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

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

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 ...

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

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 the same.

We were a bit bemused by this yesterday. The Scottish Tory MSP reacted furiously to a story in The National which said Scotland had been absorbed into England by the 1707 Act Of Union, rather than ...

If you’re a fan of lazy, superficial political analysis from the mentally unwell, you might have read this week about John Swinney’s great strategic triumph of having “coaxed” an “endorsement” out of ...

Despite everything, we almost allowed ourselves just the very tiniest little micro-flicker of optimism when we read Tommy Sheppard’s latest in The National. Because that much is certainly true, and it ...

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 ...

Whoever advised John Swinney to do this should be tarred, feathered and fired. Because incredibly, the sheer abject patheticness of it isn’t even the biggest problem. It’s wretched enough that the ...

Don Paterson is a celebrated Scottish poet, writer and musician. The essay below comes from a new anthology of Scottish writers called Irish Pages: Scotland, and is reproduced with his permission.