ANYTHING the UK can do the USA can do better. Britain’s Royal Marines recently lost an SA 80 rifle during a training exercise on Dartmoor,
RACISM is everywhere, or so you would believe if you listened to the authoritative voices echoing around our institutions, not least of all our educational
AS EACH of the main parties at Westminster prepare for a tough general election campaign in 2024, troubled memories still remain fresh of the time
WHAT IS IT about so much of Scottish media news reporting that it has to see everything through the prism of nationalism? I fully understand
Hamish Gobson’s diary: the view from across the Uisge Thursday 14 September 2023 THE REVELATION last week that Sir Michael
I AM NOT a regular reader of the New Statesman but occasionally it’s worth enquiring into the strange world of the left-liberal mind. I was
Hamish Gobson’s diary: the view from across the Uisge Saturday 2 September 2023 ONE OF THE PLEASURES of living on
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE without actual experience to understand the horror and trauma of the parents of those real little babies who died in the Countess
Hamish Gobson’s diary: the view from across the Uisge Wednesday 23 August 2023 OUR ANTI-AFFORDABLE “government” in Scotland has been
I AM WHITE, from a working class background and now in my 50s, and I tend to not just ‘be kind’ when someone tries to
Hamish Gobson’s diary: the view from across the Uisge Wednesday 9 August 2023 AFFORDABLE GOVERNMENT will never come to Scotland
I HAD the great misfortune of being in central Edinburgh last Saturday night. The evening of 5th July should have been a joyous occasion, what