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
I HAVE JUST RETURNED brimming with optimism from my first ever National Conservative conference at the Grand Plaza Hotel in Rome. As the research director
DAVID NICHOLL is a Consultant Neurologist, well respected in the management of Parkinson’s Disease and Epilepsy. His clinical work is highly valued. He is not
THE TORY LEADERSHIP contest is well under way. It could well be an episode of The Magic Roundabout given the surfeit of drug-fuelled characters. First there’s that
THERE IS SOMETHING extremely vulgar about Brunei. For long a fiefdom of the British establishment who never shy from fawning over its leader, it has
TODAY’S JUDGEMENT by the Supreme Court on the Scottish Government’s Legal Continuity Bill is fascinating. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the dynamic between
LAST NIGHT a majority of Tory backbench MPs came forth and whispered a truth: they do not believe in the Prime Minister. It took the
THERE ARE some people in life I find are intolerant to experience or fact. When they faced with a moral dilemma they find their own