Back in the 1980s and 1990s, before the internet, scammers used to have to work a bit harder to cheat people than they do now ...

Genuinely, can anyone tell us what the heck this actually means? ? Because to us, it’s just meaningless quacking to fill a ...

And now for tonight’s headlines. Police Scotland have nevertheless denied that prisoners in their custody are being ...

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 ...

Seamus Logan, an SNP MP of whom it has often been said “Seamus who?”, has an article in The National today categorically ...

Honestly, folks, I don’t even want to do this because almost nothing is more tedious for anyone else to read than two people ...

Maybe he revealed a plan so cunning that even Edmund Blackadder would have been forced to doff his cap to it. A plan so irresistibly ingenious that all those people who Tommy Shepperd says want ...

Scottish independence Scotland politics referendum. The sample size may be enough to capture the representative views of a society, but that’s a society mostly kept in the dark about what’s really ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Cross Your Fingers Strategy for the umpteenth time. It’s ridiculous on another more important count: By simply accepting that the game’s a bogey due to the Supreme Court ruling that the Scottish ...

Hi! I noticed, with very considerable amusement, your complaint last night that I hadn’t made a “substantive reply” to the [EDIT] EIGHT posts (totalling nearly 11,000 words) of semi-coherent ranting ...