NHS tensions rise.
Winter is coming. The Scottish Government should be indulging in plaudits with a revolutionary move to increase the ‘Child Payment’ to...
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Untribal
...engage the disengaged.
...blog n that
Innes Burns
Oct 27, 20226 min read
Put 'Devo Max' on the voting caird.
See when you hear two folk giving you polar opposite sides of a story? Life’s taught me that it’s usually somewhere in the middle. Like...
Innes Burns
Sep 22, 20229 min read
Replace politicians with philosophers.
“If we replace the politicians representing us in Parliament with philosophers, we’ll meet Cop26 goals.” - Innes Burns (me) Big shout but...
Innes Burns
Sep 9, 20226 min read
What's been gawn on?
Britain is in mourning after the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. It was a strange feeling on Thursday. So many times we’d heard about the...
Innes Burns
Sep 5, 20225 min read
Our new Prime Minister.
We have a new Prime Minister, Liz Truss. What does this mean for Scotland? Who is Liz Truss? Truss is an ambitious lassie that’s grafted...
Innes Burns
Aug 17, 20225 min read
Scum
‘Scum’ is that word used when you want to take an insult to the next level. Call someone a proper ‘vile’ human being and mean it. Without...
Innes Burns
Aug 1, 20224 min read
Leave our game alone.
Stop making football fans feel bad about bitter, passionate rivalries. Ken what makes football special? How tribal the game is. That...
Innes Burns
Jul 28, 20224 min read
Scotland's cats and dugs crises
The number of drug-related deaths has fallen in Scotland. …a headline we should be celebrating and yet you willny see anyone boasting...
Innes Burns
Jul 20, 20224 min read
Keep Tweeting.
A mind watching a politics programme the other week on the tele and they were aw talkin about how we need to be wary of taking...
Innes Burns
Jun 24, 20223 min read
What's been gawn on?
What a difference a week makes in politics. Last week the Scottish Government launched a fresh new campaign for a second independence...
Innes Burns
Jun 15, 20228 min read
Could it be time to think outside the box on gender?
Please bear in mind this is a cisgender male behind the screen typing this… and I encourage keeping that in mind. I encourage it because...
Innes Burns
Apr 22, 20225 min read
Not-so cooncil elections
Ken that perplexed feeling of excitement, anxiety, anticipation, fear, passion, apprehension and mibbe hope anaw? The one you get when...
Innes Burns
Mar 31, 20226 min read
Thank you ferry much.
…is what Union supporters will be thinking whilst the competence of leadership in the SNP has taken a massive blow. CalMac ferries for...
Innes Burns
Mar 24, 20223 min read
Why folk need a vallie
It’s approaching 6 am and yer in an absolute nick at your pal’s gaff. You’ve got the gether for a birthday. Folk you’ve no seen for ages....
Innes Burns
Mar 24, 20224 min read
Myth 26
A title I dinny even need to explain. We’re actually talking about investing in oil fields weeks after the ‘planet-saving’ conference. A...
Innes Burns
Feb 24, 20225 min read
The inevitable war.
02.36: United Nations Security Council discusses Russia’s actions in Ukraine. … 03:19: Explosions reported near Kyiv after Putin...
Innes Burns
Feb 11, 20226 min read
Quit the bickering.
Opposition politics must end as soon as the referendum is over. The European-style hemicycle in which the Scottish Parliamentary chamber...
Innes Burns
Feb 8, 20223 min read
Allegation Top Trumps
This willny Trump what happened in America… but the comparisons are justified. Sir Keir Starmer was attacked by ragin protestors outside...
Innes Burns
Feb 4, 20224 min read
What's been gawn on?
UK politics has been an absolute circus act north and south of the border of late. First, we had the pantomime in Westminster after it...
Innes Burns
Jan 25, 20223 min read
Just transition... or just a transition?
Probably hinkin I’ve chucked it since the turn of the year wi a title like that eh. No heard fae you in weeks and here he is writing...
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