Month: March 2019

CommonSpace has received lots of contributions to our week on Scotland’s town and places THANKS to the many people who emailed into CommonSpace as part of our special week of ...

Yet again we’ve got a leading Brexist appearing on a politics show on the telly in order to inform us how dreadfully unfair it is of the EU to put ...

Welcome to the 1st of March edition of the Wee Ginger Dugcast, where Callum Baird (The National’s editor) and I manage to find things to talk about other than Brexit. ...

A grotesque image went viral online this week, with many newspapers and news sites reporting it was part of a challenge game that encourages children to self-harm. The ‘Momo challenge’ ...

Sundays have been the low point of Scottish political journalism for a while now. Traditionally a day when newspapers are heavy on comment and light on news (because politics tends ...

In the Cartoon of the Week, Lorna Miller looks at Theresa May’s rebuke of Jeremy Corbyn in the House of Commons this week for alleged anti-Semitism in the Labour party, and her ...

Sadly, it will take a lot more than seven maids with seven mops to wash those two wastrels away. The likes of Mundell likely know that their are no other ...

Scotland’s most indebted housing associations have insisted they could withstand a worst-case Brexit, following a warning from the Scottish Housing Regulator.Together Scotland’s housing associations owe £4.6 billion with around a ...

So just a few miscellaneous thoughts about the BBC's latest reporting on where the indyref2 saga goes from here.  I know some people always get irritated with me if I ...

Do you hear that roasting sound? Hear it pop and spit? It’s the sound of shrivelling, shrinking, and burning up. Do you feel the heat and the fire that threatens ...