September 19, 2025 – THE DEMOCRAT

MSPS DEBATE WHETHER PUPILS SHOULD HAVE TO ATTEND RELIGION CLASSES NOT OF THEIR FAITH

September 19, 2025 heaneymedia

Highland MSP Emma Roddick and Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth. By Bill Heaney Catholic schools are frequently accused of being breeding grounds for the kind of

BOOKS: Eyeless and limbless and headless men, women, and children, the starved infants, the dead children, the prisoners bound naked in chairs, the long trenches full of body-bagged corpses …

September 19, 2025 heaneymedia

POLITICS The Monad Unchained Monad: a basic and irreducible metaphysical unit that is spatially and psychically individuated Kevin Power The Nazis conducted their genocide in secret,

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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