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    • Charities warn Badenoch’s aid cuts would undermine Britain’s global standing

      Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has announced plans to slash the UK’s overseas aid budget by 90%, from £9bn annually to just £1bn, to fund 50,000 new prison places and culture budget cuts. Charities and development organisations argue this radical reduction would irreparably damage Britain’s global credibility and leave it unable to meet existing commitments to…

    • Tunnock’s Tea Cakes cameo in Catherine Zeta-Jones thriller show

      Tunnock’s Tea Cakes appear in an episode of the thriller *Kill Jackie*, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones. The Scottish treat features in a joke about a costly high-tech delivery, giving the Lanarkshire-made product a cameo alongside a Hollywood star. In the scene, a biker delivers a secure briefcase in Bilbao containing a computer hard drive hidden in…

    • Badenoch revives Thatcherite economics despite its past failures

      The Conservative Party, under new leader Kemi Badenoch, is returning to 1976 Thatcherite economic principles as outlined in her pamphlet “The Right Way”. The party maintains that its recent failures stem from abandoning these market-driven principles and proposes lower taxes, reduced regulation, and welfare reform to stimulate growth. The editorial disputes this diagnosis, arguing that…

    • Badenoch says Scottish Conservatives offer Holyrood’s only common sense policy

      Kemi Badenoch has declared the Scottish Conservatives the only ‘common sense’ party at Holyrood, sharply criticising Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and its Scottish leader. She cited the party’s Aberdeen South by-election victory as evidence that the Conservatives can recover in Scotland after their difficult May election campaign. Conservative candidate Douglas Lumsden won the Aberdeen South…

    • Badenoch calls for scrutiny of Scotland’s record under devolution

      Kemi Badenoch has challenged the assumption that devolution is inherently beneficial, arguing that governments should be judged by what they deliver rather than where power sits. The article supports her call to question Scotland’s record under devolution and says the issue deserves a wider debate about how Britain should be governed. Badenoch’s pamphlet, *The Right…

    • Whately criticises advice for graduates to claim benefits after university

      Helen Whately, the Conservatives’ shadow work and pensions secretary, said young people’s mental health difficulties should not automatically prevent them from working, and criticised what she described as a growing expectation that school or university leavers would claim benefits. Her remarks came as the party made welfare reform a focus of its conference, arguing that…

    • Swinney rejects calls to apologise over pension triple lock claims

      First Minister John Swinney has dismissed calls to apologise for claims that Scottish pensioners will lose their pensions following the UK Government’s announcement to remove the pensions triple lock from 2030. Opposition parties have accused him of misleading Holyrood and the public, but Swinney insists he “has nothing to explain”, stating that he is simply…

    • Scottish and Japanese team to study whisky ageing in orbit

      Scottish and Japanese engineers plan to send whisky samples into orbit in 2028 to study how the space environment affects ageing. The experiment could reveal whether rapid temperature changes produce distinctive flavours, while also testing methods that may help manufacture medicines in orbit. The project, nicknamed “Space Puffin”, is expected to travel to the International…

    • British Airways steward wins £29,195 after unfair dismissal ruling

      A British Airways cabin steward has won £29,195 after an employment tribunal ruled his dismissal was unfair. Charly Mateo was sacked in July 2024 following allegations that he asked a female colleague about joining the “mile high club”, touched her leg and told her sexual stories; the tribunal found that BA’s investigation was not thorough…

    • Oregon fisherman calls for rescue with earbuds while trapped under boulder

      Joseph Little, a 28-year-old Oregon fisherman, was trapped under a boulder weighing approximately one tonne whilst fishing at Hammond Marina in Warrenton on 26 September. Unable to reach his phone, he used his Apple Beats Flex wireless earbuds to activate Siri and call for emergency help. The incident highlights how everyday technology can be life-saving…

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