Alison Thewliss and Stephen Flynn are the only two contenders running for the SNP Westminster group leader job – what divides them? Source

ELGIN Academy librarian Shelagh Toonen thought she knew everything there was to know about book thieves. …

Replacement for one of two buildings hit by arsonist. …

  In Leeds today, Keir Starmer, flanked by former-PM Gordon Brown, unveiled Labour’s plans for UK constitutional reform. There is a clue in that first sentence as to why it’s not going to blunt moves towards Scottish independence. This report is about Labour reclaiming its so-called ‘Red Wall’ seats from…

THIS week sees the first meeting of the Scottish Government’s new First Minister’s Investment Panel. This is billed as an expert group of professional asset managers and fund investors who will advise the SNP Government “on how Scotland can create the right conditions to attract global capital investment to develop the physical infrastructure required Source

I am not prone to despair. In fact, the overwhelming, and to be frank ridiculous characteristic I suffer from is an overbearing optimism. If you did one of those old-school word doodles of my writing it would doubtless be filled with ‘hope’ ‘vision’ ‘imagination’ and other mildly embarrassing manifestations of this outlook. Under the onslaught […] Source

  Frontpage headlines rarely cause laughter – unless on comics like the Broons.  But listeners to the press review on BBS Radio Scotland’s Sunday Show last weekend may have chuckled as reviewers joked about the Sunday Times Scotland’s latest anti-independence splash. Separately, a law professor condemned the editorial team behind…

  Rising star in the field of Scottish and UK law Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, who is a fellow at Princeton in the US, argues the UK government risks undermining the rule of law and should change its stance to allow a referendum on Scottish independence.  In a hard-hitting legal analysis in…

The mainstream media presentation of the Ukrainian war, in the UK and the Russian Federation, both invoke the Second World War struggle against the Nazis. This should provide a warning that something is seriously amiss here. Yet there is a common feature in their accusations. Neither side means, by opposition to Nazism, opposition to fascism […] Source

Mapping Scotland in a time of change: From Stone Voices to The Atlas of Scotland Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland, Neal Ascherson, Granta Books Here Lies Our Land, Kathleen Jamie, Scottish Poetry Library Reviewed by Andrew Redmond Barr If someone asked you to imagine Scotland, there’s a good chance you’d imagine something close to […] Source

TALENTED young musicians are in with a chance of representing Moray in a national contest. …

THE lights were switched on by local school pupil Faith Wells on Saturday as crowds enjoyed the festivities. …