Deputy Editor of The Times and The Sunday Times (Scotland). Ex-national deputy news editor. UK political journo of the year 2024. georgia.edkins@thetimes.co.uk
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A Cold War-style military presence should be restored off Shetland to protect the UK’s critical infrastructure, including its state-of-the-art spaceport, from Russian sabotage, it has been claimed @amcarmichaelMP @PaulJSweeney @JohnCooperDG @RUSI_org
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Kate Forbes: "It is the right decision to approve Rosebank, for more reasons than I can adequately list."
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The scandal of Scotland's ghost workers marches on: rather than make staff redundant due to the SNP's policy, NHS Highland made one person write Christmas cards on full pay, it is claimed. "You'd have to kill someone to get sacked," admits one worker
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"For 20 years Scotland and England conducted...[an] experiment. The results are now in and plain to see...they must be denied...otherwise, the people who have done so much to diminish Scottish educational standards might have to take some responsibility"
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The SNP says you “can’t do anything” on education without the teaching unions.
But the teaching unions are a huge part of the problem!
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Major investigation from The Sunday Times - the Scottish state is paying a minimum of £27m a year to around 800 public sector workers, in the NHS, councils, police etc who do not have a job, but they cannot be made redundant owing to SNP policy
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Thank you to the brilliant @FraserNelson for writing on this for us: thetimes.com/uk/scotland/art…
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: An SNP ban on compulsory redundancy means 800 public-sector ‘ghost workers’ are on full pay even though their roles are gone thetimes.com/uk/scotland/art…
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One NHS Highland worker has been receiving their full salary and benefits for 17 YEARS despite not having a specific job anymore. The health board refused to say what the worker had been doing for almost two decades and how much they had been paid over that period:
Major investigation from The Sunday Times - the Scottish state is paying a minimum of £27m a year to around 800 public sector workers, in the NHS, councils, police etc who do not have a job, but they cannot be made redundant owing to SNP policy
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Nicola Sturgeon: Scottish arts held back by ‘cringe factor’ and red tape
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A blinder from @LeaskyHT on the Hugh MacDiarmid centenary in the @thetimes. Check out the end, with SNP leader Arthur Donaldson wearing MacD's "Little White Rose" at the 1964 election while MacDiarmid wore the red, defying his own symbol! @ArabellaPike
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Extraordinary story from The Times tonight: Scottish Greens co-leader Ross Greer calls for the proscription of the "political wing" of Hamas to be revoked
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Just days after this really important story by @HelenPuttick
‘Scottish ministers end funding for hospital cybersecurity checks’
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BREAKING: The NHS Scotland website has been taken down after critical cyber-security vulnerabilities were discovered affecting websites across the world.
Organisations who are unable to address the issues immediately have been urged to consider taking their sites down in the meantime.
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Investigation with @FerretScot - Police Scotland is assessing if Reform broke election spending rules
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In the village of Buchlyvie, the local pub was more than a watering hole; it was a community hub. It is now a £500 a night holiday rental. On average one pub per week has closed in the past decade. Their decline is ripping the heart out of rural life.
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This was an amazing article from our data team and I feel like it was hidden because there was no picture shared with it! So I am proudly re-sharing...our reporters basically filleted prices for every forecourt in Scotland:
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Revealed: the Scottish fuel station where diesel costs £2.35 a litre
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This was an amazing article from our data team and I feel like it was hidden because there was no picture shared with it! So I am proudly re-sharing...our reporters basically filleted prices for every forecourt in Scotland:
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In the Aberdeen bars at SNP conference, insiders opened up. “It’s time to start thinking about the need to get rid of Swinney before 2029,” one SNP staffer said. “He needs to go before the general election.”
Is Swinney's star fading? "At an unsanctioned meeting in a drab room...members effectively set up an independence wing of the SNP. They are no longer buying the promises they have been fed for more than two decades." Full analysis in The Sunday Times:
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Is Swinney's star fading? "At an unsanctioned meeting in a drab room...members effectively set up an independence wing of the SNP. They are no longer buying the promises they have been fed for more than two decades." Full analysis in The Sunday Times:
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The full extent of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital scandal in Scotland, with thanks to all the patient families and whistleblowers for their time.
The NHS opened an £842m super hospital. Then came the unexpected deaths
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