It’s all going mad at Holyrood. Scottish politics is getting battered. Anyone would expect Gazza to appear any moment with a carry-out, a fishing rod and a chicken. Alex Salmond’s interviewing Sharon Stone, apparently. The Holyrood circus is still in town with new acts appearing on the hour. The bookies Coral have Neil Gray as ..read more

Jennifer Debs spoke to Javitxu Aijon, one of the Zaragoza Six, who are facing prison sentences for taking to the streets to oppose the rising threat of fascism in the Spanish state. If the Scottish independence movement has a sense of internationalism, then events in that blob of disgruntled nations called ‘Spain’ tend to loom ..read more

This is a great story and album, as told by the project coordinator, Ann Marie Firth-Bernard: “The first lockdown of 2020, and the Coigach Community Development Company invited eight brilliant Scottish musicians to collaborate on new work inspired by the people and landscapes of the neighbouring parishes of Coigach and Assynt, on the northwest coast ..read more

In response to a growing number of encampments set up by university students in the United States and Germany, many of which have led to suspensions and arrests as university administrators crack down on peaceful dissent, a new protest camp has sprung up this morning in Edinburgh. At 8am this morning, dozens of people gathered ..read more

Given the dramatic, if inevitable collapse of the Bute House Agreement this morning here are some immediate reactions (we have invited pitches on this topic on social media). The first response is to say that I think this was inevitable because Humza Yousaf and the SNP were in an impossible situation here or waiting for ..read more

The facts and statements issued by the HMRC are plain and dull: thousands more taxpayers moved to Scotland than left each year in the period after Scottish Income Tax was brought in, an HMRC study has found. Average net migration from within the UK was 4,200 every year from 2017-18 to 2021-22. You can read ..read more

Here’s a playlist compiling every track and album mentioned in this first volume of Stuart Cosgrove’s trilogy Detroit 67: The Year that Changed Soul ..read more

State violence, smalltown prejudice – How two very different films, Hot Fuzz and Children of Men, predicted Britain’s growing intolerance and the COVID-19 pandemic nearly 20 years ago “Whatever the cost, we would make Sandford great again.” So says Frank Butterman, the murderous inspector in Edgar Wright’s 2007 comedy Hot Fuzz, which predicted Brexit and ..read more

We’ve been bringing you daily coverage of Scottish and UK politics for seventeen years. We publish writing on Arts and Culture (with a ton of music, reviews, poetry and film). We publish daily Opinion, Media, Politics pieces (including uncovering the truth about Spycops, clandestine right-wing networks in Scotland, policy, issues of land ownership and ecology, and the protest movement). We also bring you International journalism from ..read more

Your weekend playlist with new releases from Saint Sappho, Ambient Babestation Meltdown, Supermann on da beat and Darren McGarvey, and Bikini Body ..read more