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The fire service in Scotland has been hard at work this summer after an increase in malicious fires, but a claim by the Scottish Conservatives also caused some heat on...

"Ask John Curtice" was a Twitter meme a few years ago.  It was based on the BBC's endless attempts to get their money's worth out of Curtice's role as a...

Scottish politics is still resolutely on holiday, but in response to an enquiry from Prof. Sir John Curtice today we noticed that we still hadn’t published a few snippets of...

Expansion of Scotland’s salmon farming industry should be banned until welfare standards are improved, according to a new report from a leading Scottish animal charity. The report, published today by Edinburgh-based...

You may have seen that Thomas Widmann of Arc of Prosperity has written a blogpost in which he turns conventional wisdom on its head by suggesting that Magnus Linklater's notorious...

By Russell BruceWe came across this video from last year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival and felt it deserved a wider audience than those who attended the event and the 1500...

Supermarkets are selling farmed salmon from companies accused of poor animal welfare, we can reveal, prompting claims that consumers are being misled into thinking they are buying responsibly sourced fish....

Scotland On Sunday has a very odd front-page splash today. In a truly remarkable feat of sheer journalistic incompetence, the paper’s Tom Peterkin manages to cover three pages discussing the...

Salmon farmers with the worst records on animal welfare have been named and shamed by campaigners hoping to provoke reforms. The Scottish animal charity, OneKind, has drawn up league tables...

Just listened again to John Beattie’s interview with Scott Arthur yesterday. Does anyone really believe that Scott Arthur mentioned Wings to the BBC Legal Team in anything other than a...