THE coronavirus pandemic has brought to a head a growing crisis in Scottish football that has been so long and so slow that in developing that it has hardly been noticed and never addressed
A RETIRED teacher came into the Yes Forward Shop in Dunoon with problems. An immediate concern was the cancellation of the 907 bus service from the town to Glasgow. This service had to some extent moderated the disaster of the present passenger ferry service.
THE road ahead for Scotland may well be a rocky one. In fact knowing the opposition we face and how well resourced it is, I would be very surprised if, in the short term, it is not. The road ahead for the UK may be rockier still, and it offers us, right now, an opportunity we will be unlikely to see again.
THERE are independence movements all round the world at the moment and several in Europe – including the Catalan and the Scottish ones – are at critical stages, but in Africa there is another big one we should keep our eyes on.
IN the early hours of September 19, 2014, the result for Clackmannanshire came in. I immediately went to bed.
IT is a new dawn for the Gambia and the signs, so far, are good. The new President, Adama Barrow, is a devout Muslim, but one of his first acts was to change the name of the country from The Islamic Republic of the Gambia to The Republic of the Gambia in an indication that he intends to govern for all in a very mixed country.
