Month: March 2025
Branchform’s meagre fruit
Speymouth
It cost £2.3 million, it lasted four years. It originated in a politically motivated complaint from a notorious attention seeker with a habit of making nuisance complaints to the police, but Police Scotland’s Operation Branchform has finally come to an end – without any charges being brought against former first minister…
Labour out-Tories the Tories
Speymouth
The head of the DWP, the Department of Wickedness and Persecution, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall, the mad axe-woman of Westminster, today announced the biggest cuts ever to sickness and disability benefits, kicking away the crutches of some of the most vulnerable in society. The scale of the cuts is…
‘Proud’ teenagers show the way on blood donation
Speymouth
‘All you can do is hope and pray’ – ‘Terrified’ mum was told twins ‘may not survive’
Speymouth
Elgin construction firm posts £12.6m pre-tax loss
Speymouth
Korean Dispatch
Speymouth
Jamie Maxwell reports from Seoul. I arrived in Seoul on 15 January, the day the president was arrested. Armed police had to scale the walls of his compound and force their way past a cluster of private security guards. These events were broadcast live on TV. On 18 January, a judge extended Yoon Suk Yeol’s […] Source
Eh? Aye! The Artwork of Lorna Miller
Speymouth
Former cartoonist for Bella, Lorna Miller, has an exhibition of her work at the Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art from the 7-27 March 2025. You can view her back catalogue of cartoons and illustrations HERE. “In 2014 she became the first woman to have a position created for her in Private Eye: illustrating the Rotten Boroughs column. […] Source
Willie McRae Forty Years On – 3000 Trees
Speymouth
ASSASSINATION: FORTY YEARS ON – From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn The dictionary definition of “assassination” is, “to murder (a usually prominent person) by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons”. So it was with the death of Willie McRae in 1985. Willie McRae, a former Vice-Chairman of the Scottish National […] Source
Scotland’s offshore wind developers rally against ‘dangerous’ zonal pricing
Speymouth
Michelin-starred Scottish restaurant on sale ‘after 250 years in hospitality’
Speymouth
Loch Lomond hotel issues statement after refusing to help terminally ill baby
Speymouth
Glasgow cafe which featured in Still Game put on sale as closure announced
Speymouth
Scottish games cafe announces permanent closure in shock statement
Speymouth
Visits from space aliens
Speymouth
You may not have noticed, on account of doing something far more engrossing, like de-fluffing your navel, but last week Scotland was ‘graced’ – I use the term advisedly – by a visit from Russell Findlay’s boss Kemi Badenoch, a woman who makes the notoriously ill-tempered and uptight deputy leader of…
Mapping the British Media
Speymouth
The media in Britain is “a raging furnace of right-wing provocation, spitting out lies, fear and spite, shaping a political culture of miserliness and insularity”. We’ve been bringing you daily coverage of Scottish and UK politics for eighteen years. We publish writing on Arts and Culture (with a ton of music, reviews, poetry and film). We publish […] Source