Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities

This is a revised version of a piece first published on this blog way back in April 2014, but I’ve republished it as it has become relevant again. Former Tory MP and erstwhile Conservative le…

The only living politician mentioned by Andy Burnham during his jam tomorrow speech to the Labour party conference was John Swinney, and that was only in order to take a nasty, underhanded and emot…

A JUNIOR Labour minister billed the taxpayer £34,000 for a trip to the US during the World Cup ...

By Liz S So the UK Labour government vetoed the wind turbine factory in the Highlands by the Chinese firm Ming Yang Smart Energy citing “national and cyber security risks”. Yet there is a…

By Liz S According to the not so ‘Scottish’ Daily Mail “The Peter Murrell scandal is set to be investigated by peers in the House of Lords, the Mail can reveal”. That’s an investigation by Peers wh…

Conservatives accused of copying controversial Reform policy while government data shows nine out of 10 social lets already go to UK nationals

By Alasdair Macdonald BBC ‘Scotland’, some unionist politicians, most of the ‘Scottish’ newspapers, and other UK media, probably via the Press Association have given the Cairngorms wildfire extensi…

Merseyside County Lines drug gangs clearly identifying with the UK project to keep Scotland in its place From Streamline today: In a massive display of force aimed at dismantling entrenched crimina…

Just three front pages today not including the Herald and the Scotsman saying the same thing less directly. Corporate ‘journalism’ has been long dead, writing now zombie-like. Do they f…

Politicians brace for constitutional turmoil if Nigel Farage’s party end up in government – or even as a strong opposition

While the media in Scotland continues to scrabble around in the bins in search of another desperate angle on the Murrell scandal, it’s looking almost certain that there will be no leadership …

Cheesemakers, farmers, exporters and wine merchants say red tape, lack of vision and rising costs mean they have stopped trading, sold up or retired early

In Nursing Standard four days ago, the above claim regarding the stae of district nursing in Scotland is one of the most striking examples ill-informed journalism I’ve seen.1 This won’t…

Am I over-reacting to the possibility of confusion among some, even in Perth, Scotland, when a major police investigation in Nottingham adopts that title? What is it all about? From the Guardian to…

A SCOTTISH Labour MP defended taking £10,000 in donations from a think tank that ran a campaign to discredit journalists before launching an attack…

SCOTLAND would be “sitting on a £1 trillion pot” if Westminster had handled the country’s North Sea oil wealth differently, according to new…

Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes ran by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vultures, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot