Month: January 2014
The tumbleweed express
We were expecting the turnout for the No campaign’s Great Train Mobbery to be a lot better for the afternoon session, on account of the fact that nobody would have to get up at 6am to go and leaflet a dark, freezing-cold railway station. The opposite turned out to be …read more
Type mismatch
While we struggle through a tax return and our intrepid spotters document the second half of Better Together’s Big Train-Station Day Out, we figured you might like to read the Scottish Daily Mail’s story on the operation. It’s a strange piece, opening with a dramatic “evil cybernat spies under the …read more
Small Man

Radio Scotland is interviewing an academic from Aberdeen, I think from the excellent Rowett Institute, who says that after a bout of exercise people have a bias towards low calorie food. Does Ian Small know about this? The interviewer didn’t ask a single question doubting the methodology or deductions arrived …read more
Speyside climbing wall reaches new heights

SPORT and fitness in Moray is set to be taken to a whole new level when a new £50,000 climbing wall is unveiled in Speyside. …read more
An Inevitable Question


An inevitable question to the No camp is “Is the cost of a minimum of 27,000 permanent jobs in Scotland a price worth paying to maintain the union?”, to say nothing of the incredible growth in development in all areas of career fields and branches thereof, including wages and salaries …read more
The lonely hours
We take our hats off to the No campaigners who braved a cold, dark Scottish morning to go and hand out leaflets to the public at train stations across the country today. We’d have preferred it if they were distributing leaflets that weren’t packed with a litany of flat-out lies, …read more
Wee is Beautiful
By Mike Small Oh dear, Calamity Johann. After her ‘no such thing as something for nothing’ derision of univeralism, hapless Johann Lamont has hit a new low with her most derisiory FMQs performance yet. See her Wee Things comments (here)…. Read More › …read more
Poor Wee Things

I met a Labour man recently who said the party made a big mistake electing Johann leader. Of course the ordinary members didn’t….it was the payroll and the unions – Labour’s institutions – that wanted her in place. What must they all think now? As time rolls on to the …read more
Buckie by-election winner announced
Scotland’s £100 billion of exports provide the foundation for a wealthy independent country
New figures from the Global Connections Survey demonstrate that Scotland is one of the world’s top exporting nations with the economic strength to succeed as an independent country. Scotland’s exports were worth nearly £100 billion in 2012 alone, a significant increase on recent years. These figures place Scotland as the …read more
Ross County close in on Cikos
Ross County aim to complete the loan signing of Slovakian right back Erik Cikos before the January transfer window shuts tonight after under-20 coach Barry Smith was confirmed as Alloa manager. …read more
Gallacher tames Tiger and Lawrie still has title sniff
He’s sniffing, coughing and aching but Aberdeen’s Paul Lawrie was a happy man after he shot a first-round 68. …read more
Super Scots on top of the world
Scotland last night survived a nerve-jangling clash with Kenya to claim their place in next year’s World Cup finals in Australia and New Zealand. …read more
North port buoyed by promise of jobs
THE west coast town of Oban has won multimillion-pound backing for a regeneration scheme which is expected to create more than 1,000 jobs and trigger massive investment from the private sector. …read more
Gordonstoun pioneers look forward to four games in Romania
Gordonstoun’s rugby players are preparing for a four-match tour of Romania in March. …read more