Month: February 2024
Glasgow: Scottish vinyl pressing plant launches new crowdfunder
WATCH: First Minister denies A96 dualling 2030 deadline was scrapped years ago, claims ‘we were always upfront’
Adam chosen to lead Scottish Parliament Human Rights Committee
Labour in Scotland: Lying for votes
The Labour party’s Scottish accounting unit held its spring conference in Glasgow over the weekend, an event mainly focused on creating the fiction that the Labour party in Scotland is is distinct entity with a political identity and policies distinct from those of the UK Labour party in the iron grip…
This is Rigged in Holyrood Palace
Today nine people with This Is Rigged , carrying flags and banners, have staged a sit-in in the royal dining room at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. The group currently remains in place and is eating food. At 1.15 PM on the 19th of February, 9 people with the direct action campaign ‘This Is […] Source
Jobs at risk as unique Scottish technology firm goes bust
Popular hotel and pub in historic Scottish village for sale
Ofcom bins BrewDog complaint over BBC documentary on Scottish firm
SNP attack ‘aggressive’ Labour windfall tax proposals
The Art and Uses of Lying: Or, a short introduction to contemporary British Public Life
Henry Staunton, past Chairman of the Post Office (sacked by Kemi Badenoch, the Business Minister, and self-righteous prig) claims he was told to stall Post Office payouts, so the government cold “limp into” the election: “‘Early on, I was told by a fairly senior person to stall on spend on compensation and on the replacement […] Source
Upturned Boats and the Hyper Banal
Increasingly Britain looks like Absurdistan, a bizarre dysfunctional place where the centrist political parties converge on doing nothing about the ongoing genocide in Gaza and share a dismal economic outlook as Britain heads again into recession. Take a glance at the chaos of the Rochdale byelection or the manic debate about naming the London Overground […] Source
Teenager accused of murdering Elgin bus diver in court again
‘Surreal’: Scottish man’s origami invention exported to Japan
The Body Shop enters administration with all Scottish stores at risk
Redcoats, Ridicule and Rage
If you are an independence supporter more concerned by the name of a cafe than the state of grotesque social inequality, the cost of living, or issues of poverty and housing in Scotland, then you are not, to quote Logan Roy, ‘Serious people’. But it’s also too easy to be dismissive of recognising that to […] Source