Great to see it confirmed that #ScotRail will replace the (sadly) “past best before date” IC125s with Class 222 #trains on #InterCity services, with 6 bike spaces, catering, charging sockets, etc, and that they hope these will start to enter service from late 2027.
(Sadly still diseasels, while the #ScotGov ongoing electrification programme gradually extends northwards.)
https://www.scotrail.co.uk/about-scotrail/news/scotrail-announces-plans-to-replace-high-speed-trains
I don't think that adopting #OpenSource software for government administration functions would leave Scotland 'stuck with choosing between US... or EU cloud services', @thecommongreen.
After all, 'cloud' is just space you've hired on someone else's server infrastructure, and it would be more economic long term for #ScotGov to invest in its own.
https://thecommongreen.scot/2026/01/17/scotland-could-lead-the-uk-by-upholding-international-law/
"There is no serious question that if #Trump so ordered it, Microsoft could deliberately shut down all services to the Scottish Government and our public sector and the Government must now react as if this is just as much a risk to our democracy as if it was discovered that Putin could send the same order to the same effect" -- @thecommongreen
#ScotPol
#ScotGov
#DigitalIndependence
https://thecommongreen.scot/2026/01/17/scotland-could-lead-the-uk-by-upholding-international-law/
"If the Scottish Government can’t close Prestwick, Wick or other Scottish airports they own to hostile or illegally operating US military traffic the way it did for Israeli military traffic in 2024 then officials there should do everything in their power to make it as difficult as possible for the US to use those facilities" -- does #ScotGov not now wholly own Prestwick, @thecommongreen ? You'd think they could just block US flights there.
https://thecommongreen.scot/2026/01/17/scotland-could-lead-the-uk-by-upholding-international-law/
@kim_harding Unfortunately, the news in that piece is only that new windfarms are being built.
The bit about a battery in every household is not news, but just opinion. It would most certainly be an excellent idea, but there's no indication that #ScotGov are even considering it -- and I don't believe that, under the devolution settlement, we'd be able to fund it.
Any thoughts, @thecommongreen ?
Seven major issues with the latest #Scotgov funding for #LongCovid and #mecfs 🤬🤬
With view to #census data and collection, maybe important to point out that there is a consultation ongoing until 30.09. informing the content of the Scottish #Census 2031
https://consult.gov.scot/national-records-of-scotland/scotlands-census-2031/
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