Laura Webster
@LauraEWebsterr
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Editor at The National and Sunday National - *views my own* Got a pitch?✍ Send to [email protected]
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined May 2017
NEW: A Scottish Labour MSP has resigned from a party role over her friendship with a convicted sex offender
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Our journalists explain why today's front page highlights a timeline of Israel's repeated ceasefire violations
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BREAKING: Scotland have drawn Brazil, Morocco and Haiti in the 2026 World Cup
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'A ceasefire in name only': On the front page of @ScotNational we publish a full timeline of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza since a 'ceasefire' was agreed
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Here's your first look at tomorrow's front page 📰 'A ceasefire in name only': We publish a timeline of the ongoing violence in Gaza since a 'ceasefire' was agreed – as Benjamin Netanyahu's brutal, apartheid regime's genocide continues to claim lives
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This is a brilliant interview with young refugee Motaz Amer from Glasgow - responding to Reform attacks on bilingualism in the city. "We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division" https://t.co/7Fjm7JQFgW
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A GLASGOW refugee has urged Nigel Farage to stop playing “dirty games” by picking on children who speak different languages.
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NEW: John Swinney has responded to Nigel Farage's attack on Glasgow schoolchildren, calling it 'quite simply racist' ⬇️
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GB News has been blasted for broadcasting 'racist hate' after a pundit called British-born MPs from ethnic minority backgrounds 'ambassadors in our Parliament'
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GB News has been blasted for broadcasting “racist hate” after a pundit called British-born MPs from ethnic minority backgrounds “ambassadors…
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Tomorrow's front page 📰 Nigel Farage attacks Glasgow pupils for being bilingual ... but is fine with his own children all speaking 'perfect German'
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EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage has been slated for a 'repulsive' and 'deeply racist' attack on Glasgow schoolchildren as part of his Scottish campaign after he claimed those who don't principally speak English are 'culture smashing' the city
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Top universities across the country consistently advertise their commitments to equality, fairness and ending discrimination. So, it’s absurd that a deep-rooted stigma about working-class accents continues to pervade our campuses, writes Grace Galvin ✍️
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💰Countering Dems hollow words on “affordability” Polls and elections highlight the Republican need to take on Democrats affordability message, and to take their affordability wins from the Big Beautiful Bill on the road.
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BREAKING: Police have been accused of 'banning' protest against the King Anti-monarchists say they were threatened with arrest in Windsor this morning
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The 'repressive' UK Government has been called out by a group of 18 organisations ahead of the conclusion of Palestine Action’s judicial review against Labour’s terrorism ban
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THE “repressive” UK Government has been called out by 18 organisations ahead of the conclusion of Palestine Action’s judicial review against…
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Scotland's population is undergoing unprecedented change as it reaches a new high, according to new analysis from the National Records of Scotland 🗣️ 'Scotland’s population has never been so big or had as many people aged 75 and over'
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BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor stands to gain nearly £500,000 in compensation after being turfed out of the Royal Lodge The disgraced former prince's entitlement, if any, will be determined by property experts
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ANDREW Mountbatten-Windsor stands to gain nearly £500,000 after being booted out of the Royal Lodge, it has emerged.
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Tomorrow's front page 📰 Anger at Hampden deal with firm 'profiting from Gaza genocide'
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🗣️ 'Outrageous' We react to the news Scotland's national stadium is set to be renamed the 'Barclays Hampden' after a multi-million-pound sponsorship deal was reached ⚽
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NEW: There's anger tonight over Scotland's national stadium changing its name in honour of a company accused of "profiting from genocide" Hampden Park is soon to be Barclays Hampden. Barclays is "bankrolling" Israel's violence in Gaza. https://t.co/y3ohWmWg98
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SCOTLAND’S national stadium should not be named after a company “profiting from genocide”, campaigners and local politicians have said ...
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Rachel Reeves is facing calls to resign after claims she 'misled' both the public and her own Cabinet colleagues over the Budget ⬇️
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The BBQ Principle isn’t a system, It’s the floor everything else stands on. Group debates don’t change the order, they just add noise on top of it. Everyone still has to notice something before they argue about it, panels, forums, crosstalk, it’s all interpretation piled on the
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