WHILE under-secretaries reach for long drinks under blistering skies, their betters hike the shores of Lake Garda. Over these dog days, information reaches us slowly and indirectly, if at all. Any sensible blogger has knocked ...
THERE ARE COSTS and benefits to everything in life. The costs of wind energy are high and the benefits few.
Every country needs a cheap, reliable supply of electricity and wind energy ...
LIFE should mean life. Except it doesn’t. Not in Scotland.
Here, our judges do not have the tool of a whole-life order at their disposal; judges cannot ensure Scotland's worst criminals will ...
THE HISTORY of the twentieth century dictatorships, whether of the extreme left or extreme right, proves that when anyone claims something is historically ‘inevitable’ we should be extremely cautious.
Irish economist David McWilliams ...
LANCE HAHN, the late singer-songwriter of the anarcho post-pop punk band J Church (pictured) is an undiscovered gem of social conservatives. As conservatism becomes the new radicalism it ought not to be surprising that such sentiments bubble up ...
THE EUROPEAN UNION is well known for its willingness to spend billions of pounds on its propaganda. It gives handouts to loyal Non-Governmental Organisations, sets up wasteful promotional projects, and spends huge amounts on propaganda ...
ORWELL foresaw a great many things but the wilful abuse of language to corrupt the free thinking of individuals is one that haunts Western society ever more.
Socialism is the hatred of ...
POLITICIANS tend not to be the most trusted people in public life. They lie, they cheat, they steal, they do all manner of awful things both before and after subsidised meals and booze and then ...
AS DAVID DAVIS approaches his second meeting with Michel Barnier it is fair to say that Brussels has played something of a blinder. It has fastened the principle of extraterritorial powers to the emotional topic ...
ONCE AGAIN we see and hear the left; first Glastonbury, then Glasgow, London, and now Hamburg resonating to angry shouts from those claiming to be downtrodden, or acting on the behalf of the dispossessed.
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THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT continues to have ambitious plans for spending vast sums of money on huge numbers of wind turbines and experimental wave and tidal energy projects in its bid to make Scotland “the Saudi ...
An aspect of the Queen’s speech intrigued me; the monarch was made to use the terms “a deal” and “Brexit” rather than “arrangements” and “withdrawal from the European Union” – and no-one appeared to see ...