Author: Speymouth
‘Brilliant’ or an ‘outrage merchant’ – Katie Hopkins show provokes strong opinions
Dozens of jobs to be axed at Johnstons of Elgin
Scottish Tory leadership debate held in village hall
Police Intimidate UK Journalist Sarah Wilkinson
This is an extraordinary account of police intimidation of journalists commenting on the situation in Palestine under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act. Jonathan Cook writes: “This is an utterly shocking account from journalist Sarah Wilkinson of her recent violent arrest by 16 counter-terrorism police, several masked, at 7.30am. They smashed up, or stole, many […] Source
‘Iconic’ Scottish parish church and estate put up for sale
The three Scottish offshore wind farms awarded new contracts
Scottish Government approves major renewable energy storage development
Dozens of jobs at risk as Scottish factory ‘faces closure’
‘Rare opportunity’ as restaurant in ‘sought-after’ location up for sale
Atlantic Ocean Currents
This is a talk by Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf, Head of Earth System Analysis at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research & professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University, on dramatic changes in Atlantic ocean currents. It’s already had over 1m views. Here my half-hour presentation in Vilnius a week ago! pic.twitter.com/TGApNtmuWK One of […] Source
The SNP has not yet understood what opposing genocide requires
“A person is courageous so long as he has no need for courage, but he collapses when the issue becomes real, and he is forced to understand courage as an act of ‘surrender’, a detachment from human involvement, and his content himself with being a spectator rather than a participant in life.” – Ghassan Kanafani […] Source
Time for a new indy strategy
With the SNP conference about to start and the post mortem of the party’s poor performance in July’s Westminster general election under way, it’s fair to say that there is now general agreement within the wider Scottish independence movement that the independence strategy inherited from Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon is…