October 17, 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 relative global ...

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 black hole ...

October 15, 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 ...

October 14, 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 first paper ...

October 4, 2024

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 ...

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 ...

Today's Thinking

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Gail MacDonald

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

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

Alastair Majury

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

Think Culture

Stuart Crawford

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

Gail MacDonald

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

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