The Scottish Government has announced a new Advisory Council to produce an ambitious 10 year National Strategy that will drive Scotland’s economic transformation. The strategy will aim to unleash entrepreneurial potential and grow Scotland’s...
The Scots are a mongrel nation, as most nations are. We are a mixture of peoples born here and those who travelled and made their homes here in centuries past and in more recent...
I developed a passion for Scandi and Nordic noir during the past year and more of lockdown and isolation. Not grizzly, chiling psychological dramas, but the more interesting crime dramas with their well-developed characters,...
Notes on the Social Justice and Fairness Commission’s route map to a fair independent Scotland “Independence ensures that decisions about Scotland are taken by the people who live here. The transfer of powers to...
On the 18th May Nicola Sturgeon was re-elected First Minister with the SNP gaining its fourth consecutive term in office. The parliament had many new faces, amongst which was Green MSP Lorna Slater who...
This was the scene yesterday, the day of Eid, the worldwide Muslim religious holiday that marks the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan, when Pollokshields residents came out in their hundreds, perhaps...
Scotland: A future outside of the United Kingdom? “What does it mean to be Scottish? Since Brexit, people here at the northernmost end of the island of Great Britain have been asking this question...
Mention independence and one of the first issues brought up is the border – that 96 mile boundary between Marshall Meadows Bay on the east coast and the Solway Firth in the west that...
The voting is over, as now are the two nailbiting days of waiting impatiently for results. Will this seat be lost, that seat won? Ecstatic cheers when a seat came our way, but a...
