This week Scotland <a href="https://adfinternational.org/news/state-department-scotland-rose-docherty#:~:text=GLASGOW%20(18%20August%202025)%20%E2%80%93,Glasgow's%20Queen%20Elizabeth%20II%20Hospital." target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped</a> a criminal lawsuit against a pro-life grandmother seeking peaceful conversation outside of a hospital.
Glasgow native Rose Docherty, 75, was arrested and issued a warning in February 2025 for standing within 200 metres of the city’s Queen Elizabeth II Hospital with a sign that read “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.”
Docherty was arrested under Scotland’s new <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/10/section/4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">buffer zone law</a>, which came into effect last September. The Abortion Services Bill makes it illegal to stand within 200 meters (656 feet) of a hospital for the purpose of “influencing, preventing access, or causing harassment” to women seeking abortions. Offenders can receive fines of up to £10,000.
A State Department spokesman told the Telegraph that it applauds Scotland’s decision to drop the case.
“The United States stands with all those fighting for free speech and religious liberty.”
Docherty <a href="https://adfinternational.org/en-gb/news/prayer-by-window-in-scotland-buffer-zone-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> she wasn’t violating the buffer zone.
“Everyone has the right to a consensual conversation. I simply made myself available for a chat, should anybody like to approach me and speak about any matter on their mind. I didn’t breach the buffer zone – I didn’t harass, intimidate, or even seek to influence anyone. I simply stood there, available to speak with love and compassion.”
After her arrest, Docherty was issued a formal warning that required her to admit wrongdoing and refrain from similar actions in the future. She refused to sign it.
This week, a prosecutor for Glasgow notified Ms. Docherty by letter that &#8220;on the basis of the current information available to me, I have decided to take no further action… at this time.&#8221;
The warning was withdrawn, and authorities agreed to return Docherty’s sign.
The letter noted there was an &#8220;obligation on the prosecutor to keep cases under review,” meaning that charges could technically be reintroduced at a later date.
Docherty and her legal counsel, ADF International, are celebrating the development as a win for free speech: “This is a victory not just for me, but for everyone in Scotland who believes we should be free to hold a peaceful conversation,” Docherty said.
“I stood with love and compassion, ready to listen to anyone who wanted to talk. Criminalising kindness has no place in a free society.”
ADF International Legal Counsel Lorcán Price said that &#8220;Rose’s case is a stark example of how ‘buffer zone’ laws can be weaponised to silence peaceful expression.”
Scotland’s buffer zone law sparked controversy earlier this year when Vice President JD Vance <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87d9j17pjqo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> the Scottish government of policing citizens’ thoughts in his address at the Munich Security Conference in February.
&#8220;This last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law.&#8221;
The government denied the accusation, saying the legislation did not target private prayer.
The <a href="https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/foi-eir-release/2025/03-a/foi-202500452910/documents/foi-202500452910---information-released---annex/foi-202500452910---information-released---annex/govscot%3Adocument/FOI%2B202500452910%2B-%2BInformation%2Breleased%2B-%2BAnnex.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letters</a> sent to residents did not mention prayer specifically, but warned them against performing offenses “in a private place…if they can be seen or heard within the Zone.”
These could include putting up pro-life signs in your windows or holding a vigil or protest in your front yard, according to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87d9j17pjqo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC</a>.

President Trump Holds National Day of Prayer Event In Rose Garden

State Department Applauds Scotland’s Decision to Drop Case Against Pro-Life Grandmother

