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.

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 our old pals at Norstat. 63-37? Well, there’s your clear and overwhelming ...

“NHS nurses have won a legal battle to name a transgender colleague who used their female changing room. Rose Henderson can be named for the first time after a judge threw out an application for ...

A couple of days ago a reader asked on Twitter if we thought Reform, who continue to lead in UK opinion polling, might allow a second indyref if they actually got into power, as it would for obvious ...

As a lifelong political geek and former SNP and Alba Party member, I’ve spent years supporting Scotland’s independence movement. However, over the last few years, I’ve watched the campaign (as opposed ...

So it looks like the USA has elected a mad orange rapist convicted of 34 felonies who could yet be in jail by the time of his inauguration. (He would remain President even if that happened, which ...

Alex Salmond will be laid to rest in the green turf of Aberdeenshire today in a quiet and dignified private ceremony. (A public celebration of his life will take place next month.) Most of Scotland’s ...

Redaction is a tricky business, and comes with numerous pitfalls even if you’re being careful, which not everyone is. If you’re involved in creating a document you know will have to be redacted, there ...

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 ...

It’s hard to write an obituary for someone you can’t quite believe is dead. But we must look the truth in the eyes, and it is so. Alex Salmond would have wished to die, some decades from now, in the ...

Honestly not sure which of these is the most nauseating. Click the pic to enlarge, if you can stomach it. Swinney was grinning like a yokel at the first meeting of the “Council Of The Nations And ...