
Playing Brexit to the cheap seats
LAST NIGHT’S lost votes leave a sense that Boris has lost his way. He has no reason to blame Remainers for their stagey reluctance to

LAST NIGHT’S lost votes leave a sense that Boris has lost his way. He has no reason to blame Remainers for their stagey reluctance to

DAVID NICHOLL is a Consultant Neurologist, well respected in the management of Parkinson’s Disease and Epilepsy. His clinical work is highly valued. He is not

AS I MAY HAVE MENTIONED elsewhere already, I have been spending the summer months on Islay in the Inner Hebrides. I was invited to the island

FROM Saturday 24 to Monday 26 August the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States will meet in

IN One hundred days we pointed to “high” and “low” roads for the new government to follow to change the parliamentary arithmetic. This would be encouraging us

THERE SEEMS A STRANGE COALITION is developing between the forces of Scottish Nationalism and elements of Unionism in Scotland that no-deal Brexit may break the

AS WE ENTER the silly season of August, first let us examine the success of the new government in meeting the three objectives in my last column.

IT’S NOT OFTEN you come out of a restaurant and think “that’s the best meal I’ve ever had”, but that’s exactly what happened to me

LAST WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, Boris’ Downing Street speech followed the playbook set out in previous post, not so much “Silver Linings” as “Golden Age”. He reached

UNTIL TUESDAY 23 JULY when the Tories announce their decision, we are stuck in an interregnum. May’s spending commitments have scant purchase upon her successor;

SORRY, but we need to talk about Scottish exports. The stuff we throw over our border is being used by all political parties to bounce

Linda Holt article from Friday 21, June, 2019 AS THE CHANCES of a no-deal Brexit on October 31st grow inexorably, COSLA, the Council of Scottish Local Authorities, has just announced that the Scottish Government is awarding £1.6 million to councils for “resilience work” in relation to Brexit. This follows a bid put by COSLA’s president […]