The Essential Nationalist

Voice from Europe

Remaining in the EU

Malcolm Chisholm

Man o independent mind

Letter from America

Hilary and the US Media

Lets Talk GERS

THE 24th of August saw the publication of the 2015-16

Wee Ginger Dug

Have a nice cold bowl of BREXIT

A Load of Tosh (Very Special)

Tom Morton on the problems of finding good whisky at reasonable prices.

Independence… At what price?

The Scottish and Catalan movements are lubricated,

Carie on regardless

WHAT strikes fear into your heart? The music from Jaws?

Scotland naturally…

SIMON MAYSON HAS enjoyed a natural love affair with

EU Jimmy

by Steve Peers Professor of EU, Human Rights and World

What’s on October

This is one of the most well recognised windsurfing

A BIG Idea

Basic Income Guarantee payment

Protecting Vulnerable Adults

SELDOM does a week go by without the media reporting

James MacLaren and Fortingall

Thatched roof cottages in the village of Fortingall

The real MacColl…

Manchester-based journalist and SNP member DAVE BOWMAN looks at the life and times of the late Ewan MacColl -singer, songwriter, broadcaster, dramatist, impressario and lifelong political agitator - and reflects that the ‘father of the British folk revival’ didn’t always get the recognition he deserved in Scotland, his spiritual home.

A new alliance

Preserving Scotland’s culinary heritage

My life as a hero

Grouse Beater is an essayist, filmaker and troublemaker

The Govan Stones

Govan Old Church is tucked into a quiet location on

From Shelter to Helper

Bio-Assistance Dogs

Industrial Idyll

A Walk in the Black Forest…

A Glass Act

Mention ‘glass’ as an artform and most people would

Lunch at the Palazzo

It’s his first time in the bistro and he’s not impressed.

iScot Book Review

Par for the Ladies is The Extraordinary Story of the

MajorBloodnok, Agony Aunt

Heed my wisdom or I’ll set Guy Verhofstadt on you

iScọt Letters

A Scottish Currency