IS THE Burnham Model real devolution or just more bureaucracy in a smarter suit? Andy Burnham has certainly put Manchester on the map– though whether
ONE YEAR AGO this week, the Stormont Assembly was restored, after the DUP struck its Safeguarding the Union deal with Rishi Sunak’s government. The unionist
I HAPPENED to be travelling along Edinburgh’s City Bypass last Saturday on my way to Glasgow at the same time as the farmer’s protest against
ARE THE WAVES of collective hysteria that wash across social media from smart phones and tablets making us lose our marbles? Does the heightened sense
TWO STRIKING – and related – news stories have hit Scottish headlines this week. A Survation poll for Holyrood Sources on the 2026 Holyrood election
MANY WILL REMEMBER Michael Gove, as a cabinet minister, saying, in relation to Brexit, ‘I think the people of this country have had enough of
A new biography of Alexander von Humboldt WE HAVE JUST celebrated approximately the fourteen billionth New Year that the universe has enjoyed since it came
IT SEEMS people like parables. Even those not familiar with the Bible can probably tell you about the parable of the Prodigal Son, or the
CHANGE, the title of its manifesto, was the stand-out slogan of Labour’s campaign earlier this year against a lost fourteen years of Conservative rule. But
IN A political landscape that can often feel stagnant and uninspired, the possibility of disruption can send ripples of enthusiasm through the electorate. The recent
THE LEGENDARY words of Harold Macmillan – “Events, dear boy, events” – have never felt so cuttingly apt as Scotland stumbles towards the 2026 Holyrood election. What we’re
The sound of silence: Angus Martin and the Mull of Kintyre MY CONTRIBUTION to the festive spirit this year will be to abstain from thought
