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1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Russell Findlay

   RUSSELL FINDLAY: As bin fires go, the SNP's week has been an inferno (opens the original)

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   For fans of political bin fires, recent weeks at the Scottish Parliament have resembled an inferno at an electric battery factory. If you’re a sensible taxpayer/voter of a sensitive disposition, you might choose to read no further ... For those who’ve decided to proceed, please buckle up. During my five years as an MSP inside the concrete bunker at the foot of the Royal Mile, I thought that I’d become numbed to the antics of John Swinney’s SNP. But these masters of grubby dishonesty, breath-taki

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2. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Russell Findlay

   RUSSELL FINDLAY: Scots deserve so much better (opens the original)

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   With the long summer days gradually beginning to shrink, MSPs returned to Holyrood on Tuesday. John Swinney – suitably refreshed after his taxpayer-funded £18,000 flight to the World Cup – was back to unveil his Programme for Government. This, he explained over thirty long minutes, was a bold blueprint for a better Scotland. But his five-year plan can actually be summed up in just two words – ‘gimmicks’ and ‘meddling’. John Swinney went into the May election promising free school bags for every

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