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The National Library of Scotland (NLS) is under fire after Amina Shah, Scotland’s national librarian and the NLS chief executive, opted not to include a pro-women&#8217;s rights book in a centenary display.
The NLS initially asked the public for nominations, calling the display a &#8220;love letter&#8221; to reading and literacy and suggesting that people submit titles that had inspired and encouraged their love of reading — and titles that received a certain number of nominations were to be included in the planned ten-month display.
One book that received more than double the requisite number of nominations was &#8220;The Women Who Wouldn&#8217;t Wheesht&#8221; — a series of essays that chronicled the fight between feminists like &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author J.K. Rowling who questioned radical gender ideology and former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon&#8217;s gender self-identification law. The title comes from their refusal to remain silent — in the Gaelic &#8220;haud yer wheesht&#8221; — while radical trans activists effectively erased women.
Despite meeting the threshold for display, &#8220;The Women Who Wouldn&#8217;t Wheesht&#8221; was banned by the NLS after LGBT staffers complained that it was &#8220;hate speech.&#8221; Shah claimed that she&#8217;d made the decision in light of &#8220;the potential impact on key stakeholders&#8221; who could potentially &#8220;withdraw support for the exhibition and the centenary&#8221; altogether.
Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn, who edited the book, sent a letter to Shah questioning the decision.
&#8220;We have written to the National Librarian about her decision to remove The Women Who Wouldn&#8217;t Wheesht from the centenary exhibition for the National Library of Scotland, Dear Library, in response to complaints from its LGBT staff network,&#8221; an X post including the letter explained.
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We have written to the National Librarian about her decision to remove The Women Who Wouldn&#8217;t Wheesht from the centenary exhibition for the National Library of Scotland, Dear Library, in response to complaints from its LGBT staff network. 1/2 <a href="https://t.co/lQlv2x0tsO">pic.twitter.com/lQlv2x0tsO</a>
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The letter reads, in part:
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This is about more than the book. This is the legacy of a decade of political leadership which has demonized and delegitimized people who refused to conform to the approved narrative on sex and gender identity.
The material released also lifts the lid on the network of discrimination and censorship which operates across Scotland’s public institutions with impunity through staff networks and other activist groups, enabled by weak leadership.
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For Women Scotland also issued a statement criticizing the NLS, saying, &#8220;Just when we thought censorship in Scotland couldn&#8217;t get any worse, it emerges that @natlibscot decided to remove WWWW from an exhibition due to tantrums from the staff LGBT group. By caving to this, the library lends weight to their wholly untruthful objections to the book.&#8221;
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Just when we thought censorship in Scotland couldn&#8217;t get any worse, it emerges that <a href="https://twitter.com/natlibscot?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@natlibscot</a> decided to remove WWWW from an exhibition due to tantrums from the staff LGBT group.
By caving to this, the library lends weight to their wholly untruthful objections to the book. <a href="https://t.co/3TJEGV8Hyp">https://t.co/3TJEGV8Hyp</a>
— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForWomenScot/status/1955391664215953477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Times reports that &#8216;An earlier decision to include the text was reversed after an internal LGBT staff network claimed including it would cause “severe harm” and threatened to “notify LGBT+ partners of the library’s endorsement&#8221; of it,'&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;What &#8216;harm&#8217;? Is this book uniquely likely to cause bad paper cuts? &#8216;An internal equality assessment warned that refusing to include the book could be seen as “a form of censorship which undermines our public duty as a national library”&#8217; Well, duh!&#8221;

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Pro-Women’s Rights Book Yanked From Scottish Library Display After LGBT Tantrum

Pro-Women's Rights Book Yanked From Scottish Library Display After LGBT Tantrum

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President Trump showed European allies the ‘art of the deal’ this week as his own luxury resort in Scotland played host to negotiations for one of the largest trade deals in history.
Accompanied by bagpipes, the President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/europe-laughed-at-trump-now-theyre-going-to-cut-a-big-energy-check">shook hands</a> with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and U.K. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and heralded a major new US-EU trade pact — encompassing a 15% tariff rate on European imports.
But while Scotland was hosting talks on open markets, its own government continues to close off a core tenet of liberal democracy: the freedom to speak — even, in some cases, to silently pray.
In April 2024, Scotland enacted the Hate Crime and Public Order Act, which criminalizes words that amount to subjectively “stirring up hatred” based on a wide range of characteristics, such as someone’s “gender identity.” One may be found guilty of using the wrong words even if offence was only taken, but not intended. The consequences include up to seven years in prison.
Legal scholars, writers, and civil liberties groups have raised serious concerns. The law invites the state to police not just conduct but private expression — even within a family home. What was once a proud tradition of robust, even unpopular debate, is being eroded in favor of subjective standards of offense.
Meanwhile, new legislation in Scotland has imposed “buffer zones” around hospitals, vaguely criminalizing “influence” on the matter of abortion within 200 meters of the building. That radius can encompass private homes. <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/26/praying-at-home-a-crime-depending-on-who-is-passing-window/">According</a> to the law’s own architect, Gillian Mackay MSP, a person praying silently near a window in their home could be guilty of a crime, “depending on who’s passing the window.”
One recent case under a similar “buffer zones” law across the English border drew international attention: Livia Tossici-Bolt, aged 62-years-old, was arrested simply for standing with a sign reading “Here to talk, if you want.” She was not disruptive. She was not loud. She simply offered consensual conversation to other adults.
The U.S. State Department <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/03/31/free-speech-row-threatens-starmers-us-trade-deal/">took notice</a>. A senior official confirmed “concern” about the state of free speech in the UK, adding, “It is important that the UK respect and protect freedom of expression.”
Vice President JD Vance raised similar concerns in his landmark speech at the Munich Security Conference earlier this year, even highlighting Scotland’ notorious prayer problem, noting, “free speech, I fear, is in retreat.” Who can blame him? In the UK, police are <a href="https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/15/britains-police-are-restricting-speech-in-worrying-ways">arresting</a> over 30 people per day for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-people-around-the-world-on-trial-for-a-tweet?author=Lois+McLatchie+Miller&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Meet+The+People+Around+The+World+On+Trial+For+A+Tweet%C2%A0">online posts</a> deemed offensive.
Such statements reflect a growing discomfort with what appears to be a widening values gap between the U.K. and its allies. Free societies are built not just on GDP and diplomatic summits, but on the intangible infrastructure of liberty — the right to live and speak freely, according to one’s own conscience. Trade flows best when rooted in mutual trust, shared principles, and the confidence that citizens on both sides of the Atlantic are protected by the same basic freedoms.
The U.K. cannot credibly advocate for open markets while tolerating closed discourse. A nation cannot speak loudly on the world stage while silencing its citizens at home. If Britain wishes to remain a trusted partner in the transatlantic alliance — not just economically but morally — it must reaffirm its commitment to the freedoms that define liberal democracy.
No ally is perfect. But the U.K. must meet the standards it helped to set. Free trade among free nations requires more than signed agreements. It requires trust in mutual political courage to protect liberty where it is most easily lost: quietly, at home.
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Lois McLatchie Miller is a Scottish commentator on free speech, and a senior legal communications officer for ADF International.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Visits US President Donald Trump in Scotland

