Glasgow Times

Profile: David Bol

Glasgow Times:

Political Correspondent

I cover politics at the Scottish Parliament and I'm also interested in writing about the climate emergency, housing and education

Latest articles from David Bol

Prosecutors have warned there is 'no legal route' to allow safe consumption facilities

Scotland's drug deaths: Glasgow safe consumption facility 'could save 140 lives a year'

AN ACTIVIST behind attempts to set up a Glasgow safe injection facility has told MSPs it could save 140 lives each year if scaled up.

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SNP warned they cannot 'just reach for military help' to cover 'policy failings'

SNP warned they cannot 'just reach for military help' to cover 'policy failings'

THE UK’s Defence Secretary has warned that once the recovery from the pandemic is well underway, SNP ministers will not be able to “just reach for the armed forces” to help cover when they “make a policy failing”.

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Ian Blackford wants demand for fossil fuels to be cut to end a reliance on oil and gas extraction

Ian Blackford: UK Government needs 'credible plan' to end fossil fuel demand

IAN Blackford has called on the UK Government to draw up a “credible plan” for reducing demand for North Sea oil and gas which he claimed would end the need to allow new fossil fuel projects to go ahead.

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Michael Gove

Michael Gove insists UK levelling up agenda is no threat to Scottish devolution

MICHAEL Gove has insisted that the UK Government spending extra funding for Scottish projects in devolved areas is “augmenting” rather than threatening the country’s constitution.

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Michael Gove

'Talking Nonsense': Michael Gove adamant there's no mandate for Indyref2

MICHAEL Gove has been accused of “talking nonsense again” after claiming there is no mandate for a second Scottish independence referendum while insisting the Union is one “of consent”.

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Scotland has breached international environmental law

UN body to confirm Scottish legal system breaking international environment law

A UNITED Nations body is expected to confirm today that Scotland’s legal system is breaking international environment law.

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Labour leader Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer: 'Not a case' for changing UK drug laws despite Scotland's rising deaths

SIR Keir Starmer has insisted “there is not a case” for altering laws across the UK in response to Scotland’s drug deaths crisis.

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SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford

Ian Blackford denies his leadership has failed in rooting out SNP abuse of Joanna Cherry

IAN Blackford has denied his leadership of the SNP at Westminster has failed in calling out abuse suffered by Joanna Cherry.

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Fears have been raised that Scotland could be forced to import waste to burn after a failure to issue a moratorium on incinerators

Scotland could become 'waste dump of Europe' by importing rubbish for incineration

FEARS have been raised Scotland could become the “waste dump of Europe” if capacity to burn rubbish continues to soar and recycling rates increase – forcing incinerators to import litter from the continent.

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Scottish Government ministers have been urged to find more funding to replace Scotland's diesel buses with carbon neutral vehicles

Warning after £640m funding black hole emerges in SNP's zero carbon buses vision

SNP and Green ministers have been accused of adding “relentless” pressure onto Scotland's over-stretched bus operators after a funding black hole totalling hundreds of millions of pounds has been revealed in a vision to decarbonise public transport.

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