Bad Climate Media Awards

Today we’re delighted to be announcing our first Bad Climate Media Awards. It’s a brand new monthly prize for the most terrible journalism about the climate emergency. This month was a very tough competition with strong contenders in Alex Massie (The Times), Chris Deerin (the New Statesman), and Iain Macwhirter (the Herald). But this week’s […] Source

Forget pro-Union GERS spin … the move to Yes remains strong

THE dust is settling over yesterday’s publication of GERS figures, which prompted the entirely predictable onslaught of mainstream media headlines suggesting they damage the case for independence. The fact is that the figures do nothing but boost the case for independence and since their publication key figures have stepped in to show how strong the […] Source

Another GERS report… another phoney ‘deficit’ for resource rich Scotland

It’s that time of year again – when the mainstream media and unionist commentators universally ask the wrong question. GERS is out today. That’s the report that explains how the Government Expenditure and Revenue for Scotland shows us underperforming European nations because we are part of the UK. The figures in the report suggest Scotland’s […] Source

Falling

There’s a gruesome neat symmetry to the 9/11 Falling Man imagery and the doom-scrolling of the Kabul debacle; as people fall off planes leaving the airport. Remember it was the 9/11 attack was the pretext to entering Afghanistan – a war that has killed between 171,000 to 174,000 people and cost over $2 trillion – […] Source

Universal basic income: six things you need to know

The largest conference ever held on universal basic income has been organised from Glasgow and will open tomorrow. At the same time the Scottish government will today begin work on an alternative idea when a cross-party steering group meets to push forward proposals for that has been described as an ‘’innovative, bold and radical’’ policy. […] Source