The U.K. Can’t Champion Free Trade While Abandoning Free Speech

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Flashback to September 2018.
That’s when President Donald Trump stood before the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-nations">United Nations</a> and warned Germany about the dangers of becoming addicted to Russian energy.
In response, the <a href="https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/germans-laugh-after-trump-warns-of-reliance-on-foreign-oil/5029974">German delegation laughed</a> in his face. They scoffed. The global press rolled their eyes. Trump, they said, didn’t understand how the world worked.
Fast forward to 2025: those same European leaders are preparing to cut a <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/eu-ditch-russia-agrees-purchase-750b-american-energy-supplies">$750 billion check</a> for American energy – as a result of President Trump’s deal-making.
Who’s laughing now?
The energy investment is a centerpiece of <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/07/fact-sheet-the-united-states-and-european-union-reach-massive-trade-deal/">the trade agreement</a> reached between Washington and Brussels on Sunday. The deal isn’t just a seismic shift in European policy — it’s a vindication of Trump’s America First vision. It is also a humiliating rebuke of the Biden administration’s energy failures. While Biden spent four years kneecapping American producers and begging hostile foreign actors for help, Trump was laying the groundwork for energy dominance.
Now, the world is willing to pay for it — literally.
<h3>Biden Begged For Foreign Oil</h3>
Let’s not forget the image that defined Biden’s energy policy: the President of the United States traveling to Saudi Arabia, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/18/oil-price-rises-joe-biden-saudi-output-petrol-diesel-prices">fist-bumping the crown prince</a>, and pleading for more oil. Not only did the Saudis say no, they mocked him by cutting production just months later.
Even worse, Biden’s administration reportedly <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/biden-admin-asked-saudi-arabia-to-postpone-opec-cut-by-a-month-saudis-say.html">begged the Saudis</a> to delay that production cut until after the 2022 midterms — because keeping gas prices low wasn’t about helping Americans, it was about helping Democrats stay in power.
All Biden had to do was unleash American energy. But he couldn’t. His green agenda wouldn’t allow it. He blocked drilling, shut down pipelines, and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/biden-pauses-approval-new-lng-export-projects-win-climate-activists-2024-01-26/">froze LNG exports</a>. He made it harder to produce energy here, so we had to buy it from over there.
President Trump’s deal flips the script. Instead of American dollars flowing to foreign regimes, European money is now flowing to the U.S. This isn’t diplomacy through weakness — it’s dominance through strength. President Trump didn’t have to beg because he knows how to lead.
<h3>A Boon To The American Economy</h3>
This $750 billion deal is more than just a geopolitical win — it’s rocket fuel for the American economy. More domestic energy production means more high-paying jobs, more local prosperity, and more opportunities in towns that the Biden economy left behind.
While Biden shut down LNG export projects, Trump is cranking the valves wide open. American energy workers aren’t waiting for a government subsidy — they’re producing real energy the world needs.
Let’s also not ignore Europe’s glaring hypocrisy. In 2024, the European Union spent nearly <a href="https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/eu-imports-of-russian-fossil-fuels-in-third-year-of-invasion-surpass-financial-aid-sent-to-ukraine/">€22 billion on Russian energy</a> — more than the €18.7 billion they gave Ukraine in aid. So, while they waved Ukrainian flags and tried to shame America, they were still funding Putin’s war machine. Now, thanks to President Trump, those Euros will come to American producers instead of Moscow’s war chest. It&#8217;s not just an energy shift — it&#8217;s a moral one.
<h3>Fueling The Fight Against The Deficit</h3>
There’s another upside Biden’s team never understood: when America produces energy, America generates revenue. According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government <a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-103676">took in over $16 billion</a> in <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-federal-energy-revenue-falls-10-2024-still-among-biggest-years-ever-2024-11-08/">just one year</a> from oil and gas leases and royalties.
Trump’s deal promises to supercharge those numbers. More production means more revenue — without raising taxes on a single American family. It’s simple math: energy made here, sold abroad, grows our economy and shrinks our deficit. No gimmicks. No IRS expansion. Just common sense.
Perhaps the most staggering contrast between Biden and President Trump’s EU deal comes down to this: where the money is going.
Under Biden, the federal government <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/11/biden-regrets-calling-spending-bill-inflation-reduction-act/">dumped $369 billion </a>of your tax dollars into green energy pipe dreams — Chinese solar panels, offshore wind disasters, and EV charger projects that never got built.
Under Trump? He just secured more than double that amount — $750 billion — in foreign investment in American energy. No taxpayer gimmicks. No dependence on Beijing. Just American energy, made by American workers, powering the world again.
Yes, it’s safe to say the German delegation isn’t laughing anymore. But thanks to Donald Trump, they’ll have plenty of American natural gas to keep them warm through the winter.
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Larry Behrens is an energy expert and the Communications Director for Power The Future. He has appeared on Fox News, ZeroHedge, and NewsMax speaking in defense of American energy workers. You can follow him on X/Twitter @larrybehrens.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

U.S. President Donald Trump Visits Scotland For Golfing Getaway

Europe Laughed At Trump. Now They’re Going To Cut A Big Energy Check.

