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✍️Journalist - Deputy Political Editor 📰The Scotsman @scotsman.com 🌍Climate & energy nerd 🔵Falkirk FC fan 📍Scotland 🏴
@davidbol.bsky.socialExcl: Crisis talks have been held in Aberdeen over Scotland’s stuttering floating wind ambitions. More project leases are expected to be relinquished in the coming months while the sector is rallying behind four key developments to get them moving.
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@davidbol.bsky.socialSome pretty bleak stuff coming out of Scotland's floating offshore wind industry. Some big decisions ahead for the UK Labour government in the coming months.
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@alistairkgrant.bsky.socialReposted by @davidbol.bsky.social🎥 In this week’s episode of The Steamie I spoke to @ewangibbs.bsky.social about his new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class
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@karenzraick.bsky.socialReposted by @davidbol.bsky.socialThe Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in a case that could determine whether the oil industry faces billions of dollars in liability for damages caused by global warming. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/c...
@davidbol.bsky.socialI wrote this before the Syngenta news on why plans to redevelop the Grangemouth site have stalled and why it will take more from Scotland's two governments than simply throwing money at it and hoping for the best. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
@davidbol.bsky.socialAnother messy situation at Grangemouth with hundreds more jobs at risk. The economic hub could become a beacon of clean fuels and a keystone of Scotland's net zero future - but risks becoming a symbol of a failed 'just transition'. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
@davidbol.bsky.socialFirst runout for new Scottish Labour leader, Michael Marra, at FMQs. His punchy performance and offer of an olive branch to work with the SNP was in stark contrast to Anas Sarwar. But in such a hostile and tribal Scottish politics, surely normal service will resume.
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@davidbol.bsky.socialJohn Swinney said his government supports drug possession for personal use being decriminalised as part of efforts to tackle Scotland’s drug deaths crisis. It's an incredibly complex tragedy and will take much more effort than that to make progress.
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@davidbol.bsky.socialI spoke to the former chief of the Scottish government’s drugs death taskforce about why so many people, mostly men, are being killed by synthetic substances in Scotland and what is needed to fianlly tackle the problem.
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@davidbol.bsky.socialMore grim drug deaths statistics for Scotland released today.
Cocaine and nitazenes now contributing to a big proportion of fatalities. SNP ministers have issued a warning over “an increasingly toxic and unpredictable drugs supply“ in Scotland.
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@davidbol.bsky.socialAbsolute nonsense from new Lib Dems MSP Duncan Dunlop at Holyrood, comparing Scottish nationalism to the Troubles and Bosnia. I see the failed muscular unionism strategy is alive and well in the Scottish Lib Dems.
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@davidbol.bsky.social🚨Political stunt claxon: Malcolm Offord has marched his MSPs out of the Holyrood chamber in protest at an independence debate taking place. His attempt for the debate to be cancelled was rejected. Lord Offord spoke in the debate before stating he wasn't going to waste his time and out they went.
@davidbol.bsky.socialExcl: One of the two candidates vying to be the next Scottish Labour leader has called for the party to be more "provocative" and "disruptive" but has appealed for more co-operation with the SNP at Holyrood
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@davidbol.bsky.socialAfraid not. We want them too
@davidbol.bsky.socialWe do want nuclear, actually
@davidbol.bsky.socialExcl: A UK energy minister has called for talks with the SNP over Scotland’s nuclear power legacy, which is due to end in 2030.
"The Scottish government is essentially de-industrialising parts of Scotland because of an ideological obsession against nuclear."
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@davidbol.bsky.socialWhile Scotland's two governments continue to squabble over the future of oi land gas in the North Sea, more focus is needed on keeping renewables hopes afloat, particularly in a more hostile political climate.
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@davidbol.bsky.socialSNP ministers have been scolded over using ScotWind revenues to prop up annual budgets. The fund was intended to boost Scotland’s net zero strategy. More than £500m of the remaining funds could be utilised over the next five years including £80m this financial year.
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@davidbol.bsky.socialReform has been unhinged in today's violence against women debate. Misinformation about race and opposing all men being challenged about their behaviour. Senga Beresford was asked about a woman being attacked at Reform conference and said "she shouldn't have been there". The most unserious response.
