Bishop's Castle Town Council sees the importance of supporting residents during a food crisis - Bishop's Castle has always had a strong sense of community. Here's a contemporary account of how it responded to the Civil War: Out of Shropshire we hea...

Scottish Lib Dems defeat SNP on Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence Bill - This week Scottish Lib Dems inflicted the first parliamentary defeat of this session on the minority SNP Government. SNP candidates had championed the idea...

Why Are We Worried About Food Security, And Not About Food Purity? - What’s worrying *French supermarket bosses* should be *prompting British ministers to action*. On Sunday, *hackers forced up the temperatures of refriger...

Baton Rouge? More Battered Rouge, is the Red Baton about to fall to the Dems? - I’ve always had a fondness for elections in Louisiana ever since the wizard versus the lizard election of 1991 so this poll has caught my attention. There’...

Guido’s Most Read Stories This Week - This week 932,693 visitors visited 978,313 times viewing 942,562 pages. The most read and shared stories in order of popularity were: Healey to Hike Minimu...

The Red Lady of Paviland - Greece may want us to return the Elgin Marbles, but they are not the only misplaced historical artifact. There are people in Swansea who want the red lady...

Israel is NOT a 'colonial' Construct - Today, 7.33 million Israelis, including 2 million Israeli Arabs, go to the polls. The result is expected to be a stalemate, with a big possibility of a s...

How Scotland is Governed Matters Just as Much as Who Governs It - How Scotland is Governed Matters Just as Much as Who Governs It Sunday National, 27 September 2026 Gerry Hassan The past week saw several landmark moment...

Real Dealer Casinos: Experience the Thrill of Live Online Gaming - Remember the electric feeling of your first step into a real casino? The clatter of chips, the murmur of excited voices, the suspense hanging in the air…...

UK politics: Labour minister denies Burnham ‘too blokey’ – as it happened - Home Office minister Anna Turley says PM is ‘authentic’ and praises video of him discussing bar snacks with John Healey Streeting said it was *“not OK” t...

Shetland councillors back plans to build tunnels to link some of largest islands - Financing options to be investigated for first two subsea projects that would link Mainland with Yell and Unst Councillors on Shetland have backed plans...

Bet Couriers are Back, But Can VOdds Suceed Where Bet Butler Failed? - Although online betting sites are becoming increasingly homogenised and ‘samey’, there is still one key difference between them: the odds they provide. Typ...

Soi kèo Sporting Cristal vs Palmeiras, 05h00 ngày 06/05 - Soi kèo Sporting Cristal vs Palmeiras diễn ra vào lúc 05h00 ngày 06/05/2026 trong khuôn khổ Vòng 4, Bảng F Copa Libertadores. Hai đang bám đuổi sát sao về ...

Five Scottish Dishes You’ve Never Tried (But Should) - When people think of Scottish food, the same names always come up: haggis, shortbread, maybe a dram of whisky on the side. And while those classics deser...

Rebuilding a coalition for prosperity and success - Yesterday I talked about why US national income per head is double that of the EU and why the U.K. is only 20% above the EU. Since 2000 the U.K. has allowe...

Tesco forcing suppliers to go through price rises ‘line by line’ -

Stop treating the WSL like a second-class league -

Closing up shop - Anyone who used to regularly read UKPollingReport has presumably noticed it has been many months since I have updated it. You’ve probably already assumed t...

Markets latest: GameStop closes up 68% – as it happened - *All the latest as a wild week on Wall Street, which pitted Redditors against hedge funds, comes to a close.* Read more

‘Test & Trace’ is a mirage - Lockdown II thoughts: Day 1 Opposition politicians have been banging on about the need for a ‘working’ Test & Trace system even more loudly than the govern...

Political OD Podcast 9: An uncertain legacy - [image: Stormont - Belfast - Northern Ireland] William Murphy [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)] There was an unprecedented reac...

Hubris and conceit - Labour's David Martin has called for Labour and the SNP to start working towards a coalition at the next Holyrood election in 2021. It's hubris and it's h...

Anti-Communism Article Misses The Point - I read, with some enthusiasm, this article on the evils of communism. Marx’s philosophy promised to bring about universal equality, full liberation, and w...

THANK YOU *so much* - That's it - for the first time in 18-years I'm no longer an Elected Politician. THANK YOU *so much* to all those who have supported me :-))

- *This blog has moved to here, where the name has been changed to Turbulent Times. We are still publishing daily posts, covering a wide range of topical ...

"A quintessential matter of political judgment for Westminster..." - Last Friday, the Lord Advocate published the Scottish Government's intervention in the ongoing Brexit litigation before the UK Supreme Court. James Wolff...

Merry Christmas - My apologies for not posting for the past few months but I’ve had eye problems and being on the computer or iPad for any length of time is nigh impossi...

I can’t vote for Corbyn. I won’t leave the Labour party. - I do not want Jeremy Corbyn to be Prime Minister. There are lots of ways of saying that and then dodging whether I’d vote Labour if he was our candidate fo...

