By Russell Bruce The trailer for Outlaw King, the story of Robert the Bruce’s campaign for Scottish Independence against enormous odds, is causing much excitement. Independence then was no mean challenge against ...
Whenever Scottish Labour rouse themselve to try to rally their handful of remaining supporters by whipping up some fake moral outrage – on this occasion about the Scottish Government giving a ...
There’s a very peculiar trope which has developed amongst opponents of independence of late. It was seen in an article in the Daily Mail, or to give it its proper ...
By Dot Jessiman One of the big issues, and one used effectively by unionists to scare people in the last referendum, was that of pensions. People of pensionable age and ...
So Jeremy Corbyn’s four-day crusade to win back Scotland is going swimmingly. In the rare moments when his MSPs and Lords aren’t undermining him by attacking him over Brexit and ...
It’s GERS Day, Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland, the Scottish version of Groundhog Day. It’s the day when a certain anti-independence blogger goes around on social media showing off his ...
A council pension fund has sold its shares in an Israeli bank at the centre of a global divestment campaign. Falkirk Pension Fund (FPF) had £6m invested in Bank Hapoalim – ...
We’re just going to reprint this piece every year, because only the numbers change.Today saw the publication of the 2017-18 GERS stats, which are again triggering a convulsive orgy of “BLACK HOLE!” articles across ...
Michael Russell MSP By Russell Bruce As the UK trundles along with Brexit negotiations, like a hedgehog on the prowl, but with considerably less sense of purpose, the world watches in ...
Anyone who’s ever written to the BBC, or who follows this site, will already know that the Corporation’s instinctive standard response to any request for information is “Get stuffed, pleb. ...