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Laura Webster

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@scotnational.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 10:56 AMReposted by @lauraewebster.bsky.social

The Green Party have said that they will refuse to engage with The Telegraph after accusing the newspaper of publishing a “racist and antisemitic” cartoon depicting leader Zack Polanski and his deputy Mothin Ali 👇

@scotnational.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:21 PMReposted by @lauraewebster.bsky.social

Our newsroom been shortlisted for a national journalism award for our Refugees Are Welcome Here campaign – and now we need your support!

Voting has officially opened 👉 newsmediauk.org/making-a-di...

@scotnational.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:50 PMReposted by @lauraewebster.bsky.social

BREAKING: The First Minister will not be investigated over claims he broke the ministerial code by misleading the Scottish Parliament over pensions John Swinney said he had been informed by the advisers that 'no investigation is required'

@lauraewebster.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 2:25 PM

Please vote for us in the Making A Difference Awards 🙏

@lauraewebster.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 4:18 PM

It's a wild story and we have written about it here, if you'd like to know more.

www.thenational.scot/news/2662048...

@lauraewebster.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 4:18 PM

We found that this individual and Michelle are connected via their local Tel Aviv Scrabble club. It appears to be a co-ordinated attack on our coverage of Israel's genocide, coming from inside Israel. It is taking up huge amounts of our time and it's clearly vexatious.

@lauraewebster.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 4:18 PM

Anyway recently we noticed a new person submitting very similar complaints but with a different name. So we started investigating.

@lauraewebster.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 4:18 PM

Michelle's complaints can be incredibly semantic in nature. Not just complaints that you might expect, eg being upset at us using the word genocide. One recent complaint involved her distress over us writing Fifa in lower case. It's endless.

@lauraewebster.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 4:18 PM

We have been handling hundreds of complaints from one woman in Tel Aviv, named Michelle Moshelian, for some time. The numbers of complaints from this one individual is so extreme that it caught the attention of Private Eye recently

A copy of the private eye story
@lauraewebster.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 4:18 PM

So there's this Tel Aviv Scrabble club which appears to be co-ordinating a flood of spurious complaints about The National's coverage of Gaza, resulting in literally hundreds of Ipso processes for us to go through. Let me explain ...

@scotnational.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:00 PMReposted by @lauraewebster.bsky.social

'Should we not be increasing the tax on the richest people like Malcolm Offord' A Debate Night audience member tore into Reform UK's Thomas Kerr over his party's call for tax cuts

@scotnational.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:49 PMReposted by @lauraewebster.bsky.social

Natalie Bennett, Green member of the House of Lords, pledges to use her position to keep speaking up for Scotland's right to self-determination

@scotnational.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:37 AMReposted by @lauraewebster.bsky.social

How do the Scottish Greens plan to respond to a changing Labour Party? Editor Laura Webster ran into party co-leader Gillian Mackay at the English and Welsh Green Conference, where she expressed scepticism over the 'Burnham Bounce'

@lauraewebster.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 8:43 AM

I made a little film about my time at the English Greens conference - exploring whether the party could be a useful ally to the Scottish independence cause, but also giving some on-the-ground insight into the Zionism is racism debate.

youtu.be/ygK_0-qGTQ4?...

@scotnational.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 3:42 PMReposted by @lauraewebster.bsky.social

What has Ian Blackford learned since leaving frontline politics? 🤔 The former SNP Westminster leader joins The National editor Laura Webster in the studio to discuss the independence movement, the UK's economic challenges and his return to the business world 👇

@scotnational.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 4:56 PMReposted by @lauraewebster.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: Concerns have been raised after a group described as 'Scotland's own version' of the far-right Patriot Platform has reportedly started holding weekly training sessions in the south of Scotland

👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

@scotnational.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 9:44 PMReposted by @lauraewebster.bsky.social

Tomorrow’s front page 📰 Tory Holyrood powers blitz plans are ‘very direct threat’

@alisonphipps.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 2:45 AMReposted by @lauraewebster.bsky.social

The National nominated for highlighting positive stories of Scotland's refugees
www.thenational.scot/news/2660957...

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@lauraewebster.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:37 AM

Why does it also sound like a drag queen name 😭 welcome to the stage ... Britannia Shield!

@lauraewebster.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:36 AM

I can't stop cackling at Britannia Shield. "Chat GPT give me 10 ideas for names for an Iron Dome in the UK ... Yeah that'll do"

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