EUROPEAN Union governments have agreed to ration natural gas this winter to protect themselves against any further supply cuts by Russia as Moscow pursues its invasion of Ukraine. Source

ENERGY regulator Ofgem was “negligent” and allowed inexperienced bosses to raise bills, a group of MPs has said. Source

Amazon is to hike the price of its Prime delivery and streaming service due to “increased inflation and operating costs”. Source

Greenpeace have launched a judicial review in the Scottish courts against the UK Government over Jackdaw Source

In Rishi Sunak’s pursuit of the leadership of a Conservative Party increasingly committed to the lunatic right fringe of politics, represented by Liz Truss and the ERG, he calculatedly chose the Thatcher shrine of Grantham to make a defining speech on his supposed responsible approach to the management of the economy; which in Conservative thought, […] Source

The efforts to shoehorn and impose a British identity onto people in Scotland, and England and Wales is a strange phenomenon. Today Keir Starmer, spluttered out an assembly of words, some of which didn’t really mean anything at all, like ‘A productive Liverpool is good for Birkenhead. A strong Dudley is good for Birmingham’, all […] Source

WITH temperatures this week reaching unprecedented levels across the UK, no one can pretend anymore that climate breakdown isn’t coming. Yet the worst is still to come – and will hit those hardest that are least responsible for the climate crisis. Source

WITH temperatures this week reaching unprecedented levels across the UK, no one can pretend anymore that climate breakdown isn’t coming. Yet the worst is still to come – and will hit those hardest that are least responsible for the climate crisis. Source

For months now this site has been under a Denial of Service attack (DoS)*. We’ve been protecting ourselves with CloudFlare, but have now moved to a dedicated enhanced server to allow us to block these attacks and continue publishing. Our technical support company (a small independent company based in Edinburgh) have been really great and […] Source

Welcome to Wonderland, with it’s capital city the Absurdist metropolis on the Thames and it’s outlying Territories to the North and West. It’s a land on fire with no coherent national plan for coping with the new climate reality, which most of its leaders, currently on a two-month permanent media-loop on all frequencies have anything […] Source

The Climate Crisis is Here. Prices are rising; wildfires are burning; disease outbreaks are becoming regular. These are all symptoms of the same illness: the extreme stress we have placed on our biosphere, the network of living beings that makes civilisation possible. It is important that we look reality squarely in the face. Our instinct […] Source

Gannets are dying and hardly anyone is talking about it. It’s small beer, I suppose, when there’s trench-warfare in Europe, and when the Iberian Peninsula is on fire. Small beer when the UK has its own red heat alert, when our political system is corrupted, when, for many, ‘getting by’ is no longer an option. […] Source

Imagine the power goes out and doesn’t come back on. At all. What might happen in your community? This is the question author D.D. Johnston explores in his latest novel, Disnaeland. In a review in Scotland on Sunday, Stuart Kelly writes “Disnaeland has verve and intelligence – I hope he writes more like it. D.D. […] Source

Alan Grant, one of Scotland’s greatest comic book writers and the man behind Judge Dredd and Batman as well as a host of other titles, has died aged 73. In work that spanned work from DC Thomson to DC comics  – from Dundee to Gotham – inarguably was key to transforming ‘comics’ and graphic novels […] Source