Just give us a proper pay rise and leave our terms and conditions alone!

It isn’t too much to ask for when the weight of 500-year-old Royal Mail is carried on the shoulders of postal workers.  From processing to delivery, it’s the postal workers that make this company its fortune. However, since privatisation, Royal Mail has been run into the ground for shareholder greed. Those at the very top […] Source

Energy could be the issue that tips Scotland into independence

Energy has become a major issue pushing Scotland towards independence. People across Scotland can see that they are being ripped off – they pay the highest electricity bills in the world despite living in an energy-rich country. “Scotland has the energy – it just needs the power”, MP Stephen Flynn told Westminster last week. He […] Source

‘Tis the Season to be easin’

It’s that time of the year again when we eat too much, drink too much, and wake up the next day with a killer hangover, which is just your body’s way of saying :”Go and stay in your room young man/lady, and think very carefully about what you have done.” This…

From Loch to Park

From Loch to Park – a celebration of 300 years of Edinburgh Meadows Did you know that the Edinburgh Meadows was once a big lake on the outskirts of Edinburgh? This park has so much history and even after it was drained there were several attempts to build big structures on it, so it is […] Source

The Misogynoir of Jeremy Clarkson

Whether it was Isabel Oakeshott being given a platform by the BBC to explain how she ‘doesn’t believe in strikes’ or Stephen Kinnock explaining how Labour would support sending in troops to break striking workers, we seem to have entered a new era of vile media complicity with Britain’s unmuzzled populist right. Isabel Oakeshott – […] Source

The Aye right reflex

Well I am back online again, thank you to everyone who helped. I have lost some data, my own fault for not backing everything up for a few weeks, but it’s nothing I can’t live without. The problem was that the SSD drive in the old laptop gave up the ghost….