I tried to write a post about the new newspaper to be launched tomorrow, The Scottish Standard. It’s SCOTLAND’S ONLY PRO-INDEPENDENCE NEWSPAPER you know (presumably The Scottish Sun doesn’t count because of course it’s actually English / Australian / American / whatever). But I couldn’t write a decent post because I could find hardly anything on the internet about it when I took a look yesterday.

But Stuart Dickson is much better at sniffing things out on the internet, so now I know more about it.

I don’t buy newspapers. Well, my father buys The Guardian, but I hardly ever read it and I probably wouldn’t buy it myself at the moment. The Scottish Standard probably won’t change that one bit, because it appears to be little more than a pro-independence propaganda rag. Of the five stories currently on The Scottish Standard’s website, four of them are about either the SNP or Scotland’s relationship with England.

I was going to say in my post yesterday that I thought it would be unsuccessful. But it does have two major pro-independence political figures writing in tomorrow’s launch issue — Colin Fox and Alex Salmond. It will certainly be an uphill struggle for the new paper though. For instance, it has only ten staff. And 70p sounds quite steep for even a weekly newspaper to me.

Undoubtedly it is a brave and principled stance for them to ensure that

it will be the only national newspaper in Scotland wholly owned, printed and edited in Scotland, in effect, the only truly Scottish newspaper choice.

But that will be their downfall I’m sure; rejecting everything that isn’t Scottish just because it isn’t Scottish. That will undoubtedly appeal to a certain type of SNP supporter…

And I certainly don’t think many people would think of The Scotsman, The Herald, The Daily Record or The Sunday Post as non-Scottish either…