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,
IN THE UK and in other English-speaking jurisdictions, nobody can be arrested and imprisoned for any length of time unless the authorities have already conducted
TO EVERYTHING there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven. In Edinburgh the months running up to a Scottish Parliament election
THIS IS going to be short and sharp. Politicians who in any shape or form accept the legitimacy of the United Kingdom need to stop
MUCH has been written by legal experts and others about the vagueness within the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill. Vagueness in law is
THERE CAN BE very few people left in Scotland who consider Curriculum for Excellence to have been a positive step forward for the Scottish education
ANYONE who has been on Twitter will recognise the strong resistance to logical discourse among the “cluckeratti”; there is a vast cohort of Twitter users
SCOTTISH FARMERS should be patting themselves on the back. They are the backbone of the UK’s agricultural exports. Admittedly they have had a lot of
WHO RECEIVES Fiscal Grants in the UK and who pays for them? In every country in the world every citizen either receives from the state or