Month: October 2021
VIDEO PREVIEW of tonight’s spooky Halloween question in the Scot Goes Pop poll
NICKY MARR: It’s high time we tackled this taboo
Liverpool Calling – Phony Torymania Has(n’t) Bitten the Dust
Neil Cooper on the Tories crass attempts to resurrect their reputation on Merseyside and associate a new Beatles experience with “levelling up.” I Read the News Today. Oh, Boy! When The Clash released London Calling at the end of 1979, the politically charged title track of the first generation punk band’s third album sounded like […] Source
A tale of old Elgin for Halloween by Steve Storey
Brighter future beckons for Moray Reach Out as Covid restrictions ease
Shopper ‘gobsmacked’ by Primark’s ‘Stronger Together’ clothing range
The Deluge
It’s been raining for days. Chucking it down. The downpour is biblical. The rail line between Dumfries and Carlisle has been shut for safety checks on a viaduct. Two bridges have collapsed. The River Annan is flooding. The BBC reporter tells us this news but doesn’t mention climate change. Everything is disconnected. My timeline and […] Source
COP26: Alok Sharma’s speech interrupted by Cambo protesters
SCOT GOES POP / PANELBASE POLL: Substantial majority think people who change their legal gender from male to female by self-ID should not have full access to female-only spaces
Brexit leads to ‘Catastrophic failure’ warning for Scotland as crops left to rot
Gap between UK and EU standards to grow, report warns
The Politics of the Environment
The first in a series of Bella Classics – reviewing and reflecting on classic Scottish texts. Here we look at Malcolm Slesser,The Politics of Environment: A Guide to Scottish Thought and Action – Books from Scotland, 1972. The fractious debate over the merits of exploiting the Cambo oilfield to the west of Shetland is a […] Source
Gigabit broadband boost for over 1500 north-east homes and businesses
Jeremy Corbyn adds to pressure on Labour to back indyref2

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has added his name to those within the party who believe it should rethink its opposition to a second referendum on Scottish independence. Labour’s current leader Keir Starmer and Scottish leader Anas Sarwar are both opposed to indyref2, continuing the anti-independence stance the party took…