THE SCOTTISH MEDIA has struggled to give due weight to the unfolding scandals of the Scottish government’s role in harassment investigations and proceedings against Alex Salmond.
I AM ABOUT AS FAR as you could get from being a football fan. I’ve never been to a game nor ever wanted to attend
“Oh, what guid are the poor me’s now?” THIS IS THE EXASPERATED QUESTION Agnes Bain’s mother puts to her drunken daughter when she seeks solace
I HAVE NEVER felt so out of kilter with the world, or so demoralised. In the summer, as the shock of the initial lockdown was
AT THIS WEEK’S First Minister’s Questions, the LibDem leader Willie Rennie had his customary go at Nicola Sturgeon about testing. This time he focussed on
Linda Holt article from Wednesday 23, December, 2020 WE NOW HAVE Project Fear on steroids in Scotland. Headlines shriek about the mutant virus as if it's an extraterrestrial invader. The First Minister parries questions from the Conservative and Labour leaders at Holyrood with a petrified mien and repeated warnings about "a train … coming down the […]
Linda Holt article from Tuesday 22, December, 2020 TO MY SHAME I had never heard of Louise Glück, the 77-year-old American poet and essayist who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. But what a delicious discovery when I went online and found many poems by her! (She has published thirteen collections but strangely a […]
REMEMBER that heady time after Better Together when Ruth Davidson seemed to be leading a Scottish Conservative renaissance, throwing off the crusty old image of
WHAT IS WRONG with Scotland? For many ThinkScotland readers, the short answer will be nationalism and/or the SNP. But even if the SNP weren’t running
Linda Holt article from Wednesday 16, September, 2020 WE ARE NOW officially living under the Rule of Six. The police are charged to enforce it. In Scotland, more than six people (not counting children under 12) from a maximum of two households are banned from meeting outside of work, school and certain other specified settings. […]
A FORTNIGHT AGO, I returned from a week’s visit to Amsterdam. I am not given to conspiracy theories, but when Nicola Sturgeon advised people not to book a holiday
RECENT MONTHS have left me more despondent about Scottish politics than ever before. No doubt the ennui and oppression of lockdown, endured in what has felt increasingly like a one-party state, has
