Month: May 2019

By Russell Bruce England is about to embark on a brave and foolish experiment. It’s called Brexit. Scotland must show how it thinks differently by getting out to vote on ...

The UK will participate in an unexpected European election on 23 May, almost two months after the original, but now postponed, Brexit date. This has infuriated many Brexit campaigners who ...

The Scottish Government has quietly halved funding for communities tackling climate pollution, depriving 43 local projects of grants and putting people out of work. The Ferret has discovered that the ...

Ruth Davidson led on numeracy (or as Tories call it, “numberacy”) at FMQs today. And we can see why she’s concerned. Because the party’s big line of attack yesterday was this: ...

Cheer up. Yes, it’s all a complete mess. Yes, the UK is going to hell in a handbasket. Yes, the Labour and Conservative parties are so consumed by their short ...

The Herald has a story this morning about the Secretary of State for Scotland, a man who readers may recall promising that Scotland would benefit financially from the UK government’s ...

Arms firms profiting from a war in Yemen that has killed 70,000 people were given nearly £3m of tax payers’ money last year, we can reveal. The companies receiving grants ...

If we’re going to talk about bad behaviour and abusive and threatening language in online discourse, and what to do about it, we need to do it properly.  That means ...

Last week, Norway rubbed our faces in it again. In just THREE MONTHS, the investment return alone from its national oil fund was around £64 billion – more money than ...

It’s been a long standing policy of this blog that I don’t criticise other independence supporters. That doesn’t necessarily mean that I agree with them. I frequently disagree with the ...