Drifting North

I interviewed Dominic Hinde, author of Drifting North, finding a sustainable future in Scotland’s past (Manchester University Press, 2025). It’s an unusually readable book you’ve written. You’ve managed to avoid jargon and although you make recurring references to science and the history of technologies and how energy works, you have done it in a way […] Source

The lie that protects the rich from tax rises

Better late than never, Rachel Reeves finally followed the lead of the SNP Government in Holyrood and announced that the heinous two child cap on benefits will finally be abolished from May next year, cue a load of hypocritical Labour MPs trying to pretend that they supported this measure all along…

Hope of a better Scotland can defeat the far right

Racists complain that migrants don’t want to learn English and integrate, but when migrants do want to learn English and integrate, racists mount a protest outside the school where English language lessons are being given to the mothers of some of the pupils, insisting that they are “protecting our kids” from…