18 h. ago Calls for SNP Government to reopen mothballed Scottish steelworks branded 'insulting'

The Prime Minister and the Scottish secretary have both challenged the Scottish Government to get the two Lanarkshire mills back up and running.

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23 h. ago Keir Starmer challenges SNP Government to reopen Scottish steel plants as workers left on furlough

The Prime Minister said he was "horrified" that both the Dalzell and Clydebridge mills in Lanarkshire are mothballed.

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5 d. ago Not just Alcatraz: the notorious US prisons Trump is already reopening

Amid outrage over ‘far-fetched’ plans to revive Alcatraz, Trump is pushing to expand Ice detention to other closed lockups marked by scandalsDonald Trump’s proposal to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison shuttered more than 60 years ago, sparked global headlines over the weekend. But it isn’t the only notorious closed-down jail or prison the administration has sought to repurpose for mass detentions.The US government has in recent months pushed to reopen at least five other shuttered detention facilities and prisons, some closed amid concerns over safety and mistreatment of detainees. While California lawmakers swiftly dismissed the Alcatraz announcement as “not serious” and a distraction, the Trump administration’s efforts to reopen other scandal-plagued facilities are well under way or already complete, in partnership with for-profit prison corporations. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison for ‘most ruthless offenders’

Plan to reopen notorious but long-shuttered penitentiary off San Francisco described as ‘not serious’ by Nancy PelosiDonald Trump has said he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on an island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years.In a post on his Truth Social site on Sunday evening, Trump wrote: “For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering. When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Donald Trump orders Alcatraz 2.0 as he reopens the super pison for violent offenders

The Orange Manbaby has used his social media Truth Social to announce that he has ordered government officials to "reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt" Alcatraz

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7 d. ago Donald Trump orders Alcatraz 2.0 as he reopens the super prison for violent offenders

The Orange Manbaby has used his social media Truth Social to announce that he has ordered government officials to "reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt" Alcatraz

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1 week ago Stephen Flynn mocks Labour by urging Keir Starmer to campaign in Hamilton by

The SNP Westminster made the call to the PM directly after Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said he did not expect Starmer to hit the campaign trail

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1 week ago Falkirk SNP hopeful wants to swap particles for politics in Holyrood bid

Astroparticle physicist Callum Cox hopes to win the SNP selection contest for Falkirk West

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3 w. ago Ditch ‘dishonest’ just transition and back nuclear energy, Findlay tells Swinney

He will call on the SNP to drop its “bone-headed ideological opposition” to nuclear energy

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3 w. ago SNP and Labour race for Hamilton 'too close to call' as parties set for crunch by

EXCLUSIVE: Professor John Curtice said the by-election campaign could be "fascinating" with much at stake for John Swinney and Anas Sarwar.

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4 w. ago SNP are ‘manufacturing grievance’ with Grangemouth calls – minister

Kirsty McNeill said the situation at Grangemouth is different to the steelmaking plant at Scunthorpe.

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4 w. ago John Swinney wants Scotland's economic future to be 'resilient' after Trump tariff war

The SNP leader has called for a UK Government response to "reflect changing reality" amid concern over the impact of US trade tariffs and other factors.

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4 w. ago SNP MSP hopeful 'called women at indy student group lazy cows'

Lloyd Melville, a councillor in Angus, was offered equalities training due to complaints about his behaviour towards women.

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