It seems like the phrase 'mostly peaceful' returned, this time being used in relation to pro-Palestine demonstrations.

Free speech should be about freedom to express non-mainstream, unpopular or even offensive opinions. Such opinions should be considered with respect, rather tham mocked or cancelled, not least because dominant opinions of today will be rejected in future.

The receding chance of Scotland's independence renders the SNP redundant and sentenced to neverending internal conflicts, because - apart from a desire for independence - nothing keeps it together.

Why the protestors at Columbia wear masks? Isn't it a bit cowardly? It's like saying 'I want to protest, but without bearing any consequences'.

Humza Yousaf is such a hopeless loser that it feels like a waste of time even to mock him.

Salmond and Sturgeon had both serious moral flaws and Scotland declined under their watch, especially education. And yet, they had cheek to show moral superiority over English politicians.

In many ways SNP and the Conservative Party are similar, as both became alienated from their traditional supporters, led by men lacking charisma and ideas and they are drifting, unsure about their direction and purpose.

The Guardian wrote that 'Net zero has become unhelpful slogan'. So, the problem are the words, whom the plebs are unable to understand, rather than the ideas and policies behind this slogan, which they reject.

There are political leaders who came in the worst of times. There are also those who lack talent. Humza Yousaf combines both of these traits.

Humza Yousaf received more accusations of hate crime in the early days of the Hate Crime Act ithan J.K. Rowling. But the police have let him off. Others, who aren’t celebrity novelists or senior politicians, might not be so lucky.

Greens turned out to be too woke even for the SNP. This is a huge achievement.

Heavier drinking during Covid led to 2,500 more deaths from alcohol in 2022 – ONS.
These are lockdown deaths - deaths caused by unnecessary, draconian lockdowns.

Nicola Sturgeon's downfall tests my propensity for spite.

If you are an academic and believe/are worried about your academic freedom of speech, look at this website.
afaf.org.uk/afaf-statement….

In the UK or at least London the police openly sides with the mob and is openly antisemitic. We need some Nuremberg trials for it. Why Sunak's government ignores this problem?

Nicola Sturgeon was always so self-assured, so arrogant, so superior over English politicians with their small weaknesses and misdemanours and now she is everything she used to be contemptous about. One cannot be even angry with her as she is so pathetic.

Even the Guardian admits that the EU is undemocratic, with best and most powerful jobs going to people who weren't elected and the Ursula von der Leyen is corrupt, but it has no courage to call her by this name.

I'm not for smoking and vaping, but I'm absolutely against banning them.

I've just read an opinion piece in the Guardian about Iran-Israel conflict and it feels like an advice to Iran how to succeed politically and morally over Israel. How strange is the world we live in.

People accused of 'erasing trans-children' don't want to erase any children; they simply question 'trans-element' in these allegedly trans-children, and rightly so.