Three cheers for the bus!

AS ALL of my friends are only too well aware, the current love of my life is my “free” bus pass. Being of a certain age, I am eligible for this little liberating square of ...

Enough of the fishy business, our trawlermen do not need Europe

THERE WAS a sorry show this week in Brussels and Holyrood. The blue team again played the old game of slamming the Nats – and the rest – for voting in the European Parliament against ...

Brexit Sound and Fury? Expect more of it

HOW JUSTIFIED was my last article in its lordly dismissal of current attempts to derail Brexit as “sound and fury”? My read is that it was bang on the money. 

Consider the ...

The Gaza Strip, Ulster and The Troubles

NOBODY can have been anything other than deeply troubled by events along the Gaza/Israel border recently. There is nothing uplifting in the sight of seemingly unarmed civilians being shot as they protest against as what ...

Did the Church of Scotland just dodge a climate change bullet?

YESTERDAY, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland debated a motion on the subject of climate change and, more specifically, how quickly to divest themselves of investments in fossil fuels. 

In ...

Is environmental damage in the eye of the beholder?

OVER more than a decade the Scientific Alliance has tried to provide a voice of reason on some important matters, often being critical of mainstream environmentalism, but hopefully supported by evidence. When it comes to ...

Support Finn’s Law and campaign – sign the petition

A LITTLE under two years ago, PC Dave Wardell and his police dog, Finn, were chasing a robbery suspect when he turned and attacked them with a knife. Finn leapt to defend PC Wardell sustaining ...

Paradoxes of Nationalism: The SNP and Scottish exhibitionism

ON BROAD and narrow issues it is normal for the Scottish National Party to be evasive and inexact.

On currency, welfare provisions, fracking, defence goals, relations with the European landmass in and ...

Is it not time for Ireland to come home?

BRITAIN is unique among the great nations of Europe. It has neither fought to forge its borders, nor have its borders been drawn by another power. Shakespeare's Richard the Second put it best,

Is the 'Decarbonisation' of UK cars secure, reliable and affordable?

IN JULY 2017 Michael Gove announced the UK would ban the sale of new diesel and petrol cars from 2040. It is odd that the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs should ...

SNP ‘Power-Grab’ hysteria leaves them with few friends

THE WORLD’S most boring constitutional crisis has taken a few new twists in the last couple of weeks. This all relates to the provisions in the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, currently being discussed at Westminster, ...

A field full of potholes is good for customers

ONE OF THE SHAM arguments of bad economics and the Brexit debate is the call for “a level playing field”.  Too often this mischievous notion acts against the consumer interest. Those who call for level playing fields often ...