Category: Regional News
Scotland and the United Nations, an unlikely path to independence
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There has been some pushback online from Liberation Scotland/Salvo supporters about the comment I made in my previous piece about the UK employing its veto as a permanent member of the UN Security Council in order to block any potential UN resolution demanding the decolonisation of Scotland should Liberation Scotland/Salvo succeed…
An hour of not feeling complicit in the genocide
Speymouth
Almost 500 people were arrested in London yesterday for holding placards supporting ‘Palestine Action’ which the UK government has declared a ‘terrorist organisation’ despite it never harming anyone. In theory, anyone holding such a placard could receive up to 14 years in prison. Those arrested at that ‘Defend our Juries’ protest included folk who had […] Source
Breaking the constitutional logjam
Speymouth
There has been a lot of discussion in the past few weeks about various strategies to achieve independence. These include John Swinney’s plan, which I wrote about a few days ago. There is also the decolonisation initiative which Salvo, the campaigning wing of Liberation Scotland is presenting to the United Nations,…
Is Gordon Brown right that Scottish child poverty is ‘getting worse every day’?
Speymouth
‘Really ecstatic’ – What Moray pupils had to say on exam results day
Speymouth
Gary’s Economics: I Made Millions Betting You Would Stay Poor…
Speymouth
Bird flu case sees protection zones put in place
Speymouth
Gordonstoun pupils get ‘Golden Ticket’ experience with 17 new Steinway pianos
Speymouth
The Lurch to the Left
Speymouth
The Times has put up no less than six of its finest journalists to write about the calamity that is Kate Forbes standing down, next year. No doubt there will be more to come, but as it stands Laura Paterson (‘Kate Forbes, the rising star who couldn’t land the SNP leadership‘), Michael Glackin (‘SNP’s last […] Source
Edinburgh pub launches £7k Boston holiday giveaway to mark new venue opening
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Plans for AI data centre campus proposed with potential to create over 1500 jobs
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History made as Scottish rocket firm hits ‘major milestone’ with launch licence
Speymouth
The Whole is Shattered and Wrecked
Speymouth
“The whole is shattered and wrecked”: human ecology, relationality and dùthchas in the testimonies of the Free Church ministers of the far north-west to the Napier Commission. This is a script of a paper delivered by Dr. Gemma Smith at the ‘Interrogating the Napier Commission’ Conference held at Glasgow University on 24-25th July, organised by […] Source
From strawberries to Eigg, here’s your latest dose of good news from Scotland
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Thoughts on the SNP’s independence strategy
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