WHEN NUMBERS become big they start to lose meaning. Today’s public sector borrowing numbers published by the ONS are big. But let’s make no mistake,
When private bankers show better judgment than government ministers, taxpayers should be very worried indeed WHILE THE COLLAPSE of Greensill Capital in 2021 sent shockwaves
Racism and religious status assertion is worthy of investigation THE ULTIMATE in status differentiation is the slave relationship. The slave has no agency, while the
ALMOST EXACTLY a year ago I wrote in Think Scotland [My intrepid attempt at visiting St Kilda] about my failed attempt to visit the archipelago
ANOTHER AUGUST, another parade of drug death statistics. The papers fill, the politicians posture, the quangos rehearse their lines. Then, as sure as night follows
THIS WEEK’S report on drug related deaths in Scotland gives food for thought on one of the largest public health disasters since devolution started. Like
BRITAIN is changing. In an era of mass migration, the failure to deport illegal migrants is undermining a key feature of what was once called
I RECENTLY rediscovered my first online post of April 2015, an early debunking of the climate change hoax and what later became Net Zero. I
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
PLAYFAIR’S unfinished monument to the fallen Scottish soldiers and sailors who fought Napoleon has been given the nickname of Scotland’s Disgrace. This monument – which was