Category: Regional News
High Court Refuses Solicitor General’s Application to Imprison Trudi Warner
In March 2023, Trudi held a sign outside Inner London Crown Court. She was arrested and charged with Contempt of Court. Today, the High Court refused the application to imprison her. Mr Justice Saini, presiding over the case, said: “The Solicitor General’s case does not disclose a reasonable basis for committal…It is fanciful to suggest […] Source
Wee Ginger Crowdfunder 2024
The turbulent river
The big story in Scottish politics today is the one that cannot really be commented on due to Scotland’s strict laws about contempt of court and not saying anything in public which might prejudice the outcome of criminal proceedings. Last week former SNP Chief Executive Peter Murrell, the husband of former…
When is a convention not a convention? When it’s a Sewel Convention
The fundamental plank of the devolution settlement is the Sewel Convention, which states that the Westminster government will not interfere with the powers of the Scottish Parliament or intrude upon devolved competencies without the consent of Holyrood. This convention is vital if devolution is to work in a British constitutional system…
Column: Shoppers need to see prices dropping not profits increasing
Moray photographers excel in Grampian Eye contest
Scottish Government yet to approve NHS Grampian’s £36 million cuts budget
All jobs lost as Scottish tree surgery firm goes into administration
Backing Bella 2024
Yesterday we laid out some of our themes for the year ahead (Spring 2024: Bella re-Boot) – today we are launching a crowdfund to try and gather some resources to pay for, specifically, freelance writers. As we say here: “We have no big-backers, remain ad-free and don’t hide behind a paywall. We set our own agenda […] Source
Flamingo Land plan to go ahead despite flood risk slammed by MSP
Scotland, HS2, Friedrich Engels, and the Multiverse
(I) As has been widely noted, Angela Rayner recently became the new Michael Matheson in the serial distraction scam through which most of the British media deflect attention from the billions extracted from the public purse to enrich cronies of the Conservative Party. An article in the Guardian (8 October 2023) speculated that UK losses […] Source
Scottish bar workers sacked after strike win compensation
Labour’s Scottish branch office: the most dishonest party in Scottish politics
Anas Sarwar, the branch manager of the Labour party’s Scottish accounting unit, gave a speech over the weekend which was breathtakingly hypocritical and mendacious even by the standards of a party for whom breathtaking mendacious hypocrisy is very much its USP. Speaking ahead of the STUC congress which is being held…