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Edinburgh throngs with Festival visitors. Photo: Athanasios Gioumpasis Our tourism numbers are increasing, a good sign, especially when the tourist tax is in operation. The cooler weather may bring them here, but so long as they don t settle in for Continue reading
Edinburgh s Parliamentary Close prior to 1707. Museum of Scotland There has been increased disputes over how the union between England and Scotland came about. This intelligent curiosity has been exacerbated by some inane trolling from the right-wing press s monosyllabic excuses for journalists. Continue reading
Gianni Infantino s relationship with Trump was criticised early. Photo: Photo Agency It has been a remarkable few days for an institution that may be irredeemable but this is a story that stretches back to a decision in 2010. FIFA s crisis Continue reading
18 years too late. I could never understand why the bankers were rewarded for bankrupting the world. They were supposed to be clever people- they sure were, clever enough to get a government bail out paid from our increased taxes. Continue reading
Jon Stewart breaks down the rescheduled White House Correspondents Dinner that took place over the weekend: After the original WHCD event was derailed by an attempted shooting, Trump’s defiant return to the stage featured timely references to 2016, wordy roasts Continue reading
Kenny MacAskill, former ScotGov Justice Secretary Is the Scottish government in favour of drilling in the North Sea or not? Hypocrisy, evasiveness and incoherence are the order of the day while oil workers suffer unemployment, and our economy is hit, Continue reading
Regular readers of this analytical site will know we publish a lot of material on Scotland s loss of human rights. So long as we are governed by England, awash in cack-handed anti-Scots Laws, rules and restriction that should not apply Continue reading
The Kings Theatre resplenent in its night time illumination It has taken 1,252 days and involved more than 1,370 workers from 160 organisations to create a place to “laugh, to cry, to celebrate and to be inspired”. Now, after a Continue reading
If automobile manufacturers are not ignoring built-in weak components that give up the ghost after a few hundred miles, or pretending they have lowered noxious emissions, they are lobbying the hell out of governments to reverse important and well debated Continue reading
Author and classicist Emily Wilson The Classicist Emily Wilson, echoing the negative aspects point out in my recent review of the film, has roundly criticised the film, saying “it has nothing convincing to say” and that it “lacks psychological, emotional, Continue reading
I had a choking laugh out loud moment visualising Connery in the early chapter. You had me on I hand thish Rushan Shubmarine and nearly died when I read What? You don t want it?! Must remember not to eat or Continue reading
Matt Damon on location in the Moray coast. Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon Readers have written to ask where in Scotland was the blockbuster Odyssey filmed. The quick answer is, around the Moray coastline. By coincidence Estella Shardlow followed the film Continue reading
Jon Stewart dives into Trump (and his doppelganger) photobombing Spain at the FIFA final, using a primetime presidential speech to rehash his 2020 election conspiracy theories, and how his administration s non-DEI meritocracy is faring amid a rash of T-tests, measles Continue reading
The entrance to the Mackintosh School of Art Charles Rennie Mackintosh s art school is back in the news. Burned down not once but twice readers can read about the cause in the link under Notes the Glasgow School Continue reading
Thirteen minutes of our most preeminent politician, the late Alex Salmond MP, and Labour s John Smith MP often promoted as a nationalist, but here stating he is anything but. The debate is interesting insofar as Scotland s unionist parties have barely Continue reading
Senator Lindsey Graham’s sudden death prompts Jon Stewart to dive into the gerontocracy problem in Washington, D.C., Trump’s backhanded tribute to his deceased “friend,” the bucket list that Graham never got to complete, and how Mitch McConnell somehow managed to Continue reading
The cast of The Odyssey at its premier Film fans who go to see this epic, go because they heard great things about the action sequences. They won t be disappointed. They don t go because they heard the dialogue is memorable. Continue reading
Alex Massie, right-wing pamphleteer We live in an era where denunciation of individuals is fashionable, where cynicism is rife, and open-minded scepticism hard to be found. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the anti-Scots press. The Scottish editor of Continue reading
The long awaited exposé of Tinsel Town s sleaze merchants, angst-ridden stars, crooked producers and career breakers is out now. The narrative is a writer s journey to create a film production for Sean Connery (at his request) and the adventures encountered Continue reading
The days of the UK playing sycophant to US power are over. Photo:Martin Pope Despite the precarious state of England s economy were Scotland to take independence today, England would not be able to pay us reparation costs Starmer s Continue reading