WHEN Edinburgh Council went into an early recess and cancelled Committees, emails started coming in from a few constituents asking whether the current consultation Choices for
EVERYTHING IS GRIST to the nationalist mill, and there is no reason to think that the Covid-19 pandemic would be any exception. The weekend’s influx
Linda Holt article from Thursday 26, March, 2020 OVER THE WEEKEND, hordes of townies flooded into the countryside in search of refuge from the coronavirus. Curiously, however, no-one seems to have predicted this mass evacuation. The spectacle brought to mind the opening sequence of the 70s dystopian TV serial Survivors (pictured), which imprinted itself on my teenage mind. […]
YOU DON’T NEED ME to tell you that media coverage in Scotland has been hijacked by two major topics recently. The first, and most important
IF YOU HAVE EVER tried guddling for trout you will understand the trials of an observing economist in these strange times. We’re trained to stand away from received
THE SNP MAY HAVE its troubles in the courtroom but that is not the party’s only problem. Frankly the SNP’s sums have just gotten a
I HAVE STARTED to read the Guardian; lucky me, but my journalism tutor always said we should “read the opposition” and not sit in the comfort
WELL THAT DID NOT LAST VERY LONG did it? Less than a week after being elected leader Jackson Carlaw’s ruddy red face is on show
OVER 150 DAYS ON from revealing results of a series of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests aimed at obtaining a detailed breakdown of all 32
A RECENT VISIT to South East Asia prompts in me a policy challenge. Now that Scotland is freed from the burdens of the EU’s protectionist
I HAVE JUST RETURNED brimming with optimism from my first ever National Conservative conference at the Grand Plaza Hotel in Rome. As the research director
WE ENTER the decade (no pedantry please about when decades kick in) in new political conditions: it’s not so much a Tory government with a