Historic inn on Scottish harbourside sold for undisclosed sum
New Glasgow restaurant to open at site of former Hanoi Bike Shop
Sostrene Grene announces new store opening in Scottish city
Believe in Scotland’s path to independence, the routemap we need
I have previously blogged about my view that the UK is entering a terminal phase crisis which it is unlikely to survive in its current form. The pro-independence campaign group Believe in Scotland is of a similar opinion and believes that this crisis provides Scotland and Wales with a unique opportunity…
Fake News and the War on the BBC
The war on the BBC by Britain’s right-wing press has been a constant for the past thirty years, attempting to threaten and control the public broadcaster to yield to their political agenda. The paradox about the mass resignation of the BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, and the CEO of BBC News, Deborah Turness, over accusations of […] Source
Back at the Beating Heart
“Scotland is back at the beating heart of my government.” Keir Starmer, Jul 7, 2024 As the Labour Party faces electoral collapse, it is doubling down on its own worst policies. Rather than changing tack on its constitutional anti-democracy, or veering away from its reactionary social policies or stopping mimicking the far-right, it is doing […] Source
‘Farewell to Growth’, Serge Latouche (2007)
Politicians and the media obsess about ‘economic growth’; but what if that ‘glorious thirty years’ of economic expansion from the 1960s has ended? This landmark text of the degrowth movement explores why growth’s ‘end is nigh’, and why this should be welcomed. To suggest that further economic growth has become near impossible is a ‘secular […] Source
Labour’s doomed attempt to paint the SNP as a threat to national security
Babcock fined £967,000 after worker suffered three fractures to his skull
North Coast 500 petrol station on the market for £700,000
Richard Murphy: Labour don’t need to hike taxes on working people. Here’s why
Driver who killed Moray pensioner ‘almost instantaneously’ on A9 is sentenced
The need for iGERS
The pro-independence campaign group Believe in Scotland has proposed a replacement for the discredited GERS (Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland) figures which are published every year to the delight of British nationalists up and down the land. These statistics, which as Professor of Accountancy Practice Richard Murphy regularly points out, are…