Month: November 2022
Holyrood election vs UK General election as de facto referendum, the pros and cons
Speymouth
Finding Moray’s best young musician
Speymouth
PICTURES: Crowds turn out in Elgin for ‘busiest ever’ Christmas lights switch on
Speymouth
TV documentary to highlight pub link to Alistair Wilson murder in Nairn
Speymouth
Scotland scunnered with rule by House of so-called “Lords”
Speymouth
Explaining the obvious to self-serving British nationalists
Speymouth
In the days since the historic Supreme Court ruling that Scotland has no right to an independence referendum through its own internal democratic processes, and the incomprehensible decision of the court that Scotland has no right to self-determination as it is neither oppessed, a colony, nor denied a meaningful say in…
Michelle Mone’s worst moments, from Covid scandals to diet pills
Speymouth
Scottish Labour’s Dilemma
Speymouth
Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision generated a wave of commentary regarding the strategic impasse of the independence movement and Nicola Sturgeon’s future as leader of the SNP. (You can read my pessimistic take, for the New Left Review’s Sidecar blog, here.) But amidst the crashing constitutional debris, one salient political fact seems to have been overlooked: Scottish […] Source
Concerns over failure of UK’s post-Brexit trade deal with Japan
Speymouth
Being Supreme, Becoming Ungovernable
Speymouth
The ramifications from this week’s Supreme Court ruling continue to unfold. For some there’s a shrug of the shoulders, a contemptuous ‘told you so’ and a wry ‘this changes nothing’. For others on the left it is more apocalyptic – the final nail in the coffin of Scottish independence, as they have long predicted. The […] Source
Cleaning the Augean Stables
Speymouth
Cleaned out the Augean Stables which is Bella’s Comments section. This editor has a lot of patience but not infinite patience. People are welcome to come and disagree and argue all day and all night long and share dissenting views and tell me this is all rubbish. What you are no welcome to do is […] Source
Wind turbine invented by 15-year-old Scot to help communities in Kenya
Speymouth
The Pyrrhic victory
Speymouth
Wednesday was a very big day for the Scottish independence campaign. Scotland is imprisoned in a failed democracy that refuses to accept the outcome of Scottish elections that are not to the liking of the Anglo-British nationalist parties. We now find ourselves in a so-called voluntary union which is indeed voluntary,…
Ten things you need to know about the Supreme Court judgment – and the response
Speymouth
Isle of Iona locals win prize for ‘UK-first’ decarbonisation project
Speymouth