
How the SNP dallied with “participatory dictatorship”
AS THE POWER of the nationalist wreckers in Holyrood declines, so the prospects for a comparable programme of socialist wrecking in Westminster rise. Many’s the

AS THE POWER of the nationalist wreckers in Holyrood declines, so the prospects for a comparable programme of socialist wrecking in Westminster rise. Many’s the

I HAVE JUST managed to purchase, by a staggering combination of serendipity and good luck, a painting by renowned Glasgow Boys artist William Kennedy at

THERE IS a great line in Breaking Bad where streetwise Jesse explains to Walter White that sometimes you don’t need a criminal lawyer, you need

AS FAR BACK as I can remember I have always wanted to go to St Kilda. I have difficulty in explaining exactly why. Something caught

Warning: Spoilers ahead AN AMERICAN remake of the Danish film Speak No Evil (2022) directed by Christian Tafdrup, has been released with a new ending

NOW THAT England’s primary school reception classes have taken in their new recruits (starting later than Scotland), so the summer holidays are officially at an

ACTRESS and Met Gala favourite Blake Lively has been promoting her new film, based on the Colleen Hoover novel It ends with Us. She’s been

EVER SINCE Nicola Sturgeon crashed and burned, and Humza Yousaf promised to emigrate, the question of the Union has gone off the boil in Scotland.

THE RECENT DECISION to halt the Park of Keir development project marks a significant victory for local communities, activists, and the Stirling Council – highlighting

TO THE BEREAVED FAMILIES, a year after the Lucy Letby conviction, time is likely to have made little difference to their grief and discussion of

ANYONE CURIOUS about what our failed First Minister of recent memory, Humza Yousaf, is likely to experience when he leaves Britain for Islamic pastures new

THERE IS no problem in Scottish society where the SNP will not attempt to apportion at least a measure of blame to ‘Westminster’. But its