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
IT IS MUCH too soon to predict the demise of Ms Sturgeon’s SNP and the malign regime that it currently exerts over Scotland. But the
THE SNP has been in office since 2007, and Nicola Sturgeon has been a prominent figure – deputy first minister and then first minister –
I IMAGINE most of the discerning readers of Think Scotland are not daft enough to get involved with Twitter. I came to it early in
