Every day a new atrocity as ethnocide blurs across our screens. A new murder, children being shot by snipers like a grotesque gameplay. As I write Reuters reports: ‘At least 13 Palestinians were killed and 15 wounded in Israeli strikes on a school sheltering refugees and a residential building in Gaza, early on Saturday. Wafa […] Source

A FAMILY is set to sell a Scottish hotel after almost seven decades of ownership… Source

Flood of comments as controversial figure set to perform ‘comedy show’. …

Around 8 per cent of staff are set to lose their employment at a world-famous textile firm. …

The three candidates in the running to become Scottish Conservative leader have met at a village hall. …

This is an extraordinary account of police intimidation of journalists commenting on the situation in Palestine under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act. Jonathan Cook writes: “This is an utterly shocking account from journalist Sarah Wilkinson of her recent violent arrest by 16 counter-terrorism police, several masked, at 7.30am. They smashed up, or stole, many […] Source

AN “iconic” parish church and surrounding estate in North Lanarkshire has been put up for sale… Source

THREE new offshore wind farms have been commissioned in Scotland in a key auction, after no projects were awarded contracts last year … Source

THE Scottish Government has given consent to a major renewable energy storage facility … Source

DOZENS of jobs are at risk as a Scottish firm faces closure by the end of the year. Source

A RESTAURANT and bar in a “sought-after” location in a Scottish city has been put up for sale… Source

This is a talk by Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf, Head of Earth System Analysis at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research & professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University, on dramatic changes in Atlantic ocean currents. It’s already had over 1m views. Here my half-hour presentation in Vilnius a week ago! pic.twitter.com/TGApNtmuWK One of […] Source

“A person is courageous so long as he has no need for courage, but he collapses when the issue becomes real, and he is forced to understand courage as an act of ‘surrender’, a detachment from human involvement, and his content himself with being a spectator rather than a participant in life.” – Ghassan Kanafani […] Source