Now that the Labour government has shown itself as disastrous as the Tories and equally incapable of getting to grips with the threats to the
ONCE UPON A TIME, the Scottish Enlightenment gave the world reason, courage and plain speech. Now it gives the world The Hate Crime and Public Order
THE THEORY of planned behaviour predicts whether change is likely in three questions: do I think it’s a good thing, does the wider group agree
When private bankers show better judgment than government ministers, taxpayers should be very worried indeed WHILE THE COLLAPSE of Greensill Capital in 2021 sent shockwaves
ANOTHER AUGUST, another parade of drug death statistics. The papers fill, the politicians posture, the quangos rehearse their lines. Then, as sure as night follows
BRITAIN is changing. In an era of mass migration, the failure to deport illegal migrants is undermining a key feature of what was once called
SCOTLAND’S DRUG DEATHS are rising again. Public Health Scotland’s RADAR system shows 312 suspected deaths in spring 2025 up from 215 only six months earlier.
ON TUESDAY 11th August, Dr Stuart Waiton, at a ThinkScotland meeting, spoke of the need for our teachers to believe in civilisation if they were
THE TIMING could not be more grotesquely perfect. Just as ThinkScotland published my piece Scotland 2025: The End of Delusion, The Start of Recovery, a document
THE WHISKY, film and tourism sectors can’t afford moral theatre, nor a First Ministerial protester-in-chief. Scotland’s economy is on the line; Swinney can’t afford to
TODAY is World Rainforest Day – who knew? Not many I suspect. Such are the plethora of special days, weeks and months that you cannot
DURING the Brexit Referendum those pushing ‘Project Fear’ claimed the UK would suffer in trade deals from leaving the EU’s much larger trade bloc with