How to save Your Party from itself | Oliver Eagleton interview
Speymouth
Oliver Eagleton is a journalist and author, and is here interviewed to discuss his new book Your Party: The Return Of The Left. Today, Oliver and Ava discuss the latest fallout surrounding the new party, the alleged clashes between the two founding members, and whether the movement can survive a tumultuous start. Source
Just get your boots off our necks, Westminster
Speymouth
In an interview with The National newspaper, the actor Alan Cumming, who currently hosts the US version of the popular show The Traitors and who is outspoken in his support for Scottish independence, demanded “Get just get your boots off our necks, Westminster.” He made the powerful call for Scottish self-determination…
No, independence supporters’ compaints about BBC bias are nothing like Trump
Speymouth
There is certainly no love lost between supporters of Scottish independence and the BBC. It is however egregious I’m-not-a-nationalist-I’m-British bollocks to suggest, as former Labour party hack Carlos Alba writes in Wednesday’s Herald newspaper, that Yes supporters are now on the side of Donald Trump as he threatens the Corporation with…
Elgin teenager unearths gold wedding ring on farm dig
Speymouth
Christmas bike campaign launched to bring festive joy to north-east kids
Speymouth
Scottish shopping centre under fire for displaying Elon Musk’s Tesla Cybertruck
Speymouth
Overnight parking pilot scheme approved for motorhomes in Moray
Speymouth
Exact date set for planned 2026 return of Scotland to Europe ferry
Speymouth
Historic inn on Scottish harbourside sold for undisclosed sum
Speymouth
New Glasgow restaurant to open at site of former Hanoi Bike Shop
Speymouth
Sostrene Grene announces new store opening in Scottish city
Speymouth
Believe in Scotland’s path to independence, the routemap we need
Speymouth
I have previously blogged about my view that the UK is entering a terminal phase crisis which it is unlikely to survive in its current form. The pro-independence campaign group Believe in Scotland is of a similar opinion and believes that this crisis provides Scotland and Wales with a unique opportunity…
Fake News and the War on the BBC
Speymouth
The war on the BBC by Britain’s right-wing press has been a constant for the past thirty years, attempting to threaten and control the public broadcaster to yield to their political agenda. The paradox about the mass resignation of the BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, and the CEO of BBC News, Deborah Turness, over accusations of […] Source
Back at the Beating Heart
Speymouth
“Scotland is back at the beating heart of my government.” Keir Starmer, Jul 7, 2024 As the Labour Party faces electoral collapse, it is doubling down on its own worst policies. Rather than changing tack on its constitutional anti-democracy, or veering away from its reactionary social policies or stopping mimicking the far-right, it is doing […] Source
‘Farewell to Growth’, Serge Latouche (2007)
Speymouth
Politicians and the media obsess about ‘economic growth’; but what if that ‘glorious thirty years’ of economic expansion from the 1960s has ended? This landmark text of the degrowth movement explores why growth’s ‘end is nigh’, and why this should be welcomed. To suggest that further economic growth has become near impossible is a ‘secular […] Source