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,
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