Civil society
Be careful of myths you hold dear
- 16 Dec, 2025
- Teri Casiokola
- Letter From Amisfield
Reform UK has won its first Council seat election in Scotland. I'm grateful that it wasn't here in D&G, though we came pretty close a few weeks ago in the Stranraer & Rhins by-election. It was bound...
read moreWhitesands to Become a Normal Place
- 12 Dec, 2025
- Teri Casiokola
- Letter From Amisfield
Yesterday afternoon the flood defence scheme was approved during a full meeting of the Council in which 23 councillors voted for the project while 19 voted against it. There are important lessons to...
read moreBored of the Board already
- 03 Jun, 2024
- Teri Casiokola
- Letter From Amisfield
For heavens' sakes. I had high hopes for this Town Board and already they're faltering at one of the easiest jobs in town. Resignations over governance have taken place - code for in-fighting. I...
read moreThe die is cast on the game board
- 18 Mar, 2024
- The Hamester
- Rattle Bag
Well that's it. The die has been cast. Public nominations for the Chair of the new Dumfries Town Board closed at 5pm yesterday and the full council will ruminate over who shall be appointed, making...
read moreA new slogan for Dumfries
- 17 Dec, 2023
- The Hamester
- Hame Truths
Around the time of the UCI's arrival in Dumfries this summer some wag chalked up a slogan at the top of the Whitesands with the phrase "Seagulls make Dumfries". Presumably this was in reaction to the...
read moreHow come we've no got a town machar?
- 30 Aug, 2023
- Teri Casiokola
- Letter From Amisfield
There’s a national one, some toons have one. So how come the toon that’s internationally kent for it’s renowned poet, Robert Burns doesnae have a machar? I’m sure it must have occurred to someone...
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