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  • JK Rowling vows to defy Scotland's 'ludicrous' new hate crime laws and refuses to delete posts calling trans TV presenter 'just a man'

    03/19/2024 1:28:15 PM PDT · by Twotone · 28 replies
    MSN.com ^ | March 18, 2024 | Krissy Storrar
    JK Rowling has called Scotland's new hate crime laws 'ludicrous', as she vowed not to delete social media posts describing a transgender TV presenter as 'just a man'. The Harry Potter author was cleared of any wrongdoing by police in England earlier this month over an online post about broadcaster India Willoughby, who complained she had been 'misgendered'. But Ms Rowling has now been targeted by activists who claim she could be prosecuted under the controversial new Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act, due to be introduced on April 1. The 58-year-old wrote on X that she would not...
  • Scotland’s Muslim Leader Angrily Discovers Entire Country is White

    03/18/2024 6:26:55 AM PDT · by george76 · 44 replies
    Front page mag ^ | March 18, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield
    Pity, First Minister Humza Yousaf, the current head chief of the notoriously corrupt SNP, and therefore of Scotland, who took the position not realizing that the country is, dare one say it, white. Which DEI advocate can’t empathize with the Pakistani Muslim’s rage at the persistence of white people in the highlands and all the rest of it too. ... White! White! White people everywhere. Scotland is some 96% white. And Humza Yousaf is running the place. Yousaf’s native Pakistan is 96% Muslim and any Christian who tried running it or just tried announcing it would be murdered faster than...
  • England, Scotland and Wales All Have Non-White Leaders Now

    03/18/2024 5:35:15 AM PDT · by george76 · 64 replies
    Front page mag ^ | March 17, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield
    Apart from Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom executives are entirely non-white.. It’s certainly an interesting phenomenon. Rishi Sunak is serving as the Prime Minister of the UK. Pakistani Muslim settler Humza Yousaf has taken over as the First Minister of Scotland and Vaughan Gething (pictured above), an immigrant from Zambia, will become the First Minister of Wales. Apart from Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom executives are entirely non-white. It’s certainly an interesting phenomenon that reflects a rate of not only demographic, but political change in the UK, that has become more rapid than the rest of Europe. Part of it...
  • EXPLAINER: Why quitting coal is so hard

    03/12/2024 1:12:46 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 38 replies
    AP ^ | 11/13/21 | Karl Ritter
    GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In the run-up to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, host Britain announced one of its goals of the conference was to consign coal to history. TThat turned out to be easier said that done. Even saying it — in writing — became quite a challenge. Government negotiators in Glasgow wrote and rewrote a paragraph that spells out that fighting climate change requires the world to end coal power, along with fossil fuel subsidies. The wording on coal was weakened one last time just before the gavel came down after coal-dependent India insisted on replacing the...
  • Far-Left Candidate George Galloway Sent Wildly Different Campaign Letters to White and Muslim Households

    03/04/2024 6:13:44 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 20 replies
    Western Journal ^ | March 1, 2024 | Allison Anton
    Sometimes, it’s helpful to receive the occasional reminder that incompetent politicians and toxic identity politics are not the sole purview of the United States. As it happens, our allies across the pond are just as capable of stoking pointless factionalism among minorities and white residents as our own homegrown politicians. The politician providing us this example today is British far-left Parliamentary candidate George Galloway, whose different letters sent to his Muslim and Caucasian constituents are going viral for all the wrong reasons. As seen in this post on the social media platform X, which already garnered 2.3 million views, Galloway...
  • Why do some people fight for other ethnic groups ahead of their own? Video—1/4 hour

    03/03/2024 12:49:00 PM PST · by Phoenix8 · 21 replies
    YouTube ^ | 3/1/2024 | The Jolly Heretic
    The recent election of George Galloway in the UK is another chapter in the career of this fascinating politician, famous the world over for appealing to Muslim voters wherever he goes.
  • Scotland’s Jew-Hating First Minister Vacations Alongside Hamas Leadership.

    02/25/2024 7:15:38 AM PST · by Twotone · 33 replies
    The National Pulse ^ | February 18, 2024 | Jack Montgomery
    Humza Yousaf, the left-separatist First Minister of Scotland, is taking a vacation in Qatar, the Gulf dictatorship that hosts the most senior leaders of the Hamas terror organization. Whether Yousaf, roughly equivalent to a U.S. state governor, intends to meet with the Qatari or Hamas leadership is unclear, but he has previously been reprimanded for holding unauthorized talks on the Israel-Hamas war with the President of Turkey. He has previously argued a peace deal should be brokered through the Qataris. While his official stance on Hamas is that their terror raid on October 7th was an “atrocity,” he vowed the...
  • Scottish boy digging for potatoes found 'masterpiece of Egyptian sculpture' on his school grounds. How did it end up there?

