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I have been warning about Sanjeev Gupta and GFG Alliance for years yet SNP ministers seem content to allow them to carry on regardless.

Violence against women is abhorrent, and we are working closely with partners, including Police Scotland, to tackle it.

The council and government need to get together to sort this out, and ensure Edinburgh’s flagship premises are properly managed with the interests of the city at heart.

People in Edinburgh expect the rules around building and shop ownership to be robust and above board.

Ivan McKee as the minister responsible should come clean as to why these numbers have increased and if he is doing any work to bring staffing costs under control.

They clearly still don’t have the stomach for taking the tough but necessary decisions to ensure that the civil service is delivering value for money for taxpayers.

The fact that the workforce has actually increased at a time when SNP ministers have insisted their would be reduction in staffing levels could only have happened on the nationalists’ watch.

These figures confirm it is just lip service when SNP ministers have pledged to get serious about reining in their growing army of civil servants.

In the year to end March 2026, the number of Full Time Equivalent staff directly employed by the core Scottish Government has reduced by over 3%.

A politician is only as good as the people who support them and I think it would be a bit silly for the First Minister to be awake and fully engage with what’s happening and his chief of staff and civil servant not to be…look it's really…

It took an obscene amount of time for the Glen Sannox and Glen Rosa ferries to be built.

Over 2,400 phones and laptops were lost in a single year by the UK Labour Government — the sheer waste of Westminster is unbelievable.

More than 600 devices lost in Defence is obviously alarming and the Scottish public deserve assurances from the Labour UK Government on safety and protocols in that respect.

They are losing almost seven taxpayer-bought phones and laptops every single day — it is shocking that the Labour Party is being so careless with public money and sensitive information while not even bothering to contact the police.

We know that Morgan McSweeney 'lost' his phone, but there is an epidemic within the UK Labour Government.

I am further concerned by the decision to permit the continuation of legal aid following extensive amendment of the writ.

It is a matter of concern that a review of basic information was not pursued, such as publicly available documents and Companies House records, which would have confirmed that GBCDT was an erroneously named party.

This case raises broader concerns about the safeguards applied when public funds are used to support litigation. Legal aid serves an important role in ensuring access to justice. However, it is equally important that publicly funded…