On this day in 1888 the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird was born in Helensburgh.

John Logie Baird FRSE was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube.

In 2006, Baird was named as one of the 10 greatest Scottish scientists in history, having been listed in the National Library of Scotland's 'Scottish Science Hall of Fame'. In 2015 he was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. On 26 January 2017 – IEEE unveiled a bronze street plaque at 22 Frith Street (Bar Italia), London, dedicated to Baird and the invention of television.

The Scottish Rugby Union is expected to discuss the subject of transgender women and girls playing in Scotland at a meeting today.

Though it is claimed the SRU will not make a decision yet about the future of transgender players in the game, as they say they are still consulting with relevant groups.

The SRU needs to step up and not be swayed by pressure from transgender groups or the Scottish Government. it should follow the English and Irish Rugby Football unions in limiting the playing of women's contact rugby to players whose sex was recorded as female at birth. The Irish RFU said this decision was based on good medical and scientific evidence and echoes the World Rugby guidance.

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Of course, we know that the media is biased against anyone who has our talking point. We know this. And even when we, as a group, are called out by the anti Whites, we still arent allowed to share the platform and respond.

Even the local media panic when someone dares to put the case forward for White people.

If we weren't a genuine challenge, if we weren't coming from a position backed by truth, there would be no need for this censorship.

The Glasgow charity Refuweegee, which runs services only for refugees and runs a refugee-only food bank, is seeking donations.

Many of the refugees they help stay in hotels where they receive three meals a day for free, free power, free WiFi, laundry etc. The charity claims these are "inadequate", even though it has been proven that these meals are the same good quality that paying guests and staff receive.

Meanwhile, many Indigenous Scots are stuck in flats they can't afford the energy bills for, missing meals and generally struggling to get by day to day.

Peter Irvine, who is apparently is one of Scotland's leading tourism and hospitality experts, has issued calls for Scotland to become a hospitable and viable sanctuary for "refugees".

He suggested that a campaign should be backed by business organisations, hotel groups and hospitality providers, farms and entire islands, with accommodation offered to "refugees" as part of employment packages

Yet again we see an "expert" who claims to represent Scotland and its people call for our country to be flooded by the Third World.

Yes, we have a shortage of workers in some industries, but we should be looking at measures to make work pay for our people and get many long-term unemployed back to well-paid work. The housing crisis needs addressed first and foremost for our people. Childcare provision also must be made be better, to make work easier and enable people to have larger families by devoting more resources to our families, not incomers' families. Educational opportunities for our people need to be better too.

While the SNP claim to be fighting for the poor of Scotland and different from other main parties , it appears that they like every other party in the UK have their nose in the trough of exploting the public purse and taking lobbyists money.

Dr Lisa Cameron ,the SNP MP for East kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow , has been on a total of 111 trips funded either by public money or by lobbyists, some of whom represent tax havens, large corporations and dictatorships.

While many of her constituents struggle to afford the basics and have no hope of ever having a holiday ,cameron jets around the world living in luxury.

The people of Scotland need to realise that the mainstream political parties, for all their claims to be fighting for the common man and woman , aren't and are just interested in power and their own enrichment .

The people need to wake up to alternatives to the old political system and that alternative is the Patriotic Alternative , a group that genuinely cares about our people.

Edinburgh University is being urged to review its "trans policy", with campaigners saying it is dangerous and that the University is not safe for women.

Edinburgh University's policy allows biological men to access women's single sex areas such as showers and changing rooms, with equality campaigners claiming it was influenced by trans lobby groups.

We are seeing this again and again, where the "rights" of a tiny minority are put before those of the general population and potentially leave them at serious risk of harm.

This madness has to stop.

On this day in 1648 the battle of Preston started Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army defeated the Royalist Army and the Scots Army under the Duke of Hamilton allied with the Royalists.

The Battle of Preston (17–19 August 1648), fought largely at Walton-le-Dale near Preston in Lancashire. The Parliamentarian victory presaged the end of the Second English Civil War.

Various attempts were made to raise the Royalist standard in Wales and elsewhere, but Preston was the death-blow to the Royalist hopes in the Second Civil War.

Cromwell estimated the Royalist losses at 2,000 killed and 9,000 captured. Those among the prisoners who had served voluntarily were bound for servile labour in the New World, and when there was no more demand there, for service in the Republic of Venice When the English Parliament decreed a day of thanksgiving for the victory, it was announced that Cromwell's army had "one hundred at the most" killed.

On this day in 1773 Samuel Johnson and James Boswell set out on their three month tour of the Highlands and Hebrides.


