
The unremarkable but relentless rise of Nicola Sturgeon
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
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
AS THE SCOURGE of Covid is halted in its tracks by medical breakthroughs pioneered in Britain, the watchword from the media and officialdom is that
THE VIOLENT DEATH last week of Idriss Déby, the President of Chad, produced the briefest of flickers in the news cycle. Rather unusually, the 68-year-old had died
THE SCOTTISH EDUCATION system may well soon get a whiff of what teaching would have been like if Britain had not repulsed the might of
THE CENTRE-PIECE of the SNP manifesto released on 15 April turned out not to be a road-map for the next independence referendum; that is being discreetly mothballed.