Today's Thinking
Why Reform UK is making an impact in Scotland
LAST SATURDAY I had the pleasure of speaking at the Reform UK conference in Perth. It was actually Reform’s fourth Scottish Conference, but the three
Ewen Stewart
December 5, 2024
Lucy Letby – considering the prosecutions a year on
TO THE BEREAVED FAMILIES, a year after the Lucy Letby conviction, time is likely to have made little difference to their grief and discussion of
Gail MacDonald
August 20, 2024
Drug deaths: how the SNP tilts at windmills
THERE IS no problem in Scottish society where the SNP will not attempt to apportion at least a measure of blame to ‘Westminster’. But its
Dean M Thomson
August 18, 2024
What are the risks of Trump’s second term plans?
WITHIN 6 HOURS of his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star, Donald
Struan Stevenson
June 26, 2024
Think Politics
Early release: getting it through, not getting it right
How the SNP and Green MSPs rammed the early release of prisoners bill through parliament. AFTER TWO DAYS’ scrutiny and a mere five working days
Liam Kerr
December 7, 2024
What is the point of a PM who does not defend the Realm?
WITH THE impeccable timing for which this government is becoming known, on the day that Russia (might have) fired an ICBM into Ukraine and (definitely)
Patrick Benham-Crosswell
November 22, 2024
Why wait on the Defence Review before sorting the biggest problem?
PREVIOUSLY I HAVE described some of the problems faced by the Royal Navy, the Army, and the Royal Air Force. The operative word is “some”
Patrick Benham-Crosswell
November 6, 2024
“Come fly with me” should be the RAF’s top gun theme
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE operates some of the most sophisticated combat aircraft in the world. The F35 is the current gold standard and the latest
Patrick Benham-Crosswell
November 4, 2024
Think Culture
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
Ian Mitchell
December 1, 2024
James David Vance – Who is he really?
THE NEXT President of the United States is 78, and has already been shot at once while under secret service protection. He happened to turn
Hamish Gobson
November 13, 2024
Climate change and the political utility of a “Crisis”
ANYONE who has followed the development of the windfarm industry in Scotland will have been struck by the effort which the Scottish government puts into
Hamish Gobson
October 22, 2024
How the SNP dallied with “participatory dictatorship”
AS THE POWER of the nationalist wreckers in Holyrood declines, so the prospects for a comparable programme of socialist wrecking in Westminster rise. Many’s the
Hamish Gobson
October 4, 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
