ONE OF THE EARLIEST responses to the pandemic was a general moratorium on new policy measures. It was a sensible step, with society and the
IT IS NOW quite clear to most objective commentators that the campaign for Scottish independence has stalled. The polls are stubbornly stuck on average around
PRINCE HARRY’S timely reminder to look after inner self, with a spot of meditating made me aware of some unprocessed rage bubbling away under the
THERE IS some confusion about Holyrood’s role in the pandemic. We have all been placed on a common war footing. Everyone (well, nearly everyone) does
BAXTER’S makes a fine Scotch Broth. It’s a shame Ruth Davidson, one of its latest recruits to its board, has landed her tribe in the
THE RIGHT TO freedom of speech has an in-built test that can be used to weed out anyone who doesn’t really value it. If someone
AS THE Scottish Government gears up for its long-awaited inquiry into Covid-related care home deaths, the emergence of the Omicron variant is a reminder of
ON 26TH NOVEMBER, the day that Storm Arwen brought a rare red weather warning to the east coast of Scotland and north-east England, we were
THE SNP has been in office since 2007, and Nicola Sturgeon has been a prominent figure – deputy first minister and then first minister –
A CONSTANT REFRAIN in the EU referendum was how important it was for our farmers to be in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and the
AS I READ yet another attempt to demonise New Zealand farmers over the tiny meat quota given to them in the recent Free Trade Agreement – equal
WELL, the COP26 jamboree in Glasgow has certainly opened my mind about the role we have played in creating the climate crisis around us. Does