One of the very few phrases universally recognised in Scotland but which will draw blank looks anywhere else in the UK is the dry, dark “Well, ye ken noo”. Until recently it had no equivalent that we ...

We must admit, we don’t quite get what the Daily Record is trying to achieve. Having already told its dwindling band of ...

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 ...

And this is what they say elsewhere, when they think nobody in Scotland is looking: One day someone’s going to tell them ...

Don Paterson is a celebrated Scottish poet, writer and musician. The essay below comes from a new anthology of Scottish ...

If you’re a fan of lazy, superficial political analysis from the mentally unwell, you might have read this week about John ...

Wait, not genocide. Biscuits. We’re thinking of biscuits. Sorry about that.

Whoever advised John Swinney to do this should be tarred, feathered and fired. Because incredibly, the sheer abject ...

If you’ve been reading Scottish social media or the Scottish press for the last year and a half or so, the following graph is going to come as a bit of a shock to you. But there it is all ...

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 ...

@Willie John Aye, pick a nitter instance that is currently in good health [1]. Then use the nitter service instance to view the twitter thread. e.g. oor Stuey posted this link: link to x.com so you ...