Laura Webster
@lauraewebster.bsky.social
Editor of The National 🏴
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Reform UK have launched a fresh attack on neurodivergent young people, saying the sight of children wearing ear defenders in school is 'insane'
Reform UK launch new attack on neurodivergent children
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November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Reform UK have launched a fresh attack on neurodivergent young people, saying the sight of children wearing ear defenders in school is 'insane'
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Scottish Labour have fallen into fourth place in Scotland, according to a new YouGov poll
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November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Scottish Labour have fallen into fourth place in Scotland, according to a new YouGov poll
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So much news about asylum seeker policy, but so rarely do we actually hear from people with actual experience of seeking asylum
Motaz Amer, 20, lives in Glasgow after fleeing Yemen. He says new Labour plans will do "nothing but harm"
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Motaz Amer, 20, lives in Glasgow after fleeing Yemen. He says new Labour plans will do "nothing but harm"
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Glasgow refugee says UK asylum reforms will do 'nothing but harm'
A REFUGEE who came to the UK from Yemen has torn into “appalling” plans to overhaul the asylum system, accusing ministers of “punishing”…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
So much news about asylum seeker policy, but so rarely do we actually hear from people with actual experience of seeking asylum
Motaz Amer, 20, lives in Glasgow after fleeing Yemen. He says new Labour plans will do "nothing but harm"
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Motaz Amer, 20, lives in Glasgow after fleeing Yemen. He says new Labour plans will do "nothing but harm"
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Scotland will end up like Catalonia with people jailed for independence support if Westminster keeps denying the right to a referendum, Jeremy Corbyn told us on this week's podcast
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Scotland will end up like Catalonia with people jailed for independence support if Westminster keeps denying the right to a referendum, Jeremy Corbyn told us on this week's podcast
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Listen, I hate being on the Black Friday adverts, but our ad team insists promos go better if there's a face in the graphic so here I am. It was not my creative choice!!!
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We were delighted to welcome Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social , Editor of The National
@scotnational.bsky.social, onto Talk Media last week where she spoke to Stuart Cosgrove about the paper, the challenges facing print media and - of course - THAT huge BBC story.
@scotnational.bsky.social, onto Talk Media last week where she spoke to Stuart Cosgrove about the paper, the challenges facing print media and - of course - THAT huge BBC story.
November 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We were delighted to welcome Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social , Editor of The National
@scotnational.bsky.social, onto Talk Media last week where she spoke to Stuart Cosgrove about the paper, the challenges facing print media and - of course - THAT huge BBC story.
@scotnational.bsky.social, onto Talk Media last week where she spoke to Stuart Cosgrove about the paper, the challenges facing print media and - of course - THAT huge BBC story.
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This week we welcomed Laura Webster, editor of The National in to the studio for her first appearance on Talk Media.
‘The BBC under attack as Trump Threatens a Billion Dollar Lawsuit’ and ‘Listener Questions for Laura.’
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‘The BBC under attack as Trump Threatens a Billion Dollar Lawsuit’ and ‘Listener Questions for Laura.’
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This week Stuart is in conversation with Laura Webster, editor of The National. ‘The BBC under attack as Trump Threatens a Billion Dollar Lawsuit’ and ‘Listener Questions for Laura.’ | Talk Media
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November 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This week we welcomed Laura Webster, editor of The National in to the studio for her first appearance on Talk Media.
‘The BBC under attack as Trump Threatens a Billion Dollar Lawsuit’ and ‘Listener Questions for Laura.’
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‘The BBC under attack as Trump Threatens a Billion Dollar Lawsuit’ and ‘Listener Questions for Laura.’
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Was very pleased to be on Stuart Cosgrove's wonderful Talk Media podcast discussing what it's like to do my job, challenges in the UK media and the mess the BBC is in.
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This week Stuart is in conversation with Laura Webster, editor of The National. ‘The BBC under attack as Trump Threatens a Billion Dollar Lawsuit’ and ‘Listener Questions for Laura.’
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November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Was very pleased to be on Stuart Cosgrove's wonderful Talk Media podcast discussing what it's like to do my job, challenges in the UK media and the mess the BBC is in.
Listen and subscribe to this fab pod! 🤎
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Listen and subscribe to this fab pod! 🤎
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Sarwar's silence: Scottish Labour leader fails to back PM as coup rumours fly
Sarwar's silence: Scottish Labour leader fails to back PM as coup rumours fly
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Tomorrow's front page 📰
Sarwar's silence: Scottish Labour leader fails to back PM as coup rumours fly
Sarwar's silence: Scottish Labour leader fails to back PM as coup rumours fly
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NEW: Campaign group 'Patriotic Millionaires' have taken a bus to Edinburgh calling for a wealth tax 👀👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
NEW: Campaign group 'Patriotic Millionaires' have taken a bus to Edinburgh calling for a wealth tax 👀👇
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George Monbiot absolutely nails Keir Starmer's Labour Government. 'More Tory than the Tories'
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
George Monbiot absolutely nails Keir Starmer's Labour Government. 'More Tory than the Tories'
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NEW: A Palestinian brewer has visited Scotland to launch a lager brewed in partnership with a Scottish company 🍺
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November 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
NEW: A Palestinian brewer has visited Scotland to launch a lager brewed in partnership with a Scottish company 🍺
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BREAKING: Donald Trump 'knew about the girls', Jeffrey Epstein said in a 2019 email
The paedophile also said in 2011 that the US president had 'spent hours' with a woman later identified as a sex trafficking victim
The paedophile also said in 2011 that the US president had 'spent hours' with a woman later identified as a sex trafficking victim
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
BREAKING: Donald Trump 'knew about the girls', Jeffrey Epstein said in a 2019 email
The paedophile also said in 2011 that the US president had 'spent hours' with a woman later identified as a sex trafficking victim
The paedophile also said in 2011 that the US president had 'spent hours' with a woman later identified as a sex trafficking victim
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EXCLUSIVE: The 'complex relationship' between the Scots language, identity, pride and belonging is set to be explored in a new documentary
New film explores 'complex relationship' between Scots language and identity
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November 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
EXCLUSIVE: The 'complex relationship' between the Scots language, identity, pride and belonging is set to be explored in a new documentary
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🗣️ 'I can't imagine I’m here. Every day, when I wake up, I just look at the mirror and say, "Ibrahim, you are in Scotland". I can't imagine it.'
