Author: Speymouth
Scottish distillery toasts success with new listings in major supermarkets
SNP ‘mimicking Labour with cuts claims – but Scotland has options’, Green MSP says
BBC Scotland’s definition of propaganda
Words have a dictionary definition, they also have emotional colouring which can be either positive or negative, that emotional coloration is an essential part of the word’s meaning and it is disingenuous to use a word with a strongly negative emotional colouring and to pretend that your use of the word…
Family-run Scottish hotel to close months after new owners take over
RAF base to use ‘sustainable fuel’ for aircraft
British Airways flight between Heathrow and Inverness cancelled
Coach firm unveiled as finalists in three national honours
Labour takes the devolution ball away
To paraphrase the famous phrase attributed to the American author Mark Twain, there’s lies, damn lies, and Westminster promises to Scotland. The respect agenda and the promise of greater devolution made to Scotland by the Better Together parties during 2014’s Scottish independence referendum were comprehensively trashed by the Conservatives in the…
Devolution and The F Bomb
In the Scottish Labour party’s in-house magazine we are told that ‘Labour plan to bypass Holyrood and give direct spending powers to Westminster-run Scotland Office’ – SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Scottish Secretary Ian Murray’s department is to receive £150m to spend north of the border in a controversial shake-up.’ This is the sort of action expected […] Source
Scottish hotel named ‘world’s best wedding venue’ for record-breaking fifth year
Inside the new ‘holistic wellness centre’ just opened in Glasgow
Scotland in Limbo
For a long while it made sense to talk about Scotland as a liminal space – a space in between – that was going through a process that would allow it to emerge in a different state (hopefully literally). Now that makes little sense. Scotland is in limbo. We are stuck, moribund and directionless. The […] Source
Douglas Ross learns the meaning of karma
People, Peat and UNESCO Heritage Status
This is the first of a two-part series look at the history and future of people within the newly designated Flow Country UNESCO World Heritage Site. Last month the Flow Country, straddling Caithness and Sutherland in the far north of mainland Scotland, was awarded UNESCO World Heritage Site status, the first peatland in the world […] Source