Free speech includes the right to be mean about war heroes
THE RIGHT TO freedom of speech has an in-built test that can be used to weed out anyone who doesn’t really value it. If someone
THE RIGHT TO freedom of speech has an in-built test that can be used to weed out anyone who doesn’t really value it. If someone
LIKE ANYONE ELSE young enough to know how streaming works and sufficiently tech savvy to install an ad blocker on my browser, I don’t encounter
REGULAR READERS may have noticed I’ve been absent for the last couple of weeks. Far from being for any mysterious reason, I would rather you
THAT SCOTLAND WILL eventually ban so-called ‘conversion therapy’ seems to be academic at this point. As Holyrood’s Equalities, Human Rights, and Civil Justice Committee continues
I DISLIKE protests. Not necessarily the causes for which they are held or anything like that; I just dislike crowds, noise, enthusiasm, and slapdash artwork
IN To A Louse, Robert Burns laments “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us!”, which, roughly translated,
AFGHANISTAN being ‘the story’ is never good, that much is certain. But this time, it is worse than ever before. There has been a lot
SCOTLAND’S DRINKING CULTURE is broken and someone has to do something about it. I don’t mean we drink too much or behave appallingly when we’re
I DON’T SPEAK a word of Gaelic. That, in and of itself, may, to some readers, disqualify me automatically from having a valid opinion on
I’VE BEEN GOING THROUGH a bit of a stressful time of late, the details of which I won’t bore you with but suffice it to
OF THE TWO great dystopian novels of the twentieth century, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, I’ve never doubted which of the two is
AS A RULE, if you find yourself walking down a road and see a sign indicating that Hell is only a few miles away then