Category: Regional News
Daily Record publisher announces 320 jobs to be axed in major overhaul
The Truth About Growth
Inequality, oppression, injustice, power and climate breakdown are all connected by the same story: that the economy must keep growing – no matter what the cost. We are consuming resources faster than they can be replenished and we are pushing our planet’s capacity to its limit. In our lifetimes, this will have a massive disruptive […] Source
Settling old scores, there’s no grudge like a Labour grudge
Following the findings of an investigation into her evasion of tax on a property she purchased in Brighton and the ruling that she had broken the Ministerial Code, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Raynor jumped before she was pushed and resigned from the Labour government, prompting a major reshuffle by Keir Starmer…
The settled will
This week First Minister John Swinney unveiled details of his plan for independence, which rests upon the SNP securing a majority in Holyrood after next year’s Scottish elections. An opinion poll published on Thursday, the first Scottish opinion poll in a while, found that the SNP is within shouting distance of…
Is Keir Starmer right to claim SNP ‘silence’ on £10bn Scottish shipbuilding deal?
Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force
ICE now has the biggest budget of any law enforcement agency in America. “ICE and Customs and Border Protection have long been the most rogue, kind of renegade and certainly pro-Trump police agencies in the federal government,” explained Radley Balko, a journalist who’s covered policing for decades. “What I think we are seeing right now […] Source
Major upgrade work set to close bridge for five weeks
Scottish Enterprise-backed firms hit record high in international exports
See the 5 Scottish nominees at the National Fish and Chip Awards
Sabrina Carpenter becomes new face of major Scotch whisky brand
Dallas Dash give to help give pupils the best opportunities
‘Worst of all worlds’: Kate Forbes slams Kemi Badenoch North Sea oil vow
Police welcome sentencing of Forres and Highland rapist
The Pylon, the Turbine and the Black Black Blade
The Scottish renewables revolution feeds into a dysfunctional, even dystopian UK energy system. The crisis in the Highlands and Islands has echoes of age-old issues of power, poverty and democracy. Scotland is in the midst of a renewable energy revolution. It’s a revolution that could (and should) produce clean energy, thousands of good jobs, a […] Source