Month: October 2018

So profuse apologies once again for the dog's breakfast of the last two posts.  I spent last night in a Highland hotel with a large Union Jack on the outside ...

In late January it started snowing again. Yellow weather warnings were issued across Scotland, ice formed on the pavements and gritters were out in force. Chilly streets were coated with ...

We felt sure that our awarding of the inaugural Thickest Politician In Scotland title this morning would be taken as the throwing down of a gauntlet, and we weren’t wrong. ...

Scotland’s former police chief personally signed off an undercover operation which involved an officer duping a woman into sex. Former Chief Constable Phil Gormley sanctioned deep cover infiltration by spycop ...

My apologies - I'm really playing catch-up with this latest Survation poll.  I've been away on a long weekend in the Highlands which has just been extended for another night ...

A guest post by Samuel Miller It appears some folk aren’t happy with them essenpee and their completely unhealthy obsession with that whole silly independence thing. A subject pro Westminster ...

    Hi there. You may have seen a piece this week in the National about the Scottish Independence Convention’s plans to try and help along with the rest of ...

“I just ran and ran,” he said. He can’t remember collapsing in the road. But when he came to, he had been found by locals in the Scottish town near ...

Time for another thread of quotes from the GRA debates of 2003/04, I think. This one about how critical it is to define SEX and GENDER in law and never ...

Writer Gabriella Bennett has just published her new book, “The Art of Coorie", inviting her readers to "embrace all things Scottish". Lesley and I cast our sceptical, though not cynical ...