An amendment to the sporting events bill was defeated by Labour voting against it. @louie_french (and I as I suggested it in The Lords) Conservative shadow sports minister wanted int. events brought to this country to insist the female category is protected as the ioc does, & the uk Supreme Court ruling stipulates .. sadly Labour doesn’t seem to care if our girls get fair sport

Sacha Baron Cohen hits the red carpet in character as Ali G at the world premiere of “Ali G: Who Iz I?” last night in Los Angeles. 🎬🔥 📸: Getty

I have no idea if Russell Brand is guilty of the crimes he's accused of committing 20yrs ago. What I do no is he's not the same person and that no purpose will be served and no good will come from locking this man up.

BBC SCOTLAND Morale drops to rock bottom BBC Scotland presenter Anne McAlpine has announced she is leaving after 14 years. She has become one of BBC Scotland's main hosts, fronting its flagship news programme 'Reporting Scotland'. However, the 40-year-old announced she is leaving her role and "heading into a new chapter". "There have been elections and documentaries, Eòrpa and An Là, farms and parliaments, planes and boats, live television and long days in places I never expected to find myself - from Chernobyl to the Calais camp. I've covered news, weather, politics, sport, culture and rural life, collected an impressive number of hats, and accumulated more tales than I know what to do with." Meanwhile, it was revealed that nearly 50,000 Scots stopped paying their TV licence fee over the past year. Former BBC Scotland business and economy editor Douglas Fraser slammed the broadcaster for the cuts, warning that more stars are in the "firing line". "Uncertainty is high: morale is low. Nine people are senior presenters at present. When the music stops, there will be seven seats left," Fraser wrote in a Substack post. "Among those in the firing line are the ubiquitous Martin Geissler, radio veterans Gary Robertson and Hayley Millar, Fiona Stalker, who was previously a reporter in Aberdeen, plus 'all the Lauras': Goodwin, Maciver, Maxwell and Miller." A spokesperson for the BBC said: "As announced earlier this year, the BBC needs to save at least £500million over the next three years across the organisation. "BBC Scotland is making proportionate savings, and a review across all of our departments is ongoing as part of the process."

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To all those still convinced the SNP are providing good governance I give you - 'Promises & Lies Part 1: The Energy Crisis'. Straight from the horses arse.

As a "journalist" I'm surprised @KennyFarq doesn't see what's happened as a 'Watergate' moment. A conspiracy to imprison an innocent man. A process 'tainted with apparent bias', the complainers rewarded financially, promoted beyond their ability, conspirators gerrymandered into seats. All that against a backdrop of a demonstrably corrupt judicial system headed by a Lord Advocate that sits in cabinet. This should be the stuff of wet dreams to any investigative journalist. I guess he's just a washed out old hack not wanting to rock the gravy boat.