by The Editor | Feb 5, 2018 | Politics
This snippet from the Financial Times, brought to our attention by Wings Over Scotland, perfectly illustrates the principal weapon deployed by Better Together/Project Fear during the first independence referendum campaign – doubt. The rules governing this form of...
by The Editor | Feb 5, 2018 | International, Politics
Some stuff you just couldn’t makeup—The Tories appear to be going for some sort of Guinness world record in this field at the moment….. Following a mass demo on Saturday against the Tory decimation of our NHS, US President, and professional, racist, angry tangerine,...
by The Editor | Feb 5, 2018 | Politics
Here are the BBC and STV headlines this morning: ‘University application rates from poorest areas fall’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-42938097 ‘Drop in university applications from deprived students’...
by The Editor | Feb 5, 2018 | Politics
“Fruit and vegetables left to rot in fields after fall in farm workers from the EU after Brexit vote” One farmer in Fife said he dumped enough vegetables to “feed 15,000 people for a year” I don’t like to say “I told you so” but I did, here & here and that’s...
by The Editor | Feb 3, 2018 | Politics
Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp may feel as if he has been banging his head against a brick wall as he warns about the constitutional threat to Scotland’s democracy posed by Brexit. He may take some comfort in the fact that he has not been entirely alone. Some of us have been...