Today's Thinking
Is the SNP’s cash flow management a cover for false accounting?
First published on 17 June 2021 WHEN Nicola Sturgeon was pressed by an STV journalist for comment on swirling allegations of a missing £600,000 independence
Dean M Thomson
May 26, 2026
How the Scottish Government has nationalised the voluntary sector
FOR YEARS in Scotland we have been told the third sector is the beating heart of civil society. Volunteers. Campaigners. Stakeholders. Independent voices speaking truth
Jonathan Stanley
May 20, 2026
Spain wants strategic immunity, the US should end it
Payback at the Pillars of Hercules? Madrid has spent years undermining Western interests while expecting unquestioned Western solidarity. Ceuta and Melilla offer the perfect point
Bepi Pezzulli
April 28, 2026
We must have the right not to ‘Digitally Verify to Participate’ in society
WHEN Keir Starmer announced in September 2025 the government was bringing in ‘mandatory Digital ID Cards’ or a ‘Britcard’ to ‘stop the boats’ the British
Alan Miller
April 21, 2026
Think Politics
Pop goes Sturgeon: downfall of a myopic autocrat
First published on 18 February 2023 The following article is an addition to a chapter on Nicola Sturgeon by Tom Gallagher in light of recent
Tom Gallagher
May 26, 2026
Do our politicians really understand poverty?
THERE IS A CERTAIN TYPE of person in politics, media and public life who genuinely believes they understand poverty because they have read reports about
Audrey Dempsey
May 26, 2026
Do the British people REALLY want to rejoin the EU?
HEADLINES from recent opinion polls suggest that a majority of Brits now want to reverse Brexit. But a deeper dive shows that this support is
Julian Jessop
May 20, 2026
Scunnered Scots and rampant Greens
IN 1988, Ken Livingstone published a book entitled ‘If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish it’. The Holyrood election of 7 May 2026 demonstrated that sense
Jill Stephenson
May 18, 2026
Think Culture
Let Scotland showcase the UK’s Eurovision entry
FOR YEARS, the United Kingdom has approached the Eurovision Song Contest with a strange mixture of nostalgia, embarrassment and resignation. We joke about “nul points”,
Jonathan Stanley
May 26, 2026
The dangerous uselessness of bureaucratically-minded politicians
Nevil Shute’s experience of Air Ministry incompetence in the crucial 1930s, focussing on the R 101 disaster MANY OF THOSE who enjoyed either reading or
Ian Mitchell
May 12, 2026
Oranges are not the only marmalade
AS THE UK re-aligns itself with EU food regulations (like 2016 never happened) marmalade is being relabelled. Marmalade to the Spanish and Italians can come from
Dr Gail MacDonald
April 11, 2026
How Net Zero threatens curling, skating and swimming
IT IS NOT just industry that is being devastated by the UK’s self-inflicted high energy costs resulting from Net Zero policies – sports, leisure and
Brian Monteith
April 8, 2026
Think Business
With party finances – as with everything – the fish rots from the head down
First published on 22 March 2021 WHEN WRITING about the ongoing saga in Bute House it is difficult to know when and where to begin.
Jonathan Stanley
May 26, 2026
Do the British people REALLY want to rejoin the EU?
HEADLINES from recent opinion polls suggest that a majority of Brits now want to reverse Brexit. But a deeper dive shows that this support is
Julian Jessop
May 20, 2026
Debunked! The dodgy stats used by Project Rejoin
A cut-out-and-keep summary of the claims most commonly made about the harm that Brexit has supposedly done to UK GDP, their sources, their methodology and
Julian Jessop
May 13, 2026
Three reasons why you should never trust a “doppelgänger”
The claim that Brexit has already shrunk the UK economy by “as much as 8 per cent” is based on flawed analysis and should not
Julian Jessop
May 7, 2026