    01/29/2024 9:35:55 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 22 replies
    Live Science ^ | November 24, 2023 | Sascha Pare
    Seventy-one years ago, a schoolboy in Scotland was digging up potatoes as a punishment when he discovered an ancient Egyptian statue...Between 1952 and 1984, several antique statues were found on the grounds of Melville House... Teachers and pupils brought each new discovery to museum curators and experts, who identified the statues as ancient Egyptian artifacts, but no one could figure out how they had ended up there...The ancient collection includes a nearly 4,000-year-old statue head carved out of red sandstone, which Maitland described as a "masterpiece of Egyptian sculpture," as well as several bronze and ceramic figurines dating to between...
  • Parents in Scotland to face 7 years in jail for refusing to appease children’s gender identity

    01/13/2024 10:46:43 PM PST · by Red Badger · 26 replies
    ReMix News ^ | January 10, 2024 | THOMAS BROOKE
    A radical new law proposed by Scotland’s left-wing government would criminalize parents who take steps to suppress their child’s desire to identify as their chosen gender. Parents in Scotland could soon be sentenced to seven years in prison if they refuse to allow their children to change their gender under plans proposed by the Scottish government. A public consultation was launched on Tuesday on legislation designed to end conversion practices for both sexual orientation and gender identity and includes widespread measures to criminalize parents who refuse to engage in their children’s desire to not just undergo gender transitions but to...
  • Street preacher arrested in Glasgow wins substantial damages from police

    01/13/2024 5:58:20 AM PST · by Leaning Right · 11 replies
    Christian Today ^ | 13 January 2024 | Staff
    Police Scotland are to pay thousands of pounds in damages to a street preacher who was arrested and detained in Glasgow in 2022. Angus Cameron, pastor of Cumnock Baptist Church, was told by the arresting officer that a complaint had been made about "homophobic language", a claim he strenuously denied.
  • 1697: Thomas Aikenhead

    01/08/2024 4:10:38 PM PST · by CheshireTheCat · 2 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | 8 January, 2008 | Headsman
    On this date in 1697, Scottish medical student Thomas Aikenhead was hanged on the road from Edinburgh to Leith for blasphemy, an already-archaic punishment inflicted for what reads like headstrong youthful atheism of a decidedly garden variety. Aikenhead partook of the times’ emerging (albeit forbidden) store of humanist and skeptical literature, and chatted most unguardedly with University of Edinburgh “friends” who tattled to authorities to the extent that, not content with testifying against him, one published a pamphlet demanding the offender “atone with blood, the affronts of heaven’s offended throne.” Said authorities scarcely elevated the dignity of the temporal throne...
  • 1666: Nine Covenanters in Ayr and Edinburgh

    12/27/2023 3:27:51 PM PST · by CheshireTheCat · 4 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | December 27th, 2011 | Headsman
    That prospectively apocalyptic year of 1666 saw the onset of the Scottish Covenanters‘ mass martyr-making under the English gallows. Three dozen or so were put to death in the aftermath of the Battle of Rullion Green. Among them, nine men — seven in Ayr, two in Edinburgh — paid with their necks on this date. The Covenanter tragedy stretches back to the first English Civil War, when English parliamentarians enlisted the aid of Scottish Presbyterians by agreeing to a covenant guaranteeing presbyterian church governance in Scotland and England. Essentially, that meant representative ecclesiastical authority, rather than top-down power from the...
  • 1715: William Ainslie, Edinburgh Castle betrayer

    12/24/2023 8:33:04 AM PST · by CheshireTheCat · 6 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | December 24th, 2013 | Headsman
    Edinburgh, Scotland held a Christmas Eve 1715 hanging of a soldier for abortive plot in the abortive Jacobite rising of 1715 The plot was a bold conspiracy of Highlanders to seize Edinburgh Castle itself, which would have been every bit the coup it sounds like. Sergeant William Ainslie and two other soldiers of the garrison had been bribed to admit the plotters via a sally port. Once there, the Highlanders meant to seize the castle’s ample stock of weapons and cash, and also “fire three cannon; that when this signal should be heard by some men stationed on the opposite...
  • Maeshowe: The UK’s Doorway to Another World

    12/21/2023 3:27:05 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 3 replies
    BBC ^ | 21st December 2023
    For thousands of years, our ancestors found solace in the winter solstice. Today, that belief is still reflected in the astonishing sight of the sun setting on Orkney's Maeshowe tomb. Located 10 miles off Scotland's north-eastern coast, the Orkney islands are a treasure trove of history, from the famous Neolithic village Skara Brae to the hauntingly beautiful Ring of Brodgar – a spellbinding stone circle that was a site of ritual and ceremony. However, when I visited another of Orkney's famous prehistoric sites, the Maeshowe tomb, my first impression was of an unremarkable green mound surrounded by a ditch. Despite...
  • Scotland's Pakistani 'First Minister' Unilaterally Held Anti-Israel Talks With Turkey's Erdogan, Against UK Policy.

