Is Labour Dead?

From the endless stream of u-turns (both before and after election), to the appalling foreign policy on Gaza, to the failure to scrap the two-child benefit cap, to the GB Energy confusion, to the language used about P&O ferries, to the Council of Nations and Regions fiasco, to the meetings with Giorgia Meloni, to the […] Source

Family visit

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I am not going to be about this week as we have family visiting from the USA. Normal blogging service will be resumed next week. While we are doing our best tour guide impression with our American guests – “Look, there’s a…

Celebrating the Joy of Scottish Women’s Football: Self-Belief, Sexism and Overcoming the ‘Old Boy’s Networks’

A Most Unsuitable Game: Celebrating Scottish Women’s Football Fifty Years After the Ban Edited by Karen Fraser, Julie McNeill, Fiona Skillen Published by Tippermuir Books. £9.99. Reviewed by John McIntosh This book is ambitious – aiming to reflect the stories of the women who have played and play football in Scotland – from internationalists to […] Source

Terrence McNally talks to Greg Palast about US Voter Repression

Greg Palast’s VIGILANTES INC: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen, narrated by Rosario Dawson and produced by Martin Sheen, reveals that in 43 states individual citizens are able to challenge and remove fellow citizens from voter rolls. Watch the film here. Source

Alex Salmond R.I.P.

In news which has shocked all of Scotland, Alex Salmond has suddenly passed away while on a trip to North Macedonia. Whether you support Scottish independence or not, he was without doubt a giant of Scottish politics who transformed the Scottish political landscape for good, a truly monumental individual, and as…

Defending the Scots language from the Tory MSP for Mordor

Yet again Scotland’s languages are making the news, following on from Andrew Marr’s factually incorrect and ignorantly dismissive comments about Gaelic, for which he eventually apologised, this time it’s Scots which is the object of British nationalist ignorance. The graciousness free zone which is the Scottish Tory MSP for Mordor Stephen…