Corruption in the gentlemen’s club
In an article about Scotland’s first black footballer, Andrew Watson – a similar story was also told in a recent
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Publish or be damned
Wings over Scotland wrote an article recently, in which he prematurely proclaimed the death of Arc of Prosperity (no hard
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The endless SNP cycle
Jonathon Shafi posted an interesting thread on Twitter today. It’s based on a Scotsman article by Euan McColm (who is
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Who will find their way back to Europe first – Scotland or the UK?
In less than an hour’s time, the UK (including, alas, Scotland) will leave the EU. Very little will change for
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The new split in the independence movement
The SNP and the wider independence movement used to be divided into gradualists (who saw devolution as a stepping stone
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It’s not the uniform swing, stupid!
When I moved to Scotland almost twenty years ago and started watching election night programmes, I was surprised at first
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A wee fisk
There was an article by Dani Garavelli in The Scotsman on Sunday today. It was interesting in its own right,
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