Gannets are dying and hardly anyone is talking about it. It’s small beer, I suppose, when there’s trench-warfare in Europe, and when the Iberian Peninsula is on fire. Small beer when the UK has its own red heat alert, when our political system is corrupted, when, for many, ‘getting by’ is no longer an option. […] Source

Imagine the power goes out and doesn’t come back on. At all. What might happen in your community? This is the question author D.D. Johnston explores in his latest novel, Disnaeland. In a review in Scotland on Sunday, Stuart Kelly writes “Disnaeland has verve and intelligence – I hope he writes more like it. D.D. […] Source

Alan Grant, one of Scotland’s greatest comic book writers and the man behind Judge Dredd and Batman as well as a host of other titles, has died aged 73. In work that spanned work from DC Thomson to DC comics  – from Dundee to Gotham – inarguably was key to transforming ‘comics’ and graphic novels […] Source

Here’s a brand new poem from George Gunn, commissioned by the National Library of Scotland. You can read and download the poem here. Source

A SCOTTISH crisp business is set for a rebrand following a buy-out from its majority shareholder. Source

THE two remaining candidates to become the next prime minister have been urged to fix the “rip-off” charges being foisted on Scotland’s renewables sector. Source

HUNDREDS of protesters are set to descend on Aberdeen later this month as part of a five-day camp in the oil capital of Europe. Source

LAST week I read in my other paper that Shetland will become part of the British grid system by 2023 and thus will be “more energy secure”! I couldn’t believe my eyes. Source

CUSTOMERS in the Republic of Ireland have been forced to order parcels to Northern Ireland in a bid to skirt Brexit red tape, a Scottish business owner has said. Source

Britain is baking. England and Wales, for the first time, face the highest level of alert for a heatwave that could kill thousands of people. Across the channel, Portugal, Spain and France are battling some of the worst wildfires Europe has ever seen, with extreme heat causing mass fatalities.The Portuguese Health Ministry reported that between […] Source

A new Scotland needs to live within the limits of the world, flourishing within the nature it depends on. Its people’s well-being should be cared for, with common access to resources. Scots should be free from degrading, unnecessary and harmful work; not alienated in the way they relate to each other or nature. A new […] Source

Kwarteng was flown to various cities in the Saudi kingdom by majority state-owned oil firm Aramco Source

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