February 7, 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 ...

February 7, 2025

Farmers’ protests need to avoid hacking off the public

I HAPPENED to be travelling along Edinburgh’s City Bypass last Saturday on my way to Glasgow at the same time as the farmer’s protest ...

February 7, 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 ...

January 18, 2025

How Reform can now say “Vote Tory – get SNP”!

TWO STRIKING – and related – news stories have hit Scottish headlines this week. A Survation poll for Holyrood Sources on the 2026 Holyrood ...

January 16, 2025

Why so many nationalists disparage experts in Scotland

MANY WILL REMEMBER Michael Gove, as a cabinet minister, saying, in relation to Brexit, ‘I think the people of this country have had ...

January 15, 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 ...

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Annemarie Ward

Scotland’s political circus as we approach 2026

THE LEGENDARY words of Harold Macmillan – “Events, dear boy, events” – have never felt so cuttingly apt as Scotland stumbles towards the 2026 Holyrood election. What we’re

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Ian Mitchell

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

When the end of the world was nigh

Revealing a climate scientist who believed in a new ice age, and why, despite the fact that he went on to become one of the

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