POPEYES has confirmed two new restaurant openings in two Scottish cities in 2024 … Source

MPs have been urged to reject the UK Government’s “climate-wrecking” bid to force annual licensing rounds in the North Sea. Source

A century has now passed since the death of “great John Maclean” of pneumonia, aged just 44. The Marxist schoolteacher’s health had been greatly weakened by force-feeding in Peterhead prison, where he was jailed for opposing the First World War. He used the opportunity of a speech from the dock at the High Court to […] Source

This from the SFSA is an attempt to inject some much needed independent scrutiny, measures to ensure transparency and accessibility, into the Scottish game. The SFSA are disappointed but not surprised by the misinformation that was put in the public domain by the SFA at this recent meeting at Holyrood. https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/health-social-care-and-sport-committee-december-19-2023 ( scroll to 10.40) […] Source

Robert Gordon University has welcomed an award-winning businesswoman as its latest Entrepreneur in Residence. …

Christmas family pics of Buckie and Celtic stars together. …

TWO Scottish firms have joined forces as part of a new partnership in a bid to expand their operations. Source

THE chief executive of BrewDog has issued a statement amid a backlash against plans to stop paying the Real Living Wage to new employees … Source

THE final frontier came into the classroom at Cullen Primary recently when the kids got their hands on rare samples of moon rocks and meteorites. …

THE Scotch whisky industry brought £7.1 billion into the UK economy in 2022, a report has said… Source

When the times darken will there be singing even then? There will be singing even then. Of how the times darken. The quote is a translation by Edwin Morgan from Bertolt Brecht’s Svendborg Poems, published in 1939 while Brecht was living in exile in Denmark, having fled from Nazi Germany. It’s a quote I often […] Source

Scotland’s First Minister has met senior figures in the oil and gas sector ahead of his Government publishing its energy and just transition plan… Source

As the general election looms – the political parties have tried to establish their messaging and define their pitch to the electorate. The SNP have created a message that they want to ‘Rid Scotland of the Tories’ and it’s both a weird and clever pitch. In doing so they want to grab on to some […] Source

Public libraries have been squeezed and under threat for many decades; a manifestation of what David Marquand and others see as a long running assault on the public domain. Thankfully, many in the city seem to be in good health and well used. One of Edinburgh’s busiest public libraries, McDonald Road, is currently celebrating its […] Source