by The Editor | Sep 7, 2017 | Featured, Politics
The plan for government introduced by the First Minister yesterday caught everybody by surprise, both her detractors and her supporters. Nobody but nobody was expecting it,and it caught everyone on the hop with its vision, its breadth of intent, its boldness and might...
by The Editor | Sep 3, 2017 | Politics
As we are all consumers of the media in Scotland we are all aware of the incessant hostility in the British media to the SNP and the independence movement. What we are perhaps not fully aware of is how this is affecting us subconsciously. Have you ever wondered why...
by The Editor | Sep 3, 2017 | Politics
I little while ago in replying to one of the comments on the blog I noted that I preferred Alex Salmond as leader of the SNP over Nicola Sturgeon, not that I have a say as I am not a member of the party, and it is not taking anything away from the First Minister who...
by The Editor | Sep 3, 2017 | Politics
Whatever his other qualities, Iain Macwhirter is a journalist in the British tradition. Hence his tendency to echo the cosy consensus of the London-based media. And his dutiful adherence to another facet of the British journalistic tradition, the prompt rehabilitation...
by The Editor | Sep 1, 2017 | Politics
I have never relished doing this, nor is it something that I even remotely like to do but someone needs to say something about the elephant in the room and it might as well be me who gets the inevitable flack if someone has to endure it. We need to address this now...
