🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Candidates for the 7 May Scottish Parliamentary elections were published last night. These are now all in our system, and voters can view their ballot papers by entering their postcode: https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/

🧮 437 candidates (18 parties) are fighting for the constituencies, while 589 candidates (27 parties) are on the regional lists.

You can download a spreadsheet of all the candidates here: https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/data/?election_date=2026-05-07&election_id=%5Esp

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Glasgow arts hub tenants condemn ‘unsustainable’ rent rises by landlord

City Property, which manages buildings for council, accused of ‘coercive and unfair’ increases and issuing eviction notices

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March for Scottish Independence. Edinburgh, March 2026.

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Parties launch Holyrood campaigns against backdrop of voter indecision

Change is on offer across the political spectrum, but no one knows whether apathy or tactical voting will prevail

The Guardian
‘Anyone but Labour’ or ‘anyone but Reform’? Clash of animosities likely to define May local elections

While Labour braces for a rout that could see off Starmer, a rising drive to keep out Farage is complicating expectations

The Guardian
Supporters of Scotland’s assisted dying bill frustrated by lack of backing from Labour MSPs

Just three of Labour’s 20 MSPs in Holyrood voted for bill, despite support for legislation in House of Commons

The Guardian
Scottish parliament votes against legalising assisted dying

MSPs reject bill after concerted campaign to block it and despite amendments intended to placate critics

The Guardian

I see the Southron politicians who say that it would utterly break their wee hearts if Scotland left the UK appear, once again, to be utterly ignorant of things that are so normal up here that we don't even notice them while they lose their minds at how unBritish that same thing might be.

Animals on banknotes? How dare they?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/11/winston-churchill-to-be-replaced-by-wildlife-on-banknotes/

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Starmer warned cabinet against ‘overly deferential’ relations with devolved governments

Leak of memo comes after a third of Labour Senedd members raise alarm devolution is being rolled back

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Scotland becomes first UK country to legalise water cremations

Hydrolysis uses alkaline and water to break down body in a few hours and is part of demand for more sustainable funerals

The Guardian