WHAT MUST it be like to be Donald John Trump at this very moment? Imagine, if you can; you have lost an election that you
SINCE THE NEW LOCKDOWN measures came into force there have been murmurs from some MSPs about whether or not it would be wise to put
“Let me be clear – I want to be judged on this. If you are not, as First Minister, prepared to put your neck on
THE ECONOMIST Milton Friedman once suggested the US Federal Reserve could be closed down and replaced with a money supply rule targeting the control of
Tim Pope article from Wednesday 6, January, 2021 SOVEREIGNTY in the minds of the proverbial man on the Clapham omnibus is a simple concept. It is that as a country we are the sole determinant of the laws and regulations that govern our economy and society. This is exercised through the processes of parliamentary scrutiny […]
TEN YEARS AGO, it is questionable if the bookies would have even offered you odds on the UK leaving the European Union. The number of
Linda Holt article from Wednesday 23, December, 2020 WE NOW HAVE Project Fear on steroids in Scotland. Headlines shriek about the mutant virus as if it's an extraterrestrial invader. The First Minister parries questions from the Conservative and Labour leaders at Holyrood with a petrified mien and repeated warnings about "a train … coming down the […]
Linda Holt article from Tuesday 22, December, 2020 TO MY SHAME I had never heard of Louise Glück, the 77-year-old American poet and essayist who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. But what a delicious discovery when I went online and found many poems by her! (She has published thirteen collections but strangely a […]
SINCE COVID struck, we have become accustomed to a landscape of flattened affect. There have been waves of fear, glimmers of hope, myriad changes in
FINDING OUT what motivates the ‘indy-curious’ – those who voted ‘No’ in the 2014 referendum but might change their minds if another vote were held
Eben Wilson article from Tuesday 10, December, 2019 THE OTHER DAY I got a startled look from a Lib Dem canvasser at my door when I suggested that I was not minded to vote for yet another socialist party. Clearly, the twenty-something activist in question had an understanding of his world far removed from my […]
WHILE ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS will no doubt be praising Brexit for George Eustice’s announcement of plans to ban live animal exports for slaughter and fattening,