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
ONE OF THE much-loved comedians of the second half of the twentieth century was Tommy Cooper, the wizard whose magic tricks almost always ended in
ONE OF THE EARLY news items about Covid in 2020 was the nightmare tale of passengers on a number of large cruise ships who were
IT IS SAID that travel broadens the mind. Up to a point, perhaps. But in recent years my travels have tended to mean dealing with
MANY OF US will remember the night Alex Salmond lost his Westminster seat of Gordon in 2017. It was a ‘were you up for Portillo?’
IT’S GROUNDHOG DAY. Again. The SNP wins an election and immediately demands a separatist referendum. The SNP has pretty much disowned the White Paper –
WHY IS THERE so much hatred in Scotland? I don’t remember this as a factor in public discourse in most of the decades of my
‘NICOLA STURGEON’S office trashes Alex Salmond inquiry after bombshell finding’, shouts the headline on Friday, 19 March 2021 from the Herald. There is something surreal about
FLAGS have long been emotive emblems. From 1789 and throughout the nineteenth century, the warring sides in France were recognisable by their respective flags, the