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
SATURDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT of what amounts to a second national lockdown should be the final straw for Conservative voters in England. It smacks of an authoritarianism
CURRENTLY, under the fisheries management of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy, the EU allocates quota using its two sacred cows of relative stability and non-discriminatory access to its various
NOT MANY PEOPLE will have read the detail of the EU rejection of a specific free trade deal for electric cars. It’s a draft response
GENERALLY SPEAKING, the British electorate doesn’t take much interest in defence matters. There are obvious exceptions to this statement – Battle of Britain Day, Remembrance