The Aporia · Katrine Bussey

2026-08-26 · Evening Standard

Swinney demands ‘immediate assistance’ from Westminster after energy cap rise

🔮 Swinney demands ‘immediate assistance’ from Westminster after energy cap rise But with consumer groups warning about the impact the increase will have, Mr Swinney called for swift action. assertive

2026-09-04 · Evening Standard

Burnham under fire over ‘staggering’ hike in university tuition fees

🔮 Analysis from the House of Commons library found undergraduates could owe around £70,000 by the time they finish university if they take the full loan amount, rising to a maximum of £81,000 for those studying in London. assertive

2026-09-11 · Evening Standard

Michael Gove offers to help SNP ministers ‘learn from’ English education reforms

🔮 Lord Gove, who was education secretary between 2010 and 2014, said “Scotland can learn from what has worked in England”, adding this could then be adapted “appropriate to specific Scottish needs”. assertive

2026-09-15 · Evening Standard

UK Government action could ‘unlock’ 100-plus oil and gas projects, say bosses

🔮 More than 100 new oil and gas projects could be given the green light if the UK Government changes the tax regime for the sector and adopts a more “pragmatic approach” to licensing, energy sector bosses have said. assertive

2026-09-16 · Daily Mail

Police could be given the power to force people to remove balaclavas

🔮 - Click here to visit the Scotland home page for the latest news and sport - See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Scotland's police could be given the power to force people to remove balaclavas after the plan was backed by the convener of Holyrood’s Criminal Justice Committee. assertive

2026-09-16 · Daily Mail

Rail bosses reveal rise in reported attacks on women on board the Caledonian Sleeper

🔮 Ms Ross conceded there had been ‘an increase in reports being made to us’, but added that she ‘would not like to speculate about whether that is a genuine increase or it is an increase in reporting’. assertive

2026-09-17 · Evening Standard

Strike to bring production ‘to a standstill’ at Diageo distillery, says union

🔮 Different groups of workers will strike on different days in a series of protests involving staff such as distillation and process controllers, distillery and machine operators, technicians, quality control analysts, process chemists and engineers. assertive

2026-09-18 · Evening Standard

Flynn challenges UK Government on ‘wholly unacceptable’ English whisky decision

🔮 The UK Government is being urged to reverse the “wholly unacceptable” decision to give protected status to whisky made in England, with Scotland’s Economy Secretary warning the move could “undermine” the vital Scotch whisky industry. mixed

2026-09-18 · Evening Standard

Labour ‘softening’ UK up for a ‘brutal budget’, SNP’s Dave Doogan claims

🔮 While the Bank held interest rates steady when its monetary policy committee met this week, governor Andrew Bailey said if the volatility in energy markets continued it was “more likely” that rates could need to rise to help bring inflation back down to the 2% target. assertive

2026-09-19 · Evening Standard

New Scottish Labour leader to be announced

🔮 The new leader takes charge after the party suffered its worst result in the history of devolution in May’s Scottish Parliament elections – returning just 17 MSPs. assertive

2026-09-19 · Evening Standard

Labour ‘softening’ UK up for a ‘brutal budget’, SNP’s Dave Doogan claims

2026-09-19 · Evening Standard

New Scottish Labour leader Marra promises to ‘start taking action now’

🔮 But the new leader – who defeated fellow MSP Joe Fagan to become the 11th Scottish labour leader of the devolution era – accepted that “journey and that process will take time”. assertive

2026-09-19 · Evening Standard

New Scottish Labour leader presses Swinney to set up commission on child poverty

🔮 This body would then be tasked with drawing up a set of proposals that could brought in in time for the 2030 target. assertive

2026-09-20 · Evening Standard

Scottish Labour needs to be a ‘national party once again’, new leader Marra says

🔮 With Labour having seen its tally of MSPs decline at every successive Holyrood election – from 56 in the first ballot in 1999 to 17 in the May election – he said the party must be “absolutely clear” about the significance of that. assertive

2026-09-20 · Evening Standard

SNP MSP seeks ‘clarity’ from King on council tax charges on royal properties

🔮 “On top of this, The City of Edinburgh Council will introduce a 300% Council Tax premium on second homes. assertive

2026-09-22 · Evening Standard

SNP depute leader ‘very confident’ of winning second independence vote

🔮 The SNP’s depute leader has said he wants a fresh vote on Scottish independence “as soon as possible”, insisting he is “very confident” the public will vote to leave the UK. assertive

2026-09-22 · Evening Standard

Reform MSPs in Holyrood walkout over independence debate ‘farce’

🔮 Lord Offord argued that Scots want to see MSPs dealing with “shocking” homelessness figures released earlier on Tuesday, the nation’s public finances or drug deaths – with a further rise in these expected to be announced on Wednesday. assertive

2026-09-23 · Evening Standard

MSPs hear fears of ‘cuts upon cuts upon cuts’ ahead of Scottish Budget

🔮 MSPs hear fears of ‘cuts upon cuts upon cuts’ ahead of Scottish Budget MSPs have been warned about the impact of a failure to increase spending for key areas in the upcoming Scottish Budget – with Police Scotland saying this would lead to a “significant workforce reduction” while colleges bosses claimed it would be “catastrophe” that would see some institutions go bust. assertive

