Laura Pollock
@laura_pollock_
Journo 🗞 Grassroots reporter at The National • [email protected] • ☕️ • 🧘🏼♀️ • 🥾• she/her
I am now based in Edinburgh for @ScotNational! 🏴 Got tips, stories, press releases, photos? Send them my way! [email protected]
Keir Starmer is to host an emergency call with France and Italy tomorrow, focusing on Israel blockade on aid to Gaza and the starvation of millions France has set the tone for the call 👇
🚨🇫🇷🇵🇸 BREAKING: French President Macron: “I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine.”
As Donald Trump gets ready for his trip to Scotland, we asked Glaswegians what they would say to the US president 👇 🗣️ 'Just grow up'
I don’t think many will forget … It’s crazy to me that the SNP believe what they are doing is enough or is forgivable The protest on Saturday went to BOTH the UK Gov offices and Bute House The public does not see ScotGov on the side of Palestinians or the people rn
I will also never forget the SNP's cowardice and impotence throughout all of this. Secret friendly meetings with Israel's murderous ambassador, joining in on the attacks on Kneecap, abstaining on the vote to proscribe PA.
“There is no door-knocking to be done, and no community outreach to be had. Instead, this has to be a period of ideas.” A v insightful piece every SNP, Greens + Alba member should read ahead of Holyrood 2026 @Jonathon_Shafi thenational.scot/politics/25330…
Al Jazeera journalist @AnasAlSharif0 breaks down after a woman on the street collapsed from hunger. Gaza is now in an acute hunger crisis with 19 people starving to death per day.
To note, the crowd chanted this phrase 👇
BREAKING: Another two men have been arrested in Scotland under terror legislation for 'showing support for Palestine Action' at a march in Edinburgh, police have said One of the men wore a T-shirt reading: "Genocide in Palestine, time to take action"
Statement from Police Scotland on @DefendourJuries and @ggectee protests at the weekend, clarifying that investigations ARE taking place 🚨 thenational.scot/news/25329185.…
How SNP members and leadership react to this will be incredibly telling There was already calls for his resignation when the meeting was revealed Now we know parts of what was said and it clearly does not align with the party’s stance 👇
EXCLUSIVE: The minutes of Angus Robertson's meeting with Israel have been revealed after a 10-month freedom of information battle 🗣️ 'There was value in dialogue between Scotland and Israel as critical friends'
At Saturday's national demonstration in Edinburgh against the UK Government and the media's complicity in the genocide in Gaza, there was a cautiousness in the air, our reporter @laura_pollock_ writes ✍️
The moment activists defied the UK Government's proscription of the group Palestine Action After a man in Glasgow was charged with terror offences for allegedly wearing a T-shirt in support the group, protesters did the same in Edinburgh Police in attendance and no arrests 👇
