TRAVELLING THROUGH the blue skied sunny hills of Shropshire, on my way to pay some more tax to our masters, the Scot within me has
POLITICALLY, the UK has been moving toward the dismantling of its hydrocarbon extractive industries for many decades. Almost all post-war UK governments, including those of
TOGETHER with David Turver and Brian Monteith, I recently published a paper – Premeditated industrial destruction; How the UK destroyed its industry and a plan
Payback at the Pillars of Hercules? Madrid has spent years undermining Western interests while expecting unquestioned Western solidarity. Ceuta and Melilla offer the perfect point
The little known human cost of WHO-led global health policy The march of democracy-sapping multilateral global bodies that undermine state sovereignty continues unabated. Decisions made
IN THE EARLY 1900s my grandfather in Govanhill, a schoolteacher, knew many locals spent more than half of any income on food. The choice of
WHEN Keir Starmer announced in September 2025 the government was bringing in ‘mandatory Digital ID Cards’ or a ‘Britcard’ to ‘stop the boats’ the British
THERE IS a certain type of political satisfaction that comes when a daft pronouncement is swiftly shown up as dangerous by real life evidence. Just
AFTER NEARLY two decades in power, the record of the Scottish National Party is no longer a matter of promise, but of performance. And for
AS THE UK re-aligns itself with EU food regulations (like 2016 never happened) marmalade is being relabelled. Marmalade to the Spanish and Italians can come from
LATE LAST AUTUMN I had the dubious pleasure of attending the recording of Dutch leftist historian Rutger Bregman’s third BBC Reith Lecture here in Edinburgh. He
IT IS NOT just industry that is being devastated by the UK’s self-inflicted high energy costs resulting from Net Zero policies – sports, leisure and