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President Donald Trump confirmed on Tuesday that Secret Service Director Sean Curran is addressing what could have been a major security breach after an agent attempted to sneak his wife aboard a transport plane accompanying the president to Scotland.
The incident was first <a href="https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/1949206006178689488">reported</a> by RealClearPolitics National Political Correspondent Susan Crabtree over the weekend. The USSS Dallas agent reportedly flew his wife, a member of the U.S. Air Force, to Maryland, and she received an official Secret Service briefing on the trip. The agent&#8217;s wife then rode a bus to the distinguished visitor lounge at Joint Base Andrews, where she was finally discovered and told to leave, Crabtree reported, citing five Secret Service sources.
Trump told reporters on Air Force One on his way back to the United States on Tuesday that the Secret Service incident was a &#8220;weird deal,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1950256824760095065">according</a> to RealClearPolitics White House reporter Phillip Melancthon Wegmann.
&#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t you think that might be a little dangerous?&#8221; Trump added.
The president said that he had confidence Director Curran would &#8220;take care of it.&#8221;
The agent who attempted to bring his wife along for the president&#8217;s trip to Europe is reportedly in his first year on the job, which means he is still a new trainee, <a href="https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/1949884512944738670">according</a> to RealClearPolitics. The agent has reportedly been in trouble before, as he was written up for misconduct on several occasions while completing his preliminary training at the Rowley Training Center.
Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that the agency has opened an investigation into the incident.
&#8220;Prior to the overseas departure, the employee was advised by supervisors that such action was prohibited, and the spouse was subsequently prevented from taking the flight,&#8221; Gugliemi added. &#8220;No Secret Service protectees were aboard and there was no impact to our overseas protective operations.”
It&#8217;s unclear if the agent has been suspended as the Secret Service conducts an investigation or if he is still on the job.
The Secret Service has faced public scrutiny for months following the assassination attempt on Trump last July, when a shooter climbed onto a roof near the rally stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, and fired off eight shots before he was shot and killed by Secret Service snipers. Questions still swirl around how the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was able to get so close to Trump with a rifle without being stopped by Trump&#8217;s detail.
Weeks later, Secret Service agents sprang into action to stop an apparent assassination attempt on Trump at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
While Trump was in Scotland, security around him was forced to tighten as demonstrators in Aberdeen and Edinburgh gathered to protest his visit to the country, according to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg4210lygko">BBC</a>.

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WASHINGTON—When President Donald Trump returns from Scotland, he&#8217;ll have plenty to show for his visit.
The White House is touting the &#8220;peace deals and trade deals&#8221; the president negotiated during his trip to the United Kingdom, including a major trade agreement with the European Union and a crucial truce between Thailand and Cambodia.
The trade deal with the European Union will &#8220;provide Americans with unprecedented levels of market access to the European Union,&#8221; the White House said Monday afternoon, noting that it rebalances the economic relationship between the two countries, &#8220;marks a generational modernization of the transatlantic alliance.&#8221;
White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers told The Daily Wire that the president is on a &#8220;winning streak&#8221; in Scotland.
&#8220;From peace deals to trade deals, this President has proven to be the ultimate negotiator and Deal Maker in Chief on behalf of the American people.&#8221;
Under the terms of the deal, the United States and European Union reached a Cooperation Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair and Balanced Trade, enabling American farmers, ranchers, fishermen, and manufacturers to increase their exports and expand their opportunities as well as reduce the goods trade deficit with the European Union.
The EU will also remove &#8220;significant&#8221; tariffs on American goods, and the White House specifically notes that this includes EU tariffs on American industrial goods exported to the EU — &#8220;creating enormous opportunities for American-made and American-grown goods to compete and win in Europe.&#8221; The White House predicts that this will drive growth across the American economy.
The European Union will purchase $750 billion of United States energy exports during the duration of the president&#8217;s time in office, strengthening American energy dominance and reducing Europe&#8217;s reliance on Russia. The EU will also invest $600 billion in the United States throughout the president&#8217;s term, in addition to over $100 billion invested in the United States every year by EU companies.
Also, during his British travels, the president negotiated a ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia.
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&#8220;Just spoke to the Acting Prime Minister of Thailand and Prime Minister of Cambodia. I am pleased to announce that, after the involvement of President Donald J. Trump, both Countries have reached a CEASEFIRE and PEACE,&#8221; Trump said on Truth Social Monday.
&#8220;Congratulations to all! By ending this War, we have saved thousands of lives. I have instructed my Trade Team to restart negotiations on Trade. I have now ended many Wars in just six months — I am proud to be the President of PEACE!&#8221;
Trump had warned both parties that he would not make any trade deals with either country if they continued warring with one another.
&#8220;We happen to be, by coincidence, currently dealing on Trade with both Countries, but do not want to make any Deal, with either Country, if they are fighting — And I have told them so!&#8221; the president said in a TruthSocial post on Saturday.
Speaking to the press alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland on Monday, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-shortens-initial-50-day-deadline-for-putin-to-reach-peace-deal-with-ukraine?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Shortens+Initial+50-Day+Deadline+For+Putin+To+Reach+Peace+Deal+With+Ukraine">emphasized</a> that he is “disappointed” with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump said he will reduce the 50-day deadline he gave Putin two weeks ago, complaining that every time there appears to be progress, Russia launches another attack on Ukraine.
“We thought we had that settled numerous times, and then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city, like Kyiv, and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever,&#8221; Trump said Monday. &#8220;You have bodies lying all over the street. And I said, ‘That’s not the way to do it.&#8217;”
“I’m going to make the new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from today. There’s no reason in waiting,” he added. “We just don’t see any progress being made.”
He also addressed the situation in Gaza, promising that the United States will provide food to children in the area. The president told <a href="https://x.com/Acyn/status/1949804079187927359">reporters that he does</a> &#8220;not particularly&#8221; agree with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/kenvogel/status/1949810126451335514">claim</a> that no starvation is happening in Gaza, saying: &#8220;Those children look very hungry.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re gonna be getting some good, strong food,&#8221; the president noted. &#8220;We can save a lot of people. Those kids — that&#8217;s real starvation. I see it. You can&#8217;t fake that.&#8221;
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U.S. President Donald Trump Visits Scotland For Rounds Of Golf And Trade Talks

