IMAGINE you owned a snazzy two-seater sports car and that, as you were going abroad to work for a while, you decided, rather than leave
LAST WEEK’S announcement that John B Cox, an independent councillor in Aberdeenshire council, had joined Reform UK Scotland has provoked a mix of reactions. We
A STATUS QUO has settled over modern Scotland in which political debate is shaped through a Glasgow-centred lens that often squeezes out the rest of
ON SATURDAY past, at a Reform UK Scotland rally in Falkirk, something happened that strengthened Reform’s prospects for the Holyrood election in May. Malcolm Offord (The Lord Offord of
THE FRONT PAGE of Friday’s Herald led with a story of rare unity among Labour and SNP leaders: Keir Starmer, Anas Sarwar and John Swinney
FAIRLY RECENTLY, I wrote about how the SNP is not a governing party but a campaigning outfit (‘Campaigning, not governing’, Think Scotland, June 12, 2025).
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AUGUST, Edinburgh. Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes MSP arrives for a live interview; staff ask for a panic room, as widely reported at the time.
Ewen Stewart on the real state of Britain’s economy and why redemption, not despair, is still within reach. I’LL BE THE FIRST to admit I
Now that the Labour government has shown itself as disastrous as the Tories and equally incapable of getting to grips with the threats to the
TO SAY that Rachel Reeves’ first sixteen months as Chancellor of the Exchequer have not been an unqualified success is something of an understatement. Since
When justice becomes emotional theatre, scholarship becomes heresy. DR STUART WAITON has done what good academics are supposed to do, he asked difficult questions. Last