Concerned residents met at the bridge last night …

THE Scottish Government should bring in tariffs on “big whisky” to avoid cutting public services amid a cost-of-living crisis, the SNP’s trade union group (SNPTUG) has said. Source

THE cost-of-living crisis demands that the multi-billion profits of Big Whisky contribute to the Scottish public purse argues Bill Ramsay, convener of the SNP Trade Union Group. Source

Glenn Campbell, What will Prime Minister Truss mean for Scotland? The operation of the human subconscious is often more visible to observers than the human subject.  So when BBC Scotland’s political editor notes that “There are certainly dangers for unionists in adopting a more “muscular” approach – it could alienate moderate opinion in Scotland and […] Source

A PIPE was dislodged at the Elgin hospital on August 10. …

Paper Cup by Karen Campbell, Canongate Books £14.99 reviewed by Alec Ross. The great Scottish poet Robert Burns is referenced once, and once only, in Karen Campbell’s wonderful, empathetic, timely and moving new novel Paper Cup. But the truth is that while reading Karen’s book I couldn’t get him out of my head. The words on […] Source

Police and council both commend those who attended. …

At first it sounds like something from The Onion “Liz Truss set to secure the Union with new law to make it harder for the SNP to win”, but it’s not, its the Scottish Daily Express getting all over-excited about The Sunday Times scoop by Jason Allardyce (see here). It is a sign of absolute […] Source

BREWDOG – the country’s largest craft brewery – announced the closure of six of its UK pubs last week in a fiery statement which slammed the “clueless Government” for failing to take action on rapidly spiralling costs. Source

HMRC has issued a “winding up petition” to the company PPE Medpro Ltd which is linked to the Conservative peer Michelle Mone, citing unpaid taxes. Source

LAST week the Scottish Government released their yearly Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) report, the most intensely discussed set of statistics in the country’s constitutional debate … Source