President Trump’s Scotland Trip Yields ‘Peace Deals And Trade Deals’

President Donald Trump said Sunday that not a single wind turbine would be built in the United States under his administration.
Trump pummeled the green energy source for its inefficiency and risks to the environment, and he pointed out that the market for wind turbines is dominated by one of the United States’ chief geopolitical adversaries, China. He called the wind industry a “con job.”
“The other thing I say to Europe, we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They&#8217;re killing us. They&#8217;re killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains,” Trump told reporters on Sunday. “It&#8217;s the most expensive form of energy. It&#8217;s no good. They&#8217;re made in China, almost all of them.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen sat beside the president during his attack on wind energy. Von der Leyen, who is from Germany, has supported wind energy and renewables generally as her country’s energy prices have <a href="https://www.heritage.org/renewable-energy/commentary/germans-are-getting-mugged-reality-green-energy">skyrocketed</a> under its “Energiewende,” an attempt to transition Germany’s power grid from fossil fuels and nuclear energy to renewables.
“In all fairness, Germany tried it, and wind doesn&#8217;t work. You need subsidy for wind, and energy should not need subsidy. With energy you make money, you don&#8217;t lose money,” said Trump.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> spits facts: &quot;We will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They&#39;re killing us. They&#39;re killing the beauty of our scenery &#8230; It&#39;s the most expensive form of energy. It&#39;s no good. They&#39;re made in China.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/5Rv7VDUBDs">pic.twitter.com/5Rv7VDUBDs</a>
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Trump appeared especially aggravated at wind turbines on Sunday after he played a round of golf at his Turnberry Golf Club in Scotland. He mentioned that he was able to see a cluster of nine turbines from his course that ruined the view.
“You have the same thing all over, all over Europe, in particular. You have windmills all over the place,” said Trump. “Some of the countries prohibit it, but people ought to know that these windmills are very destructive. They’re environmentally unsound.”
The president called environmentalists pushing for widespread adoption of wind energy “hacks.”
Trump’s dislike of wind turbines dates back over a decade when, before his career in politics began, he engaged in a high-profile fight to keep wind turbines from appearing offshore in sight from another of his Scottish golf courses, Trump International Scotland near Aberdeen. 
In 2011, Trump in a letter <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-14923612">complained</a> to then-Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond about the plans to erect the wind turbines. Trump called the planned project an “ugly cloud … hanging over the future of the great Scottish coastline.”

