Today's Thinking
The Last Sandwich… why screening matters
SCOTLAND IS THE TALE OF DEPRIVATION and cancer deaths going hand-in-hand. That is the story we are repeatedly told. What we don’t talk about nearly
Jonathan Stanley
August 28, 2026
Appreciating Meloni’s triumphs requires knowing her limits
What conservatives and Britain can learn from the Italian Prime Minister’s successes, failures and unfinished revolution GIORGIA MELONI is about to achieve something that once
Bepi Pezzulli
August 26, 2026
Shetland should show Scotland the way with tunnels
ThinkScotland is twenty years old – and we’re reviving some of our blasts from our past – this was first published on 10 August 2021
Neil Craig
August 3, 2026
Swinney owes Offord an apology – and everyone a £22m tax rebate
FACE IT John Swinney – you owe Malcolm Offord an apology. Worse still, because apologies cost nothing, you are due the Scottish taxpayers a £22m
Brian Monteith
August 1, 2026
Think Politics
The hunger for taxing others has no limits
IT IS UNUSUAL for me to quote Aldous Huxley but he did observe that “men do not learn much from history”. In politics that goes
Iain Whyte
August 20, 2026
Clacton – What was it really all about?
EACH YEAR I think that British politics can’t get any weirder or more bizarre. But each year it seems to do just that. We now
Mark Littlewood
August 16, 2026
We’re all Thatcherites now? Don’t you believe it
ThinkScotland is twenty years old – and we’re reviving some of our blasts from our past – this one was first published on 19 April
Brian Monteith
August 12, 2026
The obvious but unsaid truth: how not to create a defence policy
THE DEFENESTRATION of Sir Keir Starmer as UK Prime Minister and Labour Party leader, the anointing of Andy Burnham as his successor in both positions,
Stuart Crawford
August 2, 2026
Think Culture
Snap, Crackle, Pop! Burnham’s cereal race to the bottom
ThinkScotland is twenty years old – and we’re reviving some of our blasts from our past – this one was first published on 12 January
Mr Eugenides
August 12, 2026
The Mummy Diaries – Your last week of holiday hell ideas
ThinkScotland is twenty years old – and we’re reviving some of our blasts from our past – this one was first published on 9 April
Emma Hargan
August 11, 2026
The Mummy Diaries – How to be a referee. Ideas? Anyone?
ThinkScotland is twenty years old – and we’re reviving some of our blasts from our past – this one was first published on 14 July
Emma Hargan
August 3, 2026
The inaugural CHINO awards: Charities In Name Only
DEAR MEMBER OF THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, Subject to SCVO grant approval – a formality, naturally – you are cordially invited, at the taxpayer’s expense, to
Jonathan Stanley
July 10, 2026
Think Business
Scotland’s dependency culture cannot be denied and must change
THIS MAY SEEM a bit obvious but sometimes one needs to go back to basics such is the nature of the discourse of the ruling
Ewen Stewart
August 19, 2026
Six charts explaining Brexit outcomes accurately
Here is a selection of charts designed to challenge some of the shakier claims about the economic impacts of Brexit, including on the pound, investment,
Julian Jessop
July 10, 2026
With party finances – as with everything – the fish rots from the head down
First published on 22 March 2021 WHEN WRITING about the ongoing saga in Bute House it is difficult to know when and where to begin.
Jonathan Stanley
May 26, 2026
Dumping EU regulations on the UK will not boost our growth
The Bank of England Governor ought to understand this. NOT SO LONG AGO, the head of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said of EU financial
Catherine McBride
May 26, 2026