Today's Thinking
Central Bank digital currencies – Why I am sceptical
THE MOVE to CBDC is likely to be global: 134 nations are currently exploring the feasibility of CBDC with every OECD nation in the advanced
Ewen Stewart
April 16, 2025
Central Bank digital currencies – Should we worry?
CENTRAL BANK Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are coming, whether we like it or not. What are they? How do they compare in the context of our existing currencies? Should
Ewen Stewart
April 16, 2025
What Scotland should learn from China
RETURNING TO SCOTLAND, I look with horror at our politics. From the perspective of someone who has worked in Chinese-UK relations for nearly 20 years,
Hugo de Burgh
April 1, 2025
Can we just be left to choose for ourselves?!
ARE THE WAVES of collective hysteria that wash across social media from smart phones and tablets making us lose our marbles? Does the heightened sense
Brian Monteith
February 7, 2025
Think Politics
Showing ‘Adolescence’ in schools is a terrible idea
ADOLESCENCE, the Netflix drama about the fallout when a teenage boy, Jamie, murders his ‘bullying bitch’ classmate, Katie, is to be shown in schools, supported
Gail MacDonald
April 9, 2025
The Globalists are coming for our cities
WAKEN UP! If you live in Manchester or Glasgow, you’ve probably noticed that life isn’t exactly getting cheaper, easier, or freer. The roads are peppered
Annemarie Ward
March 26, 2025
Glasgow’s future: more bureaucracy, more globalism, more nonsense?
IS THE Burnham Model real devolution or just more bureaucracy in a smarter suit? Andy Burnham has certainly put Manchester on the map– though whether
Annemarie Ward
March 2, 2025
Twelve months of Stormont restored has achieved next to nothing
ONE YEAR AGO this week, the Stormont Assembly was restored, after the DUP struck its Safeguarding the Union deal with Rishi Sunak’s government. The unionist
Owen Polley
February 7, 2025
Think Culture
He-man Xi unmasked
A persuasive analysis of the new Marxist Nationalism of President Xi’s increasingly assertive and intolerant China IN 1861, the great jurist and legal anthropologist, Sir
Ian Mitchell
March 26, 2025
The more you know, the more you know you don’t know
A new biography of Alexander von Humboldt WE HAVE JUST celebrated approximately the fourteen billionth New Year that the universe has enjoyed since it came
Ian Mitchell
January 15, 2025
How to do nothing without getting bored
The sound of silence: Angus Martin and the Mull of Kintyre MY CONTRIBUTION to the festive spirit this year will be to abstain from thought
Ian Mitchell
December 26, 2024
The link between Ukrainian democracy and Scottish socialism
Life, death and planning policy in fighting Ukraine and socialist Argyll NOW that the soft, amnesiac blanket of caring, north-London socialism has fallen again on
Ian Mitchell
December 21, 2024
Think Business
Rod Stewart was right: Every picture tells a story…
SYMBOLISM MATTERS. Rachael Reeves choosing to ditch a picture of Nigel Lawson for Ellen Wilkinson, one of the founding members of the Communist Party of
Ewen Stewart
October 31, 2024
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
