Month: February 2024
Aberlour Medical Practice in public takeover: ‘Fully operational’ pledge
Moray & Banffshire Heroes 2024: Secondary school pupil shortlist revealed!
SNP candidate for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East Westminster constituency formally adopted
Britannia Unhinged: 30p Lee and the Unbrits
Almost twenty years ago the Conservatives paid for a huge advertising hoarding outside City and Islington College’s sixth-form centre, saying on one side: “I mean, how hard is it to keep a hospital clean?” and on the other: “It’s not racist to impose limits on immigration”. At the foot of the poster, a question is […] Source
Scottish family-run restaurant to open second location
Scottish Government considers restrictions on meal deals and junk food
Repaying Westminster contempt in kind
After last Wednesday’s disgraceful scenes in the House of Commons when Speaker Lindsay Hoyle acceded to pressure from Labour leader Keir Starmer to trash Commons conventions and effectively to turn what was supposed to be an SNP Opposition day debate on a ceasefire in Gaza into a Labour Opposition day debate,…
Scottish investment firm sees clients pull billions ahead of job cuts
The truth behind Scotland’s oil and the McCrone Report
What would Scotland look like if Scots saw the McCrone Report?
Some of My Best Friends Aren’t Tories
Douglas Rooney on the rise of the brocast, the cringey podcast of the chumocracy and the ascendance of a weird new form of centrism. I work with a very nice American woman. She is hard-working, unfailingly polite and pleasant. However, we will never be friends. She is a Trump supporting conservative who campaigns for anti-LGBTQ+ […] Source
KNEECAP accuse UK government of trying to ‘silence’ them
The Belfast rap trio KNEECAP has accused the UK government of trying to “silence” them after it blocked a British Phonographic Industry (BPI) funding award. The band have since instructed a prominent Kneecap: Belfast rap group take legal action after UK blocks grant – BBC News. “On December 4th, 2023, our clients applied in their […] Source
Two words
On Wednesday MPs were due to debate and vote upon an SNP motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza describing the wanton slaughter of Palestinians by the misnamed Israeli ‘Defence’ Forces as collective punishment, which constitutes a war crime under international law. Starmer refused to support the SNP motion because…
A Business for Scotland proposal to ring fence oil taxes for investment is now SNP policy
Many Scots are angry that the profits from the exploitation of Scotland’s oil for the last 50 years have gone south. There is little to show for the oil boom in Aberdeen and other areas where they were extracted. For years Business for Scotland has argued that the oil and gas companies who exploit this […] Source