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On this day in 1723 George Watson passed away in Edinburgh.

Watson was a Scottish accountant and philanthropist. He was the Bank of Scotland's first Chief Accountant. He bequeathed money that was used to establish George Watson's College and fund George Heriot's School in Edinburgh.

Watson was born in Edinburgh on 12 November 1654, the eldest son of Marion Ewing (d.1697) and John Watson, a merchant. After the death of his father and the remarriage of his mother, Watson and his brother James were brought up by their aunt Elizabeth Davidson. In 1672 he went to Rotterdam to be educated in book-keeping. He returned to Edinburgh to become, in 1676, the private secretary to Sir James Dick. Based partly on this experience he became one of a famed accountant and was appointed chief accountant to the Bank of Scotland

Watson had an investment in a English ship that was allegedly used in the slave trade. There have been calls to change the name of the school named after him, which the school has rejected.

A new poll by Sevanta for the Scotsman newspaper makes grim reading for the new FM and leader of the SNP Yousaf

It predicts that Yousaf could be the person who loses the SNP's 16-year grip on power. If it plays out as the poll predicts, the SNP would have 46 seats, Labour 42, the Tories 24, Greens 10 and the LibDems 7. It would result in a hung parliament with the SNP far short of the 65 seats needed to form a majority government.

In theory, Labour could take power with support from either the Conservatives or the Lib Dems. Though it would be good to see the SNP out of power as they have overseen a decline in the Scottish economy, public services and an increase in "wokeness".

A Labour coalition would not be the best for the people of Scotland. Scotland needs a patriotic ethnonationalist government: a government that will put the indigenous people first, stamp out the ridiculous "progressive" agenda while growing our economy and boosting public services.

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On this day in 1617 John Napier of Merchiston passed away.

John Napier of Merchiston, nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchiston. His Latinized name was Ioannes Neper.

John Napier is best known as the discoverer of logarithms. He also invented the so-called "Napier's bones" and made common the use of the decimal point in arithmetic and mathematics.

Napier's birthplace, Merchiston Tower in Edinburgh, is now part of the facilities of Edinburgh Napier University. There is a memorial to him at St Cuthbert's at the west side of Edinburgh.

Napier is yet another example of how Scotland has always been at the forefront of discovery, science and education and can be again.

Since the SNP brought in their sentencing guidelines for under-25s that focus on "rehabilitation" and appear to favour the perpetrator over the victim, we have seem some terrible judicial sentencing decisions, but this has to be one of the worst.

A man who is now 21 violently sexually assaulted and raped a 13-year-old girl on multiple occasions when he was 17. The judge has sentenced him to 275 hours of community service and a 3-year supervision order on the sex offenders register. If he was over 25 he would have received at least a 5-year prison sentence. Worst still, he has shown no remorse and is seeking to appeal this lenient sentence. He obviously is not "rehabilitated".

The poor victim must live with the stigma, memory and trauma of these events for the rest of her life, something she can never escape. He is free to get on with his life; she is having to serve a life sentence.

Scottish justice is a joke. Change is desperately needed. Help us to be the change.

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On this day in 1820 the Battle of Bonnymuir took place.

On the 6th of April 1820, during the course of Scotland’s brief but intense Radical War, a small army of weavers clashed with troops from the regular army and the local Stirlingshire Yeomanry, one of the many volunteer government militias of the time. The Radicals were led by Andrew Hardie of Townhead in Glasgow and John Baird of Condorrat at Cumbernauld. Almost certainly lured into it by government agents provocateurs, Hardie and Baird were heading for the Carron Iron Works at Falkirk, aiming to seize cannons.

The Radicals had walked through a rainy night from Glasgow and Condorrat and as they were resting, sitting and lying on the grass, they spotted hussars riding towards them. The soldiers clearly knew where to find them. A skirmish ensued. The little Radical army fought bravely, the action taking place around a dry stone wall known ever since as the Radical Dyke. Defeated, they were taken to imprisonment at Stirling Castle.

Robina Qureshi, the head of the Positive Action in Housing charity that supports "refugees", has attacked Braverman's recent statement that the fear of accusations of racism have stopped the investigation into grooming gangs that are mainly made up of Asian Muslims.

She has pulled out the claim that most paedophiles are White. In any country you would expect the largest number committing any crime to be of the ethnic group that is the largest.

She ignores that Asian gangs set out to specifically target an ethnic group that is not theirs. Tens of thousands of White girls have been targeted by Asians and most cases were ignored for decades because of fear of claims of "racism" and a bad attitude towards the mainly poor White girls by the police and social services when the girls tried to report the abuse.

It is people like Qureshi carrying on denying that there is a problem within Asian communities that will lead to more girls being abused and having their
lives ruined. They are as guilty as the abusers.

Peter Murrell, Sturgeon's husband, has been arrested in a suprise move by Police Scotland.

The investigation into where the £600,000 that was donated to the SNP to be ringfenced for a new referendum has gone has dragged on for over two years.

Questions need to be asked about how much Sturgeon knew about the money, how much she knew about Murrell's activities and her own part in them. Today's events make it appear likely that these matters had some bearing on her recent resignation.

We will all be watching very closely to see what happens next.

There is a corruption at the heart of Scottish politics and change is needed. Join us in being the change.

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On this day in 1320 the declaration of Arbroath was written.

