WHENEVER John Swinney suffers an election reverse, as he did in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse on 5 June, he assures us he will focus on
MANY WILL REMEMBER Michael Gove, as a cabinet minister, saying, in relation to Brexit, ‘I think the people of this country have had enough of
MY VIEW of education is a very simple one. Education is empowering. Without education, or with an inadequate education, a child’s life chances are stunted.
RECENTLY, there was an event in Dundee organised by a group called ‘Scotonomics’, whose self-proclaimed task is ‘Demystifying our economy’. To this end they enlisted
THE END of a regime can occur in different ways. There is, of course, violent insurrection. Or the democratic process can unseat an incumbent. Relentless
WATCHING A STACK of dominos collapsing on YouTube seemed a metaphor for what has been happening in Scotland recently. On 23 February 2023, Sir Iain
THEY’RE AT IT AGAIN. As if they hadn’t done enough damage to Scotland, the Labour Party has commissioned a report from a group led by
WITH A GRANDIOSITY that is very individual and characterises the man, Alex Salmond proclaimed in October 2012 that the arrangement for a referendum he had
IT LOOKS as if the SNP is panicking. Ms Sturgeon had her plan worked out: bludgeon Boris Johnson into giving her a Section 30 Order,
IN APRIL 2022, the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Start the Week’ had an edition on ‘The age of the strongman leader’, the title of a
I HAVE BEEN trying to put my finger on precisely what, generically, the Scottish separatist cause is. As I understand it, the original nationalists in
THERE HAVE for some time been signs that Scotland is moving in a very worrying direction under the SNP leadership. The Named Person project, originally