Month: November 2018

We're back! Yup after a two-week break, during which time nothing politically significant at all has happened, the podcast has returned. Please read that last sentence with a note of ...

Teachers in Scotland have rejected the latest pay offer from the Scottish Government, and look set for industrial action. This has been supported by Scottish Labour, who have criticised the ...

A senior SNP politician has defended an international trip paid for by a regime accused of war crimes and human rights abuses including the abduction and disappearance of dissidents. Stephen ...

The decline of sterling By Russell Bruce The pound is not what it was in global terms. Over the centuries the major dominant currencies have changed. Going back a millennium ...

Something very creepy about May’s pictures when she’s on BBC 5Live… I don’t know if the fish eyed lens and halo effect was contrived, probably not, but take it together ...

Dear Theresa, Thank you for your begging letter. However let’s not be too churlish, congratulations are in order. The UK was divided as never before, fearful of the future, angry ...

"The British people want us to get this done!" says Theresa May, implying that they want parliament to endorse her Brexit deal.  The only snag: opinion polling suggests they want ...

Thousands of elderly and vulnerable people in Scotland are facing “worry and uncertainty” because the company which provides their care is running out of money. After an English regulator warned ...

The City of Edinburgh Council has broken the law 466 times in the last year by placing homeless families in bed and breakfast (B&B) accommodation for more than seven days. ...

There’s a new and deeply unpleasant narrative developing amongst Brexits. Although to be honest this is scarcely unsurprising since Brexit was always a deeply unpleasant narrative in the first place. ...