Author: Speymouth
Moray Art Centre prepares for a spectacular showcase
Distraction theft pair targeted village shop
UK Government backs €781m loan for Turkish railway project
Final commemorative stone honouring Moray’s place in history of Duke of Edinburgh Award placed
Better a diamond with a flaw than a stone without
Jet2 flights: New route to be launched from Scottish city to Italy
Bella Caledonia Anthology
There’s only a box of the second print run of our anthology of fourteen years of writing left. It takes the form of blogs, rants, poetry, reviews, and long-form essays – all a creative mess of expression and ideas from a wide range of some of our best writers and activists. You can watch the […] Source
Box Fresh Scottish Poetry
We haven’t had much poetry for a while so its great to share a new podcast by the Makar and Ally Heather. It’s called Lantern. As the blurb says: “Scottish Makar Kathleen Jamie and host Alistair Heather are joined in the Scottish Poetry Library by some of the most talented and vital voices in modern […] Source
Publisher of The Scotsman announces voluntary redundancy scheme
Scottish retailer open flagship first store to showcase top food items
How the national minimum wage has effectively legitimised low pay
Cruising Grounds and Fairy Tales
As runaway climate change alters the physical experience of summer, possibly permanently, people from these shores are navigating how or whether to travel abroad, and some minds are turning to what this means for Scotland. Like in most things we are anywhere between twenty and fifty years too late in our thinking. As Italy and […] Source
The drearily predictable BBC Scotland
On Thursday NHS consultants in England went on strike, the first time that senior doctors in the NHS have taken industrial action since the 1970s. Strike action in Scotland has been avoided, thanks to an improved pay deal offered to doctors by the Scottish Government, which has shown a willingness to…
To achieve a wellbeing economy, practice wellbeing philosophy
Dr Robbie Mochrie is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Heriot-Watt University and a frequent contributor to the National on the Scottish economy. Achieving wellbeing has been at the heart of economics since Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations nearly 250 years ago. Believing that wealth was the source of wellbeing, Adam Smith explored […] Source