Charles Harris
November 29, 2022
Hunt and Sunak are forcing us down the road to ruin
THIS IS A CRISIS born out of serial material errors over many years and short-term fixes designed to kick the can down the road. Today’s…
Today's Thinking
Useless trade comments from a politician who should know better
AS MUCH AS I don’t want to give George Eustice’s comments about the Australian trade deal any more publicity, he did seem to be looking…
Is devolution how you expected it?
THEY’RE AT IT AGAIN. As if they hadn’t done enough damage to Scotland, the Labour Party has commissioned a report from a group led by…
Retreating to the establishment analysis means the journey to recovery will be longer
THE LAST two weeks, since Kwasi Kwarteng’s now infamous budget, have perhaps been the most extraordinary in modern British political recollection. Truss and Kwarteng condemned, with…
Think Politics
What the Scottish Government wants your kids to learn about sex and relationships
RECENTLY I attended an event in Glasgow titled Education not Indoctrination. It had been organised by Hands Up (Scotland), a group of parents, teachers and…
There’s not just a ferry fiasco – the Gupta scandal is even bigger
SANJEEV GUPTA and the SNP once had quite a close relationship. Nicola Sturgeon’s government facilitated deals and acted as intermediary, all-in service to Gupta’s industrial…
The twisted double standards of who’s okay and who’s not
IN HIS NOVEL, Lord of the Flies, William Golding had Piggy say that when we fear someone we hate them. But we pretend that they…
The political disconnect from reality is best exemplified in the EU
WE REALLY DO live in a world that has turned logic upside down and are living through the other side of the looking glass (the…
Think Culture
Classical painting in rural Scotland – the trials and delights of painting en plein air
THIS IS another tale of working and of traditional painting from Life. It does not have a fancy title, for I wish to make clear…
Video and photos from Queen Elizabeth’s final trip up the Royal Mile
Scenes at Edinburgh’s High Street on the Royal mile captured by our regular contributor, economist Ewen Stewart, for ThinkScotland. The Queen’s hearse goes up the…
Storm in a Twittercup
COST-OF-LIVING increase, NHS meltdowns, lockdown deaths, war, education crisis, political mess, strikes, grit. Anyone? No, me neither. Hollywood, Princes, Mansions, beautiful people, beautiful clothes, tours,…
Rescuing rural life from the misanthropes and urbanistas
Land of Milk and Honey – by Jamie Blackett Quiller 2022, 256 pages, Hardback. ISBN 9781 8468 93667 THE CYCLE Of rural life in one…
Think Business
Hunt: the “entrepreneur” who does not understand the role of capital
THERE ARE lots of points in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement that need to be addressed, but this one requires serious debate: why does the chancellor…
Germany Vs UK? Comparing economies is not a penalty shoot-out!
ECONOMIC COMPARISONS are not penalty shoot-outs, but the moment male economists hear the words UK and Germany, they seem to lose the ability to step…
Brazil trade negotiations reveal UK officials still have the EU’s mercantilist mindset
IT WOULD APPEAR that everything is being blamed on Liz Truss. According to The Independent “There is little prospect of a post-Brexit trade deal with Brazil in the near…
EU commission anti-deforestation law is just another cover for protectionism
EARLIER THIS YEAR the European Commission proposed a new law to halt deforestation and minimise the EU’s impact on forests worldwide. Its aim was to…
