September 14, 2025 – THE DEMOCRAT

Pope Leo laments widening income gaps between the working class and bosses

September 14, 2025 heaneymedia

By Democrat reporter Pope Leo XIV marveled at the “huge learning curve” he has taken on as pontiff and likened some aspects of the job

Politics is boring, confusing and complex and schools do little to educate young people in how the system works, and biased in favour of old folk.

September 14, 2025 heaneymedia

By Charlotte Morris THE UK’S new cohort of young voters feel overwhelmingly unprepared for voting in what they see as a confused and complex political

Music is a gift from God – Belle and Sebastian and the Kirk – with pictures

September 14, 2025 heaneymedia

Belle and Sebastian front man Stuart Murdoch, a Kirk elder and worship leader, with Helensburgh man the Very Rev John Christie, a former Moderator of

REFORM “NOT ON THE SIDE OF WORKING PEOPLE” SAYS O’KANE

by Bill Heaney UK Reform leader Malcolm Offord today criticised increases to the minimum wage and improvements to workers’ rights across the UK. Scottish Labour

ELECTION: MESSAGE FROM SOCIALIST CANDIDATE LYNDA MCEWAN

Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc on Saturday April 18

Friends of Dumbarton Foreshore is at Havoc Dumbarton. One week to go until our big closing #litterpick of this year’s #BigClydeCleanUp at Havoc. Don’t be shy, come

ELECTION: Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP

Sophie Traynor SNP for Dumbarton is with Brendan O’Hara MP Great to have the support of Brendan O’Hara MP. Together, we’re standing up for our communities, protecting

Helicopter rescues three trapped on sinking boat in Loch Lomond

Boat began to sink between Inchmurrin Island and the Boturrich shoreline on Sunday A helicopter helped rescue three people who were trapped on a boat

BOOKS: The astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long-forgotten Liberal

Biography Having a Reputation A new biography of James Bryce, one-time Chief Secretary of Ireland and supporter of Irish Home Rule, reveals the astonishingly varied

LIBDEMS WILL MAKE SCHOOLS SMARTPHONE-FREE ENVIRONMENTS

by Lucy Ashton Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today set out how his party will legislate to make schools smartphone-free environments, as part

Scottish Conservatives’ National Pothole Action Fund would end two decades of SNP neglect

by Bill Heaney Russell Findlay has today outlined his party’s plans to tackle Scotland’s pothole epidemic, which he says is “a monument to two decades

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