The Declaration of Arbroath is the name usually given to a letter,, written by Scottish barons and addressed to Pope John XXII. It constituted King Robert I's response to his excommunication for disobeying the pope's demand in 1317 for a truce in the First War of Scottish Independence. The letter asserted the antiquity of the independence of the Kingdom of Scotland, denouncing English attempts to subjugate it.

Generally believed to have been written in Arbroath Abbey by Bernard of Kilwinning , then Chancellor of Scotland and Abbot of Arbroath] and sealed by fifty-one magnates and nobles, the letter is the sole survivor of three created at the time. The others were a letter from the King of Scots, Robert I, and a letter from four Scottish bishops which all made similar points. The Declaration was intended to assert Scotland's status as an independent, sovereign state and defend Scotland's right to use military action when unjustly attacked.

Sturgeon's husband and former SNP chief executive Murrell was released without charge after nearly 11 hours of questioning.

It appears that Murrell is not off the hook yet, as police remain at the house he shares with Sturgeon and the investigation seems to be ongoing.

Sturgeon must be running scared as she has just pulled out of a public appearance at the Edinburgh Science Festival.

It will be interesting to see if the police go forward with the investigation, given how much influence Sturgeon and the SNP have had over Police Scotland in the last decade.

Voter confidence in the SNP has collapsed in the last few months, hitting a historic low in the last few days. Hopefully we are seeing the end of the SNP - a party that calls itself nationalist but, time and time again, acts against the wishes and the good of the Scottish people.

Scotland needs real nationalism, not the SNP's fake version. Join us in working to build real nationalism in Scotland.

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On this day in 1767 Henry Bell was born in Torphichen.

Henry Bell was a Scottish engineer who helped to pioneer the development of the steamship. He is mostly widely known for introducing the first successful passenger steamboat service on earth in 1812

In 1812, he and John Robertson built the steam-boat the PS Comet, of 30 tons burthen, with an engine of three horsepower. The Comet, named after a great comet which had been visible for several months in 1811–12, was built by Messrs John Wood and Co., at Port Glasgow 3 miles east of Greenock on the south bank of the River Clyde as it widens into the Firth of Clyde. The Comet made a delivery voyage from Port Glasgow 21 miles upriver to the Broomielaw, Glasgow, then sailed from Glasgow the 24 miles down to Greenock, making five miles an hour against a head-wind. In August, Bell advertised a passenger service on the Comet between Glasgow, Greenock and Helensburgh three times a week, returning on alternate days.

It has been a difficult week for the SNP, and the end of the week hasn't brought any respite from their problems.

The Johnston Carmichael accountancy firm, which has worked with the party for a decade, has quit as the SNP's auditors

The party has until 7 July to present their accounts to the Electoral Commission or face possible sanctions. With the loss of their long term auditors, this will put them under pressure to file their accounts on time

The party is in a free fall with Sturgeon and other long term high profile SNP officials stepping down from their positions, Murrell being arrested, an acrimonious leadership battle, a loss of tens of thousands of members, corruption at the heart of the party, and a new leader who has failed in every ministerial position he has held

Hopefully the people of Scotland will wake up and realise that the SNP are a toxic failure, and have done nothing but let the people of Scotland down again and again

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Happy Easter from all at PA Scotland.

This year, we received an anonymous Easter card through our PO Box with a generous cash donation inside. A lovely gesture during the Easter season and a great bit of support for PA Scotland that is very much appreciated.

The PO Box is a great way to support the cause without having to use bank details. We can reached at PO Box 2119 Kirknewton

On this day in 1139 the second treaty of Durham was signed.

The second treaty of Durham was a peace treaty concluded between kings Stephen of England and David I of Scotland, on 9 April 1139

On 22 August 1138, the Scottish army under the command of David I had been defeated at the Battle of the Standard. But in the spring of 1139, Stephen was to face another problem when Empress Matilda, decided to retake the crown of England usurped by Stephen after the death of Henry I of England, landed in England

This marked the beginning of the English civil war known as The Anarchy. Stephen, not wishing to face several forces at once had to make concessions with the Scottish king. David's son Henry was given the earldom of Northumberland which included Carlisle, Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire to the north of Ribble, except the castles of Bamburgh and Newcastle. Moreover, Stephen recognised the independence of Scotland. David I, via his son Henry, now controlled an English territory which stretched to the Tees

On this day in 1273 Dervorguilla of Galloway founded the cistersian sweet heart Abbey outside Dumfries.

The abbey, located on the banks of the New Abbey Pow (river), was founded by Dervorguilla of Galloway, daughter of Alan, Lord of Galloway, in memory of her husband, John de Balliol. After his death, she kept his embalmed heart, contained in a casket of ivory and silver, with her for the rest of her life, and it was buried alongside her when she died. In line with this devotion to her late husband, she named the abbey Dulce Cor (Latin for Sweet Heart). Their son, also John, became King of Scotland, but his reign was tragic and short.

Under the first abbot, Henry, the abbey was built in deep-red, local sandstone in the Early English style. It was founded as a daughter house to the nearby Dundrennan Abbey; thus this novum monasterium (new monastery) became known as the "New Abbey ".

On this day in 1827 James Augustus Grant was born in Nairn.

James Augustus Grant, 1st Baronet.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Augustus Grant CB CSI FRS FRGS was a Scottish explorer of eastern equatorial Africa. He made contributions to the journals of various learned societies, the most notable being the "Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition" in vol. xxix of the Transactions of the Linnean Society. He married in 1865 and settled down at Nairn, where he died in 1892. He was buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral. Grant's gazelle, one of the largest gazelles in Africa, was named after him.