Is there a future for Gretna's forgotten border landmark? The Auld Acquaintance Cairn was built during the Scottish independence referendum but what became of it?

I see Rory the Tory is in the news again...
Remember this nonsense?
"To the untrained eye, it looks like a pile of rubble on the edge of a forgotten caravan park."
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Swinney is betraying everything the SNP stands for | RobinMcAlpine.org robinmcalpine.org/swinney-is-b...

A Dumber Nation In politics, readers, evil and stupidity aren’t the same thing. But nor are they exclusive.

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Wishing for swans For lack of anything more interesting to write about, we thought we might do a monthly rundown of polling in the runup to next year’s Holyrood election, with seat projections from a neutral s…

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The 5% Scot In one week, three Labour ministers accused the SNP of being a threat to 'our' national security. When quizzed about the claim, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy said, "I took a DNA test a few years…

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When strategy isn’t strategy at all | RobinMcAlpine.org robinmcalpine.org/when-strateg...

King Charles portrait unveiled at Holyrood 'as reminder of love for Scots' The King spends so much time in Scotland and a new portrait has now immortalised his affection for our country.

The Monarch is not titled "Majesty" in Scotland. Not that he ever took the oath as King of Scots. #NotMyKing
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Let’s make this simple We’ve written a number of extremely, painstakingly detailed articles in the last few months explaining why list votes for the SNP at next year’s election will be wasted, and will serve …

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Frankly, Mr Shankly Over the last week or so we’ve gone into several sections of Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir “Frankly” in some detail: what gender she really thinks Adam “Isla Bryson” …

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The KGB plot to poison loch... then blame it on American nuclear subs The KGB secretly plotted to attack the UK at the height of the Cold War by polluting Scotland's coastline with radioactive waste, it was revealed this weekend.

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No need for the Ruskies to do this today, the great YooKay are managing to poison our lochs with radioactive waste all by themselves.

The illiterate solicitor Before becoming a politician Nicola Sturgeon had a brief and somewhat unsuccessful career in the world of law. Which means she has no excuse whatsoever for this: Because in law, yes it does. That&#…

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Forbes isn’t leaving because of babies | RobinMcAlpine.org robinmcalpine.org/forbes-isnt-...

Will Jackie Baillie now retract her claim that hospital discharges caused unlawful care home Covid deaths? Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: or, if you prefer, a bank transfer, at sort code 089300 account 1421 7339 Professor John Robertson OBA…

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The Envious Heart There was one revealing moment in what was an otherwise nauseatingly sycophantic interview with Nicola Sturgeon by Adam Fleming on BBC2 last night. ? And the thing it revealed is what Sturgeon̵…

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Snowflake Patrol We’ve written a couple of articles about the media coverage of this already, but as the slow summer season continues it’s worth taking a little time to have a proper look at the source …

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The Churn A little over two years ago, three SNP MSPs contested the leadership of the party in the wake of the sudden resignation of Nicola Sturgeon. All were full of grand plans and dreams for the future of…

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The Changemakers When we get bored in the summer silly season, we often start poking around in stats. This week we’d been idly pondering the complete waste of time Anas Sarwar’s four and a half years in…

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Mhairi Black – just another fake | RobinMcAlpine.org buff.ly/F3opB6z

A different school Tommy Sheppard knows a John Swinney you don’t know. And who, conveniently, you’re not allowed to see.

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Sir Roger Daltrey once thought he was ‘too political’ for a knighthood The Who frontman once claimed he had been ‘too critical of our leaders’ to be considered for the honour

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What We Don’t Know Now One of the very few phrases universally recognised in Scotland but which will draw blank looks anywhere else in the UK is the dry, dark “Well, ye ken noo”. Until recently it had no equi…

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What Anas Actually Said The entire Scottish media and professional-politician community is currently in a self-righteous froth about a campaign ad being run by Reform for the Hamilton by-election targeting Scottish Labour…

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Could the SNP really lose the Hamilton by-election? | RobinMcAlpine.org buff.ly/blODHlV

Why I’m angry about the approval of the Loch Lomond Flamingo Land plan | RobinMcAlpine.org RobinMcAlpine.org

The question isn’t whether we were culturally colonised 300 years ago,

it’s whether we’re being economically colonised now. buff.ly/oys9IxU

What Are We, And Where Are We Going? Don Paterson is a celebrated Scottish poet, writer and musician. The essay below comes from a new anthology of Scottish writers called Irish Pages: Scotland, and is reproduced with his permission. …

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The Blindness Of Hatred Warning: despite the quite zingy title this is actually going to be a very dry stats post, readers. It is, however, based on a man having something disturbingly close to a complete psychotic mental…

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It’s Karaoke Night in the Mediocracy Cafe | RobinMcAlpine.org buff.ly/XDag7FH

Backstreet Boy Nigel Farage's Reform UK party made big gains in the English local elections, winning 677 of around 1,600 seats contested.

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Unhinged Malady Yesterday the Scottish media gave Scottish Greens MSP Maggie Chapman what she’s never willingly given anyone else – a platform on which to make her case. Most did a very poor job challe…

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