I don’t usually blog about America unless it directly affects or involves Scotland, but for the latest example of how far that once great country has fallen into moral turpitude under Trump, …

Tomorrow at 10am we get the judgement in our appeal against the suspension of the Scottish judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action. We cannot have won as the appeal - held by "urgent p

The power plant in Kharkiv was struck at least twice and burst into flames shortly after Donald Trump said Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an 'energy ceasefire'

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…

Accent is often treated as a neutral feature of how we speak. But in Britain, the way someone sounds can shape assumptions about their class, intelligence and belonging, especially at our most prestigious universities.

An attack on water supplies this winter would cross a new line in the war, with consequences that would stretch from Russia to Iran

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 Tories have officially ripped up the Vow to which they were signatories in 2014. This was the panicked promise made by the Better Together parties – one of which was the Conservatives &#8…

There is a cluster of behaviours which have come to be known as the Dark Triad and they have overtaken the world. If we are to save ourselves we need to find ways to fight back.

Martin Shaw, who argued that Israel was beginning to commit genocide in October 2023, examines the tensions between recognition and denial as the Burnham Government tries to reset its Palestine policy.

One of the key promises of the Labour party in Scotland during the 2024 Westminster general election campaign was that a vote for Labour was a vote to save the jobs of the workers at the Grangemout…

Bill Gates thinks A.I. alarmism hasn’t gone far enough. He believes the years ahead will be marred by catastrophic cyberattacks, bio-terrorism and mass job loss unless the government acts, because …

Peter Thiel’s controversial data firm – which holds contracts with the UK’s NHS and Ministry of Defence – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platform to conduct mass deportation. Are its tools now targeting democratic dissent as well as illegal immigration? 

You have been trained to believe that inflation must be controlled with rises in interest rates. Now take two seconds to stop and ask why and you’ll start seeing just how nuts a lot of economics is.

Andy Burnham’s dropping of the state pension triple lock is an attempt to fix a perceived problem with the state pension that may involve asking the wrong question. His promise to use the savings to fund a National Care Service are even less clear.

Scotland’s migration debate is becoming increasingly polarised. But the latest evidence suggests people’s views are more nuanced than the political debate allows, and that what we need is less certainty, not more.

I noted over this summer that we appeared to be having a traffic downturn on this blog and elsewhere. I discussed this with other people I know who publish online, and also with some people in the mainstream media, and was told that the trend was universal. An increasing alienation...

On this week's Full Scottish, Drew Hendry, Ika Ferrer Gotić and Huw Marshall discuss the week's top Scottish and international news.

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…

Enshittification is a term coined in 2022 by Corey Doctorow as a way to describe the platform decay of online services in pursuit of profit. Dictionary.com defines it as “the gradual degradation of…

Rather than abandoning the plainly nuts Fairford narrative, Burnham and his government are doubling down on the claim it is an Iranian terror plot.It remains quite possible the men were indeed fue

The Guardian has reported this morning that: Ministers are working up sweeping plans for welfare changes including scrapping a key disability benefit for under-25s and replacing it with a multibillion-pound package of support to get into work, the Guardian has learned. They added that: The plans are still awaiting the conclusions of reviews by...

I’m still struggling to walk following the recent fall and have developed a massive bruise on my left leg. Due to the pain I’m not sleeping well, but things are definitely going in the …

Scientists and entrepreneurs knew the dangers of AI a quarter-century ago. But animated by curiosity and profit, they went ahead anyway

Looking toward November 3

Politicians and economic commentators constantly talk about “taxpayers’ money”. In this video, I argue that this phrase fundamentally misrepresents how government spending and taxation work. The conventional story says that the government collects taxes and then uses that money to pay for schools, hospitals, pensions and other public services. I argue...