Month: May 2023
On Scottish Seaweed
Back in 2013, seaweed wasn’t really a thing. I was driving up to Fife from Cornwall that September, white van full to the gun’ls with seaweed harvesting and monitoring equipment, towing my currach boat behind me. I’d had enough of Cornwall, too many sharp elbows, too white, too self-satisfied. I’d set up a community seaweed […] Source
PICTURES: Moray pupils take part in tennis festival
Wetherspoons to invest £4 million in A-listed Shawlands redevelopment
Another popular trail outside Elgin set to have parking charge introduced
I’d like to draw your attention to a few characteristics of fascism…
Watching the stupid unfold from the stage at the National Conservatism conference we compiled our Top Ten of the stupidest things said at the new event that marks the convergence point of the Tory party with neo-fascism … Straight in an No. 1 is Yoram Hazony … What is national conservatism? Before anything else, it’s […] Source
Firefighters continue to battle Moray blaze
Starmer’s transforming Labour into the Tories’ Mini-Me
In a speech to the Progressive Britain conference in central London last week Labour leader Keir Starmer insisted that he didn’t care if people think that his party’s priorities sound conservative. We’ve noticed that Keir, we’ve noticed. In an attack on the the Tory government of Sunak, he claimed it “can…
Post-Truth Politics
The New Nihilism
Perhaps understandably there’s not a lot of hope about. In the post-Coronation melancholy, witnessing the repression of the most basic of our political rights, in the shadow of the shambles of Nicola Sturgeon’s departure, in the absence of any credible political alternative and having to bathe in the waters of a reactionary media pool, there […] Source
Glasgow: New restaurant ‘coming soon’ to Argyle Street
Roz Foyer: Forget the coronation, profit is king in the UK
‘Mind-boggling’ Tory silence as Scottish Renewables calls for action
Scotland is about to make a massive mistake with oil
The SNP are still a force to be reckoned with
Reports of the demise of the SNP are most definitely premature. An opinion poll by YouGov published this week shows that the SNP still enjoys a commanding lead over Labour in voting intentions for the next Westminster General Election. The poll showed that the Tories are losing support to Labour with…