In recent weeks, there’s been increasing debate surroundings Ministers’ plans to introduce Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs). Based on mounting coverage of opposition to these sites, you’d be forgiven for assuming that ‘HPMA’ stood for ‘Highly Problematic Marine Area’. But what are HPMAs? And why are they facing so much opposition?   The Bute House Agreement […] Source

Remembering and celebrating those who fought fascism. Our Fathers Fought Franco, Edited by Willy Maley, Luath Press, £12.99. With contributions from Willy Maley, Jennie Renton, Tam Watters, Lisa Croft Review by Lesley Orr Jamara Valley, Spain. A February weekend in 1937, ‘And all of a sudden we found ourselves in the war…And we were in […] Source

  There are few countries in the world with anything like Scotland’s long history of nationhood which are NOT independent. Scotland emerged as a kingdom in the 9th century and remained as an independent sovereign state until 1707, when it entered into the Treaty of Union.  Looking at global examples…

MESSAGE to Humza Yousaf from Moray business leader. …

Less than half have had free jab. …

AFTER Humza Yousaf was announced as SNP leader, Moray MP Douglas Ross criticised his record on Moray's big issues. …

THIS, of course, is just the beginning. Naturally, for two politicians in particular, it will feel like the opposite. God may have been on Kate Forbes’ side, but the Almighty did not reckon with a narrow majority of the SNP membership. Those who were on Ash Regan’s side, meanwhile, can take some comfort in all […] Source

Scotland’s business community has reacted to the news that Humza Yousaf has won the SNP leadership election… Source

A BRAND new hotel opening in a Scottish city centre will create more than 90 jobs.  Source

ORGANISATIONS from across Europe have written to Greens minister Lorna Slater to show support for the Deposit Return Scheme. Source

SOFT drinks giants including Coca-Cola and the makers of Irn-Bru have joined together to urge Scotland’s next first minister to make introducing deposit return a “top priority”. Source

The end of Nicola Sturgeon’s time in office and the end of Boris Johnson’s time in the limelight, alongside the marking of the three-year anniversary since we entered lockdown in the UK acts like a triptych of strange endings. Of course covid has not gone away, grotesque elite figures like Johnson will return and Sturgeon’s […] Source

A PROMINENT Humza Yousaf-backer has cast doubt on whether he can achieve one of his key policy pledges. Source

“The Sturgeon era can be defined simply: never has so little been achieved, with so much power.” – Jonathon Shafi The statement seems true, but also insufficient. The binary analysis of Nicola Sturgeon’s time in office – between fawning acolytes and and bitter detractors – seem both absurd. The FM and the leader of by […] Source