A brief New Year series of posts where I expand on the six themes laid out here and give some more detail. Here looking at some of the generational forces and demographics driving the break up of Britain. For the past ten or twelve years the independence movement in Scotland has seen itself as the lead […] Source

READERS have reacted to an article by our wildlife columnist Merlin, on the topic of big black cat sightings. …

FORMER Post Office boss Paula Vennells is to hand back her CBE following the fallout of the Horizon IT scandal … Source

THE number of Moray teachers and support staff on temporary contracts has been greeted with alarm by Moray MP Douglas Ross. …

DOUGLAS Ross has been challenged over a claim the UK Government’s controversial  oil and gas bill will help energy security…. Source

Which teachers will get top marks from you? …

A MAJOR Scottish battery factory could be saved after administrators said “several parties” are interested in buying the company… Source

The head of a housing industry body has said she fears more housebuilders could collapse following Stewart Milne Group entering administration with the loss of more than 200 jobs. Source

“From north to south a hidden poverty epidemic is spreading across the country. It is fast becoming a national emergency – this is the pandemic that no Minister ever mentions” – Gordon Brown, leader of the Better Together campaign and former Prime Minister in the Daily Record. The hysteria which followed the trailing of Humza […] Source

On Christmas eve as bombs dropped on Palestine, Turkey began a fresh assault on Rojava, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, destroying critical infrastructure, like power plants and grain storage, and killing civilians. Like Palestine, the ongoing struggle in Rojava is a decades (if not centuries) long fight for collective liberation and self-determination. […] Source

BIKE owners are urged to register their cycles on a national database to help ensure they can be reunited with them if they are lost or stolen. …

2023 is on track to be Earth’s warmest year on record, while carbon dioxide concentrations are at their highest for at least 2 million years. …

SHOPLIFTER remanded in custody. …