IN THE EARLY 1900s my grandfather in Govanhill, a schoolteacher, knew many locals spent more than half of any income on food. The choice of
WHEN Keir Starmer announced in September 2025 the government was bringing in ‘mandatory Digital ID Cards’ or a ‘Britcard’ to ‘stop the boats’ the British
THERE IS a certain type of political satisfaction that comes when a daft pronouncement is swiftly shown up as dangerous by real life evidence. Just
AFTER NEARLY two decades in power, the record of the Scottish National Party is no longer a matter of promise, but of performance. And for
AS THE UK re-aligns itself with EU food regulations (like 2016 never happened) marmalade is being relabelled. Marmalade to the Spanish and Italians can come from
LATE LAST AUTUMN I had the dubious pleasure of attending the recording of Dutch leftist historian Rutger Bregman’s third BBC Reith Lecture here in Edinburgh. He
IT IS NOT just industry that is being devastated by the UK’s self-inflicted high energy costs resulting from Net Zero policies – sports, leisure and
WINNING is all that matters in sports. True greats like Novak Djokovic are machines, winning through strong, unfazed, consistent responses. In tennis it works a treat. Bat it back, score a few points and
LET’S BE HONEST about where we are. For the past year, anyone who has raised concerns about drug consumption rooms, residents, community groups, frontline voices,
THE SNP Scottish Government has just published its updated climate change plan for the period 2026 to 2040. It is very long-winded as its tentacles extend intrusively
RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE has attempted to make political capital out of the claim that around 40 per cent of Reform Scotland candidates were previously members
SOMETHING is shifting in post-industrial Britain. It is not a sudden national swing or a dramatic revolt. It is quieter than that. For decades, London-focused