Scottish political commentary, published as it happens.
Dispatch · 06.08.2026
Scotland’s neurodivergent adults, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, are still waiting for a single party at Holyrood to take them seriously. This is what I asked of them before
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Political trust is falling as inequality climbs, and our leaders are failing to address either crisis properly. How do we build a more democratic future for Scotland? The hollow men
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Britain is in the grip of an economic and social crisis, and it didn’t happen by accident. Corporate greed, the relentless pursuit of unsustainable growth, and the misguided attempt to
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On 19 June 2026, a 36-year-old man was arrested and charged over a series of machete attacks in Edinburgh in which five men were injured, several of them Muslim. Footage
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