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The thin blue line just got EVEN thinner as recruitment freeze, early retirement and ill health sees more than 1,200 staff and officers leave Police Scotland

Hundreds quit while police absence bill hits £74m  By Graham Grant For…

Time to wipe the yellow off the map

Voters sick of a failing SNP government can make July 4 their…

Sorry, but this growing apology culture tells us all we need to know about our public figures and political masters

Hollow apologies abound in public life – and last week there was…

Police must be ‘pacifists in the culture war’ says senior Scots officer

By Graham Grant For The Scottish Daily Mail Published: 17:20 EDT, 21…

SCOTLAND’S police force has been bombarded with 10,000 hate crime complaints since law came into force

Scotland’s under-pressure police force has been bombarded with an astonishing 10,000 hate…

Broke Police Scotland blow millions on ‘diversity’

Scotland’s cash-strapped police force has spent millions on diversity staff despite being…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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,…

‘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…

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…

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

Tories issue new warning over legislation that ‘polices free speech’  By Jessica…