Month: November 2018

Sorry for not having blogged the past couple of days, but I’ve been having internet issues. Virgin Cable’s online service check thingy insists there’s no broadband issues in my area, ...

Brexit could damage university research in Scotland for at least a decade, hitting funding, vital collaborations and disciplines crucial to the economy, confidential documents have revealed. Scotland’s universities are said ...

Your occasional reminder about who’s been governing us since we refused to take the responsibility for it ourselves. To be quite honest, readers, if we’re going to leave our future ...

This piece ran in the Telegraph – a newspaper with no Scottish edition and almost no Scottish sales – on Friday. Click to enlarge. Our favourite line is: “Think of what ...

ONS statistical note 11/11/11 By Russell Bruce This 100 year image heads an ONS statistical note released today and they have mislaid over 400,000 British Imperial military deaths. If we ...

In the Johnston Press stable the Scotsman is in fact outsold by the i - by 20 to 1 - but also by the Yorkshire Post, the Portsmouth News and ...

Lesley and I were both enthralled by the US midterm elections. I followed them on CNN and she on C4. Still her go to news channel despite the Nicola Sturgeon ...

Inequality in Scotland has got worse not better since devolution, according to a new expert study. Gwilym Pryce, a social statistics professor at the University of Sheffield, has concluded that ...