One of the barriers to creating a land tax in Scotland is the fact that our Land Register is incomplete and we don’t know who owns Scotland. Instead of seeing it as a barrier though, it may be an opportunity to compel owners to properly value and register their land.

The cultural evisceration of Scotland continues. After we covered the massive cuts to Scottish studies at Edinburgh University [An Act of Monumental Cultural and Educational Vandalism] and news lea…

By stewartb The Tories – that very same party which has failed, often by a long way, to win any national or UK election in Scotland since the mid 1950s – has the gall to threaten to downgrade the S…

THE SNP have held on to Midstocket and Rosemount, with Jeff Diack elected as Aberdeen’s newest councillor

You know World Book Day where you have to come to school as a character from a book?

From Scottish Household Survey: Satisfaction with Schools 2025 statistics – Published 06 October 2026 The Scottish Household Survey: Satisfaction with Schools 2025 statistics, published today…

BBC Scotland’s Debate Night indulged in slagging off Glasgow based on no figures whatsoever and one old dear remembering fondly the period from the 1930s to the 1960s when the city and its ra…

A TORY pledge to take powers away from Scotland is not really an offer to Scottish voters at all. It is an offer to Reform-leaning voters in England ...

Over the last six months, we’ve made some major changes to the website and its content. We’ve shifted to our new hosts Krystal – who are more reliable, and sustainable; we’v…

From UK research – Children in relative poverty before housing costs This indicator shows the percentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families Before Housing Costs …

The mass closure of university courses is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the unravelling of Scottish culture today, says Neil Mackay

One of the ways in which the Better Together campaign won the referendum in 2014 was to successfully scaremonger Scotland’s pensioners into believing that their state pensions would not be sa…

From the SNP, two days ago, the above and: If you ever needed a textbook example of Westminster’s breathtaking contempt for the people of Scotland, Andy Burnham has just delivered it on a silver pl…

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Scotland's first minister had called for the move as part of measures to tackle the drugs deaths crisis, but the prime minister said he did not support it.

GB Energy has been branded a 'money-pit' and accused of 'draining taxpayers' cash' after recording a loss in its first year.

POLICE Scotland’s investigation into SNP finances “stepped up dramatically” after an intervention from former prime minister Gordon Brown, it…

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The idea of a September reset is all in vogue, and to be honest, September seems like a better time of year than January for a rethink and a fresh start. The idea that the independence movement nee…

CAMPAIGNERS have hit out at plans to build a Home Bargains store on the site of the Battle of Bannockburn ...

“It’s silly, no? When a rocket ship explodes and everybody still wants to fly But some say a man ain’t happy unless a man truly dies Oh why?” Prince, Sign O’ The Times (1987) This week the Un…

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweep, says columnist George Monbiot

THE OAK TREE ON KILPATRICK BRAE A poem by Ngan Nguyen    When Glasgow is not gentle to me  I go to the oak tree on Kilpatrick brae. It was blown over as a wee plant then grew up L-shaped. A lo…

Misinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel

So Now IS the Time, apparently. Andy Burnham has laid out the conditions for a second Scottish independence referendum during Prime Minister’s Questions. Sort of. To add to the impression of …

Where is the £200 million the UK Labour government promised to invest in Grangemouth to bring new green jobs? It has not materialised and nor has the considered market framework needed to create a sustainable aviation fuel hub there. More evidence that Scotland’s just transition to renewable energy is just not a priority for the UK comes with the attack on ScotWind, Scotland's offshore wind programme. The UK is deliberately damaging its potential for success. Onlookers have to ask if this is because the prospect of Scotland capturing more of the value chain of its own resources would threaten the extractive model of the British state and London’s political power over Scotland?