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The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has heard arguments in a case in which the justices must define “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">what is a woman</a>” as it pertains to the “Equality Act” by the Scottish government.
Five Supreme Court justices &#8212; three men and two women &#8212; agreed to hear the case brought by the women’s rights group For Women Scotland (FWS) against the Scottish legislature after it <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/11/scottish-government-is-ignoring-womens-rights">passed a law stating that every Scottish public board</a> should include an equal amount of men and woman. However, the Scottish government&#8217;s definition of &#8220;woman&#8221; includes trans-identifying men with a “gender recognition certificate” (GRC), the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/uk-supreme-court-trans-gender-case-cf2bbc911c59b147a5261f431ee93eb7">Associated Press</a> reported. 
It also claimed that the certificate entitled transgender individuals to the same protection under the Equality Act as those born female, the <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/11/scottish-government-is-ignoring-womens-rights">NewStatesmen</a> reported.
Lawyer for FWS, Aidan O’Neill, told the justices that “sex” should refer to biological sex as understood “in ordinary, everyday language&#8221; when it comes to the Equality Act. A 2022 decision by Scotland’s Court of Session ruled that for the purpose of equality, sex was “<a href="https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/media/lgufy1zd/court-of-session-petition-of-for-women-scotland-limited-for-judicial-review-13-december-2022.pdf">not limited to biological or birth sex</a>” and that it included those with a GRC.
“Our position is your sex, whether you are a man or a woman or a girl or a boy is determined from conception in utero, even before one’s birth, by one’s body,” O’Neill said. “It is an expression of one’s bodily reality. It is an immutable biological state.”
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For Women Scotland&#8217;s director, Trina Budge, pointed out, “Not tying the definition of sex to its ordinary meaning means that public boards could conceivably comprise of 50% men, and 50% men with certificates, yet still lawfully meet the targets for female representation.”
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&#8216;Gender identity, Aidan O’Neill told the court, “is not a trump card against the rights of women”. And the rights of women, and lesbian women in particular, are ignored by the Scottish government’s position. Women’s rights are human rights, too.&#8217;<a href="https://t.co/eJCUqKl0fB">https://t.co/eJCUqKl0fB</a>
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1862651136500494557?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
FWS includes such high profile members as famed “Harry Potter” author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/j-k-rowling">J.K. Rowling</a>, who reportedly donated what would be equivalent to more than $10,000 to the group’s fight.
Rowling has been a very vocal advocate for women and recently took to <a href="https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1862651136500494557">social media</a> and shared a quote from O’Neill during the hearing.
“Gender identity, Aidan O’Neill told the court, ‘is not a trump card against the rights of women.’ And the rights of women, and lesbian women in particular, are ignored by the Scottish government’s position. Women’s rights are human rights, too,” Rowling’s post read.
A judgement on the case is not expected until well into the new year.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/scotland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scottish</a> citizens fed up with their government&#8217;s adherence to radical gender ideology — often under threat from trans activists — protested en masse, disrupting the 2022 census by marking down their religious preference as &#8220;believer in biology.&#8221;
A report detailing the write-in answers was published Thursday, and revealed that thousands had responded to a call to get involved and <a href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/scot.2023.0440" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disrupt the 2022 census</a> from pro-woman groups like For Women Scotland.
&#8220;Fascinating to see from Scottish census data published today that nearly 3000 people identified their religion as &#8216;Believer in Biology&#8217; in a coordinated protest led by @ForWomenScot,&#8221; Professor Sarah Pedersen wrote via X, sharing links to some of the relevant census data.
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You can find the write-in responses to the religion question here Scotland&#39;s Census 2022: write-in responses for Ethnicity, National Identity, Language and Religion topic | Scotland&#39;s Census (<a href="https://t.co/KfWwnABP2v">https://t.co/KfWwnABP2v</a>) 2/
&mdash; Prof. Sarah Pedersen (@SarahPedersen2) <a href="https://twitter.com/SarahPedersen2/status/1841782784035033446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The 2,883 Scots who participated in the protest responded to a question asking, &#8220;what religion, religious denomination or body do you belong to?&#8221; and wrote in, &#8220;believer in biology.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the article in which I discuss Scotland&#8217;s census and Believers in Biology — all 3000 of them,&#8221; Pedersen wrote.
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This is the article in which I discuss Scotland&#39;s census and Believers in Biology &#8211; all 3000 of them. <a href="https://t.co/pS5yO9W6NM">https://t.co/pS5yO9W6NM</a>
&mdash; Prof. Sarah Pedersen (@SarahPedersen2) <a href="https://twitter.com/SarahPedersen2/status/1841797187086279167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Harry Potter author and women&#8217;s rights activist J.K. Rowling confirmed that she had been a part of the action: &#8220;I was one of those people.&#8221;
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I was one of those people. <a href="https://t.co/gFe5gGVMwX">https://t.co/gFe5gGVMwX</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1841799647313973646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is great! Well done all who took part!&#8221; For Women Scotland also commented.
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This is great! Well done all who took part!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BelieverinBiology?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BelieverinBiology</a> <a href="https://t.co/96XQNYysC6">https://t.co/96XQNYysC6</a>
&mdash; For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForWomenScot/status/1841785213799579671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The protest was aimed at Scotland&#8217;s <a href="https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/legislation/bills/s6-bills/gender-recognition-reform-scotland-bill/introduced/bill-as-introduced.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender Recognition Act</a>, which would make it easier for citizens to legally change gender identity, largely on the basis of self-identification, provided they had &#8220;lived with the acquired gender&#8221; for at least three months and promised that the change was to be permanent.
The new law eliminated two key previous requirement for a legal change of gender, reducing the legal age to apply to 16 and removing a requirement of an official diagnosis of &#8220;gender dysphoria&#8221; from a doctor.
The GRA passed Scottish Parliament in December of 2022, but the U.K. blocked the law from Royal Assent by invoking <a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/section-35-scotland-gender-recognition-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Section 35 of the Scotland Act</a> — which allows the United Kingdom to intervene in Scotland&#8217;s legislative process — for the first time in history.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-swift">Taylor Swift</a> fans attending her concerts in Edinburgh, Scotland, for her massively popular Eras Tour danced so hard that they registered as seismic activity during each of her three shows.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) confirmed that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/earthquake">earthquake</a> readings could be detected up to 6 km (around 4 miles) away from Swift&#8217;s concerts last weekend at Murrayfield Stadium, per <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taylor-swift-concerts-earthquake-edinburgh-scotland-seismic-activity-eras-tour-fans-dancing/">CBS News</a>. 
The outlet noted that BGS said the most seismic activity occurred during Swift&#8217;s performance of three songs:  &#8220;…Ready For It?&#8221; &#8220;Cruel Summer&#8221; and &#8220;champagne problems.&#8221; 
“Dancing in time to the music and reached its peak at 160 beats per minute (bpm) during ‘…Ready For It?’, where the crowd was transmitting approximately 80 kW of power (equivalent to around 10 to16 car batteries),” the BGS noted. The loud bass in that song and the dancing generated the activity.
Scientists referred to the event as “ground shaking,” noting that Swift’s Friday night show caused the most seismic activity, delivering 23.4 nanometres (nm) of movement. The crowd and music on Saturday generated 22.8 nm, while it was 23.3 nm on Sunday.
The report noted that the fans attending the shows were likely the only ones to notice the shaking. 
This is not the first time seismic activity has been detected from a crowd. CBS noted that the same phenomenon happened at Swift’s stop in Seattle last summer. At the time, it was dubbed a “Swift Quake.”
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Seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach told <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/27/entertainment/taylor-swift-seismic-activity/index.html">CNN</a> at the time that the seismic activity was &#8220;equivalent [to] a 2.3 magnitude earthquake.”
&#8220;I grabbed the data from both nights of the concert and quickly noticed they were clearly the same pattern of signals,&#8221; Caplan-Auerback told the outlet. &#8220;If I overlay them on top of each other, they&#8217;re nearly identical.&#8221;
Ground shaking from large crowds of fans expressing enthusiasm is not limited to concerts. According to CBS, seismic activity occurred during a 2011 NFL playoff game at Qwest Field when the Seattle Seahawks hosted the New Orleans Saints. This was spurred by a huge fan reaction to a play made by Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch. 
The resulting shaking earned Lynch the nickname “Beast Quake.”

