Growing a greener and more resilient future

Scotland’s farmers are in a unique position to produce high-quality food for our tables, provide important rural jobs and tackle the climate and nature crises, but they need the right support to do it. By Dr Mike Robinson, chair of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland. People have been growing crops and raising beasts in Scotland since […] Source

Farage’s new tartan puppet

On Monday, Nigel Farage preened his insufferably smug way through a press conference at which he introduced the latest opportunistic Tory defector to Reform UK. This time it was Nadhim Zahawi, who was very briefly the Chancellor of the Exchequer under Boris Johnson. Zahawi was later found to have paid a…

The Ship of Fools and the Ship of Theseus

The hybrid, weird janus-faced nature of Farage’s fascist project is revealed (again) today by the defection of Nadhim Zahawi to Reform UK. In a move of naked opportunism, Zahawhi, who had previously tweeted of Farage: “I would be frightened to live in a country run by you”, stepped into the abyss. According to Pippa Crerar, […] Source

Round One to Scots Law

A large gathering of interested parties assembled in Parliament Square this morning to show their concern about the Palestine Action proscription and its implications for human rights, prevention of genocide, starvation and sexual violence and other atrocities in conflicts, as well as issues of self- determination, democracy, constitutional safeguards and incarceration, and healthcare. Singing, a […] Source

The BBC’s shameful enabling of fascism

The failure of the BBC to report fairly and without bias on Scottish politics is a regular theme in this blog and amongst other supporters of Scottish independence. The favouritism which the Corporation displays towards Nigel Farage and his ghouls is likewise well documented, especially on the disgrace to political broadcasting…