
Gorton and Denton: a plumbing lesson for Scotland
PLUMBERS ought to vote Tory or Reform, not Green. Why? Because they are usually independent small businesspeople who exhibit all the enterprising qualities that are

PLUMBERS ought to vote Tory or Reform, not Green. Why? Because they are usually independent small businesspeople who exhibit all the enterprising qualities that are

LIFE ISN’T FAIR, but how we sound matters. Hollywood knows this. It’s not enough to look good, you have to sound good. Barack Obama’s smooth,

WHEN Councillor Fiona Higgins stood up to question how Glasgow’s education cuts were being presented, she thought she was doing something entirely ordinary. An elected

WAR, DIPLOMATS LIKE TO SAY, begins where law ends. Nowadays, the opposite is closer to the truth. Modern international law has become the preferred camouflage

IF YOU’VE LIVED in Scotland over the past few years you could be forgiven for thinking public life has become one long group chat argument

IMMEASURABLY sad Rachel Reeves, flanked Keir Starmer last week at the last PMQ’s before recess. She had the look of a woman about to ask

The reality behind what really happened in Munich this time round. THERE IS a particular theatre to Bavaria, Southern Germany in February: the snow, the

I WAS wearing a Giordano T-shirt in Hong Kong when my former Edinburgh University student, Aberdonian Robin Munro, pointed out that Giordano was the company

REMEMBER Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights? It’s the novel about a sexy romp that scandalised 1820s society written by the enfant terrible of her day? No?

SEASON 2 of Paramount TV’s male fantasy Landman just ended (but is available to stream). Throw together a stellar cast, soap opera plotting, take-your-time direction,

AS THE long campaign for the Holyrood election on May 7 began last week, a political tremor has been running through Scotland: electoral politics as

THE MOST STRIKING aspect of yesterday’s council by-election in Fife is the success of ReformUK. From a standing start, Romano Valente, the Reform candidate, took