The dance of the Celtic Utopians could spin out of their control

AS LEO VARADKAR steps up his campaign to prevent Ireland's main neighbour and chief trading partner from leave the European Union, it is time to examine why he and his fellow globaliser Nicola Sturgeon are ...

Mind the Gap: Mackay hammers middle income earners

THE BACKGROUND to Wednesday’s Scottish Government Budget announcement from the Finance Secretary Derek Mackay was that he was better placed than in many previous years, given spending decisions taken at Westminster. Following the Chancellor’s budget ...

The political touch of death has delivered a caretaker Prime Minister

LAST NIGHT a majority of Tory backbench MPs came forth and whispered a truth: they do not believe in the Prime Minister. It took the payroll vote to keep her in post. Nonetheless the votes ...

It’s not the backstop that’s at stake, it’s democracy itself

YESTERDAY Theresa May denied Parliament its vote as she knew her Withdrawal Agreement would lose. In the maelstrom of misinformation and the tangled web they weaved, when first they practiced to deceive, let us not ...

Nationalising Scotrail is a useless distraction from improving rail services

THE SCOTRAIL ALLIANCE operates around 2,300 train services each day and delivers over 93 million passenger journeys per year on about 3,000 miles of track. It is always going to be challenging to run.

Andalucia exposes the hole in the heart of the European Left

THE BELEAGURED CAUSE of democratic socialism in Europe was hoping for good news from Spain. Left-wing parties have suffered a series of devastating reverses from Germany to Italy and in some countries, such as France ...

Lessons in Brexit economics – the chimera of frictionless trade

AMONG MANY other myths and oddities about Brexit is the declaration that our government is seeking “frictionless trade” with the EU. 

No trade is frictionless. And economics has a specific “theory of ...

An open letter to Scotland’s right-of-centre voters

WELL HERE WE ARE, just as I predicted 18 months ago. The one thing more miserable and ignoble than the surrender document Theresa May waves at our nation is the activity of those Scottish Conservative ...

Scotland needs real conservatives more than ever

THERE ARE some people in life I find are intolerant to experience or fact. When they faced with a moral dilemma they find their own compass to be south pointing and who excel in ignorance.

Brexit? Remove the money from the deal and the deal collapses

ART IS LONG as life is short. In moments of history and future we must remember our own mortality and ultimate insignificance when working for ourselves. Yet we must keep faith that through the recognition of a ...

Brexit can be saved - but we need not just a Churchill but a Beaverbrook too!

LAST NIGHT, Theresa May’s Cabinet nominally approved the 585 page document on withdrawal from the EU. It is no surprise that subsequently her Ministers have begun to bolt, as her scheme fails to deliver what ...

EU armed forces are already on the way – ten steps that prove what’s happening

THE WHISPERING GAME IS OVER. Macron and Merkel’s project is already underway. The leaders of ‘Project EU’ are now openly calling for EU Armed Forces.

The real political moves behind their ...