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Former diplomat Craig Murray has been jailed for eight months after failing to protect the identities of complainers in the Alex Salmond trial. Mr Murray, 62, was found guilty last month of breaching the order in blog posts that attacked the decision to prosecute Mr Salmond on 14 counts of sexual assault.

We can expect screams for a Referendum now that the Scottish Parliament elections are over. While the SNP fell short of a majority, pro-independence parties combined crossed the 65-seat mark thanks to the Scottish Greens, a nationalist party. Nicola Sturgeon says this represents a mandate for another referendum. That view will be dutifully echoed by sections of the media, academia, civil society and even some of Sturgeon’s quasi-opponents in the ranks of ultra-devolutionism. The Scottish establishment looks after its own.

Tom Bradby got them started. On Friday night, the News at Ten anchor opined that ‘if the SNP can assemble a pro-independence majority’, he couldn't see ‘how it would be credible to deny them another referendum’. In fact, ‘it would make an absolute mockery of the principle of democratic devolution’. All we’re going to be hearing about in Scotland is another Referendum; stuff our Education, or Business and the Rest. We’re going down the Toilet.

Prince Michael of Kent has been accused of being willing to use his royal status for personal profit, and to seek favours from Russian President Vladimir Putin, following an undercover investigation. Undercover reporters, posing as investors from a South Korean business, were told the Queen's cousin could be hired for £10,000 a day to make "confidential" representations to Mr Putin's regime.

Mhairi Black MP has been branded a “champagne nationalist” after claiming almost £13,500 for business class flights between Paisley and London. Critics slammed the SNP politician after it was revealed she claimed for 38 journeys between Glasgow Airport and London City.

Glenn Campbell is always on BBC Reporting Scotland and you have to listen to his often subtle bias, but often blatant bias towards the SNP. The BBC have lost the people that cherished them, it’s so sad. They need to fund themselves, Enough is Enough!

Knife crime in Britain has doubled in the previous six years, rising above 50,000 incidents in a one-year period in England and Wales for the first time in the recorded history. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that in the year leading up to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s imposition of the first coronavirus lockdown, crimes involving a knife or a sharp weapon rose by six per cent, up from 47,388 to 50,019. This latest figure is more than double the 23,945 offences recorded in 2014, the point at which the general historical trend of crime falling went into reverse.

Palestinian militants say they fired 130 missiles at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv after an Israeli air strike felled a tower block in the Gaza Strip. The 13-storey building was attacked an hour and a half after residents and local people were warned to evacuate, Reuters news agency reports. Israel's military says it is targeting militants in Gaza in response to earlier rocket attacks. At least 31 people have died in some of the worst violence in years.

Children under the age of 18 could be getting the Covid-19 vaccine as early as August should all trials be a success. Here’s the latest on the jab and children in the UK. The coronavirus vaccine rollout in the UK has been hailed a success so far, but as the Covid jab priority groups are given their doses, researchers are also looking into giving children and kids the Covid-19 vaccine in the future.

With lockdown restrictions continuing, one man decided he was not prepared to wait for indoor parties to be sanctioned once again. So he went on to eBay, bought a custom-made three-wheeled bike, affixed his turntables to the handlebars and started simultaneously cycling and DJing around towns and cities across England, broadcasting electronic music from a speaker.

At a nearby hospital in Kabul, staff wheeled in injured students while dozens of distressed re-latives searched desperately for their sons and dau¬ghters, according to a witness. A spokesman for the interior ministry, Tariq Arian, put the death toll at least 30 and injured at 52 but did not specify the cause or the target. Kabul is on high alert since Washington announ¬ced plans last month to pull out all US troops by Sept 11, with Afghan officials saying the Taliban have stepped up attacks across the country following the announcement.

UK retailers are struggling to hire staff as lockdown restrictions continue to ease amidst an exodus of overseas workers because of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and recruitment firm Adecco, the reopening of retail and hospitality is driving plans to hire at the fastest rate in eight years. However, the CIPD also found that there had been a rapid decline in the numbers of EU and international workers, fuelling the risk of labour shortages. Easy solution, train up our unemployed, simple.

Millions of people in Scotland have moved into lower restriction levels, allowing them to meet in larger groups indoors and outside. In Glasgow people are allowed to meet in each other's homes for the first time in nine months, and to drink alcohol in pub and restaurants. Other areas of the mainland are seeing soft play centres open for the first time in more than a year. But restrictions on many of Scotland's islands are nearest "normality".

