Do the demons Sturgeon wrestles with originate in a 2014 Rally?
HISTORIANS MAY YET conclude that it all began to go wrong for the SNP when, on 22 November 2014, 12,000 people crowded into Scotland’s main
HISTORIANS MAY YET conclude that it all began to go wrong for the SNP when, on 22 November 2014, 12,000 people crowded into Scotland’s main
EDWARD GARNIER, a former Conservative MP and now a peer, is an experienced lawyer who, at one stage was advising John Major in his bid
WHEN A MARRIED COUPLE effectively control politics and government, it is sufficiently unusual to evoke interest. When such a duumvirate leads to a collapse of
HAFEZ AL-ASSAD, who ruled Syria from 1970 to 1999, asked a diplomat not long after the overthrow of Ceausescu in 1989: Tell me, how could a
PLURALIST democracies as well as communist People’s Democracies have legally codified rules setting out how their political systems are supposed to function. The separation of
Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2020, Dublin: Merrion Press, 2020, 320 pp, ISBN 9781785372612, £18.99 By Tom Gallagher KEVIN MYERS has written
Tom Gallagher article from Monday 22, June, 2020 THE HERALD NEWSPAPER in Glasgow is reticent about the fact that its deputy editor in the 1960s later went on to be a master story-teller whose novels sold millions, many remaining in print today. George MacDonald Fraser represents a past that the newspaper is uncomfortable about. The […]
Tom Gallagher article from Tuesday 19, May, 2020 LAST WEEK the libertarian politician Douglas Carswell came near to admitting that decentralisation measures introduced in Britain over the last twenty years had gone badly awry. He tweeted: “Let’s be honest, it’s not been a great moment for us localists, this crisis. Police commissioners have been invisible. The […]
Tom Gallagher article from Monday 2, March, 2020 ONE OF THE MOST PERPLEXING outcomes of the ‘These Islands’ conference (first discussed here on 24 February) was the condescension or impatience displayed towards England. England’s poorer regions have made no objections to large fiscal transfers to Scotland and Northern Ireland, nor to increasing emphasis being given in […]