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At first, this merely sounds like the worst day out ever. But for supporters of independence, in fact it’s even grimmer than ...
We must admit, we don’t quite get what the Daily Record is trying to achieve. Having already told its dwindling band of ...
And this is what they say elsewhere, when they think nobody in Scotland is looking: One day someone’s going to tell them about the internet, and our ...
One of the very few phrases universally recognised in Scotland but which will draw blank looks anywhere else in the UK is the dry, dark “Well, ye ken noo”. Until recently it had no equivalent that we ...
The events marked simply and unquestionably the most shameful and contemptible moment in the history of the Scottish Parliament since 1707. As well as somehow ceding the moral high ground to the ...
The release of some early 2021 census statistics relating to gender was greeted with glee and elation by Nancy Kelley, CEO of Stonewall in the UK. Vindication at last! (Kelley declined to mention that ...
Poor old Tommy Sheppard’s got a contract, so he has to keep talking. And this week he said something that, if anyone really thought the constitution was still a current live political issue, would ...
Astonishingly, there isn’t a single word of apology anywhere in this statement. There isn’t a scintilla of contrition, not the tiniest glimmer of admission of culpability or responsibility. There ...
This sounds like good news, doesn’t it? But in fact the headline on the STV News website – whether intentionally, through innocent misunderstanding or, as we suspect, a result of being deliberately ...
The SNP released their general election manifesto today. We’re not going to link you to it, because we don’t want to be responsible for wasting your time. This is everything it has to say on the party ...
While we get on with some tinkering behind the scenes in the absence of any Scottish political news – we have an exciting new comment system and the Contact form finally works again! – readers may ...