the meterological observatory on Ben Nevis, late-19th century. I'm not sure if the photograph was taken during the original construction in the summer of 1883 or when the building was expanded in 1894 [source: HLH Archives: D1751/2/2/5]

Folk might be immune to neoliberal economics of all the profits going to shareholders (god knows why though) But all that profit going to other governments and not ours because of screwed up Thatcherite economics 🤷‍♀️

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100% this Working the last 20 years building this stuff, this article is spot on ‘They have been branded ­“extraordinary” by critics who claim wealth from our natural resources is “filling the pockets of distant ­private shareholders or other countries’ ­treasuries” while Scots miss out.’

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 4d ago

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Will they then also stop reducing the block grant to the Scottish Govt by the tax raised? “Treasury sources say some metro mayors could end up with more money to spend if they grow their local economies & expand their tax basesm, but officials are still figuring out how it will work in practice”

Patrick Dunleavy@patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 6d ago

Impressive! Andy Burnham to give regional mayors share of income tax - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still 33% still to do & will take many years due to time & costs involved. Subscriptions and licensing are the sole means by which this work is financed so please do consider taking out a subscription. Gift subscriptions are also available. 3/3 whoownsscotland.org.uk

You can of course use official registers (the Register of Sasines and Land Register). The Land Register costs £3.60 for a search. At Who Owns Scotland, I've done the work for you. Subscriptions start at £12 for a whole year of access. All data updated & new data added at end of every month. 2/3

Who Owns Scotland? Since September 2022, I have been building an online platform that enables you to find out who owns rural land in Scotland. The June which ownership information on 5025 landholdings covering 5.9 million hectares (14.7 million acres) or over 77% of rural Scotland 1/3

To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing uniqueness of our situation, says Bill McGuire

Earth is heating up faster than at any time in its history | New Scientist

To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing uniqueness of our situation, says Bill McGuire

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The vote was 55-0.

Uefa agrees to boycott Fifa competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceed

Uefa nations have agreed to boycott all Fifa tournaments if the global governing body continues with its plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup

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Your worst fears about cultural collapse might be true – here’s what you can do about it

Your worst fears about cultural collapse might be true – here’s what you can do about it

Writer Sarah Wilson argues we’re hurtling toward the same end as ancient Rome and the Mayan civilisation – but there’s plenty to fight for

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UK's Ofgem proposes grid-connection fee to deter speculative data centre projects reut.rs/4wvWn8f

UK's Ofgem proposes grid-connection fee to deter speculative data centre projects

Britain's energy regulator Ofgem launched a consultation ​on Wednesday on proposals ‌to tighten electricity grid-connection requirements for data centre projects, as it ​moves to free up ​scarce network capacity from speculative applicants.

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I’m not convinced 18-24 year olds use Facebook or X They use the Tok, YouTube, Gram but the older social media platforms definitely no

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Where the young and old get news (Times, via Ofcom) Tom Calver www.thetimes.com/article/f469...

Serial heatwaves, unprecedented leaps between old and new temperature extremes, mass evacuations - and speechless governments. Because the words they would have to say in their second sentences are “fossil fuels”. And they mostly just cannot. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

France and Spain race to control wildfires as more than 250,000 evacuated – live

Meanwhile, in the UK, a blaze in the Cairngorms national park has been described as ‘very serious’ by Scotland’s first minister

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By shutting down M1’s news and dismantling the state media conglomerate that powered Orbán across 16 years, Magyar is testing how far a new Hungarian government can go in rewriting the rules of information and how loudly the old guard in Budapest and Brussels will protest.

👉For more info on One Hundred Voices visit: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/one-h... In partnership with Who Cares? Scotland & @natlibscot.bsky.social. We are grateful to the @heritagefunduk.bsky.social & National Lottery players for making this project happen.

One Hundred Voices | National Theatre of Scotland

One Hundred Voices is an interactive, audio-guided installation, bringing creative insight into living in the care system. It serves as an artistic act of

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Not long until One Hundred Voices opens at the Scottish Parliament! Hear Caring Scotland contributors Leah, Beth Anne, Gemma and Scott speak about what they gained from adding their stories to the installation, and why you should experience it.

'Black Watch: A Soldier's Story', the documentary exploring the journey of the landmark production, will also be aired on 1 August. You can watch the performance on BBC iPlayer now: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

ArtWorks Scotland - The Black Watch

Hard-hitting play that combines words, music and song to deliver a frank and unvarnished account of a Scottish regiment serving in the Iraq war.

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Twenty years ago this week, Black Watch first shocked, thrilled and moved audiences in its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. To celebrate the anniversary, this Saturday night BBC Scotland will air a special filmed performance of the production which put NTS on the world stage.

Star Wars legend Ewan McGregor joined the young cast and crew of an ambitious new film being shot in and around Perth

Ewan McGregor gives Perth teen film-makers his Hollywood seal of approval

Star Wars legend Ewan McGregor joined the young cast and crew of an ambitious new film being shot in and around Perth

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Bla-bheinn, blue fell, and Garbh-bheinn, rough fell.