Jonathan Saxty
May 7, 2021
Again the SNP offers falsehoods built upon deception
BACK IN 2014, during the ‘Once in a generation’ independence referendum, you could barely move for outlandish claims that “Only a Yes vote can guarantee…”…
Today's Thinking
Cummings, Cox and Compston are pitching a disaster movie
ACTORS EXCEL at presentation. They earn millions creating a false impression of themselves. From the fanfare afforded to Hollywood actors Alan Cummings you’d think he…
More La-la-Land than Brigadoon
THE VERY ATTRACTIVE, beefcake actor, Henry Caville, who plays Superman and was runner-up to Daniel Craig for the role of Bond (and is sometimes tipped…
The SNP is indulging in a dangerous illusion
THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT that Gordon Dean is right to point out the dishonesty of the SNP position on a future borderwith the rest…
Think Politics
One referendum that could prove universally popular…
WHILE YESTERDAY’S VOTES should offer the first real glimpse of public opinion since the Covid nightmare began last March the politicians’ commitments will still not…
How to vote tactically to get #SNPOut
IT’S OBVIOUS there’ll be no ProUK single party gaining a working majority in May. Even though the SNP will probably see its vote share, in…
Has our Covid response destroyed our healthcare?
EVEN BEFORE the Coronavirus fear response closed down businesses, schools and hospitals and sent waiting lists through the roof – including for life-saving surgery –…
The changing face of pro-UK politics?
ON FRIDAY I delivered All For Unity and Scotland Matters placards to two farmers, who displayed them in their fields facing main roads. Both happen…
Think Culture
We need discussion not censorship: the truth of our Covid experiences
THIS IS the speech I made as a representative of the Inform Scotland group to the May Day Gathering at Holyrood on 1st May 2021.…
The Mummy Diaries – Life’s a beach!
LOCKDOWN LIFE has been pretty tough going. I for one was sick and tired of hearing, “It’s actually quite nice to just slow down.” Slow…
The compelling narrative of Macbeth being played out by Salmond and Sturgeon
DENNIS KAVANAGH is supposed to have commented recently that ‘Scottish politics has not been this much fun since Macbeth’. His quip is not quite accurate…
Ten reasons Scotland won’t become Denmark
I’VE NEVER KNOWN a time in the past ten years when there’s not been more than a few months pause from Nationalists telling how we…
Think Business
How an isolated Scotland risks being stripped of banking services
NATWEST announced on 29th April that it would move its group head office to England if Scotland were to leave the UK. That would cost…
Scotland using the Norwegian krone? Another fairytale from the fjords
THE ISSUE OF the currency of an independent Scotland has bedevilled the SNP, and so it should. The SNP seems to have accepted that Scotland…
Beyond the First Minister’s platitudes her education record is a disgrace
PLATITUDES are une partie du jeu, part of the game of politics. These statements, often containing moral content, become too overused to remain interesting. But when…
FOI requests reveal Fife Council paying double the going rate to build care homes
ONE OF SCOTLAND’S most experienced care home operators has revealed that Fife Council plans to construct three care homes which, per bed, will be the…
