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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
We’re thinking of just handing over Wings to Grok for the summer so we can spend all our time feeding the swans, readers. Here’s what the Twitter artificial intelligence bot said when w… ...
Wait, not genocide. Biscuits. We’re thinking of biscuits. Sorry about that. As you were, everyone. Mmm, biscuits.
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 ...
From here, the top of the barrel is so far away that you can’t see so much as a pinprick of daylight through the most powerful pair of binoculars. In a moving epitaph a few days ago, the ...
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 ...
Honestly not sure which of these is the most nauseating. Click the pic to enlarge, if you can stomach it. Swinney was grinning like a yokel at the first meeting of the “Council Of The Nations And ...
Scottish independence Scotland politics referendumWhile we get on with some tinkering behind the scenes in the absence of any Scottish political news – we have an exciting new comment system and the ...
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 ...