Month: September 2018

There’s a very weird story in the Scotsman today. As alert readers will have noticed from the third paragraph, the headline is actually an inexplicably negative spin on the fact ...

Chris McEleny is an SNP councillor. This is a personal opinion.The open sewer of some newspapers has been in full torrent this week. However it surged over the overflow pipe with ...

Tonight we have the result of the first local government by-election in Scotland for several months...Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay by-election result (first preferences):Conservatives 37.3% (+0.7) SNP 28.1% (-2.7) Labour 12.0% ...

Charities and opposition parties have raised concerns about the hundreds of thousands in fees Scotland’s local authorities have charged to homeless people for storing their belongings. Freedom of information requests ...

Perhaps the single most striking feature of everyday non-constitutional Scottish politics is Labour’s constantly-recurring habit of highlighting some supposedly unsatisfactory statistic about the Scottish Government’s performance, only for it to ...

I'm more than a little troubled by Jason Michael's latest post on Random Public Journal.  Obviously I agree with him that now is the time for the SNP to go ...

Scarred, frayed and lice-infested salmon caught on film at a fish farm off the island of Lewis have prompted animal cruelty investigations, The Ferret can reveal. A video shot underwater ...

I previously posted this on one of Chris’s John Bull cartoons. Worth repeating, I believe…. John Bull’s creator Dr John Arbuthnot was clear about John’s identity as an English yeoman. ...

Ashley Graczyk, formerly-Tory councillor: Complete series here.