Month: September 2018

This article originally appeared on Allan’s blog. Reproduced with permission.Dear Richard Leonard, You can accept this letter as my formal resignation from membership of the Labour Party. And you may ...

An arms firm is offering World War One history lessons for schools prompting fears that defence multinationals are having an increasing influence in Scotland’s classrooms. BAE Systems is Britain’s largest ...

Great fire of Rome By Russell Bruce When the only certainty is uncertainty, Scotland must take up the reins of positive direction and not keep hanging on to find out ...

Ashley Graczyk Ashley says Yes. Ashley Graczyk serves the Sighthill and Gorgie Ward and is Edinburgh’s first profoundly deaf Councillor. Ashley’s experience fuelled her interest in disability rights and then ...

By Fiona Grahame Fiona Grahame, Editor of the Orkney News, casts her eye over the GERS figures published last week. First published in the Orkney News, Newsnet is pleased to ...

Theresa May is scared. She gave an interview to Reporting Scotlandshire and instructed us to forget about another independence referendum and told Nicola Sturgeon to concentrate on the day job. ...

In her Cartoon of the Week, Lorna Miller (@mistressofline) looks at Labour’s conference this week and the leader Jeremy Corbyn’s apparent opposition to a future independence referendum. SEE last week’s Cartoon ...

We’ve been keeping coverage of our ongoing court battle with former Scottish Labour branch manager Kezia Dugdale to a minimum on the site, partly because little of any material impact ...

Chiara Bullen’s September edition of BookSpace reviews some of the latest Scottish literary productions Autumn brings with it a flurry of activity for the publishing industry, long before we’ll see the ...

Jonathan Peters reports from the streets of Rio De Janeiro ahead of the Brazilian elections next week, as corruption, austerity and sexism amount to a tense and toxic political brew ...