
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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”,

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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