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
Why Scotland’s political class keeps us circling the same drain SCOTLAND doesn’t suffer from a lack of politics. It suffers from a surfeit of politicians
IMAGINE, for a moment, that the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the highest legal authority in the land, makes a definitive ruling. Let’s say
DURING the Brexit Referendum those pushing ‘Project Fear’ claimed the UK would suffer in trade deals from leaving the EU’s much larger trade bloc with