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The Scottish Government spent almost £400,000 on a public information campaign on the hate crime act, it is being reported.

Back to Scotland and Humza Yousaf’s controversial new hate law. The First Minister’s Hate Crime Act has left an already overstretched and under-resourced police force swamped with trivial complaints. Of the over 7,000 reports made in the first week, only three per cent of these were actual crimes. And now the spotlight is on the

The Scottish Government blew hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers cash on an advertising campaign ahead of the legislation coming into effect.

ROBERT HARDMAN: This is a law which makes it a hate crime to abuse a man in a dress but not a woman wearing the very same dress.