SCOTLAND’S DRUG DEATHS are rising again. Public Health Scotland’s RADAR system shows 312 suspected deaths in spring 2025 up from 215 only six months earlier.
IF WESTMINSTER were a horse, the humane thing would be to shoot it. Holyrood? I’d send for the knackers’ van before lunch. Yet we saddle
ON TUESDAY 11th August, Dr Stuart Waiton, at a ThinkScotland meeting, spoke of the need for our teachers to believe in civilisation if they were
Kate Forbes built the SNP’s feel-good economic model and sold it as progressive. In reality, it’s an incoherent, anti-market disaster enabled by Forbes’s intellectual vanity.
FOR MANY YEARS now I have done the odd bit of media engagement, with occasional radio and tv interviews from time to time, plus some
THE TIMING could not be more grotesquely perfect. Just as ThinkScotland published my piece Scotland 2025: The End of Delusion, The Start of Recovery, a document
How a nation sedated by spin and slogans must rediscover truth, virtue and courage DELUSION is the last comfort of a collapsing regime. It turns
THE WHISKY, film and tourism sectors can’t afford moral theatre, nor a First Ministerial protester-in-chief. Scotland’s economy is on the line; Swinney can’t afford to
Lavazza versus Nestlé? Cadbury versus Ferrero? Who would you support if the question is who does a better job in reducing deforestation? ITALIAN COFFEE GIANT
Cecil Rhodes and the question of who stole Zimbabwe from whom READING this new biography of the great imperialist, Cecil Rhodes, provokes reflection on landownership
TODAY is World Rainforest Day – who knew? Not many I suspect. Such are the plethora of special days, weeks and months that you cannot
WHENEVER John Swinney suffers an election reverse, as he did in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse on 5 June, he assures us he will focus on