Early release: getting it through, not getting it right
How the SNP and Green MSPs rammed the early release of prisoners bill through parliament. AFTER TWO DAYS’ scrutiny and a mere five working days
How the SNP and Green MSPs rammed the early release of prisoners bill through parliament. AFTER TWO DAYS’ scrutiny and a mere five working days
LAST SATURDAY I had the pleasure of speaking at the Reform UK conference in Perth. It was actually Reform’s fourth Scottish Conference, but the three
Revealing a climate scientist who believed in a new ice age, and why, despite the fact that he went on to become one of the
WITH THE impeccable timing for which this government is becoming known, on the day that Russia (might have) fired an ICBM into Ukraine and (definitely)
THE NEXT President of the United States is 78, and has already been shot at once while under secret service protection. He happened to turn
PREVIOUSLY I HAVE described some of the problems faced by the Royal Navy, the Army, and the Royal Air Force. The operative word is “some”
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE operates some of the most sophisticated combat aircraft in the world. The F35 is the current gold standard and the latest
IN THE LATE Cold War the British Army of the Rhine had about 60,000 personnel. That delivered a NATO army group headquarters and the 1st
SYMBOLISM MATTERS. Rachael Reeves choosing to ditch a picture of Nigel Lawson for Ellen Wilkinson, one of the founding members of the Communist Party of
THE ROYAL NAVY has existed as a permanent force since the time of Henry VIII. Some trace its history back to Alfred the Great. Regardless,
OUTSIDE of the media frenzy of the government’s public spending plans and ministers’ delight in freebies, the Secretary of State for Defence, The Rt Hon
ANYONE who has followed the development of the windfarm industry in Scotland will have been struck by the effort which the Scottish government puts into