Month: February 2019

2018 was quite a year for Dundee. A rising star, the Tayside city was featured in the New York Times, recommended by Lonely Planet guides, and even got a spot ...

From the Scottish Daily Mail today: As readers will have come to expect, the article is entirely free of any figures by which readers could gauge whether 1000 was a ...

Alert readers will recall that earlier today we conducted one of our regular context checks for statistics misleadingly-incompletely reported in the Scottish press. But while those are like shooting fish ...

The issue of pension inequality has again been in the news, after it was brought up in the UK parliament and people across the UK marched to demand help for ...

British neo-Nazis appear to have been active on a violent website in America called Fascist Forge that promotes lone wolf attacks and gives advice on making bombs and chemical weapons. ...

I wouldn’t normally give the oxygen of publicity to anything published by the extremoyoons of the laughably misnamed A Force For Good. They’re the tiny wee group of far right ...

Heather burning on the Lammermuirs By Peter Rowberry Peter is a passionate watcher and photographer of nature and wildlife. His passion and enthusiasm is linked to getting out into the ...

The Prime Minister is like one of those antibiotic resistant bacteria. The closest thing that she has to a political principle is MSRA. It doesn’t matter what countermeasures you throw ...

Lordy, is it that time again already? Let’s leave aside the most toweringly and obviously cretinous aspect of that insanely illogical claim for a moment – namely, if the McCrone Report ...

As part of our special week of coverage on Scotland's towns and places, CommonSpace journalists Ben Wray and Rhiannon Davies visited Dumfries on Monday COMMONSPACE spoke to locals about how ...