Banner

Opinion

Edinburgh welcomes UKIP

By Max Crema - reproduced courtesy of ScotsPolitics.com In the tightly controlled and pre-tested world of politics it’s not often that ...

Commentary | Sunday, 19 May 2013 | Comments

Read More

Farage and the Farrago of lies

  By G.A.Ponsonby  A band of hard line Scottish nationalists this week turned on UKIP leader Nigel Farage, forcing the ...

Commentary | Sunday, 19 May 2013 | Comments

Read More

Ukip-Tory UK not for confederalists

By George Kerevan  THINGS are afoot in England. A quarter of English voters now support Ukip – a right wing, ...

Commentary | Thursday, 16 May 2013 | Comments

Read More
More in: Commentary

News - Scotland and International

News image

Labour party lied over true worth of North Sea Oil admits former Chancellor

  By Martin Kelly  Former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey has sensationally admitted that his party hid the true worth of Scotland’s oil in the seventies in order to persuade Scots against voting for home rule. Speaking to Holyrood magazine, the former Cabinet Minister said that the current UK government is "worried stiff" that Scots might vote Yes in the ... Read More
next
prev

News in Brief

Europe's first electricity grid research centre

First Minister Alex Salmond has opened Europe’s first world-class electricity grid research centre. The centre will examine how advanced technologies ... Read More

Amazon should refund £10m Scottish Government handout say Greens

Green MSPs are urging the Scottish Government to recall its grant funding of Amazon UK following news that the c... Read More

Scottish Socialists for Independence announces launch

A new campaigning group for independence has announced it will launch on May 28th.  Scottish Socialists for Independence is a ... Read More

MSP français-ecossais «honoré» de représenter le Nord-Est

New SNP MSP Christian Allard has said that he is 'honoured' to represent the people of the North East, after ... Read More

SNP and Greens welcome record rise in employment in Scotland

The SNP and the Scottish Greens have welcomed a record rise in employment at the same time as the number ... Read More

Free Wi-Fi for Aberdeen station

The announcement today that Aberdeen station is set to benefit from the introduction of Wi-Fi for passengers has been hailed ... Read More
More in: In Brief

How did Newsnight Scotland get it so wrong on the Better Together donation?

   By a Newsnet reporter

It was nearly obscured by the death of Margaret Thatcher, but social media and citizen journalism has forced the controversial Better Together donation onto the Scottish news agenda.

Scotland on Sunday followed the Sunday Herald and gave the story a prominent position.  This follows Herald journalist Robbie Dinwoodie’s decision to cover an issue which has forced the Better Together campaign onto the back foot.

Read more... Comments (36)

On Living in an Old Country: The Power of the Past after Thatcher

By Gerry Hassan, The Scotsman, April 15th 2013

The last week has effectively been an elegy on Britain’s recent past and present rolled into one.

This is not just about Thatcher, but the numerous references to the Churchill and Attlee funerals and how we marked these past titans. Is this who we really were, we ask with curiosity? Are we still that same people who dreamed dreams, stood alone against the Nazis, and built a welfare state, we ask, with a hint of anxiety?

Read more... Comments (9)

Thatcher’s Positive Legacy: an Independent Scotland

By Mark McNaught

The reaction to the death of Margaret Thatcher has reminded the UK how divisive her reign as Prime Minister was, and the extent to which her economic and social policies were a Rorschach test for the UK electorate.

Her defenders see a neo-liberal gladiator, thrashing unions and regulations to bring about a free-market utopia, where ‘aspiration’ and upward social mobility are the most valued attributes. Working people who simply want to earn a decent living and raise their children do not get a ticket.

Read more... Comments (2)

Why did the banks only become Scottish after they failed?

By Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp 
 
Why did the banks only become Scottish – after they failed?  This joke reminds me though, of the one of the rallying calls of the ‘No’ campaign.

The accusation that 'Scotland’s' banks were bailed out by the UK; specifically Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBoS).

