Today's Thinking
Beyond the Valley of the DOLS – custody must put patient care first
THERE IS A SPACE where worlds collide and create the most unexpected of challenges. Sociology like chemistry is a study of interactions and reactions at
Jonathan Stanley
September 30, 2025
The fall and rise of drug related deaths in Scotland
THIS WEEK’S report on drug related deaths in Scotland gives food for thought on one of the largest public health disasters since devolution started. Like
Jonathan Stanley
September 2, 2025
The charade of Net Zero is unravelling
I RECENTLY rediscovered my first online post of April 2015, an early debunking of the climate change hoax and what later became Net Zero. I
Douglas Brodie
August 31, 2025
Twighlight at Westminster and Holyrood – now running on fumes
IF WESTMINSTER were a horse, the humane thing would be to shoot it. Holyrood? I’d send for the knackers’ van before lunch. Yet we saddle
Annemarie Ward
August 18, 2025
Think Politics
Who could win the next election – according to Psychology
THE THEORY of planned behaviour predicts whether change is likely in three questions: do I think it’s a good thing, does the wider group agree
Gail MacDonald
September 30, 2025
When bankers smelled fraud, Scot Gov smelled opportunity
When private bankers show better judgment than government ministers, taxpayers should be very worried indeed WHILE THE COLLAPSE of Greensill Capital in 2021 sent shockwaves
Dean M Thomson
September 19, 2025
Counting funerals is not enough: we need to measure healing
ANOTHER AUGUST, another parade of drug death statistics. The papers fill, the politicians posture, the quangos rehearse their lines. Then, as sure as night follows
Annemarie Ward
September 4, 2025
Scrapping the ECHR is neither British nor conservative
BRITAIN is changing. In an era of mass migration, the failure to deport illegal migrants is undermining a key feature of what was once called
Jonathan Stanley
September 1, 2025
Think Culture
Displaced people – is there room at the inn, or not?
What to do with displaced people who no country wants – lessons from 1945 IS GOVERNMENT supposed to work for the people or are the
Ian Mitchell
September 30, 2025
The history of Islamic slavery should be better known
Racism and religious status assertion is worthy of investigation THE ULTIMATE in status differentiation is the slave relationship. The slave has no agency, while the
Ian Mitchell
September 8, 2025
Visiting St Kilda is well worth the effort
ALMOST EXACTLY a year ago I wrote in Think Scotland [My intrepid attempt at visiting St Kilda] about my failed attempt to visit the archipelago
Stuart Crawford
September 8, 2025
Media moments hopefully hidden from view
FOR MANY YEARS now I have done the odd bit of media engagement, with occasional radio and tv interviews from time to time, plus some
Stuart Crawford
August 7, 2025
Think Business
Brace for impact – the sorry state of the UK’s public finances
WHEN NUMBERS become big they start to lose meaning. Today’s public sector borrowing numbers published by the ONS are big. But let’s make no mistake,
Ewen Stewart
September 30, 2025
Scotland’s national disgrace is enlightening
PLAYFAIR’S unfinished monument to the fallen Scottish soldiers and sailors who fought Napoleon has been given the nickname of Scotland’s Disgrace. This monument – which was
Ewen Stewart
August 18, 2025
Lavazza roasts EU regs that punish best practice
Lavazza versus Nestlé? Cadbury versus Ferrero? Who would you support if the question is who does a better job in reducing deforestation? ITALIAN COFFEE GIANT
Brian Monteith
July 18, 2025
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