ONE of the leading craft breweries in the UK has launched a new bar in Edinburgh after a successful crowdfunding campaign. Source

THE price of offshore wind power has fallen to a new record low, as the UK Government announced 11 gigawatts of winning bids for various renewable technologies. Source

THE University of Strathclyde has awarded their funding prizes for start-up businesses in their annual entrepreneurship event. Source

MARK Logan, formerly a top executive at online travel company Skyscanner has been appointed to the role of Scotland’s first chief entrepreneur. Source

The enervating spectacle that has been going on for about six months bloomed into full-farce yesterday. The Johnson debacle displayed all of the pure elements of a broken Britain: rolling broadcast media coverage dissecting everything but saying nothing; an inert and lifeless opposition mouthing in desperation in the background; a constitution that creates no checks […] Source

A £1 million fund will help Scots cut their energy bills and avoid carbon monoxide poisoning. Source

COLLEGES in Scotland need change to ensure more students graduate and the sector is financially stable in the long term, Scotland’s Auditor General has said. Source

On this day, not quite 250 years ago, the nation-state in which I was born declared itself free of the British Empire, determined to create its own. Founded by traumatised people, displaced from their homelands by desperation or greed (same thing, perhaps), they in turn displaced, to put it mildly, those they declared other. And so […] Source

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar delivered a ‘major speech’ about Scotland to the Fabian Society in London today. It was described as “Scottish Labour’s first paper on reform of Scotland and the UK.” It was hilarious and confusing with wildly different messages coming from Starmer and Sarwar on the same day. Labour would be simultaneously […] Source

A Bella reader, who wants to remain anonymous, has called out the regular domination of male voices on Radio nan Gàidheal’s flagship morning news programme. Last Wednesday’s Aithris na Maidne – ‘Morning Report’ achieved what must be a broadcast nadir, with just 16 minutes (18%) of speaking time voiced by women compared to approximately 74 […] Source