TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS start not with a big bang but a whimper. Our lives are busy, events are fleeting and so all too often discoveries are
IT’S AS CLEAR AS EVER that Britain needs a Secession Rebellion because nationalism presents an extinction level threat to the whole United Kingdom. Not four
SOMETHING FASCINATING is happening in Israel. The Holy Land is seeing what must be the most unholiest of alliances being made in the Knesset. Right
AS THE SUN SHINES in June and the fruit swells in the field we should look forward to a welcoming summer. Scotland on a clear
THE MAIDEN SPEECH of Airdrie’s new MP was predictable in too many ways. Having laid on generic platitudes to NHS staff, who were until recently
SCOTTISH POLITICS is suffering from gangrene, that toxic combination of dead meat and a galloping infection. Reading the musings of what pass now for journalists
ACTORS EXCEL at presentation. They earn millions creating a false impression of themselves. From the fanfare afforded to Hollywood actors Alan Cummings you’d think he
I’VE NEVER KNOWN a time in the past ten years when there’s not been more than a few months pause from Nationalists telling how we
SOMETIMES it’s healthy to be faced with ideas that challenge us, even offend us, so I’ve decided to be offensive. I think the SNP’s 11th-hour
FROM THE ISLE OF MAN to Edinburgh to Brussels and back I’ve been getting the hang of brewing strong balanced malty ales. Having worked in
THERE ARE TWO ways to fight elections. One is to pose sincerely an alternative vision for the country, to contest the throne of government and
IT HAD TO HAPPEN eventually. A Stalinist party machine has disappeared an erudite Trotskyist. The ice pick was swung in the dark, no press release