SPACE Hub Sutherland, the world’s first carbon-neutral spaceport on A’ Mhoine peninsula, has been given the go-ahead by Lord Doherty after he ruled in a judicial review instigated by Danish ASOS billionaire Anders Povlsen. Source

Liberal media went crazy for the Tory back-benchers sticking it to Boris Johnson in Westminster yesterday. Ex-soldiers were a favourite but so too was the disastrous ex-PM Theresa May now resurrected as a principled back-bencher. Stumbling into an accidentally prophetic sentence she said: “We boast about Global Britain, but where is Global Britain on the […] Source

The power sharing deal agreed between SNP and Green negotiators includes a renewed commitment to holding indyref2 within the current parliamentary term and preferably before the end of 2023. The commitment was included in the details of the deal revealed earlier today and will undoubtedly make the Scottish government’s demand for a second independence vote […] Source

A NEW independent report has set out a series of five recommendations to transform how Scottish companies secure work in offshore wind. Source

CLAIM: BBC’s Douglas Fraser on 2020-2021 GERS: “Subtract the tax take from the spend total, you reach an estimate of the deficit with which Scotland would have been operating last financial year if it were independent and if nothing else were to change.” Source

SUPPLY issues affecting restaurant chains such as Nando’s and KFC are nothing to do with the “pingdemic” and everything to do with Brexit, one of the UK’s largest poultry suppliers has said. Source

Today we’re delighted to be announcing our first Bad Climate Media Awards. It’s a brand new monthly prize for the most terrible journalism about the climate emergency. This month was a very tough competition with strong contenders in Alex Massie (The Times), Chris Deerin (the New Statesman), and Iain Macwhirter (the Herald). But this week’s […] Source

FOUR North East MPs sent a letter to the Tory backbencher after he claimed the Greens were a “real threat” to the oil and gas sector. Source

MINIATURE Billy Connolly Lego is set to go on sale in Scotland for one day only as part of a big charity fundraising effort. Source

AN on-street cycle-hire scheme in Edinburgh is to be scrapped after three years following issues with vandalism and thefts. Source

THE dust is settling over yesterday’s publication of GERS figures, which prompted the entirely predictable onslaught of mainstream media headlines suggesting they damage the case for independence. The fact is that the figures do nothing but boost the case for independence and since their publication key figures have stepped in to show how strong the […] Source

It’s that time of year again – when the mainstream media and unionist commentators universally ask the wrong question. GERS is out today. That’s the report that explains how the Government Expenditure and Revenue for Scotland shows us underperforming European nations because we are part of the UK. The figures in the report suggest Scotland’s […] Source

“MY accountant and I speak a different language” and “she only makes teas” are some of the excuses employers used to not pay staff the National Minimum Wage in the past financial year, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has revealed. Source

NANDO’S restaurants across the UK have been forced to close amid a lack of food and a shortage of deliveries. Source

There’s a gruesome neat symmetry to the 9/11 Falling Man imagery and the doom-scrolling of the Kabul debacle; as people fall off planes leaving the airport. Remember it was the 9/11 attack was the pretext to entering Afghanistan – a war that has killed between 171,000 to 174,000 people and cost over $2 trillion – […] Source