Today's Thinking
The law? That’s just a vibe now
IMAGINE, for a moment, that the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the highest legal authority in the land, makes a definitive ruling. Let’s say
Annemarie Ward
May 20, 2025
Why NGOs are now more distrusted than big business
ARE PEOPLE finally wakening up to the great harm that NGOs do to our personal freedoms, economic prosperity, cultural values and safety from foreign powers
Brian Monteith
May 5, 2025
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
Think Politics
Raise a large glass of Scotch to the UK-India trade deal
DURING the Brexit Referendum those pushing ‘Project Fear’ claimed the UK would suffer in trade deals from leaving the EU’s much larger trade bloc with
David Campbell Bannerman
May 12, 2025
Taking back control in the age of managed decline
A NEW POPE has been elected, and for a brief, flickering moment, the world paused, some in reverence, some in curiosity, and many of us
Annemarie Ward
May 11, 2025
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
Think Culture
Save our Christmas adverts from Jamie Oliver and the NGOs
I REALLY should not be thinking right now of my love of Christmas mince pies, with a nice glass of Penfolds Grandfather, or maybe a
Brian Monteith
May 5, 2025
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
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
