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.
THE DEATH of Prince Philip last Friday, 62 days short of his one hundredth birthday, led to most parties suspending their electoral campaigning in Scotland.
AT LEAST TWO new parties will be on the ballot paper in the Scottish parliament elections of 6 May, the pro-separation Alba and the anti-separation
THESE ARE STIRRING TIMES for Alex Salmond and internal critics of Nicola Sturgeon’s record as the chief custodian of the nationalist cause in Scotland. Salmond claims
IT WOULD BE deeply ironic if, in a Scottish spring that looks like being a momentous one, roles will be swopped by some of the
JUST OVER five years ago, I brought out a book called ‘Scotland Now: A Warning to the World’. I was chastised for the melodramatic title.
