I HAPPENED to be travelling along Edinburgh’s City Bypass last Saturday on my way to Glasgow at the same time as the farmer’s protest against
ARE THE WAVES of collective hysteria that wash across social media from smart phones and tablets making us lose our marbles? Does the heightened sense
TWO STRIKING – and related – news stories have hit Scottish headlines this week. A Survation poll for Holyrood Sources on the 2026 Holyrood election
MANY WILL REMEMBER Michael Gove, as a cabinet minister, saying, in relation to Brexit, ‘I think the people of this country have had enough of
A new biography of Alexander von Humboldt WE HAVE JUST celebrated approximately the fourteen billionth New Year that the universe has enjoyed since it came
CHANGE, the title of its manifesto, was the stand-out slogan of Labour’s campaign earlier this year against a lost fourteen years of Conservative rule. But
IN A political landscape that can often feel stagnant and uninspired, the possibility of disruption can send ripples of enthusiasm through the electorate. The recent
THE LEGENDARY words of Harold Macmillan – “Events, dear boy, events” – have never felt so cuttingly apt as Scotland stumbles towards the 2026 Holyrood election. What we’re
The sound of silence: Angus Martin and the Mull of Kintyre MY CONTRIBUTION to the festive spirit this year will be to abstain from thought
Life, death and planning policy in fighting Ukraine and socialist Argyll NOW that the soft, amnesiac blanket of caring, north-London socialism has fallen again on
THE ECONOMIC TAPESTRY of Scotland is currently a subject of intense debate, with burgeoning concerns over fiscal sustainability, tax policies, and the broader economic implications
THE LEGACY PARTIES that have long dominated UK and Scottish politics have relied on a tried-and-tested formula: handing out pitchforks to their voters. The SNP