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Fury as the SNP quietly bans wood-burning stoves from newbuild homes in Scotland amid green drive – sparking fears for pensioners and remote Highland communities

The SNP-led Scottish Government has quietly banned the inclusion of wood-burning stoves in new-build houses – sparking fears for pensioners and remote Highland communities relying on off-grid forms of heating. Planning guidance published at the start of April outlaws the installation of

April 9, 2024

Police chief reveals less than one per cent of all ‘hate crimes’ reported in Scotland are turning into ‘actual investigations’ – as JK Rowling leads backlash against Humza Yousaf’s ‘authoritarian’ law

Less than one per cent of all ‘hate crimes’ reported in Scotland are turning into ‘actual investigations’, the Scottish Police Federation has claimed. David Kennedy, the general secretary of Scotland’s police federation, has been heavily critical of Humza Yousaf’s shambolic hate crime

April 7, 2024

JK Rowling is ‘spreading disinformation’ about Scotland’s new hate crime laws says Humza Yousaf after Harry Potter author slammed his ‘bumbling incompetence and illiberal authoritarianism’

Harry Potter author JK Rowling and other critics of Scotland’s new hate crime laws must stop ‘peddling misinformation’, Scotland’s First Minister has said. Humza Yousaf strongly defended the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act against claims it would hamper freedom of speech after

April 6, 2024

Scottish hate crime law sparks chaos as SNP minister admits ‘vexatious’ claims are being made to police: 4,000 reports are made – with more complaining about Humza Yousaf than JK Rowling

Scotland’s justice minister has been forced to admit time-wasting complaints are being made to police under the country’s controversial hate crime laws – including a false complaint made under her name. Siobhian Brown says ‘misinformation and hysteria’ have led to wrongful assumptions

April 4, 2024

JK Rowling unleashes brutal war of words with Humza Yousaf over Scotland’s new hate crime laws: Author slams SNP leader’s ‘bumbling incompetence and illiberal authoritarianism’ after he called her trans tweets ‘upsetting and offensive’

JK Rowling has entered a fresh war of words with Scotland’s First Minister, slating what she called his ‘bumbling incompetence and illiberal authoritarianism’ as his government enacted a controversial new hate crime law. The multimillionaire Harry Potter author, 58, hit out at

April 4, 2024

Lawyers warn ENTIRE football stadium of fans could need to be arrested to enforce SNP’s new hate crime law – with football chiefs ‘completely in the dark’ about how it’ll be enforced just days before Rangers play Celtic

An entire football stadium of fans would need to be arrested to enforce the SNP’s new hate crime law, a lawyer has suggested – with football chiefs left ‘completely in the dark’ about how it will be enforced at this weekend’s Old

April 4, 2024

Telling a private joke to a friend, insults about age, football chants, putting on a Shakespeare play and performing at Edinburgh fringe: Lawyers reveal actions that could breach Scotland’s new hate crime law

Risque jokes around the dinner table, insulting an elderly colleague, offensive football chants and even staging a Shakespeare play could all now be counted as hate crimes in Scotland, a lawyer said today. Under the SNP’s deeply controversial Hate Crime and Public

April 3, 2024

Fury of women’s rights campaigners’ as Scotland’s new law ‘gives more protection to men dressing up in stockings for a laugh than to women’ – as author warns: ‘If you come for JK Rowling you can come for all of us’

Women’s rights campaigners have hit out at Scotland’s new hate crime law claiming that it will give ‘more protection to men wearing fishnets on a night out for a laugh’ than to women and girls. The storm surrounding the SNP’s controversial legislation intensified last

April 2, 2024

A family text or a dinner table joke are enough to get you jailed in the SNP’s Orwellian new Scotland. I’ll be standing my ground with JK Rowling, writes STEPHEN DAISLEY

People prosecuted for words uttered in the privacy of their own home. The police turned into a political harassment unit for fringe activists. ‘Hate’ records kept on law-abiding citizens who have committed no crime. It might sound like something from the pages

April 1, 2024

Humza doesn’t have a future as SNP leader. Yousaf engulfed by growing party rebellion as he marks first year in charge – as senior Nationalist issues warning

Humza Yousaf has been warned that he has no long-term future as SNP leader as he marks his first year in charge today. Senior party sources last night said the First Minister faces being forced out if the SNP does as badly

March 31, 2024

EDDIE BARNES: What have we learned from Humza’s first year in office? Only that there’s not likely to be a second…

At an event this week to mark the 25th anniversary of devolution, Nationalist MSP Kate Forbes declared: ‘People need to be inspired by leadership. And as much as I back the party and the current First Minister, we can only win elections

March 31, 2024

‘SNP’s humiliating hate crime law will see Humza Yousaf follow Sturgeon into the dustbin of history’

A comedian whose performances in Scotland were cancelled as a result of his outspoken views has slammed Humza Yousaf’s hate crime law on the eve of its introduction. Graham Linehan, co-creator of hit TV sitcom Father Ted, said the ‘unworkable’ legislation will

March 30, 2024

ANDREW NEIL: They’ve trashed the schools, the health service and the economy. Now the SNP are set to destroy free speech with ‘hate crime’ law that’s an ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE

Under a new law which comes into force on Monday, if you live in Scotland you risk being charged with a ‘hate crime’ for something you say anywhere, including in your own home. Even your children will be able to report you

March 30, 2024

SNP’s controversial Hate Crime Bill ‘a disaster waiting to happen’

Tories issue new warning over legislation that ‘polices free speech’ By Jessica North For The Scottish Daily Mail Published: 19:05 EDT, 21 March 2024 | Updated: 19:19 EDT, 21 March 2024 Humza Yousaf was yesterday warned that new hate crime legislation is

March 24, 2024

Humza spat out words like acid. Uh oh, someone must have let the Hate Monster in. Sketch by STEPHEN DAISLEY

For a piece of legislation intended to dissuade hatred, the Hate Crime Act sure has a lot of people at each other’s throats. Douglas Ross was fit to be tied that Police Scotland’s officers were only receiving two hours of online training

March 24, 2024

Fringe stand-up comedians could face questioning by police under ‘chilling’ new law

By Graham Grant For The Scottish Daily Mail Published: 19:12 EDT, 22 March 2024 | Updated: 19:18 EDT, 22 March 2024 Police may be forced to question stand-up comedians at the Fringe festival in Edinburgh this summer as a result of the

March 23, 2024

Revealed, Poster girl for SNP’s new hate crime laws works for ‘Islamist’ group accused of… HATE SPEECH

A poster girl for the SNP’s new hate crime laws was last night revealed to be a senior member of an organisation with ‘Islamist orientation and beliefs’ that ‘engages in hate speech and anti-semitic conspiracy theories’. A video uploaded to a Scottish

March 17, 2024

The SNP’s April 1 Hate Crime Act reads like an April Fools’ prank… sadly the joke is on EVERY Scot, writes Stuart Waiton, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Abertay University

When news came out that the Hate Crime Act was to be implemented on April 1, I can’t have been the only one wondering if this was an April Fools’ Day joke. Having been passed over three years ago and not yet

March 16, 2024

Fury over Police Scotland’s ‘Hate Monster’ campaign: Bizarre advert supporting Humza Yousaf’s new hate crime laws is slammed for suggesting offences are mainly committed by ‘young white men’ from deprived areas

An online character created to back Humza Yousaf’s controversial new hate crime laws called the ‘Hate Monster’ has attracted widespread ridicule after resurfacing online. The Hate Monster was created by Police Scotland and launched last year but has only come to prominence

March 16, 2024