This is the key section of the Scottish Sentencing Council guidelines for the sentencing of young people (defined elsewhere in the document as those aged under 25 at the time when the offence was com… (View Post)

OK, I get you're probably just winding Malc up, but I'll make some Sturgeon-sceptic noises anyway. Lest we forget, Salmond won an outright majority in the Scottish Parliament in 2011, in a system des… (View Post)

More weight should be given, particularly in the education system, to social history alongside the traditional structure of kings and battles. Slavery is a big part of the picture within that: most m… (View Post)

Scotland isn't a nanometre closer to independence than it was in September 2014. (View Post)

Precisely. Some of them will have a cultural aversion to Labour but the major problem is with two things Labour ought to be doing in power which these voters will despise: taxing them a whole lot mor… (View Post)