Bus firm ‘incredibly proud’ to win business award
‘Local hero’ chats to Royalty at Holyrood’s 25th anniversary
Minimum unit pricing of alcohol damages the cause of independence
New takeaway opens on town’s high street
Dobbies set to close shops across UK – see the Scottish stores at risk
Leading experts call on Keir Starmer to pull plug on Rosebank
Three Scottish estates put up for sale by rewilding company
Major supermarket chain to double its pork range in ‘commitment’ to Scottish farmers
The Barlinnie Special Unit – the less obvious lessons
The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation edited by Kirstin Anderson. Waterside Press, published 1st October. £25. A new book explores the lessons learned from the Barlinnie Special Unit (1973 -1994) and what it tells us about contemporary discussions of incarceration, violence, power, class and media. The Special Unit in HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow […] Source
Andrew Marr, Gaelic and Scots
Save The People’s Story
“How can this shameful tale be told? I will maintain until my death We could do nothing, being sold; Our only enemy was gold And we had no arms to fight it with.” -Edwin Muir The sudden closure of The People’s Story museum on Canongate has taken everyone by surprise. Including the councillors for the […] Source
From Roe to Scotland: Protecting our Hospitals from Extremists
After a long and determined campaign by Back Off Scotland, the proposed bill to ban anti-abortion protesters from Scotland’s clinics passed almost unanimously in June this year. The act has since received royal assent and became enforceable from 24th September—a great victory for reproductive rights in Scotland. However, the people of Scotland are not out […] Source
Starmer’s honeymoon is well and truly over
Before Labour’s inevitable victory in July’s Westminster general election, I predicted that Starmer’s government would soon become very unpopular as voters realised that the ‘change’ which he had promised was no real change at all, it was simply the continuation of the same old damaging Tory neoliberal nostrums, delivered somewhat less…