
Crunch time for France’s unlucky and unloved overseer
FRANCE faces a collapse of order and an increasingly ominous and uncertain political future as its cities succumb to insensate mobs who revile the whole

FRANCE faces a collapse of order and an increasingly ominous and uncertain political future as its cities succumb to insensate mobs who revile the whole

Europe’s Leadership Famine: Portraits of defiance and decay 1950-2022 IRONICALLY, after years of the pooling of national powers within the framework of the European Union,

Goodbye Dr Banda: Lessons for the West from a Small African Country – by Alexander Chula Polygon, an Imprint of Birlinn Ltd. 302 pages, Hardback

The following article is an addition to a chapter on Nicola Sturgeon by Tom Gallagher in light of recent events. It will appear in his book Europe’s Leadership

Nicola Sturgeon, Vol 1 – The Years of Ascent, 1970-2007 – by Ian Mitchell A citizen’s biography of a driven woman in a drifting parliament

AFTER A LIFE dedicated to service in an exacting role which she carried out to a consistently high standard for the immense span of seventy

Land of Milk and Honey – by Jamie Blackett Quiller 2022, 256 pages, Hardback. ISBN 9781 8468 93667 THE CYCLE Of rural life in one

Juan Perón, The life of the people’s Colonel – by Jill Hedges Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, 280 pp Paperback, ISBN 978-0-7556-0272-8 LET ME stick my neck out

Book Review: A Difference of Opinion. My Political Journey – by Jim Sillars Birlinn 2021 320pp Paperback. ISBN 9781780276830 IT IS A STRUGGLE to think of anyone

SCOTLAND’S nearly 150 years as an industrial powerhouse were sometimes replete with communal tensions. Economic rivalry between workers, religious differences, and occasionally fierce ones over the

THAT PENETRATING legal mind Ian Mitchell recently argued that both Putin’s Russia and Sturgeon’s Scotland are places where the defining trademark of the ruling parties is bombastic

MEDIA ATTENTION galore has been lavished on the supposed incipient Scottish revolution. London-based political journalists breezily asserted last week that a constitutional tsunami was imminent which