THE collection of people Donald Trump has been appointing to his new administration is extraordinary. It’s worth resisting their normalisation
‘PEOPLE ask how I’m doing. I laugh at the chasm of the question. How is anyone doing? Climate catastrophes, genocide, the election from hell.”
ALISTAIR Carmichael, the Pinocchio MP for Orkney and Shetland explains it all. He writes: “Ten years on from the independence reference, the new divide in Scottish politics is between those who have moved on – and those who cannot." ...
FOR a long while it made sense to talk about Scotland as a liminal space – a space in between – that was going through a process that would allow it to emerge in a different state (hopefully literally) ...
BRITISH democracy died a long time ago, but this week you were invited to its funeral. On Thursday, five Just Stop Oil activists were sentenced to record prison terms for peaceful protest in the UK ...
WATCHING the election coverage is like watching a Mirror World where whole chunks of reality are missing.
NOT long after his colleague, the Prime Minister, had finished branding anyone in favour of running their own country a dangerous extremist, Alister Jack announced that he expected a “Unionist regime” to be in power in Holyrood by 2026 as he confirmed plans for a new Scottish nuclear power station...
“That ‘black hole’, that ‘nothing at all’, is the
LAST week, it was announced that 300,000 more children were plunged into absolute poverty in a single year at the height of the cost of living crisis. Amid soaring levels of hunger and food bank use, the Conservatives,
INCREASINGLY Britain looks like Absurdistan, a bizarre dysfunctional place where the centrist political parties converge on doing nothing about the ongoing genocide in Gaza...