Read more... Comments (3)

The No campaign gets its figures wrong again

By Gordon McIntyre-Kemp 
 
Ian Taylor, the No Campaign’s largest donor, wrote an article in The Sunday Herald last week explaining “Why he gave the No Campaign £500,000”. 

The donation itself has caused some heated political debate (around the fact that he is not registered to vote in Scotland), but since this site is a professional business and economics online magazine, we will focus on the economic claims Mr Taylor makes.
 

Read more... Comments (4)

Thatcher and us

By Alex Robertson

Mao Tse Tung was once asked what he thought the effect of the French Revolution had been on France, Europe and the world. ‘Far too early to say’ was his short response.

I felt like that when I heard the news of the death of Lady Thatcher. But pundits, whether in studios or newsdesks, armchairs or folk in George Square far too young to have even been alive when she was in office, are not to be deterred by such ‘long view’ notions such as Mr. Mao.

Read more... Comments (11)

George Kerevan: creating fiscal fix just possible

  By George Kerevan
 
I’M JUST back from Asia where they still make things – mobile phones, computers and all the fashionable clothes you like to wear. Of course, a lot of this fancy stuff is designed in the West. But don’t imagine the Chinese lack either the culture to design entrancingly beautiful things, or the brains to write software.
 
Arriving back home, I read the papers with my normal dismay. The main headlines were about a prime minister who left office before cellphones were available (read: nostalgia) and the impact of welfare cuts (read: managing decline).

Read more... Comments (2)

Newsnet Scotland's leaflet promo returns

Newsnet Scotland has pleasure in announcing the re-activation of our promotional leaflet campaign.
 
At the beginning of the year we launched a trial campaign aimed at getting our readers involved in promoting the website.  We were taken aback by the response and our initial print run of 5000 leaflets was snapped up within the first three days.

Read more... Comments (19)

More Articles...

Banner
Banner

Donate to Newsnet Scotland

Latest Comments

Cookies: Please be aware that our site uses cookies so that we can remember you and understand how you and other visitors use our site. By visiting NewsnetScotland.com, you accept the use of cookies in accordance with this Cookie Notice. In particular, you accept the use of Analytics Cookies for the purposes described below.

Find out more about cookies by going here: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

About Us

Newsnet Scotland was launched on 12th March 2010 by unpaid volunteers from Greenock. The site was set up in order to address what we believed to be an imbalance in the reporting of Scottish News and Current Affairs.

A not for profit organisation we support major constitutional change for Scotland whether it be full fiscal autonomy, Devolution-Max or full independence.

The Newsnet Scotland team includes:

Online Editor
Paul Kavanagh – Paul is fluent in Spanish and speaks reasonable Catalan, allowing us to report on developments in Spain. He has a long-standing interest in Scottish languages.

Communications and Social Media
Lynda Williamson – Lynda joined the Newsnet project in early 2011. Lynda divides her time between looking after her family, her small business and Newsnet Scotland.

Writing
Bob Duncan – Bob writes extensively for Newsnet and has written news pieces as well as opinion pieces.

Alex Robertson – Alex is in semi-retirement and writes regular opinion pieces for Newsnet Scotland.

Dave Taylor - Former Data Analyst from the west if Scotland, Dave is Newsnet Scotland's resident polling expert and provides regular expert analysis on polls and surveys, both in terms of occasional articles and advice to the team.

Other writers include G.A.Ponsonby, Martin Kelly and of course some of Scotland’s most respected journalists and commentators who have written commissioned pieces and also allowed us to reproduce their work for free. We include George Kerevan, Lesley Riddoch, David Torrance, Gerry Hassan and Kenneth Roy in this impressive list.

Corporate NNS Media Limited is Newsnet Scotland’s not for profit corporate entity.

Contact Visitors to the site can contact the Newsnet Scotland team by using the online forms available by clicking HERE. Alternatively, the can send a message to contact-AT-newsnetscotland.com