I have lodged Freedom of Information requests with the Scottish Government quango, NatureScot, to establish the how its board has been recommended to reject a licence for the annual guga expedition from Ness to take place. My understanding is that the recommendation being considered by the board on Monday (3rd August) had been "reverse-engineered" and that earlier drafts of advice from officials would have cleared the way for a licence to be granted on the same terms as la

Until now I have hesitated to comment on what its own organisers pronounce as the campaign to “Abolish the Goo-ga Hunt”. It struck me as another one of these boring examples of attention-seeking behaviour, enabled by social media and fuelled by a lack of real purpose in life. The “Goo-ga” campaign does fall into the virtue-signalling camp of activism and to prove their commitment someone undertook a sweat-drenched election campaign in a penguin suit (he didn’t look anything l