Month: July 2018

I don’t usually comment here, the quality of Dateline 2018’s output however, has left me no choice. It’s not just the news where you are, it’s the news where everyone ...

We begin with the stushy that Lesley's latest article in the Scotsman commenting on Nicola Sturgeon's stance on Donald Trump's visit caused.  Never read the comments section is our sage ...

The BBC front page headline for this is actually just the alarming-sounding “Scottish prescription costs rise by 25%”, without even the qualifier about the timespan. It’s worse than that, though. Because ...

It is now official. The UK is leaving the EU on the basis of a corrupt campaign that was conducted illegally. Vote Leave has been fined a record amount by ...

Scotland’s farmers are facing an uncertain future as the Brexit negotiations falter, with the National Farmers Union leader calling a ‘no deal’ EU exit an “armageddon scenario” for the industry. ...

Tuesday was a long and tiring day. I had to drive all the way to Peterhead to speak at an event for The National Roadshow, and then drive all the ...

A British businessman imprisoned in Belarus has staged a hunger strike in protest at the conditions in which he and others are being held. Alan Smith stopped eating for eight ...

One of the problems about writing about Brexit is the risk of running out of synonyms for crapocalypse, armaggodforsaken, galactofuck, crapastrophe, shitaclysm, chaotaclysm, debastardacle, disastacre. But having considered the alternatives, ...

Government plans to appoint an independent watchdog to monitor how facial recognition, fingerprints and genetic information are used in Scotland have been criticised by campaigners. For more than two years, ...

Away back in 2016, when the world seemed a saner place – which is saying quite a lot because the world was pretty messed up in 2016 – the idea ...