BUS LANE STORIES in the Edinburgh Evening News are like buses themselves. None come for ages then two or three turn up at once. Following
IN CHESS, a player is said to be in ‘zugzwang’ if every possible move he or she can make will result in a bad outcome.
ANOTHER YEAR. Another set of drug death statistics. Another 1,133 human beings gone. Drug deaths in Scotland rose by 11 per cent in 2025, from
WE’VE HAD the huge cost overruns and delays on the half built original project. The millions of pounds and years spent by Lord Hardie examining
THE CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL recently claimed a Daily Telegraph article had “inaccurately reported details about how we prioritise and allocate Council housing” and went on to
GORDON BROWN spent much of his political life telling Scots that they were better off in the United Kingdom. Now, apparently, he thinks those of
IT IS UNUSUAL for me to quote Aldous Huxley but he did observe that “men do not learn much from history”. In politics that goes
EACH YEAR I think that British politics can’t get any weirder or more bizarre. But each year it seems to do just that. We now
ThinkScotland is twenty years old – and we’re reviving some of our blasts from our past – this one was first published on 19 April
THE DEFENESTRATION of Sir Keir Starmer as UK Prime Minister and Labour Party leader, the anointing of Andy Burnham as his successor in both positions,
THERE HAS BEEN a bit of a flurry of interest recently over the British army’s ‘new’ armoured fighting vehicles, following on from the long-delayed publication
FIXATING on whether Count Binface may be more successful in Clacton than in the fake by-election that brought Labour’s prince regent, Andy Burnham, back to