The UK has introduced a new visa that will give 5.4 million Hong Kong residents - a staggering 70% of the territory's population - the right to come and live in the UK, and eventually become citizens. It is making this "generous" offer to residents of its former colony because it believes China is undermining Hong Kong's rights and freedoms. Not everyone will come. Some of those eligible to leave have expressed their determination to stay and continue the fight for democracy. In the end, Britain estimates that about 300,000 will take up the visa offer over the next five years.

On the morning of Monday 9 August 1971, the security forces launched Operation Demetrius. This was the introduction of internment in Northern Ireland.

The Queen has outlined the government's priorities for the year ahead, as she officially reopened Parliament. In a ten-minute speech in the House of Lords, she highlighted 30 laws that ministers intend to pass in the coming year. This includes a number of bills carried over from the previous "session" of Parliament, which ended in April. It also includes a number of bills included in past Queen's Speeches.

Anyone over the age of 16 who lives in Scotland and is registered to vote is eligible to go to the polls on election day. People who are not permitted to vote are those younger than that age, along with those who have been legally excluded from voting - for example, if they are serving a prison sentence of more than 12 months. You must be a British or Irish citizen to vote, or a citizen of another country living in Scotland who has permission to enter or stay in the UK, or does not need permission. What do 16 year olds know about life? It should be 18 and over. Why do Prisoners serving up to 12 months have the right to a Vote? Why if you’re Irish, Pakistani, Australian, whatever, why just because you live here are you given a vote? Do people from another country though presently live here really care about Scotland’s Future? Why do All Scots living in England or around the World not have a Vote?

I am afraid that whenever a politician asks to be judged on their record, it is sensible to assume this reflects a confidence they won’t be. At the very least such promises are hostages to future headlines. Take, for instance, Nicola Sturgeon’s boast that education - and specifically closing the gap between the best and worst schools in Scotland - is her top priority. Judge me on this, she said. Well, OK. Scotland used to be way up there in Education Standards, nowadays we’re in the Relegation area of the League of Europe.

The international community has urged both sides to end the escalation, which follows days of unrest in Jerusalem. Militants had already fired hundreds of rockets towards Jerusalem and other areas. Three people have been killed in Israeli areas while at least 28 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes.

Kolkata, one of the most densely-populated cities in India, hasn't escaped the country's second Covid-19 wave. Stories of the surge have dominated global news - people gasping to stay alive as they wait for critical care beds and treatment; desperate families scrambling for everything, from oxygen cylinders to a doctor's appointment; mass funeral pyres and parking lots turning into crematoriums to accommodate the rising number of dead. Controlling the spread is more difficult for one of the world's most populated countries.

Multiple blasts outside a school in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday killed at least 30 people and woun¬ded dozens more, mostly fe¬m¬ale students, officials said, in an attack Afghan Pre¬¬sident Ashraf Ghani bla¬med on the insurgent Taliban. A senior interior ministry official said most of the casualties were students coming out of the Sayedul Shuhada School.

It was established in 1999 to debate issues and make laws for Scotland. A total of 129 MSPs are elected to the Parliament - often referred to as Holyrood, after the area of Edinburgh where the parliament building stands. They debate and pass laws on devolved issues - these include most aspects of day-to-day life in Scotland, such as education, health and transport. But these issues ain’t going to be considered, they’ll once again go down hill, for the next five years of SNP Control with support from the Greens, we’ll have talk and even more talk about a Referendum. So sad.

I think the presenter on Sky News was caught by surprise here, she caught a heavy dose of honesty about the Gaza situation. Natasha Hausdorff is a lawyer with the organisation called UK Lawyers for Israel, I’d have thought the presenter would have at least had an idea of what was coming. But the narrative of the poor Palestinian being persecuted was totally destroyed in this clip, and very eloquently done. I have a lot of sympathy for the Palestinian struggle, my Dad was in the army being shot at my Jewish settlers prior to the state of Israel, he lost his mate to that struggle, he’d been with him throughout the war. I’ve got a lot of Palestinian contacts which I may lose here but the truth has to be told!

India's healthcare system is buckling as a record surge in Covid-19 cases puts pressure on hospital beds and drains oxygen supplies. Families are left pleading for their relatives who are desperately ill, with some patients left untreated for hours. Crematoriums are organising mass funeral pyres. On Friday India reported 332,730 new cases of coronavirus, setting a world record for a second day running. Deaths were numbered at 2,263 in 24 hours.