2026-09-24 · Evening Standard

Flagship energy firm recruiting ‘about two people a week’, boss reveals

🔮 Dan McGrail however pledged that the publicly owned firm would invest in projects that could create 10,000 additional jobs – vowing that the “huge majority” of these would be in Scotland. mixed

2026-09-24 · Evening Standard

Scrapping windfall tax early could cost UK £8.6bn by 2030, say campaigners

🔮 Replacing the UK’s current windfall tax on oil and gas firms could cost the country up to £8.6 billion by 2030, campaigners have claimed. mixed

2026-09-28 · Evening Standard

Alexander urges Swinney to focus on drugs death ‘crisis’ instead of independence

🔮 John Swinney, the First Minister who is now arguing that there is an absolute right for Scotland to suddenly have a referendum and be independent set the bar himself back in May, when he said the bar was a majority of SNP MSPs in the Scottish Parliament. assertive

2026-09-29 · Evening Standard

Labour is a ‘long way’ from being able to win at Holyrood, Michael Marra says

🔮 Asked if he could do so, he said: “Of course it is the aim, we are going to fight for every vote in every seat – but where we are at the moment we are a long way from that. assertive

2026-10-02 · Evening Standard

Mother petitions Parliament calling for paid breastfeeding breaks

🔮 The entrepreneur started her Don’t Make Me Choose campaign after being prevented from attending a professional development programme as she could not bring her then five-month-old daughter, who at the time she was breastfeeding. assertive

2026-10-02 · Evening Standard

Miliband challenged to ‘push much harder’ to help Scot released from Indian jail

🔮 Dan Dolan, the deputy chief executive officer of the human rights organisation Reprieve, said that although Jagtar Singh Johal may have been released from prison on bail on Thursday, he is “still in really grave danger” and under “very serious restrictions” while he is in Delhi. assertive

2026-10-02 · Evening Standard

Unison vows to ‘fight for best deal’ as talks resume on ‘fire and rehire’ plan

🔮 The council is seeking to bring in a new pay structure after the previous one was found to discriminate against female workers – but Unison has raised concerns that some staff still do not know what their wage would be under the new system, and some will be worse off. assertive

2026-10-02 · Evening Standard

Mother petitions Parliament calling for paid breastfeeding breaks

2026-10-03 · Evening Standard

Businesses backing North Sea drilling ‘increasingly out of step’ campaigners say

🔮 With Labour having pledged not to issue new licences for oil and gas, almost two-thirds (62%) of the 1,350 questioned as part of the latest UK Business Leader survey said that Labour’s plan to phase out fossil fuels would either have a positive impact on businesses, or no impact at all. assertive

2026-10-07 · Evening Standard

Two Holyrood committees to ‘dig into the details’ behind planned AI data centres

🔮 The committees will be working together to gather evidence on the impacts of potential hyperscale data centre construction and operation in Scotland. assertive

2026-10-13 · Evening Standard

Rejecting Rosebank and Jackdaw could cost UK economy £10.8 billion, report warns

🔮 Failing to approve the controversial Rosebank and Jackdaw fields in the North Sea could cost the UK thousands of jobs a year, a new report has warned, along with a loss to the economy of almost £11 billion over the next decade. assertive

2026-10-13 · Evening Standard

Former first minister Humza Yousaf to give university masterclasses

🔮 The ex-SNP leader will draw on his own time in charge of the Scottish government for the special sessions, which will form part of Edinburgh University’s recently launched Common Ground leadership programme. assertive

2026-10-14 · Evening Standard

SNP set for ’emphatic’ Westminster win, says Scotland’s Deputy First Minister

🔮 Ms Gilruth said the polling suggested the SNP could be “in the most powerful position at Westminster in our history”, adding that in such circumstances Prime Minister Andy Burnham “will not be able to ignore Scotland’s right to decide our own future”. assertive

2026-10-14 · Evening Standard

Burnham urged to ‘bring it on’ and allow second Scottish independence vote

🔮 Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney is pushing for another referendum to he held before 2031 and has already declared he believes Mr Burnham – who is expected to visit Scotland on Friday – will be the last prime minister of the United Kingdom. mixed

2026-10-14 · Evening Standard

Ten unions call on Burnham to reject drilling at Rosebank oil field

🔮 A report this week for developers Adura warned that failing to develop both Rosebank, which lies north west of Shetland, and the Jackdaw gas field to the east of Aberdeen, could cost the UK economy some £10.8 billion by 2035. assertive

2026-10-14 · Evening Standard

Doogan calls for PM to cut household bills amid ‘cost-of-living tsunami’

🔮 Dave Doogan will use his speech to the SNP conference in Aberdeen on Thursday to demand action from Andy Burnham. assertive

2026-10-16 · Evening Standard

BBC ‘censored’ trans-rights slogan T-shirt, union official tells SNP conference

🔮 The BBC edited the same slogan off a T-shirt worn by House Of The Dragon star, Bethany Antonia, during a recent episode of Strictly Come Dancing In the clip she was shown wearing a plain white T-shirt, but in an Instagram video shared by the BBC, seemingly filmed at the same rehearsal, the slogan could be seen. mixed

Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.

👤 Katrine Bussey

About this journalist

What they cover

Leaning

More from this journalist

What they said would happen