Month: August 2020

There’s been an outbreak of childish petulance in Downing Street. You may not have noticed, since childish petulance is what passes for statesmanship in the UK these days. However this ...

“El Borbón a prisión!” That was the shout of a small group of protestors in Madrid on Sunday , after the self-exile of Juan Carlos I of the House of ...

In this week’s dugcast I’m delighted to be joined by Craig Dalzell, blogger and director of policy for CommonWeal. This podcast was held over from Friday because of Jackson Carlaw’s ...

I raised a dubious eyebrow at this comment today from David Herdson over at Stormfront Lite -"And what’s true in England is true in Scotland too. While Nicola Sturgeon likes ...

The cost of UK programmes to replace Trident and nuclear submarines on the Clyde increased by over £1 billion in a year, according to data released by the Ministry of ...

Earlier this evening, I had a brief but interesting Twitter exchange with the former SNP MSP Andrew Wilson, who incidentally I voted for back in the day no fewer than ...

When 16-year-old Rhea from Shetland put a call-out on an anonymous social media app in June, asking young women to share their stories of sexual harassment, she expected to get ...

With the long-weekend behind us, Source Direct is coming late to the SNP bunfight. The room is being tidied up, and the National Executive Committee are nursing hangovers, as well ...

Scottish politics dissected from a left, pro-independence stance. Each week, award-winning broadcaster and journalist, Lesley Riddoch chews over the week’s news with former media lecturer and Dundee United fan, Pat ...

A public conservation body which has received millions of pounds to restore Scotland’s peat bogs is allowing commercial peat extraction on its own land, The Ferret can reveal. Scottish Natural ...