It seems like almost every time somebody gets accused of rape, sexual harassment or any kind of horrible creepy sex-based sleaze in Scotland these days, the same face is always lurking around ...

And now for tonight’s headlines. Police Scotland have nevertheless denied that prisoners in their custody are being excessively pampered, following reports that a man was hustled out of St Leonard’s ...

At first, this merely sounds like the worst day out ever. But for supporters of independence, in fact it’s even grimmer than that.

We’re getting there, folks. Keep pushing. FOOTNOTE: For readers less familiar with the Dodonpachi videogame series than this site is, the title of this post is semi-ironic. It’s going to take quite a ...

It’s worth remembering that they didn’t have to do this. Labour had already announced their intention to abstain. There was no danger of the budget being defeated. So the SNP could have… ...

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 ...

Obviously, that means that every single SNP and Scottish Green MSP in the chamber voted against it. They could have abstained and it would have been defeated anyway, but every last one of them voted ...

Astonishingly, there isn’t a single word of apology anywhere in this statement. There isn’t a scintilla of contrition, not the tiniest glimmer of admission of culpability or responsibility. There ...

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 ...