THE UK is being battered with rising taxes, surging inflation and skyrocketing house prices – and all while wages frantically fail to catch up. Source

The Scottish government has awarded 25 gigawatts of offshore wind project development rights, more than double the UK’s existing offshore wind capacity, in one of the biggest auctions of its kind in the world. Here we answer some questions about what this means for Scotland 1 When will we see the results? It will take […] Source

Police are appealing for people in and around Keith to help them find a man who went missing from his home in Aberdeen on Tuesday morning. …

THE Acrylics are set to line-up alongside Toploader and Scouting For Girls at the festival. …

Next month we’ll be launching our anthology of some of the best writing we’ve published since 2007 including some key moments, viral blogs, and seminal essays. It feels important to take stock and reflect and collect – particularly at this time – and after a sort of frenetic and constant stream of publishing daily for […] Source

Aberlour, Buckie, Forres, Keith, Lossiemouth and Dufftown. …

THE most resonant slogan in Scottish modern political history was “It’s Scotland’s Oil”. Source

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SCOTLAND has exported oil and gas for decades. Now it’s set to become a net exporter of renewable power as developers prepare to put new windfarms off the coast. Source

YOUR article “Home truths on the challenge to make Scotland a net-zero nation” (Jan 16) makes for a very depressing read. It makes clear that decarbonising properties In Scotland is set to cost in excess of £33 billion. I have often wondered if this figure has been adjusted for the current rate of inflation. If not, the completely unachievable also becomes the completely unaffordable. Source

The ScotWind offshore auction has divided opinion across the Scottish left, green-left and wider independence movement exposing fissures of vision and understanding. On the one hand is the feeling of a corporate sell-out – how did Shell and BP get their hands on our wind energy? The ongoing travesty that there is no National Public […] Source

THERE’S a reason why Westminster unionists have sometimes kicked around the idea of a UK football team. It’s the same reason the Gaelic language was stamped on after the Jacobite rebellion. It’s because culture – whether it’s football or the creative arts – gives a sense of identity, a sense of pride and a sense […] Source