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The man whose 2015 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150227014959/http:/swiked.tumblr.com/post/112073818575/guys-please-help-me-is-this-dress-white-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photo of a dress</a> caused an internet sensation has pleaded guilty to strangling his wife.
Keir Johnston, 38, recently pleaded guilty to attacking his wife, Grace, during an assault that occurred on March 6, 2022, People Magazine <a href="https://people.com/groom-who-made-the-dress-go-viral-in-2015-admits-he-tried-to-strangle-his-wife-8646499" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. He was previously known for posting a photo of a blue and black dress that appeared to some as white and gold.
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From this day on, the world will be divided into two people. Blue &amp; black, or white &amp; gold. <a href="http://t.co/xJeR7GldwP">http://t.co/xJeR7GldwP</a> <a href="http://t.co/i6BwVzPzSZ">pic.twitter.com/i6BwVzPzSZ</a>
— Ellen DeGeneres (@EllenDeGeneres) <a href="https://twitter.com/EllenDeGeneres/status/571128725112094720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Johnston was indicted following the incident, which involved him pinning his wife to the ground, straddling her, and choking her. During that incident, he also threatened to kill her and waved a knife. He reportedly told her, “Somebody is going to die,” according to testimony in the High Court in Glasgow, Scotland, on May 9, The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/10/man-behind-viral-dress-pleads-guilty-endangering-wifes-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Grace called for help, saying, “My husband is trying to kill me.”
Chris Macintosh, prosecutor for the crown, told the judge in the case that Grace had few options since the couple lived on the remote Isle of Colonsay.
“There is no permanent police presence on the island, and she was in a situation where she felt trapped,” Macintosh said, according to the Guardian.
The incident began after Johnston discovered Grace had gone to a job interview on the mainland, defying his demands that she not go. Prior to the attack, Johnston was reportedly drinking at a pub and texted his wife: “You should support me but you do not.”
He then went home and passed out. When Grace returned to their home, he “woke up and said that he was going to leave her,” Macintosh told the court. “She went outside the property to stop him leaving. He followed her and pinned her to the ground.”
“[Johnston] placed both knees on her arms, so she was unable to move,” Macintosh added. “He then began strangling her with both his hands. She was initially able to scream and feared for her life and believed Johnston intended to kill her as he was very forceful.”
Grace received several severe bruises from the attack but did not require medical attention.
Johnston’s defense attorney, Marco Guarino, told the court that his client had accepted responsibility for the attack, but the judge, Lady Drummond, denied bail, saying: “I have no need to tell you that this is a serious and violent offense.”
“You repeatedly strangled her, injured her and put her life in danger in what must have been absolutely terrifying circumstances for her,” she added. “I am afraid, Mr Johnston, that your status has now changed, you have been convicted of a very serious crime and you will be remanded meantime.”
Johnston is set to be sentenced on June 6.
Johnston and Grace became famous in 2015 after he posted a photo of a dress Grace’s mother planned to wear at their wedding. The photo posted online showed the dress as either black and blue or white and gold depending on the viewer. Subsequent images of the dress showed that it was a vibrant blue and black, but the original picture fooled man, including this reporter.
New York University neuroscientist Pascal Wallisch <a href="https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2017/april/why-did-we-see-_the-dress-differently--the-answer-lies-in-the-sh.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20original%20image%20was%20overexposed,affects%20the%20colors%20we%20see.%E2%80%9D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> that people saw the dress differently because of how the brain processes assumptions based on how the dress was illuminated.
“The original image was overexposed, rendering the illumination source uncertain,” Wallisch. “As a result, we make assumptions about how the dress was illuminated, which affects the colors we see.”
If people assumed the dress was photographed in a shadow, it may appear gold and white, while those who believed it was illuminated by artificial light saw it as black and blue.
“This is a basic cognitive function: to appreciate the color on an object, the illumination source has to be taken into account, which the brain does continuously,” Wallisch added.