Obat Tradisional Untuk Penyakit Stroke Yang Ampuh - Stroke merupakan penyakit yang sangat menakutkan, untunglah kini ada solusi alami untuk penyembuhan stroke melalui *obat tradisional stroke yang ampuh*. Ob...

RIP Benny Green – the boy who brought black Britain to a generation of schoolkids - IT'S perhaps no surprise that the death of Terry Sue-Patt, the actor who played Benny Green in the BBC school drama Grange Hill, is one of the most-read it...

For the UK media, the terrorists have already won - Guest post by Frank Fisher (@Frank_Fisher) There is a unanimity in the media today, a striking consistency across the papers and airwaves. Everywhere the...

Scottis Tories Unpopular Because of the Callous PM Who Deliberately Destroyed Our Industry & Killed Communities - This is to prove some ideas I have about the fall of the Conservative Party in Scotland (and thus of the apparent fall in support for market freedom ...

My New Fixie bike - My new fixie bike. It's in single speed mode at the moment, but I'll soon be trying it out in fixed gear (may God have mercy on my soul). If I can get the ...

Men, is your behaviour driving women out of politics? - Imagine you are in a meeting trying to make your case. How would you feel if, every time you opened your mouth to speak, somebody interrupted you before y...

Aaaaaand.... I'm back. - Just in case there's anyone around to see this, as of January 2014 I'm back and blogging again with a new page at http://politicallyrticulate.blogspot.co.u...

Newslinks for Sunday 22nd September 2013 - 10pm Update German Elections: Andrew Marshall's Live Blog: MERKEL WINS THIRD TERM: "Whether it’s a CDU government or a grand coalition, Merkel’s success pr...

Not Waving But Drowning - Apologies for lack of posts. Denham Senior has been hospitalised with a serious heart condition and blogging has therefore moved to the back seat. But to...

So long.... - Dear Readers, Thanks for supporting this blog over the last few years. Writing it has been an absolute pleasure, though the time has come to shut this part...

Eurozone: UK ready to back IMF bailouts - Britain is standing by to give more money to the IMF so that it can, in turn, lend more money to Eurozone countries like Greece, Italy or Spain who are str...

On being a woman in politics - A few things have recently been rattling around in my head which concern women in politics; I've been trying to gather some ideas as to why there aren't mo...

Bringing it all back home - The message of Tom Devine's book on Scottish emigration is ultimately a postive one. - Professor Tom Devine's To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora is one of the most important books written about Scotland in recent years. It d...

According to the Telegraph the riots are all down to teachers - I was left open mouthed, but not entirely surprised this morning when headlines started coming in that a teacher had been in court for looting. As a teache...

Favorite Plato Quotes - Plato was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the f...

On the move - With a mighty thud, the Ledger has been slammed shut. Thanks for reading it. But it's not finished - far from it. As with other BBC journalist blogs, it is...

On the move - Thank you for reading my blog. It has now moved to a new home, with a fresh format. Visit my new page to see all of my expert analysis in one place. You ca...

Now for something completely different... - This is my last blog in this format. I'm getting a new picture and a new biography, but the good news is that you still get me - here....

931 down - It was an inspired conversation. What shall we call a blog written by someone called Betsan? How about ... Betsan's blog? 931 entries later, Betsan's blog ...

Moving on - Stephanomics is dead. Long live Stephanomics. Today's news is that this blog is moving to a new home with a fresh format. I know, change is hard, but they ...

Indygal LEAVES Holyrood - dignified to the end - *Of course I wasn't! As most folk know Parliament dissolved on Tuesday at midnight and us former MSPs had till midnight this Sunday to pack everything and ...

Greens' Hornet is buzzing - I can't really justify putting this on Better Nation. But it must live somewhere - today's News of the World has Patrick Harvie as Green Hornet....

The last post - This post marks a couple of milestones in the life of this blog. It's the fifth anniversary of this collection of enraging musings from your average pott...

Every Start Requires An End - For some time now (for which, read a year), I've been questioning the future of my blog, mainly as I've just felt uninspired, and at times just too tired t...

A New Beginning - This post is serving two functions. Firstly, it is a thank you to everyone who has read my ramblings over the past three years and voted for me in the Tot...

The eternal and unchanging word of the Lord... - I received this email from a mate. It's pretty funny, but as I'm a sad engineer I thought I'd check its veracity. It turns out that Dr. Laura Schlesinger d...

Could Dave be deprived after all? - Asks Mike Smithson. That's No 304 in John Rentoul's world famous series.

Nick Clegg's great betrayal - Nick Clegg has vowed to end the "two party system" which he believes has crippled politics and government. That's all good and well Nick, but you've blaste...

Caron's Musings: Where the Parties stand on Political Reform - Political reform was the theme of the day today as David Cameron and Gordon Brown responded to Nick Clegg's speech on the subject. This includes issues lik...

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