In 1773, Boswell enticed his English friend Samuel Johnson to accompany him on a tour through the highlands and western islands of Scotland. Johnson was then in his mid-sixties and well known for his literary works and his Dictionary. The two travellers set out from Edinburgh and skirted the eastern and northeastern coasts of Scotland, passing through St Andrews, Aberdeen and Inverness. They then passed into the highlands and spent several weeks on various islands in the Hebrides, including Skye, Coll, and Mull. After a visit to Boswell's estate at Auchinleck, the travellers returned to Edinburgh. Johnson published his Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland on 18 January 1775.

James Boswell, also kept a record of the trip, published in 1785 as A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. The two narratives are often published as a single volume.

The SNP super sponsor programme for Ukrainian refugees has turned into yet another fiasco. It appears that there is nothing that the SNP cannot mess up.

Sturgeon said Scotland would welcome uncapped numbers of Ukrainians and give them homes. Over 10,000 have arrived already and a further 20,000 have been given the right to come. Though Sturgeon, as she has with some many promises, has now gone back on that promise by ending the scheme, urging Ukrainians not to come or to sort out their own accommodation.

Those who are here are being dumped on ferries in Leith (and soon to be on the Clyde) which have been hired to accommodate several thousand people at a cost of up to £100 million.

Many Scots are homeless or on years-long waiting lists for their own house, but Sturgeon seems to care more about spending eye-watering amounts to house incomers in what appears to be some attempt to boost her own image as a world leader and human rights champion.

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William Miller died on the 20th of August 1872. Miller was a Scottish poet best known for the nursery rhyme Wee Willie Winkie.

Miller, known as "The Laureate of the Nursery", was born in Glasgow and lived in Dennistoun, Scotland. He suffered from ill health and was unable to become a surgeon and instead took up woodturning and cabinet making. At the same time he began writing poetry and children's rhymes, mainly in the Scots language. His poetry was published in various works including the Whistle-binkie books.

In 1842, Whistle-binkie: Stories for the Fireside was published and contained the rhyme Wee Willie Winkie. The poem would go on to become known in other countries, in translation, and made Miller famous at the time.

In 1871, Miller's leg became ulcerated and he had to retire from cabinet making. The leg became infected and led to his death in 1872 aged 62. By then Miller was destitute and was buried at Tollcross. Later a memorial to Miller was erected on the Glasgow Necropolis.[

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PA duo Mean Peem and Kenny Smith updated the lyrics on this Natalie Merchant song and are part of the PA Music Club community group. If you are in the vetted PA community, we now have a national Music Club Telegram chat group were folk can share their work and collaborate on projects like this. Contact your RO to join in.

Scotland's children are already suffering a crisis in education. Now it looks like they will lose two days a week of in-school education. This can only make the situation worse. Even if the days that schools are closed are replaced by "virtual learning" this is not good enough. As we found during the government-enforced Covid lockdowns, many children do not fare well with virtual learning.

The Scottish education system used to be the envy of the world. Now it is a disaster for many children.

The so-called "Curriculum for Excellence" is anything but, and is unpopular not just with pupils but also with teachers. The SNP's much-vaunted program to close the attainment gap is another failure, with the gap actually widening. Then of course we have the issue that schools are being turned into camps to brainwash our youth into the latest "progressive" ideas, ideas that are having a negative effect on society.

It is easy to see why so many are now turning to homeschooling.

Alex Bell, a former special advisor to the SNP who was involved in negotating the last referendum, says that Sturgeon is playing political games and wasting time and money over her latest indyref bid.

Bell said that the Scottish Government had received clear legal advice that they did not have the right to hold a vote without UK government permission.

If this is true, Sturgeon is not only wasting money but is also betraying her supporters. The bid, Bell claims, is no more than a bit of political theatre to cover up her failure on the issue. Another failure in a long list of failures that have betrayed the future of our nation.

It's time that SNP supporters wake up and boot Sturgeon and her small clique of cronies out.

On this day in 1305 William Wallace was executed in London.

Wallace had evaded capture by the English until 5 August 1305, when John de Menteith, a Scottish knight loyal to Edward, turned Wallace over to English soldiers at Robroyston near Glasgow.

Wallace was transported to London and taken to Westminster Hall, where he was tried for treason and for atrocities against civilians in war. He was crowned with a garland of oak to suggest he was the king of outlaws. He responded to the treason charge, "I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject.

Following a trial ,Wallace was taken from the hall to the Tower of London, then stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at Smithfield.He was hanged, drawn and quartered—strangled by hanging, but released while he was still alive, emasculated, eviscerated and his bowels burned before him, beheaded, then cut into four parts. His preserved head was placed on a pike atop London Bridge