Fantastic news, 2014 was genuinely great to be in Glasgow. And Glasgow has many venues ready to roll, so the reduction to 10 different disciplines makes lots of sense. I attended a fair bit of the rugby sevens, so hoping to see that again, but swimming, cycling, and athletics are all no brainers for Glasgow to host, as would badminton, indoor bowls, and curling potentially. Exciting times!

Back Doune the Rabbit hole, the first iteration was very highly rated, but I do suspect Scotland has enough wee festivals, and with prices only ever increasing for attendees - will this one be able to break even? Find out next year!

Anyone make it to a festival this year in Scotland?

A literal monorail. I bet the council approves it and then Holyrood has to step in. Surely national parks need differing planning standards, this is madness!

How are we this week folks? Onybidy wi weekend plans?

What a fuck up. The man in charge at the time, has now been rewarded with a Labour seat in Edinburgh. Labour: rewarding failure since time immemorial

Poor Grangemouth, big blow to the area. Leaving Scotland without a refinery forcing us to rely on English production an obvious defenestration to independence ambitions too. Really tragic to see under a Labour government, combined with port Talbot - just what is Starmer doing???

Well done Unite and GMB! Diageo have been extracting profit for decades now, they can pony up for staff

Poor Midge and Oats. Sadly as we add more to the wild, more will die, but it's good to hear that some are doing well all the same

Not just the council. No confidence in the highland health board either

How's it going folks? Anybody else been lied tae by the weatherman?

Whatever happened to the midge burger?

Good to hear, no women should be harassed for her choices

Better to use the savings than any bigger cuts imo, and the cuts in this article affect the least they could I suspect. Well done on balancing the books! The Guardian failing to highlight that Starmer is doing yet more failed austerity the bigger problem imo. Sycophantic claptrap to have any criticism of the SNP without explaining why they have to make these cuts

I don't object to a resort, but a monorail ffs? Scale it back and you'll get it through!

Scotland leading the way back in the 10th century with its international outloom. Proving that brexit is still bullshit

Friday nicht an wha's awa oot? Sun's oot, last gallus weekend ae the summer upon us

Great to hear something being secured for education and children, as lots of talks from councils of cuts, cuts, cuts sadly. This scheme has seen immense success having started out in the Raploch and TIL it's all over Scotland!

The future is here!

Little over 6m til Holyrood elections. The SNP period looking to be well and truly over. Not a surprise given that the budget for the SG is so tight, we can't pay bin men even. But any party that has been in this long, for a period of such sustained squeezing would feel it. And Libby here quite correvt with no feasible route for the SNP. Far too little at the last manifesto in WM to allow Holyrood to run a vote. Literally no point in voting for the SNP at holyrood at the moment. Unless of course you want to keep Labour, the Tories, and the LibDems out - as these pricks are going to be even more useless, and an assault on free prescriptions, busses for the elderly and young, and Scottish water will all also be on the cards. And wait then for the NHS to start going out in tender for parts. Then wait for more public private partnerships where you and me pay over the odds for everything, and still have to pay to park in Edinburgh Royal for the shame.

It's not looking good people unless you have 100K stashed away to invest in these robbers

Yup, Scotland has an embarrassment of power. HVDC lines springing up all over the sea will see it transported to the UK population centers. And the King through the crown estate has already reaped millions, with a recurring revenue of millions more projected. We're going to see hydrogen in a growing way in the coming decade. We're going to see salt batteries installed, and they'll be huge. We're going to see nuclear likely repowering existing sites in Scotland (the SNP left a loop whole - no NEW nuclear power in Scotland). We're going to see more pumped storage finally built. And decarbonise, not because we must (although we must!), but because these techs all stand to make a lot of money. Oil and coal can't stand up to the no running costs of these techs and the installation costs are dropping like stones for them all. What does this mean for the union? The Guardian won't tell you, but Scotland is the biggest cash cow for investors again. Forget the Mccrone report, that will look chump change by 2060. These assets are cash printers - and are you going to benefit? Will the SG?

Having been to Eigg, seems I'll have to pop over to Rùm some time

Foos yer doos loons an quines?

How's it going folks?

How are we peoples?

Ciamar a tha sibh?

Highland council should take note too