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November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🗣️ 'I can't imagine I’m here. Every day, when I wake up, I just look at the mirror and say, "Ibrahim, you are in Scotland". I can't imagine it.'
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As the UK-based Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) has highlighted, the fact that UK military equipment supplied to the UAE could be transferred to the RSF represents at the very least a shocking failure in UK export controls, writes David Pratt ✍️
David Pratt: The West is shamefully complicity in Sudan’s horrors
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November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As the UK-based Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) has highlighted, the fact that UK military equipment supplied to the UAE could be transferred to the RSF represents at the very least a shocking failure in UK export controls, writes David Pratt ✍️
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'A nightmare situation for Scotland'
'A nightmare situation for Scotland'
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Tomorrow's front page 📰
'A nightmare situation for Scotland'
'A nightmare situation for Scotland'
Number 10 says it's all good, nothing to see here, after accidentally leaking information about the Huntingdon train stabbing to The National ... they've decided there will be no referral to the Information Commissioner.
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No 10 refuses to refer accidental email leak to The National to UK data watchdog
NO 10 has decided not to refer a leak of confidential internal emails discussing the Huntingdon train stabbing to the UK’s data watchdog ...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Number 10 says it's all good, nothing to see here, after accidentally leaking information about the Huntingdon train stabbing to The National ... they've decided there will be no referral to the Information Commissioner.
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Great piece of journalism from Robert Swift detailing the Israelis who believe their government is committing genocide and how speaking up about it affects their careers and personal lives
"You feel like an alien walking the streets of Tel Aviv"
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"You feel like an alien walking the streets of Tel Aviv"
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The Israeli minority facing backlash for speaking out on Gaza
IT goes without saying that the Israeli government categorically rejects any assertion that it committed genocide in Gaza over the last two years
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November 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Great piece of journalism from Robert Swift detailing the Israelis who believe their government is committing genocide and how speaking up about it affects their careers and personal lives
"You feel like an alien walking the streets of Tel Aviv"
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"You feel like an alien walking the streets of Tel Aviv"
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David Lammy is the third senior Labour Gov figure to call the Scottish Government a national security risk this week
Given this government isn't prepared to say this about China .... this is pretty dreadful. What happened to the "family of nations"?
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Given this government isn't prepared to say this about China .... this is pretty dreadful. What happened to the "family of nations"?
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SNP MPs in priceless reaction as Lammy brands them 'national security threat'
DEPUTY Prime Minister David Lammy has defended Labour's claims that the SNP are a "national security threat" by arguing that he is "5…
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November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
David Lammy is the third senior Labour Gov figure to call the Scottish Government a national security risk this week
Given this government isn't prepared to say this about China .... this is pretty dreadful. What happened to the "family of nations"?
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Given this government isn't prepared to say this about China .... this is pretty dreadful. What happened to the "family of nations"?
www.thenational.scot/news/2559871...
Think Labour's anticipated tax rises will only affect England and Wales? Wrong ❌️
Top financial think tank Fraser of Allander has warned Reeves's changes would leave Scotland with a nearly £1bn shortfall - forcing cuts or more tax rises at Holyrood
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Top financial think tank Fraser of Allander has warned Reeves's changes would leave Scotland with a nearly £1bn shortfall - forcing cuts or more tax rises at Holyrood
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Rachel Reeves is preparing to break her tax promises. This is what it means for Scots
RACHEL Reeves has sent her strongest indication yet that voters should expect tax rises in the upcoming Budget
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November 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Think Labour's anticipated tax rises will only affect England and Wales? Wrong ❌️
Top financial think tank Fraser of Allander has warned Reeves's changes would leave Scotland with a nearly £1bn shortfall - forcing cuts or more tax rises at Holyrood
www.thenational.scot/news/2559546...
Top financial think tank Fraser of Allander has warned Reeves's changes would leave Scotland with a nearly £1bn shortfall - forcing cuts or more tax rises at Holyrood
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NEW: The UK Government accidentally leaked internal emails on the Huntingdon train stabbing to The National.
Number 10 inadvertently sent confidential materials to us - including lines prepared for ministers and info not yet made public.
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Number 10 inadvertently sent confidential materials to us - including lines prepared for ministers and info not yet made public.
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No 10 accidentally leaks internal Huntingdon train stabbing emails to The National
NO 10 accidentally leaked confidential internal emails discussing the Huntingdon train stabbing to The National ...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
NEW: The UK Government accidentally leaked internal emails on the Huntingdon train stabbing to The National.
Number 10 inadvertently sent confidential materials to us - including lines prepared for ministers and info not yet made public.
www.thenational.scot/news/2559307...
Number 10 inadvertently sent confidential materials to us - including lines prepared for ministers and info not yet made public.
www.thenational.scot/news/2559307...
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Here's your first look at tomorrow's front page 📰
UK's trade with Israel up during genocide as fresh calls made for boycott
UK's trade with Israel up during genocide as fresh calls made for boycott
November 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Here's your first look at tomorrow's front page 📰
UK's trade with Israel up during genocide as fresh calls made for boycott
UK's trade with Israel up during genocide as fresh calls made for boycott