Target Number One, the End of Atlanticism
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This is a scene from The Diplomat (season 2, episode 6) – available to view on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/0xLWhLbJQ2 — BELLA CALEDONIA (@bellacaledonia) January 19, 2026 It’s a moment of drama that speaks directly to our current nightmare as all of our old shibboleths and assumptions about how the world is constructed melt around us. NATO […] Source
The days of playing by rules stacked against Scotland will soon be over
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Just eighteen months ago, we were looking at the prospect of this year’s Scottish elections with dread and trepidation. Labour was in the ascendant on the back of its victory in the July 2024 Westminster General election and Anas Sarwar was confidently expecting to install himself in Bute House as First…
Reform’s Scottish ‘leader’ – the FIFA Peace Prize of Scottish politics
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Spare a thought for poor wee Malkie Offord, over the years he’s thrown hundreds of thousands of pounds at the political scene in a bid to make himself relevant, firstly with his ludicrously misnamed and suspiciously well funded Vote No Borders astroturfing campaign during the 2014 independence referendum, a cringeworthy campaign…
Reform’s failing charade and the three pronged attack on Westminster rule
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Three Scottish firms named among top 100 tech startups of 2026
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Moray A96 upgrades not even ‘being explored’ before 2030, documents suggest
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Oil tanker seized in wake of Trump’s military strike is anchored off Moray coast
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Moray set to lose millions as UK Government pulls funding
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Immersive TV gameshow experience to open first Scottish site
Speymouth
Growing a greener and more resilient future
Speymouth
Scotland’s farmers are in a unique position to produce high-quality food for our tables, provide important rural jobs and tackle the climate and nature crises, but they need the right support to do it. By Dr Mike Robinson, chair of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland. People have been growing crops and raising beasts in Scotland since […] Source
Scottish family firm behind award-winning beer in huge expansion at new site
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Farage’s new tartan puppet
Speymouth
On Monday, Nigel Farage preened his insufferably smug way through a press conference at which he introduced the latest opportunistic Tory defector to Reform UK. This time it was Nadhim Zahawi, who was very briefly the Chancellor of the Exchequer under Boris Johnson. Zahawi was later found to have paid a…
New map shows over 100 businesses across Scotland boycotting Israel
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The Ship of Fools and the Ship of Theseus
Speymouth
The hybrid, weird janus-faced nature of Farage’s fascist project is revealed (again) today by the defection of Nadhim Zahawi to Reform UK. In a move of naked opportunism, Zahawhi, who had previously tweeted of Farage: “I would be frightened to live in a country run by you”, stepped into the abyss. According to Pippa Crerar, […] Source
Round One to Scots Law
Speymouth
A large gathering of interested parties assembled in Parliament Square this morning to show their concern about the Palestine Action proscription and its implications for human rights, prevention of genocide, starvation and sexual violence and other atrocities in conflicts, as well as issues of self- determination, democracy, constitutional safeguards and incarceration, and healthcare. Singing, a […] Source