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Police have been contacted and politicians outraged after “racist” and “offensive” posters saying ‘it’s okay to be white’ and ‘white lives matter’ were seen in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Margaret Ferrier MP has been arrested and charged with “culpable and reckless conduct” after allegedly breaking coronavirus restrictions in September.

Nicola Sturgeon has announced that she is putting Scotland into full lockdown, with schools closed and the public required to stay in their homes.

Tough new coronavirus restrictions have begun in the U.K. with Scotland and Northern Ireland under tighter measures.

Scotland´s leader, Nicola Sturgeon, has apologised for breaching coronavirus restrictions when she took off her face mask at a funeral wake.

The left-separatist leader of Scotland’s devolved government is using the French shutdown of its border with Britain an excuse to call for Brexit to be delayed further.

Boris Johnson has scrapped planned lockdown easing in London and much of south-east England over Christmas and moved the region into new “tier four” restrictions, saying a new, more contagious strain of the Chinese coronavirus is spreading there.

Scots who say that trans women are not actually women will face criminal prosecution if a court finds that their speech “stirred up hatred”.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon shut down travel from other countries in the UK on Friday, as much of the country is placed under draconian lockdown measures to supposedly stem the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

A memorial commemorating a Scottish regiment which rescued a besieged city from Indian rebels will be changed after a single person complained it “pandered to imperialism”.

A sloppily worded hate crime bill in Scotland could undermine free speech and unfairly stigmatize people of faith, the Christian Institute has warned.

Humza Yousaf has said that he wants Scotland’s new hate crime bill to criminalise conversations in private homes, if they allegedly stir up hatred.

Scotland’s left-separatist devolved government has said children should not be allowed to go door-to-door this Halloween, in case they somehow spread the Chinese coronavirus to their neighbours.

Halloween trick-or-treat celebrations will be banned this year in England’s China virus hotspots, the government’s junior business minister confirmed on Tuesday. Conservative MP for Stratford-on-Avon, Nadhim Zahawi said that while children in cities under Tier 1 and 2 lockdown restrictions

A 104-year woman locked down in a care home for months has gone viral after filming a message begging to see her family again.

LONDON (AP) — Authorities in Scotland have approved plans by President Donald Trump’s family business to build a second golf course in Aberdeenshire, despite campaigning from environmental activists.

A study evaluating the free speech policies of Scottish universities awarded failing marks to several for their systematic silencing of pro-life groups.

British comedy titan John Cleese has warned that even more restrictive hate speech laws, such as those proposed by the SNP administration in Scotland, will be “disastrous to the creative process”.

LONDON (AP) — Millions of people in northern England are anxiously waiting to hear how much further virus restrictions will be tightened as one of the British government’s leading medical advisers warned Sunday that the country is at a crucial juncture in the second wave of the coronavirus.

LONDON (AP) — Mayors representing big cities in northern England have slammed the British government’s latest wage support package for employees in businesses that may be ordered to close as part of efforts to suppress local coronavirus outbreaks.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced that pubs, restaurants, and licenced cafes will be banned from selling alcohol inside for more than two weeks.

An audit of the Wikipedia-affiliated dictionary Wiktionary for the Malagasy language, the national language of Madagascar, found the site to be littered with errors. The errors were attributed to bots mostly programmed by the site’s sole active administrator, which mass-produced almost all six million entries included on the Malagasy Wiktionary. Noting the problems were too comprehensive to be resolved manually, the audit recommended deleting most entries on the site.

A Scottish judge has given a short sentence to child rapist Balwinder Singh, who had fled the country after impregnating a 12-year-old girl.

Another hole has been punched in the leftist promise of a so-called “green jobs revolution”, as wind turbine manufacturing jobs are sent to Communist-run China and the Middle East.

Members of a Reddit group for discussing Scotland found many articles on the Scots-language Wikipedia, purporting to be written in the language, were really written in a broken English imitation. Further examination of the articles revealed they were all edited or authored primarily by a single user who is one of Scots Wikipedia’s few administrators, users with special privileges on the site. The administrator is an American teenager not fluent in the language.

A leading atheist in Scotland has hailed the SNP’s proposed Hate Crime Bill as an opportunity to target Christians for prosecution.

Black Lives Matter supporters chanting “abolish the police” have torn down a statue of Sir John A MacDonald, the Scotsman who became Canada’s first prime minister, in Montreal.

The mother of a deceased male-to-female transgender teenager is set to sue a Glasgow fertility clinic in order to gain possession of her ‘daughter’s sperm’. Louise Anderson, from Stirling in Scotland, said that she wants to prevent the clinic from

Asylum seeking migrants in Glasgow, Scotland, will be put up in hotels at taxpayers’ expense until 2021 due to overcrowding in standard accommodations, leaked documents have revealed. During the Chinese coronavirus lockdown the housing and social care contracting company Mears

Deep state actors are again making moves against President Donald Trump, this time coming after the president through a line of attack against U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom Woody Johnson.

Famed British comedian and star of Blackadder and Mr Bean Rowan Atkinson has signed an open letter decrying the Scotland’s new Hate Crime and Public Order Bill, warning the law will infringe upon freedom of speech.

LONDON (AP) — Lockdown restrictions have been reimposed in the Scottish city of Aberdeen after a coronavirus “cluster” was reported.

Christians in Scotland have warned that new hate speech legislation could enshrine “cancel culture” in law while rendering expression of biblical morality illegal.

The Scottish government’s hate crime proposals could “devastate” the public’s relationship with the police, officers have warned.

Blair said that Scottish independence is now a “possibility”, warning that PM Boris “is not going to be the person who saves the Union”.

Scottish YouTuber and comedian, Count Dankula, said that the impeding Hate Crime and Public Order law in Scotland — which criminalises ‘stirring up hatred’ — is a new form of puritanism, saying that “the same boomer level argument” that sought