Chinese surveillance cameras will still be in use at sensitive sites in 2025 despite a UK Government commitment to ban them, ministers have admitted … Source

As bloodied horses run through London city centre and policies that were not long ago consigned to the far-right fringes, Britain is entering darker and more macabre times. For years Britain has felt like its creeping into V for Vendetta territory. This week, the British govt passed laws that take us way off the map, […] Source

Delighted to say we’ve passed our crowdfund target (see HERE) – so sending a massive thanks to everyone who supported us and thanks too for the very positive encouraging comments. This will allow us to keep going and extend our range of freelance writers and contributors and maintain our tradition of independent Scottish media. We […] Source

Community effort applauded …

Brodie Findlay, from Lhanbryde, was given an 18-month jail sentence but will be released in weeks. …

THE figure represents a £280,000 increase on the previous year but what’s to blame? …

A SCOTTISH Government minister has faced questions on when a wind farm project off the east coast of Scotland will receive consent after it missed a UK bidding deadline … Source

SHETLAND is due to get its first ever whisky distillery later this year, with the project now approaching completion. Source

A SUSTAINABLE plastic pots company has launched a new product made entirely from recycled fishing net and rope removed from Scottish Islands’s beaches … Source

JPMorgan Chase opened its new 270,000 square foot office in Glasgow at a ceremony attended by Humza Yousaf today… Source

A NEW 225-bed hostel is set to open on a historic street in Edinburgh this summer… Source

Mark Perryman worries Keir Starmer doesn’t know his England from his Britain. Keir Starmer has taken it upon himself to celebrate Saint George’s Day by urging all Labour General Election candidates ‘with enthusiasm.’ Perhaps if Keir feels the need to ‘urge’ the enthusiasm of celebrating he’s missing the point of celebrating Saint George. I don’t […] Source

The high-profile hostility to any kind of climate mitigation and ecological politics has been well-documented here. Sometimes its caught-up in the general waffle about the ‘culture wars’ and hatred of any progressive policy around gender or sexuality or identity, but sometimes its just outright incomprehension. Here Kevin McKenna writes (apparently in all seriousness) for the […] Source