Month: October 2025
25 years of craftsmanship: How the Elgin Skills Centre helped save stonemasonry in North Scotland
Victim was shot in the head during teenager’s air rifle spree
Paedophile found guilty of sexual offences against three children at addresses in Moray and Highland
Protesters to target Dundee factory over ‘Israeli military links’
Stall holders to be wary of ‘scam’ Christmas fayre advertised in Dundee
Family-owned Scottish food manufacturer opens new base in Dubai
Historic 147-year-old Scottish hotel to undergo ‘comprehensive’ refurbishment
Scotland’s first car manufacturer in 54 years to create 300 jobs with £2m boost
Hyper-Normalisation and the Criminalistion of Protest
The UK government is planning to clamp down even harder on peaceful protest against the genocide in Gaza. Given their support of the Israel — through the supply of weapons parts, troop training and intelligence — this is not exactly a surprise. It is, however, deeply concerning. Then there is the failure of the UK’s […] Source
Thatcherism Today
Mark Perryman calls time on the forthcoming Thatcher Centenary. Margaret Thatcher’s 13 October 2025 centenary is a moment to reflect on how she, or more accurately ‘Thatcherism’, so decisively shaped the 1980s. And for ever more too, the post-war consensus she deconstructed and to date never to return. The Labour historian Jim Fyrth describes what […] Source
Palantir’s Military Role in Israel and Britain
Palantir Technologies – the surveillance company co-founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel – has secured at least 24 contracts across key UK public institutions, and is now working with both the Israeli and the British military. Palantir Rejects Labour’s ID Scheme It’s not often that I would share an image from the Daily Star, but […] Source
Getting the indy band back together
It’s been a good couple of weeks for hopes of Scottish independence, with some very positive opinion poll results, and signs of a new assertiveness amongst the main pro-independence parties. It’s a glimmering of hope in the stormy skies of British politics, where the dark looming clouds of the far right…