Month: June 2024
On Getting Rid of the Tories
You’re not voting in a normal General Election. The landscape has changed completely and is rapidly changing further before your eyes. Just as you are living through a rapid climate deterioration – the consequences of which you dare not even imagine – so too the political realities you have been used to all your life […] Source
Will GB Energy really cut bills and create jobs as Labour claim?
Fact check: What will Labour’s GB Energy actually do?
Missing Moray teen traced “safe and well”
ELECTION: Candidates face the electorate at Cullen hustings
Kate Forbes: Labour’s GB Energy plans will not tackle unfairness
The Real Mackay
Aldi: Supermarket strikes deal with Scottish brewer for new beers
Highland estate with 15-mile beach on NC500 route hits the market
Stirling: Historic Scottish church with restaurant potential for sale
How can Scotland cut down on waste when nothing is built to last?
The War on Trans People and Colluding with the Politics of the Right
The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht Review, edited by Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn, Constable Press £22. Review by Gemma Clark Some years ago in Glasgow, I was approached by a man who was giving away free copies of religious texts. He caught my eye and seemed perfectly pleasant, so I spoke to him for […] Source
Going Forwards
After the Swiss game I was hassled for saying the euphoria was misplaced, that we hadn’t played THAT well and that the defence was still terrifying. Well, I was right. Steve Clarke has been carried forward by a back-catalogue of success that has masked a tired, uber-cautious and stilted approach that can be read and […] Source
Why Vote?
Watching the election coverage is like watching a Mirror World where whole chunks of reality are missing. Some entire political subjects are ruled out in advance – others are mislaid or ignored as being ‘off the map’ of acceptable discussion. You are left with banality and a discourse of subjects often nothing to do with […] Source