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Gender ideology is a fickle friend.
Just ask Humza Yousaf. The Scottish premier used his “woke” credentials to ascend to power last year in a battle against more “common-sense” candidates – espousing an agenda to extoll trans-ideology as the highest driving value, and bulldozing anyone who raised concerns as a “hateful” bigot.
He won the top spot in governance. But what brings you up can tear you down twice as fast – so indicated by his resignation today.
Yousaf’s leadership of Scotland may have been bolstered by ideological adages that made for exciting soundbites. Indeed, his profile gained him support from the ultra-left Green Party, who governed alongside his Scottish National Party in a power-sharing agreement. 
One policy platform became more wildly unhinged than the next – from chilling conversations around the family dinner table about gender; to forbidding parents from objecting to their child cross-dressing. 
Yet every deceitful piece of lip service to an ideology founded on the claim that men can become women at will, will eventually hit the curb of reality. And when respected and established pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass released her high-profile, U.K. government-commissioned review of children’s “gender services,” she conclusively unveiled the distinct medical threat posed to children buying into the lie that their bodies are “wrong.”
The Scottish government had a conundrum to deal with. Cass’s review revealed an uncomfortable truth — that rather than merely allowing children “time to think” by delaying the onset of puberty, the vast majority of those treated with puberty blockers continued on a journey to cross-sex hormones. A conveyor belt of bodily confusion puts vulnerable young people at risk of serious and irreversible mutilation, as well as destroying fertility, among other life-altering consequences. Brain maturation may also be “temporarily or permanently disrupted” by puberty blockers, according to Cass’s findings. The impact of puberty blockers on mental health has not been fully explored, and some female patients experienced worsening depression or anxiety.
By affirming the belief that their bodies are “wrong,” the cheerful, rainbow-coloured party line of the Scottish government was going to destroy a troubled generation of youngsters whose lives had barely begun.
In an act of sheer necessity, Scottish authorities peddled back their extreme ideological drive a few weeks ago, pausing the distribution of puberty blockers to under-18s. But gender ideology isn’t a genie that can be shoved back into the bottle. This decision, paired with a further announcement scrapping unrealistic climate targets to reduce emissions by 75% by 2030, was enough to send the leftist alliance into a tailspin. Within days, the government SNP-Green pact broke apart, a motion of no confidence was filed, and Humza, jumping before he was pushed, was out on his ear.
It’s incredible that Humza found himself in this trap, considering the circumstances under which his predecessor left office. Nicola Sturgeon, who governed our country for almost a decade, also became a victim of her own puritanical virtue-signaling. Sturgeon clung so tightly to the mantras of modern sexual orthodoxy that she championed a policy of self-ID, which would have allowed any male in Scotland to access female-only changing rooms or rape crisis centers with little difficulty. When confronted with the reality that this could mean sending convicted double-rapists into women’s prison blocks, she had no ledge of common reason to grasp hold of to protect women’s basic safety. Her departure swiftly ensued.
“Woke” is an unforgiving and judgmental religion. It yields no grace for its most powerful adherents. Yet even this beast is no match for the power of truth. After two car crash leaderships, it’s time for a re-enlightenment in Scotland — a rediscovery of what it means to govern on the basis of reality. The Scottish people are neither blind nor docile. Women have spoken up, parents have voiced their concerns, and for too long, all who objected to the toxic ideology were branded “bigots.” It’s time for a government that hears and reflects the people. It’s time for a leader who upholds and safeguards the basic rights of women and children, and ends the madness that manipulates vulnerable people into rejecting their own bodies. The rest of the world, too, can learn from our sorry tale. This might be the government that “woke” broke; but we have every opportunity, at this juncture, to rise as the country that broke “woke.”
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Lois McLatchie Miller (@LoisMcLatch) is a Scottish commentator and Senior Legal Communications Officer for Alliance Defending Freedom UK.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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