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It’s 26 °C in Paisley, and that’s no anomaly. Scotland is heating up, and what once felt like a rare summer treat is now creeping into the forecast more and more. 1. From Temperate to ToastyOur recent decade, from 2010 to 2019, was about 0.7 °C hotter than the historical average. All of Scotland’s ten warmest years
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There’s a pattern I keep noticing. Canada lives beside the United States, quietly distinct but always affected by what happens next door. Scotland has a similar relationship with England. Different places, different histories. But the same feeling of being caught in something bigger. Neither country is fully in control of its own path. Both are
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I watched 28 Years Later at the cinema today. I went in expecting a zombie film. What I got was something quieter and strangely moving. Yes, there are infected. Yes, there’s horror. But underneath all that is a feeling I didn’t expect. A kind of sadness, and a sense of a country that has lost
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Earlier this year, a jury in the United States found Greenpeace liable for 667 million dollars in a lawsuit brought by Energy Transfer, a fossil fuel company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline. The case was not about justice. It was about intimidation. Energy Transfer used what is known as a SLAPP: a Strategic Lawsuit Against
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I come from England.My name is Ireland.I live in Scotland.And the only actual Irish thing about me… is that I order Guinness in the pub. I wasn’t born with this name.I used to carry a different one. It sounded like it might be German, though I’ve never found any trace of German ancestry on that
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We did it. Oldham Athletic are back in the Football League. Sunday’s final at Wembley was ridiculous, brilliant, stressful, and completely unforgettable. We came from behind twice. Took it to extra time. And somehow, we came out the other side with the win. I was shouting at the telly, pacing the room, laughing and swearing.
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I drove over the new Renfrew Bridge today. It only opened yesterday, but I wanted to give it a shot. It’s been three years in the making, apparently. Cost £114 million. A lot of cones and diversions. Now it’s finally done, linking Renfrew with Yoker across the Clyde. For me, it means less reliance on