Today's Thinking
Lucy Letby – considering the prosecutions a year on
TO THE BEREAVED FAMILIES, a year after the Lucy Letby conviction, time is likely to have made little difference to their grief and discussion of
Gail MacDonald
August 20, 2024
Drug deaths: how the SNP tilts at windmills
THERE IS no problem in Scottish society where the SNP will not attempt to apportion at least a measure of blame to ‘Westminster’. But its
Dean M Thomson
August 18, 2024
What are the risks of Trump’s second term plans?
WITHIN 6 HOURS of his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star, Donald
Struan Stevenson
June 26, 2024
Some inheritance – 24 years on, decline is everywhere
WE ALL SUFFER selective amnesia, ‘rose tinted glasses’ if you like. For instance, the past may be a foreign land and I recall it sort
Ewen Stewart
June 14, 2024
Think Politics
I can’t fight these feelings anymore
THERE IS a great line in Breaking Bad where streetwise Jesse explains to Walter White that sometimes you don’t need a criminal lawyer, you need
Gail MacDonald
September 25, 2024
Park of Keir – a community victory over centralised power
THE RECENT DECISION to halt the Park of Keir development project marks a significant victory for local communities, activists, and the Stirling Council – highlighting
Alastair Majury
August 28, 2024
Just Stop Weeds
CLIMATE CHANGE is happening and the environmental issues, we are told, are serious. We need to be prepared. My jury is out on whether we
Gail MacDonald
August 9, 2024
Steps to reviving conservatism in Scotland
IN A RECENT YouTube video, historian David Starkey (pictured) delivered a blistering critique of modern British conservatism, drawing stark parallels between the political landscapes of
Alastair Majury
August 6, 2024
Think Culture
How the SNP dallied with “participatory dictatorship”
AS THE POWER of the nationalist wreckers in Holyrood declines, so the prospects for a comparable programme of socialist wrecking in Westminster rise. Many’s the
Hamish Gobson
October 4, 2024
Glasgow boy buys Glasgow Boys painting
I HAVE JUST managed to purchase, by a staggering combination of serendipity and good luck, a painting by renowned Glasgow Boys artist William Kennedy at
Stuart Crawford
October 4, 2024
My intrepid attempt at visiting St Kilda
AS FAR BACK as I can remember I have always wanted to go to St Kilda. I have difficulty in explaining exactly why. Something caught
Stuart Crawford
September 24, 2024
Speak No Evil remake ignores the point
Warning: Spoilers ahead AN AMERICAN remake of the Danish film Speak No Evil (2022) directed by Christian Tafdrup, has been released with a new ending
Gail MacDonald
September 19, 2024
Think Business
Budget Briefing: What would a good Government do?
WE HAVE SEEN how Britain is failing. Its growth rate per head has collapsed to the worst in 200 years and the country is in
Ewen Stewart
October 17, 2024
Budget Briefing: What might Labour do?
THE SHORT ANSWER is your guess is as good as mine, save for raising yet more tax. Rachel Reeves has claimed there is a £22bn
Ewen Stewart
October 17, 2024
Budget Briefing: Why has our decline been so precipitous?
THE UK’s relative and material economic decline can be pinpointed almost exactly to the onset of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) starting in 2008. As
Ewen Stewart
October 15, 2024
Budget briefing: Britain’s relative decline is truly staggering
THIS WILL BE the first in a short series of essays leading up to the budget exploring the current state of the UK economy. The
Ewen Stewart
October 14, 2024
