THERE IS A SPACE where worlds collide and create the most unexpected of challenges. Sociology like chemistry is a study of interactions and reactions at
THIS WEEK’S report on drug related deaths in Scotland gives food for thought on one of the largest public health disasters since devolution started. Like
BRITAIN is changing. In an era of mass migration, the failure to deport illegal migrants is undermining a key feature of what was once called
LAST WEEK was a very ugly week in Scottish politics. Yes it could be almost any week you might say, but last week was really
THERE IS some confusion about Holyrood’s role in the pandemic. We have all been placed on a common war footing. Everyone (well, nearly everyone) does
BAXTER’S makes a fine Scotch Broth. It’s a shame Ruth Davidson, one of its latest recruits to its board, has landed her tribe in the
THEY SAY in investing circles you should never catch a falling knife. The dissociation between facts and policy has increased these last few months hence
I THINK after almost a decade of watching the independence movement I have safely arrived at the conclusion independence will never happen nor will another
IT’S HARD TO THINK three years have gone by since I wrote about transgender teaching in primary schools. I was attacked, mocked and dismissed as
REJOICE, rejoice. Independence is over. The most recent GERS figures, the Cambo oilfield debacle and mass redundancy at a biscuit factory have hammered yet more
THE CULT of transgenderism has taken a very ugly turn. As a libertarian I consider sexuality, whisky and voting in the same bracket. For adults
FEW THINGS offend the liberal elite like criticism of foreign aid. Critics often rely on tired tropes such as “trade not aid”, as if the