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We’re thinking of just handing over Wings to Grok for the summer so we can spend all our time feeding the swans, readers.
At first, this merely sounds like the worst day out ever. But for supporters of independence, in fact it’s even grimmer than that.
Lacking anything better to do on a grey and cloudy day in Bath, we thought it might be a lark to go through every Holyrood ...
We’re thinking of just handing over Wings to Grok for the summer so we can spend all our time feeding the swans, readers. Here’s what the Twitter artificial intelligence bot said when we asked it to ...
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 ...
…just read Wings Over Scotland, folks. A year ago, when he was red-hot favourite with all the bookies, we told you that Angus Robertson wouldn’t even run for the SNP leadership, let alone win. And ...
Click the pic to enlarge, if you want to lose the will to live. Nor is an option provided for people who don’t have a “gender identity” at all, and who simply recognise the biological reality of their ...
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 ...
So that’s it, then. That’s the grand plan. We’re sorry, but we’d say the game’s a bogey, gang. Nicola Sturgeon took over as SNP leader (and therefore also ...
The Scottish Greens, in a feat of remarkable hubris and financial profligacy, stood 44 candidates in this week’s general election, knowing that most of them would lose their deposits, which they duly ...