    12/13/2023 10:23:11 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 14 replies
    The National Pulse ^ | Tuesday, December 12, 2023 | Jack Montgomery
    Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf has sparked a diplomatic row by holding an unauthorized meeting with the Turkish president. Yousaf, roughly equivalent to a U.S. state governor, is a Pakistani-heritage Muslim. He has been pushing the British government to back an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and import thousands of Gazan refugees. Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, nominally a NATO ally, also backs a ceasefire. He has branded the West's support for Israel against Hamas "barbaric". By discussing a ceasefire with Erdogan at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), Yousaf breached diplomatic protocol. Foreign policy and defense are reserved to the...
  • Archaeologists discover long-lost Scottish monastery

    12/09/2023 8:36:11 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 18 replies
    Phys dot org ^ | November 20, 2023 | University of Southampton
    A team of archaeologists, co-led by a researcher at the University of Southampton, believe they have located the site of the lost Monastery of Deer in Northeast Scotland.It is believed that the earliest written Scots Gaelic in the world was produced in the monastery in the late 11th and early 12th century. These texts, Gaelic land grants, were placed in the margins of the Book of Deer, a pocket gospel book originally written between 850AD and 1000AD.Academics have long speculated that these entries, or 'addenda' were added while the book was in the monastery. Archaeologists believe they have now found...
  • Loch Ness Monster DNA Test Reveals ‘Truth’ About creature, Expert Claims

    11/22/2023 3:28:04 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 10 replies
    Metro (U.K.) ^ | Wednesday 22 Nov 2023 | Katherine Fidler
    It may be the most bizarre claim about the Loch Ness monster yet – that she is an ‘algae-based creature’. That is the conclusion filmmakers have come to after using an innovative testing method following a sighting during the biggest hunt for Nessie in 50 years. On the August bank holiday, hundreds of volunteers descended on the loch to help track down the elusive beast once and for all. Among that number were Matty Wiles, 49 and Aga Balinska, 42. Before the official search kicked off, the pair went for an early morning swim at 6.30am, and saw two humps...
  • 2000-year-old ancient Roman Road, described as the most important in Scottish history, has been discovered

    11/07/2023 8:10:03 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 39 replies
    A 2000-year-old ancient Roman road was unearthed in Old Inn Cottage's garden near Stirling, Scotland. The site is located a few miles away from Stirling’s city center, next to the Old Stirling Bridge.It has been described as the most important road in Scottish history, the cobbled road was built by the Roman armies of General Julius Agricola in the 1st century AD and would have connected to a ford that crossed the River Forth.The road and the crossing would have been used again by the Romans in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD as units launched fresh invasions of Scotland...
  • When excavators uncovered an 'ancient British city' near Edinburgh Airport

    10/22/2023 9:49:16 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 11 replies
    EdinburghLive ^ | October 15, 2023 | David McLean
    Headlines were made in 1864 when a group of excavators uncovered evidence of an "ancient British city" near modern-day Edinburgh Airport...Subsequent excavations in the 20th century found that the Craigie Hill site was not actually an "ancient British city" as claimed by the 1864 headlines, but the remains of a Bronze Age hillfort, similar to others that were once ubiquitous in the Lothians...The area around Edinburgh Airport is famous for its prehistoric settlements. In 1830, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a stone circle called the Huly Hill Cairn, which today stands preserved as a peculiar oddity given its proximity to...
  • POTATUS Off the Hook: Scotland Wants to Accept Gaza Refugees

    10/19/2023 9:34:01 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    Hotair ^ | 10/19/2023 | Beege Welborn
    As if things weren’t peachy enough in Scotland, with wind farms, skyrocketing electricity prices, mandating heat pumps and forced upgrading of the insulation in your wee crofter’s cottage. The list is long and ignominious of what humiliations, disgraces, and suffering the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) has subjected their citizens to. Then again, they keep voting for them, so I will mitigate my sympathy a tad.The previous First Minister, a scandal plagued tiny tyrant known as Nicola Sturgeon, has been replaced by a charming young lad of Pakistani descent named Humza Yousaf.Don’t let the name or Scottish accent fool you. He’s...