When justice becomes emotional theatre, scholarship becomes heresy. DR STUART WAITON has done what good academics are supposed to do, he asked difficult questions. Last
ONCE UPON A TIME, the Scottish Enlightenment gave the world reason, courage and plain speech. Now it gives the world The Hate Crime and Public Order
Five years inside Scotland’s political machine “Faith without works is dead.” — James 2:26 FOR FIVE YEARS I’ve lived inside the slow, grinding process of
ANOTHER AUGUST, another parade of drug death statistics. The papers fill, the politicians posture, the quangos rehearse their lines. Then, as sure as night follows
SCOTLAND’S DRUG DEATHS are rising again. Public Health Scotland’s RADAR system shows 312 suspected deaths in spring 2025 up from 215 only six months earlier.
IF WESTMINSTER were a horse, the humane thing would be to shoot it. Holyrood? I’d send for the knackers’ van before lunch. Yet we saddle
THE TIMING could not be more grotesquely perfect. Just as ThinkScotland published my piece Scotland 2025: The End of Delusion, The Start of Recovery, a document
How a nation sedated by spin and slogans must rediscover truth, virtue and courage DELUSION is the last comfort of a collapsing regime. It turns
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IMAGINE, for a moment, that the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the highest legal authority in the land, makes a definitive ruling. Let’s say
A NEW POPE has been elected, and for a brief, flickering moment, the world paused, some in reverence, some in curiosity, and many of us
WAKEN UP! If you live in Manchester or Glasgow, you’ve probably noticed that life isn’t exactly getting cheaper, easier, or freer. The roads are peppered