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A few weeks ago we had a thought. And it seemed quite an interesting thought, so we decided to commission a poll on it from ...
The entire Scottish media and professional-politician community is currently in a self-righteous froth about a campaign ad ...
We must admit, we don’t quite get what the Daily Record is trying to achieve. Having already told its dwindling band of ...
And this is what they say elsewhere, when they think nobody in Scotland is looking: One day someone’s going to tell them about the internet, and our ...
We’ve just taken delivery of some REALLY interesting polling results, readers, but it’s going to take a while to fully analyse and write them up, so in the meantime let’s look at some slightly less ...
Alert readers will be familiar with this site’s ongoing quest for an explanation as to why controversy-plagued charity LGBT Youth Scotland continues to operate in dozens of Scottish primary and even ...
It’s hard to write an obituary for someone you can’t quite believe is dead. But we must look the truth in the eyes, and it is so. Alex Salmond would have wished to die, some decades from now, in the ...
The SNP released their general election manifesto today. We’re not going to link you to it, because we don’t want to be responsible for wasting your time. This is everything it has to say on the party ...
The events marked simply and unquestionably the most shameful and contemptible moment in the history of the Scottish Parliament since 1707. As well as somehow ceding the moral high ground to the ...
As a writer, feminist and literary events organiser in Scotland, I’m regularly sent links to information someone thinks might be of interest to me. This week it was a document commissioned by one of ...
In the 1990s, Dr. Robert Smith, a surgeon at Falkirk Royal Infirmary, performed a pair of amputations on two men. Neither of the men involved had anything physically wrong with them, but both were ...