The Pylon, the Turbine and the Black Black Blade

Speymouth September 1, 2025

The Scottish renewables revolution feeds into a dysfunctional, even dystopian UK energy system. The crisis in the Highlands and Islands has echoes of age-old issues of power, poverty and democracy. Scotland is in the midst of a renewable energy revolution. It’s a revolution that could (and should) produce clean energy, thousands of good jobs, a […] Source

Holyrood 2026: an election of unknowns

Speymouth September 1, 2025

The next Holyrood elections are now only nine months away and they look set to be the most unpredictable elections in the history of the Scottish Parliament. No one, not even the Scottish media’s polling guru John Curtice, can claim to know what the results of May 2026’s election is going…

How Dark Money Fuelled The Rise Of Christian Nationalism | Katherine Stewart

Speymouth September 1, 2025

In this interview from Democracy for Sale, journalist and author Katherine Stewart (Money, Lies and God) explains the rise of Christian nationalism in the United States – how it’s funded, organised, and coordinated through think tanks, legal networks, and the media. You can follow Democracy for Sale here: Democracy for Sale | Peter Geoghegan | […] Source

We must not concede to Farage’s lies

Speymouth August 27, 2025

Following Nigel Farage’s immigrant bashing speech on Tuesday, in which he presented a fantasy of figures pulled out of thin air and cited some highly dubious scaremongering statistics about the alleged involvement of Afghan migrants in sexual crime, on Wednesday the political wing of GB News gained its first MSP in…

This is Not Normal

Speymouth August 26, 2025

A man who is widely thought to be in the running for becoming the next Prime Minister of the UK has just set out a five-year plan, which would include tearing up human rights laws and sending people to countries where they could be at risk of imprisonment, torture or death. He confirmed women and […] Source

Scots have done our bit for the planet – and the reward is high bills

Speymouth August 26, 2025

YOUR article “‘Serious concern’ ahead of ahead of energy price increase” (Aug 24) and the letter addressing “nimby” Highlanders against wind farms in the Monday edition struck a chord here in Dumfries & Galloway, where we read in our latest weekly paper that “Work starts on wind farm after decade of planning” for “one of the UK’s biggest onshore wind farms” that will now go ahead in Upper Nithsdale. Source